Deep Dive Devin

The Sonic Unleashed PC port does open the floodgates for Xbox 360 ports, but only partway. The static recompilation tools developed for it essentially translate code from 360 to PC, and can work on any game, Unleashed was just the one the devs wanted most. It's not as viable as stuff like the N64 recomps we saw last year, since Dario and Skyth had to rewrite the game's render pipeline, but there is a lot more that can be done with this stuff in the future.

chatGPT has revolutionalized fake accounts. there are still some more basic ones on here but they go through cycles and patterns. a lot of times they're scraping and rephrasing other posts on the site. honestly, given our relative lack of activity, I'm just surprised they target the place at all. I can't imagine there's many people coming here clicking their scam links.

It's not a joke because it's not anything, this is a bot.

Oh come now, I think we're all gonna make it to dying as climate refugees or getting shot at protests in at least two decades.

@Mira are you really sure you want to be baiting bad arguments out of people? I don't think it's going to be fun or helpful for anyone, and if you're not careful the mods may come down on you for it. If someone doesn't respond to reason in a polite environment I don't think they're going to respond to it any better in an antagonistic one. I understand if it's just a dunk, I like dunks on conservative dipshittery, but I don't know if actively targeting someone is going to get you anything other than a ban, and I don't want what dwindling members this forum has left to be occupied by the aforementioned dipshittery.

Played this game last week while I was ill. Fittingly, it felt like a fever dream. The visuals really convincingly emulate the aesthetic of pixel art despite the entire game being 3D. It allows for a cleanness of style with the freedom for more expressive cameras and perspectives. I don't know that the animesque character drawings totally fit that setting, but it avoids Ross's Yuppie Psycho complaint of over-the-top expressions. The game wears its Silent Hill 2 influence on its sleeve, in that you're looking for your dead wife and start the game staring in a bathroom mirror. The story wears its Neon Genesis Evangelion influence on its sleeve, in that it doesn't make any fucking sense, but I cried anyway. The puzzles aren't the hardest, but each one took me a fair amount of time and didn't feel too leading, without ever requiring a guide. I would say they respect the player's intellect more than they directly challenge it. The survival horror gameplay is also super-smooth, enough that I would recommend veterans of the genre play on harder difficulties, since I'm a novice and it was still pretty comfortable for me on normal. I kinda wanted to feel the squeeze, a little bit more than I got. Just make sure to use the "extended inventory" option. Some people might think futzing around with too few item slots is rewarding. I don't. The psychological/cosmic horror aspect gave me a headache. This story would be confusing and non-linear even if it didn't feature the breakdown of reality making both the player and protagonist unaware of what's real. This is the classy style of Lovecraft, where the influence of something sinister is felt more than the presence of the thing itself. If there even is a something. It might all be one thing that's a different thing. It also might not be real. Interpretive art! All in all, you have to be willing to accept that the story is more emotionally honest than literal (you also have to like lesbians) but it was one of the most arresting experiences I've had with a game in a long time. Highly recommended if you enjoy good survival horror mechanics and having all hope crushed from your psyche.

But it's not about persuasion, is it? It's not like the people who regularly claim to believe democrats, the left and any of their civilian beneficiaries are actual demons from literal biblical hell got to that belief by observing the available evidence, right? They don't care about other opinions. It's about performing an affect to each other and themselves. That's why we see phony terms like "anti-conservative bullying" come up, because any acknowledgement that they are not, have never been and probably never will be the underdogs would crack the facade that they're defending anything but the same royalist sentiments that the founding voices of conservatism established centuries ago. It never went anywhere, and it's not going anywhere.

Be honest, no you haven't.

I can tell you're an aspiring fantasy author yourself. Either way, literally nobody asked. You just hop between different racist or misogynist conspiracy theories targeting whatever minority group pisses you off during a given hour of the day with no direction. You're not actually going to do anything here except keep making the case that absolutely no normal person should want you in any kind of movement or community.

Okay. Well the rest of the world would rather that you just be filtered by the extremely basic standards of participating in the movement's discord server. Hence why we have the standards.

No it's not. It's actually very normal, average and general to be less insane than you. Extremely low bar to clear. That's what the rules are for! You get a lot more people in the movement without the predatory assholes feeling like they belong and making things worse for everyone else.

Not very specific at all, as long as the rules do their job. That's kind of the point, toxic people like you drive support away. Extremely fucked up sentence to write Buddy. The one in a tiny corner is you. If Stop Killing Games is that important, the compromise should come from the tiny sect of toxic weirdos, not the rest of the human race who just wants to keep their games. All you're showing here is that you care more about performing this predatory politics than any video game.

They're also not really left on social issues, but I assure you that neither I nor almost anyone on that discord server is interested in discussing social issues with this guy: But y'know good luck with the brain ghost demons

That wouldn't be accurate even if we all clubbed ourselves over the head until we were dumb enough to pretend Biden is "leftist". You are fighting brain ghosts

Oh my god I remember this, I didn't even notice it was the exact same guy. He was pushing this "everything is controlled by secret commies" conspiracy theory almost four years ago now. Is this why he thinks discord mods are all secret commies??? Because he got banned from the unofficial AF discord for the exact thing I'm talking about? That is hilarious