Lol, I got shouted at for just recognizing Michael Moore. Besides, I’ve been masking so long, I’ve been invited to represent my county in state ag issues and I’ve been tilting things to recognise Climate Change.

No, it means I’m lying to them. If I say I don’t agree with their politics, I’ll get an ear full. If I lie and say I don’t follow politics, I can diplomatically end that discussion branch. Grow up liberal in a conservative family and you’ll get it. I’m not convincing these geezers of anything and I don’t want to waste my social energy trying.

Yes. I hate consumerism and our corporate overlords. I hate any World Super Power™, real or imaginary.

It’s a team sport, but we’re all the disposable pawns.

Hmm. I wonder why the media is more heavily reporting one type of vandalism over another?

“People say he fried his brain one day from going into a drug induced coma. Course, couldn’t have been too smart to do that in the first place”.

Retail CDs should be fine. It’s CD-Rs and DVD-Rs that degrade over time.

? No they aren’t. Not outside twitter at least. Those incels are only relevant because people are outraged at them. It feeds the Engagement Algorithm. They don’t have nearly the effect that their opponents give them credit for.

Also, the white knights were using the exact same arguments that the incels were using to criticize Stellar Blade. It’s actually amazing how little self awareness “both sides” have. It’s almost like the leaders of both sides don’t really care about their “issues” and are only Algomaxxing.

No, executive suits delisting game titles and shutting down game servers isn’t anything like twitter whine. Think of all the modern games built on the original Doom engine and how none of that would have happened without ID Software releasing their engine’s source code. Never made them any money, but it secured Doom’s legacy as art. Hell, we can only play Bungie’s Marathon game because they did the same before getting bought by Microsoft. Gaming went “Mainstream” and something was lost because of that. At least some indie devs still get it.

Personally, I would change the law to only grant Copyright protections to game titles that had Public Domain plan. Game studios should have to submit source code and assets to their respective government and it be placed in lock down for when the rights expire. I would change copyright length back to 14 + 14 years.

I’m having way more fun with the solo and microteam indie titles. Cultic is immersive not because of the graphic fidelity, but because of the fluid gameplay. Turbo Overkill’s story is carried by the voice acting, not because I can see the pores on the characters faces, and Dusk is the first game in years that immersed me so much, I was leaning in the chair to dodge enemy shoots.

Honestly, I pity artists working on AAA games these days. Imagine working on something for months, it hitting shelves and people enjoying it, only for it to be delisted in a few years because some suit doesn’t want it associated with their brand anymore. That’s not what’s suppose happen with “Art”, but god help you if you want to try American McGee’s Alice or the single player Unreal games through official means.

That’s all we really need.

Scots had the right idea.

I grew up in a farm and hearing city people complaining about farm smells just makes me role my eyes. I go to NYC and everything just smells like piss, car exhaust and micro plastic from all the tires.

I remember windows making fun of the Aqua interface in macs for the same reason, but I liked it then and hate that they’ve been removing colors from the OS over time. One of the reasons I switched to linux was to be able to easily customize the various icons to make them more visible.

“Humor” is how the body copes with getting unexpected information. A crafted joke sets up an expectation, then subverts it. Every joke is essentially that. Have you ever heard a conservative “joke” where you didn’t see the punchline coming from a mile away. That’s why they only have “one joke” for every topic.

Cause it’s a comic and needed a punchline.

True, but the normies cope by deflecting.

A fear of death.

Meh, we had cleaner air when the pyramids were being built.

No arguing. Just comparing apples to other apples.

Safest form of travel isn’t airplanes. It’s staying home.

Well, if you leave the tar out, it would be better than regular cigarettes. Not sure how that compares to vapes though. The small, cheap ones put burnt copper in your lungs.