Star Fighter 3000: A somewhat arcadey sci-fi flight sim with a checkered history. Originally released for the Acorn Archimedes, it saw a release for the Panasonic 3DO, and later the PS1 and Sega Saturn. You flew around in your aircraft, and everytime you destroyed something, you could pick up colorful shapes that when they were arranged in a certain order resulted in power ups for your aircraft. PS1 version (via Duckstation) is easiest to get into emulation wise followed by the 3DO version (via RetroArch). Also, apparently the original Acorn version also received updates YEARS after it's original release, but good luck getting it to work if you have no experience with RISC OS (I tried for days to get it to work, but it all flew over my head, as the command prompt syntax was completely foreign to me even with slight experience in both MS-DOS and Linux Mint).

Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels: Sequel to the original Space Hulk game for DOS and Amiga, it was originally released for the Panasonic 3DO and ported to the PS1, Saturn, and PC. It combines elements of both First Person Shooters and Turn Based Strategy, which along with the asymmetrical nature of the gameplay (5 or so slow Terminators vs swarms of lighting fast Genestealers), makes for a type of game that I have not seen repeated since. To this day, I hold the position that Space Hulk: Ascension and Space Hulk: Deathwing are two halves of what should be one big game.

SimCopter and Streets of SimCity: Both are fun but flawed games with troubled development histories. Their gameplay styles differed somewhat, but you could create a city from scratch in SimCity 2000, save it, then use it in either game (from the air or from the ground, respectively). Some mad lad even went out of their way to create patches so that they could run on modern machines with little to no issue.

I hope one of you had an archive, because it's gone.

Yeah... about that?

In my opinion, comedy isn't one of anime's strong suits, and only a few have seriously amused me. Those being things like KonoSuba and Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious.

You haven't happened to have seen Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, have you? The dialogue in the English dub is drastically changed compared to the original Japanese (by necessity), but it more than makes up for it with the Voice Actors taking the absurdity already present and just going to town with it.

Ask and you shall receive, Mr. Handshake.

Manchester: https://archive.ph/JC3il 9/11 hijackers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUpCuJK1e60

Considering this exact scenario has happened with the 9/11 hijackers, the Manchester Arena bomber, and possibly more that I've forgotten, for the same exact reasons, I lean heavily toward it being real.

I want more combat oriented flight sims. Ace Combat is one example, but sadly, there aren't that many more to pick from these days (w/o going retro, anyway).

There is also a notable lack of Mech games. Point to Gundam all you want, but I've always been a MechWarrior fan from childhood, and it's a travesty that Piranha Games Interactive still holds the exclusive rights after how they handled MechWarrior: Online. I went through the trouble of installing MechWarrior 3 on my modern computer again, workarounds and all, and it pains me that we'll never see a well needed remaster of the first 4 games (especially 3) because of legal limbo.

I also want a space sim, but of a particular type. To see what I mean, look no further than Derek Smart's Battlecruiser 3000 A.D., a game infamous for its bugs. If Derek Smart weren't such a thin skinned, egotistical, argumentative ass, then MAYBE, just maybe, we could have gotten a space sim that was truly advanced for its time. Instead, we got a game whose features are barely working, with frequent crashes and save corruptions, lacking in any sort of polish. If someone with the GamerGate Time Machine TM could get their hands on a version of BC3K, that lacking all else, had no crashes and save game corruptions, that would be nice.

Finally, I want to see more RTS-FPS hybrid games. One example I can think of is Battlezone 1998.

Before I recommend any flash games, I wish to promote Flashpoint Archive, formerly called "Bluemaxima's Flashpoint". It is a preservation project not just for flash games, but for potentially all games and animations that were uploaded to the web prior to the proliferation of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other sites such as Tumblr, etc. It is fairly easy to navigate, its built in search function works pretty well (if a bit particular), and it is in even more active development after being open sourced by its original creator (or at least given to other people to work on it in his stead). The version labeled "Infinity" is best for those who don't have entire hard drives to spare.

