Sixfortyfive
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ATL retro game / FGC guy.
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This meta of "ITS BAD" videos about games blows man. As a lifelong hater, this deep level of hating is exhausting mainly because I know it's not from a place of genuine critique, it's never a discussion for wanting things to be better, it's just being negative to generate clicks. Absolute shite
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This meta of "ITS BAD" videos about games blows man. As a lifelong hater, this deep level of hating is exhausting mainly because I know it's not from a place of genuine critique, it's never a discussion for wanting things to be better, it's just being negative to generate clicks. Absolute shite
This is basically one of the reasons why the "Bluesky users don't understand jokes lol" dunk doesn't really land with me.
Your sarcasm doesn't travel as well as you think it does and "it's just jokes bro lol" isn't a good excuse.
Your sarcasm doesn't travel as well as you think it does and "it's just jokes bro lol" isn't a good excuse.
don't like the thing we (online transsexuals) do where once we decide someone is sufficiently bad, we start a libel cycle where one person cracks a joke and the next person takes that joke literally and now everyone thinks that a guy who said something stupid is actually definitely a sexual predator
November 29, 2025 at 4:11 AM
This is basically one of the reasons why the "Bluesky users don't understand jokes lol" dunk doesn't really land with me.
Your sarcasm doesn't travel as well as you think it does and "it's just jokes bro lol" isn't a good excuse.
Your sarcasm doesn't travel as well as you think it does and "it's just jokes bro lol" isn't a good excuse.
One of the most amusing aspects of the Android saga is how Vegeta is clearly demonstrated to be a bigger threat to humanity than the androids.
Villain protagonists are fun.
Villain protagonists are fun.
dragon ball is different to other shonen manga in that it never really redeems its villains or makes them sympathetic it instead just believes that if you grindset hard enough you just kinda stop caring about being evil
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
One of the most amusing aspects of the Android saga is how Vegeta is clearly demonstrated to be a bigger threat to humanity than the androids.
Villain protagonists are fun.
Villain protagonists are fun.
To me this may as well be a flashing neon sign that says "never play our game."
Not like I'm actively playing fighters right now anyway, but if I was looking for one, the absolute last one I'd pick would be one that threatens to throw out all of my work on a monthly basis.
Not like I'm actively playing fighters right now anyway, but if I was looking for one, the absolute last one I'd pick would be one that threatens to throw out all of my work on a monthly basis.
>2XKO delivering balance patches every 5 weeks
FOUL
VILE
ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING
FOUL
VILE
ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
To me this may as well be a flashing neon sign that says "never play our game."
Not like I'm actively playing fighters right now anyway, but if I was looking for one, the absolute last one I'd pick would be one that threatens to throw out all of my work on a monthly basis.
Not like I'm actively playing fighters right now anyway, but if I was looking for one, the absolute last one I'd pick would be one that threatens to throw out all of my work on a monthly basis.
So "A/B Testing" has to be the most irritating "feature" YouTube has rolled out in a minute.
I'm already sick of seeing old videos with randomized thumbnails clogging up my recommended feed trying to trick me into clicking them again.
I'm already sick of seeing old videos with randomized thumbnails clogging up my recommended feed trying to trick me into clicking them again.
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
So "A/B Testing" has to be the most irritating "feature" YouTube has rolled out in a minute.
I'm already sick of seeing old videos with randomized thumbnails clogging up my recommended feed trying to trick me into clicking them again.
I'm already sick of seeing old videos with randomized thumbnails clogging up my recommended feed trying to trick me into clicking them again.
Mickey Mania for Genesis / Mega Drive is region-locked. However, the lock screen will keep re-checking the console's region setting and will change its message if it detects that the console is changed to the correct region.
It is only possible to see this on a hardware-modded console or emulator.
It is only possible to see this on a hardware-modded console or emulator.
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Mickey Mania for Genesis / Mega Drive is region-locked. However, the lock screen will keep re-checking the console's region setting and will change its message if it detects that the console is changed to the correct region.
It is only possible to see this on a hardware-modded console or emulator.
It is only possible to see this on a hardware-modded console or emulator.
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While it's true you can't fully trust player opinions on balance for this reason, devs in charge of game tuning must also realize that data lies too.
Balance isnt real. Only the perception of balance is. It's all vibes. Balance isnt a viable OR desirable goal. You want fun, variety, and retention.
Balance isnt real. Only the perception of balance is. It's all vibes. Balance isnt a viable OR desirable goal. You want fun, variety, and retention.
One of the producers on Guilty Gear Strive said it was basically impossible to source player feedback on balance changes online because nobody had original opinions and would just parrot what the most popular content creators said and so they had to rely on data and I think about that every day.
