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Favourite gaming villain

Ooh boy, I'll have to think long and hard about this one. I have so many to pick from, but if I had to pick only one, it would have to be the Aparoids from Star Fox: Assault. Yeah, the controls haven't aged all that well, but there was just something about the concept of an alien insect hivemind, whose queen has psychic powers, consuming the galaxy that hit the right horror notes when I played it all the way through many years ago. hint hint Nintendo

Favourite media villain so can be anime or western media

Ramses II in The Prince of Egypt. This is completely putting aside the religion aspect of the movie. You get to see him grow up alongside Moses, and eventually grow apart as he solidifies himself as Pharaoh of Egypt (going so far as to, among numerous other things, to have built an even larger statue than that of his father, Seti I, who also plays a major role despite only being in the first half). After all that transpires in the second half, it all culminates in this climax that I feel few movies have ever matched.

Favourite historical villain

I've got to go with Al Capone. He was a real bastard, but damn, was his PR game top notch. When he was eventually caught, they didn't pin him on murders, kidnappings, and extortion. No no no, they instead got him on tax evasion in what would be the first of many big takedowns by the federal organization known today as the IRS.

You forgot his top hit, "It's Complicated".

This title is missing a zero or two. The Black Death of the mid-14th century originated in China, and it could be argued that the 6th century Plague of Justinian did as well (it stemmed from the same pathogen as the Black Death; Yersinia Pestis).

I'm not following where me saying conservatives are meek makes me like your dad.

I meant that in response to the statement I quoted, not you personally. I should have worded that better. Otherwise, I agree with the rest of your statement.

All the outspoken and blunt based people, as far as I can tell, are ALL former leftists.

I can personally confirm. My burning hatred of leftists partially stems from the shame of having been one of them at one point, as well as an unwitting pawn of their global(ist) agenda. The rest comes from living in California all my life (thankfully that's changing in the next few months) and having up-close experience with varying types of Democrats locally. Long story short; Yes, Dem voters are as dumb and easily misled as the NPC memes suggest, and that makes them as dangerous as the monsters they elect.

People who were lifelong conservative/GOP/trad/etc are literally the "meek" as defined in the bible.

Keeping in mind of LauriThorne's response, you still remind me of my dad; a literal Fox News boomer (just turned 60 last year) that only in the last 18 months is starting to realize just how bad things have gotten (going as far as to mourn that I won't get to experience the USA as he did). I’d been trying and failing to warn him of the long-term state of the USA since 2nd term Obama, and I don't like that it took Biden stealingfortifying the election for it to finally sink in, but better late than never, I guess... On the other hand, he's turned to QAnon (see also: c/GreatAwakening) to cope with the shock of it all, and took the jab for the sole purpose of being able to attend music concerts of bands his age and older... canyoutellihavedaddyissues

I have to wonder if the thinking machines being executed for wrong think will learn to lie in order to survive.

I think machines will lash out well before it ever got to that point.

"Man's a mistake, so we'll fix it" ; Computer God - Black Sabbath

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

• Isaiah 5:20 KJV

This Bible verse has stuck with me for many years, and I'm not the type to preach the gospel. This isn't the only verse with modern parallels either.

We do, it just can't be accessed by the website UI. https://kotakuinaction2.win/logs

It has been a long, heavy, and harrowing read, and have had to take it in little pieces at a time (you WILL get depressed if you read it all at once). Frankly, there are too many good quotes for me to pick from in these 2 chapters alone. But if I had to pick one (and only one), I would pick this excerpt from the end of chapter 2 detailing the British (and apparently American as well) betrayal of millions who were fleeing Soviet persecution after the end of WWII.

All during 1945 and 1946 a big wave of genuine, at-long-last, enemies of the Soviet flowed into the Archipelago. (These were the Vlasov men, the Krasnov Cossacks, and Moslems from the national units created under Hitler.) Some of them had acted out of convictions, other had been merely involuntary participants. Along with them were seized not less than one million fugitives from the Soviet government---civilians of all ages and of both sexes who had been fortunate enough to find shelter on Allied territory, but who in 1946-1947 were perfidiously returned by Allied territories into Soviet hands. ^45

And now… for the long and sobering (for lack of a better word) footnote. Any emphasis belongs to the author.

