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Ah. Thought this might have been a leak or something lol. I'm just out of the loop.

I'm really happy that they're coming to Switch.

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Or did it get announced in the last couple days?



Went to play some games and this was in the news feed of my Switch.

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There's no way out of this where everyone is happy.

If she knew your mutual chemistry was there, why did she get engaged to your mutual friend? Dating's one thing, but engagement? And why is this coming up now?

You either have to leave or set boundaries so that this affair never progresses - or she needs to break off the engagement and be with you if that's what you both want. But your mutual friend will be fucking shattered by that, and it will almost certainly put you on a lot of shit lists.

If you leave, you're probably gonna be unhappy - you're losing a lady you're into, but you're also losing friends. If you manage to keep being friends with everyone in a way that doesn't rock the boat, this lady is gonna be unhappy because she wants you and not her man. And if you both get together, your mutual friend is gonna be extremely unhappy. There's no clean way out of this.

You need to figure out your priorities and consider your personal values, and whatever comes of that comes of that.

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They're good. They're very clever, the cases are shocking, and it's fun being able to nail a crook's ass to the wall while they squirm under the spotlight.

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Of course the most easygoing Ninja Turtle would get kicked out by the tight-assed FGC

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Kylo_Ren_ posted...

Rest in Peace.

Of course Kylo Ren would be the kind of guy to be "say goodbye to the rest of your life" in response to someone else's engagement.

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I can drink one pint of beer in around 10 seconds. Give me 2 minutes to recover from the first one and brace myself for the second pint, and I could drink both pints in under 5.

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Like on the surface it's a no-brainer: best entry, hands down. You get the full experience of what the franchise is all about, the one that everyone likes, and get to partake in the joy of having experienced such a momentous peak of the series.

But the problem with that is that from there, there's nowhere else to go but down. You might find interesting shit in other games, movies or shows that you eventually like better than the most beloved installment, but once you see the universally acclaimed thing, you're basically left with scraps.

Starting with the worst installment runs the risk of turning someone off of a thing forever - like you're not gonna get someone into Mission Impossible by showing them the second movie first. But in a formulaic series like Star Trek or Castlevania, it might pay dividends to get someone started on the lower end of the scale.

For example, I just started playing Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance. This was the first Castlevania game I ever got into as a teenager. It's graphically impressive, the combat and RPG elements are fun and you have all the excitement of uncovering this wide open map that's full of upgrades. It's a perfectly acceptable Metroidvania game.

But compare Harmony of Dissonance to Symphony of the Night, Circle of the Moon or Aria of Sorrow. Maybe you feel differently, but my impression is that the games that came before and slightly after are considered to be a cut above the rest.

And yet as a teenager, my first Castlevania game was Harmony of Dissonance. And it was a very enjoyable experience that led to me getting into Aria of Sorrow, and regarding the series so fondly that I bought the Advance Collection years later.

And like I had played other Castlevania games before, like IV and maybe the original. I'm not saying that I should have fought through the second game or Adventure before playing the good ones. But as far as Igavania games go, Harmony of Dissonance seems to get a rough go of it.

But by starting with Harmony, every Igavania game has been a steady rise in quality for me. I started modest, and then I played the great ones - and I'm glad I did, because otherwise Harmony would be a footnote and a shame for me to force myself through. Having played it first, I hold a lot of nostalgia for it, so I think I'm really gonna enjoy my Advance Collection playthrough. Starting with the worst one made the best ones better, and vindicated the worst one through nostalgia.

But that's where I'm coming from on this. What do you think?

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I beat Circle of the Moon by cheesing the Thunderbird summon.

Overall? Pretty good game! I liked it a lot. Kinda wild how this one was produced by the guy behind Castlevania 64, not Koji Igarashi.

I'm playing Dracula X right now, and I'm using save states and the rewind feature like there's no tomorrow. I don't have anything to prove, and I have no need to front. Circle of the Moon is manageable, but the older, clunkier Castlevania games? There's no shame in admitting I'm a massive bitch, lol

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Can't wait for next weekend, I might be going to a friend's house. I'm taking two bottles of Jager, one for him and one for me.

