completely unironically, this is how we'll know

Every once in a while I reflect on living through the proliferation of 3D graphics and networked gaming at home and just laugh at what "game changers" people try to sell you on now.

Gaming doesn’t count as screen time. Gaming is books. Unless it’s on your phone - that is screen time. Movies are books unless they are Marvel, who produce screen time. Television is screen time.

This is what the "it's a bad slogan" people are always about. They don't care about any slogans. They don't *want* the system to change.

This image still cracks me up

"Don't take the bait" sure did them a lot of good, huh.

This thread explains why, when I find a Virtual On cab in the wild, I'm playing like a tryhard at EVO when I'm up against Namco Tokyo employees, but am sandbagging and giving tips at Sonic Expo Atlanta. There's a time and place to play-to-win. And it ain't at a gen pop convention freeplay arcade..

Dude I Heard This Star is Intended to be Accessible to Newcomers and Yet Appealing to Veterans Also

i can't believe this is working

About a year and change ago, I remember thinking and saying that a party incapable of standing against genocide is also incapable of standing against fascism. I'm kind of sick of being right.

It's important to remember that the Nazis weren't one-dimensional movie or video game villains. They were a political movement subject to the friction of everything that that entailed.

Accidentally clicked on a Youtube "mix," so now my recommendations will be fucked for a week.

Mommy covered her face with her hands and now she’s lost media 💔

If somebody insulted him so bad that he has a fatal stroke, how much would that person earn through their gofundme?

Dem partisans convince themselves through magical thinking that the party is "secretly playing 12d chess" when they offer weak non-commitments about police state reform bc they're too scared to admit that their representatives just don't care You have to break this spell. You have to demand better.

the blowjob brothers

Been revisiting more of my old PC games and using it as an excuse to put something on my YouTube channel. Not sure if anyone out there wanted a 77-minute longplay / video tutorial of SimTower, but if you were as frustrated by elevator management as I was as a kid then I've got you covered.

Any national politician who is still hemming and hawing wrt "abolish ICE" needs to be tarred and feathered. The two sides are the gestapo and the American people. It is literally that black and white.

I feel like this downplays the fact that quality assurance has 100% tanked thanks tot he advent of patches, like especially using Nintendo games isn't a very good case because they don't patch their games much and their bugs tend to be really niche

Honestly it irks me whenever twenty-somethings are referred to as "kids."

Lotta artists really don't understand what "SFW" means.

Just kind of offhandedly thinking about how a lot of 20th century video game history is written from the perspective of either early adopters (journalism, trade mags) or late-comers (emulation boom) and not really the common lived experience from that time period.

You could swap the left/right images and leave everything else in this post the same, and I wouldn't be able to tell you it was "wrong."

There's something incredibly funny to me about people being up in arms that a company pumping out gacha of all things would also pivot to AI. It's like being upset that the Hong Kong 97 sequel uses gen AI. Like yeah it doesn't speak well of the product or the creator but it's not exactly a swerve.

Crossovers have quickly cemented themselves as one of the fastest ways to turn me off of a game. It projects a lack of vision and/or confidence, in addition to generally diluting your brand. It's especially pathetic when a company like Sega leans into this instead of their existing properties.

A reminder for those who derided "defund the police" for being a "bad slogan." It's a policy demand, not a slogan. But that's difficult for Dems to understand because they only engage with politics in terms of slogans and consultants. They don't understand politics as a means of shaping the world.

Finally some yuri themed joycons

This kind of thing does point out a real ethical dilemma: block or mute?

I always wondered why they renamed it to sound like it was a rhythm game.

The Democratic Party, or at least a plurality of national electeds, loves and supports Donald Trump. Leadership especially. You can see it in what they do and do not choose to take offense to.

In response to the US invasion of Greenland, and bombing of Copenhagen, I am proposing...a gas tax holiday which will put money back in the pockets of middle-class Americans

I'm not here to kink shame, but I do think I should be able to specifically opt out of seeing stuffed animal fucking on the timeline. Also think that some users should consider that Repost and Like serve different purposes.

i miss when this guy was the only LLM

This is a good companion point to one that I often go back to: beating a game only has inherent value if it's also possible for the game to beat you. I recently played through Mega Man 4-7 and just flat out gave up at MM7 Wily Capsule. Coulda soldiered through it with enough item farming but w/e.

Any time that something especially stupid blows up on Twitter (like this whole Grok CSAM debacle), it's worth firing up the Sky Follower Bridge again and seeking out any new transplants to follow here. Also worth going through your follower list and giving some follow-backs every once in a while.

What I selfishly love about this is that it's conveniently aligning AI boosters and "challenge is inaccessibility" knobs into the same column and making both of them easier to dunk on.

Look how eager people are to celebrate even the smallest wins. People are starved for any signs of competent, normal leadership.

"ai gaming ghost that plays games for you when you're stuck" fuck you. his name is luigi. show some fucking respect

someone once put it to the question of "why don't people still take jan 6th seriously" with "why am i supposed to take nancy pelosi's personal safety more seriously than she does"

It's absolutely baffling that corporations act as if they operate in a post-consumer world, and politicians act as if they operate in a post-constituent world.

The effect on professional sports was already insufferable, but watching people make hundreds of thousands of dollars betting on the literal Venezuelan coup is some real Jokerfying shit.

One of the main reasons why I bought a Switch 2 at launch was that I had a lot of trade-in credit that I felt I needed to cash out before GameStop ceases to be a company.

I just realized UMVC3 has multiple The Funnies to cancel out The Bird and The Bullet Hell and The Buster and The Boots and The Breaker. Because getting hit with those destroys you but it becomes worth it when someone forgets just long enough that The Pipe is still really, really funny.

as a society we have to learn how to talk about old art, or contemporary art inspired by old art, without the assumption that any of it is rooted in "nostalgia"

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

I’m being attacked in my home here is a picture of the person attacking me if this is my last complication send help Bluesky user: no alt text ?????

"Congress" as described by civics classes, law professors, Democrats, and libertarians — an independent branch capable of executing designated responsibilities irrespective of the partisan balance of power — does not exist. It is a fiction. Every time these things happen, more Americans see that.

Just once in my life I would like to see consequences.

So anyways what needs to happen is make the Nuremburg trials look like a speeding ticket for what this administration needs to suffer.

This kind of gets at the core of why "this game HATES the player" type discourse is so obnoxious.