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NeonOctopus posted...

Remember when Daxter couldn't stop staring at that bartender's cleavage?

and then they became exclusive, and she got turned into an ottsel.

(A cat boy, not The catboy2)

Hmmmmmm ;;;oooooo

Punished_Blinx posted...

I thought it was meh. My least favorite of the PlayStation platformer mascots (although I haven't played Knack).

I played it on the Vita to be fair which had framerate issues.

One of the most disheartening things about growing up after having been a JnD fan since childhood is realising how mid the franchise is compared to its contemporaries, lmao

Recently watched a streamer play through Ratchet and Clank's PS2 games. I had 3 and Gladiator (or Deadlocked) so I knew they were good games, but even watching her slowly realise how the first game encourages you to use specific weapons at specific points was kind of a bummer. Like I stand by Jak and Daxter being a great game, I like how kinetic it feels, but Ratchet and Clank just comes across as better. And while Going Commando seems a bit worse than the popular word makes it out as, it's still a pretty solid game despite some scuffed pacing, and it leads directly into Ratchet and Clank 3 which is probably one of the most effortlessly funny PS2 games ever.

And then there's Sly Racoon, where the first game isn't bad and doesn't have a bad vibe, but the sequels expand on it so much and every game can honestly be considered a step up. People like to say that the third game isn't as good, but I thought it was fantastic.

So to go from those two great franchises to a franchise with one really good game, one needlessly open world game that makes the game formula work worse and only continues to get dated year after year and one game that makes the most of what the second game brought to the table - it's a bummer.

Jak X fucks though. Fantastic OST.

Username checks out. Jak and Daxter was the best of the three main games.

The graphics are pretty jaggy, granted. But its artstyle and sound is distinct and unique even to this day, and I like the story cutscenes.

Jak II has always sat kind of poorly with me, and it was a recent stream that vindicated how I felt after years of appeasement and settling. The sandbox nature is completely unnecessary. It's just a big, empty mission hub with too much empty spaces between missions, and for all the jetboarding and orbs and stuff, you still have to sit in a car and mindlessly drive to the next mission marker that's all the way across the map. Jak was a series that didn't need to be like GTA, and Jak II is all of the chaff of GTA mixed with none of the wheat. Minigames are great though, and I think the story comes into its own after a shaky start.

And with Jak 3, I feel like they justified the big empty desert by giving you a wide range of vehicles with different weapons and physics. The wasteland vehicles feel so great to drive. Haven is also much more jetboard-friendly, and in shrinking the city the mission hub stuff is a little better. The game still suffers from pointlessly distant mission markers with dull travelling sections, but I also think Jak 3 improved the pace of travelling.

Jak and Daxter was kinetic, unique and fun. Jak II was mostly busywork, and Jak 3 at least made an effort to have engaging gameplay and build off of Jak II's more basic and restrictive mechanics. 1 > 3 > 2, even if 2 probably has the most enjoyable story of the three.

Shout-out to post #2 for posting the one AJJ song I really know, and to whoever posted the Mountain Goats. Gonna stick with the Goats for a couple of videos.

Family Happiness - this is a live recording with about a minute and ten seconds of stage chatter, but it's the definitive recording of the song. If you've ever been in a relationship - romantic or otherwise - where you dislike the other party to the point of self-destructive rage, but you can't bring yourself to open the floodgates against them, this song will probably hit pretty close to home.

https://youtu.be/BKNvNt5ofQM

Matthew 25:21: don't let the churchy name scare you off, it's an account of his mother in law succumbing to cancer. Another live performance, you'll know why when you see it.

https://youtu.be/mFpQQM1pfUc

Here's one from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds called Brompton Oratory, it's from the same album as Into My Arms. Very rythmic and hymnlike, very downcast.

https://youtu.be/YKlw1LLPvJo

I don't know how true it is that the girl bullies from high school become nurses as a way of abusing the power that they grew up having, but I've always thought that with conservative governments cutting funding to healthcare in general - let alone aged care and disabled care, where participants are reliant on the care for the rest of their life - has led to a ramshackle state of the industry where underpaid nurses who give a shit and are trying to do good within their abilities and best intentions are getting shoved out of the industry, and the people who callous over and stop treating patients as people are the ones who remain. And I'm quick to harp on America for being a shithole, but it's very much an Australian problem too and I would imagine it goes way further than that.

