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I believe a number of them have publisher/port deals with big studios, so I wasn't sure if that would disqualify them in some eyes, but yes I consider all of them fully indie-developed games.

Yeah I played a few, but arythia was my "main" and the only one I still remember the name and details of. But it was also run by a group of kids just slightly older than me out of a local tech school that I knew about via a connection I made in local theatre, so arythia had a much more concrete "real world" feel to me than any of the other completely random MUDs I played.

I guess it depends on your definition of indie some, but here are mine:

Guacamelee 1 & Guacamelee 2 - The humor is mixed but the gameplay is just so damn tight

Shovel Knight - Growing up on games like Mega Man and Duck Tales, Shovel Knight feels like it was made specifically for me.

Celeste - One of my favorite gaming experiences. Great story, great gameplay, and hard as fuck. Incredible accessibility options also.

Recettear: An Item Shop - I don't know anyone else who has played this game but it's so damn good. I love it.

Stardew Valley - The way ConcernedApe continues to add free content to this game makes this easily one of the best values in gaming, but this game would still be great even if content updates had stopped a long time ago. Have to play on PC though for mods; the default walking speed makes the game unplayable for me.

I also put years into a now-defunct multi-user-dungeon called Arythia, but that's kind of it's own whole thing so I don't think that counts.

edit: I can't believe I forgot to include Hades, which is literally one of my all-time favorite games.

I think there are plenty of other options that exist before drawing weapons. And I think the comparative successes of police in other countries justify this belief. So yes, I do strongly believe that on the whole there would be less dead total, citizen and cop combined, if police were restricted from drawing their firearm until danger has been actualized and were thus instead forced to focus time and resources on necessary de-escalation training.

And the reality we have now is a lot of dead citizens who didn't sign up to a job inherently involving danger. Is that a preferable situation?

For some reason this is unpopular, but I don't think a police officer should be allowed to remove their firearm from its holster until actual assault has occurred, unless non-police citizens are in danger.

A cop merely being scared should never be a reason somebody dies.

If you can't handle the pressure, don't be a fucking cop.

You asked about film but I'm gonna answer comic books. For me, the X-Men scene where Dark Beast "cask of Amontillado"s original Beast behind the brick wall is my top answer. The comic spends time clarifying that Hank McCoy's (Beast) nature is inquisitive, and his curiosity so great that merely not knowing an answer is harder for him than receiving a negative answer, so that the cruelty is extra-pronounced when Beast asks Dark Beast why he is doing this and Dark Beast just grins at him and says "Because" before placing the last brick. As a kid, I found that level of taunting truly to be haunting

WB 👎

Fuck WB. I've got no plans to interact with any of their products or properties going forward.

I've lived in America my whole life, turn 40 this year, and I have never had a pizza roll. Or a microwave pizza bagel (but I have made mini pizza from scratch using real bagels as the crust)

This just simply isn't true.

Granted, this is some random bullshit website, but they do list their sources, and they claim

"1 in 4 TikTok users are under 20 years old"

https://explodingtopics.com/blog/tiktok-demographics

25% is hugely different than *the majority of users."

Tiktok isn't a kid's app, has never been a kid's app, and while it's popular with kids if you are an adult with normal adult patterns you aren't going to get served minor accounts to follow unless you are actively seeking that or have interests or hobbies with an big younger skewing (such as if you follow the #minecraft hashtag, I would imagine).

Undoubtedly, especially since I haven't taken particular steps to obfuscate my identity here.

But as I said in a comment below, I'm more worried about some unhinged nutbag online randomly targeting me than being a person of interest by any nefarious groups or organizations.