🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨

does that certain subset of sonic fans just think that sonic isn't a character largely known for cheesy quips and corny one-liners because they all watched a really dry fan translation of sonic x

A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

Text saying "You've read your last free article."

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer

Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡

One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.

I honestly don't think even he actually thinks that way; his work is far too self-conscious for that.

But if it *is* possible to achieve, you pretty much have to be at his level.

Miyazaki gave the correct answer here, but it cannot be overstated how much no artist actually thinks this way.
He gave said answer because there is a long list of good reasons why you want your audience to believe you think that way, as opposed to being a nakedly spineless weathervane like Docter.

slay the spire. youve been down too long in the midnight sea

My opinion, the secret to good chili is threefold: time (I like to use a crockpot) smoke (liquid if you don't have access to the traditional method) and multiple proteins (really adds depth of flavor and texture, I find; I like to use chicken thighs, smoked brisket and black beans).

A ), 1000 times A. If you use coffee at all that is; I have not found it adds a whole lot of anything, but I may not have used enough the time I tried it.

As far as entry-points to Digimon for an adult mostly/totally new to the franchise? I'd recommend Time Stranger (which plays sorta like kind of a lite SMT) and the current anime, Beatbreak (it's just really good; might end up being my new favorite if it sticks the landing).

Pokemon really ever is, that it almost never gets *that* bleak.

Plus, the mediocre combat is easier to stomach when you have some existing affection for the mons you're using for it.

I largely agree with the above; I've often called it a 9/10 VN stapled to a 4/10 tactics RPG.

As an entry point for Digimon? I'm not sure it'd be my first recommendation? Its bad endings hit harder when you have the context that even though Digimon is generally allowed to get a lot darker than say,

That is a *substantial* kitten! Bigger than my boy who's almost 6!

I don't actually remember the bunny suit, but it's admittedly been a minute.

Genuinely Aina just felt like she was there to be a woman who clearly has a thing for Galo that he conspicuously does not reciprocate.

I've said it before that Promare's chief innovation was figuring out how to make a textually gay mecha anime was by just... making a mecha anime and declining the usual no-homo escape hatches.

Struggling to imagine anything gayer than a guy whose power is having preternatural survival instincts because his boyfriend hit him with mind mojo with no instruction more specific than "Live!".

Oh yeah, that one's an all-timer.

this is, all else being equal, easily the funniest thing the director of inside out could have said

Gavin Newsom comes out swinging against California billionaire tax Ballot initiative, opposed by the ultra-wealthy, would levy one-time 5% tax on individuals worth more than $1bn

Psst! Your crown prince is aggressively fighting the California billionaire tax. He’s doesn’t care about you, pass it on! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

not going to care for it, nor take seriously the notion that I'm a philistine/consumer-brained for feeling that way.

So yeah, in short, games don't have to be fun to be good, but they do kinda have to be good to be good.

The reason I feel that way, I think, is that games are not *just* art; they are also feats of engineering, and largely eschewing (or even showing contempt for) one half of that equation feels a nit... disrespectful of the medium?

And like, if that's what you're going for, okay, I guess.

I'm just

responsive controls, good signposting for exploration, well-designed combat encounters, assuming it's the sort of game that needs those sorts of things) that is also a Bad Time in some sort of way (be it extreme difficulty, emotionally uncomfortable storytelling, etc) that makes a similar statement.

If you make a game that objectively (inasmuch as such things can be) Plays Bad, that can be an artistic statement but it's not going to be a particularly *interesting* one for more than a few minutes. I'm going to be a lot more impressed by a game with good design fundamentals (by which I mean

Data: "Commander, it would appear that we have arrived at Hotel California."

my own version of that dumbass "abudance agenda" thing is if you just identify all the ways in which we are causing untold devastation to the world just so some guys can steal a few billion dollars, and stop doing those, there'll be a lot more of everything good and kind to go around

Oh, my God, babe.

You consumed that media so ethically.

You are definitely going to be reincarnated as a lotus flower in your next life.