#off-topic-discussion
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pla-gooie
plah-gway
i probably don't have a regional accent that can be pinned down because i learned most of my english through a mess of mass media
valid
So how do you teach your students ridiculous words like queue?
and like, i've talked before about having a sense of loss of cultural identity bc of that
not in this chat i don't think
some of the wakayama folks i work with have said i have a "wakayama accent" in my japanese but that's actually just an english tendency to put stress in the middle of 3-syllable words
like korokke (croquette)
I'm pretty sure its prounounced PLAY-GOO
i said ko-RO-kke and there was an eruption of giggles and they were like "you sound like a wakayama native"
/starcraft
bagel
baggle
bah-gel
bayzhəl
since we're having a lingusistics party, do you think the disconnect between french spelling and french pronunciation can be blamed on their prescriptive system?
🤔
at some point someone wouldve started spelling it "wahzo" right?
They have a department in their government for preserving the language
yeah, and it's uncommon and useless
Quebec has that too
i read a cool post once that uhhh in quebec french, pronouns are becoming so reduced that they could potentially become verb agreement prefixes
and just be pro-drop
a seperate organization for quebec-french?
something something metaplasmic enclitization something something rabble
this is like super uncertain "maybe in a century or two" kind of prediction
people conlang their future predictions sometimes, and thats pretty fun
I know that there was a period of time when people tried to make english words spell more like their origin words without changing the pronunciation
there are also cases of pronunciations being changed, because people see the way a word is spelled and pronounce it according to the spelling
so the interaction goes both ways
I hang out in the discord for The Expanse fandom
and it has this huge conlang contingent
because they made a conlang creole for the show
They're weird, but they're mi beratna
okay but, you know how korean is famous for being perfectly phonetic
cause one dude decided to standardize it all at once
because of natural sound change it's starting to not be phonetic anymore
so like..... sound change is a never ceasing hamster wheel and orthography can never catch up to it
okay but if say, this region changed this word but the other region hasn't, do you change the orthography
Good point
if you just declare the dialect of one specific location official and force everybody in the country to standardize to it..... well that's just mandarin chinese
hence why there is animosity between the Quebecois and the French
well, as well as the complicated relationship between revolutionary france and colonial quebec, the general condescending attitude, and feelings of being left alone to face the attempts of assimilation that the Anglophone canadians keep trying to force on us
The 1700s were a weird time for european powers
im jdjdkckgkh THE BOLDNESS OF IT ALL
(side note 👀 mysties grab ur linking books amd also ur credit cards)
Hello everybody! Nice to meet you. I'm Altair, 25. I'm a big fan. Played Bastion and Transistor, soon to play Pyre! I'm glad to have joined and cannot wait to catch up.
nice to meet you too!!
Hey :D
OH I KNOW YOU!!!!!!
The fandom world is small and in the end we all like the same games
its bc we all have good taste uwu
whatd u think of transistor?
I played it quite a while ago, actually,like Bastion. Still love it a lot!
Now I'm about to finish my studies and that should leave me with a bit extra time
Which means Pyre time
Are you also a fan of Sworcery? I can't remember
i am.....somewhere in there? i didnt like the way the game played personally but the music amd aesthetic is so nice i still feel like a fan
I was asking because I wrote a fic about it that was inspired by hummed Old Friends and I wondered if you had come across it
Sure!
wait, are french canadians and non-french canadians mad at each other?
Oh Sworcery?? 👀
There has historically been (and probably presently as well) some animosity between the anglophone and francophone populations in Canada and in particular Quebec, yes. That's getting a bit too into politics for my liking, though
historically quebec was catholic and anglophone canada was mostly protestant
quebec separatism reached its peak in the 90s and there was a referendum that was very close but didn't pass
that's my tiny historical rundown i'm not gonna talk about the modern politics either
Leap with the agility of a tamarin as you journey into the Northern wilderness on scenic routes through forests, fjords and mountains. Along the way you will...
soundtrack made by David Wise
the who made the soundtrack for Donkey Kong 👀
does that monkey have a gun
yup
watch out he's got a gun
Oh no he has airpods in
What do you call a bard who wears armor and has strong religious convictions
What
A balladin

the cons of having no friends to play mmos with is im struggling with something and cant ask anyone for advice 
Have you tried farming for another 20 hours?
