#so many people are rad lite but are hiding it ;)

[izacore]

Harries on twitter be like “he’ll do a residency in Las Vegas omg he’s getting richer day by day slay king 😍”

personally I think he should just give some of that money to me

[enterinit]

SolSeraph and other games coming to Xbox One this week

SolSeraph and other games coming to Xbox One this week. Doughlings: Invasion (July 10, 2019) Another tribute paid to yet another arcade classic from the Hero Concept team! Doughlings: Invasion promises a fun gaming experience to gamers of all ages with the innovations it brings to the shooting genre. “GET OUT OF MY PLANET!” In Doughlings: Invasion, the second game of the series, the story continues right where it left off. This time our hero Morpheus arms himself to defend his people from alien invaders. Morpheus is ready for battle with his unique personas all armed to the teeth! Varieties of raving space invaders and challenging end of the level bosses are all waiting in line to get their butts kicked by you! WRECK THE PLACE UP! Get ready for an adventure with an ever increasing pace and tension! Throughout the game you will develop novel battle strategies, acquire untold powers by modifying your DNA, and make life miserable for those unwelcome space invaders with your dazzling Show Off powers. Features: A new breath of life into the classic arcade shooter genre.5 distinct personas whose unique skills you can level up.15 different breeds of invaders that pose unique threats.5 grueling bosses.Challenging the world with global leaderboards. SolSeraph (July 10, 2019) Retro-inspired tower defense and action platformer SolSeraph reinvents the classics! As the guardian of humanity, civilization is in your hands. Build your cities and set up defensive structures to protect them from the constant threat of monsters, then descend into their lairs with sword and spells to eliminate them for good. Explore floating islands, ancient caverns, and lost cities. The world is yours! Brought to you by ACE Team, the creative minds behind Rock of Ages and Zeno Clash, SolSeraph combines action and strategy for a rich and unique gameplay experience reminiscent of the 16-bit era. Grass Cutter: Mutated Lawns (July 10, 2019) Grass Cutter is a game about cutting mutating lawns, that requires lightning-speed response and great logical thinking. Here every level is a challenging puzzle. The goal is to cut the grass. Very simple, but only at first glance… Grass Cutter calls for focus and commitment. Just one blink of an eye – and you lost. It is very challenging! The game is made in a cubic retro-style, has high complexity at advanced levels and is ready to truly test your reaction! Features: Feel yourself in the shoes of a lawnmower who saves the world of peopleMore than 10 types of lawn mutations that give you a real challengeA lot of obstacles. Bypass the security system and laser fences, escape the fire of security gunsYou don't want ordinary lawn mowers? You can play with animals. There are many animals in the game: from cows and sheep to beautiful fairy unicorns. Blazing Chrome (July 11, 2019) In Blazing Chrome, machines rule the world and the few humans left are on the edge of total extermination, lacking power, prestige or status among their metal and circuits overlords. Bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights! Humans are expendable after an AI controlled robot army take over the world. They survive in hiding while their hunters rule the surface. When a small rebel group gets an intel about a big AI's power plant, the machines strike their camp before they can organize an attack. A small group of rebels escape and go in a suicide mission to destroy this power plant. Choose to play as Mavra, a super badass human resistance soldier, or Doyle, the equally groovy and deadly insurgent robot. This suicide mission will result in heavy casualties and a ton of lock-and-load fast-paced action where scraping robots and blazing chrome with your powerful weapons is the only thing standing between you and your freedom. Dash through 5 apocalyptic environments with hundred of robots-enemies to blow to pieces. Blast your way through the enemy lines and and try to defeat a bunch of mechanical bosses with using hoverbikes, huge armors and a whole arsenal of kick-ass weapons. Features: ● Local Co-op Gameplay● 16-bits post-apocalyptic environments● Classic fast-paced run-and-gun experience● Epic boss battles and crazy lot minibosses fights● Genuine arcade feel● Rad pixel art● Motorcycle and jetpack action Aggelos (July 12, 2019) Step through time and discover a mesmerizing new action-RPG that looks like it was plucked straight out of the 16-bit era, but plays like a modern-day marvel! Inspired by non-linear Japanese retro adventures, Aggelos hurls players into the middle of a colossal struggle for survival as beings from another dimension threaten to invade the peaceful Kingdom of Lumen. Bursting with secrets and side-quests, and boasting slick melee combat that any 2D action game would envy, Aggelos is the perfect combination of retro style and modern-day game design. Features: A Vast Kingdom to Explore - Venture through forests, seas, cave systems and ancient temples as you seek to uncover the magical elements needed to save the world from total annihilation.A Classical Non-Linear Adventure - Explore a sprawling world that gradually reveals itself, Metroidvania-style, as you gain new abilities and equipment. Deadly Encounters - Thwart towering bosses and their tricky minions as you take on perilous mainline quests and optional odd-jobs for the people of Lumen.Tactical Depth - Unlock magical abilities and high-level attacks, expertly chaining these immense powers together to clear screens of enemies in seconds.Stunning Sprite Art - Forget out-of-place modern art: Aggelos boasts superlative character designs and animations while remaining proudly, and faithfully, 16-bit through and through.Memorable Chiptunes - Lose yourself to a retro-inspired soundtrack that floods the Kingdom of Lumen with life. Redeemer: Enhanced Edition (July 12, 2019) Punch, hack, and blast your way through enemies using fists, hammers, fire arms, and even the environment. Play as an elite operative who once worked for one of the biggest arms industry corporations in the world. When the corporation decided to get rid of you, you manage to narrowly escape. Now after all of these years the corporation is finally closing-in on your location, and in so doing they have given you one last shot at redemption. Streets of Rogue (July 12, 2019) Streets of Rogue is a rogue-lite about player choice, freedom, and anarchic fun. The game takes inspiration from fast-paced top-down rogue-lites and adds free-form, experimentation-driven, emergent gameplay elements of immersive sims and RPGs. Rather than taking place in a dungeon, the game is set in a functioning, procedurally generated city, where complex AI informs denizens from all walks of life, who are just trying to get by in their daily activities. In order to progress, the player will need to accomplish specific mission goals in any way they see fit through the use of their special character traits, items, and the environment. Will you play as a soldier who shoots first and asks questions later? A stealthy doctor who uses chloroform and tranquilizer darts to take down the opposition? Or how about a gorilla, rescuing other caged gorillas to form a small mobilized gorilla army? Read the full article