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Sure, but my castle completion percentage is 92% at this point. All that's left are a handful of hidden rooms that have weaseled themselves away from me and the Battle Arena.

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One night stand, no. Anonymous hook-up with a stranger in a compromising environment? Sure.

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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

Looking up videos and map layouts is already cheating

Sure, but everyone's threshold for cheating is different. I looked up videos and a map layout, I don't want to take advantage of an in-game exploit.

It's like saying you should commit murder because you already committed a crime by stealing a loaf of bread. Maybe not that dramatic, but you get what I mean.

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This looks like a screenshot out of a Yakuza game.

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Please tell me that's a scam text.

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DyingPancake posted...

I couldnt do it with just the whip and didnt know how to call the summon so I looked that up.

I learned his 2nd form pattern pretty well with just the whip so when he transformed into eyeball I just used that thunderbird there and killed him the first time. Though it sounds like you dont want to do it that way!

Oh no, I don't mind cheesing it that way at all lol. I just don't have Uranus yet and I don't want to glitch the game.

Like if someone knows where to get the Uranus card, that'd be great. But I also wanted to vent about how much of a fuckin damage sponge that eyeball is. Like Jesus Christ, I tanked the rest of the game with my whip. The fact that there's an easy cheese that doesn't require seven straight minutes of doing chip damage with the base weapon, that isn't like an easily telegraphed weakness like BotW or something, just kinda bugs me. But if I know about the cheese, I'll do it to save myself the time and effort.

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Kind of, yeah. Like a great game has a punchy, focused plot with potentially an open-ended postgame. By the time you're forty hours in, there should be something keeping you going that isn't just "eventually the game should be over".

For example - Metal Gear Solid 5? Pretty good game! Lightweight story that falls apart eventually, but I sure love playing it.

But I can't help feeling I'd enjoy it a lot more if Chapter 2 didn't exist. Even if it felt particularly premature without the ending twist, or they work the cutscene in earlier or something, I think that would tighten the pacing just enough to get MGS5 over the finish line. The reason the game is as disappointing as it is is because of how it trails off due to the circumstances behind its creation. It'd still be a flawed, compromised product, but it would at least feel compact and tightly packed enough that you could take it at face value and enjoy the endgame content like the side ops.

As it stands now, you see the slow, shambling unraveling of the game's development, culminating in a cliffhanger that never got added as DLC or anything. The planned ending of the game was jammed into a documentary, but it plain doesn't exist in the text of the game. It's that unraveling that kills MGS5 the most, next to its inconsequential story.

Another thing that people are bothered by: there's some Castlevania game where half of the map is an inverted Dracula's castle. Bigger map and more content? Sure. But it comes at the expense of going through the entire sprawling map of Dracula's castle AGAIN, though tons of shit you just spent hours exploring. A similar thing happens in Bravely Default to my understanding, where the game length is doubled in a way that feels incredibly inconvenient and that drags on way too much.

Some games are good for fucking around, like who's gonna bitch about Minecraft's pacing? But video games that have a defined start and end point do need to keep an eye on how long the game stretches on for, and how it's stretching out that playtime. Metal Gear Solid 5 - excellent game to fuck around in, mediocre story, but the story is made even worse when you experience the full scope of what's missing. Removing content and tightening up the pacing wouldn't fix all of its issues, but I think it would help. If that Castlevania game altered the castle layout more than they did, or added a separate endgame area that was its own smaller second map to add more content while considering the pacing, maybe it wouldn't have a reputation for getting tiresome. Maybe Bravely Default should have kept it at half of the game it is, because people seem to adore that first half and drop off like flies once the repetition becomes clear. Sometimes there's too much game with not enough to keep you invested, and I think developers need to be conscious of the pace their main story goes at. The rest can work as endgame content, but don't make players jump through hoops for the sake of an expanded story if you have a perfectly tidy endpoint that doesn't utilize everything a game has to offer.

