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    ~*The Official Thread of One Term/Twice Impeached/Worst of Them All Presidential Tantrums, Candy Throwing, and Pants Shitting*~

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    On 2/27/2024 at 4:46 PM, MarSolo said:

    Oh for fuck‘s sake are you Fox News brained still? Watch him on Seth Meyers and tell me Biden can’t “put cohesive sentences together”.

     

    Biden's appearance on Meyers was "good" if we're grading on pretty steep curve.

     

    I don't personally buy the "cognitive decline" narrative at large, but the best case scenario coming out of the 2024 election is whatever Biden's working with half a decade from now which is fucking grim. And this is coming from someone who thinks that experience is regularly and often dramatically undervalued. I also don't think this is some kind of broad failure of the DNC in general; you never really know how fast the wheels are going to fall off. My brother in law's grandmother in law is about 10 years older than Biden but moves, walks, and talks like she's 20 years younger than him. I thought she was 70 and almost refused to accept that she was 91, maybe there's something in the water in New Hampshire, they've got the butter microplastics or something. Maybe Biden will stay where he's at for a (hopeful) second term which would be... fine? But our guy he's lost a ton of MPH off whatever his fastball was even compared to the debates in 2020.

     

    And yes, if Trump doesn't have a teleprompter, the man is a walking, barely sentient disaster, he's no fucking better in the domains where he regularly mocks Biden. 

     

    But a non trivial amount of politics, especially election politics, is optics. And Biden's optics are at best, "not good," there's just no way around that.

    Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Remake Part 2) - "An Excellent But Inconsistent Experience" (Digital Foundry Technical Review)

    in The Spawn Point

    Posted

    Let's not pretend that Square Enix's attempts at cross game lore have ever been good. They have always been, currently are, and forever shall be... tire fires. It's still going to be okay, I promise. You'll be able to get by just fine if you haven't played Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Children Skullfucker McGee EX + Alpha Kingdom Hearts Edition. References, callbacks, and inspirations do not a plot make.

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    Update (03/04): Yuzu effectively surrenders without a fight, agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and discontinues emulator

    in The Spawn Point

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    8 hours ago, ShreddieMercury said:

    Games have always been able to run better and look better on PC.  Again, just because you don't like Nintendo's hardware, or think it should be more powerful, does not entitle you to play their games on different hardware.  People are talking about this issue as if we have some sort of right to access and play any and all games however we choose, which is wild. 

     

    While the legality of emulating a video game that you own is already settled, something much more gray like Yuzu, which makes money emulating commercially available software and is directly enabling piracy for the vast majority of users, is not nearly as clear cut.

     

    Pitching the notion of emulation as one of gamer entitlement is being pedantic to the point of fallacy.

     

    I don't even know what you're advocating for or pushing back against in what I emphasized as I don't think anyone here is advocating for being able to do something like cheat in online games via trainers, or for piracy. Say what you mean.

     

    Aside from that, we should be in favor of more / broader consumer rights and not fewer, absent compelling reasons. None of which are in play, here. Gaming EULAs or licensing agreements have always been fucked, we're just now entering an era where they can be easily enforced remotely. That sucks. It also says nothing about the fact that for a company like Nintendo specifically, it's problematic that inaccessible and incomprehensible EULAs govern the licensing for products that are often directly marketed to children who have no idea that they're paying for something that could be turned off tomorrow and their recourse for something like that is fuck all.

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    Jon Stewart returning as The Daily Show host (Begins 2/12/24)

    in The Performing Arts Centre

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    25 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

    20 years after that Crossfire interview and subsequent explanations, we're still not getting his point, huh?

