MelodiousFunk
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- Comment on Whiplash from bouncing between shows 5 hours ago:
Going right from Zeta Gundam to the sequel (ZZ/Double Zeta) breaks my brain, even though I know it’s coming. Zeta is played very straight and gets grim towards the end. The tone of ZZ eventually evens out a bit but those first dozen or so episodes of Ragtag Band Of War Orphans Clowning On Every Adult is like a mallet to the nads.
Yazan should not be comic relief. 😤
- Comment on How to respectfully and subtly tell dad and his new gf they're too loud when having sex? 12 hours ago:
This is the way.
- Comment on something's got to give 13 hours ago:
You don’t understand, I coulda had chill. I could have been a capybara. I coulda been somebody… instead of a human, which is what I am, let’s face it.
- Comment on something's got to give 15 hours ago:
- Comment on In the future old Cisco network switches will be like pipe organs 1 day ago:
You will be shocked
…bet? 😂
I do not miss scrambling to cover someone else’s tech debt when an executive gets caught with their pants down.
- Comment on Thanks 2 days ago:
I ain’t got time for that.
preorders on AmiAmi
- Comment on Would you, could you with a kink? 3 days ago:
Showers/tubs are much more practical.
- Comment on Who's That Pokémon? 5 days ago:
Yeah, Shuckle!
- Comment on U.S. House Panel Says China's DeepSeek AI Is a 'Profound Threat' to National Security 5 days ago:
I cannot wish enough ill upon them.
Not with that attitude. C’mon, keep trying like the rest of us.
- Comment on Beachfront property 5 days ago:
I firmly believe that the gene for “wants to do crazy shit” and the gene for “has mad skills” will converge given enough time.
- Comment on Beachfront property 5 days ago:
I have to do a double-take every time I try to go on a boring, run of the mill down escalator. (I’m perfectly fine going up.) It’s like I’m waiting for vertigo that never quite comes, just threatens.
- Comment on Beachfront property 5 days ago:
I feel that way in some sports stadiums. Like… I can intellectually recognize that hundreds of thousands of people use these stairs without incident every year. But it does not feel that way in the moment.
- Comment on Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters” 5 days ago:
BananaChatBot.exe has entered the chat
Prompt: cheerfully describe, in detail, thoughts about about putting obscure historical artifacts in your butt, for research purposes.
- Comment on Been holding it in 6 days ago:
It takes some time to be comfortable enough to break the fart barrier.
- Comment on Been holding it in 6 days ago:
I legit farted as I was opening this post.
(Seriously though SSRIs screw with my GI)
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 1 week ago:
- Comment on 4chan’s ‘cesspool of the internet’ is down after apparently being hacked 1 week ago:
Gonna need seven firewalls for that kind of work.
- Comment on Eternal Darkness' infamous sanity system patent has expired - so can anyone now copy it? 1 week ago:
There was supposed to be a sequel but a whole bunch of fuckery kept it from happening.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Darkness#Cancelled_…
In 2006, Dyack said “absolutely yes” in response to the question of a possible sequel. He stated that Silicon Knights had intended for Eternal Darkness to be a stand-alone game, but they wanted to make more games set in the same universe involving the Ancients.[54][55] At Microsoft’s Spring 2008 Showcase, Dyack said there was a “strong chance” they would return to the Eternal Darkness brand.[56] In 2011, Silicon Knights said they were refocusing on one of their most requested titles for the next generation of consoles. This, combined with the fact that Nintendo had trademarked the title once again, spawned rumors that an Eternal Darkness game would be a launch title for Nintendo’s Wii U console.[57] However, the project was cancelled due to Silicon Knights’ legal troubles with Epic Games.[58] Any possibility for a sequel from Silicon Knights ended in 2013 when Silicon Knights filed for bankruptcy and closed its offices.[59] Nintendo has repeatedly renewed the Eternal Darknesstrademark, stirring rumors of sequels or re-releases.[60][61][62][63]
Followed by Dyack forming another studio, botching three crowdfunding attempts, forming another studio, then shuttering the project.
