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@RighteousMang @revenant_MMXX This is a common practice though, finding a name for some movement when looking back. Like “film noir” wasn’t a term that existed when the classic noir movies were being made.

@revenant_MMXX It has *some* aesthetic cohesion, and it's definitely a "vibe", but it didn't exist as a unified concept when it was actually being created. At least not by that name, which was clearly apparently made up around 2023.

"Boomer shooter" is a fictive LARP hallucination of something that never existed, just like "Frutiger Aero." We pretend it's like Doom or Quake but it's all just Ultrakill, over and over.

@SomethingClassc When FF VII came out in 1997, I (age 11) had only really played Nintendo games, I had never seen any anime, and my whole concept of sci-fi was Star Trek or Star Wars, so FF VII felt like a game from the future. It was just impossibly cool.

It was the first RPG that EVERYONE I knew played. EVERYONE played it. Hard to overstate this. It also got so many of us into the genre and from there we went back and discovered so many incredible games and became life long fans

@btharris93 It’s been a wild success. Hamas carried out a horrifying act of terrorism against innocent Israelis, and there’s been a turn of public opinion AGAINST Israel. (And it’s not all a reaction to Israel’s response, western leftists did pro Hamas protests the day of the attack)

People often say October 7th was a huge strategic failure from Hamas' perspective, and in a sense it was obviously, but I do wonder whether their overarching goal was simply to whip up as much antisemitism as possible in the long-run. Because on that front they've sadly succeeded

@ManuclearBomb I’ve never even seen The Pitt, but a lot of people are talking about it like it’s their first TV drama

I remain so alienated by whatever the broader Pitt fandom is talking about; like I haven’t seen a single interview from the cast or showrunner and I have no problem understanding everyone’s characterization

@homosexualmouse Yeah, it’s just a different vibe than it was 20 years ago, so I think some people still don’t realize the extent this has happened across the country. (the people I worked in service jobs with in Idaho in the 2000s were all camo and country music)

Like I'm sorry, I thought we ALL knew that exurban-rural America was infested with 22 year old blue haired enby weebs who spend all day on Discord? Like I thought that was common knowledge?

@JeanFeliz_ @JJunkWarrior Not yet, he still has many years to make good on this

@JJunkWarrior Did he cut his head off tho?

aged like milk

@NavyInnovator @OVTweetmarck I think they want it to go 1. God 2. Country 3. Church Which feels very Protestant

@OVTweetmarck It's downstream of protestantism, which, salvation secured, can move on to focusing on worldly pursuits.

Really it would make zero sense to think otherwise. "I believe God, the Alpha and the Omega, was incarnate on Earth to save us from death and the Catholic Church is His path to salvation...but this country founded 250 years ago is more important to me."

@TrevorLeePro Probably depends on where you’re from. I grew up in Washington and Idaho and there was basically no March madness talk at school.

I remember teachers use to just quit during March Madness days they’d roll in a tv and we would watch ball. Was that just a NC thing or was that happening everywhere?

@Empty_America And? The predicted inflation happened and yet people eat out, go on vacation, and buy new cars more often than they did in 1996.

Assuming the current monetary system endures, a burger and fries will one day cost $160, then $1,600. The Fed targets an inflation rate of 2% annually, if it falls below that they try to get it back up again. This is "supposed" to happen and is very predictable.

@ThePrussian1 @TheBayonetBra @MeghanEMurphy @Rach4Patriarchy Divorce rates are down from their peak

@TheBayonetBra @MeghanEMurphy @Rach4Patriarchy Check the divorce statistics. Men have to be nuts to marry in this climate

The men these women want (the top 1%) are not willing to commit. Average women now reject the average men who are willing to commit to them, bc social media and dating apps have them convinced they deserve a top 1% guy. Average is no longer good enough. @MeghanEMurphy

@RealPostFolder 27 isn’t that old. It feels that way because his friends are doing better. Plenty of time to get where he wants to be by 40.

