Oh no, two live service cesspools didn’t get released.

Anyway…

Social media.

The success of the Republican Party has been largely driven by social media. Trump getting elected directly led to hundreds of thousands of preventable COVID deaths, climate change is running rampant, wildfires and major adverse weather events are becoming more common AND more intense, racism and hate crimes are on the rise, school shootings have become a weekly occurrence, and we’re just getting started.

Same here so it’s not just you. I switched to Disney+ and it worked though.

I’m surprised there hasn’t been a big push just to port all the classic light gun games to VR. Time Crisis Collection with a big ol’ arcade environment and tacky carpet, Ghost Squad, House of the Dead, Lethal Enforcers and Mad Dog McCree…

Plus I would drop kick a granny for a VR port of Dead Space Extraction.

No, you work 40 hours a week to bail out unsustainable businesses, give tax breaks to billionaires, clean up unpunished pollution, and support the infrastructure that allows corporations to pay starvation wages for 40 hour work weeks instead of living wages.

Get fucked! 🫡

Max Payne 2 is one of my favorite games of all time on any platform. Great memories. I don’t like how Remedy went so far down the artsy unintelligible plotting road after that, but they’re still one of the best developers out there in my opinion.

Binding of Isaac is some OG classic stuff if you haven’t played that one, and Neon Abyss is a fun side-scrolling game on a similar vibe. Rogue Legacy 1 (very OG) and 2 and Dead Cells are also side scrolling , with a dash of Metroidvania.

If you like Slay the Spire, Astrea is the same thing but with dice, and Monster Train also scratches the same itch.

Drag Me to Hell. Deep down, an allegory for eating disorders and self-image. Superficially, Sam Raimi rolling out reasons to dump gross shit on and in Alison Lohman’s face for 99 minutes.

Always upvotes for Mary Roach. Everyone should read her breakout work, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.

It sounds like this theory posits that humans may never be advanced enough that we’d detect ourselves unless we learn to live harmoniously rather than virulently.

Four molecules of Nutella.

I would like to see them go back to just plain old numbering and call this one the Xbox 363.

I take that as a compliment.

Why don’t people strive anymore to be the kind of person who can slip and fall without strangers celebrating it and wishing it had killed them? I mean if I woke up and knew that random people literally wished I would just die and go away for specific reasons related to my actions and not from widespread demonization through propaganda, I’d have a major existential crisis and reconsider a lot of things about my life.

But then again, I have a conscience.

To this day, if I turn to my best friend and say “sup”, his response will either be “Oh, not much, just… keeping it real.” or just “Word.” Vice versa as well.

These are the exact responses Seaman gives, which we deliver with proper intonation and all.

I had a lit professor once who would do oral quizzes on the reading but anyone with half a brain could get literally 140% on them without doing the reading since he’d also give extra credit questions.

The first time through the quiz one day, he asked something like “Who killed Achilles? A: Paris. B: London. C: Berlin.” Then later, when repeating the question, he said “A: Paris. B: Berlin. C: London.” Process of elimination.

I’m not even kidding about the city names.

On top of that, even if he didn’t give it away in the question, you just had to wait until he read off an answer and suddenly the entire class started writing. Dead giveaway.

You misspelled “and”.

If you can turn your brain fully off, like shut down, hold the power button ten seconds, wait for it to stop blinking, and unplug it from the wall, it can be a reasonably enjoyable dumb action ride.

What it sets out to do, it executes with a reasonable amount of technical prowess. There are scenes that are fun. Sometimes it’s nice to just watch shit explode or someone punch a car through a wall or whatever random thing happens. But it’s easy to lose the zen and find a million reasons to (rightly) hate the movie. I’m glad you like it. I generally enjoy it myself, when I’m in the right mood.

I remember them boasting that an architect contributed to the level design. Turns out, real world environment design didn’t map to early 2000’s game design very well.

Now designing a modern VR game or something, that might be a different story.