RA sent me into a fever dream with Pokémon Pinball on the GBA, trying to get all of the achievements that counted for the “beaten” tick on my profile. Why did I do that? Why?

Exactly my point, and I’m glad you were here to argue it better than I could. Like yeah, in normal times I don’t want Biden to flaunt what the Supreme Court says, even if they are conservative. But the GOP has stopped playing by the rules, and Trump is going to break so many rules and laws over his presidency that we will wonder what “legal” even means anymore. So who cares if Biden flaunts the Supreme Court in his final month?

Now do the rest, coward. We’re literally about to descend into fascism, who cares what a corrupt Supreme Court says?

I wish people would just laugh at them, and tell them how fucking ridiculous they look and then promptly leave their asses behind and move on. Instead, we get news articles about a minority of people who have shit opinions about things they have no understanding of.

We tried that with GamerGate, and it didn’t work. Keeping bad people away from levers of power requires constant diligence; we cannot simply dismiss and move on, because then while we are looking away, the trolls continue to build their base. I’m a strong believer in the power of memes in our modern digital age. Try to write a bunch of articles about a problem like this, and most folks will only absorb the pithy headline. Some will read the article, but mostly only college-educated folks. Instead, make a meme about it that distills the logic of your opponent down to its ridiculous conclusion, and suddenly everyone gets it. (this isn’t to say we should never write an article to explore the nuance of a point, just arguing for the value of leftist memes)

We have the discussion out in the open so that the kids and other uneducated folks can read a variety of opinions. If we don’t, the trolls swoop up and try to turn them into incels.

as someone who read the books (like 10 years ago so i could be wrong), I’m pretty certain it is not psychic powers, but spellcasting. Ciri trained under Yennefer and went to sorceress school for while. Geralt has the Witcher signs, which are like an elementary form of spellcasting, but Ciri learned a bit more than Geralt. Separately, she also has her warping power that is completely unique to her and very important in the lore, but I won’t say more for sake of spoilers. I don’t remember how much of this they cover in the games.

She lost the first primary because she ran a terrible campaign. People forget, but there were rumors of poor management and staffers not getting paid right before she dropped out.

it’s the new “soup for my family”

if others do it with Nintendo’s property, it’s copyright theft. If Nintendo profits from people doing with other properties, it’s business as usual.

yeah, that’s why we counter with the memes now so the uneducated public gets better at recognizing the pattern.

mad respect

I already have 😎

super cool! glad to hear Black Twitter gets to be a more formal thing now for black users, with moderation by the community for the community.

we only make fun of it because Musk is evil. if you’re out there and your body sort of looks like this and you aren’t Elon Musk, know that your body is valid and normal and hot! I went from skinny twink to dad bod over the course of the past few years, and I have no shame. Just do what you can to take care of your meat suit - as long as you’re doing that, the shape doesn’t matter.

it’s as much of a journey writing them as it is reading them. lol

Another perspective I’ve been hearing: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDX0EU9I3CQ/?igsh=MjA0bWxwM2dhM2hh

Tldw: based on everything we’ve seen of this dude so far, the details don’t really add up. It seems really unlikely that after everything he would get nabbed looking suspicious at a McDonald’s, with a written manifesto on his person. Could be wrong, it’s just speculation. But personally I’ll be expecting more news on this, unless nothing happens for like a week.

This is a great list and you should click the link to read through it. I’ma take this opportunity to shout out Remap Radio. They don’t cover EXCLUSIVELY indie games, but I hear about most of the more popular indie releases via their podcast.

I’m aware of that - I think the famous story about the hot dog price is the CEO talking to the board members. I’m just saying that the Costco CEO is the exception, not the rule, and that’s because the incentives of the publicly traded model reward doing literally anything to make line go up, even if it means literally killing people.

Lol I hate how right you are

You’re 100% right.