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with due respect business insider I think that millennial fandom moms have been this site's strongest warriors for the past 15+ years

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Getting addicted to Rise

Sequel to this

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game developers you are banished to wii hardware limits until you learn your lesson

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Ralsei and Susie get a chance to win a new car!

The audio is edited from the Jimmy Neutron episode, "Birth of a Salesman". This time I made Spamton's glitches with vdcrpt, an awesome video corrupter. Here's the link: https://branchpanic.itch.io/vdcrpt

Total Time: 45 hrs (spread across 30 days)

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I have the sliiiiight feeling that most people don't know gamedev jobs are contract based and you don't get money taken away from you if people don't buy the game you worked on. You don't get extra money if it sells well, either. I dunno how it is with like, directors, lead programmers+artists and shit but it's like that for the smaller hands of gamedev. Go, pirate a Nintendo. Who gives a shit.

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I've remarked in the past that one of the big reasons the whole "pay us a bunch of money to put your OC in our game" thing some video game Kickstarters do rarely works out is because the sort of person who's willing to pay a thousand bucks to put their OC in a video game tends also to be the sort of person who thinks it's reasonable to expect the game's entire narrative to be re-ordered to their liking because they contributed 0.1% of its production budget; it's not, of course, so what you typically end up with in practice is a random asshole who shows up, lectures the player character about how their deal is so much cooler than the game's actual plot, then never appears again.

More recently, I've been reading Chris Longhurst's Bleak Spirit, and I was struck by something it said on the topic of how to play Soulslike-style NPCs in a tabletop RPG: to paraphrase, their essential tragedy is that they all think they're the player character. Every one of them has a personal quest which they're convinced is the most important thing in the world, and they view everything through that lens; when they look at you, they literally can't see you – they only see the role in which they've cast you in their private epic. What dooms them, time and again, is being confronted with the fact that it's not about them.

Those two threads got tangled up in my brain, and now I have this horrible vision of a Soulslike video game whose world is populated entirely by people's crowdfunded OCs. It might even work!

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It's really interesting (read: terrible) that US conservatives are so ready to go to bat for the fossil fuel industry they're still parroting decades old talking points about climate change which are so stupid that even the fossil fuel industry nowadays won't spout them publicly.

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your opinion on does kidzbop count as censorship?

you know, this has been sitting in my inbox for nearly 4 years and I still don't have an answer

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can u imagine if other pieces of media were as scared of calling their monsters what they are as zombie media is about calling zombies zombies

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Perhaps the rock is some sort of cocoon stage taken when moving from infant to child

Very funny to see Super Mario theorycrafters getting worked up about what Pauline being a little girl in Donkey Kong Bananza implies for the notional timeline, given that a. the specific version of Donkey Kong from the Donkey Kong Country franchise showing up in any sort of Super Mario crossover media has literally never made sense timeline-wise, but this is the final straw? and b. I feel like "why is she a child?" is eliding the much more pressing question of "why is she a rock?"

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I'm a simple man, if a game has an expansion pass, battle pass, season pass or any other sort of pass I'd need to spend more money on I'm going to pass on your game

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fnaf is such, a fascinating cultural object.

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if you ever tell me that you go to a chiro this is what i envision them doing to you

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Teams aren't even announced yet, what do you MEAN it's down already-

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reminding everyone of this right now