Deep Dive Devin

Again, please do not strawman the things I'm saying by calling it ad-hominem. I am critiquing your behavior. You are only upset with me because I'm not treating it like the behavior of a logical, good-natured adult. If you want to convince me that it is that behavior, that is your own challenge to overcome, not the responsibility of others over some unearned sense of courtesy. It's certainly not a courtesy you've offered any of the classes you saw fit to characterize as criminal or mentally ill.

I didn't say how many at all, actually. Make no mistake, I never meant to imply your bad takes were popular. I think you are in the mood for it. Claiming my position is an ad hominem is itself a strawman of my actual take. That's not a strawman, it's a sincere comparison. I am asking you to come up with a justification as to why you deserve to be listened to any more than every other dime-a-dozen racist conspiracy theorist on the internet, and you are patently refusing to do so, just because you don't happen to personally like the fact that "racist conspiracy theorist" is what you've been identified as, rather than any proper critical analysis as to why the things you're saying are actually worth saying. The idea that they could hold up to scrutiny (which, to be clear, they wouldn't) first requires the idea that you are engaging in this conversation with any sort of honesty, and with each post that is going to become harder and harder to prove. You will no-doubt critique people who disagree with you for being "uncivil", but there's never going to be civility among takes like yours. Even if people agree, that's just a decrease in civility with all of the groups you're targeting. I have no qualms with saying I'd rather side with the races and genders you hate than with you. Not only are they less-likely to be like you, there are a lot more of them.

Plenty of minority anti-vaxxers, it's not going to make that more true either. Do you think everyone operates the way you do? Truth is not a democracy, pointing to "a lot" of people and saying they agree with you doesn't make shitty behavior acceptable. If you spared even a modicum of thought to how others perceived your bullshit, I think it'd be obvious. Can you think of a reason without constructing your own hideous strawman?

No matter how hard you try, you are not entitled to honest discussion when you so clearly are not engaging in it yourself. Bogus statistics, cherrypicked screencaps or many literal lies are not smarter than the rest of the people on this forum. There is no rule on this forum that says people have to have a "logical debate" with you or respect your trash opinions. Nor should there be! Do you think anyone wants to get roped into weeks of argument with a flat-earther or someone who thinks the world is secretly controlled by bees? There's no reason for anyone to treat obvious racist conspiracy theories as somehow above either of those things, no matter how victimized you pretend to be. You're not smart or subtle enough even to deceive insecure white boys into thinking they're under attack.

Man, you went from "black people are violent criminals" to "trans people are mentally ill and somehow also privileged" to "look at all these fucking jews" in the span of like four posts. It's no wonder you need to repeat your mantra of "the left is losing people" considering everyone you clearly don't want on your side. Who are you going for next? Mexicans? Gay people? Anime fans? Perhaps we'll hear some 13/50, or see some "based groypers" or whatever other anti-intellectual fashtrash you can spit out.

I mean, it's one he wrote, but the weird creepy art in this case is from Chris Allan. It's funny, for about the first half of this terrible arc the characters are drawn pretty normal (if in Allan's slightly jilted style), but the second it jumps into dumb Knuckles and Julie romantic tension, they suddenly get human proportions. It happens mid-issue, too. Mid-panel, even. Knuckles has the Sonic bean body in one panel, and is just unreasonably jacked in the next. Julie-Su gets a humanoid hourglass figure. Maybe Pendies asked for it in the script or something.

I picked up Jedi Fallen Order and Nier Automata around christmas, but I haven't played them yet. I'm dedicating myself to finishing all the other shit I was already playing, which included Xenoblade 2, Dark Souls 1, and all four Homestuck games. Even then, I kinda want to wait for the Nier Replicant remaster in April before I jump into Automata.

