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weekoldhotdog posted...

to say he's a racist and a bigot is completely overboard. He's an anti-vaxxer and he wants illegal immigrants out of his country.

He literally said black immigrants needed to be deported to prevent it from becoming "a black colony", and said to "get the coons out, keep Britain White"

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Also, his comments about vaccine safety due to "what it would do to the children" was widely mocked in relation to...well, you know...

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Yeah, his infamous rant onstage in the late 70s was so bad, it kickstarted a political movement:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Against_Racism

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Remember how much hoverhanding was predominantly mocked by men and women? Now it's mostly viewed as simple consent (and the ones who still make fun of them are more angry about it and think "it's cuz you can't trust women these days")

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/nope-movie-2022-jordan-peele-1234986692/


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I was fine until the ketchup. Why did THAT almost make me gag?

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Hell, I don't know. Phantom Dust? The console kind of ended with a whimper for me.

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I don't think I've ever been depressed from a game. I've been upset, but it doesn't go beyond that. I weirdly enjoy a good cry from tragedy sometimes.

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Irony posted...

Mystical Ninja

Specifically the first one

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Why did they have a Deathmatch main event last night when the real brutal spot was earlier and unannounced?

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Cheater87 posted...

I'm surprised early seasons are only TV 14, unless they are censored.

They are. It's always been TVMA, they just censor it for daytime.

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DarkChozoGhost posted...

It's the least linear 3D Zelda outside of BotW (built entirely around that concept) by a very wide margin. By what metrics do you find the exploration better in others?

There's not really anything to find and do in the overworld, and is really barren and boring. It's nonlinear in terms of dungeon order, but for just running around and finding things in Hyrule Field, there's not much there.

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Three scrambled eggs, two turkey sausage links, and oatmeal with cinnamon and equal

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It's pretty much every cable channel. They latch onto single show binges because most people who still watch broadcast TV just leave it on all day, and that demographic is more likely to change the channel when something else comes on.

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I think it has some of the weakest exploration in the series, which is my favorite aspect in the games.

Otherwise, it's still fun, and any dated design doesn't hurt it today.

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Time to watch Ted Lasso and Mythic Quest and nothing else

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BlazinBlue88 posted...

Where in the hell can you even watch that in today's world? I didn't think any of those VH1 reality shows were in syndication or on streaming services.

Hulu

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I've never touched Fire Emblem. I'm almost certain I wouldn't enjoy it.

But I've played the others listed.

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Flat earthers are dumber, but anti-vaxxers are more dangerous.

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I've never been able to concentrate while hungry, and never had discomfort while working out after eating (unless I ate cereal, which I rarely eat anyway).

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Wasn't in school, but it would have been grade 7-8

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My last campaign had a DM who tried to put the girl in sexually humiliating situations. Apparently, that's a somewhat common thing that happens.

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EnterTheTekken posted...

For background if you are not familiar, Ari Shaffir

Yeah, probably.

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It'll be resolved by the end of the episode

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Got it in April

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EmbraceOfDeath posted...

Lmao they didn't even try with that.

They literally just went with this stock photo:


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New game came out this year:
https://youtu.be/Lbsc1LxY1Q0

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https://twitter.com/gosokkyu/status/1417744174875516928?s=19

They Mr. Dream'd it

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Chimp and it's not even close

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ModLogic posted...

where to buy one?

It'll be able to be pre-ordered from Mondo on the 23rd.

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"You can find another airline to fly. I suggest Spirit."

Looooool

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BignutzisBack posted...

What exactly is causing this influx of new players? The game has been out for years

Large exodus from WoW after new updates turned off a chunk of the playerbase, and also one of its biggest streamers was one of them

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Lol this has nothing to do with the pandemic. Kids have always emulated the accents on Peppa Pig, and people have bitched about that since the show came out.

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Really sucks that Bezos really took the recognition away from this...

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Production and availability in physical stores are out of whack. It'll get better, but it might get worse for a little while before then.

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Steal Jambi, he's cool as fuck

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Um...what do you think the prerequisites for getting her are?

