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Good. Those guys are ****ing insane.

Its bananas when in the same sentence these guys can be both Pro-Palestine and Anti-Ukraine. There's no beliefs there, just anti "anything US"

Is the Steam deck more expensive? The Switch 2 is way more expensive where I am. You have to fully max out the Steam Deck to come close to buying a Switch 2 here.

Srk700 posted...

If its something like just play like 1-3 ranked matches, win or lose, it wouldnt be so bad. But given that only Greninja gets one on day 1 and the other 2 release later on, I get the feeling that wont be the case.

Also wouldnt surprise me if they go even scummier and give you an alternative way of getting them by buying the DLC.

This is how GF has done it in the past, though the rewards were way less important than otherwise-exclusive Mega Stones. Basically participation trophies in that if you could do literally one battle, you'd earn it. And the "competitive" VGC used to be a series of month-long events, so I get putting Chesnaught/Delphox later.

GF has already done the exclusive Mega Stone thing, with XY giving early players a free Torchic with Blazikenite (which would otherwise not be available at all until the next games, ORAS). I wouldn't be surprised if this is similar. Honestly I'm surprise GF even cares about a potential online battles with their weird alt battle system from this game. They didn't for PLA.

jefffan posted...

Asked by a reporter to clarify whether she believed that Simmons was worried about retaliation in this case, Nessel said she believed "it's likely that in some circumstances, there are judges out there that think about the threats they've received" as well as Trump's power, then decide not to challenge the president or his supporters. She did not clarify whether she believed this sentiment applied to Simmons' decision.

So... they were dismissed due to fear of retaliation.

This is just an acknowledgement that the game is already over.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Does anyone have any clue what the chat bot is talking about?

Probably Silksong - has a bit of an overly punishing early game with a lot of characters that seemingly deal double damage for no reason - which is a lot when you have like 4 life and few of the upgrades and stuff.

A Final Fantasy series where like, each season covers a game or so could be really fun - but I don't have a ton of faith in it. A lot of stuff is exactly the kind of filler that works in a game, because you're actively a part of the story, but wouldn't in a TV/Movie.

Hotline Miami could be fun, in a weird kind of trippy way.

Plants vs. Zombies could be a really fun animated movie. Doubt it has enough to stretch into a full series though.

You could probably do a fun Wolfenstein movie.

wanderingshade posted...

Cenk probably believes it because he got tankie pilled about "imperialists" and now "9/11 was an inside job" confirms his biases.

A few years ago TYT was basically out of money, and then they started grifting. It wasn't even subtle there. They just ran out of money and saw the profit in the Trump train. Which is funny, because its way too late to jump on the Trump Train and expect literally any value.

Absolutely bananas that they're actually playing along here. It's not like "Loser who's barely still relevant makes 9/11 truther documentary" is even newsworthy. If they did this story 5 years ago, they'd be making fun of Tucker desperately trying to cling to relevance since being kicked from Fox News.

All something like this really shows is that TYT barely had any integrity to begin with.

The Supreme Court has just ruled Trump can hit the "blow up the economy" button another hundred times, because its not happening fast enough.

There's no coming back from this - the court has just ruled the USD is now not to be trusted - which is currently the thing propping up the entire global economy. Like this will be worse than the Great Depression.

I mean, I'm all for this - this isn't really that big of a difficulty lowering to begin with.

I noticed with Hollow Knight some of the things that did double damage didn't really make that much sense, or were sometimes seemingly out of left field, making exploring with 2 points of life unnecessarily nerve-wracking. Which did nothing to make the game more engaging, but more frustrating when I don't have a heal, and just go "well how TF was I supposed to know that would deal double damage?"

And like, who even cares if you aren't a "hardcore gamer" - if you can play well enough to actually have fun and get through the game, a few things doing slightly less damage isn't that big of a deal IMO.

The "story" of Hollow Knight is super vague and mostly set decoration you don't need to worry about, so if you want you can probably jump straight into Silksong.

Supposedly the gameplay of Silksong is different enough that a lot of people are not having fun, because playing the game "hollow knight style" is very punishing. So it might be better to jump straight into Silksong if you haven't played Hollow Knight yet as it is.

But also - Hollow Knight is real good.

