Still amazed that these guys somehow believe that we had vaccines in mid-2020, when the first "long-haulers" started to appear
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Still amazed that these guys somehow believe that we had vaccines in mid-2020, when the first "long-haulers" started to appear
Can't wait to see Chris Pratt sliding around like he's on ice
It's hilarious that a Sony game dominates on Xbox while Xbox games dominate on PlayStation Maybe they should swap
I mean prior to the post-election exodus the rule here was "no quote dunks we don't do that here", and now a bunch of dudes that used to write for buzzfeed are bragging about the high quality of their dunks And yeah that's why I usually turn quoting off
They're seriously doing a Humble Choice anchored by a random wrestling game and the rotting corpse of Destiny 2? Jesus Christ this is grim
Speaking of things there's a tacit agreement never to mention, that bizarre "smug 7th gen rockstar indie dev" thing is clearly at the top of the list The crimes of Xbox Live Arcade cannot be allowed to fade from history
Seemed to be a tacit consensus to never mention that after 13 Sentinels blew up and Vanillaware became a critical darling
Oh lmao that thing Yeah I don't get why that guy just didn't keep his head down
Homestarrunner...but that's not technically a YouTube? Well, it is now, but not then
You're straight-up putting words in MY mouth, though I'm not surprised that you're one of the dolts that thinks they get to dish out consequences but never receive them Anyway so do you get absolutely furious when someone posts Genshin boobs, spitting "THAT'S COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY" at your screen
I'll be real dude it is unusually funny that you're busting out the "b-b-but that's not what I meant" in the very same skeet that is just wholesale making up shit about what I'm saying Look if you're really a fan of the CCP jailing people for boobs then it's best to just say that
Thaaaat's unlikely. The entire reason Honkai Star Rail's patch stories are such an wearisome slog is because they were grimly determined to get rid of character stories by adding them to the main plot. They're doing the same thing to Genshin in Nod-Krai. No character stories, just a 60-hour MSQ.
(I WOULD have made a comment about HSR doing it better here, but HSR doesn't actually seem to add regular characters anymore.) (Even the limited characters seem kinda disposable. Mostly in that Shaoji keeps on disposing of every one of them.)
Haha yeah Genshin events come in at a solid #2 in terms of "wait what the hell"? I know space is an issue, but they specifically use these events for character development on pretty much everybody that isn't a limited banner character. Plus, you can now delete finished events.
Good lord this is grim, I didn't think they'd just ripped out the whole Pathfinder system entirely I play fucking gacha games and still think Destiny 2 is the best argument against GAAS as a wholeass concept. A once-great game was mismanaged into the ground, and the good parts are just gone now.
Today's reminder that they're getting rid of sideloading so you can't install versions of apps that rip this dogshit out
Buddy, this is literally a conversation about the Left and adult-oriented creators, you're the one who barged in with WELL WHAT ABOUT THE N WORD Like sorry but the CCP banning that shit is way more relevant than whatever you're going on about
...and when you're being clubbed by cops for having drawn boobs in the wrong place? The CCP will literally jail your ass for making adult content. So will South Korea. That's also "consequences", my guy. And that's the topic here.
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"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Sure, and that's exactly why libs like me are wary of "strongly ideologically aligned" as an ideal. Yes, the Paradox of Tolerance is a problem; so are Lysenkoism, and groupthink, and false consensuses. I think that's part of why adult creators don't automatically see Leftists as allies.
...and we're right back to the problem of "who gets the censor's pen", because a shitload of leftists have absolutely thought that porn is bougie filth and banning it is praxis. (Including the CCP, last I checked.) Maybe you disagree, but that won't matter if you don't get the pen.
If you're exhausted with the conversation, then we can just end it here.
..."screaming shitlib"? I'm literally and actually a liberal. A Social Liberal, to be specific, old school postwar welfare state Rawlsian/Keynesian liberal. Full-on lib. Sorry. You can block me if that bothers you.
And, yes, you're a leftist who believes in free expression for adult creators. What you need to realize is that other adult creators may think that you don't speak for the REST of the Left on this. You have to actually prove that the leftists who aren't specifically YOU give a shit.
