I don't know if this guy is being forgetful, self-deprecating, or unappreciative of the ideas of his colleagues when he says he put toilets on the map because of 'someone on the internet' complaining if he didn't. It's already an absurd idea that pre-2000 devs were designing out of fear for what would be said on the internet, but it also undersells the cleverness of the visual storytelling in that map's design. As the editing of the video shows, there are actually 4 toilets, but what it doesn't show is that the shit-runnels from the toilets drain towards a central point in the map where you can encounter a disgusting, sewer-dwelling enemy. So the toilets not only create a believable liveable space - Irenicus and his goons have to shit - but contribute to the nasty atmosphere and the dangers that the player has to confront.
He says himself that he hadn't seen the map in a while, so maybe he forgot, but pointing out a part and dismissing it as 'we did it becuz internet iz annoying' doesn't do the design justice.
I hadn't even heard about that but it fits. On the other hand, with Avellone already gone by then, would you even want a non-Avellone-written Durance? They'd probably write him as a pathetic gay turbocuck in retaliation for all his Magran misogyny. And then patch him out completely as a disavow of Avellone, after that laughable metoo.
Pre-release, everything I'd heard about the game was pushing me away - class tweaks, party shrinking, location, etc - but the whole 'IT HAS ROMANCE NOW!' talking point was a big worry, then when it released and I realised it was just jammed with bioware-sexual, crit role voiced chars, I said no thanks. Josh Sawyer is a woke cucktivist and doesn't want my money anyhow.
I'm sure POE2 did just fine without us /s
Prerendered 2D graphics are my favourite style of game aesthetic and western isometric RPGs were the king of it. Part of the reason I enjoyed Pillars of Eternity 1 (I never played 2, it looked gay).
From a tech standpoint, the fact that you could rotate the camera in 90 degree increments in Commandos 2 (and freely indoors I think?) blew my mind at the time, back in the day. But I'm honestly not sure if it improved the game overall. A fixed perspective forces the dev to make a singular vision for the environment and removes camera from the question of balancing difficulty. I echo everything fauxgnaws says.
EDIT: if you want an example of another beautiful 2D game game which supposedly used 3D models transposed to 2D, King of Fighters 13 is in the mix. You can't talk about 2D game art without mentioning SNK. Although at the same time I think it's become a bit of a meme to say 'AKSHULLY KOF13's graphics are 3D' - I have my doubts as to whether people have misconstrued the story there, and whether the 3D models were simply used as reference material by the 2D artists.
we're here, days later, with policies that squarely denigrate trans kids
Denigration sounds good. Any space this woman is in needs to be denigrated.
Watched a little bit of a stream. Looks potentially great. From chat:
Antifa bots only chase you if you look away.
Will probably buy it just from the kek I got off this one.
Indeed, we were stunned to find out that no fewer than FIVE men were pretending to be women (three on Seneca; two on Centennial.)
The best-of-five series eventually concluded with Seneca winning three games to one; no surprise there given that the Sting had three male players and Centennial only had two. Meaning Centennial was literally “outmanned.”
Channeling my inner Imp, I think it would be funny to show up to one of these games to point and laugh wheezingly at the actual female players, every time a tranny on the other team scores an RPG blast against them. Break their wonderful sporting will.
Just think, if the women all fucked off out of sports, then there will be no women's sports for trannies to dribble over into and the latter could go back to being invisible failures again. A high bar for sure, but we could at least aim for getting them off the TV and out of the news.
Could get some chants going:
"......yyoooouuuuuuu-AAH!-sked for this-AH!!" You'd wind up and time the first 'aah!' with an unstoppable, telegraphed tranny spike shot (works just fine if the chant puts off the tranny, as a fallback).
Then a refrain of "Stunning! Brave! You couldn't make the save!" Needs work idk.
If I'm remembering the elements of this right, this could be huge. According to my recollection on what Bigtree and Siri have shown on this before, the V-safe comments were an optional fill-in segment for reports on this particular system, where those reporting adverse events had a choice of several tickboxes to categorise their adverse event.
Just as we've seen with the rigged data-gathering throughout all this, there were shenanigans going on from the start, in the choice of categories that people were given to pick from - so that people would be given too vague of an option, or their closest pick to their problem might be a less severe-sounding reaction, time frames being made too narrow for people to include their own reaction, stuff like that. Judging the AE rates from these submissions alone, the jabs still looked terrible in terms of safety profile . But some of the most severe AEs, ones with unusual circumstances, and even some of the more common of the known vaxx side effects might technically have had to be listed under 'Other', with only the user's comment to describe it. There were lots and lots of these.
The CDC looked at basically NONE of them and certainly didn't want heretics outside the medico-scientismo priesthood seeing them. Also due to the nature of all this stuff being lumped under 'Other', they would have previously been excluded from the rates of other specific types of injury, whereas now they can be properly identified and re-categorised. The CDC vaxx promotion and the wider narrative hinged off the bullshitted, hidden version of this data. IDK if I share Bigtree's optimism but I can see why he's saying 'I think this is gonna be the death blow to this cover-up'. They're going to need more big new psyops to bullshit this one away.
I'll rubberstamp Assassin47's reading but with even less generosity to NG and Sega. The NG article sucks, honestly. The dialogue hasn't been overly slanted towards an ideology, it's the boomers he's talking to who are regurgitating feminist ideas. Look up tsuranuku ('to go through, to stick with, to maintain') in the dictionary and 'independence' is even one of the things it lists as a value you might be 'maintaining' when you 'tsuranuku' your life (which is the phrase they use). The translation embellishes it a bit, so that they don't actually say the line 'gallop in and save the day', but their implication is exactly that - she's stronk independent wumman so don't tell her you'll make her happy, that's old fashioned.
