America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive
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America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive
[Bluesky waiting room] Me: [chanting] it, it, it- Other posters: it, it, iT, IT, Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] IT, IT, IT!
Closest analog I can think of is the anxiety I felt playing through Resident Evil 2 after reading that items picked up in Claire's playthrough won't be there for Leon and vice versa.
lmao I saw a pallet of Rip-Its at dollar tree a couple weeks ago and sent a pic to an old buddy, we used to drink those as Teens because they were so cheap. I think their main demographic is like, army privates stocking up on buzzballs.
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That's horrific, I'm so sorry!!
I had to look up what "bunting" is lol
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I uhh got a few of those lol It's just so satisfying! Little magnets!
gonna start cycling all the old kicks out of the closet like damn this would have popped off in 2017
the bubbles are back
Hey man, thanks, I'm an adult. I've been on the internet a long time. Blocking a burner account someone created just to leave that comment is worth exactly nothing. There's nothing for me to be distancing myself from. This just happens, ambiently, with increasing frequency. So I'm talking about it.
I'm going to lose my entire mind dude I'm not sure how much longer I can watch the dismantling of consensus reality
Good news is that after sitting in a closet for five years, the trusty old Vapormax Premieres no longer emit a deafening squeak with every step on hard surfaces!
He's dead.
Tsuneki Ikeda of CAVE on the value of hard games shmuplations.com/ikeda
Idk man all we did took their labor and kept the profit for ourselves, criminalized alternatives, crafted a paycheck-to-paycheck prison of platform economies while unionbusting laying everyone off and making everything unaffordable, and now everybody is all fucking MOPEY all the time, I don't get it
Actually if anyone's gonna die of "finally ate too many rubber bands" it's RFK let's be serious
This is real I checked online
he ate too many rubber bands
"i have ascended this mortal coil after explosively shitting my stupid ass to death. I now live on as an extremely real AI chatbot. I am issuing an immediate executive order to summarize all emails and add more line breaks to linkedin spam."
sup duder
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I don't care if this gets me cancelled by woke, but Music....? it's good imo.
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Okay well now I'm just listening to it again. Look what you've done.
I am not referring to actual people genuinely discovering new music in earnest.
The Last Waltz
it is extremely strange to watch 'like a boss' get totally decoupled from that lonely island song/sketch, the way that Shrek is love Shrek is life got decoupled from that greentext
Understudied but urgently studiable is the rise of "bitcoin-core" as an aesthetic movement. I think it's related to the fascist embrace of AI: The stuff is *meant* to look like shit, because to them, indifference is power
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Incredible art
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Poppin open a bag of garden tomato in the nuclear storage facility and immediately being liquified by a thousand FAMASes
Prefer the d pad for that stuff almost universally
Just hanging out. Thinkin bout stuff.
I tried saying “Thomas Kinkade’s X-Men playing baseball painting” and felt like I was having a stroke.
May have tracked down the mofi SACD for that album just for the guitars in Sultans though, who can say.
There was a while there where youtube was really desperately pushing a zillion videos on me like "BLACK GUY REACTS TO LED ZEPPELIN" and I just wanted to punt my own head into the sea. They gave up eventually but MAN.
lmao I've gotten to do this a few times too, feels good to Contribute To The Culture ™️
Yeah unfortunately "collab" has a significantly more sinister attachment than "collaborate", which is just normal people doing stuff together lol. Making music online in the 2010s was uhhhh interesting
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All good duder. If all else fails, BDS keeps a really well organized series of detailed breakdowns on their site too.
yesss those things are game changers
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many such cases, unfortunately
So yeah dawg if you wanna rock Quakespasm, go nuts! I'm more of a chocolateDOOM guy but gzdoom ain't feedin a war machine, all clear there.
Anyway, all that to say, so long as you're not just now for the first time purchasing Doom, Quake, Hexen, Heretic, etc on a digital storefront, you're totally clear. The goal is to block up the cash flow feeding Azure, which is what Israel is using to kill people.
I spoke with someone at a major games media outlet this weekend who is fighting like hell inside that machine to get human rights respected over ad traffic. So when an indie outlet that has full control over their own output just shrugs in indifference, I just... Man.
As @birdrespecter.bsky.social reminded me recently, that concept as a boildown phrase is only like a decade old, maybe a decade and a half. A call to vigilance, rallied by nitwits as a reason to never try lol.
We gotta figure out how to free people of the idea that human identity is an amalgam of brand allegiances signalled by consumption lol
That's not what's in the boycott, or what they're calling for. They're asking for people to stop subscribing to Game Pass and buying new games published by Xbox. No one is harmed by playing Mechassault or mapping in Trenchbroom lol. As long as you're not like, buying Doom and Quake new right now.
this one is considerably more difficult to expand on without using Names and I'm not trying to start a fire here. suffice it to say that, yes. lol. if you support the BDS movement for Palestinian liberation, you have to trust that they've given this CONSIDERABLE thought!
