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@Baierworks I still like Kuja a lot. If just because... (spoilers) . . . . . ...he technically succeeds in killing the party during the final battle.

Final Fantasy - the Peak Villain Trilogy It always amused me that Final Fantasy's three best villains were all from three consecutive games in the series. Exdeath from V, Kefka from VI, and Sephiroth from VII. Being in a bit of a FF mood lately, I was compelled to make this tribute to the apex of antagonism.

@storkstrangler @JTAlexander "You guys tell on yourselves by making this so personal to yourselves" - The person whose side literally cannot walk half an inch without making everything under the sky about themselves.

@JTAlexander You guys tell on yourselves by making this so personal to yourselves Its completely within his character to do this Its a show, its fiction.

“And he’s so cowardly and blubbering and pathetic, as are most strong men when you remove their power and they’re and they’re faced with their imminent death, they rarely handle it bravely.” This quote alone proves to you that Kripke is a Revenge of the Nerds type coward and weakling. This single sentence says so much about this man. He thinks “strength” means “power,” and thus rationalizes his own weakness as merely an absence of real power, acquisition of which would be a major sin. He believes his weakness is a virtue. This is absolutely typical of Hollywood writer types. This is why they write stories featuring jocks as low IQ meatheads, when in reality most of the great men of history were both athletes and intellectuals (Plato and Nixon as two great examples millennia apart). They misunderstand “blessed are the meek” as “blessed are the weak.” People like Kripke cannot believe in real strength and real courage because *they* could never feel it. He can’t even imagine it. All those strong and brave men are, secretly, just as chicken shit as he is. The only thing separating Kripke and Audie Murphy is that Audie Murphy had power—or something like that. I don’t care about this show, never have watched a single episode, and have never understood the appeal. But everything I have seen and heard of the showrunner leads me to believe without any doubt that he is the most dangerous kind of person—an utterly weak and cowardly man that cannot even imagine being a stronger and braver one. Be very wary of weak men.

@AntifaScoundrel @SongLiu50093183 @BarcodeSpeaks @JulianHeliosII Kinda like how it's not incompatible for people like you to claim to be anti-fascist while behaving like the most unhinged, frothing-at-the-mouth Hitler Youth imaginable.

@SongLiu50093183 @BarcodeSpeaks @JulianHeliosII Those are not, in fact, incompatible beliefs for a person to hold. The contradiction between them is in fact what provokes the god complex into existence.

Wow that was some of the worst garbage I've ever seen Astonishingly lazy. It might be a perfect case study for the mind of the spiteful mutant turbolib I'm reminded of the King of France during the French Revolution: "Louis spent his last night calmly in the Temple prison. He awoke early, heard Mass, and received communion from his Irish confessor, Abbé Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont. He wrote his last will and testament and entrusted personal items (his seal to his son, his wedding ring to Marie Antoinette) to the priest. On the advice of his confessor, he avoided a highly emotional final meeting with his wife and children to spare them further suffering. Louis showed remarkable dignity and firmness, which surprised even his executioners. He removed his coat and cravat, had his hair cut, and allowed his hands to be bound with his own handkerchief (after initially resisting rope, persuaded by the priest who reminded him of Christ’s sacrifice). He walked firmly across the scaffold. According to the most detailed contemporary account from Abbé Edgeworth, Louis silenced the drums with his presence and spoke in a loud, clear voice: “I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.” As he was being strapped to the plank, he reportedly exclaimed: “My people, I die innocent!” And turning to the executioners: words affirming his innocence and expressing the hope that his blood would “cement the happiness of the French” (according to executioner Charles-Henri Sanson’s own account). -- Eric Kripke and his ilk are children of the French Revolution. They can't stand the idea of nobility or bravery, it disgusts them because it forces them to reflect on their multitude of inadequacies. They must create an imagined world where powerful men are as pathetic as themselves. This is mere wishcasting, dressed up in computer graphics and film. It's just like The Lord of the Flies, wherein the book depicts pathetic chaos ensuing after being removed from civilizing forces. But in reality, the event that inspired the book had the children cooperate and thrive until they were saved. This annoyed the author, so he rewrote reality itself. Wishcasting.