Its not just vaccines, they're going after literally every kind of medicine.

https://youtu.be/CxVXvFOPIyQ?si=oivLHpd9vGsdPQMK

Link because TC didn't provide.

Anyways, I haven't watched it yet either, but it is still on the list. Might watch it this afternoon. IDK what RT is, but a quick google gave me some very pro-Russia (and anti-Ukraine) "news" sites?

Haven't played in about a week. Have definitely lost what little ability I had.

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I definitely believe he had some kind of health scare last week.

Its not like he had anything important to say today, it was just to get him out and on camera. And dude could still barely stand up.

NocturneD85 posted...

Trump would probably pull a Jojos Bizzare Adventure and put his head on a stronger body to live another 100 years.

Something about being pure evil manages to keep you around forever.

Have they made Monster Hunter Wilds remotely playable on console yet?

I remember buying it on Steam, because I downloaded the benchmark thing they have and it said "yeah your PC can run this" - my PC could not run it.

I think at least a little of this is on the Rock? I remember the rumours at the time was stuff like "Rock must be the main character" and "Rock can never lose a fight" - and IIRC that's part of the reason he got booted from the Fast/Furious movies.

I think he's right that he's being more limited in those movies, but also largely because he's the main character. As the main character, you need to carry the whole movie, and if that movie costs $200 Million, You aren't gonna be allowed to take many creative liberties.

It's not like Rock doesn't have actual acting chops. Him turning heel when he made a WWE return last year was fantastic, and he has been the lead in a 5-season long HBO show, where he was fine.

That's sort of the difference between Rock's movie career and Cena/Batista's IMO. Cena/Batista are pretty much always the supporting character instead of the main one (and even with stuff like Peacemaker, it started with Cena being a supporting character in Suicide Squad), which gives them a ton more room to do new things and show more range.

BlackScythe0 posted...

??? It wasn't ending then and we are still in the same ice age we simply exist in an interglacial period.

We're in a different interglacial period than we were during the Younger-Dryas. The collapse of the AMOC during the YD brought temperatures down like 15 degrees, and ended that interglacial period, and created another glacial period - that lasted like 1000 years.

It is literally one of the most significant events since the last Glacial Maximum.

They want to return to 2 centuries ago, when everyone had to have 9 kids, because you'd low-key expect 6 of them to die before becoming adults.

That or, a fundamental part of whatever Trump considers "Great America" was the Iron Lung. Wouldn't be surprised if they brought lobotomies back.

Fun fact: The last time the AMOC collapsed was the Younger-Dryas ~12,100 years ago - which isone of the most significant geological events of recent history. The Ice Age was coming to an end and this event basically restarted it for over 1000 years.

PBS video if anyone wants to spend 10 minutes and learn what happened last time:
https://youtu.be/95u2sk_lRoQ?si=ePhJHh1roTm6_b84

Dio posted...

I still don't believe Trump will seriously run again. He doesn't need too when he can play kingmaker from behind. He can spend the remainder of his life in luxury doing book talks and MAGA rallys for his cult. By the time his second terms ends he's going to be in his 80s.

Trump isn't going to be willing to ever share the spotlight - that would require everything not being focused on him. The Government running without him and him basically just being there to have everyone tell him he's gooiest most special-es boy is pretty much what he's already doing now.

It's been made clear conservatives don't really care if Trump is mentally there or not. Trump is never leaving the White House. If we're lucky he dies and the whole place falls apart without him, because most other conservatives also can't hide the fact that they're evil monsters, but don't have the relative charisma of Trump to at least distract with being interesting.

feraldrgn posted...

Weird, the whole point was that the user was responsible for if their device became infected due to installing stuff outside of the Google store.
What's the point?
Is this a universal thing so even Samsung phones will be affected?

Yep. Every Android phone. It'll be a software update, so even your current Android phone will have this.

Might kick off a spree for new smartphone OSes that never really took off. Samsung used to be trying to get their own unique OS, before they just gave up and kept Android - maybe that'll come back.

Ivany2008 posted...

ios will never be better than Android. Apple phones by default are at least 3 generations behind any Android phone. Also, just noting that while Google may remove this feature from its play store, Androids can have the option to go 3rd party.

But it isn't Play Store specific - it's Android specific. There aren't alternatives to running Android on your phone.

