Dispatches from the Frigid Northlands

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[jorrmungandr]

she screm

[pocketseizure]

Happy remake announcement to this scene in particular

[inzergue]

imagine: popeye saying "mastectomy"

[inzergue]

olive oyl i gots t' get me merstekt'mie

[ponett]

What are your thoughts on video game remakes compared to their originals? It's ok if you don't have an answer! I ask because lately my PC has been running out of space, and I thought I could free some space up by deleting remakes (like Crash or Spyro), and emulating the originals instead. But if I do so I'm worried I'll come across like those gross reactionary "return" types who so often hate remakes because of some detail they claim is "woke" D: I feel like I might be overthinking though...

Sometimes video game remakes are good and sometimes video game remakes are bad. Just play whatever version you want, don't worry about it

[dollcoil]

me when i have a bone to pick Lol idk.. im not really sure which one to choose

[tiktokmuseum]

howdy!

edit: of course they said howdy back!

[kaiyotih-deactivated20210901]

its payment for every weeb who goes to japan and thinks anime is real

[imsopopfly]

Actual encounters I had while in Japan:

- the exact one in the video multiple times

-a little old lady who literally followed me for two blocks excitedly babbling about how she had never seen anyone with such big boobs in her entire life and did not think anything over a d cup was actually a thing that existed and did all Americans have big boobs? And if so how did we find bras that fit? I was of course uncomfortable talking about my boobs with an absolute stranger so I did my best to pretend I didn’t understand Japanese very well. This only encouraged her to start MIMING her words while she spoke.

- a cultist who explained to me in broken English that George Washington had secretly been a member of her cult and that’s why I should totally join it (the cult in question was founded less than forty years ago and believes this one lady in Korea is the second coming of Jesus)

-a man who absolutely lost it and went positively giddy with excitement when he found out I was from Texas, proceeded to ask me many questions about Texas in surprisingly good English

-a fellow student who, upon hearing me mention that I had tried natto and enjoyed it, immediately assumed I didn’t have a very good grasp of Japanese and patiently explained to me that “suki” was not in fact the word for “hate”

-a lady who got excited and started talking to me way above my comprehension level in Japanese when she saw I had been reading the information plaques in a local museum with few problems. I managed to communicate to her that I was an exchange student but honestly I did not catch most of that conversation

-a terrifying phone call where I had to convey to a guy who spoke no English that I had seen his missing cat

[cutecipher]

as a feminist i support recreational abortion

[cutecipher]

i have mixed feelings about competitive

[cutecipher]

*maddest ive ever been, eye twitching* thats baseless. its something else actually.

[wuggen]

Everyone say thank you sanitation workers we owe you our lives sanitation workers

[blizzard-nightlamps]

nobody talks about how easy it is to forget to draw the tail

[blizzard-nightlamps]

aw hell

[ostdrossel]

Curious babies everywhere! The House Finches are exploring more of their surroundings and are loving the hummer feeders for whatever reason. Same for the Orioles, even when there are oranges, jelly and flowers around. And I am still surprised to see both male and female hummingbirds right now. That has not been the case in my yard for a couple of years. This is so nice.

[2well2water]

ten years of Moonlight AND The Handmaiden. like at least we have that.

[kenxyro-deactivated20200731]

The Value of Your Life

[jessaerys]

what in the world are "pity likes" you guys are inventing new ways to be insecure. every like i give is a like with my whole pussy

[indigosfindings]

remember the era of mario party where donkey kong was framed as a sort of saint/angel figure in opposition to bowser. reliably & consistently events & game elements associated with dk would be like, direct opposites of those associated with bowser, but like, more than just being an explicit mechanical counterpart to bowser, dk was often suggested to be in some kind of infinite (manichaean?) struggle against him-- game mechanics associate them with night & day, have them switch places with each other (castaway bay, the way the dk/bowser spaces work in mp8, & of course clockwork castle where theyre all but transforming into each other), their actions in general border on divine interventions to turn the tide of a battle (which can jostle against each other, eg the train car stuff from mp8)... & like, the result is that wanton misfortune is signified by flames & spikes & enormous castles, in contrast to divine providence, which is signified by. palm trees & bananas. the devil is in hell, & god is in a tropical jungle. this was the status quo for 4 numbered entries

[plaidos]

look i hate adverts too and they are evil and should be destroyed. but at a certain point when i see people complaining about youtube videos i have to be like “well that is your fault” because if you have a good adblocker youtube cannot hurt you categorically

[hiya-gayass]

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[ponett]

Any thoughts about the trend of converting former gatcha games into regular console rpgs?

Freeing games from the chains of gacha is always a good thing even though when you remove the compulsion aspect you usually end up with a game that isn't very good. But at least now they're mediocre games that aren't trying to give you a gambling addiction

[passionpeachy]

I think aliens would find astronauts charming with their stocky limbs and helmets that look like a big shiny eyeball. I think they would own marketable plushies of them or perhaps a labubu style keychain

[passionpeachy]

animal cruelty