life is exactly like mystery dungeon. you can live an entire lifetime without finding a damn sword

Ahaha. Yeah, SNK's current owners are learning the hard way that fighting game players can't be bought with that kind of money, they got shitcanned the instant they put an asshole soccer player in City of the Wolves.

The issue with many "cozy" games is they're so vibes-focused, they lose sight of the CONTENT of the media they're emulating. Yes, "The Wind in the Willows" involves sitting around drinking tea, but it also includes such heartwarming episodes as "Mr. Toad steals a car" and "Rat and Mole meet God".

Thinking of it from this angle, Disco Elysium is almost a "cozy" game. About investigating a murder as an amnesiac headcase of a cop.

If I had a nickel for every time a Crusher-centric episode had some really unsettling questions about consent and if Beverly Crusher is even less able to keep it in her pants than James Tiberius Kirk, I'd have... way more nickels than I feel comfortable with even contemplating.

you want to eat a delicious caloriemate with your dominant genes.

The main character being followed by the missing dwarve child, who kinda looks like a LaLa from Aventures of Lolo except with pig ears(?)

CRYSTALIS
SNK 1990
NES

here's your yearly reminder jay naylor is furry's biggest practicing nazi artist. stop giving him money, fucks sake

"and Japan starts making TVs, VCRs, automobiles, and camcorders, as fast as they can, and also better than ANYbody else. They get rich and the economy goes WILD and then the miracle wears off. but everything's still pretty cool i guess bye"

Remembering the last fifteen seconds of Bill Wurtz's "history of japan" video - yes, fifteen seconds - and it's basically how history classes have treated the entire century since WW2 regardless of region.

I was just sitting here going like, "did their shitty AI 'artist' make Miss Liberty a goddamn Guncannon" I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking it.

The "Don't look at them, Ricky!" meme comic repurposed to make a Fire Emblem incest joke. Panel 1: "Mommy those two siblings are kissing each other" Panel 2: "Don't look at them, Ricky. I don't want you to be influenced by... ohgodno" Panel 3: "RICKYYY" "It is too late, Mother. I have seen everything" In the third panel, Ricky has completely transformed into Seliph from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. The Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War logo is superimposed over the bottom of the panel.

I was in school through the 80s and early 90s and like, the most anything covered post-WWII was a brief "MLK peacefully asked white people for more rights and solved racism but was shot whoopsiepiddle"

god I love
video game

Yeah. I can't argue either point, really; I still hate how it makes me feel but the fact it actually expects me to feel that way means they did what they were trying to do, NOT "oh this movie sucks".

Todd is a good follow

It’s a good question, let’s clear the air:

1) Disco is awesome, like 25 all-time classic tracks in a 4 year span,

2) Disco was hated because it was queer, brown, and black,

3) Disco was hated because it paired women and men in a different power dynamic.

4) “Disco Sucks” was a “ MAGA” test run.

Even the cat knows that L'arachel demands attention.

Are you trying to attack those who don't share that common interest, or are you willing to live and let live?

And besides, with an open mind sometimes their interests can become yours.

We really are the Cops of the world, in the most derogatory, hateful way that word can be used.

I admit that after living through the twilight of the Cold War, and Gulf War, and the Gulf War...2!, and the war in Afghanistan, and the interventions in Palestine and Ukraine,

For all 42 years of my life, "belligerence" is just "refusal to comply" when it comes to American retaliation.

If you were disabled before 40 you already had the Normal Adult job change locked permanently. And nobody wants to stay in "emotionally unstable teenager" past level 39.

A photo of four glass mugs adorned with images of Garfield the Cat. Overlaid on the photo is a caption in Comic Sans font saying "I'm here for a good Monday... not a long Monday"

this popped in my head during the Toxic Garfield Mug discussion during stream

Never about pleasure.

Always about power.

Also FF12 fits it, with Balthier being #3 (if we discount the intro as not the "main cast").

Also thinking about it, it sounds weird to imply people really want to hang with Steiner, too. Fella's a recovering cop and nobody wants to deal with *that*. Everyone is here for Vivi, and *Vivi* wants to hang out with Steiner. Which is fair, Vivi is good and pure so we respect his tastes, but still

Any improvement is a step away from platonic ideal, and ends up lessening the overall experience.

I think this really nails the paradigm: an ice cream sandwich is not perfect, the chocolate cookie "bread" is often too soft and not good chocolate. But the entire thing, good and bad, is such an iconic, familiar thing to so much of America that any and all attempts to improve it fail.

"Horny Boston Sprock" excuse you his name is Sporkey or legally Crispin

And *In Universe*, at least, goddamn everybody wants to hang out with Quistis.