Makes me think of this stupid YouTube video I saw like 10 years ago and I for some reason can't get out of my head. Its from like a TV show or something I've never seen, and I don't know why this has stuck in my head so vividly.

https://youtu.be/Nrcg5iIE0BA?si=ngAIpiwXa-vXmeWN

FL81 posted...

I was so deep into the hype, that I actually went to go see Meet the Spartans at the movie theater

I still maintain that it wasn't as bad of a movie as people say >_>

Same. I had a ton of fun watching it in the theatre, but I'm terrified of watching the movie again, because I can't imagine it was actually any good, I was just like 12 and the theatre was full of people laughing at it.

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Man I was doing pretty well up until that last few checkpoints. But while I was doing this someone finished with a score of 150, so I can't be that upset at my score.

I mean, there might not be a literal piece of paper out there that just says "People Epstein worked with on the whole child sex trafficking thing", but she's just flat out pretending that nothing shady was ever happening, and that's obviously not true.

LightSnake posted...

She was reportedly willing to say this during the Biden admin. She's a perjurer and serial killer,why should we believe her on anything?

Leave her in prison

The reason she isn't dead like Epstein is that Ghislaine has shown she's more than happy to just take the fall here. Of course she won't rat anyone out - if she was ever going to, she'd have been killed too. She knows she's still alive so she can save Trump's ass, we're just gonna have to see if anyone actually buys it.

Especially because Trump doesn't really want to hide from the Epstein stuff - he wants to brag about it. Just like he bragged about tax fraud and bribery and all that jazz. That's what the aristocrats do, and Trump has been desperate to be in that circle literally his whole life.

The fascist takeover of America is gonna be ****ing easier than it was in Germany Jesus.

SAlYAN posted...

So far, they've urged not to talk about the military takeover, not to talk about the gestapo kidnapping people, not to talk about the epstein files, not to talk about hegseth's drinking, not to talk about unsecured defense communications...

... what ARE we allowed to talk about?

Apparently, nothing. Just roll over and take it.

I remember downloading the demo for I am Alive in like 2011 and thinking it was so cool and really wanting to play the full game.

Then I never did. I even bought it a little while ago when I saw it on sale for like $2. Just still haven't bothered.

... what?

I like that Nick Cage is so willing to just do like, whatever. He always puts 110% effort into everything, no matter how odd or B-movie he's doing.

s0nicfan posted...

It doesn't necessarily have to be a gun. Just some use of human technology that Wizards don't understand that Voldemort would underestimate.

But I would also accept "parry this" as a one-liner.

Man, I think it'd be really fun if we had like, some kid go to Hogwarts, but he just breaks the whole system because he sneaks his iPhone into school with him.

IIRC, the end of Harry Potter takes place in like, the late 90s? It'd be fun if Voldy went all Avada Kedavra, and it was just like, blocked by someone's Walk Man.

Man, I wonder what the MAGA crowd thinks when you tell them Trump is following the Soviet Union's playbook here.

He's just not saying "people's" as much.

It's a remake of Grand Bazaar on the DS from like 15 years ago. Supposedly its a really popular game, but also one of the ones I never ended up playing.

I'm semi-excited for it - definitely gonna give it a try. Though a little disappointed we still haven't gotten a new SoS since PoOT.

I doubt he'd be able to secretly "hide" from the public eye - dude really wanted to be in focus, I can't imagine he'd just quietly chill out in Argentina if he wasn't dead at the end of WWII.

Like, imagine if the MAGA movement collapsed - do you think Trump would be happy quietly living out the rest of his days in Russia, people thinking he's dead? No way, dude would in no way be able to just stay out of the limelight like that.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


In theory, he's not supposed to let his "political" views get in the way of doing public work. The same way that woman who was blocking gay marriage certificates in Kentucky or wherever shouldn't be allowed to.

Of course, that's not actually how it works, and that woman who was blocking gay marriage certificates is likely going to be allowed to do that again, and I don't know if I would consider "This minority being discriminated against is valid" is a very political take.

HashtagSEP posted...

https://waxy.org/2025/08/will-smiths-concert-crowds-were-real-but-ai-is-blurring-the-lines/

It's real, it's from multiple different concerts though, apparently, and they think a few scenes might be from real photos but put through an AI image-to-video filter. And then Youtube filtering is also apparently super weird.

