Literally what I was about to say. I actually think the original tweet isn’t actually that far off and this is sort of in the vein of the criticism that Star Wars kinda invariably winds up making the empire, and be extension fascism, look really cool.

Cause like here’s a hot take…giant 20 story tall death robots are fucking cool and metal as shit when they actually work.

I might buy the metal gear collection and some indie titles. Kinda want to buy more but I’ve already got such an insane backlog.

Difference is I’m asking WTF is up with that right now.

He’s not even fit for office right now let alone holding office for another 4 years starting 6 months from now.

I think people seriously understate this part of the current political calculus going on.

I put it as a coin flip right now whether or not Biden gets swapped out but if the party leaders and the media adopt the position that he is unfit to serve another term due to cognitive decline…isn’t that an implicit acknowledgement that he is unfit to serve and should step down right now?

I just read that and saw the date stamp! WHY DID WE TALK LIKE THIS!!?!?!?!?

Am not vegan. Reason: I like eating meat, eggs, and cheese.

Probably my least leftwing beliefs concern animal rights, although I do think the environmental concerns due to farming make a compelling case for the switch.

Supreme court Justices also…just sayin.

Geralt is the reason I have never been able to get into the Witcher series. By all accounts the Witcher 3 is one of the greatest RPGs of all time with an insane amount of depth but I just can’t get over the fact that I have no choice to play a character that reads like a 15 year olds checklist of hyper cool masculinity. I get that the character has been around for a while and it wasn’t so much a cliche when he was first written but sheesh…I just have a hard time taking him seriously.

Second funniest. Funniest outcome to me is still Biden dying mid campaign leading to Trumps reelection and Kamala being a lame duck for like a month.

…Then Trump dies 2 weeks before taking office and whoever his running mate is becomes president.

Also there was apparently a massive antivax campaign being done by the pentagon that continued for like almost a year under his administration. I know it started under Trump but still…drug his feet stopping it.

Trump wants to stop the funding to Ukraine and there is no way the bourgeosie is going to let him win because of that.

Meh. They’ve run this playbook before. They’ll just override him. If they don’t do it legitimately through congress they’ll go through backdoors.

…you know maybe its misguided, especially as someone who practices it, but suddenly i can’t help but connect this with how intermittent fasting became super trendy more recently.

Sure, it all just depends on how small you’re taking. Like assuming you essentially just want it to be Stellaris but with some adjustments and or an additional unit or something: yeah that’s almost certainly lot easier than building your own strategy game from scratch.

If you want to make a total conversion or something using the Stellaris engine…eh…maybe check into unity and see what kind of templates people have made.

EOD what you learn in one will at least partially carry over so go whatever direction sounds more fun.

That definitely used to be true back in the day, especially for a game with developer mod support.

These days…actually I’m not so sure. There are just so many free resources/assets, and tutorials now with Unity and Unreal. Depending on what you actually want to accomplish/create/learn that might actually be the better path to go down.

Hate to out myself but: I resemble this remark currently and consider myself “cash poor”. Mind you liquidating shit like your IRA genuinely sucks and should be avoided if possible because you’re essentially setting money on fire doing it…but you’re definitionally NOT “paycheck to paycheck” if you actually have a relatively decent amount of money in an IRA. “Paycheck to paycheck” straight-up means that if you lose your paycheck that month you can’t buy groceries, make a rent payment, or potentially both. It doesn’t mean I might have to withdraw X thousand dollars from my account and pay the taxes on it plus a 10% penalty.

Whoah How Cool Are These Fights Guys instead of what the original did, which was show the deep emotional impact of being the last person of a dead culture in the ruin of their society.

Genuinely some of the greatest writing advice I’ve ever heard in my life: “Nobody gives a shit about the events in your story. They care about how it affects the characters.”

Thousands of nameless extras dying in a slaughter is essentially a statistic. What gives it meaning is how it impacts Aangs development and having the audience learn about it and see it through his eyes defacto makes them empathize with him more.

the dialogue is genuinely quite bad at times but no worse than 95% of star wars projects.

Lol…I mean to be fair The Star Wars fan base (myself included) seems to complain incessantly about 95% of Star Wars media in general (dialogue included).

I know how fucking reactionary most of the prominent star wars fandom is and TBF I haven’t watched the acolyte yet but: just on a surface level I do kinda dislike how many red lightsaber wielding dark side force users keep popping up in the pre-prequal era just as much as I dislike how many Jedi Keep getting retconned in as survivors of the purge.

The more “Not Sith” they keep introducing…the less significant the “Sith Proper” revealing themselves actually starts to feel. “Dark Jedi” is basically just a loophole to get around the problem.

To add to that: if countries like Russia actually can influence US elections by manipulating platforms like Facebook…what does that say about the influence companies like Facebook have themselves?

I think if you’re a 20 year old who wants to fuck a 40 year old that’s fine. I think if you’re a 40 year old who wants to fuck a 20 year old…well…that’s not a crime but…that’s kinda gross.

Lol. The boss isn’t a “femme fatale”. I admit they kinda had mixed messages at the end with the boob scar window but its kind of a big part of her design that she’s very deliberately not sexualized for the overwhelming majority of the game. The old and new models are actually both conventionally attractive in terms of their physical structure and Kojima has confirmed that a young Charlotte Rampling was the main inspiration for the Boss in terms of her physical appearance…but she’s supposed to look like a war vet…not a victorias secret angel.

Also: I get very “Robin Wright” vibes from the new model…and I dig it.