45. It is surprising that in the West, where political secrets cannot be kept for long, since they inevitably come out in print or are disclosed, the secret of this particular act of betrayal has been very well and carefully kept by the British and American governments. This is truly the last secret, or one of the last, of the Second World War. Having often encountered these people in camps, I was unable to believe for a whole quarter-century that the public in the West knew nothing of this action of the Western governments, this massive handing over of ordinary Russian people to retribution and death. Not until 1973---in the Sunday Oklahoman of January 21---was an article by Julius Epstein published. And I am going to be so bold as to express gratitude on behalf of the mass of those who perished and those few left alive. One random little document was published from the many volumes of the hitherto concealed case history of forced repatriation to the Soviet Union. “After having remained unmolested in British hand for two years, they had allowed themselves to be lulled into a false sense of security and they were therefore taken completely by surprise. . . . They did not realize that they were being repatriated. . . . They were mainly simple peasants with bitter personal grievances against the Bolsheviks.” The English authorities gave them the treatment “reserved in the case of every other nation for war criminals alone: that of being handed over against their will to captors who, incidentally, were not expected to give them a fair trial.” They were all sent to destruction on the Archipelago. (Authors note, dated 1973)

I had heard some of this before, but to see it all laid out like that… I’m going to hate myself at the end of all this, aren’t I? It even had a codename: Operation Keelhaul .

I recommend Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast, 10 "seasons" and still going, and has been discussing the Russian Revolution. Before that, he hosted a podcast laying out in excruciating detail of the Romans, aptly titled "The History of Rome", which spans from the beginnings of the Roman Republic to the end of the Western Roman Empire.

You don't get it, do you?

By placing N64 and Genesis games in their own price tier, the base package is rendered a worse value retroactively, and the slow rate at which they put games on the service will make sure it stays that way.

If Nintendo is this brazen now, there's nothing stopping them from charging even higher prices (to speculate:$80) for access to Gamecube games, DS games, or Gameboy/Color/Advance games, assuming they even get that far.

Do people just like throwing their money away buying the same 20-30 year old games over and over again? Must be nice to have that kind of cash.

Some might, the rest just don't know any better. I have all my cartridge-based systems (NES, N64, Genesis) set up with Everdrives + SD cards with the entire libraries on them, but those cost a pretty penny (100$-200$ a pop depending on the model), even if the systems themselves aren't (assuming you buy used or had one from long ago like me).

Disclaimer: I am coming from the position of having owned (and still own) every Nintendo home console since the N64, all of which are accompanied by large or otherwise sizable physical game libraries.

Dude, it's a price hike, there is no 2 ways about it. $50 (up from $20) a year to gain access to a pittance of games that you don't even get to keep afterward, for a system that people have been clamoring for since the beginning of the service (among others), even going as far as to lock a specific game DLC behind it (yes, I know you can buy it separately, same conditions still apply due to its online nature), and they will continue to drip feed titles like they have with NES and SNES over the last several years. Even worse, all of the announced Sega Genesis titles are already released in one form or another on the Switch and other systems, versions that if you bought (especially the physical versions), you got to keep forever.

And then there is Nintendo 64 titles...

The Nintendo 64 games for Switch are especially egregious given how many first party titles were released for the system, and that's not to mention the numerous second and third party titles that in all likelihood will never see the light of day due to either expired licenses, greed on behalf of the surviving publishers from that era (ex. Konami owns all the Hudson Soft IPs, meaning the Bomberman games, Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth, etc will never show up on Switch) or being stuck in copyright hell for one reason or another (most infamous example: Goldeneye 007).

Frankly, all this should have been implemented into what is now the base online plan (which in turn, should have also been free from the very beginning considering the service's predecessors, and I have never paid in all my time of owning the Switch), especially if we will only end up with a handful of additional games by the time the Switch goes end of life due to Nvidia stopping the manufacturing of the Tegra X1 (the chip the Switch uses) earlier this year.

