nobody in history has ever been more vindicated than DmC haters lmfao

oh hey, sweet. [oc]

I once saw someone say that "machine learning" could be more accurately described as "bias automation" and that's exactly what comes to mind whenever I read something like this.

I'm starting to get texts about this now so I guess I need to say something: There is a fundraiser going around about a "preservation disaster" raising money right now that I highly advise you to stay very far away from. A particular British tabloid is running with it unquestioningly. Thread:

The Democratic Party loves the taste of the boot.

I don't understand how I'm supposed to boycott Disney when all their shit sucks so much

i dont want anybody else

"Lost Levels was deemed too hard for Americans" is one of those ancient internet truisms that I'd like to dedicate a whole ass video essay into ripping apart if I ever muster the will and time to put aside for it.

I had a neighbor in the '90s who recommended games for me from time to time. Sometimes he'd dig up some real gems like Ranger-X. One time he recommended me this very game, and I put it on my Xmas/birthday list without much thought. It's the sort of game that people *think* Bubsy is.

"This game HATES you!" absolutely ranks among my most loathed gaming discourse clichés. It often doesn't even come across as exaggeration or clickbait; knuckle-draggers genuinely believe this shit when they say it.

Imagine spending 100 dollars on the virtual boy and then playing it and realizing its the fucking virtual boy

Barack Obama identifies more with Charlie Kirk as a celebrity than he does with Melissa Hortman as a Democratic lawmaker.

i have zero notes

Anyone who was still wondering who's who, keep track of what the media and politicians are doing and saying right now. You will have a perfect list of people who will turn on us when the people move to enact justice.

One of the biggest factors that would get me to bounce off of a new fighting game back when I was still playing was how explicit it was with how its subsystems worked. It's that old Chapelle stand-up bit that ends with "aw bitch, all these rules!"

My contribution to today's discourse is that I generally find those who only play Nintendo games and those who play anything but Nintendo games to be equally uninteresting. Can also extrapolate this to those who don't have a decent mix of console, arcade, and PC interest.

Not if I have anything to say about it.

This is why The Lost Levels is probably always going to be my favorite Mario game. It's Super Mario Bros for people who know how to play Super Mario Bros. With 40 years of history and counting, the universe can afford to have one game that skips the training wheels.

I'm not gonna be one of those motherfuckers that says "git gud" because the cooler thing to do than "gitting gud" is not giving a shit to begin with. You do not have to be a slave of the zeitgeist. You don't have to live like a dog, buying and consuming everything put in front of you.

when you see this icon, that means the game is auto-saving. this is the best time to punch, kick, and shoot your game console

The term "gameplay loop" should have never been allowed to fall out of the world of gamedev and into the hands of normal people.

My hot take on this is that launch day reviews by and large aren't really "criticism" in any meaningful sense. They generally do not provide substantial insight into anything beyond major surface-level points like technical competency and monetization.

Football is back baby.

referring to metroidvanias as "hollowslop" to simultaneously piss off people who like metroidvanias, people who like hollow knight, people who want a better genre name for "metroidvania", people who are sick of the word slop being misused, and gradius fans who want to see more checkpoint recoveries

Televisions should not have a first-time boot configuration process. Video games should not have privacy policies and EULAs to scroll through.

i vividly remember when this started to become normalised in casual conversation (it was around the ps4 transition and mostly driven by youtubers, who were just going off wikipedia) and to this day i am annoyed. real no human ever said "sixth generation" i was on system wars i was in the trenches

It was nice to get in a few years on staff before the bottom fell out, I guess.

The single biggest reason why I don't even entertain the idea of playing competitive games with largely community-driven rules (Smash, Smogon Pokemon, etc.) falls along a similar line: I just do not jive with people who see fit to dictate what a game *should* be, rather than accept what it *is.*

There's a lot of other stuff to take in here, but the orientation of that cartridge slot in particular is distressing me in a way that I find difficult to articulate.

I've sometimes thought that recent efforts to push back on poorly informed mid-90s Sega narratives have come off a bit overzealous, at times even veering into overcorrecting, but tbf it's hard not to be.

Typing is actually useful though. I cannot relate to people who insist on making driving any more of a chore than it already is.

Thank you YouTube for your incredibly accurate AI comment section summaries.

all this "I talk to chatbots and they're my friends, I'm so lonely" stuff could be solved by Vivarium and Sega if they would just put Seaman on modern platforms. If you want to talk with an AI at least let it be the frog man from ancient Egypt instead of the lying machine.

it is insane how much of my becoming a leftist was just staying mad about the things i was mad at bush jr for instead of going "oh it's fine now" when a dem started doing it

I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"

There are few things that better demonstrate my disgust with the Democratic Party than their feeble, conviction-free, focus-tested approach to politics, even in the face of things as stark and straightforward as the Trump administration's literal war on the American people.

I buy from Amazon so infrequently that they literally offer me another free trial of Prime every time I buy something.

Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games out of context is always so fucking funny

Related: One thing I've found interesting was that it was EA who named the D-pad. Nintendo called it either the "Plus Button" or "+ Control Pad." Sega called it "Directional Button" or "D-Button." EA called it "Directional Pad" or "D-Pad." Sega adopted "D-Pad" later, then it stuck among the public.

what in tarnation

Motherfuckers will do harm and call it harm reduction

The tell-tale sign of a C-tier sidescroller is when the majority of the on screen real estate is dedicated to things behind the player character instead of in front.

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Last Exit To Springfield, Marge vs The Monorail, Homer Loves Flanders, Cape Feare, Itchy & Scratch Land, Bart Gets An Elephant, Homie The Clown, Lemon of Troy, You Only Move Twice and Who Shot Mr. Burns.

It was a good weekend. @sonicexpoatlanta.bsky.social

I feel like the particulars of any one airport don't matter as much as how busy and/or rude the TSA line happens to be, and that can vary a ton from day to day.

This feigned victimhood defines conservatism. When a cop shoots an unarmed black man, it's because he "feared for his life," even though there was no threat. When Israel wipes out Palestine, it's because their hand is forced on "human shields." Anything to paint the actual victim as a perpetrator.