all these retro style games that are like “NO tutorials NO handholding” apparently forgot about the little books that used to come with your game that detailed all the mechanics, controls, special moves, lore, maps, collectables, means of unlocking additional content, character bios, etc
i remember there were a few games that would even include what was essentially a walkthrough/strategy guide for the first level or two, i dont get what these retro devs are on lmao
hadnt actually considered that. much to think about
Can I add something else, tangentially related?
I always find it funny when people rage against difficulty options and accessibility features and the like, with the argument that “older games didn’t have those either!”
Because it’s like… yeah, you’re technically right, they didn’t have those. Know what a lot of games did have though?
Cheat codes.
How many games in the 80s, 90s, and even the 00s had built-in codes for shit like level skips, unlimited ammo, invincibility (IDDQD, anyone?) and such? Not to mention all those games that used a password system to save the game. I remember back when me, my sister, and my mom were struggling with the original Rayman (a notoriously hard game, despite the cutesy artstyle), and then one day, my dad showed us a list of level passwords he had found online, including one that let you go directly to the end credits!
And how many of those codes became iconic memes in themselves? I already mentioned IDDQD, the code for Godmode in the original Doom, but what about “JUSTIN BAILEY”? What about “Rosebud” and “Motherlode”? Naming your file “ZELDA” in the original Legend of Zelda? What about the goddamn Konami Code?
But no, as soon as you stop hiding these things from players in the form of special codes and button combos, and simply slap them in the main menu to toggle on off as you please, you suddenly “go against the spirit of the game” or whatever.
Welcome to the Protestant Work Ethic where if you are not working for 16 hours a day you are a Sinner that will Burn In Hell. Unless of course you are rich in which case you are Blessed by God and can go to Heaven without lifting a finger.
heard a story on a podcast that some Christian missionaries showed these rural Cambodian farmers how to double their crop yields. the missionaries came back a year later and were surprised the Cambodians had grown basically the same amount of crops but the farmers were like “yeah this is great, we got everything we need for the year and only had to do half as much work”
and if that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about the current North American work environment I don’t know what will
Being in any fandom is like this when you curate your dash
Naive shipper’s first post causes them to be immediately devoured by three separate discourse blogs which then proceed to devour each other. The resulting carcasses are picked clean by trolls in seconds; within a minute, the only sign anything of note occurred is a neatly arranged pile of bones with the word “deactivated” inscribed on each skull.
The core appeal of Willy Wonka is that he’s a nigh-omnipotent maniac who uses his near limitless powers over reality to trick shitty people into killing themselves. You can’t make him the protagonist of a whimsical coming of age tale - you have to treat him like Jason Voorhees, or Dracula, or any other horror icon. Give him some new victims and new interesting kills and set him loose, that’s all audiences want.
I was recently informed by a science professor I know that journals do not publish papers that don’t yield interesting results, and while I understand that journals would rather publish your paper on how you cured cancer than all the things you tried that didn’t, I am ENRAGED by this idea.
If you don’t publish the experiments that didn’t yield interesting results, people are going to waste time repeating them because when they look in the database and see nothing published on them, they’re going to assume the experiment hasn’t been done???
And then my professor told me that scientists just “assume that if the experiment would be relatively easy to set up, but there’s nothing published on it, that means someone has already done it with no significant results.” WHAT? That means we could be assuming that important experiments have been done just because they seem to be too easy???
Not to mention that this also encourages people to fudge results towards significance for career advancement because no one wants to spend YEARS on a project they don’t get any credit for.
This convention of the culture is DELAYING scientific progress, I guarantee it. Please let me be financially successful enough that I can start my own journal for publishing experiments with no significant results. I AM ANGRY AT THIS INEFFICIENCY.
Considering that there’s another post going around that lands on this conclusion, I think it deserves its own succinct post:
When transmascs share instances of positivity to remind each other that the way we are treated isn’t all bad, it’s then used as proof of the whole of transmasc experiences being this way, and that transmascs are not oppressed as a whole.
When transmascs share instances of harm done to transmascs to raise awareness that transmascs are harmed directly within our societies, it’s used as proof that we are taking up too much room in conversations because the harm we face “isn’t bad enough”.
When transmascs share instances of outright murder of members of our community to show that no, transmasc issues are not somehow “lesser” because “we aren’t dying” because we are dying, it’s used as proof that we are trauma dumping and trying to make other people feel sorry for us—look at these AFABs being whiny and hysterical and trying to portray themselves as victims. Or that it isn’t specific enough to us so we should shut up and let other people speak for us.
Transmascs cannot speak about our experiences without being touted as an example of why transmascs as a whole should shut up.
the downside to harassing a cat constantly is that you run out of ways to bother them. so sure she’s “well socialized” but how am i supposed to get revenge when she is being SO so annoying?
I FUCKING LOVE THE “LITTLE” “PALE” “GHOST” “WANDERER” “TRAVELLER” “THING” “FRIEND” KNIGHT
imagine thinking they’re the Real Pure Vessel and don’t have any thoughts or feelings about anything when You are the driving force behind them and you can splash friends and strangers in hot springs and knock skulls around like soccer balls and ring the stagbell a million times because heehoo noisy and juggle millibelle and sit next to lonely friends for comfort
AND THE THINGS YOU DON’T HAVE CONTROL OVER like the music going out of key when they’re unsure or confused or unsettled or hornosk being a thing or flinching away from loud noises or the “sit” prompts existing in the first place or “millibelle the thief” or “the old stag” or “a self-proclaimed knight, of no renown” or the fact that they’re on this quest in the first place to save their sibling even if they don’t even know it yet
this nameless character has literally always been about love and protection and saving their loved ones. literally ever since fucking hungry knight, of all things!!! this cute little character has ALWAYS been doing this! the most valuable charm they get their hands on is void heart, dammit!!!! they’ve got a lot of heart!!!!!!!!
never forget that ghost was canonically doing the exact same “wait hang on… uh… oh no. NO. NO NO NONONO” thought process during the trapped bench sequence. your dark rōnin is afraid of spiders
this is what i was just talking about actually, if The Miss France, the elected Woman Of The Year for the Entire State of France cannot perform woman correctly enough for the gender police then none of us can, the mild oppression of “short haircut causes international discussion” exists on the EXACT same axis as “trans people killed for existing” its the same exact machine at work
being so fr with you all we need to drastically accelerate anti-car propaganda.
we need to make it so clear to future generations that we no longer tolerate a world where you cannot conveniently go for a walk or get a coffee or get groceries without a car
maybe cain wldnt have killed abel if they had video games to healthily channel the violence between siblings. unfortunately back then the only smash brothers they had was smash brothers head in with a rock
Wheatley’s character is so fucking funny. Like if you look at his character as a whole, all the comments about “they told me if I did this I’d die,” his complete desperation for control and power even when it is blatantly obvious he does not have the ability to wield it, that is genuinely fascinating. Wheatley is a genuinely interesting, compelling character. but also his entire character is
Zionists can honestly be hilarious. Like one moment they’re acting like a normal human being and then the next they’re blaming innocent babies for the world going bad.
Is there a pithy one-word term for the chauvinism of literate/urban/agrarian elites toward nomadic pastoralists and hunter-gatherers? Like as far as bigotries go it’s pretty much literally as old as civilization (that is, since those elites have existed to record/feel their chauvinism), but I can’t think of a specific term for it.
These solar eclipse shadows form due to the distance between the sun and the leaves on the trees. The distance and the proximity of the leaves to one another cause for a “lensing” type effect, making the eclipse shadow clearer to the human eye.
THEY’RE NAMED GIRL NAMES BECAUSE YOU GET MILK FROM FEMALE DAIRY COWS
CHRIST, IT AIN’T THAT DEEP
Personally I would be happy to know my yogurt was coming from a place that cared enough about its livestock to not only give then names, but to properly credit them in the finished product.
Personally I would be happy to know my yoghurt wasn’t milked from a bull
Found this one that checks all the boxes on r/boomerhumor.
Wow
Weirdest experience I ever had with this is with a customer at work.
It’s not an uncommon occurrence for men in their 40s and 50s to refer to their wives as “old bags”, so whenever I do the whole “Would you like a bag” spiel, there’s a 50/50 chance they will point to their wife and say “No thanks I have one right here” or say “Nah I left her at home” Or something else awful and then wink at me and call me darling or sweetheart and just make me want to be smited by god right in that second.
However there was one customer that came in and did this whole song and dance. Not out of the ordinary. What was, however, was how he then followed it up by going “I’m kidding, I’m divorced ha ha.” Then, his face drops and he turns to his friend with a look of absolute horror and goes “Wait, that’s probably why. Do you think that’s why she left me Andy? Because I said things like that?” And then proceeded to look like he was re-evaluating his whole life as his friend led him out of the store.
TL; DR = Boomers are weird and this one was given a glimpse behind the veil of self awareness in a Tesco Extra
listen. listen to me so carefully right now. (if you’re in the eclipse path/planning on viewing). please don’t stare directly at the sun tomorrow. i am begging you - do not stare at it. if you got eclipse glasses off of amazon/other, please put them on in your house and make sure you can’t see anything; if you can still see like regular sun glasses, they are not safe for eclipse viewing, you will burn your retinas, and we cannot fix that. eclipse glasses should be iso/ce certified, and aas (american astronomical society) approved. please make smart choices and protect your eyes. please.
a five year old note among my 1588 saved notes that just reads: four-dimensional salmon
OH WAIT I REMEMBER WHAT THAT MEANT
a higher-dimensional creature whose life cycle involves ‘swimming upstream’ backwards through time from the end of the universe to their spawning site at the birth of the universe
a five year old note among my 1588 saved notes that just reads: four-dimensional salmon
OH WAIT I REMEMBER WHAT THAT MEANT
a higher-dimensional creature whose life cycle involves ‘swimming upstream’ backwards through time from the end of the universe to their spawning site at the birth of the universe
a five year old note among my 1588 saved notes that just reads: four-dimensional salmon
OH WAIT I REMEMBER WHAT THAT MEANT
a higher-dimensional creature whose life cycle involves ‘swimming upstream’ backwards through time from the end of the universe to their spawning site at the birth of the universe
my biggest red flag is that im a lesbian who likes boobs and whenever im watching a show with obvious fanservice and all the girls have their massive tits hanging out of their bras being held together by string, my first reaction isnt to go “god im so tired of all this oversexualization of women”. i go WOOOOO BOOBIES !!!!!!!!!
^ me whenever i go crazy about a female character with massive tits
adults are always talking about how “kids will do anything to get out of school” and okay, first of all that’s not true, but I think we really need to ask why that idea holds so much sway.
children’s brains are hard-wired to take in new information and acquire new skills. consider, for a moment, just how thoroughly our society had to fuck up the concept of education for it to be a normal thing to assume kids are universally desperate to avoid learning.
couple things here:
multiple things can actually be bad at the same time
I’m 32
couple more things:
Little kids really aren’t equipped to work full time without damaging their physical, mental, and emotional development and health, and when you play the “but adults work all day!” card you sound like a nineteenth century textile baron.
Highschoolers can easily be “working” 40+ hours a week, between school, homework, and extracurriculars and/or part-time work, and still hear this smug “:/ wait til you get to the real world sweaty” rhetoric all the time.
The original claim here wasn’t even “school is too hard,” it was “school is failing to perform its most basic function,” which is different.
from an adult point of view:
- When my work day is done, it’s done. I don’t need to spend hours each night to study or do homework.
- I don’t have tests and exams.
- I MAKE MONEY.
Sometimes I’ll be at home and start freaking out that I haven’t done any homework yet before I realize “Wait I’m 30.”
Or I’ll be asleep dreaming that I’m at school but suddenly realize at the end of the semester that I’ve missed all my classes and don’t know what’s going on
School/homework has to be a stressful thing if it gives people anxiety and nightmares over a decade after graduation.
On a serious note: I agree with all of this.
On another note “you sound like a 19th century textile baron” is my new fave insult.
Sometimes I have school revenge dreams, I have autism so I was treated unfairly during my time at school and on occasion I have dreams where someone treats me unfairly and I respond by beating the shit out of them with furniture
Too many I know, give more than asked and run themselves ragged.
I know you want to be good and kind to others and show your skills. But please don’t. It just leads to more work because people think you can handle it, or uses you. If you can perform 100% of what is asked with 70% of your energy, do that and save the 30% for yourself.
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