I had a friend who worked at an aged care facility. She was punched in the head by one of the patients - might have been the dementia ward. She got to sit down for five minutes before she went back to work. They didn't fill out an incident report, they didn't check to see if she had a concussion. They had her sit down for five minutes after getting punched in the head, and then they sent her back to work.

I work with another guy who stopped working in aged care last year. He's a dickhead, but he corroborated that the aged care industry is a rort and that there's institutional abuse going up to the top. There's no money to pay nurses a fair wage, there are no resources to help them do their job or to look out for their own wellbeing when they are put in danger. And that's not because all of the money is going to the patients, because these organisations are treating an ever burgeoning ageing population on a shoestring budget.

One last anecdotal story - a few years ago now, my town had a major blackout. We have an ex-serviceman's club, there's a cafe and a bar and a bistro and slot machines and shit. When all the power in town went down, they were able to keep their lights on. The club had an auxillary generator that meant they could keep operaring - and with all the power out in town, a lot of people were flocking to the club.

Our aged care facilities and our hospital? No auxillary generator. That sounds bad enough when you have a bunch of old people at the end of their life sitting in the dark with no air conditioning for upwards of eight hours - but there's also life support systems to consider, and some elderly patients required a constantly running air mattress due to bedsores and other ailments. When the power went out, those beds deflated and those patients had to lie on the floor in the dark. We have money to keep a pub and a bistro open, but we can't invest in the same technology to help the sick and the elderly.

So you have career nurses who stay with the job despite being paid for less than what they're worth, only because they've forced themselves to callous over and become a less empathetic and kind person to cope with the misery of the job, or because they like the thrill of the power they're authorised to wield. The people who want to make a difference have no support. When they get attacked by a patient, there's no support. They don't even get taken care of properly, not even through the official procedures that are meant to protect them. So understandably, they leave.

People who don't care about the patients are more prevalent when you're not putting in the money for equipment, training or proper care. And the people who are left, the callous ones and the abusive ones, are the ones who get promoted and make the industry worse for new nurses and for patients. It's a fucked up state.of affairs.

Gay and bisexual men are being diagnosed more because they're going to the doctor when they get this shit. The stigma of gay sexuality being more disease-prone and trauma stemming from the AIDS epidemic has resulted in gay/bi men having a much more involved relationship with their doctors when something looks or feels off.

The reason monkeypox is spreading the way it is is because people don't understand the symptoms, and when they get the blisters and shit, they put off going to the doctor. They also don't understand how it spreads, meaning they don't take the proper precautions. You can get it from working in a close proximity to a coworker, you can get it from direct contact with an infection site, and you can get it from touching an object that's been contaminated like an article of clothing or from an office chair that's touched an infection site. You can get monkeypox through your skin.

There are two aspects of this coverage that makes the monkeypox outbreak even harder to contain.

First of all, scapegoating queer men. Topics like this paint it as a disease that's more likely to befall gay men than any other demographic. That's not true - gay men are more likely to get tested for it which is leading to higher rates of diagnosis, and one reason this is becoming an outbreak is because other demographics aren't getting tested for it and are spreading it without being diagnosed. When you hear "the majority of monkeypox cases are found in men who have sex with men", you probably don't feel as vulnerable to it - but all it takes is Susan from accounting getting a rash from her husband who got it from his coworker who got it from their daughter, which is a series of events that's more likely to happen when all of those people think it's a "gay disease" that they're not at risk of getting.

The second thing is saying that monkeypox is an STD.

Without insulting the intelligence of anyone flocking to this bullshit, monkeypox is not an STD.

As mentioned - monkeypox can be transmitted through airborne pathogens and both direct and indirect touch. You can get it from coworkers. You can get it after bumping into a stranger. You can pick something up that's been in contact with monkeypox pathogens previously, and the disease will infect your skin. None of those causes are inherently sexual despite the right-wing hysteria about this disease being a gay STD. You might as well call COVID or leprosy an STD, because you're more likely to get those diseases from fucking an infected person than from going to Whole Foods.

