The ones actively against. Normies ain't gonna win. Normies go with whoever wins, they're not trying to "win".
All you need (said as if that's easy) is an uncorruptable leader who listens to the lowest participants and entrants, and actively moderates away the bad actors. Keep copious backups, and tell all users to keep copious backups of their proposed changes and additions (and they're always "proposed", even when committed, it can be undone!). Weekly, the big guy comes in, looks it over, and like McCarthy, sniffs out the commies, and just IP-bans them, and reverts the code. Doesn't matter if they've contributed for a day or a decade, a stranger or a friend, too bad, you can be friends on Facebook, but not in the project, no hard feelings, ban.
Most commies are idiots and can't get around an IP ban. That clears most of them. The remainder will be bumped out and filtered around long enough that they'll either give up, seeing an environ explicitly against their hate, or you'll get a large enough "loyal" developer-base that you turn off applicants/contributors.
Wow. Costs almost as much as gas costs in the UK on a normal day!
I'm only being a little facetious here, it's almost 8 US bucks a gallon (give or take a bit of exchange rate) in the UK right now, with no disasters, no horrors except the existential one of living in London.
My view is this: This dude theoretically owns this gas station. He likely, like everyone else, lives in the area affected (business moguls from overseas don't tend to own gas stations, they own oil rigs). Which means he needs money to repair not only his house, but also his gas station! Insurance money doesn't come quick, if at all (sorry, "act of god", no money for you!).
In a free market, you can just go to another gas station. You have a car, and you're buying gas to use in your fucking 10-gallons-per-hour generator so you can stream netflix, not to survive. And the ones that aren't doing that... Are buying the gas so they can fleece and price gouge other people! Wait, the other gas stations are all out of gas, sold out by those resellers? Massive shortages? Womp womp. Looks like that system didn't work out.
More important than all of that, though, is the concept of Fairness: The money this gas station makes is this man's employment. If you were just in a hurricane, house wrecked, and get a call from your employer saying "you're now literally the only one who can do this job, I know it's dangerous in the weather and debris, but come into work. Also, I'm only paying half your normal salary, get fucked son, I expect you here at 8am.", you'd get pretty angry, wouldn't you? But that's what you're asking of this business owner. You're telling him to show up for his job, despite the dangerous environs and trouble at home, and to earn far less money than he should doing so.
Or Pallysoids, for short.
Maybe I'm the crazy one, but everyone complaining he isn't good at acting... That he isn't good at lying professionally... They're acting like politicians lying to your face, scamming you, and being skilled, practiced, and adept at deceiving you, is a good thing.
You're letting something important be memory holed: It wasn't that Floyd riots didn't spread COVID, it's that Floyd riots actively prevented the spread of COVID. They had medical clowns out on the news circuits saying how it helped stop the spread... somehow. Something herd immunity of youths something but remember that herd immunity doesn't exist something something black magic.
This can't be replicated. All the Amish died of COVID when the death rate was 100% if you didn't get the vax. We are Amishless.
There was a movement by men who didn't want to be falsely accused (during a spate of this being very common, accusing then demanding cash to make the accusation go away before the train hits the next stop), to make male-only trains. The proposition was shot down hard.
Many leftists are big believers in communistic ideation and Malthusian economics.
Ubi going bankrupt for pandering while a monkey game unabashedly all about one race's insular myth makes like a billion dollars...
Wrong.
Blacks want to see cool black characters or sexy black characters.
Black people watching Dragonball Z be like "Well, guess I can't watch this, Goku isn't black." (as famously declared by Trunks)? Nah, they like DBZ for the same reason white people like DBZ for the same reason Japanese people like DBZ: Because it has cool fights with energy blast karate.
Not Christian? Like Jesus "Whippings for All the happy merchants in the Temple" Christ?
Did you know, despite Canadians making up 0.5% of the world's population...
The... 3rd ending, I think? Of PS3 can help tie together a lot of lore. Where it fits within the timeline is more questionable, but not the lore. The ending I'm thinking of, is the one where the satellite-ship loses navigation and power, but drifts and ends up near a habitable planet. That planet could easily be Motavia of PS4. PS3 would still be a "bottle episode" game, since it is contained on a space ship instead of the planets, but a minor change from the endings, and a minor change in the space flight navigations in PS4, would easily slot it into place. It wouldn't need a "complete rework", just some annotations.
