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Labyrinth was such a good time.

I've found the best way to really infuriate online edgelords was to be patient yet firm with them.

Like a parent.

"Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory" was both a lie (typically invoked to defend/justify bigotry, bullying, and such) and it also served to normalize people being assholes on the internet. "Perfectly well adjusted wholesome ordinary people chant nazi slogans when they log onto the internet, for real guys! It says nothing about their character as people because for some magical reason the internet totally has no connections to lived human experiences!"

I'm glad that the so-called rule fell out of use and the excuse rings very hollow for most people now. Also, I noticed that many "ironic asshole" comedians and entertainers from the "le epic trolling" era wound up being actual assholes that hurt people outside of the act. "Million Dollar Extreme" and Justin Roiland come to mind.

You're right.

If you like good storytelling, worldbuilding, complex flawed characters and/or deep interactive internal monologues, Disco Elysium is unsurpassed.

Corpo media has an entire subgenre of itself that could be called "ACTUALLY."

I have no idea what the fuck @curiosaurus@discuss.online is talking about.

Smug, self-serving, self-congratulatory, "it's the internet, therefore caring about anything or expecting any conduct standards is stupid" thought terminating cliches. That shit got tired decades ago and it's still vile now.

"This is a case of a rare incel victory that led to Ubisoft having to take down its numbers," they added.

Some analysts point to sheer number of games available today, their high prices, and the cost of living crisis for a slowdown in the gaming market. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot himself admitted that gamers now expect extraordinary experiences, and that "delivering solid quality is no longer enough."

The lesson learned is pander even more and make the hog slop an even more finely liquefied puree of fanservice shit!

They're so amazingly dogmatic, too. There's this subtext belief that Nintendo's business decisions are somehow profoundly and uniquely wise, such as the claim that there can't be a new F-Zero game because "there's no conceivable way to make it different each time, which is a Nintendo(tm)(r) mandate" as if it wouldn't be enough to add weapons to the vehicles, customization/performance modifications, power allocation, outright flying or even space segments, or even out-of-the-car gameplay.

Nope. Just the "make it different each time" of the Zelda plot rehashes forever and ever.

Or, make it "different each time" by making it janky in a way most people don't like, like Star Fox Zero which was also a plot rehash, and then shelve the franchise because people didn't like it. Nintendo is that infallible!

That "Frightful Hobgoblin" computer toucher would insist otherwise, claiming that a sufficient number of Game Boys bolted together equals or even exceeds human sapience, but I think that user is currently too busy being a bigoted sex pest.

It's marketing hype, even in the name. It isn't "AI" as decades of the actual AI field would define it, but credulous nerds really want their cyberpunkerino fantasies to come true so they buy into the hype label.