VerilyFemme
@VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 1 day ago:
People were calling George Dubya a Nazi. Reagan’s entire economic plan was “make the rich richer becauze they’ll give poor people money.”
The fact of the matter is, most Americans have been propagandized into thinking communism is the greatest threat they face. Fascism isn’t even on their radar. That’s why they get more upset about people calling others fascists than they do fascists - they don’t have any concept of the legitimate threat, and quite a few think that authoritative power is the only thing that can fix society.
I told my mom in 2021 that I thought the next major threat the US will face is from right wing groups, because I was seeing a sharp rise in alt-right ideology and meme pages on Instagram. She just looked at me like I was crazy and said, “Really?”
It also took me way too long to wake up. I didn’t start calling it fascism until last year, and I certainly didn’t see the warning signs in the first Trump term - I just thought he was an asshole.
But it’s been going on for a while. Since Reagan at least. “Give your people bread and circuses, and they will never revolt.” Except now we have ultrabread delivered to your home and megacircuses in every living room. 70s-90s America, especially, were kind of a paradise for the middle class. Even in the 80s, when people were upset at having to work corporate jobs, consumer products were being cranked out nonstop and affordable to boot. We’ve just had it too good for too long, and we didn’t notice the structure of it all eroding until the floor fell out from under us.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 2 days ago:
If you can emulate PSP games with ease, check out GTA Chinatown Wars. I just wanted to see how the game played one evening, and I ended up beating it in a couple days.
It has a drug dealing mechanic, and you have to crash cop cars to lose stars. Extremely unique and fun GTA.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 2 days ago:
You already have an insanely good library. You could probably play for the rest of the year on those games alone. In addition to what you have here, I’d recommend:
Alien Hominid Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance Burnout series Def Jam: Fight for NY Destroy All Humans 1 & 2 Devil May Cry Godfather, The GTA Vice City Stories & Liberty City Stories (NOT ON PC) GUN Hitman: Blood Money Jak & Daxter series Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Marvel vs Capcom 2 Need For Speed Underground & Hot Pursuit series Onimusha: Warlords Psychonauts Ratchet & Clank Series Rayman 2 Resident Evil 4 Red Dead Revolver Sly Cooper 1 & 3 (1 & 3 are probably my favs) Shadow of the Colossus Silent Hill 2 & 3 Simpsons Hit & Run SoulCalibur II Spider-Man 2 (phenomenal free roam) Star Wars Battlefront I & II Super Monkey Ball Deluxe Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 Twisted Metal: Black
FWIW, the original PS2 versions of the GTA games that are also on PC are actually better because they removed content as licenses expired. Unless you have the downgraded PC versions - in which case, godspeed.
Even then, I usually stick with PS2 as PC doesn’t have support for the analog face buttons that the PS2 had. I don’t know if you can emulate that on Steam Deck, but if you play PS2 GTA San Andreas with an OEM controller, pressing the button harder actually does make you go faster. It’s magic, and I find it hard to play without now. 😅
I look forward to seeing how the Deck holds up with some of these titles! I’ll admit, I’ve been thinking about getting it to use as a portable PS2 myself.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I have been looking for a Streets of Rage version of this meme for a while! Perfect.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 6 days ago:
Buying isn’t owning, but it has to be better than this…
- Comment on Day 440 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
waaAAAAAAoowowowowow
kssh kthunk kssh - Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 1 week ago:
Ugh, I have too much to play in my backlog already. I’ll probably pick up one game that I want to play eventually, maybe Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon.
I’ve been playing Outer Worlds, though, so I’m saving up for the 2nd one just in case it’s good. Given Avowed’s release, my hopes aren’t high. However, the first game is so perfectly average that if they can just
- Comment on True staple of the format 1 week ago:
So fucking true. People ask questions on forums and social media to talk to other people. So many have forgotten the entire purpose of this whole thing.
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 1 week ago:
This game looks awesome!
I should not have clicked on Discussions.
It’s really gotten to the point where there’s no dogwhistly way to say what they’re saying. They’re just being blatant psychotic racists.
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 1 week ago:
Not fucking one. I’m waaayyyyy too young to be the AVGN’s target audience, but I fell in love with him after I saw his review of this piece of shit that my mom owned.
Genuine worst game I had as a kid, and I had Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
- Comment on COMMUNITY REVIVAL: c/juggalos, for fans of Insane Clown Posse and associated acts !!?!! 1 week ago:
You’re probably thinking of this.
- Comment on What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist? 3 weeks ago:
You know, I don’t think there is a term.
So, I’ll coin it: Washingtonism.
Our first President famously advised against political parties. He also stepped down after two turns, establishing a tradition that later became part of the Constitution after FDR won his third term.
