I mean, I believe there is only one "woke" card and it was a promo that was only available at one convention. They did make Aragorn black in the LotR set, but that's really all I can think of. Idk what other "crazy stuff" there is to filter out. I usually don't like "worlds beyond" (when they make cards from another franchise instead of adding to the MTG lore) but I absolutely loved LotR and Final Fantasy sets. And I just made a proxy Aragorn card with artwork from the film. The newer stuff is great, don't listen to the old quitters.
Its still fun. Maybe not the online game. But its still doing new stuff and giving new lore and interesting strategies.
I like penny sleeves bc theyre cheap and feel nicer than the dragon sleeves. But that means I gotta double up if there's a single doublesided card
I think we should absolutely defund all edjucation in America while also increasing our intellectual standards for everything possible.
The article just shows a bunch of tweets saying the same thing. Tweets and fake news journalists love to lie, so let's find the truth.
Here is the single study they are all referencing: https://counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-year-end-2025-update/
Truth: Lowest numbers since 2019, NOT 1900. The study shows no raw data and only percentage changes from 2018-2025. Other studies show the homicide rate increased in 2025 from 2024 and in 2024 from 2023. The rates at this scale do not say much compared to rates in cities and towns. Urban homicide increased and population decreased. Rural population increased.
Im curious as well, the creator of this meme got it from somewhere. A crop and reverse image search may reveal its origin, but in on mobile right now. I think the sentiment is true though, which makes the addition of the graph even more confusing.
Interesting exercise in statistics. Spousal murder is much high in men, meaning men murder their wives more than women murder their husbands. But marries men get murdered more than marries women. That's because the statistic excluded hitmen. Men are MUCH more violent than women are but women kill their husbands more than men kill their wives so this one area the stats got altered, or rather redefined, to change the narrative. Never trust statistics.
Indie games are alright. Get Godot and play with it, tons of free projects you can download in the assets tab. Games blow now so its easy for you to make a good one.
I can rant about screensize ratios for a while lol
4:3 made sense. Its a square, but slightly wider because we have 2 eyes and there needs to be room for the buttons. 3:4 makes sense for portraits as it'll frame 2-5 people very well. 16:9 made sense for movie theatres that wanted to seat more without having the screen be too tall, and the format was well adapted into cinema but only for that reason, not cuz it was any better.
Nowadays everything is 16:9 and some cinema is even thinner. Its ridiculous tbf. My computer monitor doesn't need to be so wide, and my phone screen doesn't need to be so tall. The ratio is too far apart to be ascetic in my opinion (unless framing multiple subjects), where 4:3 was the perfect ratio to see the full frame at a glance. I'm rambling now, I just miss the old format.
Accessability is why a bunch of games suck now. Its the root cause for a bunch of things we don't like, like the spider sense vision in every game, yellow paint guides, NPCs that won't shut up, abandoning multipress buttons and combos so now the same button being used for many things, assassins creed style autoplay for the poor reaction time.
Lol wow i feel so dumb for not noticing that
This phenomenon with color in cinema and games is also to appease the underabled: the partially blind and the various types of colorblind. Certain people see certain groups of colors are one shade and actually get more detail from a digitally desaturated image.
Why not just make multiple versions? Or a color mode in the settings?
Laziness / money.
Why make the media so dead and ugly for the sake of a tiny minority, how can that be financially feasible?
ESG score. Basically, megacorps give studios grants to make media a certain way. Include a gay protagonist, include a black character, have an overarching anticapitalist message, etc; and get lots of money, so much that sales don't even matter. This is how AAA developers can still be around years after producing nothing but total failures.
Yeah you're probably right. But my point still stands that bitching about it when they are not making it relevant would be hypocritically doing the exact same thing we hate most about them. We hate that gays make gross buttsex the center of their personality and everything that they do so its normal to reject something queer once it's been made prominent and relevant (like them making art about their weird lifestyle). But when one isn't a flaming weirdo, it makes no sense to give their faggotry relevance and bring up their gross buttsex for no fucking reason other than our hatred of the act, when it isn't relevant to the situation in any way.
Art isn't bad just because it was made by a woman or someone not white. Its just worse.
If they are the majority, than they ARE the "normal gays" lol
Also, perhaps many of the programmers I'm talking about ARE the faggots who ruin everything and make it their personality. I hate it too but I just ignore it when they're useful.
What is SWM?
Journalist uses numbers to try to make a political point. Yawn.
Hot take: we probably shouldn't reject gays in the gaming industry so quickly even though we know the lifestyle is unhealthy and it damages society etc.
There a huge overlap between gays and programmers. Maybe is has something to do with autism, idk, but from my few years trying gamedev I've found that there are helpful resources and guides thanks to gays and Indians. Usually I would hate these groups lol but we gotta recognize their positive contributions.
Also, there are some gays who do not make their deplorable lifestyle the center focus of their personality and all their decisions (believe it or not lol), and we shouldn't discourage them for something unrelated or else we'd kinda be doing the same thing the annoying gays do, making sexual identity the main focus of decisions.
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