Don't care if Pragmata is diddy ahhh blud or whatever, but seeing more than one comparison to both TLOU and Bioshock means I'm never touching that game for life

That sucks to hear, I hope for the best case scenario with your stuff going forward. Always enjoy your positive, energetic personality at fighting game events and hope you can continue travelling to them.

tragic; your favorite creator returns to your cherished childhood story, however, they are no longer mentally ill

I don't think enough noise has been made over the UK mandating ID to access basically anything, then that being followed up by making sex that people stumble upon videos for without actively searching for it (incest-implied, choking) illegal.

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Part of political discourse and action I'm constantly at odds with is the sheer pointlessness of it all, and if that feeling comes from a genuine evaluation of the existing power structures and their durability, or from a culture of learned helplessness that infects everyone

seeing red at the bluesky of it all with the iran news. top reply on a post calling israel and america rogue states being "what about russia?" says it all. cannot imagine having such a worldview. all this death, all this horror, to percieve it purely through liberal pointscoring is utterly inhuman

Every time polls show a left wing party/candidate that is popular among younger people neck-and-neck with someone, you know they're gonna win by a huge margin in the actual election

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When I try to explain to people that investors are generally very, very stupid people this is what I mean.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Manchester Arena bereaved families say MI5 must be fully included in new law on cover-ups The law follows campaigning by families affected by the 1989 Hillsborough disaster that claimed 97 lives.

Awesome how we just occasionally go “And of course, it’s bad that the police and the security services occasionally get fuckloads of people killed and then lie like hell about it, and nobody is willing to punish them or change anything beyond asking them to be nicer”, and then forget about it again.

"Is Rance Woke?" - the greatest thread in the history of vndb, locked by a moderator after Sengoku Rance was deemed to have too much gameplay to qualify as a Visual Novel.

Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.

'It's a pretty big deal for me as a human': One of the FGC's most popular commentators is stepping away from future EVO events following its Saudi buyout Sajam called the choice "bad for me financially."

A prominent commentator in the fighting game community, Sajam, has announced he will not participate in future EVO events following its acquisition by the Saudi government.

i wonder what combination of microsoft writing ten billion lines of windows code with ai + game developers downsized beyond feasible limits + every game now installs an anti-cheat rootkit on your pc will lead to an extremely public disaster in the coming years

It's pretty funny how this is true across a wide range of sectors. Dudes who cover MMA, originally just because they thought cage fighting was awesome, just becoming the most jaded, most hardline workers rights people I've met.

put it in the newspaper that i didn't find it hot i merely found it an intellectually stimulating horror scenario it's not indicative of anyth

I like the one where they bring in the circus animals because the episode ran short.

The strategy of intentionally obfuscating what is and isn't the result of an LLM, so a bunch of useful idiots can "well actually..." people legitimately mad about "AI" into silence, works depressingly well.

once again reminding everyone that we have 100 years of study showing that more than 40 hours a week drops you under 40 hours of productivity basically immediately.

Crunch is one of those things that is completely debunked, but executives think science makes their dicks small

It is pretty funny that the core reason why the Labour party is dying is that everyone in charge there is too locked in on getting the cushy job at the Tony Blair Institute.

Yes! Yes! I love Moomin! He's so popular! All the different Moomins 115mins

they should do an independent review into how much care is missed because interacting with the nhs is like running full speed skull first into brick walls

LMAO???????

Dead Rising 1 is entirely carried by the aesthetic of Japanese people being fascinated by BIG AMERICA and every other entry misses the forest for the trees.

Before committing to the bit, be sure to dig two graves

lmao

Courts should probably award Miyazaki a few no consequences kills at this point