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teethwreath

god this tickles me

(OP's tiktok here)

theuglymachine

Yeah it was me, I made the Cool S sword.

catchymemes

cryptotheism

My top three rules for world building:

How are these bitches eating?

How do these bitches stay warm at night?

Who is paying for all of this bullshit?

notund

this post's hypothetical by itself is already ridiculous but the thing that gets me is how the wording implies two very funny things that become funnier in tandem

1. "Accidentally, the pitcher tosses a Christian baby" means this is a mistake on the pitcher's part. i imagine the pitcher is breastfeeding on the field and they pitch and they look down at their hands and they see the ball still in the glove and they go "fuck"

2. hitting the baby will still win you the game

tidal-chaos

libraryspectre

My wife's favorite sleep noise app is the kind that lets you mix different noises, one of which is a snoring shih tzu, and she loves to create soundscapes that imply the dog is in imminent danger

libraryspectre

It'll be like

*music box playing*

*dog snoring*

*the sound of a crackling fire slowly fades in, getting louder and louder as the dog continues to snore*

libraryspectre

The other night I was taking a bath while her bluetooth speaker sat innocently nearby, when she decided to aid my relaxation by providing her favorite soundscape, Dog Engulfed In Housefire

libraryspectre

Okay since this is getting like a thousand notes an hour let me clear up some common misconceptions:

1) she is doing this on purpose, as she turns up the volume on the fire she yells things like "oh no he's still sleeping get him out of there!"

2) she is not falling asleep to this. Her preference for actual sleeping is just rain noises. She does this exclusively to torment me/make me laugh/amuse herself before bed

roboco-san

the structure of columbo is so fascinating to me. it's a murder mystery but upside down. they start the show by depicting, in minute detail, exactly what the crime was, who did it, how, and why. and then for an hour and a half, you do not watch columbo solve the case. he did that already. often almost immediately. instead you watch him slowly, carefully, methodically tear down every single excuse, cover, and alibi the killer could possibly have until nothing is left but the truth. it's not about solving the mystery it's about watching this funny little man run circles around people who think they're better than him

If you appreciate this clown, we can possibly be friends

therobotmonster

"My childhood was so awesome. Kids today don't even know!"

Isn't a flex.

It's a lament.

More people should understand that.

karpad

Cereal boxes had toys inside.

Yes, it was a crass marketing for a sugar cereal made of chintzy plastic

Today you're just expected to eat Capn Crunch because that's what you do as a child, that's what breakfast looks like. Which is... fine, I guess. Sugar still tastes good. That's still a pleasure you're otherwise asked to disavow by the protein shake nutribottles advertised on podcasts.

But it also means the idle minor joy of getting a random toy present, as a reward for nothing, just because you exist, is stripped. That random spark of joy is gone, replaced with nothing.

Where did the public pool go? the neighborhood park? the atrium food court public place to gather?

Same thing. All of them were just replaced with nothing.

Kids today have many good things. But it shouldn't be a trade off. They should get to have instant messages with friends and go skating at the park. They should get to play amazing modern video games at home and go trick or treating for halloween. They should be able to have stickers and markers and macaroni art as well as youtube and streaming libraries and fortnite dances.

Fun should be allowed at every level.

therobotmonster

take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool

If you like frogs. Or possums. Or cool builds. Or happiness. This is the video for you.

biohammer

Tags via @brawltogethernow

brightlotusmoon

mclennonyaoi

i love r/seattle subreddit . this is fucking crazy please read this please please please

dyscomancer

war and murder are awful. killing another human being is a horrible thing to do. swords and guns are cool as fuck. these two beliefs exist simultaneously in my mind and do not conflict at all

hyperborean-ice-fairy

hideo kojima

were--ralph

Unironically I think we might run into another video game crash like back in the day

were--ralph

Game creation has become another husk capitalism has its greedy little fingers in and its like. Its genuinely sucking the joy out of it all for more profit and more profit and even if it succeeds its not enough it needs to be more to the point there really isn't a reason to create games anymore if you're not an indie dev

And being an indie dev isn't easy because no one has the time anymore. Everyone is drowning in student loans and low wages. Capitalism is sucking the joy out of them and overworking them and ai art is taking away opportunities to be something unique

Games are $70 fucking dollars now. I can't afford that like. I just can't. Most of us are struggling with finances as is.