You're trying to claim "it's a historical fact that leftists support free expression for adult content!" No. It's nothing of the sort. That's why most people don't agree, very much including most adult content creators. The modern left has to PROVE that they're allies, not demand allegiance.
I'm not "debating for sport", no matter how many posts you chain together claiming that. I care very much about free expression, very much including yours. What I don't care about is who is or isn't a True Leftist. I'm a lib, remember? I just want leftists to actually show they're allies here.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Ah yes Tom totally inevitable, that's why we're all slurping ape juices instead of vaguely remembering that NFTs exist.
Yep. And it's especially annoying because character growth usually means overcoming those flaws. You can't overcome something you were never permitted to have in the first place. So the character ends up flat, with no arc and no development. At best a Gary Stu, at worst an empty power fantasy.
A flare is easy to see because it's like a camera flash going off on the Sun, especially when imaged in the extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. CMEs are comparably much more faint, so we use special instruments called "coronagraphs" to see these explosions coming off the Sun.
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If leftists like yourself want to prove that free expression of adult creators matters to leftism, then you can't just assert it. You can't simply say "no true leftist disagrees with me". You have to actually prove it, because there's a shitload of leftists who clearly don't give the faintest fuck.
... you're using the term "dear leader", but seem to forget where it's from. And I'm using the word "socialist" because it's the actual term for "leftists". It's relevant, as socialists have a mixed-at-best history on these issues. That's why adult creators won't automatically see them as allies.
Low-key this is a big reason why so many people get sucked into F2P stuff, at least there you're only spending money on games you already like
I feel like you're trying to cope with a basic and fundamental issue with Socialist doctrine by saying "well actually they aren't socialists at all" But they are, that's the issue, and it's been an issue for most of a century
...I honestly have no idea how you're using the word "compromise" here. Nor "lesser evil" for that matter, they are not assuming speech controls are an "evil" at all.
It's not really about "compromise". There are a ton of progressives who are perfectly fine with speech controls, because they assume they'll be the ones doing the controlling. (Or, as in the case of these creators, don't care because they can't extract monetizable clout from the situation.)
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
Nintendo hoarding the devkits was a disaster IMO and I still have no idea what they were thinking
"We got clout from writing for Vice and Gawker verticals a decade ago, and now we're damn well gonna pull up the ladder behind us" Same as it ever was
Said it before, but a metric shitload of game journalists and (especially) game critics spent nearly twenty years repeating Collective Shout's rhetoric word-for-word. They've never, ever owned up to the mistake, not once, and that's a big reason why no sane adult creators would ever trust them.
As for SaGa BRING OVER THE DS GAMES YOU COWARDS
You'd think but AFAIK quite a few that eventually went to PS did fine (SMT5, Rain Code), and I can't see why Harvestella wouldn't. Do it as a hi-res rerelease, add a switch 2 upgrade path, easy money and badly needed goodwill
*tapping the "one day I will play you" post meaningfully and sadly* In hindsight deciding that I was going to do a playthrough of the entire Atelier series before playing other stuff may have been unwise, there's like thirty of them OTOH, you won't find a more enduring AA series than Gust's
They also did that weird Rain Code thing where they released on Steam and Switch only—once again looking at you Harvestella—which is just thoroughly baffling I vaguely get vanillaware being console-only curmudgeons but THAT arrangement is beyond me
Square would have pulled it off so much better if they hadn't dumped like fifty AA games on top of each other with zero marketing Poor Harvestella one day I will play you
Let's be clear all those indies were absolutely right to flee this shit
HD2 had been in the works for ages, Sony likely just helped give it that final mirror polish. But, yeah, the problem was that the games Sony got famous for (third person moviegames) were both too pricey to make and didn't earn enough. Thing is, Ryan didn't get that the GAAS market was even worse.
TBH I think this is limping along because the Sony execs that pushed the live service shift are shitting tungsten at what's going to happen when it goes Their ONLY success was Helldivers 2, whose studio is very noisily cutting ties because of the PSN debacle that nuked HD2's glowing goodwill
The replies here are dreadful though, not one reference to the Wonderbread Commissioner C'mon Bsky even Tumblr would do better at this
I get that this is just monetized bait but, like, just go buy the normal bread Just go to the store there's lots
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.
