Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World had an absolutely infuriating story which was too bad since it had one of the most fun pet collection mechanics in any rpg game I've ever played.
Also obligatory Bioshock 2 good, Bioshock Infinite bad
concept: abolishing the police but kitting out every postal worker like a FNV endgame build
The basis of animal husbandry is reproductive control. If an animal cannot be bred in captivity in great amounts, they cannot be effectively exploited
why are they calling it pathologic 3 when it's just another part of the original pathologic being remade 😭
ice-pick lodge works in mysterious ways I suppose
"At will employment means that the period of employment can be ended at any time for any non-discriminatory reason"
"That's right! And good luck proving that discriminatory reasoning in court peons!"
"That also means the employee can end employment at any time."
"HUH???"
Damn that's crazy. If you really believe that why are you telling people to vote instead of telling them where to buy firearms and body armor and teaching urban guerilla military tactics?
If I genuinely believed that was about to happen it's what I would be doing tbh! 
Oh god you're right lol
SD3 was such a flop I actually completely forgot all that even happened
Isn't he supposed to be an infamous perfectionist with his work?
I guess he might be the 0.001% of AI users who can actually get something usable out of the tools because he's willing to hogtie and drag it through the streets until it does exactly what he wants but like
You have shitzillion dollar CGI industries at your beck and call who can actually make 3D assets the regular way lmao why would you bother browbeating the slop machine instead
Yeah I did that sidequest recently. Unfortunately it is yet another 'fetch 10 bear asses' fetch quest. These make up 55% of the side content (40% is 'go here, talk to this person').
Playing Final Fantasy 16 following its PC release.
It's a fucking mess. For some ungodly reason the dash is mapped to pushing down the control stick. There is no option to change it from a hold to a toggle. That's not even getting into the entire rest of the game.
Skins are fine just have them be locked behind achievements, leveling up and fun in game challenges if you're feeling daring.
That's how Monster Hunter does it, there's even stuff like rare color shifting rainbow dye you can unlock by beating endgame challenges
Video game companies keep inventing paid mod systems to disrupt these hive mind structures with grift culture so mod communities don't get too powerful 😒
Mullvad is good but I've been using AirVPN lately since that has port forwarding and lets me use Soulseek. Like Mullvad it's also pay as you go with no auto-renewal
Actually the vast majority of those games suck because they don't let you play as a dragon. Because of woke
Spyro the Dragon stay winning tho :spyro-sunglasses: (which is not an emoji for some reason smdh)
There was a somewhat recent drama where (you do not, under any circumstances, 'gotta hand it to em') Nexusmods actually did strike down a mod that removed the vanilla ability to gay marry NPCs, whereafter I believe that modder took their shidding and crying doodoo ass to Loverslab where even they were like 'man come on'
So it's a bit but there are people in the fanbase like that unironically still
ADVENTURISTS
DO A FUNNY PRANK WITH ELON AND MY LIFE IS YOURS
Honestly I can never truly make fun of early 3D graphics because 3D modeling programs are a fucking nightmare even in the 2020s, I can't even imagine what they went through trying to use them in the 90s without the multiple decades of QOL development.
Same with early 3D game development. I'm always haunted by the knowledge that they didn't have skeletal animation for the PS1 for a long time and Crash Bandicoot was animated on a per vertex level. Like that is fucked up. I'm a weak, spoiled 3D modeler and trying to do that would straight up kill me. I would not survive the attempt.
Sepphy's beautiful auto-smooth facial geometry
!cri
You just can't. There's too many of them. And they keep making more of them! When will the suffering end?
They should stop making games for at least a year so I can catch up.
This is not a high effort bit, this 'youtuber' has already made a name for himself outsourcing his videos to other people writing scripts and running it through an AI model of his voice. He's almost certainly doing it as a proof of concept tech demo to sell the AI pipeline and consulting to other media agencies but yeesh
lol. lmao.
Anti-piracy Nintendo paypigs have failed to consider how effective the wear and tear aspect of data rot is at eroding media preservation
look at its fuckin peets.
you just know it would go flap flap flap if it waddled across a linoleum floor
Like me !sadness
Please I just want to jam out a little to Undertale tracks what the hell is this
"Pro Tiananmen Square posts get removed off of Chinese social media? No shit. Imagine if the January 6th protestors had strung up and set a bunch of the National Guard on fire and you posted saying they didn't go far enough, most places on the web would remove your posts, except maybe Elon Musk's twitter."