Assuming the satellite never drifts away from the home system of Algo, just, like, a couple planets out, enough that it looks like a star from the planets, and the planets like stars to it (which is basically Saturn's distance to us), it's "close enough" for the Dark Force infestation being still in Algo, and timeline wise, could have the Nei weapons commute up to it, and then back down planet-side.
I actually have one of his metal Bill Of Rights cards which used to be sold at his shows (they're designed to set off airline security detectors, so that you must hand off your rights to them in order to fly, a sarcastic commentary on the TSA).
Going from highlighting the dangers of handing over your rights and making sure you're aware of it, to advocating for the surrender of your rights for temporary feels... My how the mighty fall.
Their seeding style is actually quite useful. The EXACT same actions will have the EXACT same results, which is very realistic, and helpful gameplay-wise to get you back to the point you were at from a prior save. But any change in actions creates a butterfly effect, changing the probability seed. A soldier moving one step to the left or right from the Save Point might make a prior crit a miss, or a miss into a crit.
I like oldschool graphics. I like sprite art over 3d blendered slop. I enjoy clarity in my graphics over a mass of browns and greys.
I'd love a bug-free re-release of Ar Tonelico 1 and 2, but that's just it: A bug-free re-release. The originals were (mostly) bug-free, but the act of localizing them added bugs, some game-breaking. I would want a re-release, not a reboot, not a remaster.
I would also love if the DS-era Fire Emblem games got a re-release, just with the Treehouse and their activists masquerading as "localizers" removed from the equation. I'd also love a de-master of them, bringing them back to sprites and pixels from weird 3d blobs.
PS1, 2, and 4:
Phantasy Star 3, however, was perfect in every way, and needs no remaster.
Doki's response was a proper class act. Hopefully the Nijihaters will respect Sajam's choice of letting Victoria participate, and respect that Victoria was brought onto Niji after most of Doki's drama. Clown on the corp, not the employee. Given Victoria's oshi was Selen, she's probably another tragic tale ex-Niji graduand in the making, so people, be nice.
It's weird that Nijisanji uses "liver" as a term for their talents, though. Holo-Live uses it because it's part of their name, so it makes a certain level of sense: Hololivers was shortened to livers. Nijisanji's shortforms should be Nijis, or Sanjis. Nijs?
A couple of her songs touch on it, talking about how the haters don't work hard and want life handed to them, but you gotta put in the grind if you want the gold, or how people turned on her for "selling out" by becoming a variety entertainer, when every single one of them said they wanted to make it to a big label one day (literally selling out their brand).
Yeah, playing Halls of Torment right now... And it's Vampire Survivors. Straight-up. Still sold a million copies, and still is a great game.
I played a half-dozen Slay The Spire clones, called that because they just ape the deckbuilder system of STS. Because that system, too, works. Maybe a dozen "Metroidvania" titles, too, named so because they copy the gameplay loop of Metroid, and Castlevania.
I've probably played two dozen "souls-like" games, 3rd-person hack-and-slashers with dodge-rolling-and-stamina elements. Because that one also works.
And don't get me started on turn based party based "Attack, Magic, Item, Flee" menu combat systems and gameplay loops! I've probably a thousand JRPGs in my library.
It's easy to get a good gameplay loop. Just take a successful game's loop. Everyone does it. No one gets sued over it.
With a name like Alucard13, we can believe it! Feel the edge!
On top of this, ironic given a thread, but from an Abridged series, "I think she's got autism. Not, like, the internet kind, but like actual real autism."
Being a sperg online, and actually exhibiting Autism Spectrum Disorder, are very different things. Being a sperg online IS some kind of superpower. Hyper-verifying everything, clearing all the shoops and AI-alts, that's valuable. But we're so ingrained in our own language and peculiarities that we forget that "real" ASD is not a gamer's focus on the game they're actively playing, but an entire life thing.
Oh, good! "Indigenous" have rights now, so we can just Mootness all their legal complaints! Mass graves? They're already dead, it's moot! Abductions? Those were in the past, it's moot! The rapes? Well, are they actively raping you this second? No? Moot!
It's even more frustrating when it's a country with subsidized healthcare.
"This atrocity took away the money to save X lives." is a constant unit of measurement whenever government spending occurs.
The conglomerate golem boss from the Etrian Odyssey franchise. When it falls into individual golem pieces, the butt heals and helps put back together everyone. That's a pretty nice butt, at least to its friends.