Even this angle is like, yeah you *can* get Treats in ways that don't directly fund the bloodlust machine that is Azure. But jumping on the megaphone about it defeats the entire purpose of a boycott to begin with. They don't need free advertising from an actually-performative Display Of Allyship.
As ever, neoliberalism is infinitely less hostile to actors of mass violence than it is to those who would threaten to upset the imbalance of power by calling out that mass violence. Asking the hands on the levers of capital to recognize reality as such is far worse than any genocide, etc.
I'm not trying to start shit or whatever, this is just the type of inconsistency I get very easily frustrated by—the willful denial of objective reality where the discomfort of rocking the boat is a far worse and more objectionable act than any *actual* violence and horror.
I mean it's a buzzword phrase born out of social media character limits, not something Marx or any formal theorist or anything wrote. Even then, using it to let one's self off the proverbial hook is layers of dishonesty. It's a bummer!
on Labor Day, we celebrate the heroes before us who shed their blood to win worker independence for all
"Boycott" doesn't mean "keep doing the exact same thing but awkwardly mention that it's bad first". "Boycott" means "boycott". Our responsibilitiy to humanity overrides and supercedes our responsibility to any hobbyist audience.
Or trying to have their cake and eat it too by mentioning the boycott up front before immediately violating it in the same breath/paragraph. "Reporting Xbox news in direct violation of BDS but shaking my head the whole time so everyone knows I disapprove"-ass theory of politic.
Independent gaming outlets continue to post about Microsoft games like nothings happening and that’s WILD to me
"More like Dame Judi Drenched" I say as I ready the water balloon launcher
A truth I have learned is never to trust anyone who wants to "collab"
FINALLY I CAN DIE WITH PEACE IN MY HEART
It’s ‘Left of west and coming in a hurry with the Furies breathing down your neck
I can
If anyone can,
less hootie more hooters—nervous night, that is! ALL YOU ZOMBIES HIDE YOUR FAAAAACEEEEES
we had to sell most of bart
WOW
Nothing but redstarts and hummingbirds today, but really couldn't complain about the light.
waking up and immediately imagining Gilbert Gottfried saying "Super Dimension Fortress Macross"
He showed me the TurboGrafx-16, which young me had never heard of. I was already stoked, then he was like "check this out" and stuck the hu-card in a turbo xpress and I lost my shit
It's an important part of the ecosystem. They help keep the silksongposting in check.
Dude I just want to be able to play games with my kids on the couch, ya know? We can basically only do that with old games because it's so rare in new ones, even in cases where it wouldn't be a hardware or budgetary limitation. Oh well.
I've probably said this before but my neighbor up the street had one in 2004 and it BLEW my MIND
Near as I can tell, Destiny was just a Skype call with dopamine drips for a lot of people. That sounds dystopic but there's something to be said for a version of turn off your brain and pop some alien heads for a while that also includes hangin with the homies! that's valid
I played the first one co op for a bit at a friend's house and I was just... Even removing the tone and aesthetic stuff it's still just a Type Of Game that is actively disinteresting to me I guess lol. Like turning it off and looking at a blank screen was a relief.
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Cool that I'm just gonna be dealing with these random shitheads for the rest of my life because some asshole on a different team ripped off a long time mutual. Love this.
"warning, these eldritch abominations are also rich assholes"
tbf I will probably never actually play ffxii or any xbc for this reason, it might just be an allergy
i am always saying this
Hmmmmmm idk it still smells like MMO to me... 🤔
go watch a movie, read a book, play a game, walk around your neighborhood, take a detour where you've never gone, take some pictures, talk to a friend, look at the sky, ask yourself questions and interrogate the world, it's not that hard !!
one of the best level design insights I've read in my life came from a book about Edo period house/garden design
Oof, best of luck lol. At least you get an all timer Sam Neill!
this would go so hard if health goth was real
You can also get mall ninja shit at REALLY cool gas stations. The ones that sell little glass pipes with a fake flower in them that are absolutely 100% not for crack.
Until this week, it's been impossible to play the games of the 1993 Pioneer LaserActive without one of the vanishingly rare, disintegrating consoles. Here's the story of the guy who's been trying to fix that for years -- and all the hardware and software he had to build to make it possible.
I saw that Bubsy on the sidewalk yesterday and it instantly triggered my fight or flight
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lol ich glaube du und ich sind uns ähnlicher meinung 🙏
@darkside-ashley.bsky.social I forget, does this exist?
I need to see if anyone's done this for Raw Danger
It's a replica from the UK lol, I didn't want something that reeked of cigarettes on my desk.