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Gene Park with the typically even-handed takes. Honestly I often find him to be a little "too fair" in some of his critiques so the fact that he specifies particular flaws in Stellar Blade is notable.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2024/04/24/stellar-blade-review/

Every time Morph morphs it takes me a second before I realize "Oh yeah Morph's here".

(Tide) - Mori Calliope AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsjr5jFMHkQ

The soul/gospel elements are fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRdhoYqCAQg

This is (more or less) a rather light subject given the mood this past month on the show.

https://twitter.com/arrisonjwarner/status/1783293522889875849

https://twitter.com/mxmimosa/status/1783201990278869414

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8e0b9c8c.jpg

Hiding bodies is simpler than you might expect. As long as they're in a location where Garrett would be invisible (completely darkened Light Gem), they're invisible unless they're touched.

One of the earliest things to learn is that guards in Thief games are bliiiind as heeeellll. Or perhaps Garrett just has a more finely tuned visual acuity than they do.

But they have really great ears and they can detect when footsteps are yours versus when they're the footsteps of other guards lol.

https://twitter.com/skarchomp/status/1783022655618068908

PraetorXyn posted...

Mostly QuickSave and QuickLoad. Manual save fat the start of each level.

This, especially given there's no stage select in the old games.

TroutPaste posted...

Thief games man

Man

https://twitter.com/theOPMeats/status/1782872267493695830

I made one but I'm not proud of it so I'm sharing this one instead.

https://twitter.com/FlippinDingDong/status/1782945728165294222

https://twitter.com/FlippinDingDong/status/1782946105254146380

Torture for whom?

Anyway, the fact that Ms. Hirsi is not destitute on the street isn't the point here. The point is that she engaged in a non-violent protest, exercising her First Amendment rights, and was suspended for it alongside 100 other students. She does not have access to classes, her on-campus housing, or her on-campus dining plan.

She's probably fine, but what of the dozens of others involved in the protest?

Tyranthraxus posted...

What a weird thing to say. Can anyone explain what she means by this?

The NYPD is most likely separating their detainees by assigned sex at birth, not by gender.

If there are gender non-conforming people in the group, that'd be what would indicate such a statement.

If there were any trans women in the group of protestors, the would have been thrown in with the men.

Have you had both of those?

I know you're good for it. :)

Like I'm not super proud of my online relationship. She's a real nice person and still is, but I was just so excited that a girl liked video games and anime like I did and she responded to my flirting.

I clung to that rather than be real-life social.

bsp77 posted...

I have seen a couple times where someone has said that they have had girlfriends (didn't say "online") and then also reveal that they have never kissed a girl. It's clearly not the same. It is like someone saying they have had a girlfriend before, only to find out it was in kindergarten and they just pushed each other over on the playground.

I wouldn't call it a solidly defined term to begin with. The way I figure, if you can say in public "I have a girlfriend" and she can say "I am their girlfriend" then you've got a girlfriend, and it doesn't need to be any more specific than that.

I know this sounds like I am making fun of it all, but I am not. There is nothing wrong with it, and sometimes it can lead to something in-person in time. But it IS different prior to actually meeting.

Yeah I don't think anyone was suggesting it's not different.

So yeah, I am arguing semantics and probably sounding really condescending in the process.

Maybe a little, but I'm just trying to explain it in terms of my own experience. It's less about kissing or sex or proximity as it is an intimacy between the two people involved. Being able to share things they wouldn't share with other friends.

bsp77 posted...

But I think it is weird to use the term "girlfriend" for someone you have never met.

It's a case of semantics, honestly. Using the term is believing you've earned the right to use the term along with everyone else who uses the term, ie. people with relationships. It's that big social pressure to be someone who is in a relationship.

A different word is needed IMO. Maybe I am just old lol

Well there's the adjective "online". I think that'd cover it.

bsp77 posted...

Can someone explain to me how someone can have a girlfriend they never met in person?

It's easy when you're young with no experience and can't conceptualize what an actual relationship is supposed to entail (as it was in my case).

But it largely consists of frequent daily conversations and words of affirmation.

DoesntMatter posted...

yeah back in middle school on AIM

Oh yes I forgot to mention that for my online gf communication was primarily over AIM. What a moment in time that was.

I think my first could be considered an online girlfriend in the classic sense. It was some time before we finally met up, but then we were quite young. This was back in the early 2000s.

Chicka-chickaaaaa

For those of you unfamiliar the pace of the old X-Men series was FUCKING FAST.

To quote Joel Robinson of MST3K "Man what I wouldn't give to see that cub's mom show up."

Banned for hornyposting.

She's wearing Ares eye makeup. >_>

Fenriswolf posted...

Because Hades is a great game in its own right, as opposed to a game where fanservice is the selling point.

By all accounts Stellar Blade is a solid game but the incels had to get downright weird about Eve from the jump.

Saying she's sexy is one thing. Saying that "this is the stuff the West is too afraid to do" is another and zeroing on her skinsuit and her ass crack as she climbs around is just too damn telling.

trivialbeing posted...

it's funny how the people praising Hades 2 are the same ones complaining about Stellar Blade

Which "people" would that be?

thronedfire2 posted...

I'm pretty sure we can link to Fandom's own wiki

That's her design in 1.

Sorry for the double. Just can't believe I JUST found this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_uB51ZuCy0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_90FVz6Los8

TIGHT

Hayame_Zero posted...

She's completely naked in the first game...and somehow is showing even more skin in the second one.

She's actually wearing more in 2.

Vambraces, greaves, and she's carrying a spear and shield.

Which I feel I shouldn't post.

andri_g posted...

Keeping with the spirit of the original cartoon, this is the moment right before the spray funnel catches on-fire and causes the compressed gases in the cylinder to explode.

Unfortunately for this comic, that is not the responsible action.

Banned for hornynaming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVIsnOfNfCo

A vital program that several states are pulling people out of, sometimes without even telling them!

Welcome to your weekly Depression Watch.

Also talking produce.

Xerun posted...

Pretty fun episode although took me a while to get onboard with Charles being rescued by space birds. Felt for the first time like I needed to watch the original series again

It was literally one of the last things to happen in the old series. The world believes Xavier is dead but they were very particular to note that he was taken off-planet by the Shi'ar to be healed.

Still that episode very much treated the whole affair as if he was dying for realsies.

Honestly I suggest watching like a half-hour recap of the series on YT. You'll get the salient points.

This is the one I watched:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiIYSipWf4s

I love how no matter the circumstances, Charles never misses a beat to be a pretentious asshole. XD

I mean, at least it's being aimed at worse assholes.

Also YES @ Storm's classic black.