GnastyGnuts

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[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Democrats: "We're defending democracy!"

Democrats when democracy doesn't favor them 100% of the time and people don't literally have to vote for them:

"If you don't vote for the democrats in all elections always and forever, then I fantasize about shaming you and watching you suffer like I'm a creepy, vindictive little wiener. Get these third-party candidates off the ballot, they're stealing votes from us.

You have to be morally and politically pragmatic and vote for the democrats! No, they do not themselves have to be morally or politically pragmatic and stop arming a genocide to appeal to loony left voters. That would be compromising our values, which is only okay if we're shit-canning immigrants or dropping death-penalty abolition to appeal to the unicorn 'moderate republican.'

Not voting for the democrats is to endanger all of the people we haven't already discarded to maximize centrist appeal. Try not to be so selfish for once, GAWD." smug-explain

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It takes material progress to facilitate for social progress. Thinking of LGBT rights in the US, they were basically total shit "until" the late 90s and 2000s saw some significant improvements (not too long after trying to kill as many as possible by deliberately mishandling the AIDS crisis under Reagan), and are now at risk again as various flavors of gay panic are returning -- material conditions get shittier and people look for scapegoats.

Likewise, I think when material conditions improve, they are under less stress and have less reason to create these antipathies in the first place.

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Digimon World is fun vibes when things are actually going, but a huge part of the game is training your digimon, which involves sitting and just watching them do repetitive stuff for long periods of time (getting punched by a gigantic boxing glove to level defense, sitting under a waterfall to level focus or whatever the stats were, etc).

You might be doing that for a very long while, only for your digimon to evolve into a literal giant turd.

If you get a good champion evolution you can start breaking out into the broader world, which is actually pretty fun. The game has great vibes, and a fun gameplay loop of journeying out of the main village to find lost villagers and send them back, which in turn upgrades the village (residents return and open up shops or provide special services).

But it always suffers from having to go back to that damn training grounds for long stretches. Maybe if there's a modded PC version that solves that problem, that would be best.

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My core memory of Digimon World is being excited when my digimon evolves, just for it to turn into the shit-eating slug (numemon I think?), or the giant yellow shit-monster that also eats shit.

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I forget the exact stats on it, but gambling addiction is especially destructive to people's lives even compared with other major addictions. Also, on a petty treat-fiend note, it has made sports so much fucking shittier.

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Still regret voting for her in 2016. I shamed myself by doing it, and the fucking loser still had the nerve to lose.

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Last night I made the mistake of hate-reading some butthole liberal vote-shaming thread where they were having a moan about 2016 again, and I must have forgotten how angry liberals can actually make me, because I'm still annoyed about it now.

Something about the moral condescension and grandstanding of a bunch of K-dolph genocide supporting worm-turd motherfuckers made me blow a fucking gasket.

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

One of the wildest things to me is that they can't even be bothered to lie for our support. Like, they could literally just lie and get a lot of leftists on their side, but they'd rather tell us to suck their unwashed balls than even pay the slightest lip-service, and then get pissed at us later if they lose.

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 25 points 4 days ago

I drove myself mad last night reading some jackass thread of liberals still invoking 2016, in this particularly gross case, to blame the left (and anyone else who they thought didn't support Clinton) for the state-murder of Marcellus Williams.

Like jesus fucking Christ, not only is that vile and nonsensical, but it's stupid in any practical sense not to do something to win the votes of these people who you (wrongly) think cost you everything.

Act like you're trying to build and maintain a relationship where the other person has the freedom to leave and isn't a goddamn slave to you!

Pretend that you believe in democracy instead of acting entitled to people's support when you offer them nothing but blame when an election goes badly for you!

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago

My personal favorite from the Eugene Dabs collection.

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Liberals: "It's not a real problem, you're just perceiving it incorrectly." X 4000

 

The PC version of Space Marine fundamentally fucked up the gameplay -- the execution system works differently (and worse) from the original console release, and nobody has ever talked about it somehow.

Alternatively, it's possible the game always sucked and I had the only good version of it due to a unique bug on my 360 disc. Like, that shit ain't the same way it was on my 360 version. I checked. It's different.

Space Marine requires the player to use special "execution" moves on enemies to regain health, like DOOM 2016, but years before that. A key detail is that you are not invulnerable while you do the kill animations. This brings us to the key difference that makes the game dookie on PC:

On the 360 version, or at least the particular disc I have, you cannot outright die during the animation. You can still take damage, and you can still take so much damage that it ends up being a bad choice, so there's still a worthy risk-reward consideration, but you can't outright fucking die during the animation.

It was still totally possible to die literally seconds after the animation finished, such as if you regain less health than you lost during the animation, but the animation had to at least finish.

This created exciting battles where you'd be basically riding a wave of execution moves to keep yourself alive while under constant assault. Like, you're barely keeping your head above water, chaining from one "safe" point to another -- just gotta stun somebody and reach them before you outright die and you're secure for another few seconds. It felt really cool actually.

On the PC version, you can and likely will die frequently during the kill animations, making it shit. It's just annoying shit now, and feels super cheap and unfair, especially since the kill animations have different lengths, and you can't choose. Best is when you die right before it's about to finish and give you the health you wanted in the first place.

This doesn't even start to become too noticeable until the second half of the game where the Chaos dickheads start showing up, and the little renegade guardsmen absolutely light your shit up with their rifles even on normal -- they're scarier than the chaos marines or the demons.

And the protagonist has to drop some fucking Dove chocolate-ass "live-laugh-love (The Emperor)" line every time he dies, making it take just a little bit longer than it needs to to get back into the game.

With this change (or bug, or lack of a bug, whatever causes this) the second half of the game (which used to be my favorite part) goes from being a solid action beat-em-up affair to a 3rd-rate 3rd person shooter with no cover mechanic against enemies that start Gears-of-War-ing your ass.

If this is how the game was always supposed to be, good god what a turd. If they changed the game, good god what dumb-asses. Did I seriously get the only good version of the game years ago, due to a unique bug on the 360 disc? I have no clue, it's so fucking weird.

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