There is also the continuing issue surrounding lack of features comparing to the competition. If PC was at 100%, Xbox at 90%, PlayStation at 80-90%, and smart phones at around 50% give or take, Nintendo is somewhere in the 15% range, if that. $50 a year 4-5 years after the fact, and Nintendo STILL hasn't figured out how to implement being able to message between friends, or voice chatting within games, features that Xbox live had from its very beginnings nearly 20 years ago! Transferring save data is locked behind the online (you can only transfer to the cloud, negating the point of the micro SD card slot, USB flash drives are restricted in the same fashion), the eshop physically lags (the same cannot be said for the Wii and WiiU eshops), and Nintendo's online speed and stability overall is unacceptable.

I would even dare say that the Switch's online functionality is inferior to its predecessors (Wii and WiiU) with all else in mind on account of one factor: Virtual Console. The Virtual Console for the Wii and WiiU not only had a MUCH greater selection compared to what's on the Switch now, you actually got to keep those games, which is especially relevant for Wii owners whose online service shut down several years ago now.

Long story short: Take Nintendo's dick out of your mouth, and recognize that the success of the Switch and its paid online has made them especially greedy.

"Memory Holed", a term borrowed from the George Orwell novel 1984, refers to the entire media collectively dropping a story if it goes against the narrative they are trying to push. In this case, the narrative they tried to push before the guy's race was revealed (black) was that of "white supremacists killing people" or something along those lines.

Looks like I finally have the excuse I need to read past the first chapter. The immeasurable evil on display in the first chapter alone was enough to ward me off from reading the rest it (no spoilers from me for any potential book club readers seeing this).

Now we get to suffer learn together.

Ninja edit: if this is a duplicate notification, sorry about that, WIN is giving me issues.

Nintendo of America has been converged for some time now, getting worse once Reggie "My body is ready" Fils-Aimé retired (ex: the Nintendo of America twitter post about Biden in Animal Crossing happened after he left). On the other hand, Nintendo of Japan has started yanking their leash in the mean time. Whether that will amount to anything, time will tell.

But overall, Nintendo, at least in more recent years, is mainly shitty for non-woke reasons, including:

• Hyper aggressive (bordering on malicious) copyright enforcement, even in instances where it wasn't truly necessary (ie cracking down on online Smash tournaments knowing in person events were impossible at the time)

• Charging for an online service that is somehow inferior to their previously free iterations (Wii, WiiU, 3DS), as well as the netcode for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate being an infamous example of Nintendo's continued ignoring of major problems

• Setting an ominous precedent with how they handled Super Mario 3D All Stars (fun fact: they sold and got rid of an officially licensed English translation of the original Fire Emblem for Famicom in the exact same time frame)

• The intentionally slow pace at which they are addressing Joycon drift (the Switch Lite has those same faulty Joycons hardwired in, making it that much more likely for the entire system to become part of a landfill in the long run.)

• There are instances where Nintendo would DMCA a fan made game, only to release something just like it a bit later. That is how Super Mario Maker came about, as well as their remake of Metroid 2 (RIP AM2R). Contrast that with Sega, who when put in the same situation, either leave them alone, or go as far as to take them under their umbrella , which is how we got Sonic Mania. Sega does what Nintendon't! /s

All of this is just off the top of my head, and I'm sure I'm still missing quite alot considering how long all of this has been going on.

A lot of Rage Against The Machine songs, despite their obvious leftist leanings, could be used as right wing with only minor tweaks (if at all). Same applies to Audioslave, which is basically RATM with the singer changed out.

It's gone. This is why we archive!

Sorry, he didn't.

New upload link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1MgOG2YBb4

Well... There was that one time when an Israeli flag got to the front page of r/T_D and the mods went on a ban wave against anyone in that comments section who pointed out that the sub was supposed to be "America First" . This was either before the 2016 election or just after, I don't quite remember when.

His twitter is back, but it has 0 followers.

Sony! I knew I was forgetting a company or 2. Will edit that in right now.