Let this be a lesson to all worldbuilders: the future is always stupider than you think.

A caveat for WoW: I haven't played it in at least a decade, I just couldn't think of a multiplayer game I've played recently and would call my favorite. I had some fond memories from when I played as a kid. I eventually just outgrew MMOs ig

I love trends! TRENDS!

It's extremely funny to me that the randomly dropped Fire Warrior Steam release carries this disclaimer about its old lore as if it's Disney apologizing for racist episodes of The Muppet Show.

how many posts about the northernlion cruise did it take you to realise that it wasnt a bit people on your tl were doing. i was about 4

swords

Trying to describe a feeling

I love Jujutsu Kaisen

I can't imagine going to see Digital Circus in a public theater. The cartoon is good, but I would not like to enter the Screaming Child Nexus

it's so fucked up that executive dysfunction makes me procrastinate on my hobbies and leisure activities too. like there's this invisible barrier in the way when i want or need to shift tasks. i hate my brain

Gen alpha in 15 years:

"This was the future we were promised..."

Hi Nona👋

In the wake of the Mario Galaxy reviews, people are trying to argue again that the 1993 Mario movie was good. No, it was not
I watched it a bunch and have nostalgia for it and appreciate how utterly bizarre it was. But it is still a pretty bad film

subway ad that says "your idea could be live by the time you reach your stop"

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

If you’re looking to wholesome alternatives to Harry Potter my I suggest the loving and imaginative world of Warhammer 40K

death of the author is intended as a framework for literary analysis that entails disregarding paratext and the intentions of the creator in order to create an "objective" analysis of a text.

it's not intended as a way to absolve yourself of guilt for financially contributing to a creator who sucks

fun reminder:

the reason why they make these fucking pointless "live action" remakes is because since it's "live action", the animation is considered "vfx" and not character animation, so they can pay these non-unionized satellite studios fuck-all and make a cool few million for essentially nothing

I’m so tired of ‘we used it as a placeholder’
No you didn’t, placeholders are normally just blank/minimal images so they are easy to spot and replace later.
You used it because you thought you’d get away with it.

FUCK. OFF!

"What if every npc was a fully functional chatbot" is the game equivalent to asking in a movie "what if you could move the camera wherever you wanted"; it sounds so cool until you realize there is a crucial intent to the limits, and you will quickly lose the plot if you toss that by the wayside.

Official Trailer for "Dorohedoro" Season 2.
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQSz...

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology"

No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

Would the Mega Man: Battle Network games count?

You've heard of the Mechanical Turk™, now get ready for the VIRTUAL TURK™

a pokemon card variation we played when I was a kid was 30 card decks with 3 prizes which we called "hong kong style" zero recollection on why we called it that

Overheard a teenager deploy "SHUT UP, BRO. You watch AI porn!" as a devastating insult to one of his friends, which sent the rest of their group into a laughing fit.

"Currently"

It's going to be fascinating to see what happens when the inevitable HP UB set happens. Will your favorite Content Creator™ who've built a career out of Magic turn their back on the game or will they just make keep making videos opening Collector's boxes trying to get a surge foil Albus Shitwand™?

i would honestly be overjoyed if the upcoming Strixhaven set was revealed to have Harry Potter UB cards if only so more people would let go of the shambling corpse of IP-slop Magic has become

Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.