Cylusthevirus @ Cylusthevirus @kbin.social

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I never got to watch it as a kid because fundie parents, but my wife made me watch a few eps as an adult and I gotta say it holds up remarkably well.

You google "wood block style meme print" and find a decent retailer. Bonus points for buying from the artist themselves.

Ok, but that headline is weird. I can tell you exactly why he said that shit and it's not bizarre, it's just gross.

Trump's rhetoric relies on a wide variety of in-group references and cultural touch points and pretending to be the reasonable one while framing anyone left of him as an absurd caricature is how Trump do. It's what his base likes. They want to pretend that their opponents are ridiculous people concerned about cruelty to flies instead of basic necessities like pest control. They've built this whole narrative where Democrats are simultaneously weak, ineffective losers and also somehow a grave threat to the very fabric of our nation.

To his base It doesn't matter if the specifics are factual, what matters is that the broader gesture feels true (by affirming their existing biases).

Classic fascist playbook tbh.

In Japan. One of the least religious nations on earth.

If I can't do any of my favorite murders then what's the point of traveling? Stupid woke Japanese ruin everything.

Octodad is Cthulhu cultist grooming, change my mind.

Well ... plus if you're alive that long and can't manage to get rich via compound interest you deserve to be staked.

It's not about the money.

Croc Martens

Both of my kids do this.

Italian American Immigrants, sure.

Yeah right? I imagine it saying something like, "DO YOU NOT LOVE ME, MASTER?"

So ... the German is boycotting the Jewish guy's event over his statements regarding the morality of war crimes. The Onion is doomed, we're out of satire.

Actually I played my sorcerer this way and it's hilarious.

Luckily nobody said there were zero well design AAA games, only that I don't much care if the big studios eat each other. You can always make another studio. It's happened before, it'll happen again. This isn't like car manufacturing where startups face overwhelming costs and regulatory burdens to begin work. Get some capital, hire some good devs, come up with a thoughtful concept, and people will pay for it. Shit, they'll pay for virtual goods with no expectation of seeing a finished game (coughStarCitizencough).

but there are experiences that cannot be replicated in the indie sphere at the moment

The key phrase there being "at the moment." And frankly the reverse is a lot more true for more enduring reasons. AAA development is entirely too invested in graphical fidelity at the expense of everything else and entirely too beholden to shareholders to take meaningful risks.

I do not give one tiny, insignificant shit what corpo entertainment goons do to each other or what hats they wear and neither should you. Blizzard as you knew it has been dead for years. This acquisition means nothing. The people that made the Blizzard you knew great can make their own company and probably will if they're still working. Stop caring about companies and start caring about the human beings that make good games. Remember their names, look at who they work for.

Game dev has to grow up just like Film did and you can expect the same market driven patterns to emerge. Indies take risks, the big boys iterate on the formulas they establish, and occasionally they stumble into something legitimately good. So it goes.

But for every big budget film that's good, you'll have a dozen Michael Bay style 'splosion and lens flare fests. That's the expected pattern.

Do people still like the shambling husk that is Blizzard at this point? I've been playing their games since Rock N' Roll Racing and they're not even close to the same company anymore.

Let them eat each other. I'll be over here playing indie games with actual depth, real care, still getting updates for free years down the line.

Literally less than 1% of revenue comes from government grants, but it's "state affiliated." By that reasoning a whole host of things are state affiliated.

It's quite easy to read that as "all of Israel" without the qualifiers, and I've seen many people on here saying just that, so please pardon the confusion.

I think the distinction is important though, and it's why I tend to say "fuck the CCP" and not "fuck China."

I have no beef with Chinese people, but a lot with the CCP.