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Dabir posted:I don't drink. When still i did though i tried whiskey one time. I liked it so much i over indulged, woke up to a 24 hour long hangover and ever since then jusr the smell of it makes me feel ill.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Twitter update: Elon lost the vote and then didn’t post for 8 hours or so, presumably trying to think of a way to get out of it. Then he found one! He really did think that putting up a 'should i step down' poll up after making everyone mad by briefly unilateraly banning puting links in tweets would bolster his support. Like oh no i hosed up again but everyone still loves me right? There was no plan to step down, no replacement Ceo to smooth things over, no plan to unload this concrete necklace thats dragging Tesla's share prices down with him. He's going to turn twitter into his own personal fart chamber, where the only voices heard are the ones that are telling him how great huffing his farts are because he loves it when people do that. Thats all this is.
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Tesseraction posted:tbh if there's one utility to twitter it's the unbridled access to make otherwise untouchable people miserable
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As bad as baddiel is in most contexts he was genuinely entertaining on taskmaster in the same way its fun watching a westling heel get bodyslammed. The task were he was asked to write a song was amazing, he proudly boasted about his chart topping footy song then hashed out some poo poo in ten minutes that saw him take last place. His team tasks with Jo Brand were top tier too, a great double act of 'doesn't understand' and 'doesn't give a poo poo'. Incidentally corren mitchel had similar heel energy imo, i can't ride a bike either tbf but her smarmy poo poo wordplay getting the reception it deserved was funny as hell. The only reason i'm looking forward to the next series despite the lineup is that you get to see these people outside of their usual carefully created contexts. And sometimes that means you see a poo poo revealed to be a lot less clever than they present themselves and sometimes its like when that guy from the Chase also revealed themselves to be like actually really funny and charming at being crap when the gameshow format i'd seen him in previously made him out to be a tiresome poo poo.
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Only Kindness posted:Early on in his career, Baddiel did a routine where he lamented that no-one could get his name right, calling him things like Bladdybub and Bluddyburp. I've had people have trouble with my surname even though it's literally a common noun and a type of bean* before but i really struggle to see how anyone would mispronounce 'diel' as 'bub' or 'burp'. Did he change his name or is the joke just poo poo? *yes i've doxed myself my surname is 'upthebackside' ofc.
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Rarity posted:I just don't expect every game to be beatable, personally The thing i think people have trouble understanding is that someone who is half as good at videogames would find bennet foddy or whatever exactly as satisfying to complete if it was half as dificult.
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All games should have cheats and level skips. Theres also a very clear distinction between a game asking a disabled person to do something impossible vs an able bodied person getting bored at a challenge they could pass with a lot of effort. In both cases though it would be better if they could skip that bit of the game. Theres something very selfish to me about talking about your own personal experience of satisfaction at beating a challenge perfectly tuned to your ability as if thats the most important thing in the world, like not having the option to make the game easier made it more meaningful for you so that option should be denied to others. More options is more good. Those who want the intended experience can have it and those who don't might just need some training wheels for a while.
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Its genuinely really funny how mad people get at the idea of games having cheats and difficulty modes. I've never seen getting stuck on a qte compared to failing to understand the ending of 2001 before tho lol a lot to unpack there. Ah dang i failed the intellect check and the space baby tripped over and now i gotta watch the last ten minutes again! For any other artform the idea that you must consume the piece in the exact manner and context the artist intended would be seen as an extreme stance btw and it seems especialy weird for an artform built around interactivity, where your own experience is going to be unique anyway. Art doesn't end at the author's intention, its just one way of engaging with it. With games i think its better to allow more people to engage, theres so much more to them, so much design, art, music and story. Games are wonderful, why you all gotta get mad about the idea of people playing them wrong? Like if someone just happens to nail Bennet Foddy on their first go? Never fell once? That's clearly not the intended experience, would you get mad at that guy? If someone with bad reflexes played the game at 50% speed, still fell a bunch then eventually triumphed wouldn't they have had an experience closer to the artist's intention? This is why talking about art and intention doesn't make any sense to me, difficulty is subjective, the artist doesn't actually have control of how hard any specific person will find their game. Giving the player more control would lead to a greater number of people having something closer to the intended experience. Celeste has mad cheats but before you get access to them theres a message from the developers. Its the best take on this stuff i've seen in a game imo. "Assist Mode allows you to modify the game’s rules to fit your specific needs. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience. If the default game proves inaccessible to you, we hope that you can still find that experience with Assist Mode.”