This is a Mackorov topic so the intent is obvious, but rather than get bogged down in the dumb CE discourse horseshit, let's be productive. You're just as susceptible to monkeypox as any gay man of any level of sexual activity, even if you're the straightest virgin who ever walked the earth. So instead of scapegoating promiscuous queer men as the bringer of this plague, consider making an appointment with your doctor the next time you get a particularly nasty rash or other significant ailment or discomfort. Consider getting a blood test for HPV or any other blood-borne diseases you haven't gotten tested for in a while. And maybe try to be more open with other people about getting doctor's appointments, and urge them to get checked out themselves. Like I know that's gonna sound like pussy shit to anyone reading this, but it's a reasonable and thoughtful course of action to protect yourself and others against yet another contagion.

"3rd degree domestic violence" gets me every time

Slugma

Lord_Shadow posted...

I used to until Trump ruined it by committing treason trying to over throw my country

The modern version of having a September 11 birthday

Are you a birthday butterfly, or a birthday bummer?

Does the guy say "gravity's an unproved theory" at least once?

Even smiling makes my face ache.

https://youtu.be/XOc6UsP6Cr0

Do you know about the community centre bundles?

If you don't: you should be saving up items to take to the community centre. There are different challenges, like "submit a summer fish, a spring fish, a fall fish and a winter fish", and you get rewards like items and gold. If you keep doing those bundles, you will run into a heap of positive surprises.

If you do: get the greenhouse as soon as you can, and save up as much money as you can for starfruit seeds. The greenhouse lets you grow any seed in any season - starfruits are summer crops, but you can grow them year round in the greenhouse. They sell quite well on their own, but you can also turn them into wine for stupid amounts of profit.

There are ways to make a ton of money, like I just posted, but for the most part you can get by growing what you can season to season and selling stuff like leeks that grow in nature. You won't go broke if you're attentive enough, but just playing the game isn't likely to break the economy - ConcernedApe made sure of that.

berlyman101 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/3/4/AAP15pAADfa-.jpg

hmm

Gay/bi men tend to have better track records with going to the doctor, because there is a stigma that MLM are at a higher rate of disease as well as a lasting trauma from the AIDS epidemic. The disease is spreading everywhere, and gay/bi men are the ones getting checked because of that historical baggage while other demographics shrug it off as a kanker sore or a cold sore.

It can spread via direct contact with the infectious rash, scabs, or body fluids; respiratory secretions during prolonged, face-to-face contact; touching items that previously touched the infectious rash or body fluids; and pregnant people can spread the virus to their fetus. There's nothing about that that is A) inherently sexual - you can brush someone else's rash and get it, you can work in close proximity with someone who has it, or if you touch something that's been in contact with an infection site like an article of clothing you can even get it through your skin - or B) limited to gay men and their interactions.

The reason this is getting out of control is because more people should be going to the doctor and getting their rashes and shit checked out, but they aren't because they don't think it's a big deal and that's leading to the rapid spread of the disease. The people who are going to the doctor and getting diagnosed are predominantly gay/bi men, and that's why you're seeing a higher "rate of infection" among the MLM community. It's because they're going to the doctor and getting diagnosed when they get sick.

Monkeypox isn't an STD, and it isn't more prevalent in gay men than the general population, you fucking moron.

Netflix is adding ads to their paid service, which removes the point of paying for a subscription in the first place. A ton of its most appealing content has been poached by other streaming services due to streaming basically becoming Cable Television 2, and its original content is renowned for being absolute pisswater.

At this point they only have Stranger Things. They cancelled Bojack Horseman prematurely after the studio unionised, giving them four additional episodes to wrap up the rest of the show. Since then, they've fired their entire animation division. What else is worth watching on there - the dogshit Winx reboot? The Cowboy Bebop remake that got cancelled? Oh, maybe the live action Avatar: The Last Airbender show where the original showrunners left due to creative differences and not having the power to fully oversee the show.

Netflix isn't a charity, it's a service that has to justify its value with content that people want to see. At this point, the licensed shows they're developing are actively hostile to fans of the original properties, and the shows themselves aren't doing well because the word of mouth about them is negative. They're making the service worse, in the content they offer and in the addition of ads, while they jack up the price of a subscription. You're paying more money for a worse service.

So why would you pay for a service with dwindling value to you when you have other options? Hell, why would you pay more money for a worse product? You're right, Netflix isn't a charity. Why would you throw your perfectly good money away on a rapidly diminishing service that bills you more while they treat you worse? If it's out of a sense of obligation or fairness rather than out of personal value to yourself, you're the one treating it like a charity.