As for games, I recommend in no particular order:

• The "Learn to Fly" series (You are a penguin, first 2 games you fly a long distance to leave Antarctica, 3rd game you go to the moon. All 3 games are fun, but the 3rd game is probably the most fun to "break")
• Epic Battle Fantasy 3.3: Bullet Heaven (Bullet Hell spinoff of an RPG series, spinoff series has 3 games, main series has 4 or 5)
• Crush the Castle series (4 games total)
• Rage 3*
• Stick RPG
• Thing Thing Arena 2

*Requires going into the config tab and unlocking 18+ games, but you can specifically toggle the pron games as invisible.

Stardew Valley: Very relaxing farming game with light RPG elements (i.e. you can build up relationships with people, and can even build up to having a wife [if playing male] or husband [if playing female]). I have more hours into it than I'm willing to admit. Even if you "die" while exploring the caves, or pass out from not making it to bed on time, the penalty for that is rather light. There are also apparently a lot of mods you can add to the base game, but I leave it up to you if you want to start your first run vanilla or not. Controller recommended.

Sub Level Zero: Part of the 6-degrees-of-freedom genre (a la Forsaken and Descent), it combines rogue-lite elements to make for an interesting and replayable game. It has VR support if you are that type of guy, but your mileage may vary as I don't have a headset of my own to test it with. Works equally well with controller and KB+M.

Sky Rogue: A rather simple combat flight simulator with procedurally generated islands. Controller recommended.

Terraria: 2D platformer with light RPG and builder mechanics. It has been in active development (off and on) for more than 10 years since it's original release, and frankly, very few games have a developer that cares THAT much about their game. Controller supported, but KB+M recommended.

Starbound: Basically Terraria, but Sci-Fi.

Knights of Pen and Paper: A 2D-looking game that tries to simulate a Dungeons & Dragon session (albeit dumbed down). I tried it, but it wasn't my cup of tea, but maybe you'll get more out of it. Also has a Sci-Fi themed spinoff called Galaxy of Pen and Paper.

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance: RTS game that is a spiritual successor to the 1996 game Total Annihilation (which also has mods). Only 2 resources to manage, but you can build an army that numbers into the hundreds, if not thousands. Main goal is rather simple, when the Commander unit dies, the player is out. Best played with Forged Alliance Forever.

AI War II: Real-Time Strategy game with a twist. Whereas most RTS games are PvP, this is a more asymmetrical PvE, where the computer player learns and changes its behavior depending on how you act. There is also multiplayer available if you want to play with friends, more info here. Just a warning, though, it has DLC.

Risk of Rain 2: Having played the first game, and seen my brother play this one, I would choose this over the first one. FPS with roguelike mechanics.

20XX: Spiritual successor to the classic Mega Man games. Controller Recommended for obvious reasons.

Freedom Planet: Classic Sonic spiritual successor with added combat mechanics. Controller Recommended, and try to get it working with a CRT or scanline filter in ReShade if you can. There is also a sequel.

Kerbal Space Program: Literally rocket science! Avoid KSP2, and try to get some mods for the game.

RedOut: Zero-G high speed racing game, more similar to WipeOut series than F-Zero. Supports both controller and KB+M, but the controls will take some getting used to either way.

BroForce: Fast-paced 2D action platformer, where you get to play as 80s actions heroes (with the names changed around for trademark reasons, I assume), going around blowing #%&@ up because 'Murica. It also has been in off and on development for a while. Controller recommended.

Doom (1993): Yes, I'm being that guy, I will gladly admit to being a sucker for so called "boomer shooters". The recent Unity ports make it so you don't have to tinker around with a source port (such as Odamex, Zandronum, or GZdoom), while still leaving the option open for you to do so. Doom I, II, and 64 are frequently available for cheap, with full controller support (assuming you use the Unity versions). That said, if you don't want to support Bethesda (understandably so), there are... ahem… other ways.

Although there are lots more, these are the ones off the top of my head.

