Okay toning down the sanctimony, this is actually one of those big criticisms I have of Bioshock 1. That moral choice is overtly *not*, because they didn't want the optics of Encouraged Child Murder. You're rewarded for saving them, not just with ADAM but also audio-logs and plasmids.
AND YOU ARE QUITE LITERALLY REWARDED MORE FOR *NOT* HARVESTING THE CHILDREN.
"how you dont make good choices, but instead choose between two different evils" My BROTHER/SISTER/THEMSTER IN *CHRIST*, THE CHOICE IS "HARVEST THE CHILDREN" AND "DO NOT HARVEST THE CHILDREN."
Was just thinking about how a lot of kids are growing up now with live service games as their "childhood games", and I wonder how many of those will simply not be playable in any form anymore once they reach adulthood
I think that's always been recognized, but I can't remember if anybody's actually put words to it.
I did not hear that those were canceled and turned into a book. This is me just learning about the book. God damn 15 was a mess start to finish.
These and that fucken Kingsglaive prequel-interquel movie.
What the fuck is it with millennial manchildren (and womanchildren) giving #Nintendo and #Disney free pass after free pass despite the sheer amount of copyright, patent, and legal-loophole exploitation these two shitbag corporations consistently pull to everybody's detriment.
Nice to know you loved Kirk more than you love your wife.
And (using your specific examples above) Nintendo of America is leaps and bounds bigger than Atlus (and Sega's already picked fights with Nintendo and lost), whilst Wizardry is scattered among multiple, MUCH smaller owners.
Ohp, my bad. Commented before reading article fully. Saw 'Nintendo does thing' and just went "Yeah I bet they did." Altho frankly that one's also easily explained with US patent laws openly favoring large corporations.
The patent is accepted because Japan basically allows Nintendo to do whatever they fucking want.
Yeah no fair enough.
Okay. Not to excuse the use of AI for the dumb portraits or anything- But why the hell is an order-fulfillment-packer being turned into a collectible aspect of whatever-the-fuck you ordered?
this is nightmarish and should alarm you no matter what your opinions on pornography are
Jesus christ it's so fucking close to being a great grappler. But... why do most of his attacks, including his grabs, just feel weightless. He has no impact, no power. They're so close with that wrecking ball and that super. It's like Riot's afraid of crossing a line, and I dunno what that line is
Me discovering, as I have to clean up the common areas of the apartment unit due to shitty roommates that have been evicted, that they've broken more and more things and I have to put in maintenance requests, resulting in maintenance fees:
And it's easy to have the time to learn how to study them when, even after losing access to wealthy family funding, you're still raised in a safe and stable environment, given the chance to win a scholarship, and later become an Oxford professor.
reminder that MasterCard and VISA are very okay with processing payments for guns and bullets, just not a video game where two fictional people fuck.
*only options for payouts on ko-fi are PayPal (company of thieves) and Stripe (willingly bending the knee to censorship)* yeah i may need to just shelve the web-fiction angle for now.
'A NSFW ban won't negatively affect me, I don't draw or post porn!' You sure? Here's how it went down when tumblr did it:
Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.
They took the cracker AND the barrel.
All this AI shit makes me feel like there's an entire genre of people who resent having to think at all.
reposting this from a tumblr person because frankly, factual.
I get this makes me old but if a restaurant wants me to scan a QR code to see their menu I am simply leaving
Remember when Blizzard kept trying to push real names on their RealID shit? Same exact goddamn concept.
People also love talking about how sophisticated Google search operators were. That shit stopped working for me even before the AI search craze. Especially -, never actually cut out anything on searches, especially when it came to looking for non-AI-gen'd images.
Counterpoint: ESO lets me visit all the regions of the world that Todd's hemming and hawing about acknowledging the existence of because he can't force everything to revolve around Big Burly Nords.
god I need to get my ass in order so I can start producing web-fiction again. The world needs a 30-ish-year-old 17th-century Scottish pirate bumbling through a fantasy realm.
Consider tho: Lasers are concentrated Light. And Light is a form of Radiation.
I mean isn't Radiation just Advanced Poison Damage.
Blasphemous
Unfortunately I think it's going to effectively be a zombie fighting game. It's a LoL entry, which means LoL players will gun for it. And LoL players already pay like 500 dollars for a single skin.
Artists posting their OCs like "look at this fucking thing. It's disgusting. I want to smash it with a rock. If you don't like and share I may actually cry."
That's not even strange, that's just another step on the tech-tree of Slop Production.
there are a 'few' 'toons that the infinite-scrolling bit works for but like holy shit, I just want me separate pages, please Montresor.
Cold. There was one time I chopped up leftover pizza and used it as part of "fridge casserole," but that's purely a Me thing.
Bear in mind I write that statement out of cynicism, so there is no basis in reality.
Most FF14 players probably never even thought about touching the rest of the franchise, barring *maybe* 16 because Yoshi-P produced that one as well.
I mean shit, if you think about it. "confidently lies, and communicates those lies with a fluency almost no actual humans possess" describes multiple different kinds of mythological entities from different cultures. The lessons are always there, how the hell do people avoid learning them.
You mean to tell me I actually have a house? And nobody's told me this entire time?
So I have spare tea bags, yet don't really drink tea all that much. My stupid ass gets the idea to try and steep a bag (specifically Earl Grey - black tea and bergamot, with bits of lavender and vanilla) in a bowl of reconstituting ramen and freeze-dried vegetables. All in all? Surprisingly good.
