If memory serves they used something water soluble, didn’t they?
If memory serves they used something water soluble, didn’t they?
Yeah, it’s interesting. I was just kind of a RationalWiki type then so I already kind of broke left, mostly just seems like it’s some of the bigger figures that broke right?
I hear TJ ended up leaning more into the left politics. Not sure about that, though, haven’t really thought of the guy in a while.
It’s a shame a lot of the NuAtheists ended up breaking right because I can relate with wanting to irritate the shit out of these people at every possible opportunity
He’s got better politics than I’d expect of a host of a broadcast TV show on a major network, but he’s not really anyone I care that much about either. I don’t really watch TV, and (more importantly) these personalities have expiration dates. At one point I liked Colbert but he became quaint in the face of Chapo; eventually Chapo themselves became quaint as a broader swath of podcasts did the things they did better. Eventually they too will become quaint as my interests move elsewhere and i crave increasingly outwardly belligerent media.
Seibu Kaihatsu’s Dynamite Duke (1989), a pretty novel hybrid Cabal-like/Beat-'em-up with a lot of love put into it. The arcade version’s got a pretty slick art direction, the environmental destruction vfx rock, and the animation’s pretty slick. The whole thing’s got that passion project charm to it. Unfortunately, Cabal clones were only really in vogue in that late '80s/early '90s space, and the beat 'em up gameplay isn’t fleshed out or consistently applied enough to be satisfying in a post-Final Fight, post-Streets of Rage world. I’d like to see something like it, but there’s no way to bring Duke into the world of modern game design practices without drastic reformulation at a minimum.
Notably, Seibu had really high hopes for Duke, being a passion project and a intended magnum opus. Unfortunately, lukewarm reception brought in poor returns, the company slipped into dire straits, and they were forced to make something simpler and lower stakes as a hail mary. That title - a simple, Toaplan-esque shooter nobody had any real faith in - turned out to be Raiden, which would become a darling in arcades, pushing 17,000 units solds worldwide in the first year after release, and becoming the fifth highest grosser on the Japanese market in 1991. (Beating out some offerings from much bigger players like Konami)
I’m glad I told some right winger I was gonna kill and eat his kids to get banned on purpose tbh
Then what the hell were the alter-globaliazation guys doing 20 years ago?
It’s like they’re trying to destroy everyone’s trust in them. Can’t even toe the whole “Villain with good publicity” line effectively.
Least horny Rareware-adjacent female character
Oh god these types are gonna drift right and become Neocons 2, aren’t they
Where’s that one Sweet Caroline remix from forever ago with the drop that sounded like a bass boosted version of the “You fucked up” noise from some game show? Wait a second here it is
Also I’d be double fisting Malört and blasting “Cortar Todo” by Zu
I hear Boots Riley got in touch with Kurvitz. I’m eager to see what his Death Stranding ends up being.
They constantly send out a decent chunk of a mail route’s worth of sample issues and it fucking sucks. They make me wish they were getting their organs harvested
Yeah, in terms of realistic outcomes they’re just kind of a extension of the LaRouchites and unlikely to gain any serious ground by dint of fundamentally misreading how deep the american conservative’s anticommunist bent runs. You cannot get to them in any way if you’re calling yourself communists
I never like dealing with these guys. If the whole “The dumbest outcome is the most likely outcome” thing is true, they’ll inevitably end up parasitizing any serious socialist project that emerges in the 'states.
Hey, what if we did socialism, but kept everything that made american culture fucking insufferable and all the attendant problems
But can I play Oblivion on them
Or they could be replaced with a vacant position
I honestly don’t really give a shit about society and am mostly just doing this out of a desire to extract payback against the right. I don’t really actually like anyone that much.
When the right call me hateful, they’re 100% correct and i take a modicum of joy from it
I can’t blame them for not understanding the significance of human communications infrastructure, but I wish they wouldn’t set up camp in poorly tended mailboxes. Granted, ants are worse about this by some distance. (I’ve also had to deal with small birds while delivering)
All things considered, though, they’re cool if you give them an appropriate berth