Just hours before her death, 90-year-old Dianne Feinstein was helped onto the Senate floor for the final public act of her trailblazing career.

The California Democrat, holding onto her aide's arm, slowly raised her hand to vote 'aye' on Thursday morning in a procedural vote for short-term government funding.

Feinstein walked in without the wheelchair she used in the final months of her 30-year Senate career as her health deteriorated following a bout with shingles.

After giving her colleagues a brief wave, she was escorted out again following her last fleeting appearance in the upper chamber.

Feinstein subsequently missed two Senate votes in the afternoon.

Truly a witch to the last.

Possible rule violations aside... We're not 4chan, this place doesn't really have high enough concentrations of "weaponized autism" as it's called to pull it off. Even if we did, as others have pointed out, most of us here are innately incapable of the sheer deviancy required to even get them to perk their ears up, let alone actually fall for it.

I would go one step further and say that such a success would backfire somehow, if not on us specifically, then on wider society a la Tumblr.

So sorry, not sorry, don't even try it.

It's John McCain all over again. Rather than resign and live out the rest of her days in peace, she held on to the office of US Senator until her literal dying breath.

How many times has this happened now? 4 in recent memory? Expect this trend to accelerate as time goes on.

On the other-hand you are helping people that don't have a good life.

Most passages in the Bible on this topic which refer to "[your] neighbor", refer to people(s) that you share at least some commonality with, such as nationality, cultural history, ethnicity, profession, etc. In context with Scripture, this translates to Jew helping Jew.

The Muslims and Central/Western Africans coming in by the millions not only have 0 in common with us, the Muslims in particular actively seek to destroy us as demanded by their holy book, The Quran, whether it be by the sword, or by outbreeding us with their polygamy practices (up to 4 wives per man starting VERY young).

Fire on invaders a few times, and they probably stop coming, so you don't have to fire on them anymore.

Even if that somehow stopped any more from coming (which, no offence, I sincerely doubt due to the sheer numbers involved), where does that leave the rest of the tens of millions already residing here? There would need to be a coinciding deportation campaign on a scale not seen since Eisenhower, and God only knows what else to even begin tackling the problem.

I honestly want this wiped from my brain's memory after watching this. I humbly request lots of eye bleach, because I am sick of this clown world.

HONK HONK HONK!!!

Are people right about cops deserving the hate?

They deserve all of it and more. I can't say how much more without violating rule 2.

It is the one belief that I've still maintained even after I stopped being a leftist.

That being:

The police aren't your friend, they were never your friend, they are jackboots of the state who would gladly choose their paycheck over peoples God-given rights (and in some cases, peoples' lives). If they were given the order to perform door-to-door confiscations, they would do it no questions asked.

Hell, they showed themselves willing to blockade people from escaping a massive conflagration on the Hawaiian island of Maui (of the people caught in traffic trying to get away, only the people who got out of their cars and ran past the blockade on foot survived, whereas those who stayed in their cars basically got cremated alive). You also have a perfect demonstration of where their true loyalties lie with the 2020 race riots, where they arrested people defending themselves and/or their property, while letting BLM/Antifa running around completely unopposed, or worse, protecting politicians' homes and no one else.

Further still, there are also legitimate cases of police brutality that have gone completely unpunished (and/or unnoticed), both far back and in the more recent past (Fentanyl Floyd notwithstanding).

I could go on about other properties, but I'm going to stop here.

I'll continue then.

• F-Zero was abandoned and then turned into a skinsuit for Mario Kart 8 (DLC?) content.

• Star Fox was done dirty and murdered in its sleep with Star Fox Zero. The game only sold 500,000 copies, on top of being the Wii U's last ever first party game (Nintendo's worst selling console), combined with the ridiculous, bordering on sadistic, reliance on the gamepad, and you got yourself a poison pill strong enough to kill any IP.

• Mother 1 and 3 still remain Japanese exclusive, even as Mother 2 (A.K.A. Earthbound) has gained a cult following.

