Not reading, per se, but the video “I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis In the British Healthcare System” by Philosophy Tube comes to mind. Check out the sources if you’re looking specifically for reading
Not reading, per se, but the video “I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis In the British Healthcare System” by Philosophy Tube comes to mind. Check out the sources if you’re looking specifically for reading
I mean what else is supposed to be the outcome of decades of defunding social services? There is no choice (for you or me)
I’m guessing by “reform” they mean taking the whole thing private? What is it with these ghouls having such a hard on for the us
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They only took it down in the messy asf mod catalogue from the latest doom re-release; pretty sure it’s still playable via any other previously available method. That catalogue is a complete disaster anyway, lots of people’s work being uploaded by randos and uncredited, lots of the catalogue entries completely not working, many duplicates, but Bethesda only lifts a finger when Margaret Thatcher’s name is on the line lmfao
Guilty of doing this lol
Right? How can anything truly be “apolitical”? Apolitical to me means that it’s not ruffling any feathers politically, which would mean it has the politics of hegemony.
Also an apolitical game from a studio who sent out memos to influencers to not talk about “feminist propaganda”? Idek what’s going on there exactly, but it sure is political in some way
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This is what makes me think the “creative differences” were the execs putting their foot down on making a copaganda film, when the creatives probably had something else in mind.
Who wants to bet that the alternate earth Miles ends up on at the end of the film is just an uncomplicated hero-less “crime world”.
Expecting big cringe in 2027
silence troll
Remind us, o enlightened one - who is the vice president of the current administration?
Death to plausibly deniable lesbians >:(
all I have to say is
Been playing lots of stuff bc covid
Playing quite a bit of Spin Rhythm XD on the steam deck. It works amazingly well with the touchpads, the haptics add a lot and it feels more natural to spin the wheel that way then using the joysticks; great way to play. Very fun game, the background visuals are very neat and react to your spins. The biggest downside is that the music is very hit and miss, and that’s coming from someone who is quite immune to monstercat flavoured electronic music cringe. There’s some cool stuff in there, but then also just as many tracks with female vocals singing about how fuckable they are (thank you once again, cishet men songwriters). Thankfully you can favourite the tracks you like and filter out the rest, but I don’t believe it has a custom song mapping community (maybe I’m wrong on that) like an osu or some such.
Been giving osu!mania a good try over the past few weeks as an alternative to osu!, cos that shit makes my hands hurt. Maybe once I get to a certain level in mania it’ll be the same, but for now I’m enjoying it a lot. Even on 4 key mode (it can go up to 10 keys) the rhythms are so much more complex and interesting compared to the 1 key of osu!, and I’m only playing easy and normal levels for now (compared to ins*ne and expert on osu!). I love clacking my keyb, makes me feel like a cool performer. It does make me think about why I’m wasting time learning to play a useless rhythm game over a real instrument…
Giving Cult of the Lamb another go after not finishing it a while back. Last time I basically wasn’t enjoying the combat (pretty normal for me, I usually try to avoid combat in games if possible), so spent lots of time in the village until I got it pretty much fully upgraded and to the point where I wasn’t managing crises, but instead just chilling with my commune of cuties. This playthrough is pretty much going the same way, although I’m less terrible at the combat this time (probably because I played a bunch of Hades between now and then), so I’ve gotten a bit further than where I was last time. Right now I’m just beautifying my village after unlocking most of the decorations, but I think this might be my last thing I do with it. Maybe I’ll come back to it now and then and chip through the final couple of combat areas. Overall it’s very cute, the art is lovely. The cult parody is kinda skin deep, but I do think it works as a basic breakdown of some of the ways cults exploit people, and the cutesy and funny presentation, helps the hard-to-swallow-pill go down for some perhaps (excited to play Indika at some point for a hopefully more fleshed out take on the topic)
Also booting up Space Cadet Pinball every now and then after I found it neatly packaged up in my distro’s repos. Used to play it a lot as a kid and it’s interesting playing it again now. The sound design is fantastic tbh
As Stephanie Sterling keeps pointing out, “generative AI” is a really inaccurate description and is at best a marketing term that is supposed to make it sound like tech bros have automated creativity. In reality it’s just an elaborate new way to launder art in a way that isn’t recognised as stealing by the current legal system. It’s “derivative AI” at best (when not used for stealing) because with no input (training dataset) there is no output (big tiddy vidya gf)
In fact, if you want information to kill the police officers who are going to Haiti, I am sure we can help
My god, this goes so fucking hard
Very relatable, I would also like to know this lol
Are there comfy headphones that actually kill all the sound?
The ones I got were disappointing and not comfy, so I have no recs :(
Take care of yourself as best you can, wishing you luck
I’m having fun imagining this, but coming from an old timey roman soldier talking about Rome.
otherwise wtf
Fair enough regarding the progression of the game design across the series. Nintendo games do be pricey, so I didn’t take it into account because I haven’t played most of them. But that actually makes even more sense regarding why they feel comfortable bringing in zelda as mc for the first time now.
If it turns out that particular gameplay we’re trying to bring to fruition would be best served by having Zelda take that role, then it’s possible that that could be a direction we could take.
i.e. they would only cast zelda for the mc role if she was more suited to the gameplay than link. Read: Link has been more suited to be the protagonist of each mainline game up to this point. So now that they’re cooking with a different gameplay formula (not a bad thing on its own) they feel like zelda can take centre stage (also not a bad thing on its own).
CCS never showed any promise. Its main purpose hass been to be a “future technology” for rich people and politicians to point to as an excuse for why they’re not doing more right now.