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.

One time on the old run of Beavis and Butt-Head, Beavis complained that diarrhea medicine didn’t work. He took a whole bottle of it, he said, and then he complained that he never got diarrhea.

It’s even worse when some rage filled manchild posts rage in the chat and then adds the obligatory “gg.”

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™® 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.

“And what games you can buy will be bundled with Ice Climbers. Always with Ice Climbers.”

A ledger that by definition shows every previous transaction on it is a honeypot for investigation just waiting to happen.

Apparently that article was “just satire bro don’t take it seriously bro” failed satire.

It’s all Steiner’s and Fegelein’s faults!

The wording of this question has a very narrow permitted window for an answer, but I’ll say fuck “influencers” anyway. Entire concept should be rolled back like 20 years. Disc jockeys and similar precursors weren’t quite so prone to being narcissistic kiddie creepers that were famous for being famous.

“Communism doesn’t work,” says the enlightened centrists that conjure up an ephemeral version of capitalism that, like some exotic atom far down on the periodic table of elements, becomes “cronyism” almost instantly after it begins to exist.

Lothrop Stoddard

Ok i get that name generators are popular but at least get a good one.

Hey, hey. Every master of the Force needs a foil to maintain the balance.