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This place is local to me, and I still can't figure out if these names are cool or corny:

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FightingGames posted...

i dont get it

Look at what Steve builds before beating him

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Also, note the blue wavey attachment: it's a reference to the intro:



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My life improved significantly after I started shaving my head

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Ninja is my main. I started with Archer/Bard, and I love Bard, but it has a LOT of cooldowns you need to pay attention to. It's different than other DPS as well since there's no basic combo actions with the job

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/20/business/wally-funk-jeff-bezos-blue-origin-scn/index.html

After a half-century of waiting, Wally Funk who trained for NASA's Mercury program but was denied the opportunity to go to space has finally gotten her time amongst the stars. This morning she flew to space with the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, and Blue Origin paying customer Oliver Daemen on a ten-minute thrill ride.

"I loved every minute of it. I just wish it had been longer...and could do a lot more rolls and twists and so forth," she said after the flight. "But I loved it I can hardly wait to go again."

Funkflew on the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket as an "honored guest," according to a post on Bezos' Instagram.

"It's dark up here, oh my word!" Funk could be heard exclaiming on the audio stream of the launch.

"I saw darkness. I thought I was going to see the world but we weren't quite high enough," Funk added in the post-flight press conference.

Funk originallyvolunteered as a member of the "Mercury 13" program, otherwise known as the "Women in Space Program," in February of 1961, which was a privately-funded effort intended to begin training women to fly in NASA's earliest space programs. The 13 women in the program undertook all of the training and testing that the seven men selected by NASA for the Mercury spaceflight program undertook.

Funk became the youngest woman to graduate from the program, and she was told she "had done better and completed the work faster than any of the guys," she said during a promotional video about her participation in the Blue Origin flight.

Funk even spent 10 hours and 35 minutes inside a sensory deprivation tank in one Mercury 13 test, outperforming famed astronaut John Glenn.

"I got ahold of NASA four times, and said 'I want to become an astronaut,' but nobody would take me," Funk said. "I didn't think I would ever get to go up. Nothing has ever gotten in my way. They say, 'Wally, you're a girl, you can't do that.' I said, 'Guess what, doesn't matter what you are, you can still do it if you want to do it,' and I like to do things that nobody's ever done before."

Funk has extensive experience piloting aircraft, logging over 19,600 flying hours and teaching more than 3,000 people how to fly private and commercial aircraft.

"Everything the FAA has, I've got the license for. And I can outrun you," she joked.

Jeff Bezos is going to space on first crewed flight of rocket
But Funk didn't need all that experience to fly on Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle. The fully autonomous spacecraft and rocket system is designed to allow virtually anyone to become an astronaut after just a few hours of safety instructions and training at Blue Origin's facilities in West Texas.

According to a 2019 profile of Funk in the Guardian, Funk previously purchased a ticket aboard the suborbital space plane built by the Richard Branson-backed company Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin'sdirect competitor which is still in the testing phase of its program and has not yet announced a date for its first commercial flight.

It's not clear if Funk will keep her plans to fly with Virgin Galactic as well.

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Yeah, I'm in

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https://www.ign.com/articles/neill-blomkamp-game-developer-gunzilla-multiplayer-shooter-narrative

Neill Blomkamp, the director of District 9, Elysium, and Chappie, has joined new developer Gunzilla Games as Chief Visionary Officer, helping the studio to create its unrevealed debut multiplayer shooter.

Gunzilla was set up last year and began pre-production on its first game. The studio features development talent that previously worked for Crytek, Ubisoft, EA, and more now, it's added some Hollywood talent too. Speaking to IGN, Blomkamp explained that his unusual Chief Visionary Officer role will be to act as an "an egalitarian version of being a film director", working with different parts of the team to decide the best routes forward for design, audio, storytelling, and more. "It comes from a place of bringing directorial skills that would be along the lines of the films that I've done before to the aesthetic of the game," he explains.

While he does regularly play games, and has had brushes with the industry before (most notably working on a doomed Halo movie adaptation with Peter Jackson), Blomkamp acknowledges that he's not experienced in game development, and will be working with other senior creatives to make sure his vision is workable:

"The difference [from directing a film] is not acting like a single point that guides the creative team. It's making sure that you're integrated into the team in a real way," he tells me. "I can come in with a very definitive point of view, but it has to work on two levels. It has to be accepted by the greater team as the right creative direction to go in. And it also has to be, first and foremost, something that can integrate into the architecture of gameplay in a way that's beneficial to the game."

