Ankle Megami Tensei

Not actively enough

Been reading @bcmerchant.bsky.social's Blood in the Machine, the industrialization of making clothing and the Luddite movement against it

Having trouble getting through it; not because it's bad, but because of the incandescent rage I feel on behalf of the workers it describes being starved or worse

The prefix "geo" means "earth"

The only way you're avoiding geopolitics is if you move into outer space

I saw a guy talking it up and I mentioned all the stolen artwork and he got pissy with me about it because in his words "the situation has been resolved to the artist's satisfaction"

And this dude is an indie developer

After several months of silence they just emailed me to let me know they will never be paying my invoice.

This is in the same league with the then-editor of the Washington Post calling people conspiracy theorists for saying that Jeff Bezos buying the newspaper would affect its output

I'll be the first to admit my knowledge of Christian theology is spotty but I don't think it approves of starting wars

Thankfully I was owed money this year so I didn't have to worry about that

Although I suppose if I really wanted to avoid that I'd have to change my W-4 so no taxes get withheld in the first place

Yeah that's also dumb

A Japanese 3DO might actually be worthwhile; there were a surprising number of Japanese games on that system that never came West

An import 32X seems like the most pointless thing imaginable

This is closer to a 4chan government

Gee, you sure showed them. It's almost like this is why they said shit like that.

The savings we're getting here by annihilating decades of American science will pay for whole minutes of the operation to create decades of death, immiseration, and chaos in Iran.

Oh that sucks. Get better soon!

Y'know, it's funny, but I hadn't realized we'd been at war with Iran since before I was born. Strange that nobody's mentioned it til now!

I'm sure many military personnel have a rich inner life but that doesn't seem to have stopped them from doing whatever awful thing they're told to do

The ramifications would be that the senior surviving member of the Presidential succession line would become President, and any open positions would have to be filled either by election or appointment as the case may be.

You'd have to kill a LOT of people to get to the point where the gov't falls.

No it isn't? Killing the leader and some of his officials doesn't destroy the government. Or do you think if Trump and Vance suddenly died the U.S. government would grind to a halt?

Screenshot of news article printed in Yahoo from Jewish Insider: “Platner faced blowback this week for boosting a social media comment about a looming war with Iran by Stew Peters, a neo-Nazi influencer who has frequently espoused antisemitic tropes and engaged in Holocaust denial. Platner's team said the post was made in error and "immediately" removed it after learning it elevated a "despicable account." In late January, however, Platner sat for a lengthy online interview with Nate Cornacchia, a retired Green Beret who has also promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories. Near the end of their hour-long conversation, Platner, a fellow military veteran, called himself "a longtime fan" of Cornacchia's YouTube channel, "Valhalla VFT," and said it was "an absolute pleasure being" on the show.”

Screenshots of the Valhalla VFT YouTube channel thumbnails include vile racist images of the “Somali fraud scandal” and “robberies and looting” due to SNAP benefits being cut, depicting black people robbing stores

Graham Platner, the guy who had to cover his Nazi tattoo to save his senate campaign in Maine, went on the YouTube channel “Valhalla VFT” in January where he said he’s a “longtime fan of the show.” Check out these vile racist thumbnails from the channel & reporting on the antisemitic host.

Screenshot from Noitu Love 2 of the final boss having their final breakdown animation

Played through Noitu Love 2

My right hand hurts from clicking so much

Lol no

Fuck off with this Blue MAGA shit

I must've missed the post where you talked about what a great guy Khamenei was

Man Chuck Norris has aged FANTASTICALLY

and Anne Heche... has not

Donald Trump is a HUGE supporter of Donald Trump

These people seem to think real life is like a chess game where if you capture the king you just automatically win

Killing Khamenei doesn't change Iran's govt any more than abducting Maduro changed Venezuela's

And I sure as hell don't expect his successor to be more amenable to American demands

Pretty sure the U.S. is the biggest global sponsor of terrorism at this point

What, was she too old for Kid Rock

Also, maybe I'm being dense, but I don't think female knights were a thing in medieval Europe

Then again, all the brigands seem to think you're a boy? So maybe she's crossdressing? Maybe that's what that bit near the end about her mother "giving her the courage to be herself" was about.

Enh, I just played this and wasn't impressed

The combat system feels clunky and I had a ton of graphical bugs (texture popping, mostly)

and yeah, my computer was working harder playing this than the Last of Us remake