If they want to fuck around, let them go broke.

https://mobile.twitter.com/mugshawtys/status/1264198372753199111

https://twitter.com/mugshawtys/status/1538886577404841986?s=20&t=wrmamuX4zuoN3dGB5RKZCg

https://twitter.com/mugshawtys/status/1550845167640256513?s=20&t=k-OfBIx2VPSPKCdusjbwRw

The juxtaposition of their rap sheet contrasted with their faces, especially the ones that have make-up on and are posing like it's an Instagram selfie - pretty funny.

Foppe posted...

In Rambo: The Videogame you can kill tons of cops.

The one downside is that to do that, you'd have to play Rambo: The Video Game.

Looking for Cheyenne is a French movie about a lesbian couple who have broken up over ideological differences despite still loving each other. It's a bit wanky in the sense that there are these breaks from reality where characters will like break the fourth wall and talk with other characters which are actually representations of those people in the mind of the protagonist, but I really enjoyed it when I watched it a few years ago.

Also I would absolutely co-sign Hereditary. Fantastic movie.

Rambo 1 is an anti-war film depicting the plight of the Vietnam veteran. Much like Rocky 1, it was a solemn, thoughtful movie.

Rambo 2 and beyond is Rambo massacring whatever foreign combatant he needs to kill after re-entering the army because he feels he can't lead a normal life. They're movies with big guns, lots of explosions and the glorification of war. Much like Rocky 2 and beyond, the focus shifts from an introspective, character-focused lens to a bombastic "look at how badass Sylvester Stallone is being" lens. They turn from movies about surviving to movies about winning.

Later films would retain the solemn atmosphere and dignity of both Rocky and Rambo as characters, but it came after both franchises became massive sellouts which felt antithetical to the point of the original characters.

Damn, I was thinking of getting this and the first game on Switch.

We've seen it in Charlottesville, and we saw it during the Canadian truck protests. And time after time, some dick-for-brains goes "it's unfair to generalise the entire crowd based on one/a small group of bad faith actors". It's not like these poor misunderstood Republicans can control whether a bigot chooses to wave a Swastika flag at their event. Really, what are they expected to do?

Of course, those poor misunderstood Republicans do nothing about it. They get mad when people spread pictures of the people waving the flags, because you're tarnishing an innocent person's reputation and doxxing them and that's not okay, but they don't ask them to take it down or make efforts to distance themselves from an abject symbol of fascism and hatred. They don't call security, they don't tell the bigot that their solicitation is unwelcome and that they would prefer it if they left.

The same party that wants to imprison Antifa "members" and anyone associated with Black Lives Matter as a movement, the ones so devastated about concrete milkshakes and "the woke mob and their cancel culture", throw up their hands and tell us they can't do anything about someone who wants to fly a Swastika flag at their events.

But it's wrong to say that Republicans actively court neo-nazis and other bigots, because that's a gross oversimplification that smears too many people with too broad of a brush. It's simply not on to associate the American right wing with neo-nazis, when it's really this small handful of bad-faith actors making them look bad, that they refuse to shut down because that goes against the Republican beliefs of free speech. Y'know, despite the people who want to throw Antifa in jail. And the ones who think democrats are Satanic pedophiles who have blood orgies with children because scared kids produce a chemical they get high on.

So really, isn't the left the Orwellian one in this situation for asking them to rip the flag out of the hands of a neo-nazi and telling the flag bearer to go fuck themselves?

They've been doing this shit for years, and they keep going "not our fault, we can't do anything about it!" And then you get some shithead going "well it's unfair to conflate the right with neo-nazis!".

Look at Charlottesville. It was supposedly wrong to name and shame people who chanted "blood and soil" and who marched with Swastika flags, because they supposedly didn't represent the majority of the protestors. Look at the Canadian truck protests, where "one person flying a Swastika flag doesn't represent the entire cause". And now look at this Charlie Kirk event with Desantis and Trump.

Anyone with any amount of sense would tell you that one person waving a Swastika flag is too much. That one person appropriating symbols of genocide and bigotry for the purpose of advocating for their intended use needs to be kicked the fuck out of whatever group they're trying to advocate at. And time and time again, the right wing - initially the alt-right, but now the mainstream right-wing - have responded to that message with "we're not going to stop them, and you're a reactionary leftist if you conflate us with them for that". And as time has gone on and Republicans have buried their heads further into the sand at best or outright welcomed actual unabashed neo-nazis and white supremacists at worst - look at how many proud antisemites and bigots are waving flags associated with dictatorship and genocide.