@morgans04 @wil_da_beast630 My school once took us out into a field and we made an oval the size of the Ark, to show us that it was big enough for “2 of every animal”

@wil_da_beast630 Do they really believe it? Two of each animal and such?

@allie__voss It’s a big thing his critics don’t get, if you tell a certain type of person “some debt is good” they will hear “borrowing $60,000 to buy a truck is fine”

People hate on Dave Ramsey but honestly he's the best advice for a lot of people It's oversimplified if you're financially stable, but otherwise most people genuinely just need to hear "DO NOT BUY A NEW CAR"

@StatisticUrban @wil_da_beast630 It was always extremely obvious that Nigeria would never in reality get to 900 million people. That would’ve made it the most densely populated country (excluding city-states). Of course other pressures were going to slow the growth rate.

@allie__voss What is she talking about? Women are slightly more likely to vote than men

@aakashgupta So, what you did was return the movies on time. We never paid a late fee during all of those years.

Blockbuster made $800 million a year charging late fees. Customers hated it so much the company went bankrupt. Two indie developers just made a game where you charge those same late fees, and it launched with a 99% positive review score. The difference is one word: consent. Handing a late fee to an NPC is play. Getting charged $4 for returning Titanic two days late was punishment for enjoying a Friday night ritual you loved. The browse. The wall of new releases. The kid begging for candy at the counter. That experience was Blockbuster’s actual product. The late fee was a tax on it. In 2000, Netflix offered to sell itself to Blockbuster for $50 million. Blockbuster’s CEO laughed them out of the room. By September 2010, Blockbuster’s 9,094 stores were worth $24 million combined. Netflix is worth $400 billion today. The reason is the same reason this game works. Blockbuster’s management looked at the P&L and saw late fees as a revenue line. They never saw them as the compound interest on customer resentment. $800 million a year in recurring hostility. When Netflix offered the same movies with no punishment, the switch was instant. 84,300 employees. 9,094 locations. Gone. Meanwhile, two developers at Blood Pact Studios built the part Blockbuster accidentally threw away. The Friday night ritual, the shelving, the customer interactions, the tape rewinding. Simulation games now account for 9.76% of all Steam revenue. Job simulators alone have generated $1.36 billion lifetime. The shop sim is the single most predictable path to indie success on the platform. Retro Rewind hit #5 top seller on Steam on launch day with zero marketing budget. Blockbuster had $6 billion in annual revenue and couldn’t survive the thing two people just turned into a $16 game. The movie was never the product. The store was.

@DrZen1 @butleriano Sure, of course they’re contested ideas, I just think it gets old when leftists insist on placing democrats on the right, when they are to the left of the median US voter. The spectrum is descriptive and relative, not an objective measure.

@Insertuserusa @butleriano And as a more serious point, these things are not defined by "centrists" who decide that they are somehow neutral. They are contested ideas that depend who you talk to. And Mitt Romney pretty much is a big government liberal RINO from the left too.

Very interesting leftslop position because it sounds sophisticated and worldly but you can only really get to it by having no idea how politics works outside the United States.

@DrZen1 @butleriano As far as I can tell they are less so on racial and trans issues

@Insertuserusa @butleriano Give it time with immigration. If the drift to the Republicans in Hispanics continues, you'll see a change of message. I don't know what "cultural issues" is meant to mean. Labour is pretty standard woke as far as that goes.

@DrZen1 @butleriano I didn’t say they were “the left.” The Labour Party is a center left party with a left wing that they have mostly expelled since the 80s.

@Insertuserusa @butleriano That's fine but if you keep calling the Labour Party the "left" you're going to get called a cunt and not just by the actual left but also by Labour supporters.

@DrZen1 @butleriano But this is part of what I mean, “the left” doesn’t get to set the terms that we use in every day political discussion. Just like I’m not going to call Mitt Romney a “big government liberal rhino” just because that’s what the far right says.

@Insertuserusa @butleriano Most people on the left would also not accept that today's Labour Party is a party of the left, soft or otherwise. We'd probably see Labour as at best a centrist party these days, with a spectrum that reaches into at least as far right as someone like Cameron.