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"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it"

My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

Started Mass Effect the other night. It's... Kinda bad so far? Beyond the gameplay jank the writing is much weaker than I thought it'd be. I'll probably see it through cause it's pretty short anyways.

ya know, COTW Chun seems pretty cool. I'd love to give her a spin. The whole Ronaldo thing put me off pretty permanently though so that's not gonna be happening. Ah well.

Great election news yesterday and new Death Grips announced today? Yeah it's a pretty good week if I do say so myself

Jay Jones with sunglasses edited on in FaceApp

Scarlet, protagonist of the anime "May I Ask for One Final Thing?" She likes punching rich assholes.

i hope we get a second season with a higher budget so she gets more frames to punch people with

Virginia Democrats Plan to Redraw House Maps in Redistricting Push

good www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

A screenshot of a discord post. It says the following: wound up doing an accidental relisten to Bauhaus' *In the Flat Field*. Classic goth rock/post-punk. starts off fuckin *killer*, and the reissue I'm listening to starts with a single that shoulda been the opener originally and follows with two dark, heavy tracks that perfectly nail it. ...and then it just fuckin collapses. there's like something cool on every track, and then something happens and they ruin it but they're *so* goddamn close man. this may be the most positively I've felt about a record I gotta put at 3 or lower.

today on album reviews I wrote by accident in discord:
Bauhaus - "In the Flat Field"
2.5/5

I had so much coffee I’m vibrating

every true crime doc: for decades the police tripped over their own dicks and tried to pin the murders on random people and then suddenly someone called and told them exactly what happened

Guy only had 3 albums but each of em was excellent. If you never heard em go look em up.

RIP to D'Angelo. Absolute legend.

The title screen of Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, after all three routes have been completed, reaching the good ending on each as well. All the main characters' weapons are planted into the rocks in the foreground, with Garreg Mach Monastery's towers rising into the sky in the background.

After 180 hours.

this one. dropkick has weapon advantage

game just seems baffling. don't really see it sticking around just looking at how it plays
at least we got that goldship lyn art out of it

whaddaya fuckin MEAN fire emblem amongus

finally

i regret (?) to inform you all that 2xko has The Juice
I think this one's stickin' around

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

nobody in history has ever been more vindicated than DmC haters lmfao

Happy September 21st to those who celebrate

Side note I kinda don't think Jinx/Darius is a thing
Fine by me, wasn't gonna stick with it anyways, but still worth mentioning

Oy, all these months away have killed my mental fortitude. 3 ft3s in 2xko and I was already tilted

I would very much like things in the world to get better now

congrats to joe brandon and all the purported defenders of democracy who normalized cracking heads on student protestors in order to cover for israeli genocide. you really greased the skids for ol donnie trump to formally submarine the first amendment

Guess we'll have to see if it's a sequel or a prequel. Probably the latter? Anyways I fucking love 3H so I'm more than down

WHO'S READY FOR ANOTHER SIX YEARS OF THREE HOUSES DISCOURSE

Probably holding off on checking out 2xko. Gotta pay for the one character I'd wanna use and it's a closed beta anyway. Guess I'll see what the vibe is in a few days.

RIP to Maru, loved by the world. ❤️

... Of course the fact that they didn't take the opportunity to give it a proper ending with New Blood means we have a chance for another godawful finale 🙃