It's very telling that this discourse always puts the onus on the kids to tolerate their parents vile views and never asks the parents to moderate said views for the sake of their kids

i mean they did arrest jeffrey epstein. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you are coming from here but they very much did arrest epstein

Mega Dimension DLC is very silly and honestly rather clunky but, similar to the game itself as whole, the more I play it the more I like it

Gulag. Actual, no hesitation, straight up, one way trip to the gulag. Whether the video itself is real or fake is irrelevant; the creator & people responding positively to it should all send the rest of their lives shovelling salt and shit in Siberia, where they can do no further damage to society

No videogame moment has ever carried as much sheer surprise and excitement for me as finding Red at the top of Mount Silver. This is because I was 12 years old.

1. Reginald D Hunter disgraced himself and his tweets were indisputably racist 2. Private prosecutions are a bizarre relic and should be done away with 3. CAA are a fucking joke of an advocacy group who oscillate between confused and malicious 4. None of this should have been anywhere near a court

It would be extremely funny if the state turned these properties into social housing

Some guy got pissy with me and then blocked me for making a joke about the plot/characterisation in a game for kids; I think this is a good illustration of why I am glad I got into Pokémon when I was very young. Absolutely demented fandom would have put me off ever engaging later in life!

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The Pokémon: Legends Z-A Experienceᵀᴹ

"The city administration is angry that wild Pokémon are driving down property prices" is not where I was expecting the plot of Legends Z-A to go....

I still can't believe they're calling themselves "Heritage Americans" like they're fucking heirloom tomatoes or something

Whether or not they were Russian drones or a misidentification, the Irish navy appears to have made the correct decision to not potentially endanger civilian aircraft by attempting a shootdown. It is quite incredible the gardaí don't seem to understand this?

Good lord what the FUCK is Jacinthe's problem, this might actually be one of the most irredeemable characters ever put into a Pokémon game

Getting radicalised into supporting European farmer protests by how obnoxious American neoliberals are being about it

Must be a mixed bag being a boxing fan, on the one hand your sport is and always will be riddled with farcical clownshows, on the other hand you get to watch some of the most irritating people on the planet get punched in the face

I remember when the film Once came out and some cad stuck an N in front of the title on some of the posters in town. And he was right!!

me whenever I run into an even moderately difficult battle on Pokémon Legends Z-A

People are not going to like hearing this but some of the more deranged lefty anti-semitic discourse, eg the unhinged stuff about that actress currently ongoing, is that a lot of people online have dedicated a lot of effort to making it okay to say insanely racist things about Israelis

Lost in that AI vendor hype guff is the fact that the AI was cajoled into attempting to commit multiple crimes, something Anthropic admit but entirely gloss over in their summary

Puka Nacua really is doing the Antonio Brown speedrun huh

In case there was any doubt, the Department of Justice's classification of "safe" countries is a farce. Excellent, if bleak, reporting from @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social in @dublininquirer.com

Interesting parallel studies in denial to be made between Sinn Féin supporters and Baldur's Gate 3 fans this week

This is no longer a joke, this is now a moral imperative

Building social cohesion by identifying certain groups in society, blaming them for all ills and demanding they be cast out I am very smart. Make me Taoiseach.

Okay Pokémon Legends Z-A has a very small side quest that involves you not co-operating with the police ACAB/10 legal advice of the year

D&D Beyond demanding ID verification lol, you cannot with a straight face tell me this is genuinely about child protection

Doesn't sound like much, if anything, new in the Fianna Fáil report. Doesn't make the issues go away, the whole situation is still what it is, but don't think this does much to change the trajectory the various parties have already decided to take

If we don't get Mega Emolga in the next update I will be so sad

No I'm sorry this design is so good though

Not relevant to any of this thread otherwise but a fun thing about playing Expedition 33 in French with English subtitles is that "putain" is variously translated as different swear words but sometimes just not translated at all, appearing in the English subs as just "putain".

On the downside I've been diagnosed with achilles tendonitis, on the plus side the doctor guessed I weighed 75kg which was so wrong I actually laughed at him, but a testament to the work a good baggy hoodie can do

Legends Z-A so far (I'm not that far into it) follows the pattern of every Pokémon game in the Switch era by having so much to love about it mixed in with so many things that are just fundamentally completely broken. In many ways its gone backwards from Arceus, despite being obviously more advanced

It might be a total bullshit rumour and I may be being a rube but after the whole RAM thing ruining my upgrade plans, I am immediately purchasing another Samsung SATA SSD even on the off-chance they cease production

The very tone of this statement from Micheál Martin (who hasn’t yet seen/received THAT internal report) illustrates the pressure he’s under - in 16 years leading the party he has never seen fit to issue a statement as defensive and adversarial as this

Muting previous thread, this is now a Pokémon Legends Z-A account for the next few days

The thing about tying attacks on Jews back to Israel is that people have never needed Israel as an excuse to attack Jews If you don't understand this you don't know enough to be talking about anti-semitism and should shut the fuck up

I believe this is what the kids call "my ship dynamic"

Getting an alpha Ralts in Legends ZA, evolving it into a Gardevoir, seeing how enormous it is and my first thought being "oh man there is no way the internet is being normal about these things existing"

Have unfortunately stumbled across the Game Awards Discourse and adults should not be getting this mad at eachother over their media preferences, holy hell "gamers" are pathetic

Right-wing media and so on don't actually like Linehan; they just hate trans people. If this loser is willing to destroy himself on the altar of their obsession, that's a sacrifice they are more than willing to make. Publishing his self-destructive ravings is irresponsible on so many levels.

Free DLC for Expedition 33 dropping literally two days after I started playing the new Pokémon game is like being told I can't have any dessert until I finish another whole bottle of vintage pinot noir

I want to be paid money to write fanfiction in the paper of record about Russia invading Ireland

Incredibly, it appears the Disney execs went back to the lawyer and said "joke's on you, we're into that shit"

Once again I see we are very, very lucky that our fat fascist trolls are so fucking stupid. Media really gotta stop Falling For It though. One day you'll end up platforming one of them who has more brain activity than a rock, and you'll be sorry

I genuinely cannot emphasise enough how much Jim O'Callaghan fuckin sucks

Well now I've finished one game where an old man with a cane is making weird shit happen in fantasy Paris, time to play a new game where an old man with a cane is making weird shit happen in fantasy Paris

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 The question of "are videogames art" is long since settled but rarely has there been such a definitive - or, in some sence, such a literal - answer. It has some shortcomings as a game, but they are completely overwhelmed by the story, the beauty, the artistry 10/10

No disrespect to @deanbuckley.bsky.social, who is a genuinely good journalist, but it is absolutely mental that he's the one who has had to pick up this Gareth Sheridan shit, as opposed to seeing some accountability from the much more high profile people who initially gave him positive attention