So frankly, fuck that. Neo-Nazis have always sidled up to the right wing, and the American right is accepting of not only their beliefs, but their right to wave banners of hate and bring bigotry and hatred into their marketplace of ideas. When you freely allow these scum-sucking sacks of shit to advertise their desire for racial hatred and the scapegoating and murder of minority groups, you either become complicit in the violence behind those sentiments or you subscribe to them.

And because of the proximity that the American right has to white supremacy and neo-nazism? I'm comfortable freely associating the right wing with neo-Nazis.

If you don't want anyone painting one side of the political spectrum with "neo-nazi", maybe you should conserve some basic fucking decency and kick out the people OPENLY ADVERTISING THAT THEY'RE A NEO-NAZI. Until I see political cancers like Trump, DeSantis and MTG not only condemn these people and this behavior but act on removing them from their events, I don't think there's much of a choice.

Right-wingers, at best, are sympathetic to white supremacists and neo-nazis. I would say that enough right-wingers are mixed up in that shit that you might as well hear "white supremacist" whenever you hear "proud Republican voter". I'd ask you to change my mind, but I'd like you to do one better - take some action in disproving my point of view, because the alternative is to let it keep festering in your party (to own the libs, of course) and to keep yourself and your fellow right-wingers drifting into a world of absolute power, mass incarceration and genocide. It should have stopped at Charlottesville, but the inability to keep these fuckfaces at bay has let it evolve into this.

And if you think that's going too far, think about the guy at this exact same event asking Charlie Kirk when it's okay to turn their guns on the left. It's only an edgy, tongue-in-cheek joke until it happens, and we already saw what these evil motherfuckers will do in the name of their politics on January 6th, 2021. We are at the point where this shit needs to be identified, and it needs to be called out for what it is - a rise to fascism, with genocide against undesirables as the ultimate goal.

If you're a right-winger and you don't want to be compared to Nazis, white supremacists or other groups that thrive on authoritarianism and bigotry - fucking do something about the people your party welcome with open arms who are authoritarians and bigots.

I started watching the end of season 3 because my former best friend has shit taste and would legitimately watch the show, and I was enjoying it because it was funny bad. Then the last episode of the season had a cliffhanger where Jughead would supposedly die at some point in the future, so I'm like "oh wow okay now I've gotta watch this shit"

And then season 4 of Riverdale was one of the most insulting wastes of time I've ever put myself through. It didn't even have the audacity to be funny bad, it was just bland and sluggish and shitty to watch.

And then years later, I learned that the only reason they had that cliffhanger is because Cole Sprouse didn't show up to the set that day, and they just went with it for an entire season. And they didn't even commit to killing him, they pull a "the good guys are three steps ahead of the bad guys" and hide him while they pretend he's dead. They build up to his death for like 16 episodes, you spend 2 episodes thinking he's dead and wondering how they're gonna get out of it, and then it turns out that the main characters just hid him offscreen.

They wrote around an actor not showing up to set for one scene by basing the entire next season off of his absence, and they didn't even kill him off in the end.

Jake Sully, more.like Jake Smelly. BC his face is right next to that booty

Avatar's finale isn't perfect, but I stand by how it all panned out

No U

I honestly don't mind that Aang gets Energybending at the end of the show, foreshadowed or not.

He already has to go through so much in the show. His first foray into Firebending ends disastrously and he doubts he could ever become the world-saving hero the world expects him to be. He loses Appa. He's urged to reject worldly connections, and when he finds it in himself to ascend and master the avatar state, he's almost killed and he loses access to the avatar state altogether. I mean fuck, he's the last Airbender - his people were wiped out in a genocide. He has to contend with that the entire show.

Three seasons of the show are Aang growing and learning and changing, and he loses and he sacrifices and he grows the entire time. And right at the end, he has a moral quandary where he doesn't want to kill. The last 100 years are built on murder, and it goes against everything Aang believes in. Even as past avatar after past avatar tell him that bloodshed is occasionally necessary for peace, he can't come to that same conclusion. Part of it being because of his age, but partially because the past hundred years of bloodshed only ever made things worse.

