I got really good news today that I can't really go into, but I might be able to do a lot of things I've been planning finally. Going back to school was at the top of that list.
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Giant Bomb |OT 17| I'd Like To See His Old Man Pecker
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Had 60 GameStop bucks so I now own Death Stranding
Congrats!
Nioh 2 looks so good wow. I really need to get around to the first one. Also just wanna wish Jason the best <3
also got the Criterion Godzilla box set for my bday
lies, Nioh 2 looks like it's running at 540p
Can not wait for these Blitzpressions
i could just watch all the cutscenes while cleaning my house and probably get the general gist
Give them the left side of the controller, while you take the right.
Strand as Kojima intended.
I remember a few years back, now, I think, following Hbomberguy's curiouscat, or whatever else, one of those sites where people can send you questions for answering that people use for a few months until a new one happens, and he was asked about Kill La Kill, which he, paraphrasing, said that while he had problems with it, he hated the critical theory that basically boils down to "if there is something in this piece of media someone could've ever jerked off to, it is inherently problematic and you can't take anything else out of it no matter what else it's saying or doing." A lot of liberal fingerwagging at DE's inclusions of racism (and other slurs) seem to come from a similar place, just boiling down to "if this game includes racism or allows you to do anything racist, nothing else the game can do redeems it and it is now irrevocably problematic." The whole thing seems like a critical analysis straight out of 2014 or something, it's just so shocking shallow. Critical theory for games from a left-wing perspective has come so far, and developed such nuance since 5 years ago. (Leftist politics in general has evolved so much since then. Its become a lot less stuck-up in the reality of Trump being President, frankly.)
People are allowed to think whatever they want obviously, but Disco Elysium being so trenched in leftist political theory was exactly the wrong thing to pull some sort of surface level pre-judgement. Waypoint's early skepticism of DE was handled from a much better perspective, but Abby is especially prone to instant snap judgements she states in the most blunt way possible and is deeply closed-minded when she reaches her first impression.
my tv shipped
but
it has moved to tuesday
exasperated ack
bury me six feet deep, cover me in concrete
turn me into a street
but
it has moved to tuesday
exasperated ack
bury me six feet deep, cover me in concrete
turn me into a street
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I just had essential cargo get destroyed and it game overed me after walking like 2000 meters toward my destination.
My brain is mush. This thing might not be for me
My brain is mush. This thing might not be for me
That's life man.
Sometimes your essential cargo gets crushed.
But life moves on.
DE fans are never going to quit, huh.
Oh you can't just... fail missions? The survival-postman stuff feels so at odds with everything else in the game.
Can I play Disco Elysium without my own gaming pc with GeForceExperience
i mean it is a series that started with "gotta fuck em all" collectible cards of the women you bang in the first game so it's not on the best footing with that
At this point, its really just a waste of time to point out all the things she doesnt like because of some made up reason that isn't real. It's at the point of just letting Dan go for worshiping Vince and WWE, and Jeff for only liking fps and old games. It's just not worth discussing anymore.
if you want a meta title for the next thread you can use giantbomb ot 18: barely suppressed resentment constantly boiling over
If 2019 leftism is going to depend on Chapo Trap House and other purveoys of "dirtbag leftism" who are less "stuck up" (ie. OK with racism and sexism because they've gotten annoyed by somebody 'woke') think being best buddies with Cumtown and such, nah, I'm good with lots of people not being OK with it.
As opposed to the very moderate and nuanced reasons people don't like the things Abby likes, such as Dream Daddy. Also incredibly hilarious you're comparing Dan's support of an actual asshole like Vince McMahon and Abby ya' know, not enjoying a game that sexualizes women.
I'm happy Giantbomb is one of the few places that for example, is perfectly happy not to think The Witcher 3 is the greatest thing since sliced bread or doesn't immediately crown Disco Elysium because it occasionally talks about Communism.
What is the wooden spoon that will prevent this from happening? An Endurance Run?
I think right after that is a fully naked Yennefer lounging with her back to the camera, which is probably what Abby is referring to.
I mean this is a much deeper conversation than a Giant Bomb community thread does justice but I'll just say I think the fact that hard-left politics has gained small footholds in places and has more of a noticeable voice in the political conversation is in large part because it became more self-secure, nuanced, and capable of laughing at itself instead of treating individual instances of problematic behavior as contagious diseases. Chapo (which has many problems - and is also listened to a liked by multiple members of GB and Waypoint ftr) is popular because they decided to actually be funny instead of be scolds.
As far as Abby goes, she's often justified in what she calls problematic, (the Witcher for instance is wildly sexist) my issues with her mostly stem from the fact that her capability in analyzing something doesn't go beyond being able to assign the label. It makes it very evident her coming of age into social politics happened around 2014 when leftist (I hesitate to use the word leftist but people misunderstand "liberal") analysis of games was so much more black and white because it was just coming into its own.
To be fair, America was a name first before it was a country.
Bridget Strand
Even when Jeff picks out a recently released game for UPF, he still manages to play Smash TV.
Classic Jeff.
Classic Jeff.
All of the old Midway arcade classics are the most thinly veiled quarter munchers and part of me thinks Jeff's love for them is just stockholm syndrome.
Yah this.
The Witcher 3 is male-gazey as fuck, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with Abby dismissing it on that basis.
It's one of my favourite games, ever, but acting like Abby's issues with it are nothing more than 'some made up reason that isn't real' is both super shitty, and so easily disproven in this specific case as to make the entire argument laughable.
Let me guess, you also think Cancel Culture is a big problem and think the Left would win if those damn moderates would stop telling workers to stop using racist slurs or sexually harassing women, right?
I'm going to guess the vast majority of people who vote for Bernie largely agree with the actual positions of the "scolds" in society, as far as making things less racist, sexist, and bigoted, as opposed to Patreon funded trust fund podcasters in Brooklyn who think the way to victory is letting people say retard again and think identity politics is terrible (except for of course, the identity politics of white dudes who complain online about identity politics).
I'm not surprised at all CTH is popular - anything that appeals to aggrieved dudes is incredibly popular on the Internet, while in real life, the people who actually won elections were disproportionately women and minorities running on the typical Democratic positions on "identity politics' issues, not anti-woke scolds.
But yes, we're probably not going to agree.
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