Now I fully expect someone to make this a custom rescue mission for KSP.

When I bought my buddy’s used GameCube for like $50 back in 2005, he gave me an extra controller and Smash Bros. Melee with it.

Just on that game alone I logged more than 2,000 hours playing almost literally every day for 4 years alongside my dorm-mates and buddies.

That’s like… $0.02 and a half cents per hour… for a whole ass GameCube and a game.

…Best purchase I ever made.

The only thing I do NOT like about Elden Ring (and the From Software games in general) is the truly missable stuff that isn’t clearly shown as permanently missable until after you watch some YouTuber’s video talking about how after you cross this invisible line suddenly a bunch of NPCs die or disappear because of a story bit that action triggers without saying anything to you or warning you… this is real by the way and this is that line on the map.

If you go north of it, the DLC IRREVERSIBLY changes a lot of stuff with pretty much every NPC you have met up to this point

Another example of this though - in the base game, I really wanted to get that “raging wolf” armor set that you see in so many videos and images promoting the game but it turns out I progressed the story and killed the NPC who gives you that quest line before he gave it to me and I can’t go back and get it now unless I want to NG+ it and make the game even HARDER for myself…

…all that does is make me try harder, learn move sets, and watch videos from pros.

Yep. Same. I beat the first 🔥🗑️ this evening. Not a pro, but did make a how-to video.

To be fair, I learned it watching one of VattiVidya’s recent videos. Just summarized that one part and recorded myself on my PS5 doing it.

I hate MS Teams so much.

It’s that time again.

…Like I said… “a few members of the Squad…” not “the Squad.”

And most of the time they do the best they can rather than actively try to make things worse like so many others clearly do.

Well there was a very short couple of periods where it’s wasn’t perfect but better in at least some respects - one when Lincoln was president, and the other when FDR was in office and when the Warren Supreme Court was in session.

Things like the Rural Electricification Act and the right to an attorney even when you couldn’t afford one were passed during those brief windows of time…

Sure there were Japanese internment camps and black people were even worse let treated than they are now, but things were finally on track to be improving for non-rich moreso then than almost any other time in history at the time.

…But in general, yeah it’s always been the rich fucking us all over and they’ve never let up and never will.

Because both political parties have limited the power of said government to do so were replaced by the ruling capitalist class decades ago in an effort to neuter any and all attempts to even mildly curtail the nearly limitless power of unchecked capital.

FTFY

Many people like to pretend it’s just the Republicans, but also nearly all of the Democratic party members (save for a few members of “the Squad” and a couple of independents like Bernie Sanders) are either members of that same ruling class (Nancy Pelosi for example - has a net worth of $120,000,000) or act on said ruling class’s interests nearly exclusively (except on wedge issues that largely have no direct financial impact on capital like abortion rights, gun legislation, etc.).

This is what the non-sarcastic versions of “both sides” commenters mean when they say as such… Not that both parties are “completely equivalent in all policy regards,” but that an overwhelming majority of the representatives of the U.S.'s 2 main political parties are effectively slightly different shades of the same branch grown by the oligarchs who basically get to run our country.

Why has Apple not come out with an e-ink display in any of its watches? Or really anything for that matter…? Seems like a no brainer for massively increasing battery life.

Dammit! And here I was thinking corporations had suddenly developed a conscience that put decency above profit… Stupid stupid stupid me. /s

Obligatory Keith Olbermann video about Citizens United ruling that kinda started the rapid exponential acceleration of our descent in to full on oligopoly.

Cool I guess we should be totally happy with the choices and never criticize any similarities because then we’re saying both sides are the same.

You know that’s not what people are talking about when they say “both sides.”

We can be critical of ghouls like Manchin, and shitty neoliberals who think “gelato freezers” and kneeling when George Floyd was murdered was sufficient response - you know… those who make the Democratic party worse for all of us in a way not all that dissimilar in SOME INSTANCES to the Repubs without everyone assuming we are Trump ball-garglers or Republicans, right?

…Or will we always get the “bOtH sIdEs” mocking which does little except serve to alienate fellow Dems, while providing the worst in the party cover for objectively shitty actions?

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They also have some of the longest tenured pros of game design and programming in the industry in its entirety… something sadly far more rare outside of Nintendo… but especially Japan.

Shigeru Miyamoto, for example, has been designing at Nintendo for literally 4+ decades at this point.

Turns out you can master a craft after doing it for a majority of your adult life.

But - in the US at least - the executives at publicly traded game companies would rather shut down literal smash hit dev studios like the guys who made Hi Fi Rush than cultivate a few master class devs of their own over a few decades…

for those not from the US, I highly recommend watching the YouTube channel “Not Just Bikes” to get a better understanding of how absolutely dogshit the US is for anyone without a car.

Not only is public transit non-existent… you are nearly constantly under threat of being hit by a car as a pedestrian - as things like sidewalks, street crossing safe areas, etc. are all spotty at best… not to mention how trucks and SUVs now are bigger than ever so chances are higher than they’ve ever been before that you won’t be seen before being run over.

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My exact same thoughts. Still like him more than Don Mattrick.