teens in general get some harassment too

I remember when I was a teen a news story about malls playing a high pitched sound that old people couldn’t hear in order to annoy teens into leaving was going around. Never encountered it myself though.

Good shows will have a lot of head and body shapes, but most of them don’t and it’s just the hair. IMO the reason so many of them have horns and tails and stuff is to make their silhouette more recognizable without potentially compromising the standard “pretty face” that most otaku demand.

My brother in Allah your culture is literally just a bunch of marketing campaigns.

But most modern game developers are completely allergic towards adding a simple god mode or infinite ammo code into their shitty game

This is so wack to me. Every game should be like Jedi Academy, and have a console where you can spawn in any NPC in the game/give yourself any cheat power you can imagine, because all that stuff ever does is make the game more fun.

It was a weird crossroads

Same. I was all for severing the ties between gaming journalists and publishers and ending the status quo of paid high review scores, but luckily past-me saw and rejected the misogyny that was also heavily present in those spaces and I didn’t end up turning into a nazi.

AFAIK the arcade boom was pretty popular with both men and women, since at that time it was a social hobby and kids were doing a lot of hanging out and hooking up at arcades. It wasn’t until the turn to console gaming, which was primarily an anti-social activity, that video game advertisements started really focusing in on young boys. Nintendo bears a lot of the blame here, since they defined the western market following the big crash, and they saw the NES as exclusively a boys’ toy - but it wasn’t just them of course, in particular I remember the OG XBox’s marketing doing a lot to create a “bro culture”, along with stuff like the channel G4, which I think was created intentionally as a reaction to the previously existing perception of gamers being nerdy.

I am mega noob but I like this game so I’ll meet ya’ll there.

Released on Wednesday, and based on the existing open-source Linux operating system, China’s version was built by a community of about 4,000 developers

“A bunch of Chinese people made a Linux distro”

“CHINA MADE A LINUX DISTRO!”

big difference

You’re gonna fee real bad when a republican uses this precedent to bend the rules and use naked power to do something bad!

Look at that hat, no way that’s not a reference to Soviet or Chinese propaganda posters.

Stalin gets a few shoutouts in the show too. I bet it’s partly because they just think he’s Brutal but it makes me think someone in the production is a traveler.

While individuals can find space for weight loss regimes, it really is a society-level problem.

Consider an experiment with two populations of rats. One population gets a normal amount of food, the other gets the same food with a bunch of added sugar. Of course the population with added sugar gets fatter. But, while the average rat may have gained 10% weight or whatever, on an individual level you’ll see a wide range of results - some rats aren’t effected by the increased sugar, some gain a small amount of weight, some gain a lot.

This is basically exactly what we’ve done to ourselves in capitalist society over the past seventy-ish years, taken our previous diet and jacked it up with a ton of sugar (and other additives and a lot of increased volume). But while with the rats it’s easy to see that all you have to do to return the overweight population to normal is to stop adding sugar to their food, with humans we can’t see that because we’ve created a system that blames you for getting sick.

It’s like building a coal power plant in the middle of a neighborhood, and then blaming the residents when they start getting asthma or worse, and holding up the people who won the genetic lottery and don’t get lung disease as the example we should all strive to replicate.

I’m going to make a guess.

As the founding fathers intended.

don’t go in a space shuttle

As awesome as it was in concept, that thing was a safety nightmare from the very beginning. With every other manned spacecraft if something goes wrong during launch you can blast off and land the capsule safely in the ocean, but with the shuttle there were large portions of the ascent and descent profiles where, if something went wrong, you were going too fast to turn around but too slow to make it to space so you were just hosed.

This is what I meant.

Ugh the clip in that thread. Norm is blaming Angela Davis for the liberal establishment coopting her message and whitewashing it - like what the fuck else is she supposed to do, Norm? Advocate for a communist revolution which in America right now is every bit as far flung a possibility as prison abolition is? Immolate herself on the steps of the White House in protest? Stop punching left for fuck’s sake and that goes for the article in the OP as well.

Authoritarianism is not doing what America tells you to.

It’s truly a great bit and one that should be appropriated by a website that isn’t reactionary.

Bandera is in the game already if Ukraine becomes independent and fascist (although if Nazi Germany conquers them they can put a different German fascist in charge). HOI4 just kinda pretends the Holocaust doesn’t happen, which kinda whitewashes the fascists but also I don’t want to know what the HOI4 community would do if the Holocaust was actually in the game.

abruptly abandoned its draconian “Zero Covid” policies

There were months of protests, followed by a government rollout of the new less strict rules in phases over the course of several more months. The New York Times needs to reread the definition of “abruptly” because I don’t think they know what it means.

I liked this video. I’ve never heard the term “metamodernism” until now but the way he explained it makes sense. It’s like people want to return to the escapism of older films but they can’t quite let go and be totally sincere about it, which is why you get soy banter and shit. I’ve always preferred what this essay terms “modernist” films and I suspect a lot of other Marxists do too, as Marxism itself is a very modernist philosophy, even if we are also aware of the terrible lessons taught by many films of that type.