Genesis Sonic is pretty good, but you know what's even better? Widescreen. Remastered OSTs. Not dying to the spike bug. It's well-known at this point that the Sonic Mania team got their start developing fan games and ROMhacks, but between that and Mania, they remastered Sonic 1, 2 and CD for mobile devices. They're pretty great, being built off the same engine as Mania, with better FPS, slightly more-reliable collision, and a whole host of tweaks and options to make the experience a little better (like fixing CD's dogshit spindash). Hell, they hunted down the original synthesizers for the games and recreated the entire OSTs in high quality. Problem is, Sonic 1 and 2 remained mobile only up until today. A travesty, finally rectified. Fans have reverse-engineered the remastered ports and created a converter to play them on PC. You can play in widescreen with higher framerates, get the elemental shields, play as Knuckles, and even the prototype Hidden Palace level in Sonic 2. You can even play them in ULTRA-WIDESCREEN. Now, legally speaking, the only way to run these is to buy the games from a mobile store, extract the file "data.rsdk" from the files, and drop it in the converter folder, but if for whatever reason you happen to possess the APKs of the games, you can find it in the "asset" folders for them, too. CD got a Steam version, so I can just tell you to buy that. It's five bucks. Now I know what you're thinking. Isn't there more? And yeah...sort of. There's Sonic 3D Director's Cut, made by one of the original Traveller's Tales devs, but that's an Xdelta patch that you put on a regular ROM, and you basically just have to download the Steam emulated version for that legally. You don't get widescreen or remastered OSTs here. It does add things like a map screen, Super Sonic, better turning and such -- but it's still a platformer with isometric levels, where even a seasoned Sonic 06 veteran like myself has trouble landing jumps consistently. But much more noteworthy is Sonic 3 - AIR (Angel Island Revisited). Because Sonic 3 is likely in copyright no man's land due to Michael Jackson's involvement on the soundtrack (something both legally dubious for SEGA and potential bad press because oof), we will likely never see a Thomley/Whitehead version of Sonic 3. User Eukaryot said "okay" and then did it anyway. This is easily the most elaborative remaster of them all, with support for all sorts of mods and a LOT of customization. They even remastered the prototype soundtrack found in 2019's discovery, from before Michael Jackson even worked on it. Frankly, I think the old version of Carnival Night sounds way nicer than the circus chorus of the final game (it also sounds way better than the 1997 PC version OST, which is the same but in godawful MIDI renditions) Like with 3D Blast, the only really legal way to play this is to buy the Steam version, and sync the rom in your steamapps/common folder to the remastered exe, but I highly recommend it for this one. You can even turn the lives system off, which is good because lives systems are inherently bad. With this, having a complete set of 1, 2, CD, 3K and Mania really brings the series together as a quintology. Maybe if we ever see engine ports of the Advance games, you could put those there too. There's nothing missing...except for I guess Knuckles Chaotix? Which uh... ...oh...ew.

If that were so guaranteed, we wouldn't need to constantly assassinate foreign leaders ourselves, since apparently someone else would just do it for us.

That's treating it as a binary, though. Taxes would eventually be phased out in an ancom society. If you did it immediately with no transition plan, you could fuck everything up.

I mentioned in the youtube comments, but I think it's for a couple reasons. One is that Tails and Gamma in SA1 are way better than the slow mechs in 2. There's mods to correct the turning and increase the jump height a little bit, but the SA1 shooting levels are so much faster and more fluid than anything in the second game, and you don't have crap like Eternal Engine blindsighting you from behind walls. Plus, even if you use his no-mech mode from the chao gardens, Tails can't spin jump and his flying only hovers. Secondly, SA1's palette lighting system (called the Lantern engine) was completely reverse-engineered by fans to work in the crappy PC version, and now is a standard part of most modpacks, and looks way cooler than the flat Adventure 2 lighting. One look at Casinopolis is all you need. The final reason is that Sonic fans are obsessed with putting Sonic games in other Sonic games. Nearly every 3D game before Generations has had most of its levels ported into Generations at some point. Getting that to work was actually a huge technical achievement, since Unleashed runs on the same engine but its stages were never playable on PC due to it being the only console-exclusive 3D game that you still can't emulate properly (RPCS3 is pretty close, but it definitely wasn't in 2013). Even still, you have 06 ported to SA2, Heroes ported to SA1, Black Knight and Colors in Gens, Unwiished in SA2, even Lost World has a significant number of level ports, and that game is the Sonic version of wearing pants that go all the way up to your nipples. Hell, people have put Generations levels back into Unleashed. It's just a weird pathological obsession the community has, probably because all of the pieces for the perfect 3D Sonic engine are technically in our hands, but they're just not quite put together in the right way to work. I think I remember melpontro and SF94 working on something, and that Hero engine looks pretty neat, but it's still gonna be a while.