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Mega Comrade posted:Well congrats because you still haven't seen it. I was asking if Miyazaki's claim that the challenge in souls games is intrinsic to his "art" is similar to how Kubrick made many of his films challenging to understand to engage the audience, and that this was clearly not the same as some qte. This is also ignoring the fact that these aren't just pure experiential artworks too, they're entertainment products. If i paid 60 quid for a game and i couldn't get anywhere in it that would suck a lot. You're right the conversation always gets nasty on this subject, but i don't see why the side thats been telling a disabled person its good and right they shouldn't be included for like 5 pages is only just coming to that conclusion. When i say games should let players of all skill levels experience them i'm not enforcing my facist art will on poor auteur game artists, the consequence of games not doing that just means i think they are badly designed and short sighted.
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jacksbrat posted:Or another pope.
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Rappaport posted:In season 1 Buffy drowns in a shallow puddle, because the prophecy says she dies. Then Xander and Angel burst in, and Xander revives her. But because of Slayer rules, a few episodes later they meet a sassy, African slayer who shows up and almost slays Angel What i'm hearing is we should be repeatedly drowning and reviving king charles to activate the maximum amount of royalty at once. Back to back coronations from now until the end of time, what a boon to the commemorative plates industry!
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She was awakened because Buffy was dead, you see. Slayers and royalty work via weird quantum mechanics magic (as per Pratchett), but Popes are still plain old ordinary elected 
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:I admit I don't keep up to date on all political news but I'm wondering if I've missed something and if Keith is now a tory. And thank god after the awful boris johnson we have an opposition leader willing to say anything to get elected, what a breath of fresh air from the arrogant corrupt liars we've had in charge up until now.
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I don't want to be a politician says person apointed to a political organization on entirely spurious ideological grounds
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1965917 posted:Its ok to lie as long as its to people I don't like. He so obviously wanted people to call the party 'CH(ange)UK' but everyone just called them CUK instead. Really good stuff. Mr Phillby fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Jan 8, 2023 |
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keep punching joe posted:What the gently caress? Is this real? Is this what twitter is like now? I can't belive this is how i found out that adolf hitlers actual birthday is 4/20 I would also like to know wtf this is, i m on twitter and i don't think this us a feature. Its increasingly unstable and buggy since musk fired all the coders but i still think it would have told me about the premium currency seemingly being used there Edit: oh okay its just a weird ai app lol One particularly bizare thing about twitter these days is that the promoted tweets with videos have completely unrelated adverts playing over them so you'll get a minecraft ad imbedded in a life insurance ad and i have no idea why it should be like that Mr Phillby fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Jan 18, 2023 |
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Trump was loving pro universal healthcare during the 2016 election lol it was a very effective tactic because he went to the left of the democrats highlighting how poo poo they were to their own supporters, whereas the psychopaths who wanted him in charge largely didn't care that he was blatantly, blatantly not going to do any of the things he was promising to do. Blatantly reusing Trump's rhetoric is just Labour saying the quiet part out loud, they will say what they think the public wants to hear and then do whatever they want once in power. It also poisons the water for any future actual anti corruption platform, shielding them from consequences from all the corruption they are planning to do.
