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but from what i vaguely remember in the 2000s, SC2 was generally received as "still the thing i like but more and with Spawn?" and so it didn't build the same foundational bedrock of crusty oldheads lugging defunct consoles around? (idk actually tho, im a guiltygear bitch, i dont go to this school)

i think you get big splinter scenes for old games when the next entry is divisive or comes with a big shift in mechanics and feel. Melee to Brawl, Street Fighter 2 to SF3, Guilty Gear Xrd to GG Strive, etc all made big changes and left players behind who still craved the old flavors

Local paper ran a story about Ludovic's detention by ICE. Seeing the photos of his empty apartment with trophies from tournaments I attended or watched gives it all another dimension. This guy has a life, friends and did everything he was asked to do.

Abolish and prosecute is the bare minimum.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

sure, i like bandwagons

how re9 markets grace: wh-wh-wh-what do you mean I gotta go through all th-th-th-these zombies!??? *has a panic attack*

how you play as grace: I Need More Blood. Give Me More Blood. Give Me Your Blood Fucker. I Need To Make More Bullets With Your Blood.

four if you cound ander and his son

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

i mean they're right, you're a pretty elite transgender sis. def like in the top 10% on the NA leaderboards

If you're trans, you're trans. Live your life and get the most out of it. It's going to be hard no matter what. There's no reason to be proactive about limiting yourself or making it harder. Seize your own happiness, tranny! Nobody else is going to seize it for you!

The people I respect the most in our community are the fucking freaks who are extremely straightforward about who and what they are, and what they're into. No matter how respectable you try to be, it won't stop you from getting harassed or filmed in a public bathroom

The thing about being a trans woman is that there's literally nothing you can do to keep scary people from hating you and wanting you to die. You might as well be a completely authentic freak pervert, because no matter how polite and withdrawn you are they will hate you anyway.

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

Artists don't reach their peak potential until they've finally entered their milf era

every trans girl is fighting a secret fight that you can solve by giving her 20 thousand dollars

well this makes the trip to visit my aunt in Kansas a lot more complicated

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

you can and rightly should go into depth about how this is all a stealth attack on queer expression, about how it's a short leap to labeling gay and trans people "pornographic" and how they are not subtle about this being their express intent. But You Can't Get Around Defending Actual Pornography

you have to be loudly pro-pornography and you have to never shut up about it. you have to become the "they want to take away your freedom of expression vis-à-vis cocks and boobs" person to everyone you know. i'm sorry to say it but it's just how it is right now

Played Meltwater by @a-cute-nausea.bsky.social (with the @hollandspiele.bsky.social rules ofc, I own both copies and enjoy the mix). Two armies fighting to the bitter end, pressganging and force marching until all that was left was a tiny radiated ice glacier …

oh shit the speedrun strats

let’s all espouse transgenderist ideology

oh it's this guy again. guess i really dodged a bullet huh.

godspeed on your househusband arc

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

fuck yeah haibane renmei, it was the hardest cut from my own four

the very first one i thought of, and the only one that i never considered cutting