Pros: Any libs wanting to engage would have to either read more about the events leading up to and during the Tiananmen Square protests or admit that January 6th was a nothing event
Cons: none
no but seriously though
I will take a moment to defend myself: I paid for Spotify because I was a power user (listening to music 4-12 hours every day while working) and also because I had the family plan so a few other family members could piggyback off of my sub.
But even saying that, I have spent way too much money on Spotify and the thought of spending any more money on it gave me the heebie jeebies., so this year I set out to put a stop to it.
I got some suggestions here for how to rip my Spotify playlists, but I eventually went with Spytify as opposed to anything that hooked into the Spotify API, just to make sure I wouldn't do anything that would get my normie family members' accounts banned. It has some issues such as incorrectly determining song duration and cutting some songs off, and the fact that you need to rip the songs by playing them in real time, but it worked "good enough" for my purposes.
I also went out and downloaded the high quality lossless music files for bands I listen to a lot, and honestly it's making me start to turn my nose up at mp3s a little lol.
I also was able to set up yt-dlp in order to download all my shitty song mashups and SiIvaGunner rips that aren't hosted anywhere else.
Just about the only thing I'll probably miss from Spotify is getting introduced to random indie bands via Discover Weekly, but hey I'll always have the web browser for that.
So that's my success story I guess. It's never too late or too early to quit subscription services comrades!
My license expired five months ago and I KNOW that I've been using it as an ID since then for various appointments but it was only today when I went to Costco that someone finally said to me 'hey your ID is expired' since they couldn't give me my prescription without a valid one.
what the hell man
You get a choice of like 18 different playable trainer skins and 80+ different starters
Then you learn that you can have all 6 of your party pokemon following you around on the overworld
Then you got the fact that you encounter pokemon via pokemon walking around in the grass, including visibly distinct shinies.
Oh and it has the full 1000+whatever pokedex so every different route has 20 pokemon walking around so as someone trying a Nuzlocke I'm just standing there struggling to decide which one to take
Oh and also since it's a romhack so I'm playing it on my 3DS
GBA era romhackers are something else
Haven't even played a non-3DS game in weeks, I just enjoy stealing !quagsire-pog
imagine posting that not as a bit and with no self reflection whatsoever
Before anyone wants to be contrarian about this: no one is going to stop you from using a stranger's weeb digital art as your profile pic. It is not illegal to use someone else's art for your profile pic without permission and no one is saying it's should be.
The point of this post is that this is an extreme overreaction to a conversation that concludes with 'pwease ask this other person for permission, the art is of their character design not mine 🥺' in a niche art community that operates on an honor system for the sake of being polite to one another.
For fucking years both the Repubs and Democrats have been aware of the science behind Climate Change. They know, their donors know, the military industrial complex knows, the information has been out there.
And both parties have had the opportunity to just blast the airwaves with constant propaganda for years priming people to be shitting their pants in fear over the climate, and they haven't.
They could have been dragging the most dewy eyed, trembling elderly farmers in front of cameras every week and have these sad old Classic Americana™ white men sobbing as they talk about how scared they are of crop failures and famines. They could have been showing piles of dead fish and animals against the backdrop of classic American landmarks. They could have done medical featurettes about how wet bulb temperatures would easily kill people (especially cute old grannies and children!) in the south eastern US.
And they could have kept doing this, all the time, week after week, the most dire doom and gloom predictions and warnings, whatever it would possibly take to start warming the chuds up to the need to make infrastructure changes in the US. Until people come to them demanding big structural changes.
And they haven't. They haven't done it. They still aren't doing it.
They're really going to run the clock out on this until they die of old age or they can all go to their defensive bunkers while everyone else dies of famine and war.
They're not even going to try stopping it. They're not even going to try proposing any Big Changes that could make a difference, because they know the majority US population would never agree to it. They're just going to keep promising miracle tech and gun down refugees at the border until they can sneak off stage while no one is looking.
They won't even paint the fucking roofs white, man.