There’s also some worship of (an idealized form of) ancient Rome and Greece here. They see their particular theme park version as a peak example of a society unmarred by the millieu of things they consider dege[…]ate.
There’s also some worship of (an idealized form of) ancient Rome and Greece here. They see their particular theme park version as a peak example of a society unmarred by the millieu of things they consider dege[…]ate.
“increase of this body type…” Or perhaps anatomy’s always been more complicated and more variable than the greek statue dipshit thought it was. How much time do these guys actually spend looking at people?
Seibu Kaihatsu’s Dynamite Duke (1989), a pretty novel hybrid Cabal-like/Beat-'em-up with a lot of love put into it. The arcade version’s got a pretty slick art direction, the environmental destruction vfx rock, and the animation’s pretty slick. The whole thing’s got that passion project charm to it. Unfortunately, Cabal clones were only really in vogue in that late '80s/early '90s space, and the beat 'em up gameplay isn’t fleshed out or consistently applied enough to be satisfying in a post-Final Fight, post-Streets of Rage world. I’d like to see something like it, but there’s no way to bring Duke into the world of modern game design practices without drastic reformulation at a minimum.
Notably, Seibu had really high hopes for Duke, being a passion project and a intended magnum opus. Unfortunately, lukewarm reception brought in poor returns, the company slipped into dire straits, and they were forced to make something simpler and lower stakes as a hail mary. That title - a simple, Toaplan-esque shooter nobody had any real faith in - turned out to be Raiden, which would become a darling in arcades, pushing 17,000 units solds worldwide in the first year after release, and becoming the fifth highest grosser on the Japanese market in 1991. (Beating out some offerings from much bigger players like Konami)
It’s like they’re trying to destroy everyone’s trust in them. Can’t even toe the whole “Villain with good publicity” line effectively.
My friend in the region’s painted a pretty grim picture. I’d heard scuttlebutt about one of the local opposition figures getting hospitalized twice?
I miss Wesley Willis.
Watching that in my high school electronics class was a early radicalizing moment
Imagine where we’d be if this stuff was allowed to mature in the 2000s alone
In a weird way, the development of advanced communications and coordination technology has only made it harder for anything to change in a significant way .
If blocking ads means they lose out, then i’m fine with them losing out
THE classic example of why internet freak show juvenalia can go real bad, especially on a long term scale.
There are very fundamental flaws with the idea that some people have done things that make them acceptable targets for random people’s aggression. Best case scenario, a dozen different people deciding to take their frustrations out on them for personal satisfaction similtaneously ends up going nowhere. Worst case scenario, you get…eh…this. Some people shouldn’t be paid much mind, and that’s for the good of everyone involved. (Or anyone who could possibly be involved.)
In more of a political theory sense, a core precept of right wing culture is the idea that there are “acceptable targets” that society at large needs protection from. They’ll often point at people they think “deserve it” as justification for their own existence and propagation, out of a stated fear that if they were to become normalized society would be significantly marred. Often times these acceptable targets are unsympathetic characters who’ve done something wrong and the scorn they draw from conservative elements can come off as very intuitive to a uninitiated passerby: Ultimately, their existence and the antisocial tendencies right-aligned actors see them as embodying are used as a “trojan horse” of sorts to attack anyone who even be characterized as having anything in common with them. With lolcows as examples to point to, the right and those that feed into the right have ammo to turn against anyone too visibly autistic, too visibly gay-coded, too visibly trans, kind of a “loser”, or ultimately just a bit too geeky in general. There’s a broader critique of conservative fixation on “D*generacy” to be made here.
Am I gonna have to pay for a vpn that actually lets me fake being outside the ‘states? I usually self host on a VM host to avoid incurring expenses, but it seems like that’s not really an option here. Seems like I might have to go for a AWS instance running PiVPN or something.
Yeah, that’s kind of what I was wondering. Turns out you can’t really do much useful with a self-hosted local VPN, but I like having the option of using one be something my VM host server provides.
I wanna try at some point, but my work schedule means I probably can’t make the time commitments.
Hell, I can respect their call. (Not that the choice is mine anyhow)
Re: Moreno, it’s weird to me how these guys just suddenly get to pivot. Cruz kind of did the same thing.
Oh hey, I had some good results with Krita when I was still making digital art way back when. It’s been like a decade. I should get myself a new tablet.
I’m gonna personally beat everyone’s ass if we’re just caving to the right on this shit. I am not handing it to Bush Jr., Bush Jr. voters, or any of the other fuckers who’ve come since
One of these days I need to figure out how to connect clients to the WireGuard appliance I set up on my VM host
I want blood. Don’t care whose it is just so long as some of it is theirs