It will be really interesting to see what the reaction to the episode will be - if they are just going to parade it as the dead game's last hurrah.

For real, though, I think they got it greenlit well before the game's release.

The State of Israel didn't destroy itself

Aye. There are few things the lefties can truly 100% kill or surpress.

Here, let me try.

Is this working?

Edit: I think it is, but it's a lot more noticeable in text posts than actual comments. You need to put a space between the hashtag and the text to get it to work. If you want to see proof that the formatting is still working, look at my post Here

Oh man, I think that 2024 has to be one of the best years in recent memory, between the massive amount of flops that were on hand, the few good games that came out (I Wani Hug that Gator! being a lesser-mentioned one) and trump getting back in the white house.

I can't wait to see this post next year, given that there are loads of games worth a mention like Concord, Dustborn, Unknown 9: Awakening, Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Star Wars: Outlaws

I think you can still format headers and such, I did it in a post of mine a while back. But it does suck that they no longer have the basic formatting options right there.

It's understandable. That statement (which I can believe) reminds me cheating devices like the action replay or gameshark were popular for similar reasons (I remember using Action replay to get illegal pokemon in black and white), though they've been falling by the wayside as consoles have gotten more resilient to such devices. It's a marginal part of the charm of bygone generations, particularly the DS era.

Is that really the case? I've seen a few mods that actually try to do balance or challenge fairly well, though Sturgeon's law applies to mods as much as it does internet fiction.

I'd say I really enjoyed a good few mods for Legend of Grimrock 2, especially their rather plug-and-play nature. There were some stinkers, but the ones which were even marginally good made me feel like I was doing the whole game all over again.

I feel that nominating Kamala again could go either way. On the one hand, some people on the left might not be happy with Kamala getting propped up as the leader after she was hoistered in as Biden's replacement, and there's already been a discussion about if the democrats will not be nominating a woman again for a long time after Trump beat both of their picks. On the other hand, they might just be convinced that if Trump managed to make a comeback victory, Kamala can do the same since we've been using her time as VP to prove the point of why she shouldn't win, and the fact that there's only two real candidates during any given presidential election due to plurality voting means that people might just vote her if only because they don't want whoever Trump deems his successor.

They want to be able to fly, see in complete darkness, and cast fire-balls, but not lose the social points of being "nuerodivergent" around other Leftists.

Not to mention they don't want to actually portray autism as a way to provide drama for the character, because that might be seen as offensive. It might be an interesting story for an adventurer to try and do their job despite their mental condition, but they would rather have a story where it makes them stand out in a positive way rather than show the actual issues it might cause. It's very similar to the wheelchair friendly dungeon thing, because they would get upset if their character had actual drama over not being able to walk or their wheelchair getting destroyed all the time.

Indeed. I know that it might seem childish, but at this rate just trying to imagine america as a much better place or some fantasy world far removed from modern day bullshit makes me happier. It might be the doomer inside me just telling me to give up on everything, but even then it's what keeps me going in life.

And I need to repeat something important that Walt Disney said once:

'You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.'

(I know it's ironic given how he kind of became obsessed with the idea of making a real utopia towards the end of his life)

I think this might also be connected to the growing trend to shed most animation for live action, which is usually seen as higher art by critics and more meaningful by suits.

Yes, bethesda games have huge mod communites (Well, the ones before fallout 76 do). But I feel that they aren't entirely unique in that regard and the fact that many of their games have depended on modders for their renown has spoken ill of the company's ability to make games by itself.

I don't know if there are any mods that gave them ideas for Starfield, but that probably isn't an excuse.

Yep. I think even if they are far from being called a good company by gamers (quite deservedly) they still have the unreal engine as a silver lining. I'd take them for a spin over Bethesda any day.

Indeed. Hell, I think they somehow think that anime lolis are more real than real children (and somehow incapable of being really 18/500 years old). The way that a fair number of them write suggests that they perecieve and/or intend art to be more real than the real world.

Back to the good old Reagan days? (I know some people say he was a globohomo puppet, but he probably got more respect from the blue crowd than trump ever did)

I do think it would make sense that it would still be toned down compared to the earlier games. I think that 3 might be the utter maximum that some devs for big studios might allow.

Fags love to use baldurs gate as an example... they also love to group veilguard and bdurs gate as well.

That's true - though some lefties willing to criticize Veilguard have claimed that Baldur's Gate 3 is the real Dragon age 4. Baldurs gate 3 probably has it in there, but it at least has the gameplay done well enough to draw in newcomers and hardcore gamers alike, and I would say it's probably subtle enough in terms of wokeness that it didn't choke the game out like veilguard did. And to further that, it did just about all the things that people felt Veilguard was too scared to do - inter-character conflicts within the player party (I only played for a little bit and there was some good tension between the Githyanki girl and the Half-elf Cleric), dark, dramatic fantasy that didn't feel like a pixar movie, character designs in line with previous installments, that sort of stuff.

Indeed, I think that a lot of would-be devs on this forum could probably also make their messages go further by being subtle too. I had an idea for writing a fantasy setting where magic operates on the idea of solidly defined male and female and attempts to defy that always go south.

On top of this, I think that a lot of companies are becoming aware that gamers are starting to reject nonsense like this, which has become more prominent over the Biden years. If gamers weren't, I don't think they would be trying to not let gamers know that consultancy firms exist, as the name Sweet Baby has become toxic to a lot of them. Whether or not the vocality against DEI will calm now that Trump's coming back to the white house remains to be seen (among other events), though if there's enough of a push, then it might end up causing them to fade for what could be a long time.

They would probably figure out eventually, though. Even then, if it would keep them in check, it might be ok.

I third. Though I think it would be a bit large a task for 4chan to do (I remember a proposal back to send youtube down in flames after the "Youtube Heroes" program reared it's head by doing something similar which fizzled out after the program vanished without a trace).

Regardless, we can at least hope that they stay there, since X will have less people trying to compete for it.

I remember the name, but not the game.

I can see them getting into a situation like Resetera where they've banned a shit ton of people over the most minor thing, complete with an actual statistic chart showing how bad it has gotten.

I agree. I can buy ninjas who don't hide and succubi who don't have sex, but I can't buy thieves who don't steal, which is about as dumb as (if not dumber than) pirates who don't touch another pirate's treasure.

(I'm just trying to be funny here, apologies if it comes off as me being a smartass)

Ah, an interesting account. I actually borrowed the game on my brother's PS5 just to get a feel of the game, and I can sort of see where you are coming from. I think I had just gotten to level 4 or something and I had only reached the outskirts of the goblin stronghold while looking for the Githyanki creche. It's competently made, certainly, but I don't know if I will find it satisfying enough to ask him for some more rounds at the game.

Oh man... I would be so curious about if we got more cases of anti-trump cults, especially ones that look a lot like the Daylife Army (which wasn't explicitly anti-trump, but had a huge progressive/new-age bent to it).