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Very late to this but I watched Glass Onion and it was good. Its remarkable how Daniel Craig went from 'boring gritty james bond with none of the silly charm of the dodgy 90s Bond i grew up with' to 'guy so based that he only agreed to be in the last bond film if they literally annihilated him into atoms at the end' to 'specifically my exact taste in fuctional detective, also he's gay probably'. On balance i liked Knives out's story a bit more but i am here for more Benoit Blanc movies especially knowing that the mildest jabs at billionares and right wing youtubers absolutely boil the likes of ben shaperio's piss. Its very funny that the moral of 'you shouldn't disrupt the energy market with dangerous untested hydrogen fuel' was enough to upset them, the movie literally opposes the bad capitalists with the wronged good one, leftist propaganda it is not.
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Archaeology Hat posted:Tbf there's also the billionaire character being an opportunistic leech who got where he is explicitly in the text of the film by taking credit for other people's work and not through being brilliant or particularly hard working. I can see that, but i feel like a really leftist movie would have had more to say about the wronged party essentially being the co-founder of amazon (the movie kinda side steps that issue i guess). Capitalism itself isn't bad, its a specific kind of disruptive capitalism and underhanded tactics that are the issue. I guess its just another example of right wingers performatively losing their mind at something that barely scratches the surface of criticising them. I do wonder if it was the youtube lady saying she didn't want to go into right wing influencer territory as it was 'kinda a shitshow' that really got their goat though lol
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Private Speech posted:Apparently he's accused of serious and persistent domestic violence and false imprisonment, so the **** can rot for all I care, I don't want to hear from him again. It is extremely funny that Rick and Morty canned the guy despite him voicing both Rick and Morty and being co-creator and co-writer. They might as well just make a different show at this point. It cannot be overstated how much of rick and morty was justin roiland playing all three characters on screen using the two voices he could do.
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You can tell theres a lot of american far right backing to the 15 minute city conspiracy as restricting the hours a car can use a road using cameras and fines is equivalent to erecting those force fields the Combine use in half life 2 to them.
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Lilt has had a little 'by Fanta' badge on the cans for a bit now and I was suprised to find out Lilt is only a thing over here ans in the canary islands. Fanta already do like three similar flavours so that's probaly why it's going in the bin. Lilt leans into the grapefruit more than other 'tropical' fizzy drinks, Ting is probably the closest thing to it for that reason imo. Fanta Tropicool is nice as well but how will i ever forgive them for this. Edit: oh wait i actually read the article and they're just renaming it 'Fanta Pineapple and Grapefruit' and making no other changes lol Edit2: if you accept 7up and Sprite as lemonades then by extension Mezzo mix is an Orangeade and i do not want to live in your world Mr Phillby fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Feb 14, 2023 |
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If you have the ability to arbitarily reduce the amount you care about something then you probably don't care about it much in the first place is how i see it. ThomasPaine posted:
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I feel like if god was real and they sent people to hell for marrying someone of the same gender he's not going to be all 'oh a civil partnership, thats fine no hell for you' about it
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Bioshock is good because it was a fresh streamlined take on an imersive sim game with great worldbuilding. Infinite is a call of duty game with nice set dressing. The city of columbia doesn't make any sense, its a series of flying buildings that arrange themselves into a perfectly linear corridor. Theres no pretense that this is a place prople live or exist in. it doesn't want you to actualy interact with the population of the city once the murder hook comes out despite the lavish opening having a billion civilians around. Its so clearly trying to replicate Bioshock 1 in a very shallow way. A game about an ongoing revolution that still feels like you're trudging through the aftermath of it instead, where your character will eat beans out of a garbage can while standing in an actually open green grocers. Where enormous voice recorders litter the ground with messages recorded ten minutes before the player arrived for seemingly no reason. Not to mention the actual time travel and dimension hopping is about as well thought out as a particularly bad episode of dr who. I can only imagine the disney princess lady standing around the drowned main character with her alternate timeline selves all starting to wonder why they thought drowning their father years after he conceived them would achieve anything.