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Son Of Spam posted...

If you want to be lazy you can utilize the DSS card glitch. It allows you to use any card in the game.

I mean sure, but I don't want to cheese that hard. I've already looked up videos and map layouts and stuff, I don't want to break the game to cheat on top of that. Too much hassle.

I mean I mostly solo'd the game with my whip and the boomerang, I've only really used the DSS system for Hugh and Dracula. The damage multiplier depending on how much of Dracula's castle you've explored is fucking awesome btw, I just need to use the half-damage magic because Dracula's form hits like a motherfucker.

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... Dracula's eyeball-bat form?

I've been taking his second form out with Apollo Thunderbird because I looked it up, but then I throw on the half-damage magic and spend the third phase whipping the eyeball.

The thing is, the last stage is a total damage sponge. I must have hit the eye roughly 30 times, for 37 damage per hit. So that's roughly 1110 damage before I eventually succumbed to the bats. It took fucking AGES too.

So what's the deal? Should I prioritize a different DSS combo? I hear summoning the Thunderbird is good but I don't have the Uranus card.

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What's the fucking downside? *smashes the Yes button*

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I think we call all agree that Eagle Boys was the shit back in the day. I turned 18 a year or two before they went into administration, and I cannot describe the joy of being shitfaced at 10pm eating a margarita pizza from Eagle Boys, then going back to the pub to keep drinking. They used to halve a bunch of cherry tomatoes and put them flat-side down on the pizza, and they would put this flaky parmesan cheese on it that had a garlicky punch to it.

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Condolences, dude. The build-up and all the craziness that surrounded your dad's death probably didn't do a whole lot to soften the blow.

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SiO4 posted...

Link me to the place and I will judge based on pictures alone.

That'd be doxxing myself. I'll grab a pizza next time and take a picture for you.

SiO4 posted...

Anytime I see a swirl on pizza I assume it is going to be some kind of gimmicky bull shit.

To a degree, sure. I've had an incredible peri peri chicken pizza in Sydney, it had the sauce swirl and it rocked my fucking world. Meanwhile, the parmesan and chicken Domino's pizza does the swirl thing and it's completely unnecessary, like it's there to look fancy.

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LeadPipeCinche posted...

Its Domino's..... so it'll taste burnt.

Wrong, it'll taste burnt because of the Vegemite.

idk what Domino's is like in America, but it's pretty good where I live. There's a local joint that does better pizza - there's one called The Lot that has like salami, anchovies, olives, pineapple etc. on it which is a fucking dream. But Domino's isn't a bad runner up.

In my experience, it's better than Pizza Hut.

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LightningAce11 posted...

That looks rank

I mean, it's no different than a margarita or creme fraiche pizza. Just replace tomato paste/creme fraiche with Vegemite.

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Honestly? They did a good job.

Vegemite is a very acrid substance, and it's meant to be used sparingly. I think they've used a thinner solution than store-shelf Vegemite and added a fine coat of it to the base of a cheese pizza, then used the thinner solution a bit thicker for the swirl.

It's like buttered Vegemite toast, but with cheese instead of butter. It's not gonna blow the world away, but it is certainly a palatable pizza.

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I decided to get it for lunch. The second vaccine shot is kicking my ass and I wanted a pick-me-up.



It looks like the base is Vegemite with a swirl of it on top, and the rest is cheese.

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He's cooped up in the safehouse

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Fuck yeah. My dad watched a lot of music TV, he liked stuff like Dire Straits, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton etc. He wasn't a fuckin Bob Seger dad y'know lol

This is my favorite Dire Straits song. There's also a cover of this by the Killers, it gets the job done but the original is better:

https://youtu.be/rC95MEenIxA

There's also a live recording of Dire Straits doing Wonderful Tonight at a concert they had with Eric Clapton. I love these sappy-ass romantic ballads:

https://youtu.be/vIB9m9kPkxg

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Damn_Underscore posted...

vegy might

damn, /topic

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I'm gonna get one for dinner, will report back about how it tastes

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Gamefreak isn't doing Arceus I thought

Game Freak are doing Arceus, the gen 4 remakes are being handled by Ilca - a phone game company - under the direction of Junichi Masuda or something.

