Carcinisation is fun, but it's just one example of an odd pattern in parallel evolution. Humans probably will not become crabs; mammals have their own patterns which incongruously recur across unrelated clades. I believe our inheritors will evolve long, sticky tongues to feed on burrowing insects.

Hey man, we cool? I just noticed that when I look at you the reticle turns red.

girls will call themselves immortal and then it turns out they've died easily over a hundred times. you sound extremely mortal. way more mortal that most

what is the charge. what crime has been done

AGAINST ALL ODDS, THOSE WHO BELIEVED BLUESKY THAT THE CRASH WAS DUE TO A DDOS

AND THOSE WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE BLUESKY AND WERE SURE IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE AI VIBE CODING

WERE

BOTH

RIGHT

People got don't-put-it-in-the-newspaper mad that Shadowrun 4E added wireless hacking to everything. "It's so stupid, why would they network everything? Why would they make cyberware with hacking vulnerabilities?" And yet, every single year that's gone by has justified that decision more and more

Okay, this isn't a live-service game.

It's a small, $15 regular 5v5 multiplayer game. The only DLC is a $5 'supporter pack' that gives every character one more skin and the soundtrack.

It's exactly what people have been demanding because they HATE live-service games. And then gets punished as one!

One thing that is under-discussed is how your avi impacts the way people read your posts

FUUUUCK!! I HATE IT-O'S cereal

poisoning my entire island

the funniest right wing nationalist moment was when konaka got annoyed that overseas and japanese audiences both had the same reaction to lain and he was so mad had accidentally written a universal masterpiece that had profound global resonance with struggles that bring us all closer to one another

At times I suspect the reason why soulslikes as a genre are so preoccupied with making you fight evil horses is because you don't need to TRY to make a horse monstrous. Horses slip into the uncanny valley so easily if your animation is even a little bit off that monstrosity just sort of happens.

This is what I think when I see this meme format

This is why groups like Sweet Baby Inc exist btw despite what antiwoke dumbasses tell you

the problem is arcade gamers go "well of course we emulate, how else would we play these games" and pc gamers go "well of course we pirate, digital files are made to be copied" and console gamers go "well of course we'd pay 20 dollars for pokemon fire red in 2026"

the narrative that arcade games were "designed to eat your quarters" is dumb and needs to end

most people don't know, most export versions of arcade PCBs were tweaked to be much harder than their original counterparts, konami was especially guilty for this, the opposite happened way less often

Character action, sandbox & RPG design terms/concepts have to be completely quarantined from all other discussions. Their ideas of player expression, freedom, depth have never clarified and will never clarify anything to anyone

The Digital Circus circus finale was made with Dorbees fans in mind.

Everyone understands why it'd be a supremely stupid idea to force puzzle games to adapt to widescreen monitors, yet few ever stop & think that maybe this applies to other 2D genres where players interact with the edges in some meaningful way

I love user was blocked for this post so much. I love seeing only the coda to a thousand little arguments. I love humans

explaining to my cat that its really clocky for her to be left pawed but she just sort of looked at me and then went back to batting at her food bowl with. well you know which one

Friend groups in the movies: Unshakably united by shared traumas, secret handshakes, and reminiscence of better days.

Friend groups in real life: Unshakably united by cryptic references to that one time one of you managed to mispronounce the word "shrimp".

unironically a beautiful and effective way to keep grifters out. if you get filtered by an anime catgirl popping up for 2 seconds because it's too cringe and gay for you was your heart really in the systems programming?

screaming no darth vader style what the fuck

[casually dropping into your devlog for a game that was very very boring] just thought you should know in our prototyping we were on some xenoblade x shit

the reason the games are live service in the first place is so that corporations can profit off ongoing, often extremely unethical monetisation on a captive audience. but the second that fails to make infinite money suddenly its like ohhhhhh its just so hard to preserve. budget and everything yknow

the thing that is always lost from these discussions is that no one cares how hard it is because its your fault, square enix, for making a fuckin nier gacha in the first place

big bad wolf: i'll huff and puff and breeze and sneeze and smash and bash and suck and fuck and-

little piggy: just kill me already

I come up with a personalized time loop code to tell my closest friends if they convince me they're going through a time loop that way the next time around we can skip all that and get straight to having weird fucked up murdersex