In a veyr weird way, I think there's an evil in the sheer "Fuck you; money, please" approach to it that isn't about practices above and beyond the evil of the rest of the industry, but in its existence as this tightly engineered machine that exists only to be efficient.

side event for your blorbo. There's a story, there's some sense of trying to do art, it's okay, look at what we have going on. Mihoyo just forgets about all of that. They are pure efficiency in the art of extracting value and doing nothing else, and the effort and cost to pretend isn't worth it.

Like, a lot of live service games are this. Most gachas will run afoul of some of these aspects, but most of them (at least the successful ones) will take some kind of effort to play pretend or reassure you. Look, here's them showing up again, here's a bit more story, here's an alt, here's a little

connection and attachment, more dollars for this new face for more connection and attachment please. I know these games live on new characters, but the way Mihoyo churns through them really ensures that you're a fool if you try to see what they do as anything BUT hollow money siphons.

It's the most cynical frontier of the live service Content Mill I've ever seen; building out a cast just to dumpster it and build out a new one, ensuring each story is fleeting and any sense of connection or attachment you feel will ultimately mean nothing because you got your alotted amount of

went to goon city and everyone knew you

THE CELL GAMES HAVE STARTED IN MEET & FUCK ISLAND

Like sometimes you think less of a person when you find out who they're dating, y'know?

This isn't some weird jealousy shit it's genuinely just awe and horror at someone so mature, reasonable, and cool to talk to being with such a toxic buffoon like that's messed up

Tragic: you found out the partner of someone you get along with nicely is also a user of the thing you do, and it's one of the people you find to be so annoying that you've actively avoided them whenever possible

TAke a look, y'all: IMG_4346.jpeg

thank god this site is free

Certain scene if Shinji wasn't there to save the day.

Bless the Steam deck and the infusion nurse who let me in on the wifi password at the hospital

I'm cooldown time gated on MR17. I've been playing for three weeks.

The real crime of Shadiversity is being so unbearable to even hear that I can't enjoy content ripping on him because hearing him even make an argument with his voice makes my skin try to escape this mortal plane.

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Hi I'm Bluesky, I love AI code and dropping a cartoon anvil on my head that causes a tall lump to spontaneously form and birds to circle my head

chrisxvargas ® 5h 24 years old. Fully paid off Costco hotdog. It's not "parents money". It's not luck. It's consistency. It's discipline. I grind EVERYDAY to live this lifestyle. COSTCO Costco $1.50 Paid $1.50 Remaining $0.00 Payment schedule Pay in 4 Fri, Jan 05 1 of 4 • Paid $0.375 Fri, Jan 19 2 of 4 • Paid $0.375 Fri, Feb 02 3 of 4 • Paid $0.375 Fri, Feb 16 Final payment • Paid $0.375

The front box art for Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade on Nintendo Switch 2, but the main art is color-inverted, shrouding Cloud in black

The back box art for the same game, also color-inverted

Local Gamestop accidentally inverted some of the assets for their FF7R Switch 2 promo case, shit looks like a creepypasta

Aw man no c'mon I can't resub

Playing God Hand in your formative years is a dangerous thing you should be stopped from doing because it immutably changes you as a gamer into a really annoying person

I should get a PS2 emulator running and play God Hand it's been like 20 years

Dagoth Ur on a very emasculating throne exclaiming that "Your AI slop bores me"

It's a great day to choose "become invested in the success of Uzbek chess players" as your something totally out of left field.

is to build spaces ourselves, and for the young Duran who just unwrapped his Gamecube on Christmas eve, this message was radicalizing.

who was meant to help them. It's all of these factors that lead to the protagonist's return home and to the opportunity to build the community he seeks, away from the betrayal of fame-hungry friends and the corporate interests ready to drop him like a rock. The only way that we can stop loneliness

--exemplified most of all in its Moscow level, a foreign and frigid place covered in military adornment, a place where the protagonist is betrayed one last time by their would-be closest friend, abandoned by their team for a problem they didn't cause. A world away and left without help from anyone