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TheChariot posted...

* Pokmon Storage & Exp Share are active from the start of the game

Where does it say you don't have the option of turning it off?

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Source?

And isn't there any sort of protest people can take in the light of this news?

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Also isn't it funny how Americans - citizens of a country where you need to take off your shoes, get scanned by a machine that outlines your genitals, refuses to let you take water or certain powders onto a plane and lets a person stick their hand in your ass at the drop of a hat - are lecturing Australians about authoritarianism?

How safe does it really make you that a grown-ass TSA agent is allowed to pat down a 3 year old boy in the name of national security? How does that freedom taste?

Or am I just being unfair, and I don't understand the nuance of the situation because I'm not American? Y'know, like you're scaremongering about lockdown laws?

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pure_temper posted...

What will you do if they do?

Here's the thing, dude.

The Liberal Party are decidedly not a fan of lockdown. Gladys Berejiklian was known as a "for-business" premier, to the effect that she forwent lockdown a couple of times to keep businesses open, even when COVID started spiking. When cases began to spike three months ago or so, one of her members of staff made a comment about how she's seen everyone wearing their masks outside and how she trusts that people would do the right thing.

By refusing to lock down peak COVID infection sites sooner, we hit a peak of almost 1500 infections a day, and when Gladys was essentially forced to take us into lockdown, people protested in Sydney. That's where you get the picture of the bogan punching a police horse. Not only did people refuse to do the right thing, and helped proliferate the virus when it was on the rise without any COVID restrictions - to the point that my rural-ass town of less than 10,000 citizens got our first cases of COVID due to people breaking lockdown laws - the Liberal government did everything in their power to avoid going into lockdown sooner, because to them, lockdown is a dirty word and they'd rather not do it.

I can guarantee you our government doesn't want us to wear masks, socially distance and stay away from small, enclosed businesses forever. The last time we were open, the government gave pretty much everyone in NSW these "Dine and Discover" vouchers which gave you a $20 voucher with any compatible local business to stimulate the economy. Berejiklian didn't lock down sooner when we started to get in trouble, and the fact that we did lock down the way we did is almost certainly an embarrassment on her government because she did everything in her power to avoid even saying the word "lockdown".

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One_Day_Remains posted...

Also I wondered why this topic reached 100+ posts and it turns out it's because of CE's resident Ivermectin defender

Who is now linking the clip of the guy who convinced a KKK member to leave the KKK in complete and absolute intellectual dishonesty but CE is still going to feed him

I know, shit sucks. I didn't respond for a few days and things took the direction they did. honestly thinking of blocking Joe and Avantgarde.

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The Switch was like a better PS3/X360, slightly more juiced. If we can get a Super Nintendo Switch that's like a slightly amped PS4, it'll be nice.

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Thanks to our lockdown laws, only one in every 17,800 Australians has died of COVID.

Thanks to your absence of lockdown laws, every one in 460 Americans has died of COVID.

Our harshest lockdown laws state that you can leave the house to get groceries, get food from a restaurant and work if you're an essential worker - you can sunbathe at home, which this person has elected not to do. When COVID cases begin to reduce, those restrictions are loosened and people can dine out, go to the gym and all that. Beaches open back up. Even now, given that you're wearing a mask and social distancing, you can go outside and walk around unless you're in a COVID hotspot - as in, there's a sharp peak of COVID infections in a small enough proximity that allowing it to go unchecked has a high chance of spreading rapidly outwards.

Again, with our laws in mind, the difference in COVID deaths between us and you is:

one in 17,800 Australians
one in 460 Americans

Population has nothing to do with it, Great Britain has something like one in every 330 Britons who have died and their population is closer to that of Australia than the US.

