paultimate14 @ paultimate14 @lemmy.world

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Depends on how you define important"

The HD Zelda remakes would be nice to have on a real console.

It's notable that there is still a Kirby game stuck on the WiiU.

I've heard good things about Nintendoland but I've never played it. Still, that's kind of the soul of the WiiU so might not be likely to get ported.

Paper Mario Color Splash is notable, though I don't think it sold well. If they ever do a compilation of the second wave of Paper Mario games it'll probably get included.

I liked Pushmo World. I wouldn't mind a new entry in the series, though as a puzzle game the line between sequel and remake is kind of blurry and irrelevant.

Sega loves to do Sonic compilations so I would guess Rise of Lyric would get re-released at some point.

There's the infamous Star Fox games. Nintendo has been known to re-release old games that were obscure, sold poorly, or were just plain bad before. But I wouldn't expect that for a decade or two. Either as part of a compilation or hidden away with a bunch of other games on a digital storefront.

Devil's Third may end up as lost media someday. The spinoffs probably do too. Pokemon Rumble, plus the "party" and "sports" games.

There was the whole big lie about Obama's birth certificate because he was black.

John McCain was born in Panama but no one seemed to care about him.

Melania Trump was an illegal immigrant and that didn't stop her career or prevent Trump from winning the presidency.

Raphael "Ted" Cruz was born in Alberta yet no one seems to care.

White and Right is alright. I'll cede that maybe if some useful idiot with dark skin and murky citizenship rose to power conservatives might decide to look the other way, but you need to be at least one for them to do so.

But would sovcits even register? Or would they just show up to the polls to harass workers with a bunch of made-up pseudo-legalize documents they found on the Internet?

That's a good point. I've decided I'm not going to vote for Obama.

Tragic that someone so old still has to work a drive through to make ends meet

I'm trying to verify these numbers and I'm not finding much.

The closest I can find to a source is that these were claims from Moshe Elad in articles in Tablet Magazine and Algemeier.

In Mashal's case, he was the treasurer of Hamas at the time and Elad seems to be just attributing the entirety of the organization's assets to him personally.

I'd be really interested to see if anyone else can find more concrete proof of this claim than I could.

Yeah it sounds like something mainstream media would accuse TST of doing. Like, I strongly suspect that most of the "movements" to include pedophiles in diversity conversations are really just bigots astroturfing because that just makes more sense.

And I still think it's worth supporting TST just for the legal work they do alone.

I'll admit I've never been a member of either organization, but I have friends who were TST members and last year a good chunk of that congregation split off to join GoS. And they've since helped others so the same. So this is basically how they've described it to me.

From Wikipedia, it looks like GoS started in 2018 as a UK split-off for various concerns. Wikipedia focused on specific issues the UK branch had, but I was also told a huge factor was the logistics and goals. TST is a very US-focused organization that puts a lot of resources into US legal battles. They also had strict controls over branding, policies, and structures that just didn't suit them.

The main reason for the schism in my local chapter was more specific. TST regularly streams online services and last year had a leader from a chapter who advocated for welcoming, accepting, and celebrating people regardless of sexual preference. Which sounds great..., except he also explicitly called for the inclusion of pedophiles as part of LQBTQ+. Despite pedophilia being in direct opposition to tenents 1 and 3. The local chapter (and several other chapter) complained to their national representatives and the response was... Nothing. No statement from the national organization, no consequences for that leader. Just swept under the rug.

Also of significance was allegedly there was some sort of documentary released in 2023 called "The Lies of the Satanic Temple" by Dead Domain that claims to expose fraud and abuse from TST leadership. I have not watched it (although coincidentally I have watched a couple of her videos on videogames- she had a really interesting interview with the creators of Paradise Killer), but I heard that it caused several other congregations across the country to split off of TST.

GOS is much less centralized. It's more of a collection of guidelines, resources, and suggestions. Some chapters keep their own branding, like the House of Heretics in Seattle.

From an outsider's perspective, it seems to me like GOS is more focused on replacing the role of the church in an individual's life with a secular alternative. They do charity work like adopt-a-highway, food drives, clothing drives, etc. A lot of the members are young, queer, alternative people, and if their families disowned them they don't have a support system. They have support for things like non-religious sobriety programs. I almost get the impression it's like a religious rehab for people who grew up in very restrictive or abusive churches. At Pride this year the local chapter was doing "un-baptisms". They have potlucks and parties and other social events. I think some of these things they might have carried over from TST.

They keep a much lower profile than TST. They don't engage in the legal battles that TST does, and a lot of the people I know who left TST still respect the organization for fighting that fight. Personally... I'm really confused as to why GOS still keeps the "satanic" imagery of TST because I thought the point of that was to serve as a counterpoint to Christians in those legal battles.

Personally I'm just introverted and not interested in all that "community" and "networking". But I've donated to both organizations for the work they do.

