I’m just concerned about what happens if things start to go really badly for the Russians. Nothing good can come of a nuclear superpower that feels threatened and backed into a corner, either by the enemy or their own populace.

Lol got it

Yeah? Well I say we make him cream his diaper. It’s way past time to fight fire with fire. Give them what they seem to crave. The current response is not sufficient.

*Martial

Sorry, it’s important.

Just look what they’re doing with their Xbox brand. One of the most well established brands in the most profitable entertainment sector and they are literally setting fire to it in every conceivable direction.

Microsoft must be taking business cues from GRRM… Kill all your main characters.

We seem to be heading in a terrifyingly similar direction

This is what we plan to do. Makes no sense to throw all that money away for a silly ceremony where you’re bound by what everyone else expects of you. We’d rather do something special for ourselves.

Not that the harm hasn’t already been done, but I did just see this: https://thisweekinvideogames.com/news/microsoft-pulls-azure-services-from-israeli-military/

I thought this was a post about the Gamecube emulator. lol

I wish I could say I’m shocked. That site has fallen off so hard it’s crazy. The censorship has gone mad. It’s the main reason I’m here.

I mean, different strokes and all that. Not every game lands with everyone and it wouldn’t be art if it did.

It was truly special to me and I still think about it often months later. I still listen to the OST while studying.

It’s perfectly fine to not connect with it. Doesn’t make it bad or make you wrong. I don’t like lots of stuff that others seem wild about. It’s fine.

Expedition 33 is my answer for sure. That game consumed me.

It’s difficult not to extrapolate the U.S’s current trajectory to something approximating Taliban-rule. It feels like it relative to what the old-normal was.

Because that’s exactly what it is. Appeasement… Maybe it’ll work this time.

I somehow doubt it. That would be a 1-way ticket to lawsuit-ville. I tried doing a reverse image search, but couldn’t really find anything about where the pic is from. It’s been posted in a bunch of places, so I’m sure that info is out there somewhere. I’m still putting my money in the mountain bike trail explanation. It looks like a lot of other roll-ins I’ve seen in videos of the Pacific Northwest and places like Summer-time ski resorts that cater to riders.

That has to be a joke. Looks like a mountain bike obstacle, something you’d ride down to start the trail or something.

The censorship has gone mad on Reddit. I was a user there before the whole Digg migration, and it’s been such a wonderful ride. It had to end at some point, though.

I’m just at a point where it’s genuinely impossible to have a conversation there without having your comments removed, the thread locked, or downvoted to oblivion for not joining in to whatever the masses are yapping about.

Less of a town square and more of a mob of idiots surrounded by bots.

Doesn’t matter who it was or why. The left will be blamed.

I always said that nothing will change until someone prominent on the right gets shot. I was actually talking about their children in a school shooting in regards to tighter gun laws. Thousands of kids, a bunch of church-goers, and some Democratic lawmakers get shot and it’s no big deal. But one prominent right-wing talking head gets shot and now it’s real to them. This will be the impetus for major change, but not the change any of us wanted.

I hope I’m wrong, but I feel like things are about to get a whole lot worse than they were the last 8 months.

It’s been my experience that dedicated places for fans of certain games or franchises to congregate always devolve into a never-ending cycle of “Everything is wrong and this game is terrible. I have 3000 hours in it.”.

No one hates a game like the most dedicated fans do. For instance, I put a significant amount of time into the Forza franchise over the years. The Forza community (both the subreddit and the official Forza forums) might be one of the worst I’ve ever experienced. No one is ever happy with or about anything.

Basically, if you really like something, avoid the fan communities at all costs. You’ll end up finding out about things that are supposedly “game ruining” that you never even knew or cared about and then you won’t be able to un-see it.