GrosMichel [none/use name]

Gros Michel, often translated and known as “Big Mike”, is an export cultivar of banana and was, until the 1950s, the main variety grown. The physical properties of the Gros Michel make it an excellent export produce; its thick peel makes it resilient to bruising…

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  • GrosMichel [none/use name]@hexbear.netBannedtoGames@hexbear.net•Why is gaming discourse so damn negative recentlyEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, it’s definitely at least partially YouTubers influencing this. Games that are kinda’ bad are treated as the worst thing. I remember people trying to point out that there are worse games than Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, not defending them, just pointing out there are some uber-bad games that run and play worse on PS2, Wii, NES, etc. And that was met with a lot of smug opposition. Not sure if AVGN and outrage YouTubers did that or maybe YT reviews in general.

    A lot of people repeating opinions of others on games they didn’t play. Which is annoying although slightly more understandable since games take so long to play and can be expensive sometimes, so people still want to be part of the conversation but might be able to actually play them sometimes, but it also leads to people just repeating arguments and factoids that aren’t necessarily sound or genuine. Might also tie into my first point about how gamers have such low control of their urge to buy games they need a game to be the worst thing ever to stop themselves from buying it.

  • GrosMichel [none/use name]@hexbear.netBannedtoChapotraphouse@hexbear.net•LETS GOO, DANISH EMBARGO!!!English
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    1 year ago

    Historian Søren Mørch has characterized the Danish cuisine as a “garbage kitchen” of insipid, sweet and unspiced “baby food” where the tastes of milk and sweetness form the key elements. He believes that it arose because the export policy of the Danish food sector was to use the Danish home market as a “gutter” for left-over products, after high-quality bacon and butter had been sold abroad. Skimmed milk, meat scraps only suitable for chopping up, and the replacement product margarine are all products which Søren Mørch describes as residue products.[119]

  • GrosMichel [none/use name]@hexbear.netBannedtoGames@hexbear.net•Article about how euros erase international game culture from Euro narratives about gamingEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The mobile games that are good aren’t discounted by “Serious” gamers as far as I can tell, honestly. Infinity Blade, Downwell, Crayon Physics, Jelly Car, Monument Valley, Alto’s Adventure, Pokemon Go (sorta’), etc. all seem fairly respected when they’re brought up. The mobile gamespace, for whatever reason, just sucks fucking ass and people trying to vindicate it seem out of touch. I found some Japanese game called Pythagoras’ Perpetual Motion on iOS that’s a fully featured singleplayer puzzle platformer with a nice soundtrack and decent visuals and no one’s heard about it because games like that are impossible to find due to whatever factors.

    Candy Crush by comparison sucks ass. The closest non-mobile-ish equivalent to it I could think of is Peggle or any of those drop-'em’ups like Puyo, etc. and they all offer way better experiences.