Having the equivalent of movie posters as games' cover art was awesome, if terrible for showing what the game was.

It always amazes me that the European version of Mega Man has a fucking fantastic cover

With comics specifically, marvel and DC have been out of touch for a very long time. The best stories tend to be one-shots or short stories that don't interfere with the ongoing arcs. There's also little perceived variety given those two powerhouses, despite them not being the only USA comic publishers.

Compared to the US, Japanese manga has much more variety in styles and stories, though some genres (flashy fighting, harem shit, Isekai shit) are beyond oversaturated. A manga that becomes a success has a high chance of becoming anime too, the same doesn't seem to be the case with western animation, which tends to work the other way around more often (a cartoon gets a comic release).

Lastly, USA lacks a single fucking mecha cartoon. Megas XLR was ages ago.

Side note: I cannot, for the life of me, understand why the fuck Netflix went with a live action rendition of Sandman, instead of an animation, which would be perfect for any and every sudden change of style instead of relying on cgi that stands out against the actors

Saint Seiya was the "graduation" anime for me, back in 1995 or 96. He-Man, Ninja Turtles and Spider Man stood no chance against a consistent story and bloody fights to the death. The anime dragged on a fucking lot, but the fights were like nothing else

Tried to open the ghost home site and it nearly crashed my Firefox, jeez

Rules lawyer: There's nothing stating you must answer with "yes", "no" or "yes or no", thus the following remain valid: Aye, Affirmative, Correct, Yep, Yus, Nah, Nay, Negative, Nope, Yaaaa onii-saaaan~

Paywall. That site frankly does not even look legit and looking at the plethora of other AI sites I don’t know who would use this one. It’s not even displaying correctly and has like 0 information on anything. If I were to stumble upon that site I’d think it is shady as hell.

The "Paywall" followed by "That site" makes most people think (me included) that you're talking about the news outlet, 404media, not the AI site mentioned. Writing something like this:

Paywall. The AI site they mention does not even look legit (...)

Wouldn't leave such a wide margin for misinterpretation

followed by a line break / new paragraph (which you conveniently removed)

I removed nothing. Maybe your client works with single line breaks. The browser ignores a single line break (enter) and only works with one extra empty line.

this will           |  this will render
render as a         |  
single line         |  a separate paragraph  

Eh, I have no love for vtubers and I don't even watch twitch streams, I have no patience for them, yet I kinda care because:

1. Amazon is using its power to fuck part of its content creators while leaving a larger bunch completely unscathed with pointless double standards. Just shrugging at it makes them more likely to further ignore feedback.
2. Amazon's moderation is a piece of shit, akin to Youtube. Streamers that follow the rules can get banned because of loose interpretation of certain rules, while blatant disregard will remain because haha fuck you. Thus, application of the new rule will be inconsistent at best.
3. Amazon doesn't actually care about the whole "sexuality" aspect, otherwise they'd go after the many borderline porno streamers.

But most importantly, I care because it's a giant corporation fucking the people that help it make money.

Shiiiiiiiit, transferring stuff via physical media takes me back to high school. It was mostly porn videos to my friends, never charged a dime, only asked them to give me a blank CD

Haven't done anything like that since I finished college. During those years, it was mostly sharing ripped versions of games that we could play straight from the USB stick on the college computers, mostly Counter Strike 1.6 , much to my distaste as I much preferred other games like Digital Paintball 2 and Age of Empires 2. Also a bit ironic that, despite all of us being CompSci students, I seemed to be the only one who was willing to endure the "pains" of setting up a SNES emulator so we could play Bomberman over the LAN.

I hate that this system works so well to separate stupid horny men from their money, thus creating huge incentives for more and more women to game it.

How many times do you think about the Roman Empire per day?

Up to what point would you consider the Eastern Roman Empire "the Roman Empire"? That's important for my answer.

a salted bomb and nuke Jerusalem even though that is an entirely viable evil plot that may even create a net negative death toll.

Wait, how would a nuke with extra radiation fallout create a net negative death toll?

Under current copyright law in the USA, we're talking about Super Mario Bros becoming public domain around 2075. A number of games will no doubt remain known, one way or another, much like some very old movies remain interesting and known, but a good portion will fall into the bin of "meh, who cares". I mean, a huge number of games are already almost entirely forgotten.

Kinda weird that their only syllable with F sound is Fu, which goes in the Ha-He-Hi-Ho column

X is Toki, something that only the weirdest weirdos can find any value in it but anyone with a bit of self love will immediately avoid.

Instagram is just Farmville over and over.

Reddit is Cookie Clicker, but you're a worker in the cookie factory.

At first, I thought this would be like Project Orion ("nuke"-powered rockets), as Dyson's math back in 1968 expected one version to reach Alpha Centauri within 133 years

Though nanocraft being pushed by lasers sound interesting, braking remains a problem. Still, if they can prove the concept with a much shorter trip somewhere in our solar system, I'll be anxiously waiting for their next move.

Nim. Small compiler, small executables, easy to understand (except the macros, I still can't get my head around them).

FreePascal. Yeah yeah, Pascal's dead, etc etc, but it being so verbose and strict certainly help programmers (or at least me) keeping things somewhat tidy.