So he searches for a better solution. He's almost been murdered. He's lost his entire culture and people. He has contended with his own inexperience and ability to bring harm to others. So yeah, he wants to find a better way.

I'm glad he did find a better way, even if it was rushed a bit. He still had to fight to subjugate Ozai. He still had to struggle with his moral quandary, like when he had the perfect chance to kill Ozai and chooses not to. I'm sorry, but I don't subscribe to the Man of Steel school of "breaking one's creed to bring peace is more interesting than getting everything you want". Not everything has to be a gritty compromise. They had already lost so much. For Aang to fail in his final task, preserving his values while living up to the person he needed to be, would have fucking sucked.

I like that the show has an unabashedly happy ending. I like that Aang not only got a final complication to his story, but that he was able to come out on top. I think that to kick him in the nuts right at the end would have sent the wrong message, that despite hope and ideals and the hard work needed to make them work, you're always going to have to betray them for the greater good because that's what being an adult is like. Fuck that message.

Is this completeboy? lmao

WoFF Maxima is a fantastic game. The visuals are great, the creature capture mechanic genuinely isn't annoying or ass, the stacking mechanic is pretty fun because you can customise your stats depending on what each creature specialises in and you can change your position in the stacks by changing size.

The story is a lot of fun, there's a lot of humour but there are also some pretty impressive stakes. The fanservice is great, but the game doesn't boil down to that fanservice and the game doesn't really spoil anything from the source games. Rather than being the original characters shrunk down to Funko Pop size, these characters are distaff counterparts who exist in a wholly original world.

I'm making a thread because in the past couple of years, Maxima has been the one RPG that hasn't felt like a chore to play. You know when you want to play a game but there's some degree of commitment that you have to give it, and it can be tough to stay engaged or even find the time to play it? World of Final Fantasy was very much its own reward. I never had to put anything off to the side, I never had to compromise, because I never played this game for the sake of getting it out of the way. Every time I booted it up, I was excited to play more World of Final Fantasy.

If you haven't played it, I would highly recommend it. I think you'll be surprised at how genuinely funny and enjoyable it is, you'll probably enjoy how it looks - because even on Switch, it's gorgeous - and I don't think you'll be disappointed or burnt out when it comes to the runtime. World of Final Fantasy is fantastic, and if you've got like twenty bucks to spend on a new game, I would highly recommend this game.

Also, as a post-script: the Switch port probably isn't perfect, but I thought it looked and played fantastic. I bet it'd look even better if you got it on another platform, but as far as Switch ports go, WoFF is up there as one of the better ones.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:

People Ain't No Good: whenever the phrase is said in the song.

Brompton Oratory: Whenever a verse ends

BlingBling22947 posted...

as well as millions of other artists you probably love so . . .

Yeah, in the sense that you're throwing pennies at their feet expecting them to dance.

You need like a million streams a month to break even.

Here's another one. Friday the 13th is a good song and always has been.

Octavian? Woman-beating piece of shit. We're all on the same page there. Friday the 13th - which came out before the allegations - wasn't received warmly for being a 2D-lite track.

But even now, if you remove Octavian being a domestic abuser from the equation, Friday the 13th is a fantastic vibe track. Brad Taste in Music was right, this is a great vibe track. I didn't like it the first time either, but I did grow to like it by the third or so time I heard it. Even Fantano was on the right track when he said this was a grower. Friday the 13th - despite the negative history which absolutely puts the song at a disadvantage, perhaps justifiably - is still a fantastic song.

If you still pay for Spotify, you're cool with one of the CEOs donating $250,000 to a weapons company.

First of all, all you motherfuckers slept on the Meanwhile EP. Meanwhile, Deja Vu and Jimmy Jimmy all fuck hard. If you haven't given those songs the time of day, do so.

Secondly - The Fall is underrated. I'm not saying it's Plastic Beach, I'm not saying it's this deep, inspired descent into whatever musical cul-de-sac Damon Albarn was feeling at the time. If you want to say it's.one of your least favourite Gorillaz projects, fine - I'm gonna be mad if this album is below The Now Now or Humanz, but I get it. It's not "peak" Gorillaz.

I'm saying that for a travel diary set to music that was made on an iPad, The Fall is incredibly moving and very listenable.