While Blomkamp's role at Gunzilla is a long-term one, his sole focus at the company right now is to work on its debut; an unrevealed, AAA multiplayer shooter that aims to weave in narrative elements. While there's very little Blomkamp or Gunzilla are saying definitively about the project right now, I ask Blomkamp how (or even if) he's also bringing his experience as a screenwriter to a multiplayer game:

"Well, the primary thing no matter how you cut it will be player agency and the ability for players to just interact with it in a shooter environment in a way that hopefully is a really, really cool game to them which means, in the event of being dropped in and playing, narrative takes a back seat. But if you think of something like Elysium, the amount of forethought to build the world, you may be spending 95% of the time thinking through the worldbuilding in order to get to the 5%, which is the movie that you watch. And I think that you could apply the same sort of mentality where depending on how much backstory and world creation you're building, you're going to end up with a more convincing, awesome world to drop the player into. In terms of actual specific narrative, there are also other avenues that players can begin to learn more about things that we're talking about."

I ask if he might compare his narrative role to that of George R.R. Martin on Elden Ring, with the author providing the foundation of the game's world, and the development team finding a story to tell within it. His response is simple: "You're thinking in the right way."

Blomkamp won't be drawn into saying more about the game, and makes clear that it doesn't have any overt connection to any of his movie work although he does allude to a possible setting: "I think the idea of near future science fiction is something that is really interesting. Conceptually, as well as from a visual and design point of view, that's my favorite zone to be inside of."

In the absence of details about the game he's making, I ask about Blomkamp about the games he plays. What does he like best? "I'm a little bit unusual in the sense that I love the idea of synthetic three-dimensional environments that you can drop an audience member into so much that it often overweighs the gameplay itself. So for straight-up gameplay, multiplayer shooters are the games that I am interested in, if you're talking about just pure fun.

"In terms of actually witnessing something and moving around inside of it, a game like Control from Remedy would be something that I find highly fascinating, where you're pushing ray tracing and environmental destruction, and you're incorporating really interesting design language. It feels like you're walking around inside of a place that an artist has brought to you. I have a lot of appreciation for games that do that kind of thing."

After enjoying games for so long, then, what is it that made now the right time for Blomkamp to consider making them too?

"I've definitely spent a lot of time thinking about how people talk about narrative in film as though it applies to games and thinking that they're wrong a lot of the time. At least for the massively adopted large scale of games," he begins. "I don't have experience as a game designer, but I have other expertise that I think can potentially make the game interesting. And at least I can learn from it and then kind of begin to grow. The analogy that I use is, if you look at the second half of the 20th century, it became a case where books were up on a shelf and people would sometimes read books, but the dominant thing was TV and film in the way that culture was crafted and created.

"My analogy is that films and passive narrative formats will sort of be like books on a shelf in the sense that they're always there, and people will always be absorbing them but the dominant thing when you come home from work and you do something will be some form of highly interactive... a place that you're dropped into, a three-dimensional world where something is unfolding over time. And I just find that idea very interesting. And I think it's going to be it's going to be pretty incredible where, where it goes. So I just want to be a part of it."

What becomes totally clear through our chat is that Blomkamp sees making games not as a hobby, or a sidestep from his current job, but a next step. His history as a director encompasses visual effects, writing, and directing elements he points out are used differently in games, but are still very much used. Gunzilla and its game appear to be a means of using those skills in a medium Blomkamp believes will take off even further in the years to come:
"Games will [...] become what films were in the 20th century. They'll just be the thing that is the dominant form of cultural entertainment and [I want] to be in that. Mixing my history in visual effects and interest in 3D graphics means I want to have a home base in the creation of games for a really long time. So if the game is a success and everything works out, hopefully I'm staying at Gunzilla for a long time."

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I'm gonna say Achievement Hunter. I've never played Minecraft, but watched 100 or 200 episodes of Let's Play Minecraft alone. I either got bored with it or couldn't get into the new people

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Trumpo posted...

Hydraulic press channel

I've left and gone back to that one twice. Haven't subbed in a couple of years, but it really loses its appeal pretty quickly

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Crusader101 posted...

Nostalgia Critic, he is an asshole for some of the shit he allowed to happen. I know I could try to separate the art from the artist but yeah he is an asshole.

Even without his behavior, I don't even think his stuff is that good. He is way too nitpicky for stuff that doesn't even matter, will latch onto them as legit flaws and get pissy about them, then turn around and say "yeah, the movie's still alright for the most part".

It got worse after Demo Reel's failure and return of the original series, and reached a head with his review of The Wall (which was unanimously panned by his fanbase)

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