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There is actually an interesting nugget or two that could be mined from this image:
There was clearly a directive that one of the characters needed to be a girl, and one of the characters needed to be black - I picture Ed Boon saying “just make the chick black lol”
Then you have the actual ad which has both a “nice rack” comment and a joke about one of the lads “having to be the chick” - both kind of funny, but only possible because of the fact the characters were added in the first place - presumably they weren’t added to only be the butt of the joke
Here is the source of the image:
https://vgpavilion.com/mags/2002/sp/xbn/pages/
Most of the ads are similarly “shocking” compared to the watered down slop these days.
Sorry dude I double posted this to both KiA and c/gaming but decided it wasn’t actually much more than an irrelevant shitpost so decided to only keep the one on c/gaming:
https://communities.win/c/Gaming/p/17txtK8Ktt/the-way-we-wuz/c
Please feel free to bring this conversation over there! Or even make it into a post here, whatever you think
btw I was setting up emulators yesterday myself and got sucked into Metal Gear (the original) which I was accessing funnily enough through emulating the MGS HD Collection’s version of MGS3, which includes a built in emulator for MG1 and 2
Another really good one, from “peekers advantage” in modern day camp-fests to the older forms like map control/map knowledge (mostly neutered these days with the featureless ovals most games opt for), to advanced movement techs, to gameplay mechanics like kill streaks (i.e. “investment dividends”) or even just the psychological snowballing effect of hearing the announcer yell ”M-M-M-M-MONSTERKILL” - can’t have that these days, wouldn’t want someone to ever feel bad while playing, that might eat into MTX profits. Very multifaceted point
Hah true enough, eventually it got to the point with the OG blizzard devs where either you had left or you stayed long enough to be accused of sexual misconduct
Well… it is the donald he was talking about. I’d be surprised to learn there wasnt something weird going on beneath the surface with the administration of that place lol
Interesting, do you mean something about how the free-form nature of the game and player interactions meant that understanding the psychology of the other players was way more important to success (like poker? I never played Eve, just heard some of the stories) than most other games?
Looks like he just decided to purge his own account via the option in settings:
https://communities.win/settings?type=purge
I think when admins delete an account it says something like “this user has been suspended”, and when a user deletes their own account it says “this user has deleted their account” - which is like a purge but the account is closed after and can’t post any more. The OP of that thread you linked can still post, he just purged his whole history for some reason
All I learned from the “hybrid tax” revelations were that supporters tended to be groomers lol, atleast iirc that was the case with the two guys who forced it into vanilla, who were later fired and swept under the rug
No that one actually works, look:
Hunter2
Edit: fuck
Some great points here - btw if you’re interested I’m trimming all armor sets for just 2k gp and a dozen lobsters
Some amazing points here on basically “small group project” dynamics, leadership in large and small scales, like you say, directly relavent to a new project at work, or the newly released raid, or just any interaction between 2+ people
Regarding the absurdities of theory crafting I’ll say something seemingly esoteric and obscure to prove my salt - I played alliance, on Mal’Ganis lol
Good one, a lesson often learned by playing console party games like Goldeneye or Smash Bros or Mario Kart with siblings or close friends you see all the time. I dealt it out with smash and was often humbled in other games. I think your point and petey’s points are connected for sure. Maybe in a word, “Sportsmanship”?
Great point, the companies saw us using math to meta-game them, so they did the reverse. The fucked up part though is we were meta-gaming “fun” and they are meta-gaming “raping our wallets”/ “wasting our time” (synonymous these days as you point out)
That is an excellent point. Learning humbleness is such a vital lesson, and one that is disappearing from the modern world. “Competitive” gaming was a great way to do learn that lesson with no real harm being able to be inflicted. Really you’ve found a fundamental goal of “games” in every form they take, from rough-housing to sports to vidya.
But in the modern world, we see “SBMM” unnaturally enforcing a state of 49%/51% Win/Loss ratios so that no one feels “too bad” for “too long” that they might drop the game. The proverbial “participation ribbon” is all that is left to achieve in modern vidya it feels
Just to make it explicit, I see point 3 being directly echoed in our modern “matchmade” but ultimately disconnected societies. You can open an app and find 10 horny chicks for a night, but when’s the last time you struck up a conversation with a stranger? Made a new friend? We were “made” to live in communities of ~500-5,000 at the most. We can remember the faces of ~500 people, we can build reciprocal relationships because we know we will see these people again. But when you look at these rats nests called “cities” these days you see the direct effects of “nothing I do will catch up to me, why not be a little evil?”
The one which discourages the degeneracy, rather than like in 114, encouraging it.
a strong body-spirit duality with the flesh being corrupt
Verse 114 is about the union of the spiritual and the material, yin and yang - not some weird tranny shit or however you’re interpreting it
loyalty to some other gods (usually thoth/hermes, sophia, some higher god of knowledge/wisdom above the demiurge
Aka loyalty to God above satan (the god of this world, need I remind you, the Bible states)
syncretic mishmashes of various other belief systems
You realize Genesis is sourced from the Sumerians right? Almost word-for-word
and emphasis on alchemy and transformation and attaining the spiritual heaven or godliness through knowledge
What’s inherently wrong with this? What you’ve just described is “learning and improving oneself” in flowery (spiritual) language
I don’t know how Xenia (x360 emu) is these days, but I was playing MGSV, Skate3, and CoD AW - with an Xbox controller and upscaled to atleast 1080p (from 720p native), all games I missed out on at the time too which was great, and they looked as good as anything I play on my PC these days. MGSV especially was impressive given they achieved it 3 generations ago
The ps3 emulator (RPCS3) can run smoothly on a cheap $250 minipc, all you need is a relatively good cpu which a lot of these things have
You just need to not be a sockpuppet and need to have made an actual good-faith post at some time since the creation of your account
Wrong, it’s because TD tourists who dream of sucking trumps toes are manipulating votes here.
Also, it’s absolutely a valid criticism to make fun of trump for fantasizing about sucking bini net-in-yahoos toes, as he does so often.
And you misunderstood my comment about tourists - that wasn’t referring to OP but to the faggots crying that OP made a joke about trump
It’s up there for sure, but I still think setting a timer 24 hours in advance on your oven/coffee maker/washing machine for your “day of rest” just ups the ante entirely on “not getting the point”. A culture dedicated purely to the letter of the law. There has to have been a star trek episode about the pitfalls of that
And why is he being downvoted here? Because trump doesn’t actually love israel and OP is a retard for thinking his words and actions and children-in-law would indicate otherwise?
Cry more, the truth will always be there when you’re ready to accept it