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Trump runs the country like he runs his businesses; wastefully and unsuccessfully, while misappropriating taxpayer funds to enrich himself and his buddies

mnkboy907 posted...

Well let's see if it's a regional thing. Growing up in Seattle, I only heard Columbus. George Washington is too many syllables!

This is how I remember all the additions:

...you would even say it glows (like a lightbulb)
...used to laugh and call him names (like Pinocchio)
...join in any reindeer games (like Monopoly)
...as they shouted out with glee (Yippee!)
...you'll go down in history (like Columbus)

Seattle area here too, it is also Columbus for me, never heard the Washington variant

This is sort of ironic since our state is named for Washington and we kinda have less of a thing for Columbus here

I'm pro not stinking up the forum with these Full Throttle esque politics-for-babies threads

Monster Train

I didn't like Dicey Dungeons that much, but the real Spire-like I'll recommend is Monster Train. Very similar game but with a tower defense premise - mechanics are borrowed from Spire in a lot of places but improved upon. I've been addicted to it for all of 2020.

People kinda keep misreporting what they said they were gonna do. You just can't like, harass other people by calling them simps, incels, etc. Which is fine.

Wily stage 1 itself is also just a fair bit of a pain in the ass

Definitely some trial and error involved in some parts of Mega Man 1 and I'd put Yellow Devil in that category - he does a lot of damage and there's no E-tanks so the margin of error is really small.

Mega Man 1's difficulty is a little overrated. It has some rough spots but it's still pretty forgiving as far as NES games go.

I did Guts first when I ran this for Big 20 because I think having Magnet Beam for Bomb is a touch faster, not sure though

Mac Arrowny posted...

Hmm, what makes the porn transphobic? I don't think I've heard someone explain that before. I mean, it's exploitive, but so is all porn.

To be clear, it's not that any porn featuring a trans person is transphobic by any means (believe me, I partake in quite a lot of it), but a whole lot of it goes beyond the realm of merely exploitative and into the realm of... dehumanizing isn't quite the word I want, but basically just objectifying people as freaks to be gawked at rather than just normal ass people like most porn actors. A lot of people feel that there's a very similar vibe going on with the Chromanticore girl in Cyberpunk's advertising, which I think is a feeling with a lot of merit, although I'm sorta on the fence about it for complicated reasons. They didn't do a whole lot to reassure me that it was a misunderstanding though.

Mac Arrowny posted...

Did anyone actually care about this? It seemed about as transphobic as "chicks with dicks" porn and people lap that shit up.

so it's about as transphobic as another transphobic thing? huh

Yeah, I specified non-adventure because of Metroid mostly.

Ah yeah, I guess that is older

Jakyl25 posted...

Its just a vestigial relic from arcade games. Mega Man 1 was one of the first (maybe THE first?) games Capcom ever developed that wasnt an arcade game or an arcade port

I can't think of an action platformer (non-adventure) older than Mega Man 2 that doesn't have a score system. There's probably something I'm not thinking of but I swear MM2 might be the first of its kind to officially eschew scores

why are so many people eager to dive directly under the soles of xi jinping's boots and start licking

Janus5k posted...

Was No Man's Sky seriously this year

I have no more sense of time

No, it just got major updates this year. Their list allows anything to be eligible if it got major updates this year or saw increased cultural relevance this year (Among Us), which is imo the right way to do a GOTY list in the year 2020 because no video game is EVER released only once anymore

I didn't even realize you could download videos, I wish I had uh, done that

was Microsoft Flight Simulator really THAT awesome

No Monster Train and no Curse of the Moon 2, bad list

I would start with either Mega Man 1 if you want to start at the beginning or Mega Man 2 if you want to start with the one that really made the series what it is today. Either way is fine.

Emulators are such a basic staple of my gaming hobby that the idea of not having used one is very strange to me, like asking a car enthusiast if they've ever driven a vehicle with automatic transmission

Yesmar_ posted...

The company that owns this site owns the biggest gay porn site too, right? Can someone shut that one down too? Their videos are so unsexy and feel directed by straight people. It being so popular confounds me.

I have a theory that it's mostly straight men who watch gay porn

Yeah I've never really gotten why people were going with Master Chief for the same reasons. I can't imagine that pick plays well in Japan at all. They have other options.

Most vending machines don't even carry 16000 dollars worth of product in them at one time unless it's electronics

A lot of mistakes were made here but it should be strictly illegal for games to even allow someone to spend this much.

Organize???

TotallyNotMI posted...

If people can't understand "our recommendations changed because we learned new information" then they're being willful ignorant because they don't want to wear masks.

Just one addition - please don't think I believe what I believe because I don't think people are being willfully ignorant. I do. I basically think people are stupid animals who need a skilled shepherd to keep them from not walking straight off a cliff. The fact that people are willfully ignorant is something that needed to be accounted for, and that this was always going to be a nearly impossible task with Trump in charge anyway, but that it could have been done better regardless, is my position.

Ugh, sorry, Look, I apologize, I'm getting way too heated over this, and I genuinely didn't want to fight about this in the first place because it's basically over something that's already done and dead. I'm sorry for taking this too far. I just couldn't let it stand that people were calling Tony wrong for calling Fauci into question.