Plus, you run into the Australian problem where images of ANY woman with a slight frame somehow becomes illegal. That's going to make you a laughingstock, and you'll end up in a situation much like Canada's: where you have laws against BDSM on the books that nobody enforces.
...and then that gets applied and all goes to shit. As the Ashcroft decision said, there are thousands of "real" movies and millions of "real" paintings that would run afoul of this, even though any humans involved are very much of age. This shit bans Sidney Sweeney's breakout role. Cons would riot
What is WITH that these days? FF16 did that thing where there was no style rating until NG+ and everybody hated it. You don't need to turn it into a performance eval for the whole level, but let people get some visual feedback when they're playing well and stylin' on dudes
The judge is still going to need to set out the criteria for notability that the jurors will need to evaluate the work against, or the appeal will be swift and brutal. But what will they be? Dunno. IMO, this publicly blows up in prosecutors' faces as soon as someone goes after "real art".
...bubsy?
Texas prosecutors might be that stupid, but then you run into the Miller test's "serious artistic merit" criteria. This stuff is literally art. it is someone expressing themselves through sketchwork. So it comes down to "serious". And who decides that? Crunchyroll? A random Texan? John Roberts?
I doubt anybody even knows what they need to do. Again, it's like that thing where BDSM is illegal in Canada, but actually prosecuting that would turn into an absolute shitshow so prosecutors won't touch it.
Yeah, lot of this guy's argument is "well obviously there's no artistic value" but uh dude you're dropping a bunch of questionable cases into the conversation Sure you can absolutely find Kill la Kill distasteful, but saying that Trigger wasn't making a political & artistic statement is delusional
Finally finished Atelier Meruru, done with Arland, on to the Dusk trilogy. WOW is this a tonal shift. If anything, this feels a lot more like Mana Khemia or Iris 3. (Also a platform shift; Arland's on Deck, Dusk on Switch 2. Switch supposedly struggled a bit with these games, but Switch 2's fine)
Not terribly surprised. Terfy groups like this never, ever admit that women may disagree with them.
If someone likes star trek and they understand the genre is science fiction, it's way more likely they'll take a chance on, say, a CJ Cherryh book if they hear "this is really well regarded science fiction" The alternative isn't them reading "fantasy", it's them only ever reading Star Trek™ books
This dude's take is incredibly weird, because "speculative fiction" is a term that's likely older than he is Also, yeah, there's a reason we draw that distinction and it's so that you aren't wasting your money on books you didn't actually want The alternative is people sticking to Known Brands™
If a tank or healer wants to queue for group content—and I specifically exclude trusts here—then the rewards should be both lavish and repeatable. Do it like leves, where they auto-stack over time, so that you could run sixteen on a weekend if you want. YOU ALREADY HAD COMBAT LEVES! C'MON!
That said, Yoshida should have been lavish with rewards for grouping instead of stingy. There's little point to queueing up more than once a day, because if it isn't a "daily" there's no reward. Fuck off with that maxing-DAU nonsense. You ain't at that level anymore. Give real, consistent rewards.
SO many replies are saying "but I like the trusts, I don't want to play with other people" Cool! YOU'RE why these new players are going through this. The entire reason FFXIV had forced grouping is because what YOU want to do ultimately hurts THEM, so you had to be told "no" to make it work.
The MOMENT Yoshida said that he was rebuilding the game around trusts, I knew this was going to fucking happen.
Yes, I can (barely) see the point of this kind of thing for vendors and storekeepers. It's stupid and dangerous, but I can see it. Buyers? No. Fuck off. And considering that PayPal seizes your balance, I can't see how that isn't plain theft.
Ohhhkay this is utter lunacy I don't care how you feel about stories with people banging werewolves, seizing user accounts over BUYING BOOKS (not even selling) is absolutely beyond the pale. If this keeps up it's going to push people away from fintech in its entirety, it's utterly corrosive
Future generations will struggle to understand how brutal this post is
That question is becoming more complicated by the hour in ways that might (not) surprised you! Also if it's that small and informal maybe get it gift marked?
For context: 囲碁名鑑, a Go game for Famicom originally released in 1990, routinely sells for hundreds or even thousands of dollars in Japan for a loose cart. Brenden paid $11.99.
