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I'm saying no just because he revealed just how fucking broken our entire country is. Turns out you can basically just make yourself a super king and destroy anything you want if you're a brazen enough president, and most of the guard rails in place to stop that can't really be enforced.

So the major problem is that it just takes 1 Republican president after Trump to step back in and immediately demolish any kind of recovery that you get going post-Trump.

Tbh I don't see how you come back from it without like totally restructuring the entire government so that there are actual checks in place.

The Coffee Table is pretty fucked up in its own right.

Genuinely shocked, but also relieved.

Get fucked, Kim Davis.

That miserable shrew has spent a decade of her life trying to fight so that other people can't be happy, and she has nothing to show for it. Hilarious.

I feel like this should be career ending for anyone who caved. They gave up any political leverage they had for literally nothing and let Republicans have their way with shredding healthcare for tons of people.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Has Newsom even officially announced a run for President?

No, but it's quite obvious that he's gearing up for it.

"Mental illness" is a fucking insidious one.

They can use common as hell things like anxiety and depression as grounds for this. Just evil.

Tenten was my favorite character in that show and it wasn't even close.

Project X Zone.

I went back and forth on it, but was ultimately won over by the cool cast and flashy animations.

I absolutely hated it. It was the most dry strategy game I've ever played and the individual fights within the maps were all the same and just got old fast.

I tried to hang in there with it, but I couldn't finish it.

Tax prep companies really getting their money's worth out of their massive donations/lobbying.

It's really impressive how fucking broken our systems are and how nobody really cares.

Unfortunately speaks volumes about his character. Just really gross all around.

Top tier movie. Love it.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Mouthwashing

Came to say this one, it's like 3-3.5 hours long and I really liked its story.

I vote to pay me $1 trillion.

Tesla has one day to comply.

Zero shot, healthcare companies have way too much sway in politics to ever make it even halfway viable.

It's not going to like, magically fix the country, but it's rad to get some good news politically for the first time in a while.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9fa8f53a.png

From what I've heard, the Hell House series just kind of keeps getting worse as it goes. Which is a shame, the first one is honestly a really good movie.

Triple Triad is fun, but I love FF8 for its cast, OST, battle system, and great setpieces.

A really small part of me is like, morbidly curious about how this would even go.

Like NYC is a fucking massive center of commerce, would they even...care...?

Yule Log 2

Project X Zone just shows a bunch of cool characters doing flashy combos and kinda glosses over the fact that it's the most bland, nothing strategy game ever made.

I loved it honestly.

It's more about just seeing where it goes and experiencing it blind. Seeing it shift around between perspectives and tones and just going along for the ride was a lot of fun.

I also think that Aunt Gladys is an all timer horror villain. She's just so much fun.

Idk, of the two brand new horror movies I saw this year (along with Sinners), I preferred Sinners, but I enjoyed both and didn't regret getting out to a theater to watch either one.

Good.

It's sad to say, but copyright law and bigger corporations are probably our best hope to take AI down. It feels kind of gross, because big corporations are generally pretty awful, but AI is that much worse. The enemy of my enemy is my friend in this case.

Death Parade.

Forever sad it never got another season. I feel like the setup was there to continue it, it just didn't happen. Excellent show though.

That's really fucking sad, jeez.

Also terrifying to think that one screw up like that can fuck you up that badly.

It's a really technical series that's nowhere near as flashy as other fighting games. It honestly comes off as just boring until you learn it and it clicks.

A friend bought me VF5 ages ago and it took a while for me to really enjoy it. Once I got into it, it was a fun time, but I had to really sit down with it for a while to get there.

It's just hard for it to stand out compared to other FGs. Even if you just narrow it down to just 3D fighters, Soul Calibur and Tekken are a lot flashier and more accessible.

As far as I can tell, Amazon is sort of moving away from physical games in general.

I've seen several games in the past few months that either don't seem to stock much and sell out fast, or just take a while to ship after release. It feels like they don't really care that much about physical games at this point, sadly.

I have intensely mixed feelings about the entire movie honestly.

Scream is my favorite horror movie series and I've honestly enjoyed every single movie in it to some extent.

But man does the Melissa Barrera situation just cast such a cloud over this one.

Idk how to feel about it. On a lot of levels, I just blame Spyglass and feel bad for the actors/writers/director of the movie, but I also can't deny that it just makes the entire movie feel kind of gross in its own way.