     

    Nobody rational is looking for Stewart to solve the world's political problems and while he is, literally, a comedian, he's also a pundit. It's silly for anyone, particularly him, to pretend otherwise. He's very clearly not "just a comedian" when he's holding a political rally, going to Congress to advocate for taking care of 9/11 first responders, etc. More than one thing can be true and if we're aiming the DeLorean all the way back to the Crossfire appearance era... Stewart was interviewing presidential candidates on The Daily Show, lobbing softballs at John Kerry. In later elections he was giving airtime to Huckabee. It was always silly for Stewart to say he's just a comedian or that TDS was just a comedy show when you're interviewing POTUS candidates.

     

    1 minute ago, Paperclyp said:

    But this implies he has some kind of responsibility to get someone elected over another in the first place. He doesn't. And as we poked at above you are assigning way more power to the man than he actually has anyway. 

     

    But they proport to be. Stewart doesn't. That's the difference. As he covered what like two decades ago with his brilliant response to Tucker's same accusation. About the show before him being puppets who make prank phone calls. 

     

    Yes, obviously, an ostensible news outfit should be held to a higher standard than Comedy Central. Fucking of course. But if Stewart's responsibility is to be funny, then the shots he's taking at Biden for being old should... be funny.

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    Jon Stewart returning as The Daily Show host (Begins 2/12/24)

    in The Performing Arts Centre

    Posted

    I think Stewart is at "his worst" or perhaps his least interesting when he appeals to what he believes to be common sense issues. It's why the Rally to Restore Sanity And / Or Fear was so goofy. I don't think pointing out that Biden is old the way he did on his first episode back is really that but I also don't think he had a particularly insightful take on the topic, either. It was mainly "bad" because it wasn't especially interesting.

     

    He's still better at what he's doing than a lot of people who have come up or at least tried to fill that gap since... I don't know that the world needs what feels like the ten billionth Jordan Klepper interview with incredulous Trump supporters. I just don't know that there's more to this return than comfort food. Which is totally fine, I appreciate that he's back. It seems unlikely that folks like Seth Meyers would be doing Closer Looks the way he is without Stewart's TDS run, and obviously someone like John Oliver wouldn't.

     

    I'm rambling and I don't really even know that I have a point, other than that while I think that Stewart can waffle, I don't think that's what was happening when he first came back.

     

    That said...

     

    4 hours ago, SuperSpreader said:

    He defends Dave Chappelle, his brand/style of doing things ended a while ago. He's 5 minutes from complaining about Woke people.

     

    I do think there's some truth to this. I get sticking up for your friends and for your industry. But for a dude who rightly took shit and then apologized for leaning into trans jokes for a long time, it's disappointing to see Stewart stand up for Dave's "right" to say what he wants... as if that's any of what the criticism about Chappelle's bullshit trans takes is actually about. Stewart is just straight up equivocating there and he's smart enough to know that's what he's doing.

     

     

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    Baldur's Gate III - Information Thread, update: Larian doesn't plan to release DLC/expansions for BGIII nor develop BGIV

    in The Spawn Point

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    5 hours ago, Bacon said:

    You know, I think it's cool how Larian keeps pushing out updates for the fans. Making a bunch of good and desired changes and fixing a bunch of bugs. I don't want them to stop, but with how many changes they've made, and with how many bugs each update brings, it feels like the game never really left early access at times (a bit exaggerated I know :p). Like, it sucks how many bugs each new update brings, mods aside, and there were times were I wished they hadn't updated the game while I was playing it. Their response time can be slow if they don't think the issue is important. As I mentioned, Shield Bash was broken longer than it has worked. The good has outweighed the bad by a large margin, tho not for me personally, but I wish they'd get better at not breaking things that weren't broken.

     

    BG1 and 2 still have bugs despite their age and getting relatively recent enhanced editions that exist, in part to fix bugs. :p 

    Baldur's Gate III - Information Thread, update: Larian doesn't plan to release DLC/expansions for BGIII nor develop BGIV

    in The Spawn Point

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    9 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:
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    Will finally fix BG3's most glaring flaw; 100% of women don'r have huge dump truck booties and tits so huge they compromise the structural integrity of metal armor.

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