• The Paper Mario IP has completely lost its way after the 3rd game (more like the 2nd, but I'm being generous here), to the point that indie developers were able to take what made them good in the first place and make their own game. The Mario & Luigi RPG series is in a similar rut.

• Pokémon (although not fully owned by Nintendo), even as the games are selling more than ever, are also more buggy and unpolished than ever. Even if you somehow manage to have a bug free experience, the games also lack any level of polish to the point that even normies have taken notice. There are videos out there that do a better job explaining it than I could.

• Fire Emblem has been subsumed by the left, and their influence has been slowly seeping in to the Japanese side of the development of these games. As I never really paid attention to the status of the series pre-2014 (hint hint), I couldn't really tell you where the rot truly began. That said, like Mother 1 & 3, Fire Emblem still has quite a few titles that to this day remain Japanese exclusive. To add insult to injury, Nintendo did to the series' very first title (an official English translation no less) what it did with Super Mario 3D All Stars, meaning if you didn't catch it... that's it, you can't get it unless you resort to fan translations.

• Metroid... Where to begin... Despite the series' checkered history, Metroid Dread looks like a good return to form, and an okay game, but what I really want it Metroid Prime 4 which has been in development hell since the Wii U era.

• Donkey Kong is just... there, not really having a game of their own since DKC: Tropical Freeze, which is sad considering the character's history with Nintendo's money maker Mario, and speaking of Mario...

• With Charles Martinet's announced retirement, there is no tell where Nintendo will go next. Time will tell how they handle this and who they hire as a replacement.

This list doesn't take into consideration other IPs that only survive on Super Smash Bros, such as Excite Bike, Ice Climbers, Kid Icarus, and there is probably many other that I didn't list off because at the time of writing, I'm tired.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk...

Too bad the DA didn't lose his job over that whole debacle. IIRC, isn't he overseeing the case of the guy who did the Waukesha Christmas Massacre?

As a reminder: JSG defended Cuties for... reasons? I don't even know what his problem was, all I know for sure is that he came to its rescue suspiciously hard.

England is well on the way to becoming a Muslim theocracy without any formal jihad, without a shot being fired.

There is more than one type of Jihad than the one we are all familiar with, which I call "Jihad by the sword". Outpopulating the natives, whether by mass migration or by their practices of polygamy (up to 4 wives per muslim man, starting very young), is also a form of Jihad. Muslims have also used lying to both protect themselves from scrutiny and expand their own power.

In any case, mass violence will come for non-muslims once they reach a certain percentage of the general population. Their holy book, the Quran, calls for violence against nonbelievers many dozens of times, with the most explicit of them being (my notes in italics)...

"Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the latter day and who do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden and who do not adopt Islam, (even if they are) of the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] - [fight] until they humbly pay the Jizyah [non-muslim tax] and have been subdued."

• Quran 9:29

You can change it in the power options, so that closing the laptop does nothing/leaves it running.

Well this is a matchup I thought I would never see... Having watched Russel Brand in the past, he made his stance toward MSM anything quite clear, so seeing him interview Tucker Carlson of all people is a genuine surprise to me.

Edit: Video begins at the 39 minute mark, possibly due to behind the scenes technical difficulties.

I recently got American Truck Simulator for a good deal (specifically, the "Southwest Bundle" for $22 and change. Base game available for $5). I had been wanting a game more outside my comfort zone for a while, and this has me surprisingly hooked.

You get a wide variety of control options (all the way up to dedicated steering wheel, pedals, and gearbox), and it play quite decent on my Xbox 360 controller.

The only glaring flaw is that the NPCs all drive like Californians, so trucker beware.

I'm surprised he picked that, and not the episode where he falls in love with a space hermaphrodite.

PC Gamer put out an article with a surprisingly reasonable take regarding Nintendo's stance toward emulation. Only error I can see in the article is about the Dolphin/Steam situation (Valve contacted Nintendo willingly, Nintendo didn't pressure them).

Archived because it'll take more than 1 good article to redeem themselves.