Also if there were nothing to it, he'd be tweeting his ass off and so would his flunkies. Authoritarian regimes in this situation will do ANYTHING to avoid this kind of situation, it spirals out of control, and it's something easy he'd be doing anyway. Maybe not gone, but maybe going
It would be an extremely messed up but darkly logical reason for why the the Dems seemed oddly sanguine about everything that's been happening They were fed the actual medical reports and knew what was coming, and also knew Vance is utterly cooked if he takes over
If they are EXTREMELY separated then kinda, it worked okay in Ottawa But you can load, carry, and unload a shitload of people on a subway or tram which you can't even with a segmented bus Like we TRIED to switch to buses from streetcars here, and then switched right back
Lmao one of the main reasons I have NO respect for the entire LLM project is that they always, always, ALWAYS fuck up game info That should be the easiest layup on earth for the things, "average content" would actually work for game help, but they just can't do it right
Speaking of which I do kinda like that Abnett rolled in at the end of the Horus Heresy series with "haha the situation with the emperor is so much more fucked up than you could have ever imagined" "40k's horrific soul-eating cadaver wasn't even the worst-case scenario with that dude"
Gonna tell people this was the Golden Throne
Man is it an Android thing or a Chrome thing or a Bluesky thing that means that the back button just does not work properly I don't want to get the damn app I'm on here enough, but goddamn this shit is annoying
This feels like "honestly we could just give it away but the Patreon backers don't deserve that so it's the price of horse armor"
This is a five-frame video of one of the giant eruptions on Io, Jupiter's volcanic moon. Taken in 2007 by the New Horizons probe on its way to Pluto, the images span about eight minutes. The motion of erupted ash and debris is from a volcano called Tvashtar, and rises 330 km into space.
I played Wonder Boy in Monster Land on one of these things once, it was oddly neat
This is the most "we can't legally tell you to put a mame dump in this thing" advertisement I've seen in a hot minute
Don't care bout the haters I still like me some thunderblade Only ever saw three levels but they were neat levels
Alternatively, you could add spoiler text as a feature Or add literally any other feature besides "OH GOD WE NEED TO GIVE BLUE CHECKMARKS TO THE NEW YORK TIMES IMMEDIATELY, ALL HANDS ON DECK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES, PLEASE GOD THEY ARE THE ONLY POSTERS THAT MATTER"
Oh it was clear from context, that's why I said it was an example of the need for an edit button
I have had WAY too many things turned into the opposite word
Yeah as soon as I saw that I thought "oh it's the whole autocomplete-is-shit-nowadays thing"
If you treat these games as a live service with a $5 monthly sub, and "max pity" as the actual cost, it works out fine for most people. You'll eventually get the husbandos you want, as you skip over all the husbandos you don't. That said, if you're compulsive or a gambler, get Silksong instead.
Weird that it's got no 50/50, usually it's either that or the horsegirl game thing where the "pity" is a limited currency that reverts when the banner character switches Either way, rule of thumb is always "nobody is mandatory, you won't get them all, and only ever buy the monthly credit thing"
It's weird too because they'll be like "oh you can use a PIN as the passkey" Oh cool so it's a password that sucks, just admit that you want my iris this is obnoxious
This reminds me of the thing where sites and apps are saying "you should use a passkey instead!" and it turns out that they're just talking about fucking biometrics again
It's 100% that thing where Tumblr users would ship real life people and uhhhh what I am a rock-solid believer in "fiction is fiction, these are not real people, get the fuck out you busybody toolbags", and especially now with the PayPro thing but these ARE real people you're getting weird over
Absolutely do not get why that genre is so huge
Taking steps to fight COVID would mean acknowledging it happened Which would remind people of that time they could get a better job more easily, and also saved a shitload of time and money from not having to commute
Yeah none of this shit is really complicated it just got strangled by executives and politicians who lost their minds during the Great Resignation and had to turn back the clock to 2018 however they could (Also commercial landlords taking an L over WFH)
Man I've rarely seen a better case for an edit button here than "selfishness" needing correction to "selflessness"
You'd make some offhand comment about Dragon Age or whatever, and there's now a dozen stories on various sites carefully stripping out the context and adding five to seven embedded tweets In that context I wouldn't say shit either