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
While it's true you can't fully trust player opinions on balance for this reason, devs in charge of game tuning must also realize that data lies too.
Balance isnt real. Only the perception of balance is. It's all vibes. Balance isnt a viable OR desirable goal. You want fun, variety, and retention.
Balance isnt real. Only the perception of balance is. It's all vibes. Balance isnt a viable OR desirable goal. You want fun, variety, and retention.
I like the US soundtrack for Sonic CD well enough, but when I see things like this my reflex is to ask "why did they bother?" If it was a case that their US musicians wanted to showcase their work but didn't have a US-made game to put it in, then the decision to replace the JP soundtrack makes sense
Sonic CD US Metallic Madness is mostly just riffing on top of this sequence preset from Korg Wavestation
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I like the US soundtrack for Sonic CD well enough, but when I see things like this my reflex is to ask "why did they bother?" If it was a case that their US musicians wanted to showcase their work but didn't have a US-made game to put it in, then the decision to replace the JP soundtrack makes sense
I only finally got around to completing the original Doom this year, and the single most surprising thing that stuck with me afterward was that this frequently-memed GamePro blurb came across significantly less stupid after finally playing through the game.
The Cyberdemon takes a lot of hits.
The Cyberdemon takes a lot of hits.
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I only finally got around to completing the original Doom this year, and the single most surprising thing that stuck with me afterward was that this frequently-memed GamePro blurb came across significantly less stupid after finally playing through the game.
The Cyberdemon takes a lot of hits.
The Cyberdemon takes a lot of hits.
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the “thanksgiving food is bad” discourse raises its ugly head every year, but the truth remains that thanksgiving food can be amazing as long as you know how to cook. the problem is we’re throwing a few million sunday drivers directly into a grand prix
I think this is unfair to turkey. turkey is good but hard to cook well because it is so damn big. turkey *parts* are great but lack the esthetic appeal of a centerpiece bird.
it is tired to the point of cliche to say if turkey was good, people would make it more than once a year. but it is understated that at least one American explodes every Thanksgiving in a brave attempt to make the main dish more palatable
November 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
the “thanksgiving food is bad” discourse raises its ugly head every year, but the truth remains that thanksgiving food can be amazing as long as you know how to cook. the problem is we’re throwing a few million sunday drivers directly into a grand prix
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When are we making one of these for EWC?
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
When are we making one of these for EWC?
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imo this is the frame that makes sense for understanding why, 3 years before a primary, there are ALREADY people yelling at you about supporting newsom. it’s not about supporting the eventual nominee. it’s about establishing right here and right now that the party won’t be an opposition to fascism
they’re just using the threat of fascism to bludgeon you into accepting their limp dicked non-opposition and protection of the status quo
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
imo this is the frame that makes sense for understanding why, 3 years before a primary, there are ALREADY people yelling at you about supporting newsom. it’s not about supporting the eventual nominee. it’s about establishing right here and right now that the party won’t be an opposition to fascism
One obnoxious thing about game discussion is how little of it is about the games
Remembering forums where there'd be more buzz around the trailers than any post-launch discussion, or the lamentation of lack of dev "support" (things to blow more money on) instead of just playing/discussing the games
Remembering forums where there'd be more buzz around the trailers than any post-launch discussion, or the lamentation of lack of dev "support" (things to blow more money on) instead of just playing/discussing the games
Part of the reason I find most discussion/the hype cycle of GTA6 uninteresting because almost none of it is about the game itself.
Its about games that have to move around it, its about how much it can get away costing, its about how it will affect the industry. Not gameplay or narrative.
Its about games that have to move around it, its about how much it can get away costing, its about how it will affect the industry. Not gameplay or narrative.
GTA 6 will be released in 1 year from today
… unless it’s delayed again.
… unless it’s delayed again.
November 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
One obnoxious thing about game discussion is how little of it is about the games
Remembering forums where there'd be more buzz around the trailers than any post-launch discussion, or the lamentation of lack of dev "support" (things to blow more money on) instead of just playing/discussing the games
Remembering forums where there'd be more buzz around the trailers than any post-launch discussion, or the lamentation of lack of dev "support" (things to blow more money on) instead of just playing/discussing the games
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I’ve been biting my nail at journalism as a whole because a large ratio of the space today is done by people who never took a class on infosec, ethics, writing, and/or general protocol, it’s a lot of amateurs cosplaying as journalists who just want to put low quality words/video out on the internet.
I used to complain about "games journalism" a lot before gamergate poisoned that entire discourse, mostly because it was PR for publishers with little real news. Since it is imploding and folks are going independent, we can now judge them without the context of corporate overlords.