Edit: in the interest of fairness I've seen claims that the Dead Domain documentary has been debunked.

Oh yes of course there's very good reasons for the different organizations. Personally I've been a bit turned off by some of the stuff TST has been doing and more interested in the Global Order of Satan (GOS).

I just think it's funny how Christians don't seem to have any problems separating (and feuding against) the hundreds of thousands of different denominations, many of which have nearly identical names. But two different organizations with 0 words in their name in common is apparently too confusing for them to handle.

But it's really weird and sinister to even bring up the Church of Satan. The Church of Satan purposefully does not publish numbers, but the best estimates I can find have them peaking at 300 members. They haven't been relevant since the 80's when LaVey got in front of the media during Satanic Panic. TST might have more congregations than CoS has members.

It would be like saying "the Roman Catholic Church, which is different from Christian Scientists".

Despite its name, TST is not affiliated with the Church of Satan

I find it really funny that they need to call this out given the thousands of different Christian churches that all have varying degrees of affiliation or animosity with each other and often nearly indistinguishable names.

I mean, that kind of stuff already exists today with the current copyright laws. I remember as a kid reading all sorts of X-Men books and wondering why the characters in the cartoon were so different. Did Han shoot first in Star Wars?

I played the Ratchet and Clank (2016) game this year that's like... Kind of a re-make ish of the first game? Except the story is quite a bit different, there's new characters added and some old ones removed. Half the old levels are gone and there's a couple of new ones added. Mechanically it's a completely different game. And yet that's even from the same studio.

I would have absolutely zero interest in an Unreal Elder Scrolls or Fallout game.

There's already hundreds, maybe thousands of indie games trying to be that very thing available on steam today and they all suck.

No thats Nostradamus

Just in case you need one more point to dismiss this as ludicrous, Milton is projected to hit 2 of the top 5 Dem-voting counties in Hillsborough (Tampa) and Orange (Orlando).

"Armed settlers"

Incredibly soft language

Lol that's absolutely not an excuse, or else we would see dozens of games with this happen every year. Somehow almost every game to every feature tastefully censored nude scenes managed to do so without modeling genitalia, but Beyond: Two Souls is an exception.

In a world where modeling costs money, studios are looking to spend less time modeling than they need to. Not more.

I remembered something else just after I posted this- i'm surprised it didn't come up in my first searches.

The other controversy was in Beyond: Two Souls. It was one of the first modern games to use motion capture for voice actors to get more realism. After release, people found that the devs had made a fully nude model of one of the characters. They never scanned the actor (Elliott Page) nude, but modeled what was missing. It doesn't appear in normal gameplay, but was accessible in debug mode.

Creepy as fuck.

In fairness to David Cage, his response to those (and other) allegations was:

"I have never said or even thought such things. I fully understand people were shocked by seeing those words, and I am deeply sorry for the pain and confusion they have caused to women and the LGBTQIA+ community. The quotes are abhorrent, and they do not reflect my views, nor the views of anyone at Quantic Dream."

Did he say it and/or believe it? I have no idea. But certainly something to think about before buying a Quantic Dream game.

Just to toss my feedback in the ring: I listen to a podcast themed around a local sports team on Spotify, and I often download them to my phone locally because I'm old and still have the habits of being on a limited data plan even though I've had unlimited for years.

I noticed the ads (pre-roll, mid-roll, and post-roll) and was surprised because a lot of them tend to be local ads for various cities across the US. HVAC services in Chicago, lawyers in Houston, etc. None for the city where the podcasters live, most of their audience lives, or the spots team is based.

I don't always download the episodes to listen, only if I know I'm going to be out , or if I'm mowing the lawn and might occasionally stretch my wifi range. I haven't tested fully, but it seems as though the ads only get baked into the audio upon download.

I also noticdd a few months ago that downloading a podcast I was partway through resets my progress, which has been incredibly annoying. If the ads are inserted at the time of download, that would make sense because the length of the audio would change.

Just recently I finally convinced my wife to watch Venture Bros. I watched it on Max a couple years ago and enjoyed it, but I hadn't gotten the chance to watch the movie. So I was hoping we could watch the series together and finish off with the movie.

The movie is on Max, but the show is not anymore. The first 3 seasons are on Netflix. Seasons 4-7... They don't seem to be available anywhere. Well, I think Adult Swim's website might have it but their website sucks for binging shows even on a desktop, and either worse or literally not possible to use on other devices. I could "buy" them digitally on Amazon. Instead I just bought the DVD collection and added it to my Jellyfin server.

It used to be that a show had to be really special for me to shell out money and dedicate digital and physical storage space for me to buy a physical copy. But more and more I find myself buying the DVD's and Blu-Rays even for shows like Venture Bros that I like, but may not love. Streaming just keeps getting worse.