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- Comment on Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will officially begin on June 25 1 day ago:
Even then, though, I wouldn’t trust preorders enough to do it. Stores love taking preorders, but they don’t factor that in with the amount of stock they’ll receive.
I remember seeing posts from folks who lined up to pick up their preorders of big games like Spider-Man and Tears of the Kingdom on release day, only to get told by the store that they didn’t actually have enough stock to honor everyone’s preorder.
- Comment on porch of geese 1 day ago:
It’s often said that a language is just a dialect with an army.
Portuguese and Spanish (Castilian) are more closely related than Castilian is to Catalan. Yet Catalan is often classified as a dialect of Spanish than a language in its own right.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says "YouTube monetizes Xbox better than we do", ahead of expected layoffs | Satya Nadella bemoans performance of Xbox 2 days ago:
Nintendo maybe. Sony likes buyouts too, just not on the scale of Microsoft. Ask Destiny fans how well Sony’s buyout of Bungie is going.
- Comment on failed to load your meme 3 days ago:
…they say from PieFed.zip, lol
- Comment on My favourite moment of the world cup is when there's more rules about advertising than the sport 5 days ago:
The world cup has tons of ads playing all around the pitch. The branded stadiums just didn’t want to pay to be on the sponsors list.
- Comment on Capcom says shifting from auteur-driven development to team-led development is what transformed the company and allowed flagship IPs to survive for so long - AUTOMATON WEST 6 days ago:
I thought Wilds was regarded as substantially worse than World. Its ratings seem to indicate as much, at least, and Steam player counts still show World as the more actively played.
- Comment on Why do mosques feel so trippy? 1 week ago:
A lot of mosques aren’t that glittery. There are different styles to building mosques
This. I feel like OP encountered one example of a very ornate mosque and is generalizing the rest of them based on that. I know the ones near me are a lot more plain.
By example, compare the architecture of small community christian churches to grand cathedrals in Europe. You’ll find similar extravagance, yet it would be weird to ask why all churches are so ornate just based on those examples.
- Comment on Well damn. Glad he's dead. 1 week ago:
A few modern poets were. William Butler Yeats is another I know of. His image is somewhat sanitized because he’s an important national poet for Ireland, but he was a rich asshole who was supportive of the fascist movements in Ireland (Blueshirts) and abroad (Francoist Spain). Similar (but less overt) is T. S. Eliot, who also became sympathetic to fascism later in life.
- Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 1 week ago:
I’m of a similar mind, but at least no remake, good or bad, will remove the original. Thanks to the hard work of decompilation teams, anyone can play a truly definitive version of the original OoT at any time. It’s both preserved and perfected, available as it was but with support for the controllers, PC setups, and refresh rates that we are used to today.
That’s why I’m okay with the remake even if it is a strong departure from the original game. I’m more interested in a reimagining type of remake rather than one that just tries to do exactly what the original did with better graphics.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How life feels when you check your bank account after a vacation
- Comment on What's that smell? 1 week ago:
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION - Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I’ll always advocate for patient gaming, but in case you were looking to catch up on the first two before this one comes out, I would start sooner than later for a couple reasons. First is just because they are absolutely massive games that may take longer than expected to complete, but second because I think they benefit from taking a break in between. I wouldn’t do one right after the other.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION - Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Spring 2027, so less than a year away (assuming no delays). Also will be a simultaneous launch on all systems, no exclusivity window this time.
- Comment on 1666: Amsterdam - Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
FWIW, this one isn’t just jumping on a trend, it has a whole fucking odyssey behind it.
Patrice Desilets (original director of the Assassin’s Creed series) had a falling out with Ubisoft and left the company to begin developing this game with THQ between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, THQ declared bankruptcy, got chopped up into pieces to sell, and their Montreal studio along with the 1666 Amsterdam IP were bought up by Ubisoft.
Ubisoft fired Desilets as a spite move for his earlier departure and canceled the game. The only real evidence that it even existed in tangible form was an early development reel that leaked a few years later. In the interim, there was a whole big lawsuit, and it somehow eventually ended up with Desilets becoming the rightsholder to Amsterdam 1666 again.
So this game has been in something of a development hell for about 15 years now, and it’s pretty cool to see it finally come to light.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION - Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Glorious.
- Comment on The ride of a lifetime 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t even know there was a followup movie in the works. I can understand why a sequel could be good given all that’s happened since, but I can’t understand doing so without most of the important people behind the first one. Sorkin’s a good writer, but I don’t think he was 100% responsible for what made the first one a good movie.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
and the cops did their job.
Ah so they kept all of the LGBT migrants and anti-Zionists away.
- Comment on Can't wait. 2 weeks ago:
/ˈvæ.sə.lin/
- Comment on AI generated image of average Reddit meet up 3 weeks ago:
There are a few bits of text on the background shirts that are unreadable. Also the cans and Funko pop box on the table. A few of the background posters on the wall also make no visual sense either.
It is AI, but it’s pretty damn convincing. If someone were to come around and say “actually, this is a performance art piece making a statement about the inauthenticity of online community, where they handmade fake AI melty graphics in the real world for a photo,” I could also be convinced of that.
- Comment on Carwful who you judge 3 weeks ago:
I think this reply may be attached to the wrong comment in the chain for context, but I think the meaning is a bit different (just slightly).
Clavicular was mid jestergooning
Clavicular was in the middle of making a fool of himself for attention
when a group of Foids came
when a group of women (“foids”, female humanoids, dehumanizing) came
and spiked his Cortisol levels
and riled him up.
Is Ignoring the Foids while munting
Is ignoring the women while getting blitzed/shitfaced (may not be an accurate interpretation of "munting, but it appears to either be a shock value thing involving necrophilia or just getting high on drugs, so I interpreted it as the latter based on context)
and mogging moids
and styling on the other guys (“moids”, male humanoids, dehumanizing)
more useful then SMV chadfishing in the club?
more useful than increasing his sexual market value by being fake as hell in the club?
- Comment on Carwful who you judge 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for sharing the video. I ended up watching the whole thing and found myself of a similar mind as the presenters: he makes a lot of points that sound downright reasonable. I expected some vapid jock-type like you typically see on reality TV, but he’s able to articulate a lot of problems about our current society in ways that I can’t really refute. It’s just his solutions to those issues that are wrong.
And I think that’s what makes his position as an influencer so dangerous. He’s speaking to the genuine lack of class mobility that Millennials through Gen Alpha have had to accept as reality, and “proving” his point through his own life. Sure he might die by the age of 40 with how unhealthy his lifestyle is. But I think a lot of people in the younger generations would likewise rather party it up to unhealthy degrees while young than work a menial dead-end job for 50 years, hoping you get a couple years of retirement in your old age before you die.
- Comment on Life Is Strange 3 weeks ago:
Basically. There’s a mostly linear plot with some diverging narrative choices that affect outcomes. There’s some sort of mystery element, you explore the world to get information/clues/resources, and most of the games have some sort of superpower gimmick that you use to explore the world and story (e.g. rewinding time, telekinesis, aura reading).
The games are like an old point and click adventure, but without the pointing and clicking. Or the adventure. If that makes sense.
- Comment on League of L*gends 3 weeks ago:
The American flag is already perfect symbolism. Rotate it 90° and you’re looking at a view of the night sky through the bars of a jail cell.
- Comment on lol 3 weeks ago:
But wootz is forever
- Comment on I see you MVP! 4 weeks ago:
Or that kid who thought he knew how to speak Scots.
- Comment on Day 674 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playin 4 weeks ago:
This is just based on long, distant memories, but I think you can actually fish up the bomb fish and get water bombs from them.
- Comment on I'm at like a 4 4 weeks ago:
Chooses 5 to be as far away from both poles as possible
“So you’re saying you’re not sure whether you want to rape or murder the kids?”
- Comment on The idiot mayor of Toronto extended bar hours to 4am so fans in Toronto can enjoy the World Cup no matter time the game is 4 weeks ago:
The same reason half of Europe has closed shops on Sunday, worker protection.
That sounds more like countries enforcing a religious preference (day of rest on Sunday for church) than worker protection. I suppose it could be branded as secular, but so can France’s ban on wearing hijabs in the name of laïcité.
- Comment on crap 4 weeks ago:
Just Andrew of Nonceshire now
- Comment on Um...do I have to? 4 weeks ago:
YOU WILL DEFEND YOUR CORPORATE OVERLORDS.
