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Did you forget that Primape learns rock type moves?

Clearly not.

Did you forget there was two routes and a dungeon in between for the only rock type move it can learn?

Ivysaur, Butterfree, Pidgeotto and Primeape were the only Pokemon I had before Rock Tunnel, and Primeape was the only one that could learn Thunderbolt, so I gave Thunderbolt to him.

If you're going to hyper-scrutinize the Pokemon video, it would help if you knew how the game works.

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🔥 Bendy And The Ink Machine

I'm still flabbergasted that we didn't all see that unity engine rigged half baked nonsense and call it out as the obvious FNAF fan bait it was. Man, making crap horror games for kids and game theory was an easy way to make hella money back in the day, huh? Market is too saturated now but I could have cleaned up in 2016 with a unity subscription and an ambien induced script writing session.

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There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.

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i think more people need to be more critical of the way that genocide and racism are presented in tes.

the elder scrolls is a series that has deeply entrenched racist ideals that have dug their roots into western fantasy and it does not subvert or challenge these ideals. concerningly, it presents multiple scenarios wherein a genocide is “justified” in some way, often presented in the form of “human vs elf race wars” that have more or less become fascist dogwhistles in fantasy. elves frequently become stand-ins for races and ethnicities seen as subhuman, and you can look no further than the real-life politics of die-hard stormcloak fans to prove this matter. in fact, members of the neo-nazi forum stormfront have overtly stated that to them, ulfric stormcloak represents whites struggling against jewish overlords. it’s not hard to see how this issue came about- the presentation of essentially white humans being subjugated by a near-but-not-quite-human race of overlords for their religious reverence of a man who is also a god is something found in both far-right christian circles and also skyrim. the clear influence of christianity on the imperial pantheon does nothing to help this issue.

skyrim lends itself to being co-opted by antisemitic conspiracy theorists in this manner with the thalmor, and the status of dunmer refugees and their descendants in windhelm openly appeals to anti-immigration fans who then go on to use the dunmer as a stand-in for whatever culture or race they scapegoat as an immigration threat. it is concerning to me to hear ostensibly liberal tes fans arguing that the dunmer should be grateful to be allowed to live in a slum at all, echoing the sentiments expressed by far-right fans who don’t really mean dunmer all that much when they say those things.

the falmer pose another issue. it shouldn’t be hard to imagine why the lore of a european-analogous race sailing to a “new” continent where they proceed to slaughter the prior inhabitants with the excuse that they were attacked first might be upsetting to players. the fact that the game goes on to present surviving falmer as mindless subhuman monsters is yet more unsettling. yet skyrim goes out of its way to avoid placing the blame on the atmorans/nords, instead pulling that whole deal with the dwemer and focusing on that as the source of the falmer’s suffering. even one of the few surviving unchanged falmer places more emphasis on the crimes of the dwemer and the malevolence of the betrayed than on the nords that enacted a genocide in the first place.

this is a writing decision that places the player in a spot of perceived innocence- the game implicitly suggests that nothing can really be done now because the dwemer are gone, and the falmer are so corrupted that you have no choice but to carry out indiscriminate violence against a race subjected to a genocide. meanwhile the companions actively revere ysgramor and you as the player can acquire an axe with the sole purpose of being used to kill elves AND A DAMAGE BONUS AGAINST THEM, and none of this is condemned nor really even all that discussed at all.

these kinds of decisions don’t exist in a vacuum. it is known that bethesda has had an issue with bigoted employees, most famously but far from exclusively michael kirkbride. while certainly fantasy racism isn’t a direct 1:1 to real life oppression, there’s undoubtedly influence from real life biases and bigotries (even if subconscious and not the result of intentional malice) in the writing of the elder scrolls, and it’s important to be able to recognize this and point it out so you don’t end up sounding like a nazi when you discuss the games.

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RESTORATION WIN: the mighty thu'um proves no match for the humble ward spell

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These are adults btw

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"The Matron only allows me to keep the bare essentials in stock. My cupboards are bare to the bone."

--Lerexus Novation

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i know i shouldnt talk about stuff that isnt close to finished yet but i might be working on a portrait mod for stardew. cause. i hate everyone elses portrait mods >.>

oops

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has everyone gotten their knee-jerk reactions to palworld out. can i throw my two cents in

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yo sims 4, you have 3 dog food options as decorations, but NONE FOR CATS. WHAT THE FUCK

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"I thought about going outside today, but the whole idea was just too exhausting."

--Scruut

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"No more "Deconstruction" of Elves." I must be out of the loop; what is being meant by this?

Tolkien wrote elves as basically being demigods in mortal form, just better than humans in every way.

This made nerds salty and so multiple different fantasy franchises can't stop making humans commit genocide against elves, or otherwise kick mud in their faces. It's getting pretty fucking excessive, honestly.

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"SHES NOT BETTER THAN ME JUST CAUSE SHE PULLED HERSELF OUT OF HER ADDICTIONS AND MOVED AWAY FROM MY INFLUENCE AND GOT A SUPPORT NETWORK AND IS MAKING SOMETHING OF HER LIFE AND IS ENJOYING LIVING HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME SUGGEST THAT TO MYSELF"

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so.

the tribute questline has very quickly just become yugioh

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time to relax a bit by playing cards as Smarmy Bastard Man™

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flight rising staff stop doing stupid shit 2k24

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its been years and i still havent released a follower mod. this is outrageous.

and honestly the thing holding me back is that i want my npcs and followers to be characters, not just pretty faces. which is difficult.

so i guess im gonna flesh out some followers by actually playing as them a bit. get a feel for them.