Is it inconvenient? Sure. But the difference it makes is approximately 17,340 lives in comparison to how you guys are handling things. And when we're closer to 80% of a fully vaccinated population? Restrictions will be rolled back even faster than they already are.

But if you want to share an anti-lockdown idiot who's knowingly and willingly breaking the law to film an altercation with a cop to rile you up, or a censored Twitter screenshot of someone tagging the police in a tweet, that's your prerogative. I made enough of an effort to communicate my country's actual, honest-to-god shortcomings to you - if you just want to clown, so be it.

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Misinterpreted the topic, mb lol.

First game that comes to mind as a 10/10 is Jak and Daxter. It was a childhood favorite that captured a tone and a mood that I never really saw again. It's a jaw-dropping technical achievement to this day, and the physics are weighty and fun - there's a real sense of momentum and weight that games increasingly lost going forward.

The sixth generation of gaming had some really weighty, momentous games - consider how Super Mario Sunshine plays compared to 64 and Galaxy. Jak and Daxter was one of the best examples of this, even compared to its two sequels that added gunplay and vehicles. You could chain rolls into jumps into spins into punches into another jump, and it felt like you were getting somewhere. It felt solid and weighty and real.

The plot was an excuse plot, but the VA was all pretty good. Every town and NPC had its own flavour and atmosphere.

Again, childhood bias plays a factor - but Jak and Daxter continues to stand apart to this day. Name a game that captures the sort of naturalistic rustpunk aesthetic that it does, with ancient precursor races, natural sources of mana and magic that flow up from the ground, and that incredible mix of decay, nature, worship and technology that covers the entire game world.

Then consider how the next two games paved it over.

I don't mind the next two games, but Jak and Daxter stands apart from the pack.

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VioletMassacre posted...

This turned way too political for me.

"Australia is an authoritarian shithole" is a political statement, and it deserves a political response.

joe40001 posted...

Ostracization doesn't work at all.

Neither does appeasement. You're not going to get anywhere by giving conspiracy theorists the same share of the conversation as anyone who's actually trying to stop this virus from spreading.

How many COVID hoaxes have there been so far? We've had 5G towers, hypochloroxide or whatever the shit Trump was shilling, "masks make it easier for people to kidnap children" - hand in hand with qanon conspiracy theories, which continue to drive concerned families into the arms of white nationalists and into the ranks of militia groups out of fear for their family's lives - "most covid deaths are caused by other pre-existing health conditions so it's inaccurate to say COVID killed them", "COVID isn't as bad as everyone says it is", "Vaccines actually weaken healthy immune systems and make them more susceptible to the virus", and ivermectin.

How far have anti-vaxxers moved the goalposts in the past two years? How much further are they going to twist the conversation to scaremonger and give themselves the upper hand?

Appeasement doesn't work. You say that ostracization doesn't work, and maybe it doesn't for some people who are too far gone. Neither does humoring this horseshit, because you give a whacked-out conspiracy theorist an inch, they take a mile. That's basically how redpilling works - you cede one little argument here, one little argument there, take it all in good faith and assume they have the best of intentions. But they keep going because they have a platform now and they're not being moderated, and the people who pay attention to these unchecked conspiracy theories are susceptible to look them up and go down the rabbit hole.

I would rather roll the dice on ostracization than let this shit thrive unchecked and drag more people into that lunacy.

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Fishstick posted...

How much of stuff here spills over into these discords? Is there really a need to talk about this place on other platforms?

There are a couple cool CE discords, but the coolness factor increases when the CE interaction decreases.

So like I'd never wanna be in the Caution or the Tails discord because they're like terminally invested in a place that doesn't want them to a really creepy level, and I'd never want to be in DarkRoast's discord because it seems like it's as much of a politicized "free speech alternative" to CE as the former two but with less outright obsession.

But places like the tinychat discord are great because even when users still visit CE, it feels like much more of an insular community - like it's about people living their lives, they have memes and in-jokes that aren't CE related, people know each other by name. It's my favorite discord server, and it's partially because it has the CE connection with none of the baggage.

