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  • Note that Pa and papi are very much not the same.

    You can totally sexualize "papi". It's hard not to, honestly. Pa, though? Well, check out the rest of these replies and tell me if they sound like flirty sexy times or like they're trying to warn me that we forgot to bring the sheep back in for the night.

  • You can do "Pa". It's objectively impossible to sexualize "Pa". You could try, but it'd immediately nuke the mood from orbit.

  • His channel was about LGBT issues, so it's actually relevant. It's a reasonable concern and the source material is a four hour long breadtube thing bordering on self-parody, so I don't mind responding to this one.

  • "Lost" implies it was not this at some point.

    I mean, the TGAs, VGAs, Spike awards, whatever, have always have been this. Which is basically the MTV awards of gaming.

    For what it's worth, the DICE awards are the ones where actual industry pros get to vote. Wihch doesn't make the results any more valuable, honestly, but at least the gala is self-congratulatory, as opposed to a thinkly veiled speedrun of what used to be the E3 keynotes.

  • If that were true you'd have started to see more USB passthrough for wired mice in keyboards in the past decade when keyboards went from the 30 bucks throwaway that comes with your computer and you use until it melts and into a big techie status symbol. And you probably would have seen charge USB ports already built into wireless keyboards repurposed for mouse passthrough. Neither is the case.

    Instead, I'd argue that a) the erogonomics of your mouse going to your keyboard are bad, and b) wireless mice are the practical next convenient step, as opposed to daisy chaining your wired peripherals.

  • We are grading.

    On a hell of a curve.

    "I'm not so bad, as serial killers go" is not a great defense.

  • Absolutely, if you've ever made the types of sausages for cold cuts at home it's very obvious. People think the white powdery thing is just cool packaging (and to be fair in ultraprocessed crap it can be), but nope, that stuff is transparent when you get started.

    Also, the "transparent stuff"? Disemboweled guts. I mean, the mold should be the least of your concerns if you're going by gross-out factor.

  • You didn't need to go to all the trouble, if you let some bread out in a humid place you'll get it all over it as well.

    Still delicious.

  • I've lived in several countries and I originally come from one of the kissy places. It's a mess.

    In my brain right now the right protocol is to glitch out, look panicked and wait to see what they do, then awkwardly react to it in the worst possible way.

  • I think the more interesting question is why you wouldn't want it, and why it's a standard. Which I think has to do with flexibility, honestly. I use my keyboard on a different surface than my mouse often, and you need your mouse wire to have a surprising amount of lack and a consistent direction towards the back of your table, otherwise you get weird pulls on it and it's more annoying to use.

  • Huh. One Piece season 2 looking good. Didn't think they'd pull off the CG for Chopper.

  • You left all the interesting ones out of that, though.

  • Oh, you are giving a lot more credit to homemade food than it deserves. Or you're surprisingly alright with eating your own of all of the above.

  • Wine is spoiled grapes, all cheese is just milk you left out for so long it got dry and sausages are what happens when you disembowel a pig and stuff its guts with its own minced ass. Today I ate a thing that looks like the first draft of an Aliens facehugger they rejected for being too spiky.

    People buy food so processed they forget we're just gross hungry animals just putting random things in their mouths to see if it keeps them alive for a bit.

  • It's amazing, but I never peer pressure anybody to try it.

    Because it's great when there's a cheese board and you get to hoard the blue cheese because people are "ew, gross, mold".

  • No worries. Paradoxically I feel like a pedant now for using the big word.

    Anyway, that question is weirdly different from the "no HUD" one, I agree. Some of the games that make me look more at the world instead of at the pointers and indicators are full of HUD stuff. Somebody mentioned Zelda, which is fine. PUBG is a weird example, because yeah, it looks like a (messy, cheap, poorly designed) HUD, but the whole proximity audio and high stakes gameplay makes you stare at things like a hawk. We take it for granted because Battle Royale games became such a huge deal, but that was a neat trick.

  • Immersion is a bit overused and misunderstood.

    It maybe works better as "suspension of disbelief", like in other fiction. You sustain it and you can go very abstract. You break it and things get weird.

  • Dead Space, which has come up a lot, does have a hud, it's just all diegetic. Whether that fits or not is up for debate.

    For true zero hud stuff the first one I think of is Inside, for instance. If you're going for immersion that counts, but of course it's a very light, focused game. Journey and Flower are in that space, too. So is Mirror's Edge, technically, but it feels more intricate due to being first person, for some reason.

    There's a bunch of minimal HUD games from that period, too. There's a thing here and there, but not a full HUD. There's the Portal games, which technically show which portals are up on the reticle, but nothing else. There's the Metro series, which will pop up some HUD but mostly relies on other visual cues. There's The Order 1886, which at the time was one of the standard bearers for minimal HUDs but I think now it's just slightly lighter than average, because that game is super underrated in how ahead of its time it was in terms of setting triple-A standards.

    Does The Witness count as diegetic HUD or just no HUD? It's borderline. I think the Talos Principle has some light HUD elements, but they may be optional.

    And hey, let me call out the times when a super dense HUD is actually immersion-creating, especially when it comes to representing tech or machinery. There's Metroid Prime, making the HUD part of the suit and placing you inside it. There's Armored Core, where the mech stuff is such a part of the fiction. There's the new Robocop, which I don't like but does a lot with its HUD. HUDs can be cool and immersive.

  • When you put it that way it makes it sound super trans, so I guess joke's on them.

  • Would you? I think that's the most interesting question in this hypothetical. Would dropping future tech knowledge in a different context just clone cultural and political progression or change course?

    I think assuming industrial revolution inevitably leads to colonialism, then imperialism lets actual colonial powers off the hook. I mean, never mind that you'd probably be able to explain inflation to people and skip past some of the straight-up self-defeating resource chases, arguably colonialism is very dependent on European culture being very specifically theocratic and self-absorbed. Especially if you step in prior to the Middle Ages. Roman expansion had slavery as a common law figure, like everybody else at the time, but their incorporation of other territories was extremely not based on colonial principles, even in parts of Africa that would then be under straight-up colonial rule. Would having muskets and combustion engines have changed that? I'm not sure.