Imo that’s how these things go almost 100% of the time.
New unknown game gets a ton of random hype around it insanely fast? Looks pretty jank and kind of barebones? Has some sort of party play/chat mechanic? Must be a YouTuber/streamer game.
Kinda like Lethal Company (and all other games like it), Intruder, Sub Rosa, Perfect Heist; and all those other asset flip type games. Hell even all those “store simulator” games that all look identical fall into this too.
If we really wanted to make it difficult, we could use stills from the newer episodes. I feel like most of us either haven’t seen all of them or haven’t seen them enough to know where they’d be from.
This is what I choose to believe
I mean isn’t the emperor (is the 40K? I can’t tell) basically in a coma holding off a hell dimension from swallowing earth whole?
It’s why the story is so flimsy across all those old popular platforming series, they took a “gameplay first” approach.
Look at the story for the Jak games. It’s all convoluted as hell, and there are tons of plotholes and such, but it’s probably one of the best series-lomg stories of those classics. Sly 1 had a clear story, and then when it sold so well that there were actual fans wanting a sequel, they had to come up with a story to justify it. Same goes for Tak, Ty, Ratchet & Clank, and so on.
I’ve been replaying old PS2 platformer classics like Jak & Daxter, Tak, Sly Cooper etc.
Tak has pretty funny humor, if a little childish at times. And it may have not aged well in general (all white people voicing possible island tribespeople that practice a magic/religion called Juju), but it’s still fun and was pretty inventive back then with the cartoon proportions and interactivity with the animals throughout.
Everyone still loves Jak, and a lot of it is due to the art style. Everything in those games is so alien and yet also kind of familiar, but the way they mix the mystical with the sci-fi always intrigued me. It’s kinda like Shadowrun imo.
Playing Sly, I realized there was an abundance of anthro characters in the early 2000s. But the games took inspiration from cartoons and comics and leaned into those aspects and aesthetics heavily. There’s always a sound effect and sound bubble that pops up when you knock out a bad guy, the colors are vibrant and over the top and the stories are too. They live in a weird magical retro-futuristic world with laser guns, jetpacks, super-geniuses able to create mutant monstrosities, immortal cyborg owls that run on pure hate whose body parts can then be repurposed into a multitude of uses (hypnotization, perpetual engines, etc), and so on.
Video games used to be about fun.
And of course porn flash games
The “dry heat” line comes from Hudson when they first go into the reactor/nest and they’re looking around, just before the attack.
Super Troopers
From “The Snozzberries taste like Snozzberries!” to “BEARFUCKER! DO YOU NEED ASSISTANCE?!” almost every line in that movie is quotable and relevant to most situations.
It’s just NFTs with extra steps.
The Orville: Interactive Fan Experience. /j
But really though, The Orville show feels like a fantastic homage to classic Trek, and the show itself feels hopeful if that makes sense.
Also the totally free fan game for it on steam is pretty cool. You can explore the entirety of The Orville ship, you can even fly it around different space areas AND you can take a shuttle out for a ride! There are a couple different “scenarios” you can play through such as enemies boarding the ship, and having to make repairs while you’re floating through a conscious nebula that’s talking to you and making horror movie stuff happen.
Also there’s multiplayer, a holodeck with different places you can load up like a bowling alley, and you can customize your own crewmember.
Make all games with loot boxes/micro transactions rated M?
I mean I know it’s not perfect because a lot of parents will still buy the game for their kids, but maybe it being M-rated will make them think twice? Also, it’ll make developers think twice about putting those mechanics in their game.
I haven’t updated discord in like a year at least. It’s still working fine for me.
Only in America
A fucking Carhartt no less…
Nail salons? Most nail salons have a pedicure service. I’ve gotten a couple myself.
All of that? That’s the point. That’s exactly how they want us to feel: confused, hurt, isolated. They will gladly say something incredibly hypocritical and then just smile a shit-eating grin when you call them out, because we both know there’s nothing that can be done short of violence and that’s when they’ve “won.”
But in all honesty, violence actually is an answer, and a proper one to bullshit like this. I don’t give a fuck if you could call it assault if someone is literally taunting and threatening me when I haul off and beat their ass.
Do it. Make them scared of violent revolution and reprisals.
So I just googled “anti-trump car decals” and was given a link to buy anti-maga stickers on Amazon, and when I went to images I got to see some decent ones. But then I saw an article with the same truck in your second picture, stating the driver added another sticker to the back windshield saying “FUCK LOCAL SHERIFF’S NAME AND FUCK YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM”
It’s weird that Jesse Eisenberg is like 40 years old. He has one of the ultimate babyfaces.
The sad part for me is that I only know if Intruder, Sub Rosa, etc. because of General Sam, a YouTuber who almost always plays multiplayer games with his friends.
Although he makes it seem fun, and he is absolutely a toxic player, so I was interested in checking out Intruder at one point because of his videos on it. I think it’s still on my wishlist.