You're only looking at dictator as an active role rather than a personal quality, though. Second wikipedia definition says a dictator can be a person behaving in an autocratic manner, which totally does fit. He certainly acts and believes like he deserves ultimate power, whether he has it or not. I think you know I'm not literally claiming he has 100% authority over all persons in the government. I'm not sure I've seen anyone claim that, other than the man himself.

That's kind of like saying a person is only "murderous" after they've already succeeded at murdering someone.

He literally is and can. This was all intended. It was planned. There are tweets and posts saying this was going to happen on December 6th. They made merch for it. They did it on purpose.

Both the Jet Set Radio games, easily. Stylish aesthetic, Naganuma's awesome OST, magnetic skates, grinding rails all the way up buildings, giant mechs and assassins chasing you, and toppling a totalitarian police state with nothing but spray paint. I really hope Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a worthy spiritual successor.

What do you mean? He didn't "let" it happen, this is nationalist conservatism working as intended.

That's interesting. It's kind of funny how much people freak out over newer graphics technology when I'm pretty sure we STILL have trouble just with transparency stuff, especially water effects. I remember seeing a Nier Automata screenshot where the ripple effect that's SUPPOSED to be on things beneath the surface just rendered on top of anything overlapping it, no matter where it is. There are a lot of little details graphics could be working with to make their worlds more alive and seamless, but they still just seem to be focused on bumping up the numbers of things, like the later really boring parts of Dragon Ball.

Recently I played through the first 2 acts of Hiveswap. I bought all of the Homestuck games at the same time, and I was surprised at how cohesive an experience it's been so far, what with WhatPumpkin having to replace most of their staff like twice before the first part and then again between the first and second. If the third and fourth parts are about the same in terms of content, the full product would be the meatiest adventure game I've ever finished, and the puzzles have remained mostly intuitive without feeling as railroaded as a lot of adventure games can. Giving unique text for rubbing every object on every other interactable thing in the game (and unique achievements for certain obscure combinations) probably encourages futzing around such that that would be easier anyway, though. Can't say I was a huge fan of the tealblood trial, though. They lay out all these clues and little bits of characterization and a timeline, trying to get you to line up a whole bunch of suspects and evidence, but it felt seemingly random which statements I had to press witnesses on or which evidence I needed to present or even who should have been called to the stand. I just kind of spammed Tyzias's hint button until it worked. Like, what am I supposed to do with the Warrior cats girl? Should I call Lanque up when he doesn't seem to give a shit about anything? How fucked am I early-on if I call the wrong person? It's weird. I've never played an Ace Attorney game, but this isn't convincing me That said, I think the fact that the game *literally doesn't even tell you who did it* if you send an innocent troll to clown hell is hilarious.

I dunno, I don't think he'd be very lucid after waking up from suspension. He'd probably be more confused or terrified than anything. Nah. He's badass enough not to be terrified at any of this shit. That or he'd be mumbling something about fermions.

"Rise and shine, mister freeman, rise and shine" "No want goskool,fivemoerminuss" "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world" "Bitch, if I'm there, it's ALWAYS the right place" "Wake up and, smell the ashes" "Oh, whose house did I drunkenly burn down last night then? Probably my own, after all it doesn't look like I'm in prison. *looks around train, seeing citizens all wearing the same clothes* actually, it kinda does."