RA sent me into a fever dream with Pokémon Pinball on the GBA, trying to get all of the achievements that counted for the “beaten” tick on my profile. Why did I do that? Why?

Exactly my point, and I’m glad you were here to argue it better than I could. Like yeah, in normal times I don’t want Biden to flaunt what the Supreme Court says, even if they are conservative. But the GOP has stopped playing by the rules, and Trump is going to break so many rules and laws over his presidency that we will wonder what “legal” even means anymore. So who cares if Biden flaunts the Supreme Court in his final month?

Would love to hear your thoughts on Arcane Season 2 in this thread! I just finished it last night.

Personally, I had a great time watching it! I’ve heard the sentiment that Season 2 feels like they had 3 seasons’ worth of plot, which they crammed into just one because Netflix didn’t want to fund it anymore, and I definitely agree with this. I think that is really my only critique of Season 2. Well…besides Imagine Dragons and 21 Pilots 🤪

Now do the rest, coward. We’re literally about to descend into fascism, who cares what a corrupt Supreme Court says?

I wish people would just laugh at them, and tell them how fucking ridiculous they look and then promptly leave their asses behind and move on. Instead, we get news articles about a minority of people who have shit opinions about things they have no understanding of.

We tried that with GamerGate, and it didn’t work. Keeping bad people away from levers of power requires constant diligence; we cannot simply dismiss and move on, because then while we are looking away, the trolls continue to build their base. I’m a strong believer in the power of memes in our modern digital age. Try to write a bunch of articles about a problem like this, and most folks will only absorb the pithy headline. Some will read the article, but mostly only college-educated folks. Instead, make a meme about it that distills the logic of your opponent down to its ridiculous conclusion, and suddenly everyone gets it. (this isn’t to say we should never write an article to explore the nuance of a point, just arguing for the value of leftist memes)

We have the discussion out in the open so that the kids and other uneducated folks can read a variety of opinions. If we don’t, the trolls swoop up and try to turn them into incels.

i really want to see this one - we were set to go see it but our local Alamo stopped showing it sooner than we expected. The fact that Trump vehemently opposed the creation of this movie is all you need to know. Jeremy Strong is the icing on top.

as someone who read the books (like 10 years ago so i could be wrong), I’m pretty certain it is not psychic powers, but spellcasting. Ciri trained under Yennefer and went to sorceress school for while. Geralt has the Witcher signs, which are like an elementary form of spellcasting, but Ciri learned a bit more than Geralt. Separately, she also has her warping power that is completely unique to her and very important in the lore, but I won’t say more for sake of spoilers. I don’t remember how much of this they cover in the games.

She lost the first primary because she ran a terrible campaign. People forget, but there were rumors of poor management and staffers not getting paid right before she dropped out.

it’s the new “soup for my family”

if others do it with Nintendo’s property, it’s copyright theft. If Nintendo profits from people doing with other properties, it’s business as usual.

yeah, that’s why we counter with the memes now so the uneducated public gets better at recognizing the pattern.

mad respect

I already have 😎

super cool! glad to hear Black Twitter gets to be a more formal thing now for black users, with moderation by the community for the community.

This is a great list and you should click the link to read through it. I’ma take this opportunity to shout out Remap Radio. They don’t cover EXCLUSIVELY indie games, but I hear about most of the more popular indie releases via their podcast.

Lol I hate how right you are

Ironic how often funko goes out of their way to piss off gamers, given how much they seem to view gamers as a target demographic.

in Putin’s Russia, the dogs sell YOU the weed!

this is so funny to me just a robot dog walkin around like “hey kid…you wanna buy some PCP?”