It's still dire.
It's still dire.
November 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I’ve been biting my nail at journalism as a whole because a large ratio of the space today is done by people who never took a class on infosec, ethics, writing, and/or general protocol, it’s a lot of amateurs cosplaying as journalists who just want to put low quality words/video out on the internet.
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THIS is a placeholder asset. Placeholder assets are supposed to be obvious. Any studio claiming ai placeholder assets just slipped through is lying. They just hoped nobody would notice.
November 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
THIS is a placeholder asset. Placeholder assets are supposed to be obvious. Any studio claiming ai placeholder assets just slipped through is lying. They just hoped nobody would notice.
My favorite random fact about Super Metroid is that its in-game map is literally the only "negative" cited about the game in its EGM review.
My only Metroid opinion is that the original Metroid is not only playable but fun. Extremely controversial. There's no map or the game pointing you to where you need to go next or decades of quality of life innovations that iterated off of its core design. And if you don't like it? That's fine.
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
My favorite random fact about Super Metroid is that its in-game map is literally the only "negative" cited about the game in its EGM review.
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Simply, an interactive medium needs to allow for experimentation, expression, and consequence. If your instinct as a designer is to reflexively sand off those edges then I'm not sure why you're making video games instead of movies.
friday soapbox: as a designer, if you want something to be a skillful action for players, and you want growth in this skill to be very deep/meaningful, then you need to also let players be bad at it. sometimes horrendously bad. players hate this pain, and designers often want to mitigate it away.
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Simply, an interactive medium needs to allow for experimentation, expression, and consequence. If your instinct as a designer is to reflexively sand off those edges then I'm not sure why you're making video games instead of movies.
One of my single biggest pet peeves in modern gaming discourse is seeing this act of exclusion framed as "accessibility."
If you're making a game for the players who absolutely need extremely high-frequency nagging barks from an NPC, you're kind of making a game for no one *but* those players
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
One of my single biggest pet peeves in modern gaming discourse is seeing this act of exclusion framed as "accessibility."
Sonic Origins has a bonus mode that removes all the rings and items from S3&K, and I figured I'd finally knock it off the bucket list because I'm a masochist who can no longer feel anything from this game unless I play it in the most painful way ever imagined.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles - No Rings/Items Mode Longplay (Sonic Origins, Classic Mode)
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November 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Sonic Origins has a bonus mode that removes all the rings and items from S3&K, and I figured I'd finally knock it off the bucket list because I'm a masochist who can no longer feel anything from this game unless I play it in the most painful way ever imagined.
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kinda crazy to realize I practiced better op sec as a teenager yahoo searching for "big boobs" on the family desktop than rich people did while doing actual sex crimes
November 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
kinda crazy to realize I practiced better op sec as a teenager yahoo searching for "big boobs" on the family desktop than rich people did while doing actual sex crimes
The reason why the "30% cut!" quips against Valve (of which several replies to this post partake in) don't land with the general public is because consumers are not going to view it as a negative when that money is funneled back into products and services that are attractive to consumers.
I will say this for the Valve announcement: it is refreshing to see a product launch that is just "here's a product that you might want. here's what it is. here's what it does" with absolutely no mention of AI, mysterious future features that might arrive OTA, or some extractive business model.
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The reason why the "30% cut!" quips against Valve (of which several replies to this post partake in) don't land with the general public is because consumers are not going to view it as a negative when that money is funneled back into products and services that are attractive to consumers.
Somebody once pointed out to me that Terminator 2 is shot in such a way that a blind viewer wouldn't actually know that Arnold is the good guy until he confronts the T-1000. In the work itself, this scene is treated like a twist.
But few people go into that movie without knowing it ahead of time.
But few people go into that movie without knowing it ahead of time.
I feel like there's also this element of worshiping the creator's "intended experience" as if there's a truly meaningful element to when you see a trailer for something and it's not just decided by a marketing team
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Somebody once pointed out to me that Terminator 2 is shot in such a way that a blind viewer wouldn't actually know that Arnold is the good guy until he confronts the T-1000. In the work itself, this scene is treated like a twist.
But few people go into that movie without knowing it ahead of time.
But few people go into that movie without knowing it ahead of time.
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There's one example of a successful hostile takeover of a major party - Donald Trump - and it didn't happen by playing nice with the party bigwigs. Trump went to war with them, humiliated them. And now "Little Marco" works for him.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
There's one example of a successful hostile takeover of a major party - Donald Trump - and it didn't happen by playing nice with the party bigwigs. Trump went to war with them, humiliated them. And now "Little Marco" works for him.