You can listen to a song from The Fall and go "well it's not Every Planet We Reach Is Dead ", but that's not the point. Have some empathy. Consider what this would mean to the person making it, in this case 2D. Where is this music coming from?

https://youtu.be/TdwJ0lUtN8M

https://youtu.be/P73tHz7oFAM

I've ranked The Fall based on how much the songs make me want to cry. All my homies love The Fall.

Not to defend this, but every Saints Row game I've ever played has felt kind of floaty and shitty.

Didn't stop me from enjoying 2 or 3 though.

Guide posted...

I was at first incredibly disappointed with Peace Walker, but then I played it to kill time, and seeing it as a sort of micro-mission speedrun thing changed my perspective. The boss fight are way too long, though.

I do dislike how long the bossfights are, but it's gamey in that sort of way where you can come back to whenever you want.

I liked the story well enough, even if it was a bit heavy-handed I thought the nuclear disarmament plot was pretty good. It's similar to Phantom Pain in that it's a game I could play for hours and hours, and I would say they're both Metal Gear games I've enjoyed arguably the most, but they're nowhere near my favorite Metal Gear games.

1 is GOAT for a reason, 2 I think has aged kind of poorly but was absolutely a game-changer for video games as a whole, and 3 really raised the bar for story-heavy video games. I would still go back to PW and 5 for a casual game, because they're incredibly replayable and very fun with a relatively low degree of commitment required to play them.

Metal Gear Solid 5 is worth four bucks.

That shouldn't be a controversial statement, but to some people it is.

It was the culture of the time. Everyone was obsessed with being the smartest person in the room, and instead of "satanic pedophile democrats are kidnapping children and torturing them to produce adrenophine so they can get high and have ritualistic blood orgies", the way people would make themselves out as smarter and more "in on it" than anyone else was by nitpicking perceived plot holes in popular media.

Bump

Kombucha posted...

Did you do this all with stone pickaxes?

Yeah, I don't mine anything below sea level. I do have like 15 iron ore, but I want to save those for something special.

Everything I've mined has been done so with whatever materials I've gotten while flattening. So yeah, more or less everything in these pictures and beyond has been mined with stone pickaxes.

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This took me about seven months of on-again off-again play.

I've been playing a lot more games in between Minecraft. I started this project because I was in a horrible place in my life and I needed something to do with my hands and keep me occupied. I keep plugging away at it because of these moments of completion. Because stepping back at the end and seeing the progress I've made is fucking awesome.

I also don't have as much free time as when I started the Flatworld project, which is a good thing. A lot of these seven months have been spent not playing Minecraft. I've found new things, like I've been watching Snapcube streams to fall asleep.

Still, this project was huge. At the time, I decided that this was gonna be the "first" project of 2022, but I knew it'd probably be a year-long goal to get to this point. Now I've only got a couple of straggler goals, like some smaller scale flattening on top of the cliffs and building a storage shed out of bookcase blocks.

Space Quest

There's a YouTuber named Billiam who made a three and a half hour video on the first season of Lost. I'm holding on for a second video at some point in the future.

Enron 2?

On one hand, I think it was pretty good overall to have a comparison between Zack Snyder's vision and the bastardization of his movie by both DC and Joss Whedon. I say that as someone who fucking hates BvS and dislikes Man of Steel only marginally less -for as wanky and poor as a lot of his movies are, superhero or otherwise, the Snyder cut is the one piece of Snyderverse media that I hold any interest for.

On the other hand, this is pathetic and shallow, and I'm almost tempted to say that it backs up my feelings on Snyder fanboys being a vocal minority of contrarian shills who see Snyder's trademark Bland Edge and instantly decide it's a 9/10 movie because the characters are "dark", and then spend all their time talking over themselves and each other to make it out that this cinematic pig slop is more popular than it is. I just didn't know that the problem was so severe that the fucking Hollywood director was in on the grift.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

You can eat delicious food all the time and be fit. You just gotta figure out the healthier delicious food, be able to afford it and eat a lil less of it.

well yes but

hedonism

I love eating so much. Fuckin stacked burgers, sandwiches, salads etc. Even when I overdo it a bit, I feel so content and satisfied from having eaten. I love the process of eating, I love the flavor of the food, I love the process of having food to eventually having none of it.

One day I'm gonna get my shit together and get fit, but right now I'm stuck firmly in my fat fuck phase. And I honestly couldn't be happier. I love eating delicious food all the time.