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Tumblr & the Internet: Hearts & Minds

I remember my earliest days on the Internet. It was a peculiar time, that much I'll tell you for nothing, since in order to actually use it you needed a fairly good grasp on computers. In its first days it was a truly extravert-free zone. There was none of this MRA, or alt-right business back then, the worst anyone had to put up with was the tiny, noxious niche of the early days of Something Awful, which is really all the evidence you'd need to know why the Internet has gotten so much more horrible over time. It's the stupid extraverts, isn't it? There's mountains of evidence out there now talking about why they're basically just Sociopath Lite, so it's no wonder the Internet has ended up the way it did. And it's all a little too commercialised and homogeneous now, which is a shame. This is coming from a person who's terminally future-bound, always looking to the newest things science has been responsible for. You see, the technology isn't the problem. The ease of use is. And the kinds of people that ease of use allows for. MRA, alt-right, TERFs, and all the other toxic extraverts we've had to put up with since around '06 when the Internet started to become truly accessible. It's very different from how I remember it. In those early days, when the Internet was notoriously difficult to use, people were peculiarly friendly and sites like 4chan or /pol/ just didn't exist. It was, honestly, a better time. That might sound strange, sure, but if I had to choose between the wonder of the sites filled with mods, demos, demo scene music, and all strange joys, along with the eccentric but charming shrines, the earliest days of NeoPets, and today when we do have Reddit, 4chan, /pol/, Encyclopaedia Dramatica, along with groups of imbeciles like MRAs and bloody alt-righters? Not to mention that, but thanks to the homogeneity of extraversion, every site these days seems to be using precisely the exact same web building kit. Not nearly the same, EXACTLY the same. All websites look alike. The age of homogeneity. Sure, the noisy flash buttons on some sites of the early '00s could be cringy, and yet even those had so, so much more soul than what we see today. Did you know Jurassic Park: Lost World had a website-based point & click adventure to promote it? (Be sure to try clicking Exit at the bottom right before you leave the site.) These days, the best we'd ever dream to hope for is a mobile city builder as a tie-in. I dunno... The Internet of the '90s and '00s captured my heart and mind, it was a true wonder to explore because you'd always have so many wonderfully eccentric individuals creating sites about their special interests, where today I feel most of those people have gone into hiding. Whereas yesteryear we might have had a site where a researcher talks about their latest findings of Celtic lore and dragons, or the bizarre yet oh-so-funny exploits of a black school teacher in Japan? Today, we have BuzzFeed listicles about "IS IT A CORN OR CANCER?????? CLICK TO FIND OUT!!!!" Woohoo. I think extraverts infected the Internet with their homogeneity and dullness. It just couldn't be interesting after it contracted that disease, it went from being a wild-eyed, wiry-haired storyteller with more secrets than most of us could ever know, to Bob Millar, the toupee-wearing, fake smile-sportin', middle-aged middle manager who thinks that cosplay is 'too exciting and depraved' for his sex life. The Internet didn't get old, really. It just got extraverted. Very extraverted. There's some of that old soul there, though. Tumblr. I don't know why, but Tumblr continues to be a No Man's Land of I don't know. And I fucking love it. It has every kind of porn, special interest, or peculiar viewpoint one could ever hope to see. Including my own! It has some thoroughly incomprehensible themes that are almost impossible to parse (it's like a puzzle to unlock the content!). All that it would need to make it complete is greater interactivity and embedded demo scene midis. Though I suppose you could still use Tumblr to do things even like making a Choose Your Own Adventure, since it still has static links, and that'd be rad! I may even do that at some point. It sounds like a right jaunt. I'm glad you still exist, Tumblr. You're the last vestige of an Internet that had individuality and personality, before that became lost in a sea of suits, ties, and listicles about corns or cancer. Seriously, have you seen some of the nutty blogs on Tumblr? Shine on, you crazy diamonds. And keep posting electrified cucumber porn. This is the last bastion of that Internet. Never go away.