@jamievampslayer @salmonbait04 @deg_nyd @EyedJeff So your argument is that a 5-star steakhouse that had a handful of locations becoming mass-chain McD's slop is good because now that steakhouse reaches a much bigger low-quality consumer base rather than a sustainable but otherwise niche group who appreciated it for what it was.

@salmonbait04 @deg_nyd @EyedJeff Marvel is in one of the best business/cultural impact positions they’ve been for their entire existence. The reason the books are not selling crazy numbers is because the books are print media and print media is down across the entire industry. Any other explanation is a fantasy

Yall straight up gutted the mainstream comic book industry with this “sexy women bad” bullshit. Shut the fuck up.

@Mommy_Birb @Freefromdespair I'm saying players should just pretend Strive never happened and keep on playing stuff like Xrd in quantities that outperform Strive's "modern audience" numerically.

@DJackpoint @Freefromdespair I'm a bit slow, can you explain what you mean by that? Like take a step back and look at what GG a great series or just completely abandon strive and work more on an older game

So...I went through all of old GG games' story mode for what exactly...? Retcons on top of retcons? I hate this game so fucking much.

@Mommy_Birb @Freefromdespair Honestly, the only option other than to abandon ship wholesale is to focus all player attention on pre-Strive, especially on Steam, so that the numerical reality clowns on ArcSys.

@Freefromdespair At that point strive is just a reboot of the series Never as good as the original but you'll have people telling you it is

@vt_takes3 I like that the thread left out the part where she talked about desperately telling her mother not to watch rrat videos or comments, and that she hoped to god that people wouldn't go taking her words out of context to create drama and conspiracy theories, as it proceeds to do so.

from the mouth of the reaper

@sephtiger @Daikazo2 They'd never survive the actual 90s. People were actually cool in the 90s and mocked people like them profusely. They had literally zero social capital.

@Daikazo2 they desperately want it to but also be the 90s

(Struggling to) watch Ceci play this fuckass game and I just noticed the main character's headphones are one of the first results when you google "1990s wireless headphones" - which are not ACTUALLY 1990s headphones, but just styled to look like them.

@MAWKVLT @LookAtMyMeat1 All I'm seeing here is you don't actually know what a monopoly is. Steam isn't preventing anyone from being as good as Steam is. If Steam was doing that, the same way as say EA or Activision kill off rival game studios, or Disney devours rival companies, then you'd have a point.

@LookAtMyMeat1 Well. It is a monopoly, why would you be afraid of saying that it is? It's proof that their system works. Where is the shame in that?

There's a reason other companies are trying so desperately to have Steam labeled as a monopoly

@SandyofCthulhu Steam is basically the gaming equivalent of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.

Gabe Newell owns the majority share in Steam. Now, I know Newell somewhat. We've met. We've talked. He's not a close friend by any means. But it is by his will and genius that Steam is the way it is - a triumph of good guy capitalism. A great site for finding games, with cheap prices, frequent sales. Well ... I don't need to praise it here. You guys all know about it. When Newell passes away, it's unclear what will happen with Steam. Doubtless his shares will go to his family. Will they continue his vision? Or will they sell out to one of the many circling sharks who have been trying to buy it for years? What will happen if the sharks DO get their teeth into Steam? I believe that in that case Steam will go to hell in a handbasket. Owned by men in suits who don't give a sh*t about quality or the consumer. Probably it will become a subscription service or worse. If it gets sold to a horror show like Electronic Arts or Disney it'll be a nightmare. The only mitigating feature is that a different service might arise, but it will need to fight the rotting lumbering corpse of Steam to establish itself. I am content that since I am several years older than Gabe, it is plausible that I won't live to see this terrible day. But you might. Gabe Newell, to me, is literally barring the gates to Hell for us all.