We're drowning and it's happening so fast there's not enough time to panic

were--ralph

This is what I mean. Games aren't enough to be good or creative or excellent or fun anymore.

robotsandfrippary

It's become completely capital driven for people who only care about that capital. For anyone who's confused, the industry used to run on the devs getting royalties and bonuses from the sales. This goes all the way back to the beginning. that's how a lot of the new studios would start, someone got a good bonus and wants to strike out on their own. VC funding probably factored in somewhere, but not enough that they controlled anything in the studio. Plenty of devs and companies ended up going broke because they had no idea how to run a studio just how to spend money. but I digress.

Anyway, big companies like EA and Activision came in and started just swallowing up companies whole. The ones they didn't just close outright, they took the bonuses and royalties away and lowered everyone's pay, and then kept lowering it.

Take overs still happen today. but more and more often none of us devs has the capital to start a new company without getting VC funding from someone who just sees dollar signs and wants to meddle.

I guarantee you that every single game you played that had some stupid fucking shit thrown in or bad graphics or a bad plot that just seemed poorly put together it's because some fuck with money thinks they need to put their stamp on the game they're "paying" for.

That's where your $60 goes. To the corporation and CEOs, not the Devs. We seriously just want to make fun games. Entertaining games. Games that don't have microtransactions. Which we hate as much as other gamers play. And most of us are, or were, gamers. Unfortunately the industry kind of kills your love of games because you just see what COULD have been. What you know was intended and not this crap.

It's bullshit, it's killing games, and none of us know what to do about it because we're busy scrambling to find work and feed our families.

prismatic-bell

“Games are $70 now”

That isn’t the problem. The CHEAPEST SNES cartridges were $50–and if you throw that into the inflation calculator, it’s $111 today.

But.

The SNES cartridge came with:

—a complete, (mostly) debugged game with weeks or months of gameplay

—honesty about the contents—I can think of exactly one game where the devs lied about the contents, and it was because it was “surprise! THERE’S A WHOLE SECOND HALF TO THE GAME, but we didn’t want to spoil the twist!” which, you know, valid, I’ll accept that reasoning

—an instruction book

—usually a fun poster or map or the like

—no common gamebreaking bugs

—built-in redundancy to protect your files

Compare this to $70 for:

—an incomplete game that is not fully debugged and will have to be “updated” for months or even years to be playable

—frequent lies about what’s in the game

Games have always been expensive. But the contents used to be worth more.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Also, so many of them have subscription costs or microtransactions or costly DLC that really should've been part of the main game now but they chopped it off to make more money. The games are designed in such a manner that getting the proper experience requires buying these things. They're part of the 'cost' of the game, not just the $70.

foulfirerebel

I believe quite a few gaming pundits have said this for years: Games have a "base price" of $60-$70 for the "shell" of the game. That's not counting all the DLC that shouldn't have been DLC, the recent dive into loot boxes, battle passes, and microtransactions and subscription costs, etc.

So it's everything: the increased price coupled together with worsening economies meaning people have less spending money and wages stagnating, the fact that so many so-called Tripe AAAAAYYEEE (thank god for Sterling for that naming convention) are all shells that sell things that shouldn't be sold, the mistreatment of devs and corporations like Microsoft and EA going for monopolies.

It really does come down to capitalism and greed. Everyone needs to make investors happy by pretending the concept of "infinite growth" exists. And even when you're successful, you can still fall "below expectations" and end up closed despite all evidence to the contrary.

Obligatory older JSS video: Below Expectations (The Jimquisition) (youtube.com)

CAAApitalism: The Successful Failure Of Videogames (The Jimquisition) (youtube.com)