Here No Longer

Had a game that was basically lost because the lag caused such severe problems on my end...  

Having that problem now in a different way. I'm trying to watch my Chinese cartoons and they just won't load. Meanwhile my internet connection is fast as ever. The struggle is real.

I feel you.

So what did you think of Hazbin Hotel? 

@J.T. The premiere is probably the legit best premiere I've ever seen for really any animated show to be honest. It was pretty much perfect aside from some faults in the pacing. And it absolutely established for me that Angel Dust is DEFINITELY going to be my favorite character.

I agree the pacing was a bit fast but overall the show was very good    

D&D had a hollow world campaign. Can the Earth be hollow and flat? I guess it can, like a hollow cylinder. I'm gonna start believing that now.

Link goes to The Sun, which is a good demonstration of how low the "lowest common denominator" can be. Known for poor reporting and naked girls on page 3

@CypherHoof Never even realized that. That makes it look even worse on them XD

Whales make sure "vote with your wallet" never work and never has. Also, I will remind you that Randy Pitchford not-so-subtly endorsed Battleborn R34.

@Prince Doopliss I used to think he was okay, when most of what I heard about him was from somebody believing far right propaganda. And I had no internet at home so I couldn't do much about that.

Couldn't have said it better myself, pal. I love it.

Trump reminds me of our old presidents....lotsa talk

@Vulon Bii That's true, some of the humor seems like they try a bit too hard to offend people for the sake of being edgy.

@Classic Meme

Just like Family Guy (current), Teen Titans Go!, etc.

@A.V. Except neither of those are even remotely close to funny. I actually get laughs out of some ED articles.

May I ask if there are any ROMs in particular?

@Cash In They're DS games.  

@Dustlicious Neat. I still hve all my DS games from back in the day.

Not to mention that you have to pay for each account that you want to play online on in servers that looks like inexistent...

Bad for me because i just play splatoon and sometimes monster hunter.

There are other ways to listen the music tho 

@UsagerI suppose there are I'd just have to loop them myself if I want it longer than a minute or so.

Nonetheless, my point still stands that Nintendo is only a strike and a half away from being struck out in my book. I say a half because I would be... okay with it if they released an actual official soundtrack CD or something so people can get access to it through not technically illegal means.

Just in case you dont know, youtube have the option to bucle right clicking on te video 

Stadia.

I get a headache thinking about that.

Ohhh okay.

@CypherHoof At least SJWs have deluded themselves into thinking it's for a purpose, and there's the absolute tiniest grain of truth in some of what they're saying. These people are literally only like this because they hate SJWs that much, and they know everything that comes out of their mouth is utterly bigoted and totally full of $#!+.

I haven't heard or seen this. 

Agreed. It's honestly gotten so ridiculous, that you can't have female characters or minorities in your games or movies otherwise Anti-SJWs will label it as "Feminist" and "SJW" propaganda. 

I know the feeling 

@PoisonClaw The feeling is pretty strong here.  Though I guess if I actually can get my @$$ in gear it shouldn't be too long before it won't be quite as big of an issue. 

F*** it, here's a little leak if you can decipher it, I'm a little tired of not putting out something. There isn't anything awfully revealing here anyways as to what anything does, or really much to the lore of the game.

By the way, this project for anyone who doesn't know, is a tabletop alternate history/sci-fi war game with MOBA elements that has been in the works for a while now by yours truly, an awfully lazy wannabe tabletop game dev.

It just feels like I've failed everyone.

You haven't failed me, as far as I'm concerned.

I know how you feel... but how did you fail us?

@TheBronyHeart I'd say in this case it's more than a valid description since they have made it clear they believe in censoring freedom of speech and in putting the black and the poor as a separate class considering they support the "War on Drugs" that's essentially done just that, and they make a deliberate and downright idiotic effort to complain about anyone trying to actually fix our economy to properly accomodate the middle class, although that part may be just due to intentional ignorance on their part.

The way I see it if they say it gives them credibility in this case, then I'd say it gives my point more credibility as well, considering it shows just how delusional they really are to believe that censoring differing viewpoints and also apparently in classist ideas is somehow democratic because it suits their agenda, even if they won't directly say that.

Perhaps it would be enlightening to me if I were to know specifics of which group(s) you're referring to. There's always the possibility that you are completely right, but far be it for me to say. Honestly not my intention to in any way belittle you or your ideals, just wanted to be clear on that. 

