Kevin Bacon? America’s most beloved invisible rapist?

Something about the expression and composition on that little Pepe comic reminds me of old Mad magazines.

What a guy…

I hear Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song.

Well I’m certainly a halfling, but I must have been raised by elves because those are the video games I want. Let me use the power of friendship to split the hero into superpowered versions of his id, ego, and superego to fight the five-phase final boss representing the stages of grief, while power metal makes sweet love to latin chanting in the background.

The holy trinity for me is SNES, PSX, PS2. I know this is massively colored by when you grew up and what you had access to, but nothing since has outshined these in terms of actual fun for me.

12 was the last good one.

Cirque du Sanguine, coming this fall on HBO.

Bum dee deedley bum dum de dum dum, (bum) dee deedley bum dum de dum dum…

I can’t quite tell from the trailer if it’s what they’re doing, and unfortunately I can’t find the video about this that I watched recently, but I wonder if they’re talking about “animating on 2s”? It’s a technique where the character’s animation only changes every other frame, which gives an effect that’s just slightly choppy but pleasing to a lot of people. It’s how they animated the Spider-verse movie.

It does seem he lives at the factory. I think you’ve got a fair case here.

God, I hope so. How bleak would it be if this were baseline reality?

So what was the classified part? That there are not aliens in Area 51?

Pretty sure I can confidently say that Bigfoot isn’t imprisoned in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier either. Shit, is that classified?

The different renditions tell slightly different stories IMO. There’s also a very fine bardcore version by Hildegard von Blingin’ that changes it to the story of a regretful immortal by only altering maybe 20% of the lines. I like all three versions for different reasons.

You’re right, of course. Indie devs with passion are still putting out some great stuff.

My ire was much more for the AAA studios, which seem to have tossed out all the talent and vision that brought them to the top.

I mean, I was Ride or Die with Square Enix for decades, when they were different companies. After 16, I think I’m just done with new Final Fantasy games altogether. Fuck you guys, imma go play 6, 8, and 9.

Not playing games, or not playing the current live service shovelware they keep pushing out?

Lots of people are realizing there were more quality games released between 1985 and 2015 than you could ever play in a lifetime. We don’t need new shit if it’s just gonna suck.

I’ve been doing both!

I never tried that one, but I also had a recent late-to-the-party “gaming as exercise” discovery: Beat Saber! I never gelled with rhythm games before I got a VR headset, but I’m really digging it, and it totally gets me sweating after a while.

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