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Jel Shaker posted:i thought all the star wars books have been made non canon or something? or is there a fork in the star wars universe with some hold outs? All the old extended universe stuff is 'legends' cannon now but they're still pumping out new novels and comics and cartoons and poo poo in the new continuity and they sometimes bring back popular EU stuff like admiral Thrawn or that werid faced bounty hunter that was in the boba fett show (or mando who cares). The old EU books were completely trampled all over by the Prequel movies anyway so they had a priority system for cannonicity where they definitely happened unless they were directly contradicted by information in an actual movie or movie tie in but they were more important than anything shown in a videogame. It was a mess. Ultimately though who cares. If you like a story it doesn't matter if it doesn't fit in the same universe as the latest new worst official star wars movie. Theres probably a billlion more interesting boba fett stories than what ever the gently caress they did with him in his own tv show recently. Theres also a wide wide variety of complete crap out there too, such is the nature of the star wars EU.
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I still honestly do not understand how anyone ever though harry potter was original in any way. Kid goes to magic school is an entire genre of kids books. Like i saw Harry Potter and thought 'oh its like the Worst Witch i guess'. And like a lot of kids fantasy its actual setting and magic is the most boring basic stuff ever. They ride broomsticks and wave wands. Even the spells are just latin sounding nonsense which is even more dull than usual. As for Dahl i'm personally for just just putting a disclaimer on it and not forcing kids to read it. I grew up watching and reading a lot of stuff that wouldn't fly today and i'd rather have been exposed to that and learned why it was wrong than never know how poo poo things were in the past. Like sure change some if the worst stuff (and put a note in the book about it). Changing the gender of the fantastic mr fox's kids seems wildly silly though, was anyone asking for that?
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Had an argument with a guy about always voting labour yesterday. One of his arguments was how at least Rayner is really left wing right? Stay and fight! They were also convinced that Nick Clegg really truely belived it was morally right to abolish tuition fees and that he changed his mind after having a big long think about it, it wasn't just that he was saying something he didn't belive or want to do because it would gain him votes. Theres also no correlation between what the libs dems wanted and what they actually did as coalition partners because whoops they're all incompetent and gave away all their power for no reason, couldn't be helped. Their belief is that the reason to vote labour is because keith has pinky promised to enact an alternate voting system which we can then use to elect someone better. Its really sad to see someone so eager to have their wallet inspected again.
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Tarnop posted:Have I missed some sort of U-turn since Keith said he doesn't want to change the voting system, or is this just dickhead centrists writing fanfic? I didn't even think of disputing that labour were even promising what he claimed they were because Bobby Deluxe posted:It doesn't matter what Keith promises because he has consistently broken his pre election promises. But doing a little research all i can find is stories from 2020 saying they'll look into changing the voting system and stories from 2022 saying they definitely won't change it. This is exactly the problem with Kier Starmer. No matter what he does or says, no matter how many awful ideas or promises he breaks theres the kind of left wing guy who just cannot see past 'tories worse' and will cling to a vague promise made years ago now even when its been completely contradicted since. Its not even fooling themselves into thinking he is a liar but he's secretly on their side, he knows he's a liar but for no reason at all has latched onto one issue as an excuse for voting for them.
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:isn't thats whats weird about it? They do not want to do it because it would loosen their grip on power. Its the exact same reason the Tories are changing the boundaries and introducing voter ID. They do not want to change the system they wish to calcify it as it is now. Everything Starmer does is nakedly ideological, which is why despite everything he's ahead only by default. It really does go back to the 'would rather loose on a right wing platform than win on a left' poo poo. It is not good politics to be quite so abusive towards the 10 million people who voted for your predecessor as the current labour party is. Mr Phillby fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Feb 19, 2023 |
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The fact that its about a magic man doing miracles is the other big clue it might not be a primary source for the historical events depicted within.
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OwlFancier posted:re: podcasts I have been enjoying knowledge fight a lot which is about alex jones being an idiot. Theres like 700 epsisodes covering individual infowars episodes and i do not have the stomach for that but they do good work i think.
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