The war on drugs is an idiotic and horrid endeavor, I agree. But supporting it doesnt necessarily coralate to belief in racism or desire to keep classes separate. And in a similar vein being fascist does not automatically make you a racist, though class separation is a part of most fascist ideology just not in a typical way. As another way to look at fascism is being a extreme nationalist, in this way class division is usually based on naturally born citizens over immigrants, aliens, and other nation's citizens. It is important to distinguish that Hitler's Germany was using an unorthodox form of fascism known as Social Nationalism, and he was also a racist f*** with his own personal ideals of race and class which he then ushered into society. But the obsession with race discrimination itself is not a core of fascism.

One of fascism's pillars is a strong national unity and need to stimulate the economy and industry until a nation can be completely self efficient. Relying on other powers for the economy or allowing the economy to wither goes against this major tenant. Though ironically this self efficiency in the modern world would arguably be unsustainable. I agree with your assumption that it is more than likely just ignorance on their part.

I'd write more but I am quite tired. Just got off the overnight shift. Sent with good intentions and best wishes, friend.

Okay so I found this video which actually has a great breakdown on fascism, admittedly delivered as a history lesson about Italy, but Italy was the closest nation to really achieve a fascist state. And TIK is a very well learned guy in this regard. I'll just leave it here if you want to see it and then promptly drop the subject altogether, but I am still appreciative you took the time to respond. Cheers.

That section of the forum is very difficult to keep track of, given how insanely active it is. Go for it! You can always just bump it, if it gets buried to deep.

Yeah I've made three. One of them is still on page 1 of the subforum but it's pretty low down there. Has like 75 views on it and only 1 reply (which was me bumping it).

Well, actually since I bumped it, it's back up there again, so people can see it now.

@Pastel Heart In truth I've never really entirely supported Black Lives Matter, but before and also after watching I think that they do have a point that does need to be incorporated into the conversation. But yes, I would definitely say that other than them having a little bit of a point, I think they're still causing an over-sensationalizing of the issue that's just further adding fuel to the fire.

@Furret ᐡ꒳ᐡ the way things are going I think anything can add fuel to the fire. If people don't stick up for their rights in these times of crisis when will they? Some people, like me, can't afford to wait until the 30s when the crisis escalates. I disregard the sensationalization and focus on the material conditions

We need a better world tomorrow, today. The media is spinning all this any which way they want but I need to stick up for what's important to me and I can't afford to be quiet.

Ima watch the shit happen...nice to observe

I thought I was the only one who's absolutely hoping they're going to fail. Huh, maybe I'm not.

Been fairly convinced of this for a while myself. These entries simply do not look appealing. Then again I haven't like many of the newest Pokemon games. Most of them now are trying to have "stories and characters" and those are all written in the same caliber as the show, which is atrociously.

No national dex really sealed the deal on this one. Like I'm totally convinced this will be the worst generation ever, even worse than gen 1 and 2. Also, the pokemon look very uninspired and so does the whole region. Graphics somehow look legit worse than Gen 6's also. Not to mention, they totally took an utter $#!+ on the Dark/Fairy type concept...

It's apparently not flooding where he lives, but it is raining a lot.

In any case, I hope he's OK. The last thing you need is to worry about him.

@Renegade the Unicorn Of course I'll worry about him though, he's the most important person in my life and the love of my life as well...

Yeah I've been aching to start getting some nice clothes, and some make-up, but I have almost literally no money and a judgmental father. 

Totally. Luckily my father doesn't seem care what I do, but I don't have the money anyways. I want a totally new style.

Yeah I'm tired of looking like I don't care about my appearance at all.

@Snow But Ben Shapiro is one of the biggest snowflakes (and simultaneously hypocrites) of all...

Watch this from 0:26 to 9:19 if you don't believe me.

Oh I don't pay attention to any of this politics garbage  I don't care who is who or what is what, I just think it's hilarious how people react to well, any conceivable opinion regarding it, Benny-boy is just a good salt catalyst or so I've found.

@Snow He's the saltiest salt shaker in all the land.

Or better yet, get rid of this system altogether! This bipartisan system causes so much of this tribalism anyways...

George Washington himself would agree. Not a lot of people know this, but GW was against the idea of political parties for those very same reasons.

I definitely wish people would be more level-headed and moderate, but I just looked at Ventura’s stances and it sounds like you just picked a left-of-center and a super liberal. So... left leaning on both.

Anyway, I prefer my policies a little more right-of-center, thanks.

Though yes, tribalism is ridiculous. I am 100% behind people having different viewpoints. If we were all the same we’d all stagnate and never be challenged. But we don’t need to freakin’ kill each other over it. Let’s talk about things like grown ups.