Also shoutout to V

Forget the TCG and just dive into Digimon World on the PSX. It's a Tamagotchi roguelite, if you will. Digimon World 2 is "pokemon mystery dungeon" with excessive traps, gotchas and unexplained systems.

That's because Arzette doesn't use any Nintendo owned characters, names or places. Link, Zelda, the king and Ganon are off-limits, but I suspect they could steal Morshu without anyone complaining

Ah, indeed I misunderstood at first

Art thou a Renamon connoisseur?

On point 3, some of the local card players I know are ditching MTG for Vampire Eternal Struggle or Flesh and Blood

Keep in mind that Bin Laden was responsible for an attack against USA citizens and infrastructure. Putin did a lot of shit to several of Russia's neighbors (Ukraine is just the biggest target), spied on several countries, but never openly attacked USA territory, citizens or soldiers, nor that of any NATO allies.

If the USA did put a bounty on him, it's likely Putin and Russia would receive public support from currently neutral countries, because here goes USA playing world sheriff, pretending to own the entire fucking place and ignoring nations' rights to sovereignty again

Let's see, a portable or ripped version of games:

• Age of Empires 2 (there's an old one that was around 170mb with the expansion),
• Daggerfall (~150mb),
• Worms Armageddon (~300mb, can be reduced by removing some speech sets),
• Doom + some mods and modding tools (let's allot 200mb for that)

That's ~820mb thus far. Let's grab Snes9x (~1mb), Secret of Mana 2 (~3mb), Super Bomberman 3 (~800kb), Super Mario All Stars + Super Mario World (~1.3mb). Also get a GBA emulator, Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town, Pokemon Fire red + some romhacks. Let's assume all this emulation came to a grand total of 50MB. 870MB used, some 130 left.

For that final stretch, books on programming, the full offline documentation and a respective compiler for said language. Going with TinyCC would leave plenty of room for the books, but i'd also have to write most graphic related stuff from scratch... FreePascal has amazing documentation, but the compiler is 50mb or more. Nim is small and fast, but documentation is all over the place and anything graphical needs an external library. Guess I'll have to contend with some form of javascript. I'd still bring at least one great book on C coding + TinyCC just in case

Why do we have to wait like a century for open domain?

Thank that fucking mouse

Clearly the sole reason for the fall of the Egyptian dynasties: they went too far into their furdom

Story and worldbuilding wise, ES6 has a very bleak future ahead. Emilio Pagliarulo, the de facto director of Starfield and lead writer, has shown that no hole is deep enough that he won't dig it further down when it comes to lack of quality and consistency. Not that Skyrim's main story was good, but it was certainly better than Starfield's. There's also the disturbing indifference of "the world" to everything happening around it. Literally nothing you do in Starfield affects anything outside its own storyline. Hell, shooting up in the air or using fucking space magic in the middle of a city generates no reaction from npcs if nobody is hit.

I’d like to test my PC

Can it run Crysis?

Coming from their director of monetization, all I hear is "waaah waaah booo waaah"

All this nickel and diming is super profitable and it shows. Just because it makes them fuckloads of money doesn't mean we should applaud it, because it awful for the customers.

I'm anxiously waiting for Crystal to be able to compile for Windows so game development with it can get a kickstart

Honest question, what would make you pick Gleam over Elixir? Both seem to have significant overlap

Oh, I forgot that detail, makes sense. Does Gleam already have something equivalent to Phoenix for elixir?

I really recommend everyone to read the article. Shit somehow only gets worse

Not only is the asshole a rapist, he also tried to drown one of his sons because said son confronted him after catching mr "model citizen" with his hands on one of the daughters' private parts.

Those reunification therapy sessions? The mother has to pay the $370 per week alone when it's just her 2 sons attending. There was also one session:

She said she checked on her children during the session and found one of her sons curled in a fetal position on the ground in Bassett’s office, but Bassett ordered her to stop addressing what the mother termed the serious needs of her children.

She said she fears the reunification therapy is harming her boys, whom she described as crying uncontrollably, having explosive outbursts and expressing thoughts of self-harm after attending Bassett’s reunification sessions with their father.

Ms. Basset, the "reunification therapist", deserves some jail time as well

What really breaks the suspension of disbelief in this reality of ours is that fucking advertising is the most privacy invasive activity in the world. Seriously, even George Orwell would call bullshit on that.

"Study finds link between a simple liquid and staying healthy"

Fucking water

I guess human life in India is cheaper than the equipment to safely deal with electricity

I do remember seeing one of their terms saying something along the lines of "similar games will count as one" for the purposes of installs+revenue, that or someone mentioning it. Can't seem to find it anymore, maybe they removed it? EDIT - Found one mention of it, "Games or apps with substantially similar content may be counted as one project", Unity probably went back on this one, as it's not listed on the FAQ right now

Though considering Pokemon Shining Pearl/Brilliant Diamond runs on Unity, I doubt they'd want to let such a high selling game go untaxed.

Offering a specific version of the product for reviewers to write about that buying customers won't get? fry-im-shocked.gif

Win11 exclusive? Welp, guess I'll never use it, then.

Gotta love how Google has spent the last, what, 10 years?, fighting iMessage and losing due to their own short-sightedness/lack of focus and incompetence. The company that dethroned MSN Messenger couldn't win a fight against an opponent that, on a global scale, represents ~25% of the mobile market. Meanwhile, Whatsapp dominates the instant messaging world.