My brother and I recently had a shock when we counted the great games that released year by year.
2002-2012, every year had great games, each year represented a big chunk of our favorite game library.
We were stunned that multiple classic games, now widely revered, released in the same year, every year. My memory of that time is getting a little vague, somehow I just assumed they were further apart.
The last decade, we've added maybe five or six games to our list. Used to be there was more than that every year.
It's bleak now.
Sexualization is not bad. People want to be seen as sex symbols. If people desire you, it gives you power over them, not the other way around. (Onlyfans proves that, even if it is a degenerate shitheap)
There is no such thing as objectification. A person never becomes an object, no matter how demure and well-endowed they are. To say otherwise is unironically dehumanizing and insulting, because you've reduced humanity to a set of behaviors and qualifications rather than something innate.
If some gluttonous loser is sad that she's not as hot as Tracer, she can go to the gym. Striving to better yourself is the way to defeat your insecurities.
These mouth breathers say they want people to be happy in their skin, but you're not if you cant bear to see someone hotter than you.
If someone has anger issues, we send them to anger management. If someone has an alcohol addiction, it's rehab. Why are fats the only group in society with problems we "fix" by trying to make everyone else like them.
He says that like games have been getting stronger narratives and more thought provoking plotlines lately.
In reality, the reduction of bust size has coincided with game plotlines becoming incoherent messes written by committee.
Game politics are just a parrot squawking the zoomers' own mediocre beliefs back at them. They act like "systemic oppression" or "muh society" is a high minded, complex concept, when really it's so basic a 95 IQ high schooler could understand it, and it's only so popular because ironically it appeals to the primal, undisciplined id. It feeds their fantasy that they are smart because they know the "in thing" and everyone who doesnt is lesser. They are better than everyone, secretly, the reason they keep failing and losing control of themselves is actually vague amorphous, invisible social chains.
Really their beliefs are just primitive tribalism with fancy dressing.
My wife and I have both noticed it, and it's weird because its so consistent now. Multiple incidents over several weeks. I joked that it was the normie hive mind breaking down.
I saw a bad road rage incident on the freeway a few months ago, with two people racing each other around oncoming traffic. For the past several weeks I've also had people speed up aggressively to beat me at traffic circles and intersections, even when I obviously had the right of way.
Love that game. Still play it, but I need to use a hacked .exe with a large-address-aware patch to launch it now or it just crashes on me.
Walker barely lost to Evers after a midnight ballot dump. It's been downhill ever since then. And generally yes, based rural regions but Madison and Milwaukee ruin it.
Traditionally even many of the Democrats here were pro-gun, but that attitude has eroded sharply with the young generation.
Now things will get worse, as this supreme court will redistrict the state, bring back ballot drop boxes (which we banned before), and may even strike down our voter ID requirements.
Turnout seems to have been terrible for us; over half the Republicans I know didnt vote, despite me reminding them for more than a month.
Republicans are demoralized, inattentive, and seem to have just completely given up.
Additionally, the left has raised two successive generations with total ideological capture.
It's bizarre to think, but to most school students now, trannies, abortions, and "fighting fascism" are more normal and central topics than the video game console wars and weekend trips to my grandparents' farm which defined my childhood around 2008.
Teens now dont know what normal is, so they will never behave normally.
Likely my presence on this website will also shrink dramatically, as this loss tells me that even locally our political battle is unwinnable and I'm going to pivot from talking politics to finishing my garden and stockpiling household goods, silver, and anything else I need to ride out America's global decline in style.
It is a shame. Rural Wisconsin was in many ways a time capsule from the early 2000s. Nothing ever really changed, and life was still pretty good aside from the perpetually stagnant economy. I expect this is the first domino to fall and in the next few years we will share the same fate as Oregon.
Everything she writes also has fake-sounding dialogue written in her own neutral writing voice, without any fingerprints of an actual unique human being.
"Drive towards the east side of the city and keep an eye out for police" OMG 🤣 Yes. That is exactly how real people talk.
It reads like fan fiction.
"Are you here for the show?"
No, dumbfuck. They're just parking lot enthusiasts.