If you think every anti-masker is a Trumper you're not paying attention. Anti-maskers aren't just devoted cultists who are attending protests and calling it a Democratic conspiracy. Anti-maskers are also people who leave their masks at home and don't worry about it because they've heard they don't work before and aren't sure whether or not they're necessary, and that confusion started in march 2020.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

The people who are anti mask now are anti mask because of Trump, not Fauci.

I can't even begin to entertain nor comprehend how you could think otherwise. This theoretical person simply doesn't exist, and no matter what Fauci said Trump was always going to be anti mask.

You're just wrong here.

I think it's completely absurd that you believe that inconsistent messaging from the person we are basically considering to be the de facto covid czar didn't have an impact on how people treated this pandemic. Yes, of course Trump is more to blame, as he always is, for everything. But there is just no question to me that Fauci's messaging was inconsistent, and that this hurt us. Not everyone who was confused is a Trump cultist.

It's not that I want Fauci's head on a pike. He made a mistake, not committed a crime, and I don't want him to be buried for this. But he shouldn't be put up on a pedestal either. Not in a country where we're approaching 280k cases with little hope of stopping the spread without a vaccine that may or may not even get distributed widely enough to work. Nobody in a position of leadership here deserves praise, is all I'm saying.

The thing is, EVERYONE believed in march that masks didn't help stop the spread of covid. Can we really be surprised that not everyone suddenly got on board with a total, sudden shift in direction? Can we really be surprised that a lot of people thought the entire thing was bullshit after that?

Of course we didn't know if there were asymptomatic carriers or not, but it should have been safe to assume that it was a strong possibility - and in that case it would have been far safer to mask up than to not. But we were delusional and believed this thing wasn't going to get big.

So what, we were just taking our chances that asymptomatic carriers of the virus didn't spread it? Bullshit.

I can't disagree more. The message that we needed to be a mask-wearing culture needed to be seeded from the very beginning, in the brief window when the pandemic had not yet become fully politicized - during march and maybe the first week or april, or so. But during that time, even people who are staunch mask-wearers now were confused and felt like wearing masks would be weird. This absolutely did not help people get on board - by the time that the message about masks was made clear, the politicization of the pandemic was already fully underway and Trump voters weren't listening. There was a window of time to get a better outcome here and it was missed. Obviously, I blame Trump significantly more than I blame Fauci, but Fauci was not successful and he does not deserve praise.

There are people who are anti-maskers now because of Fauci's direction early in the pandemic. They needed to stress the usage of masks early and often, but early on NONE of us were clear on if we were supposed to wear masks or not. I figured it out; many didn't. The messaging was piss poor. And yes, of course hoarding PPE should be illegal.

If the goal was to prevent people from hoarding masks, then they needed to say so. They didn't. The consequences of this were extremely grave.

Xeybozn posted...

Just about every federal employee is "compromised"?

The leadership is, yeah. Rank and file I don't care.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

I think it's incredibly disengenuous to call Fauci a member of the Trump Administration.

It is what it is. Everyone under Trump's compromised, period. I don't care if it's fair.

Sorry to go back to an old issue, but I want to agree with Tony on Fauci. I think Fauci is untrustworthy and a failure of a leader, and the only reason people worship him is because he's the only one in that administration with even the slightest veneer of respectability. It's a bunch of centrist-liberal nonsense - he is as culpable as everyone else. Nobody in the Trump admin is clean. Fauci has completely fucked us.

Where in Smash is the Prince of all Cosmos?

Like I said, I left the questionably-eligible ones in, lol

except Dr. Mario and ZSS who just have no meaningful argument

foolm0r0n posted...

This is bad and yet she is still orders of magnitude better than the pro-war corporatists she is competing against, who btw are also grossly anti-trans in policy, they just have better PR teams

I'm charging you to replace my eyes after I rolled them both straight out of my eye sockets

i was just curious so I made a list of all the playable fighters who have NOT appeared in a contest:

Dark Samus
Popo
Pichu
Roy
Dark Pit
Ivysaur
Alph
R.O.B.
Villager
Wii Fit Trainer
Luma
Greninja
Mii Fighters
Robin
Bowser Jr.
Any of the Koopalings
Duck Hunt Duck
Corrin
Inkling
Incineroar
Piranha Plant
Any of the represented DQ Heroes
Kazooie
Byleth
Min Min
Any of the non-Steve Minecraft characters

Did I miss anyone? (I did not count Dr. Mario or Zero Suit Samus because I'm 100% certain they would be considered separate from Mario or Samus, but I left the rest of the questionably-eligible ones in)

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Oh lol

I mean can you forgive me when you specifically said "taking the L"?

This was an extremely funny exchange

Team Rocket Elite posted...

"New FF movie"

Ohhhh, that stood for Final Fantasy! I thought they were making a new Freaky Friday reboot

I think the weirdest/funniest thing is that Microsoft Flight Simulator won an award

But is Sephiroth in any of them

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Damn.

Guess they're gonna have a looooot of bug reports to deal with <_<

and people thought the crunch was over for CDPR devs, HEH

yeah maybe in like a couple months they can relax slightly

Shonen_Bat posted...

that'll teach them to give our game good publicity for no money or effort on our part!

Game devs are not the ones pushing for this

Smash Mouth - Walkin' on the Sun
The Police - Walking on the Moon