Not sure how NG can recognise that this scene as 'slightly feminist' while simultaneously suggesting that it's changing the message. The convo's practically a feminist lecture.
This is like that Guilty Gear Bridget thing. It's naive to always assume that the pozz is coming from translators these days, when Japanese devs are increasingly content to insert woke messages all on their own.
'Woke' is just intersectional feminism. Don't get sucked into this fake argument.
Oh yes, that start of the slope of global intersectionalist madness from around 2013 onwards, which preaches eternal female unaccountability, it tracks so clearly from - checks notes - Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes and the reversal of Roe v Wade.
I can't remember who said it but I remember someone saying that the farms have a very feminine energy and they do. You have to be some kind of a woman to sit gossiping for hundreds of pages about a single stranger who doesn't know you, while Null comes off as a histrionic faggot quite often. No surprise he feels a delusional impulse to carry the torch for muh poor women and scapegoat men. Not even scapegoating us for enabling the worst impulses in women - why does a critique of conservative talking points also list the phenomenon of Onlythot simps? As if that's a problem with conservative men - but instead for being too oppressive lol. Rubbish.
I have a radio tuned to the local station since sometimes it plays traditional music for my elderly family. Other times, it is the most egregious propaganda you could possibly imagine, possibly more insidious than CNN/MSNBC since it's not overtly playing to a certain crowd. Every talk segment is either mindlessly trivial trash to distract from the reality of life, or else 100% on-message currentthing narrative about why electric vehicles are great, etc.
The day right after the Dublin riots, they had an advert asking for people to volunteer spare housing space for refugees, as well as an advert for pregnant women specifically(!) to get their mRNA boosties - both within the same ad break. It's practically a naked provocation.
The cloud to this silver lining: for those that remain to have survived these cuts, they must be the most obedient, committed and slavish of the propagandists in an already vomitous industry. Is journalism dying or actually becoming distilled to an even purer poison? The schadenfreude is great but it's not as if this means we're going to be subjected to less 'news'.
This footage plus this footage works for me. Hey as a deboonking tip, why don't you START by explaining the cars towards the end of the lot pan (23s onward) which are totally unburnt yet still utterly destroyed. Anything less is obvious shill shit, don't bother. Nobody is going to believe hamas beat those cars up with baseball bats, it was obviously the aftermath of a 30mm cannon.
Also try dismissing gunship pilot testimony that they were oh so confused by hamas, that they didn't know what to fire on.
I don't know who is who
The festival goers filmed the paragliders incoming right? Well, should be no problem for you to show at least a portion of the 250+ massacred by hamas soon after. I assume your video(s) will be in your reply. Personally I scoured the net for videos and I saw footage of something like 12 civilian kills total, no more than 1 at the festival.
At this point anyone like you, who dismisses the very high likelihood that gunships and tanks caused most of the deaths in kibbutzes and at the festival, is just obviously jewish or jew-paid. There is no way you are this fucking retarded, unless you're also octo-vaxxed.
This is the same forum and possibly even the same day when they're scaremongering their next fake 'Disease X' scenario, with Tedros in attendance as speaker. Getting a smelly breathed shaman to cough in everyone's faces while they smirk about it is probably just their way of having a knowing laugh with eachother, a reassurance that nothing they talk about is meant to apply to them, and part of the global humiliation ritual for anyone outside who gets a glimpse.
Thanks.
What I meant was that the link isn't complete. You got me on tenterhooks.
Half Life 2 getting a graphics upgrade
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Don't know anything about this guy other than that he's a faggot who allowed Fauci himself on the channel to push clotshot propaganda.
Hmm...
we've known we want to end the channel for 3 years
...and the vaxx advert was 3 years ago with people still regularly shitting on him in the comments.
Until proven otherwise, I'm just going to assume he has vaxxcancer like the kind that killed Technoblade and made all those other YTers drop offline.
Said to myself 'has to be Britain' and of course it is. I'm not sure what made me so certain since several countries are arguably further gone, eg. Canada and others. I think the reason is that among the poisoned West, UK cops are uniquely hostile towards their own citizenry after having been so rightfully humiliated and mocked in recent decades, which makes them very proactive in pushing for feminist totalitarianism and prosecuting 'digital crime' shit.
Key question. It's naive to believe we are being shown this out of a sense of civic righteousness or moral indignation. Did anything fail to make it into evidence? Who is redacted from the evidence? Why are the ones still mentioned NOT redacted, ie. whom did they anger or whose palm didn't they grease? Is there something specific we are being distracted from in the timing and nature of this? Anything less than full disclosure is possibly worse than no disclosure.
On a serious note I love when sports that used to be exclusively for biological women open up for transwomen. They instantly become more skilled and technical.
What's the skinny on this franchise? Recommended play order? Remake or no remake? Best games?
I only know Star Ocean as a meme for bad voice acting, but I don't care about that because I usually go straight to the JP audio, in whatever way I can. Currently emulating Xenoblade Chronicles 1 JP version because I couldn't handle the dub (it's a good time, but massively padded). Always open to a good unknown JRPG in any case.
Edit: I just realised I emulated the first few seconds of First Departure R on Ryuujinx (switch) then didn't continue because I'm scared of Ryuujinx. Is that the one to start from and what's to expect?
I stumbled on Agora Road forums and joined them recently. It's for 'Vaporwave' discussion on the face of it, but the essence of the community seems to be fairly redpilled zoomies all harking for a past that they weren't a part of (hence the retro schtick). Made me want to jump in the mix.
I can't seem to get back into the ol' habits of forum checking and posting that used to come so naturally though.