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I have a 50% winrate despite forfeiting a huge chunk of my games from not wanting to play that meta lol

The amount of random ass middle of the ocean answers has me question the study itself because these people strike me as not even trying whatsoever. But at the end of the day a decent number did in fact put dots on the US itself.

That's only the zoomed in map.

So what even is the alternative to VLC these days

The last time I asked that question someone suggested an even more dated program lol

(I'm not even against humorous references to jizz, I still occasionally jokingly call em "skeets", this is a different case of trying to sound fancy for language floweriness that just kinda fails at that IMO)

I'm all for use of a bit of Latin here and there but I think we can retire the X-cum-Y outside of full Latin terms like magna cum laude.

It's one fewer keystroke than "with", a far more understood term, and doesn't induce a double take over whether you said something lewd on purpose or not.

If translation *alone* took six months, the pay rate would be so huge, it'd eclipse the golden years of the 90s and every manga translator I know wouldn't be juggling 10+ series. But no, it's one of the quickest, cheapest parts, for worse and for worse. You're drawing blood out of a stone, dinguses.

It's definitely a vibes thing. I believe Rammstein generally doesn't like to talk in between their songs much. Their in-betweens of songs, when they aren't just quiet are...unique.

Can also depend a bit on the tuning of their songs, styles that necessitate less of that need less filler lol

It is sort of dependent on the music itself, but like there's many ways to deal with it. The band I mentioned here for example, Mono, has a couple tunes where the intro isn't played on something that needs to worry about that, either keyboards or a xylophone.

youtu.be/4bpj_khxeVM?...

I still talk considerably highly of when I saw Mono, a band I'd never heard of who spoke maybe 20 total words over the course of an hourlong set, who played all instrumentals and let the music do all the talking. It was among the most transcendent experiences I've ever had with music.

Many people like more audience engagement from musicians, but honestly I think the act of going up there, saying a few words, and letting the music do the talking is underrated and can be extremely effective with the right kinds of music.

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I can't believe they ever peddled devices as "smart" when even the most basic functions of technology continue to get stupider

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

The fuck you mean they called it Epic Fury

Now it's completely pathetic for a different reason, that was like the punchline to fucking rage comics circa 2009 wtf

The thing is Pikachu wasn't the original mascot for the games. That happened down the line. It was kind of already set up for the west via the anime, but in Japan the anime didn't begin until a year later when they did make that call to have Satoshi/Ash get one.

"Hello human recourses" meme 1st panel - Appropriate: handsome man says "Fan created DLC" and the woman days "aww youre sweet" 2nd panel - Inappropriate: less handsome man says "dev created DLC" and the woman panics and calls HR because the stupid idiot who made this originally kinda sexist strawman comic that really wouldn't actually happen (before it was taken over by far more ironic posts) probably also thinks Human Resources would actually lift a finger

It would not shock me if a picture like this has circulated in at least one gamedev Slack before with zero irony

I genuinely wonder how many executives in the gaming world have had their brains broken or fried by the fact that so many players adore fan-created supplemental content to games like mods, hacks, and user-created sections/levels while also absolutely hating the live service model for games

Tehran, and the country by extension, has its beautiful parts and a great many people who at minimum are not a monolith. People with families, ambitions, and love.

They don't deserve to suffer from a weird, octogenarian loser creep perpetuating the forever war. Nor did those of Venezuela. Fuck off.

I remember way back in the early days of Facebook I inadvertedly followed a Facebook page of secularists from Iran. Despite needing to be anonymous for their own safety due to heresy laws, an aspect I distinctly remember them stressing is that the west badly mischaracterizes the country's people.

Every single outlet that uncritically recites Israel's self-designation of "preemptive strikes" should be permanently shut down for good. Straight up. Definitionally no such thing as a "preemptive" attack when the country being attacked had no plan nor indication of planning to attack first.

Yup, and even less charisma

Which is funny because Clefairy arguably has more protagonist evergy given that thing was a jack with a billion different moves it could learn in a gen barely anything could claim that

Also I dont recall Clefable on *any* NPC teams. At least Raichu is on a gym leader's!

Pikachu becoming Pokemon's mascot is honestly rather peculiar when you think about it. Not a lot of in-game trainers use it and it's a rather rare Pokemon that only appears in one dungeon. How they even picked it for the anime is surprising.

I say this as a professional who came up from fan translation and has friends at Sega who will likely never get to work on this officially: when you fan translate ANYTHING that was previously untranslated, you have a deep, heavy responsibility in setting people's first and typically only impression.

A pixel art rendition of a magnemite sleeping in a field of vines and flowers. It is rusted, basking in the sun, with a happy expression. Forget-me-nots are growing in the corner.

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Everyone does realize that Bari Weiss is about to control like half of American media? Right?

The whole thing is fucked, but like what sticks out as exceptionally weird is that it's fucking Hegseth. The defense guy? Did they get bored of pretending fishermen were security concerns?