I guess I just hope that the movie turns out good, but I also don't think I'm going to go support it in theaters and may not watch it at all. It'd be nice if something would happen that would allow for Melissa to return in a hypothetical 8 and for this entire situation to just be resolved somewhat cleanly, but that feels overly optimistic.

Remake FF8, but like, not as a trilogy. I'm really not impressed with FF7R's structure thus far.

Rantman posted...

the thing I feel everyone has to remember: these kinds of twitter posters are not in it for sitcoms. they're there to advertise AI.

it's always to advertise AI. this whole topic is an ad.

I'm as anti-AI as you can get.

It looks like shit and it's amusing to laugh about it. That's it. Don't try to twist this topic into anything more than that.

Though I have no doubt that the Twitter poster unironically thinks it looks great.

https://x.com/techhalla/status/1983079291937022015

Honestly, funniest video that I've seen in a while. It starts as a weird Friends ripoff and devolves into some bizarre cosmic horror video with people growing guitars out of their backs and a girl performing mitosis.

Death Parade or AoT

PeteyParker posted...

Why even have the Hatch Act or laws of any kind anymore when clearly they are useless?

It turns out that when the entire government is held together by the assumption that people will just kinda follow laws and be good, it doesn't amount to much.

It's a big reason why people are so cynical about anything post Trump. We've kind of learned that the entire government was held together by paper clips, and it doesn't take much for the next Republican to just hop in and ignore a bunch of laws too.

I wish that I could adequately explain how pissed I am. I knew it was coming, but just the raw frustration of knowing that I'm about to have one of my rights stolen from me while half of the country cheers for it is just too overwhelming for words.

I'm in a red state, so uh, RIP. I need to double down on looking for work outside of my state and just getting the fuck out of here, I guess.

Really fun movie.

I was considering it, but I heard pretty middling things, so...ehhh, probably not.

I feel like this video is what it would feel like to have a stroke.

tri-sapphire posted...

That's the launch notes. This is the upcoming patch:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1145350/view/505090299391902119

Ah, whoops. I had the right page earlier, then decided to post it here, re-Googled it to grab the link, and must have gone to the wrong page by mistake and just grabbed that link without realizing the mixup.

My bad. I feel silly.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1145350/view/512967793587520047

New patch notes.

SaikyoStyle posted...

Nah. Repurpose it into something useful that MAGA would really hate.

Wedding chapel exclusively for gay marriages.

lmao

It's what they get. They basically went "BUAHAHAHA WE ACTUALLY HATED GAY PEOPLE ALL ALONG!" at the first possible opportunity and then everyone told them to fuck off. I'm just going to sit back and watch them continue to crash and burn.

(For what it's worth, though, I do feel bad for the employees. I just like seeing the shitty corporation go up in flames)

The House in Fata Morgana

Best story I've ever experienced, honestly.

They're good, though I personally think that FE peaked with Tellius.

I feel like I'm being old for it, but I will admit that Awakening, Fates, and Engage just feel a bit too cartoony for me. TH did at least take itself seriously though, and I'll give Fates credit for having very good gameplay amid the incredibly silly plot.

Specifically about Halloween in particular, or horror movies in general?

I'm assuming the latter, but I'd feel silly recommending stuff that's not at all Halloween themed when that's what you were after.

https://youtu.be/G0Cj6tGnaK8?si=pMMDsv71Qk46K8Ea&t=1194

There's a tiny tiny bit more to the story that adds a bit more context. Though whether you judge the school for it or not is up to you.

Edit: Oh, GFAQs embeds don't work with timestamps, apparently? It's mentioned at 19:55 if anyone is curious.

Reminds me of the time I was housesitting by myself and someone stepped onto my parents' front deck around 2am. I'm pretty sure they tried outright opening the door, because I heard the handle jiggle a bit amid my parents' dogs raising hell.

I should have called the cops, but whoever it was seemingly ran off pretty quickly, probably after hearing the dogs. I kind of shudder to think about what they were planning if it wasn't locked.

Regardless, glad your situation resolved peacefully enough.

TMS is like the most average game I've ever played. I couldn't muster up any strong feelings about it either way.

I will say that I wouldn't recognize it as anything even loosely related to FE without the overt references. Even the cameo characters don't really feel all that similar to who they're referencing.

6, 8, 9, 10.

https://x.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/1978753604375736680

Made me tear up a bit honestly. Really sad.

https://x.com/wario64/status/1978723327435763751?s=46

That's really sad. He was only 58.