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This would make for a good webcomic. Just super sketchy, sharp, angular lines on everything - like a less detailed Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

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If you actually cared, you would have learned about our politics over here. You would have some idea about the past decade of Australian politics, instead of going "oh no gun bans and Twitter users tagging the police, police state!". But instead, you post alarmist Twitter screenshots that represent a small minority of my country's citizens at best, or was staged by a troll at worst. And you don't say a single thing about our actual government, indicating you don't know jack shit about how things actually roll down here.

I genuinely think you'd fit in just fine down here, because your country's insane right wing is increasingly creeping in here and poisoning the discourse, just like the alt-right did in the lead-up to Trump's victory. The fact that you don't know that, the fact that you and ten thousand other people are going "liberate Australia" against a party who voted a PM into office on a slogan of "stop the boats" - Australia's equivalent to "build the wall" - is telling. Because I honestly think that if you were clued into any of that to begin with, you would be eating this shit off the floor like a dog.

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AvantgardeAClue posted...

Either way you don't seem very in control of your own topic

This is my topic, not theirs. But Blinx does make a solid point.

You posted a random tweet of some Twitter dickhead tagging the Victorian police as if that's representative of some broader climate of authoritarianism. Some dumb f*** on Twitter once told me that water kills more people than THC as an argument in favour of legalising weed. Twitter has plenty of bad faith trolls and idiots that don't represent the broader climate of an entire country or movement, and like Blinx said, our government is bolting out the door to reopen everything as quickly as it can. They're pushing it so hard that they're calling it Freedom Day in the news. So your Twitter screenshot doesn't hold water.

I don't agree with the tone set by the Twitter screenshot you posted, but you have to understand that it comes on the heels of both Queensland and Victoria getting dumb f*** anti-masker idiots breaking quarantine and crossing state lines, reintroducing COVID into those states. There's a broader context of people from my state being plague rats, breaking border laws and re-infecting other areas of the country because they're too entitled to self-isolate - and by how strongly that screenshot detracts from the legitimacy of these issues, I honestly want to say that it's being posted in bad faith.

I think you're either posting something from a troll, or you've taken the bait on the shittiest, most alarmist sort of tweet being made right now that doesn't paint an accurate picture of how things are down here.

To give you an idea of how shitty lockdown protestors have been treating the rest of the country:

I live in a regional NSW town, and at the start of the pandemic, people were coming down from Sydney - a COVID hotspot - with freezers strapped to trailers to buy up all our meat. We finally got our first cases of COVID last month because a family who lives three doors down from me drove to Sydney to either pick up a new car, or to bring a relative home to where I live to circumvent lockdown. Queensland has struggled this entire pandemic with entitled Sydney s***heads circumventing border checkpoints to evade New South Wales' lockdown laws. Sydneysiders are the f***ing worst for this s***.

On a more national level, we had a mining billionaire named Clive Palmer petitioning the government and threatening to sue them if they didn't give him a travel exemption to go into Western Australia to conduct his business. This was at the height of the pandemic, and Western Australia had no cases. None. WA managed to keep him out thanks to their Labor premier in the end, but we had shitheads like Clive Palmer trying to weaken the integrity of lockdown laws that were working. That's on top of citizens breaking border laws and spreading the virus.

And it bothers me that you would lead with that screenshot as if the sky is falling, because it undermines a very real issue this has plagued the country for the entire pandemic. Twitter is full of trolls and s***heads, who's to say this wasn't a staged tweet? You can't judge an entire fucking nation based on an alarmist example of a pro-vax person being high-strung.

If you gave a flying fuck about the politics of my country, you and your ilk would be talking about how our deputy premier - a member of the far-right party who hold power in a coalition government with the center-right party - called a counter-terrorism unit on a YouTuber. You would be talking about how our premier just stepped down due to months of being dragged through our Independent Commission Against Corruption, and how the media has painted this as a sad exit by a sympathetic figure who fought to the very end - despite the fact that she was fighting CORRUPTION CHARGES, and she LOST.

