Wait. He hasn’t crumbled into dust or whatever these “Offputting guy with shit politics who has an inexplicable army of irritating tween fans” youtubers do when they’re past their shelf life? I thought he was irritating when I was in high school. That was…what, thirteen years ago now?

Okay so what is he - or anyone - gonna do about it? It’s obvious we have a problem, so what’s the prescription?

Terry Schaivo all over again (But worse)

The national level party’s pigheaded “seniority above all else”, “don’t cut in line” thinking really needs to go.

The original System Shock is one of my all-time favorite games, and the remake really did it justice.

On that note, a bit of a deep cut - Osman/Cannon-Dancer is a beautiful fever dream of a game I wish got more recognition. It’s a beat 'em up involving a martial artist tasked with killing a manmade god, thrust into a borderline incomprehensible web of betrayal as his former comrades all turn on him. The english release is kind of rough, which makes it actually incomprehensible at times. It’s also a sort-of sequel to Capcom’s Strider. I’d recommend it to any fan of EYE: Divine Cybermancy for the vibes alone.

They tell us here to buy american products…and then all the american products suck.

Someone called us The Jerry Springer Triangle a few weeks ago and I’ve had it stuck in my head ever since

Americans are weird because they constantly badger people for being “too PC” and “soy” or whatever, then end up being insufferable prudes who blanch at the idea of saying “hell” or “fuck”. (Not to mention what they think of anyone who actually lives outside their mores and norms)

The adoption of plastics as a “one size fits all” solution was a horrible error

I hate these people in ways words can’t even articulate.

Testing new code in production…

A fan translation exists for the NES version of JESUS. It’s… alright. Kind of cribs Alien in the way that SNATCHER cribs Blade Runner. From what I hear of the sequel, the art’s great but the writing has similar issues with being kind of shallow.

As an additional factoid, the first game’s full title is “J.E.S.U.S.: The Dreadful Bio-Monster.” (J.E.S.U.S. is a space station that only factors into the first five minutes of the game)

Night Striker relies too hard on the homing missiles as a source of difficulty in the later stages.

Settling back into Capcom’s 19XX: The War Against Destiny. With work taking up more of my time the past few years, I’ve been settling back into arcade titles. It offers a nice challenge, but it’s not soul crushingly difficult the way something from Cave, Raizing, or Takumi is.

The soundtrack is great, Capcom really were cooking with their Qsound-era stuff.

Where’s the Young Adult Fiction Dystopia Re-Enactment Movement fall on this one

Any day I get a LLV over a Metris is a good one, I’ll say that.

It’s that “The game” shit SynAnon was on where you turn everyone against each other to deter organization and mass action. This has a fatal flaw in that no leader gets to decide exactly what intentionally corrosive policy corrodes, so this inhibition of solidarity will eventually do more than keep people from rising up - in time, it’ll undermine everything.

Affordable housing. I want to get a fucking life already.

Yeah, I just…don’t know how to not let them set the terms of discourse at this point. I hate them and I hate that they put people in these situations, but…Shit’s cooked.

Honestly if they make this a choice between trans people and cis women I’m choosing trans people