UlyssesT [he/him]

They’re so amazingly dogmatic, too. There’s this subtext belief that Nintendo’s business decisions are somehow profoundly and uniquely wise, such as the claim that there can’t be a new F-Zero game because “there’s no conceivable way to make it different each time, which is a Nintendo™® mandate” as if it wouldn’t be enough to add weapons to the vehicles, customization/performance modifications, power allocation, outright flying or even space segments, or even out-of-the-car gameplay.

Nope. Just the “make it different each time” of the Zelda plot rehashes forever and ever.

Or, make it “different each time” by making it janky in a way most people don’t like, like Star Fox Zero which was also a plot rehash, and then shelve the franchise because people didn’t like it. Nintendo is that infallible!

“And what games you can buy will be bundled with Ice Climbers. Always with Ice Climbers.”

broke and evil

Where do I even start with that kind of ghoulish bootlickery?

Updated for the 21st century: a status quo enforcer with police and presidential loyalty ties that really likes neon and having sex with people that like neon while maintaining the status quo in a way that makes them a Legend of Night City™.

Megaforce was 70s Command and Conquer.

David Lynch’s Dune. It was weird, inaccurate to the book in remarkable ways (wtf is a “weirding module”) but I sincerely love it anyway.

EDIT: Sting as Feyd-Rautha screaming “I WILL KILL HIM” is amazing and the music absolutely slaps too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm5VP3of-dA

:SickoStitch:

I’m less cynical about SCOTUS

Is it cynicism when I’m following their actions and expecting more of the same? The SC makes shit up after the fact and finds ass-pulls to make it sound like the Constitution said that. That’s why, effectively, the POTUS can’t commit crimes as long as they are arbitrarily determined to be “official acts” now. They already announced we’re ruled by kings. How much further need it go?

It’s the most pro piracy argument that even the biggest normies can relate to.

Devout “Disney families,” the kinds with the stickers on their SUVs, may still see that as “stealing the magic.”

I doubt this will stand a court’s scrutiny

Unless it reaches the Supreme Court and in yet another 6-3 decision the corpos get to loot and pillage more with even less accountability.

Centipede.

EDIT: Cover art was rad.

You’re assuming that downvotes only come from individual users with good-faith opinions there.

Relying upon an automated system to decide the “value of a conversation” is, and will continue to be, an open invitation to gamify, metagame, and manipulate such automated systems, just as it was on Reddit and elsewhere.

But everything at all times is the Reddit hivemind. Nothing can change or improve. Reddit is inevitable.

There’s an old saying about how if everywhere smells like dogshit, it’s best to check under one’s shoe.

I think some people accuse others of being in a “hivemind” in a way that’s like they brought the Reddit with them, in particular the presumed sense of superiority over the hivemind/sheeple/“NPCs”/whatever.

The “Reddit hivemind” is the human hivemind.

Reddit doesn’t represent the entirety of humanity. It represents a specifically self-selecting group of people that tend to come from a combination of converging material conditions that give then access and means to the site that then opt into that particular group’s increasingly-ossified norms and are provided superficial but effective incentives to continue doing so by the site’s owners.

Social groups can and do change over time, and some are better or worse off in varying ways, and they are not all “Reddit hiveminds” unless you are lazily equivocating all human social structures as “hiveminds.” What else is there? Some fantasy of rugged Randian individualism?

To say otherwise is useless fatalism, or at the least, false equivocation.

It may be impossible to prevent such community-wide erosion especially on an individual basis, but I think the best one can do to at least not contribute to that erosion is maintaining a sense of vigilance about the foundational idea at the heart of Reddit’s site-wide rot: “I am smarter than the out-group, and anything I do within the in-group to increase my score affirms that I am endlessly clever and funny.”

It does, it does.

It’s a bit like eating when you’re actually physically hungry.

It feels very good.

It might take a detective to find out.