Owl

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[–] Owl@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Gaming is a bunch of different nerdy subcultures in a trench coat, many of them really chill, some of them really toxic. Most speedrunning, indie, retro, and modding communities in particular are cool. There's also a "gamer" culture that insists that it's the only one and it owns all the cool things in these subcultures without participating in them, which is mostly focused on recent and upcoming AAA games, and it is just the most toxic horseshit there is. But those people actually don't interact with smaller gaming cultures despite insisting they own the umbrella, so you're unlikely to run into them outside of AAA gaming spaces, large twitch streams, and reddit.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

have you tried turning the posts off and back on again?

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago
[–] Owl@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's no central orchestration: there are journalists trying to guess what their editors will publish, and editors trying to guess what their investors want, and both cribbing their notes from think tanks, and think tanks trying to guess what their investors will want, and investors trying to guess what's in their best interest. Every single step of that is composed of many separate groups of people, who aren't linked to the other layers in a consistent way. Every person involved thinks their group is the most important and most informed, and every one is high on their own ideology, and nobody knows what's going on. And buried in there, there are many conspiracies with motivations from swaying the election, to getting a particular guy promoted, to implementing evangelical conservative rule, and those conspiracies all believe they're important and capable of doing their thing, even though most of them can't, and they're all too high on their own ideology to know what's going on either.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I remember the analog stick and buttons on this being some of the nicest on any system.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somebody's been drinking his Powerthirst

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

It's ideologically consistent, but not in the ideology the US would admit to.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Wrong, memorizing sequences of janky hitboxes to dodge with i-frames is the peak of gaming.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Old Link!</smash announcer voice>

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mostly this, but I can guess the current PlayStation by dividing the years since 1990 by 6.

Meanwhile who knows what the fuck the Xbox is doing.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry this post is too Epic Bacon, I'm going to have to call the vegan police.

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skillet issue

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I helped clean up around my town (not to dox myself, but it is a *burg). I know, I fucked up. I have betrayed the revolution.

 

beanis

 
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I just made a bad post

 
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