They've already reversed course: https://communities.win/c/TheDonald/p/19Bt2MmNb6/breaking-the-trump-administratio/c
But still, what a bullshit piece of work to see after I come home.
Let's see, who would be lying?
A: Gaben, a figure beloved by (b?)millions worldwide for bringing a (mostly) reasonable storefront for online games.
B: Moneychangers, people who have been known THROUGHOUT RECORDED HISTORY to lie, cheat, and steal.
I'll copy my listing of the free games from the c/gaming post. Spoiler: It's Postal 2, Agony, and a bunch of porn games.
Postal 2 is on there. That game is FUCKING JANKY AS SHIT GREAT, and Rick Hunter's buttery smooth voice, the now-outdated references, and the comedic sociopathy make the entire game.
For anyone wonder what the list is:
POSTAL 2: See my above comment about jank and enjoyment.
Agony + Agony UNRATED: Was popular/caused a ruckus for a brief moment due to Hell-tiddies. Bodyhorror, I've seen it described as a walking sim. I might be wrong but I'll describe the art as Hellraiser meets Doom 4 with a bit of HR Geiger (non-xenomorph) art thrown in.
Leap of Love: No idea. Looks like some 2D H VN with marriage themes.
Being a DIK - Season 1: Dunno, but I know it's popular in some circles. Presumably something college related, looks to be a VN using 3D prerendered lewds.
Leap of Faith: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture.
House Party: 3D porn jank. Known for being jank and a meme. IIRC it has Ethan Klein or some other Youtube weirdo in it. Someone fact check me on that.
HuniePop: 2D H match-3 "dating" game. Was a meme for a while. Voice acting's atrocious from what I remember.
Lust Theory: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture.
Treasure of Nadia: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture. Pirate themed, maybe?
Summer's Gone - Season 1: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture.
Fetish Locator Week One: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture.
Sapphire Safari: Dunno. 3d furry porn slop, based on the picture.
Helping the Hotties: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture.
GarrysMod. Death Stranding.
No, really. People are using character screenshots from those games to fact image based age estimation.
You can also just photoshop an ID with fake info. Try https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ and go from there.
Since we're talking Wing Commander, I'm gonna go a little out in the pasture and recommend Terra Nova: Strike Force Centari. It's somewhere in between an FPS and a mechsuit simulator, wide open maps for each mission, and terrible FMVs, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the dropship cost a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumble bees on them.
Memes aside, Wing Commanders FMV scenes made the Terra Nova devs feel they had to include FMV scenes, and I have fond memories of playing that game.
Protip: In some missions the Multipulsar sometimes has more range than the enemy AI, which means you can SLOWLY pick off an enemy at range if a mission is giving you a hard time.
If you really want something with futuristic fighters, try Fury^3, Hellbender, Terminal Velocity, all very similar games by the same devs, but you're in atmo.
Among those in attendance were podcasters including Dave Rubin, Tim Pool and former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, writers Bethany Mandel and David J. Harris Jr., influencer Jessica Kraus, Commentary senior editor Seth Mandel and Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway.
Interesting...
Pool asked if there was a Qatari “op” to manipulate social media algorithms to make antisemitic and anti-Israel episodes appear to receive an outsized number of views, in order to incentivize podcasters and YouTubers to produce more antisemitic content.
That seems like a question that was fed to to Beanie Boy.
The Americans, whose names have not been divulged, belong to the MAGA and America First movements, the newspaper said. They are all younger than 30 and each have hundreds of thousands or millions of followers, a vast, target-rich environment for propaganda. Israel intends to bring more than 500 “influencer delegations” to Israel this year, the ministry said.
It is paying an organization called Israel365 to organize the first American tour because it is in a “unique position to convey a pro-Israel stance that aligns entirely with the MAGA and America First agenda.”
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Israeli officials justified the no-bid contract with the organization because of its “experience and know-how in creating awareness, engagement, and mobilization of Christian audiences regarding their support for the Jewish people and the State of Israel,” Haaretz reported.
Ministry officials told the newspaper that “while older Republicans and American conservatives still hold pro-Israel views, positive perspectives towards Israel are falling across all younger age groups.”
Gee, I wonder why.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ is still an option for older works that are no longer in copyright.
Reveddit.com. It also has the advantage of showing you mod-removed comments.