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I agree with all of this

Driving a car can feel like it has a decent multiplier but it’s literally a 1x

Girl who's into praise kink but also power scaling: but am I a good enough girl to defeat Goku

Yeah it’s one of those things where it’s perfectly acceptable for a first-time fan, and practically offensive for a detail-obsessed diehard

It has also been rumored that Miyazaki was never happy with it, either (though idk how substantial those claims are)

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linux heads were always right. time to sit my dumbass down and learn

shut the fuck up

Yeah, well said

This reminds me (unironically) of Super Mario Maker — the game gives you the toolset to produce cruel kaizo platforming challenges, but the ones that’re hard for hard’s sake are so obvious as to be forgettable. It takes playful elements (e.g. comedic timing) for those levels to sing

I very much agree - however, on a long enough timescale, it is also very fun to see the extremes of grotesque when they are explored by the real sickos. I mean, the 2020s King’s Field-like movement may as well be the designer equiv of balloon-popping fetish or w/e the fuck

Miyamoto: When pornography escalates, it eventually crosses into the grotesque. I think the world of "hidden secrets" in games has almost reached that same grotesque level. It's reached a point where it isn't measured by common sense anymore. It's just people getting bored and looking for stronger & stronger stimulation. We've hit a wall. When you're at the point where you have no choice but to ho "grotesque", you have to start thinking of new ways to use the medium.

I truly don't think it's good practice to try and extrapolate an overarching career philosophy from a single remark made in an interview 37 actual years ago. That said I do see where Miyamoto's coming from here & think the porn comparison is apt

(Source shmuplations.com/itoimiyamoto/)

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Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

Love Live! School idol festival 2, the game that quite infamously announced both its release AND ending date at the same time, outlived Highguard and Concord at four months

bruh

kinda shit the diamond dogs got up to when your morale fell too low in mgsv

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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.

This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

Writing is hard. Writing is great. Writing sucks. I love writing. I wish I could stop writing. I cannot stop writing. Please help. Please leave me alone, I have another 3 pages to get through. Please read my work. Please never perceive this garbage I've created. Respect me. Ignore me.

I get the reputation but nah they are all famously tremendous nerds who have been dragged to the ends of the earth by the worst kinds of publishing executives on earth

This is a HUGE contrast to the genus of Cinematic Video Game Writer Who Hates Video Games

Pochacco im sorry homie but i do not want to preview your OF set

In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors.

It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening.

My months-long investigation 👇

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Patent law may be evil, but the thing you’re concerned about is not actually possible under patent law

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Nobody ever “knows” how to review score a mainline Pokemon game, and Metacritic is where it all averages out, too

For example, is the 10-pt scale scoring Pokemon compared to earlier Pokemon titles? Or compared to all games ever?

I think XY averages out to high marks just for being the 1st in 3D

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Yeah, it’s an interesting example bc Atlus IPs were nearly MORE successful than Sega IPs at the time?

The only reason for the acquisition was that Atlus wasn’t independent to begin with, and their parent company went bankrupt. So, literally all Sega needed to do was keep the lights on for Atlus

Battlefield 1 is the fifteenth Battlefield

"Assassin's Creed 3 is like the sixth or eigth game depending on how you count" - Funny

"Kingdom Hearts 3 is roughly the 13th game" - Extremely Funny

"Beatmania 3 is the 13th one but they never made beatmania 4 and instead made 32 sequels to beatmania 2, which is the fifth one" - True Masterwork

average wednesday at the office