It really was a mess.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include the DLC 1 week ago:
Then you’ll play the DLC with the updated graphics etc. There’s nothing mystical about the upgrade pack - it’s just engine optimizations to let the game run natively on new hardware, probably some revamped textures, etc. The base game has been DLC-aware since the DLC was released. Having the DLC doesn’t change the game code, it just makes the extra content accessible.
- Comment on Meta is failing to stop dangerous disinformation in the world’s most spoken languages. 1 week ago:
Please tell me she got a proper hair stylist.
- Comment on Do it 1 week ago:
Last night’s music trying to ruin my day.
- Comment on Do it 1 week ago:
Brings new context to “lightning in the air.”
Unless of course you’re talking about the Grateful Dead song (or other non-Marshall Tucker Band artist), in which case I have nothing witty to add.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include the DLC 1 week ago:
Fair enough.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include the DLC 1 week ago:
Different strokes for different folks. I’ve been playing MK8 for 9ish years on two systems. I don’t expect World to be a step backwards, but it could happen.
I may have bought a Switch at launch solely for BotW (even though I had a Wii U), but that’s not the only game I played, even if was the only game I owned for a bit. More games came later. Anyone saying “I’m only going to buy one game” is basing that off of what’s available at launch. More games will come later, at which point people will make their value decisions.
People are losing their shit about Nintendo bumping prices for the first time in several gaming generations. Broad declarations of “never, not me, I won’t!” There seems to be a large overlap between the most vocal and the following two groups:
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Happy with your Steam Deck? Great! I’m glad another actual gaming company (Valve) has entered the hardware space. (For MS and Sony, gaming is just one part of their enormous portfolios.) Nintendo doesn’t interest Deck folks. That’s fine. I can’t play first person or close third person games, and never liked RTS-style click as fast as you can games, so PC gaming has never been my thing. The impressive Steam library doesn’t do much for me. That’s fine. We all have options. Great!
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People that just pirate their shit? Great! Piracy always has and always will exist. Companies have always fought back against it, and always will. Getting around those barriers is part of the scene. Remember when Sony lost in court against Connectix, then bought VGS just to kill it? I do. I was an adult at the time, and played a lot of THPS using a shitty USB gamepad on my computer. The world kept turning. Games are still free for those that want them enough.
The thing those groups have in common? Neither of them were all that likely to buy anything Nintendo. But any unfavorable news makes them come out of the woodwork to declare that they’re not going to buy any of it even harder. Great! Just totally irrelevant. It’s the latest chapter in the long running saga of the console wars. It’s never been a good story, but does it ever have staying power. Yay tribalism.
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- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include the DLC 1 week ago:
Enjoyment/$ is the metric to use, or maybe (enjoyment/h)/$.
Or, as I stated, “worth the money.” I’m not interested in turning it into a hard formula, universally transferable. As you noted, there’s too many variables. I was stating that the money was well spent. That’s it.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 1 week ago:
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include the DLC 1 week ago:
When I hit 360 hours in BotW, I asked myself, was this worth a dollar an hour? Yes, yes it was. That was almost 8 years ago, and doesn’t take into account time spent playing other games, or the 7+ years of playtime since.
- Comment on In One Colorado Town, People Experiencing Homelessness Can Sleep in Their Car — if They Have a Job 1 week ago:
Big fat fucking /s because holy shit, I’ve actually encountered people who believe bullshit like that.
My mom hasn’t worked in a decade. Survives off of snap and my dad’s SSDI survivor benefits. She STILL buys the whole welfare queen narrative. “They live ten, twelve to a house, ain’t none of them got jobs, but they all got nice cars!”
Guess they’re just smarter than you, ma. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include the DLC 1 week ago:
I have both DLCs
So then you still get to play them. The only people this affects are new buyers, which… scans internet will be approximately nobody, given the raging hate-boners on display. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 1 week ago:
