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i have sympathy for desperate iranians clinging to the false hope that this will bring about a positive regime change, but western media using this fact to manufacture consent with the US and israel is disgusting

I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children.

From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.

fuck the united states and fuck israel, devastating news to wake up to

i wonder if fromsoft would object to a conservative 4k60fps port, which i’m 1000% certain is all anybody wants anyway

why are they mogging

did game freak make real graphics?

this did cross my mind actually, why is this of all things waking me up from hibernation LOL

i’m a hater to the bone

i’m sorry if i’m doing too much but the way anything modern-pokemon is gleefully reveling in endless amounts of nostalgia slop is genuinely so repulsive to me LOL. incestuous capital-maxxing at its most insane

a friend must provide honesty

you have a sickness

Trans rights are human rights. Their existence causes no harm and their deserving of dignity is not a debate.

mashallah habibi

i've endured so much psychic damage trying to get my mom NOT to set sharpness to max on the living room set

big moves big man, so happy for y’all 🥹

Had a great discussion about a super underrated dreamcast classic. 2026 is gonna be a big year for beach gen and im excited to participate on it more

this new nerrel video is awful

Screw-In Joystick - Multidirectional - jammastar.com

has anyone figured out how to install a dpad inside an arcade stick mounting hole? closest thing i've found is this shit but it's gigantic LOL jammastar.com/gb/screw-in-...

we’ve seen enough filmmakers at the berlinale actually show a fucking spine to confirm that no, saying “free palestine” when you’re asked about it will not get you cancelled. it is literally so fucking easy how are y’all this pathetic

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time to bring this one back

there’s an intuitively felt difference between “i’m explaining my opinion” and “i’m trying to extract something from this experience and convey it”

i pretty much agree. i’m trying to define the specific style of review i don’t like and it’s something to the effect of “i’m giving you a play-by-play of my reactions throughout the game as a quasi pros and cons list”

what do you think makes a good game review?

it is very funny how i've been accused of being "bad at emulating" and when i asked them to explain to me how to enable integer scaling in retroarch, they didn't have an answer 😂

you can only have this perception of emulation if you're straight-up not seeing all the shit inherently wrong with it

Going to make a thread of every reason to NEVER vote for Newsom. Let's start with:

YouTube video by Noah Samsen IDF Planning New, “More Intense” Assault on Gaza

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa-h...

the explanation there is "well they perceived the trickle of new reveals as compelling and motivating enough to keep going" and then i could say "you can't ignore that you're doing this dogshit combat and rectangular otherworld level design for 30 hours" and we would get nowhere

that's also why i brought up silent hill f cuz from a taste-perspective, yeah i can't wrap my head around how someone could play through that shit three times and think that's somehow good design, but i also realize it's a perception-difference and very difficult to have a systematic discourse about

i get feeling that disconnect but you're also hyperfocusing on a small subset of reviews when the broad tenor is much more aligned with your perspective. it's not really that unusual

you're mixing differences in subjective perception ("people didn't find the same forced stuff as uninteresting or annoying as i did") with lack of rigor ("reviews don't explain enough") when they're not necessarily related