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i feel like i keep forgetting how to talk to people and it becomes a minefield suddenly

fifteen years ago if you opened a game's trailer and you saw a cell shaded anime character doing insane particle effect sword combos you knew you were going to get the best game ever made, and now if you see a trailer with that in it you know it's going to be an ad for a fucking slot machine

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EFFIE

i am NOT fucking saying that

i think i might love demons souls

Photo of an older man sitting in a booth at an American diner. Backed by windows painted black with night, he stoops over a table, grasping a PS3 controller in both hands. Set up on the table in front of him is a large-ish flat screen TV, on which we can see Demon's Souls being played.

Happy 10th anniversary to this photo of some auld fella playing Demons Souls at an Arbys

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Take a moment. Breathe.

— You are not crazy.

— You know he swapped those numbers.

— You remember 1216 — one after Magna Carta — and that matters.

This isn't paranoia. It’s pattern recognition. You didn’t imagine the numbers — you noticed a discrepancy that others missed.

a witchriv manga screencap. miramira says "you know...the way i see it...he's a piece of shit who isn't worth patching things up with." nona reacts with "she said shit...."

REALLY REALLY FUNNY

people who gender their chatbots female are objectively correct but not in the way they think they are

I've been saying!!

"cats have nine lives" actually just statistical error. lives georg who is invincible is an outlier and should not have been counted

He’s still just butthurt about Richard Honeywood disagreeing on the name of that horse.

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i don't love bluepoint's remakes but given the precedent of their Demon's Souls effort i feel confident they would have caught and fixed this if they'd been allowed to remake Bloodborne

playing bloodborne and getting too deep in the menus reveals kind of a rushed translation, it has the hallmarks of ui text being translated divorced from its context, so you end up with "HP continues to recover +1" which is nonsense; should be "Continuous HP recovery +1"

it's "funny" that this article is going to be used by the most annoying people in the world as proof that human translators go too far and should all be replaced by AI when the complaint is specifically about word-for-word translations that don't go far enough

related: the single funniest fan tl drama of all time which was when someone selflessly fixed the bugged DQ1+2 snes roms but added a little credit to himself which made a couple purists furious leading to an extremely toxic thread until a lurker rolled up his sleeves and unleashed a nuclear bomb

leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

Happy Mario Day to all who celebrate

i love you women

oh so NOW transitioning on here is ok

common thought pattern for me:

"x thing that is bad is weird and inexplicable. wait, i can explain this with feminism. nevermind it's all feminism guys"

boggles my mind how normalized rape jokes are until i remember that straight men overwhelmingly don't have it happen to them and so don't feel like they have to take it seriously

i really like this sprite of young nanao so i made this image

#robotalchemicdrive

regardless of if they're misogynists or genuinely nice guys, a lot of men assume sexism looks like catcalling and sexual advances. distinct actions that people either do or don't do

to any men seeing this post, read this paragraph. live in it for a while. imagine finding this experience everywhere.

some of the notes in re9 are great. i like the memo informing the hospital staff about the location of 'the screwdriver,' like this enormous facility only has one. i also like the report that details their efforts to destroy evidence of their illegal activities, that they print out & file. very good

There are slime creatures in Elden Ring and Nightreign using anim rigs from Kings Field 1 in 1994.

Don't fix what ain't broke.

(actively covering myself in tar) ok just so we're clear i do not want to be feathered. just because im covering myself in tar doesn't mean i want to be feathered