Hear me out. You do it like the madman who modded Might & Magic 8 to also include the maps and campaigns for 6 and 7.
get yourself some Ang Lee's Hulk next.
Call me Dr. Jekyll the way I down this elixir (three energy drinks and a coffee) and turn into a cold-blooded psychopath (my customer service work-sona that believes in corporate submission and state compliance).
give it a week, tops.
Tragic: that long-form porn AU fic featuring your favourite pairing has digressed into thousands of words of abstruse worldbuilding in order to properly contextualise and textually justify the author's unbelievably specific kink, and it's not good worldbuilding.
Lies of P coming in from left-field to staple multiple bosses to each other via Phase 2 transitions. All of my fucking pain.
we've known since the inception of trains that seeing the operating ratio is cognitohazardous and causes bad decision making because shareholders and dipshits will see the fees that cover the company as THEIR money rather than the money needed to run the enterprise
Well shit.
This is active meth-pissing-tyrannosaurus erasure.
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All of the gambling-debt suicides kicked-off because of one team flubbing a mid-game Baron kill for the post-game payout.
I can give ya three more dwarf and elf variants, take it or leave it.
True. It's also, unfortunately, completely and entirely functional. DMC2 is a game that you can conceivably finish, and it operates like it should. It doesn't do it in an enjoyable way whatsoever, but you can hit buttons and make it to the end credits.
Ah, so its reached the same level of budget as FFXIV.
Every one of these people just needs to play DMC2. They need to be confronted with Infested Tank-kun and Infested Chopper-chan. They need to endure the boring slog of Trismagia. Then they will understand.
This is a completely futile argument to have but I'll never not be annoyed how people completely misconstrued 'deconstruction' from 'something that understands and toys with story conventions in a way that requires deep understanding' into 'when someone epicly dunks on a genre I hate'
Kinda also cuts to the quick of why it's a waste of time trying to convince these voters to leave his base. "He's a horrible person." >"YEAH AND THAT'S BASED!" "He's literally making everything worse." >"THAT'S EVEN MORE BASED THO!"
You've got too much cultural melanin. It throws them off-balance.
Straight from a Chaplin film from 1918.
Boy, I wish even one of the sentiments I want to voice right now wasn't legally actionable.
I think Greta Thunberg is the best example of how there is no way of protesting that will satisfy the scolds. It'll either be called too aggressive or a self-serving publicity stunt.
Phil Spencer looming behind the Obsidian devs with an executioner's sword held conspicuously behind his back, and a red gleam in his eyes.
ANOTHER FIVE YEARS OF NAOTO-KANJI-DISCOURSE TO THE PERSONA 4 BOYS AND GIRLS
game conferences
You read like you physically had to leave comments on everything back on Facebook.
Kamen Rider W Opening
Hey. Stop that.
Nintendo Fans are just Disney Adults. The Venn Diagram is a complete circle.
Cinema Sins has done irrevocable damage to media in the US, and the worst part is those idiots will never accept any responsibility for their part in it.
I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵
Ah yes, a sequel to "THE WOKE WEST IS DEAD BASED TRAD ASIA SAVES GAMING." How exciting. I'm being sarcastic.
Thanks for the reminder, Gazlowe (Audio is from a clip by Northernlion)
Put 'em in the freezer for a bit before eatin em outta the wrapper. is delicious.
jesus christ alive I'm sitting here going "okay but I can't make these political figures that heinous or ridiculous" and "nobody's gonna believe a corpo would do that" for my stupid fucking book. And in comes reality going TOOT TOOT BIG MAC MOBILE ROLLIN IN.
It's AppleTV. That all but guarantees it won't get much, if any, advertising. That's the thing about that service that confuses the shit out of me honestly - lots of good shit but they don't let people know about it.
Oh that applies to hams, beefs, and birds in the deli department at most stores too. I had to break out new chubs every time someone ordered the last bit of one.
I believe this is an accurate and concise summary of our present understanding of neurochemistry Wondermark #1566; The Roiling Storm Within
Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏 We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️ Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...
It's the combination of: -Have to unlock characters -Small roster size -Tag fighter mechanics -Weird Riot balancing issues
keep stumbling onto terfs/radfems bouncing from bsky and saying stuff like "I'd rather be on the nazi site than one where I can't make lists calling trans people predators" and it's like you're so close you're so close to understanding who your ideological allies are. don't stop now. almost there
Sidequest.
they're so mad people like the guy who kills mass murderers and fixes the UI of Civilization
How many mini-Voldemorts are walking around waiting to erupt.
You know what, no that's. That's an important question my brain won't ignore now. Love potions. Perfectly legal in wizard society. But use of them creates magical date rape babies. And yet how many wizards and witches are born because of multiple couples being made from these drugs?
Dear shopping Americans, Retail workers are not your FUCKING therapist. We have jobs to do, and if we're seen on camera standing still while a customer stands there talking, we get written up. Please get an actual therapist, stop forcing random workers to bear the brunt of your issues.
Be me driving home from work in the pouring rain. See a red crate someone just ditched in the middle of the road. Also be me: Swerve, hit hazard lights, park, proceed to scuttle out of car grabbing crate while screeching like some feral man-beast hybrid. Crate acquire.
There are so fucking many of them, and it's always some stupid repeat-with-different-words of the post they're responding to. Also I might be stupid. Does it seem like they always trend towards being overly-positive?
Juggling three separate jobs to keep myself alive, watching the horrors that unfold. And all I get told is that I'm not doing enough to help stop those horrors, when I'm barely able to avoid drowning as it stands.
