It’s ok if you’re just having fun, but we are so far past that point.
From the linked thread
Latest indie darling blow up videogame fad that you’ll hear less of in a month or so. I say that somewhat derisively but I think it’s pretty normal, Lethal Company was the last one and that was a neat little horror co-op game imo.
I think the reason word of mouth is spreading so much can be attributed to two things:
It’s somewhat edgy, misanthropic and subversive take on Pokemon/Nintendo’s family friendly aesthetics. I can’t say much about this as I haven’t played the game myself to judge just exactly how much is being played straight and how much is satire (and I don’t plan to), but I’d guess people who grew up with Pokemon as a franchise have been looking for that edgy take and are reacting to that, and the resulting controversy is driving the engagement algorithms (I mean just look at hexbear lmao), and
it’s fulfilling a niche that Nintendo hasn’t by being an online multiplayer Pokemon-esque game that’s not turn-based; just judging based on some of the clips I’ve seen but working together with your friends to catch a high level Pokemon-alike actually does look kinda fun. This one’s really on Game Freak for allowing Pokemon to go stale by playing it safe and not innovating the game design at all, so Palworld coming in to steal Nintendo’s lunch money here’s pretty deserved, I think. (Although yeah, I guess Ark did it first but the cartoony character designs are doing a lot of heavy lifting in making the on-screen action legible).
Guy published a book titled “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” and hasn’t been arrested yet, idk maybe if I try and “Gotcha” him now in an interview it’ll work
If they read Malm’s fucking book they could have read between the lines of the examples of direct action he gave in it…
Pulling out my d20 and yelling “Roll for initiative!” every time my boss walks past
It was a South East Asian kid and a bit more convoluted than that, but basically yeah
What a beautiful Duwang
God I should be that person
As a capitalist, you should hold these beliefs, because chasing after ever increasing profits is obviously unsustainable and will destroy capitalism. Steady profits year on year is what you, a capitalist, should want, because that’s how you keep capitalism fucking going.
The problem is that if you settle for steady profits, your competitors with no scruples will outdo you. If they outdo you enough times, they’ll buy your company and/or drive you out of business, and then you’ll have no profits.
Most rational system
When I was a kid, I used to pick all the super outlandish dialogue options just to see how far the game would accommodate absolute incoherence.
But then they stopped making games like Fallout and started making games like Mass Effect.
Nowadays I don’t really have time to do novelty runs and I don’t find it fun to play as an asshole so yeah, it’s communism time in Disco Elysium Baay-beeeee!
(And my Baldur’s Gate 3 character is a goody-two-shoes so now Astarion won’t bang me, THERE ABSOLUTELY ARE BLOODY CONSEQUENCES )
I was gonna say, this is basically the plot of the original Gundam.
I didn’t expect Jeff Bezos to be that guy in the meme, but maybe I should’ve known better
Well see, if we don’t sell them chips to the gosh darned chai-neeeese they’ll never be able to figure it out
I was joking about the nationalization thing, she’s just threatening export controls on Nvidia.
Jensen Huang and Nvidia about to receive a firsthand taste of FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY
National Graphics Card Corporation mass produces affordable mid-range graphics cards and restricts sales to crypto and AI startups for “national security reasons”, causing graphics card prices to fall, but because Elon Musk doesn’t get 10 more fps when he upgrades to the 8090 Super Ti ™ the West has fallen and it’s time to end those commie democrats and their big government
Right, but as I understand it China still has some catching up to do in terms of the technology and manufacturing? It’s amazing what they’ve accomplished so far tho, and they’ll probably fully catch up to and surpass Taiwanese manufacturing soon enough
But MGR:R’s parody IS cartoonish and expository
I was about to post something about media illiteracy, but on second thought it looks like a dumb attempt to claim some relatively innocuous pieces of media.
Like, no way in hell can anyone claim that MGR:R’s politics is right leaning
Damn, I was right about Gosling and Ferrera’s nominations but never in a million years would I have guessed that Gerwig and Robbie get snubbed.
I haven’t seen the other movies nominated and tbh I don’t really care that much about the Oscars, but if The Boy and The Heron doesn’t win Best Animated it’s going to be
for me