Yeah Youtube adds a stupid AI filter to everything, supposedly under the impression eventually they'll just be able to only have AI jank on their platform and they can stop like, paying people who make stuff on there.

Wasn't Hitler known for being pretty stupid? Like they took advantage of their neighbours being wholly underdeveloped, but once they started fighting on similar levels they started losing ground everywhere.

And similar to Trump, everyone was afraid to break any bad news to Hitler which kept letting him make stupid military decisions.

If Trump keels over, I have zero belief that Vance would be able to keep the MAGA cult together, and that would probably cause the whole country to implode within itself.

Honestly, Trump is pretty good at keeping people out of his spotlight - I doubt anyone has enough charisma to actually inherit Trump's cult.

lol even the comments on the video are calling out its AI.

So it sounds like you should probably not get the Switch2 version of most of these multi-platform games?

I mean... No? That seems pretty obvious.

Yeah its not gonna go that way.

I do think its pretty embarrassing that apparently ICE has such low standards a 60 year old washed up celebrity begging for attention can apparently run ICE's obstacle course.

And like, it's on the official ICE twitter page - means that this is something they want to brag about. So its not like Cain didn't fail this test miserably like it looks like he should have.

Westernwolf4 posted...

Project 2025 was right there for everyone to read. And, during a whole first term and decades in public life before that, Trump was screaming exactly who he was through a bullhorn. I have no sympathy for any Trump voter or non-voter.

Heck, Trump's 2024 campaign was "I will crash the economy and commit a genocide".

Nothing was subtle here - everyone should have known exactly what they were walking into by choosing to vote for Trump or not vote at all.

tbf, most of the MAGA crowd has been wanting a dictator to allow specifically just the things they want since like, Slavery was abolished.

The time Trump wants to return America to is when way more people died to currently-preventable diseases, so I guess it makes sense to start returning that as well.

I would bet that if Trump ate a person, it was because some rich guy he was riding the coattails of in the 80s told him that's the kind of stuff Trump wasn't important enough to join in on as a joke, and Trump didn't understand and did it anyways to show he was really one of the upper echelon.

Isnt that just what socks are for?

Its pretty funny that these guys just have literally nothing to hit Mamdani with.

I don't know if its just completely out of touch, or are just already scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

LightSnake posted...

Bad Empanada is a psychotic antisemite who literally believes every Jew in Israel should be killed. He's said Noam Chomsky has "ethnic allegiance" to Israel and has advocated for Jews to be put in "reeducation camps" so they won't be Zionists anymore.

He's also a pretty notorious drama-farmer. Dude is always throwing as much shit as he can at every wall and begging for some attention.

We've seen with a lot of cults once the original leader dies the whole movement either fizzles out, or another more charismatic leader takes over and everything becomes way bigger.

It doesn't seem like anyone is capable of moving Trump, but I feel like without Trump being deranged we'll really put the whole "blow up society" thing to like, Mach 5.

So i watched the guy's video where all of this is alleged, and doesn't quite seem like as huge a thing as the title suggests, at least until more information comes out, or if we actually see anything come out from this dude calling the police.

I don't know if its leftover "I briefly watched Destiny like 10 years ago", but it does come off as less "Destiny is a pedo" compared "Destiny should have spoken to like a lawyer or something but didn't because he's a contrarian dick who thinks he's smarter than you".

But the whole story (so far):

• Destiny has a bunch of porn from this girl he was sexting with. He says she thought she was 19, but in reality she was 17. The screenshot the guy shares to prove this has this girl at like, 17.5.
• Destiny is involved in some kind of legal battle with this girl, or around this situation, and therefore thought he was unable to just delete it. I don't know if that counts as a good explanation.
• Everyone already hates Destiny (which is totally fair) so is more than happy to jump on the hate bandwagon.

Humble_Novice posted...

Indeed. Didn't Vaush get caught with CP and horse smut in his PC?

I think just horse-smut. Supposedly at least (idk I didn't look farther into it) the CP is just an intentional over-exaggeration because most of the online left has an irrationally-large hate boner for him.

I played it around when it came out and remember it positively, but the most I've thought about it since was the hbomberguy video.

Since i mentioned it, here's a 3.5 hour video saying Deus Ex Human Revolution is fine if anyone wants it for whatever reason
https://youtu.be/bgJazjz9ZsA?si=RhByckecvmRMXyBF