I would say that, except they did that with money that customers spend on their food, and I don't feel like it's morally right in my mind to indirectly donate to LGBT hate organizations. But they don't do that anymore, and they have also offended the far right, so they're OK in my book now. More than makes up for the beef I used to have with them.

Yeah. I think Chick-fil-a realized that donating to anti-LGBT organizations isn't going to fly in today's world.

And it really shouldn't fly at all. I mean it's not like that should cause everyone to riot on the streets or anything, but it definitely should have a major effect on their cash flow if people actually cared to think about things like their local fast food place being a big donor to LGBT hate organizations, or really any hate group really. It's just capitalism working as intended.

What do you define as being "far" right?

@Alastor Frankly, it's hard to particularly define an ideology. Though I'd suppose it's best to define it with an example. If it sounds like something Alex Jones or Rush Limbaugh or Breitbart would say, I think it would qualify.

most of the videos I see have more of a far left bullshit narrative,

it's bullshit like ContraPoints, which just makes me cringe at times,

if you have watched anything Alex Jones says, you'd know it's bullshit and he's joking 

@Woohoo It's a meme about some VTuber who apparently thought that it was funny when Mumbo said "Eekum Bokum" so she just repeated it several times on her stream and apparently that became a meme because why not.

I thought it was funny for like 5 minutes to be honest, and now it's just annoying.

That's definitely not a meme for me. 

I totally agree  

I think the idea is tone change. He's definitely an asshole, and while he wasn't funny, it's funny to laugh at him because he's such an asshole. Like wow, he thinks he's so right, but he's a fucking asshole. 

But yea whenever he's on screen he adds humor or at least provides a tone change, so when the scary/creepy/etc. stuff starts happening it's more effective/has the audience on edge again. 

If movie is just suspenseful the whole time, then it gets kind of boring. There's no suspense because it's just been milked completely. So yea. I thought it was effective comic relief, but yes he's an asshole. Even if you think he's an asshole it definitely provides a tone change cuz you're just like "I wanna punch this muthafucker, oh shit hold on scary stuff is happening again" XD

All he does in my mind is distract the movie from what it should actually be doing at that point in the plot, that being actually provide real tension. Which, unfortunately, because of his existence among other things, it fails to do even remotely as well as Hereditary (last year's offering from the same director and screenwriter) in that department.

The movie the way I see it is essentially horror... Without any actual horror in it. The discomfort it tries to build is immediately tossed out by how much I wished that @$$hole dead, and it was REALLY disappointing on that front how unceremonious his off-screen "death" was. To do the audience a courtesy of having to deal with a character like this, at least show their death on screen... Also, if possible, make it as early and satisfying as possible. That way it's not a total waste to have them constantly breaking the tension.

And this is a big part of the problem. You don't need horror shoved in your face, especially every second, but at the same time, taking a break from it just ruins the build-up, which by the way in this case actually didn't even have much of an actual payoff. In a way Midsommar is really like a worse version of the original Wicker Man. That movie never needed a relief, by the way. Neither did the Shining, or the Exorcist, or Hereditary also...

I mean that is why it’s labeled a thriller film and not a horror film. It was trying to make the audience uncomfortable which I think it did a good job at. Understandable that you didn’t like one aspect of the movie, tho I will say Mark died fairly early. I think Ari Aster didn’t want to show the onscreen death because they wanted to make the movie feel more mysterious. 

I mean audience deal with characters different. I personally wouldn’t have gotten any gratification seeing him killed. Yes he was an asshole but just like many humans they’re not deserving of death simply from that, so seeing him die, at least for me, would do nothing. 

Again like I said Ari was trying to provide tone change, and maybe having humor, one could argue, is an easy way of doing so, but I thought it was good. So yeah maybe he didn’t have to be an asshole and just provide non-asshole humor, but he was also there I think to show how much of an asshole the boyfriend actually was as well. 

Hereditary didn’t need relief, but that’s a different film that probably used other methods of tone changing that, one could argue, I def. would say, had much better form, but of course I’m sure many would argue, I have met those that do, feel that movie was just too ominous to the point it got boring or it was just weird and not horror-ble. 

I would say pretty much caught up; there aren't many episodes after that (except for the leaked ones of course) until we get past the Hiatus.

Don't worry, Dusky. You aren't too late. I'm soon finishing season 5. 

Ah well, in for a treat then - S5 is an awesome finale.