@EnglishAutism @luhbrix @Jesse0pposite @JoeLongBalls Implying the monarchy even exists with a traitorous WEF plant like him on the throne.

@luhbrix @Jesse0pposite @JoeLongBalls It would literally be the end of the monarchy if he did that.

great stuff, guy who has never used a computer in his 200 years of life, dictating computer use from a golden throne

@xai @xai How about instead you fix the rate limit lunacy that's been ongoing this past week? $30 for SuperGrok and yet rate limited for 24+ hours after only 20 or so image generations. In what universe do you expect someone to keep paying for that type of poor service?

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@PresGeorgie @ErothesN55238 @Han31506417073 Aw, that's cute, you think devs aren't beholden to publishers who payroll them. Wait 'til you find out how many games EA tanked by using their status as publisher to dictate how devs made their games. Or Warner Bros. for that matter.

@DJackpoint @ErothesN55238 @Han31506417073 Annapurna aren’t the devs

Those two 9/10s are like when dictators decide to give themselves 99%of the votes instead of 100%

@PresGeorgie @ErothesN55238 @Han31506417073 Do your research, man. It's literally a nepobaby LARPing as an indie with their daddy's money.

@ErothesN55238 @Han31506417073 it’s a 3 hour single player game why would concurrent players matter? And whose dad is a billionaire? What are you talking about man

@humansbeing02 @MyChudLife Oh, for sure. I'm actually a fan of Led Zeppelin and britpop as well. Basically listened to everything back in the 90s, really, whether it was rock, or pop, or rap, or anything in between or on the fringes.

@DJackpoint @MyChudLife Shoot im more of Led Zeppelin guy maybe thats why it didnt connect to me but im not just saying its bad cuz they are English

this game was made to be enjoyed soley by boring out of touch white millennials who couldnt accept they had a privileged upbringing so they wanna pretend they were a generation of rebels

@humansbeing02 @MyChudLife The sound of 90s brit-pop. Which more or less goes to show the generational and cultural gap. But the point is the song is about rich people pretending to be poor for fun.

@DJackpoint @MyChudLife I mean I've never heard that song, went to youtube, now I need some ear sanitizer cuz wtf did I just listen to

@LoserCeeVA @high_cream06 @BleuSpheres If he's a descendant.. what if it's his actual last name. Like an Eggman married a mad scientist chick with the last name Nega and they hyphenated.

@high_cream06 @BleuSpheres all official media regarding nega releasing today refers to him as a descendant of eggman's. i don't know where it was originally revealed, rivals 2 or something else, but the fact of the matter is SEGA sees him as such. i found out through people telling me and doing research

Eggman Nega shouldn't get a name change, everyone else should grow up

@AlwaysWrightDM @LadyGravemaster I'm an idiot because you just invented the most meaningless pedantic caveat ever? Let's be totally real: The ONLY reason to press the blue button is because people like you will get us all killed otherwise, so we all have to lower ourselves to your level to survive. Congrats.

@DJackpoint @LadyGravemaster I voted trump three times. Believe me or don't, the truth doesn't change. Also 100% is impossible because everyone means everyone, which means children, the elderly, and the mentally handicapped. You idiot

For anyone still confused; If everyone pushes the red button, everyone survives. Done. If anyone pushes the blue button, they're committing suicide unless they can convince at least half of everyone else to also risk suicide in order for none of them to have to actually do it, but they want to, and now get to, brag they were willing to kill themselves & convince a multitude of others to as well, even though there was a perfectly logical, non-suicidal option the entire time that wouldn't have risked any of the population.

@TheStrxggler Giving up literally means letting the demons summoned by the mark eat him. What a tourist hot take to make.

Are you kidding me? Fuck no.