He also had slave teeth.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yo mama so stupid…
She bought tickets to see XBOX LIVE
- Comment on No brainer 5 weeks ago:
Free gravel is so busted compared to these. Gravel’s one of those things that you don’t need often, but someone in any town on any given day will need some.
You could undercut every single other gravel business. Even if the competitions lowers their prices dramatically, they can’t go lower than their costs. Meanwhile, you have absolutely no costs on material. Gravel monopoly.
- Comment on Idk if that's what's really happening in that image 🤔 5 weeks ago:
I dated a cricket once in San Antonio. Man, those crazy legs kept me up all night.
- Comment on Have you know???. 1 month ago:
No wait time either. I did it while reading the sentence.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 month ago:
Hawking. No chair.
- Comment on My kind of bar 1 month ago:
Imagine if someone came into the bar you frequent and said this about you.
The regulars like Spot are what keep them in business.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 month ago:
Good. May they learn to never preorder.
- Comment on POSTAL 2 Redux has launched on Kickstarter 1 month ago:
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 1 month ago:
The acting was great, but no, I don’t think the writers respect the source material. They respect the feel of the source material, for sure. I love the way most of it’s shot, and I really love how the vaults are shown to be much more massive. Leaning into the cultish aspect of the Brotherhood of Steel was an awesome move and I think totally fits the path of their organization.
But, as I said in my last comment, there were a few key points about the Fallout world that they changed without much to give a new story a familiar setting. And I think that’s just inherently disrespectful in a world where large swaths of land haven’t been touched by the franchise.
It’d be just as easy to set it in Texas, or Illinois, or somewhere without a ton of solidified lore. But they set the show in a location with >135 years of post-war history and post-war development, that was under control of a nation so large it was manufacturing concrete and colonizing new lands. Then they kinda… just said their capital got nuked and they’re communist now???
Also worth noting that East Coast Fallout and West Coast Fallout are very different thematically, with East Coast focusing on rebuilding and West Coast focusing on humanity repeating the same mistakes that led to the Great War (War Never Changes…).
The show wears Fallout’s skin, for sure. There’s also many dialogue exchanges that feel like nods to how the world works in-game, and I love that. But that doesn’t make it a great adaptation, because the Bethesda Fallout games also look like Fallout. And they really shirk exploring the franchise themes in favor of making a zany wasteland to explore.
I’m no hater of those East Coast games, I love Fallout 3 and I’ve put a lot of time into Fallout 4. But they do really feel like a totally separate take on the same world. With the show, the lens of that take is applied to the world of the original franchise and they definitely misrepresented how realistically ideology works in this world.
All that said, they left enough open-ended for me to want to watch Season 2. But I really hope they delve more into the actual ideologies at play. Because Fallout is not about a wasteland, it’s about people, what we believe, and how we repeat our mistakes. They’re already halfway there with how the main characters interact, I’m just hoping they apply that writing to the factions.
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 1 month ago:
I hope they draw inspiration from the Mass Effect games.
Not to be negative, but save for Last of Us Season 1, none of those series are great adaptations.
Fallout had some great dialogue that was very reminiscent of the games at points, but the lore decisions they made were questionable at best. Ghoulification was changed to be less mysterious and more like the process of mutation; the Sino-American war was simplified from a resource war into Capitalism vs Communism; and the NCR, an imperialist nation and I believe the largest in that area, has been all but destroyed by one nuke to their capital. Also all of the survivors of the NCR are communist, for a reason I’m sure.
Maybe I just needed to rant about the Fallout show. Either way, I sincerely hope they get some huge Mass Effect fans on the team for this one that care about the story the games present above all else.
I’m really tired of this attitude that Hollywood has toward adaptations, where they all want to make it their own. You adapt the story to the best of your ability, and the decisions you must make to adapt to a new medium make it your own. Not rewriting what has come previously.
Mini rant over
- Comment on Can an American explain to me what's with the grooves on PS1 NTSC cases? 2 months ago:
I love the groove. Problems start arising when they sell enough to gain Greatest Hits status 😬
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 2 months ago:
You’ll be among the pool of husbands and dads who also had to go. Enjoy not waiting for the bathroom the whole concert.
But yes, you are overthinking it. Go have fun and do what you do naturally. Maybe you don’t have to constantly be giddy every second for 2 hours.
- Comment on mogbattle 2 months ago:
Little bloke looks like a true Brexit geezer, no wonder he won the mogbattle.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 2 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 2 months ago:
Man, Yuzo Koshiro did some unique work with the Genesis.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games 2 months ago:
Actually though. Call of Duty is just Fortnite now. I miss when those guns were licensed from the manufacturers and modeled with care.
- Comment on Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review 2 months ago:
Unrelated, but sick fucking username
- Comment on oof 2 months ago:
