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I love how ambiguous the head of Fox News and former campaign manager to Bernie Sanders collectively owning a dog named Mondale is. Like, what does it mean?

This is a pretty neat video about an unbelievably cool House of Leaves DOOM fanfic(mod).

I was initially underwhelmed by RAM because it wasn't Discovery, but as a final album it's perfect. They'd refined their style to the point that simply continuing to make their brand of techno wasn't going to cut it. RAM is the perfect coda for their run. It's an appendix of their influences, the history of their genre, collaborations with their contemporaries, and a few final songs in their classic style. Contact still gives me chills and Touch has to be my most-listened Daft Punk song. I'd welcome a real comeback, but if that never happens RAM is a fantastic self-erected monument to their career.

I’m no expert on UK racism, I just thought the Poland thing was weird. 

It's maybe a huge stretch but anti-Polish sentiment is pretty big in the sphere of UK politics that Rupert probably represents. Upon meeting Jade he immediately and uncomfortably identifies her as Polish, and his coldness towards her might just be xenophobia.

It is 100% bullshit that the gliders phase out after a while. I just want to fly around as long as the wind will let me. Honestly when the thing started pulsing green I was unreasonably disappointed.

4 minutes ago, eventide11 said:

Yeah, at 47 my creative muscle.. Well it's seen much better days. The stuff I'm 'figuring out' is pretty straight forward and all I can think of is what a simp I am lol. Can't even figuring out how to power fans n stuff 

Hit em

My brief period of time with Genshin has broken my brain and I demand primogems for solving puzzles.

The only problem is the actual history is much wilder than the movie.

Legitimately, can anyone name a movie weirder than this thing was?

I just got out of the theater, and have no intelligible thoughts.

4 hours ago, TwinIon said:

For some reason I found this the most difficult episode of the show to watch. I think it's because the kids are finally in charge and making decisions and they're just so bad at it. They kinda keep failing upward, but one of these days it's all going to come crashing down.

I agree but I'm not sure it's because they're bad at it. It's because they're chasing their father's ghost and the approval they will never receive. They basically don't have any lives independent of their father or any metric to measure success other than their father's approval. They didn't really want the company, they wanted Logan to think they were worthy of the company. There's also something really sad about Kendall that I can't quite put my finger on. Everything he does and wants seems to be so childlike. He had a treehouse at his 40th birthday party, he really wanted the clouds for the presentation, he just seems like a man desperately chasing after his childhood who's constantly disappointed by the impossibility of his dream. I think part of the reason he's such a shitty absent father is because in his mind he's still Logan's son rather than his own person who is responsible for more than just his own emotional well-being.

5 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

Roman was well within his purview to terminate the studio executive, but completely out of his depth with Gerri.

 

What Ken did to him at the end could very well push him firmly into siding with Matsson.

I agree about the exec and Gerri but I interpret the scene at the end differently. I don't think Roman is upset with Kendall for the clip. In their relationship, stuff like that is a greeting card. I think Roman is grieving hard, spiraling out of control, and was overcome by emotion at seeing his dad say something that he actually would say.

I also like how many times Gerri has simply un-fired herself.

On 5/1/2023 at 6:14 AM, TheLeon said:

“It’s enough to make you lose your faith in capitalism. You can say anything.”

I think the show frequently makes the argument that when you have enough capital there are no bad moves. 

Just finished it. I find it believable that the actor who played Isaac is a piece of shit since he played one so convincingly in the show.

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I kind of hate how much internet analysts have latched onto the “serious people” line. The Roy kids never had a chance with a father who just wants them to dance and kiss the ring. All of Logan’s offers to his kids have been in bad faith and calculated to maximally humiliate them when he finally reneges. Matsson isn’t serious when all he does is insist on haste while demanding to renegotiate just at the finish line. Everyone in this show is just fucking around yet somehow the kids are the only ones accused of not being serious. 
 

The whole thing is a dick measuring contest where the first person who pulls out their dick gets made fun of for actually wanting to measure dicks. 

These last few episodes have been great. The Amsterdam episode is probably my favorite in the show, although the "did we" scene was weird kind of regardless of what the ultimate meaning was. Everything else about that episode was just as magical as it was supposed to be.

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I've never thought of the word mythology as being pejorative.

2 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

"Separating the art from the artist," as I understand it, initially came about as a way to not stifle discussion about art when the person making it did lousy things. So you could have a discussion about the merits of The Shining or Kubrick's oeuvre without the discussing his treatment of Shelley Duvall.

 

The notion of whether spending money on art / media you like that's made by someone problematic, alive, and who stands to profit from the purchase is a newer, different thing.

This is 100% correct. The concept of separating the art from the artist, has everything to do with artistic criticism and nothing to do with the political complexities of supporting problematic people.

Rosemary's Baby isn't a bad movie because Polanski's a rapist.

Harry Potter isn't a bad series of books because Rowling's a TERF.

Hitler's art is bad, but not because he's a nazi.

That's it.

Separating the art from the artist has nothing to do with whether or not you should stream Rosemary's Baby on Prime or buy the new Harry Potter game. That's a different, albeit valuable conversation, that has nothing to do with the quality of the art in question.

On 4/18/2023 at 1:15 PM, TwinIon said:

I begrudgingly agree. Playing Diablo 2 again made me realize how much I'm primarily looking at the map overlay and looking at the game second. Playing the Diablo 4 beta without it and looking at the game world (which is much more interactive) was nice.

 

I can see why people would want it back, but the game is probably better without it.

I do think the whole thing begs a pretty important question about game design. A well-designed game should be most fun when played most optimally. If playing the game on the cutting edge is a worse experience than playing at a middling level, the game's design is flawed. That said, I can think of very few games that actually live up to this standard, and I wish designers put more effort into designing systems where the fun can't be min-maxed out. The recent DOOM games are the only example I can think of where truly the better I got and the harder the game became the more fun I had until my wrists fell off from frantic weapon swapping.

I like that Blizzard is at least trying with Diablo 4. I think the benefits of not having a map overlay probably outweigh the costs, but not including QOL features to try to enhance immersion seems like a pretty inelegant way to force players to have fun.

5 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

"Baffling" is absolutely the way I'd describe this:

 

Diablo 4 is bafflingly refusing to implement map overlay at launch | PC Gamer

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An often vital QoL feature for ARPGs is purposefully being left out by Blizzard.

 

I'm honestly with them on this. The full minimap overlay in ARPGs pretty quickly becomes the primary control surface and the game becomes the background. It's a useful tool but it allows players to min-max the fun out of the game really fast.

On 4/15/2023 at 9:32 AM, crispy4000 said:

On a side note, Overcooked is a great game if you can stomach getting frustrated with your friends.

 

Overcooked really brings out the worst in me. I can play Dota and still act like a human being, but Overcooked makes me see red.

I've decided to join #teamMisty because she's the most fun.

Looks cool but I'm not sure about the True Detective branding. This doesn't appear to have been written by Pizzolatto, which makes me pretty skeptical. Season 2 was interesting and probably could have been really good if it was a little more coherent or had a little more to say about incoherence. Season 3 was good but ultimately was just chasing Season 1's tail. And, Season 1 is of course one of the best shows ever made.

The book was a lot of fun.