I watched some gameplay. I know the mechanics are designed to make the players take risks and have fun, but the way “command” just gives you seemingly random and dangerous tasks of securing plots of land instead of just landing all of your reinforcements and equipment inside the defensive perimeter is very fitting for the universe. The people in charge are incompetent fools - and the mobile infantry are the ones who got tricked by them!

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

A dark, bleak story about the ultimate triumph of evil over reason and decency! (CW: Former Channel Awesome contributor)

It’s a topic I should do more reading on, but the feeling I get is that it was a backlash to the highly progressive currents of the 20s. It affected nearly everything - the Soviet Union had some of the first schools for the blind and deaf, then some of them got shut down. There were women’s work programs, then they got replaced with “traditional family” propaganda. Stalin is undoubtedly the source for some of it, but he was also the head of a huge and popular movement so he can’t be solely blamed.

It tracks for me, the 30s saw more than a little bit of reactionary social politics. This is the period when abortion and homosexuality would get re-criminalized.

I’m with you, GUIs are good the terminal should just be for troubleshooting.

MTG also manages to be a lot more elegant and concise with their rules than YGO has ever managed to be. I mean look at this shit.

It’s pretty simple to see the difference. One of them is technically underage but very clearly an adult, but the anime stereotype that is really fucked up is when someone is technically of age but very clearly a child.

it’s a kids movie

pointing out that modern blockbusters are all written at a child’s level just makes the fanboys even more mad.

Square Enix keeps doing this thing where they make killer mobile games but refuse to market them outside of Japan. The most recent is:

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. This is a remake of a GameCube game that was also released on console, with all four versions of the game able to play with each other online. There’s even a Lite version, which is both a demo and a way to play with a friend who owns the game without having to buy it yourself. It’s a simple action RPG where players explore dungeons, level up, fight bosses etc, the real fun is doing these things with friends if you got 'em. The game is a bop.

People have review bombed it on the Play Store for being $30, but the thing is it’s a real fucking video game and not a “free” MTX hellscape. Squeenix seems to keep running into this problem with all of their games that don’t have MTX, meanwhile their gacha bullshit games crush it because they’re more in line with player expectations.

BOTW pulls out the good bits from Souls’ design and matches it with the good bits from Zelda. 10/10 game a da yeaaaaaaaaa.

then pay attention so you know about it before it kills you. there are very few true surprises, mostly its stuff that you blunder into if you’re not watching out.

Very often what I’m talking about is a combo attack that stun locks you until death while fighting a boss. Your only chance to dodge it is after you know it exists, and unless the AI bugs out and it whiffs the attack you’re not going to know about it until after it’s killed you with it at least once.

Yeah, surprisingly when they spent 5 years making 4 other games in the genre in between Dark Souls and Sekiro, they learned a few things about making games in that genre. surprising

If they learned about the genre, why do they keep doing the same shit in DS 2, 3, Bloodborne and Elden Ring? Why is Sekiro the only one where they seem to have done something different?

It is possible that I’m just surrounded by wierdos who don’t like Sekiro.

okay I liked this part too

The left is already targeted, if not we would still be on Reddit. Celebrating when chuds get targeted too isn’t inviting an ironic punishment it’s schadenfreude.

It’s also internally inconsistent.

lots of children

shrinking cities

no turbines

clean water

So the population is growing, but becoming less dense. They are also taking care of the environment, but not using renewable energy.

I’m firmly of the opinion that the CIA gets up to so much shit that it is 100% rational to assume that if something bad happens they had a hand in it.

Yeah in Tropico your “dictator” is clearly self-interested, no matter how you run your island you lose the game if your family loses power.

Not a fan of when there’s one magic system and seemingly everyone in the world is on the same page about it. Even in science you have conflicting theories to explain certain things - with magic, where half the shit you do is seemingly random and the results you see are based on vibes, practically every person wielding it should have a completely different understanding of what they’re doing and why it works. That should be the reason why it’s so hard to pass from teacher to student - I could teach you to do the same things I do, and speak the same incantations, but that doesn’t mean it will work for you the way it does for me, because it’s magic and it’s inherently illogical.

I don’t think just a picture is illegal, but painting any kind of positive portrait of the North Korean government is, which includes any advocacy for communism or explicit anticapitalism. These guys were walking on eggshells with the South Korean security law when they put this together.

Worth remembering that while Sarkeesian was one of the principal targets of Gamer Gate, it initially got started when an woman NB made a text adventure that got good reviews and people freaked and assumed she slept with a reviewer for them.

That’s pretty cool. Critical support for draftees who immediately surrendered to the Vietnamese when they met them.