The Jack Thompson impulse always re-emerges, bannon trying to make a coalition or no

ed: I assumed “gamers” would be the Mr. Freeze “gamers” emoji, and it wasn’t

Yeah, the elevator pitch kind of makes them sounds like heavily lootbox-ized beanie babies

“Labubuss” --Qanon Anonymous

In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, saving in Frostcrag Spire, quitting, uninstalling the Wizard’s Tower DLC, then loading the save dumps you in a debug cell the plugin overwrites which - among other things - connects to a completely unlit Oblivion tower. If you’re in a part of the wizard’s tower that doesn’t overlap with a in-bounds part of the debug map, you fall out of bounds when loading the file.

(In a decidedly un-scary note, you can retrieve a severely broken debug weapon and one of each sigil stone with every single effect while you’re in BrumaTests)

It’s weird that people who sit there and humiliate themselves constantly like this are beating us

Death to heteronormative society and death to all the fucking breeders. I’ll despise them all and i’ll despise the society that favors them until my last nasty fucking breath.

If they can do that westboro baptist bullshit to me, I can try and hit them back harder. I don’t even fucking want rights or access to their fucking holes of civilizations or whatever, I just want to be able to openly despise them all back.

I like how the search function’s date filter just straight up doesn’t work. I’ll set it to “this week” and it gives me stuff from two years ago

Wait. He hasn’t crumbled into dust or whatever these “Offputting guy with shit politics who has an inexplicable army of irritating tween fans” youtubers do when they’re past their shelf life? I thought he was irritating when I was in high school. That was…what, thirteen years ago now?

Livin’ that Abobo life for sure

I want to be one of those generic goons from Double Dragon, or perhaps Final Fight or Streets of Rage

For what it’s worth, I genuinely do find local politics a more viable field at the moment than national politics in regards to the US.

I refuse to have fun until the situation has improved enough to merit any sort of joy. Actually, I’m lying, I can’t remember how to have fun even if I wanted to.

I’m hoping eventually this extends back to stuff like TV stations signing off and the end of the 24/7 news cycle. Won’t put the cat back in the bag on the latter, but this whole “No brakes, society has to keep moving all the time and constantly get faster at it” mindset is unsustainable for a whole host of reasons.

I’ve still gotta do a deep dive on Sea Power. Loved their stuff in DE, but just kinda haven’t gotten around to it yet. Maybe once I’m caught up on Future Sound of London? (Speaking of the DE playlist)

Two factors here, one business-specific: One, more generic architecture is cheaper and easier to resell. Two, McDonalds has been running from people’s “kiddy” perception of the brand since the '90s (to limited success).

“What if I were to rebrand neoliberalism and act like it’s a new philosophy again? Delightfully devilish, Yglesias!”

Libertarianism: “There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect (And I should be the in-group)”

I’ve heard scuttlebutt about US think tank players like Focus on The Family moving in following the collapse. I doubt this is the whole of it, but I wonder what their role here is.

As a bit of trivia re: games being political, Atari’s Missile Command (1980) was explicitly a statement on the futility of nuclear war inspired by the devs’ own fears during the cold war.

On the PC/Home computer end, you also had political sims like Balance of Power (1985-1990), which…well…

As for SEGA and Japanese politics, they made a whole ass arcade game dunking on prime minister Kakuei Tanaka taking bribes in the Lockheed Bribery Scandal. It got a export release virtually unchanged, somehow.