Aside from the cringey fanfic.net tier dialogue, they dont name names, so the story is unfalsifiable. Big red flag.
Just voted. Not sure how it's going to go. On one hand, it's mostly women voting. Theyll probably vote for Janet.
On the other hand, there's no young people at all, everyone other than me was 50+. So probably conservatives are represented strongly.
Damn, I've been playing Bad Company 2 since high school. Lots of good memories. I should get back into it before it shuts down.
Anyone know what gun that is?
Im out of the loop. Is there a theory related to walking boots?
Even Playstation forgot about the Forspoken chick (Frey? Fey?) already.
Edit: Also, remember when video game characters were cool, and ran the gamut from reptilian aliens to cyborg native american warriors to animated dolls, plus also normal humans?
Serious lack of diversity here. Real diversity, I mean. These characters are all conventioanlly attractive humans. It's like how Disney Star Wars eliminated all the aliens for the sake of human race and sex diversity.
Socjus whiners pretend to be tolerant, but they can only tolerate people who are within one degree of themselves.
All the way back in 2009-ish "sexist gamer bros" playing Mass Effect were able to tolerate haz-mat-suited alien space gypsys, sentient robots and Garrus Vakarian.
But in 2023, we've made so much progress we can now suspend our disbelief and offer empathy to. . . Middle class white chicks.
Controversial take, but a correct one. Calling sodomy "anal sex" is like calling masturbation "hand sex" lol. It's a bastardization of language. Just an old enough bastardization that most people have internalized it.
To this point I've assumed that when people refer to "top 20 percent" they're being facetious-- not referring to any real measure of quality, just referring to what women see as the top 20 percent. Which is basically just the dudes who are hot and charismatic and have money.
If people actually believe there's some kind of linear natural scale of men, with hot and smart at the top, and ugly and stupid at the bottom, then that's retarded. Genetics arent that clean-cut or easy to understand.
After like ten years developing the smash hit that was Forspoken and its beautiful engine? Noooooooo what a tragedy
No, it used to be a meme when it was just lame old dudes going for 18 year old sluts they couldnt organically attract without money, using skeezy mail order websites as an intermediary. That was like a self-selection process for low quality divorced men and gold diggers.
Now the demographics are shifting. Now that young men are pursuing women in the same ballpark of attractiveness in real life it has become a viable strategy.
As a result we get the passport bros thing.
"The expectations of American men are also rising"
Meanwhile, foreign women have expectations through the floor due to decades of dealing with the infidelity and alcoholism of their own men. If you arent a retarded autist with drug problems they act like you're a golden god.
This is the source of the "passport bros" phenomenon dominating Tiktok. American women arent a good deal. American men are going where they get more bang for their buck, so to speak.
Other men withdraw into inceldom or become chronic masturbators.
These are alll solutions to the same problem, which is how laughably shit western women are.
Whereas in the past men wouldnt have had a choice, and would have eventually cucked, in current year with internet porn and global travel I think American women can not command the same kind of infinite value they once had. Hence all the cat ladies and single wine aunts, which will just become more common as womens' depression rates climb. The quicker this happens the better. We need a social correction; American women need to lose 2/3 of their value before any other social ills can be defeated.
TBH huge mega corps are so big and own so many brands, it would only require cooperation from 3-4 globalist corps to totally black out an entire store, and most food products in it, with troon flags.
I expect they'll do it eventually, as a show of power.
For real. Last Ubisoft game I played was Assassins Creed 2, I emulated the PS3 version because I dont trust Ubishit's drm for the pc version.
The same Ubisoft that lost 500 million dollars in 2022? The same Ubisoft that cancelled like a dozen games and delayed whatever few are left? The same Ubisoft that couldnt even convince Tencent to buy them?
Yeah, I think I can guess why they're whoring themselves.
Shouldnt do it for a wife either. It's sometimes necessary to make sacrifices for your family, but a good wife doesnt ask you for body modification surgery.
For some reason I read this as edible bust, and I pictured Ted Cruz gnawing on a chocolate version of MLK like a zombie. That was more fun.
Lots of impressionable teens taking advice from "professionals" who are actually scary drug addicted freaks who live in rotting mobile homes and smell like cat piss.