You might be concerned with media monopolization, with Rupert "Fox News" Murdoch owning upwards of 95% of this country's printed news media, or Nine-Fairfax being headed by Joe Hockey, a Liberal Party member who was the treasurer of this nation under them for about a decade.

But you don't actually care about any of that stuff. This whole "liberate Australia" bullshit is empty posturing from a bunch of morons. Because while you guys are putting on a "leftists gone mad" veneer over our media censorship, gun laws and surveillance issues, the most damage those issues have done? It's been ushered in by our most conservative governments.

You don't understand that the government that cracked down on weapons was our conservative government. The prime minister who enacted the measures? A conservative prime minister with seemingly more principles than the increasingly radicalized LNP coalition government that exists today. That COVID app with face-tracking? That's in a state with a Liberal government - not "liberal" as in "leftist", Liberal as in "Australia's version of the Republican party". The fact that we didn't have an R18+ rating for video games came down to a Liberal party member who refused to retire from his position until 2013.

You want to be an ally to Australia and see us prosper in the face of authoritarianism? Speak out against Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton, John Barilaro and Gladys Berejiklian, and the Liberal-National party at large - which, it has to be repeated, is a coalition of our center-right and far-right parties. Talk about how the Liberal National Party pork-barreled millions of dollars in sports grant money towards Liberal government seats and spent next to nothing on Labor seats. Talk about how the Blue Mountains - one of the places hit hardest by the historic 2020 bushfires - received no relief funding out of a $177 million relief grant, while Wagga Wagga - chaired by a mayor who was convicted of corruption, whose corrupt dealings led to Gladys Berejiklian resigning for basically letting him get away with it while being aware of it, and which was an area that was borderline untouched by the fires - received hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions.

But I don't think you will. I think if you were to spend three months here listening to conservative pundits like you do in your own festering puddle of mud, I bet you would change your tune - because you would swallow Sky News' horseshit hook, line and sinker. You'd almost certainly campaign for the United Australia Party, a third party funded by a coal billionaire and fronted by a conservative fuckwit who's in bed with Azerbaijan.

Because this idealised "freedom fighter" fantasy you yahoos are projecting on us is based on a handful of face-value assumptions you have about us based on our access to firearms and a perceived censorship issue, which I'm going to guess goes hand in hand with this idea that we're a "cucked", "wokepilled" nation. And I'm struggling to find the words to enunciate how mind-breakingly, off-the-wall stupid that shit is.

Because yeah, Australia is in dire straits right now. We do have issues with surveillance. Our government does have too much power.

But it's because our government is staffed with far-right fuckwits, much like the ones calling for our "liberation".

Our prime minister has a close associate who believes in qanon, for fuck's sake. And the LNP have made it a policy not deflect from their own failings by saying it was actually the Green party's fault everything is so fucked up.

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ProfessorKukui posted...

I actually like the last one, very reminiscent of a certain area in the game.



Holy hell, good luck.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, Yoshi's Island and either Metal Gear Solid or Shadow of the Collossus. Good fucking luck on the last one though lmao

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Blair Witch or Resident Evil 7

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For me, it was Metal Gear Solid 2. The fact that Emma just spent her last moments alive in Hal's arms, telling him that she always wanted him to see her as a woman - as Emma, not E.E. - and the fact that Hal's last words to her are "What's wrong with E.E.?", only for her arm to fall to the side as she dies. Literally the last thing she experienced in her life was Hal essentially rejecting her as a woman.

And then the fucking backstory where it's revealed that he was basically molested by Emma's mother, and that when his father drowned himself by piloting his wheelchair into their pool with Emma getting caught up in it, that was Huey trying to take Emma down with him because he knew his wife was having an affair with his son and he wanted her to suffer as much as possible in his act of suicide.

Like Jesus fucking Christ dude.

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I'm actually liking this idea more and more, but I don't want to clan up with a bunch of strangers. So I'll put the call out one more time, with the understanding that I actually do want to make this a reality.

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