How come no one makes these clothes in real life
thats what cosplayers do !
mood
again mood
the distinction between being cute and feeling cute is important
its like, someone asked me what my goal weight is, and I was like, "I just am going to lose weight until I feel better about myself, so 0?"
my hot take is that cuteness is subjective, so if you feel cute, it's valid to say you ARE cute
yeah
thanks for coming to my ted talk, folks 
applause
I demand that the computational patters that are my consciousness be liberated from the tyranny of matter!
I assume there's some paperwork someplace I can file?
ask Royce
hmm
probably need to make some stipulations about sensory inputs and manipulation ability....
i'll just end oceloctopus' crazy hour with that.
As for why outfits like that arent made
Primarily practicality, secondarily because they look worse IRL
Physics, fashion's one true enemy
While cuteness is subjective, there still is a case where feeling cute doesnt neccessarily help you look good in other peoples eyes
I'd like to think feeling cute is the goal
Depends on your perspective tbh
Personally I want to look like Armstrong
Or, alternatively, the Persona 5 MC
money is a pretty significant factor, too
True, but its less genuine
every once in a while I'll run across a comment in the while where they go, "Why did cloaks fall out of fashion? They look so good!" and I'll just be, "because practically, the jacket is better in literally every way"
cloaks are excellent in winter, tho
Also because walking down a street with 20 cloaked people is creepy
that reminds me of a friend who went to a book signing at Harvard
apparently, it was the same day as graduation, so there were a lot of people who showed up post-graduation in their graduation robes
she said it looked like a wizard convention
Robes and cloaks are a different thing
Though I would totally walk down a rainy street late at night in a cloak muttering "the greater good" over and over
lol
The problem with cloaks is wind
jackets don't really suffer from wind nearly as much as cloaks do
and also, you don't need to let in all the cold air to use your hands.
when does a robe become a dress?
material and cut mostly
robes also aren't closed all the way around the body usually
Also I believe Robes are much more loose-fitting
and if they are, they're closed in the front; dresses are closed in the back generally
I believe robes are generally designed to be worn over other clothing, as well
a cloak is actually closer to a dress but the material is different, plus the front closure and the looseness of the cut
also generally not having sleeves, and goes over the arms
I want a chiropractor to crack my whole body like a glowstick
same
Anyone else have a persistent notification from #announcements ? I muted the channel, disabled here and everyone notifications, but it still shows up
It's an issue that sometimes happens with discord @ 's
Are you on mobile or PC? logging out and restarting the app might clear it
also try scrolling up and back down or clicking Mark As Read
Im on mobile. Restarting the app didnt fix it, neither did scrolling. I dont see the "mark as read" link/button/whatever you wanna call it
ah i've had that issue
usually i just leave it for a while and something makes it leave
maybe logging onto a different device?
Yeah other servers are fine for me as well
I looked at it with a pc and its fixed
Hey important data collection.... looking for more games where Love is Stored in the Sword
We got Transistor, we got Boyfriend Dungeon... any other recs to increase the sample size
Not romantic love, but Skyward Sword has Fi
And her goodbye scene was the first time I cried at a video game
Sundered has an eldritch god within a sword, which you can embrace or reject
not quite romantic but still
Platonic love and "close enough" are acceptable submissions
i have an anime ,,, lol
w. what's the anime
noragami,,,
oh I've actually been meaning to watch that ironically
I played a pathfinder campaign once where the DM didn't realize that a +2 short sword was a bit OP for my level 2 rogue so she made it cursed the next session
does that count? 😛
the curse was that it talked constantly so I had a negative stealth modifier
Lol that's incredible
My bard had a collection of talking swords, two paired ones that would be rude to both him and his enemies and one good bean that warned him of danger. At the very end he also picked up a fiendish dagger that talked, it was a mess
We were reasonably good friends, and I eventually convinced a mage to make it telepathic instead of chatty
on the subject of pathfinder and talking swords, Black Blade Magus is basically fantasy transistor
you have a special bond with an intelligent sword that only you can hear, and also you can cast spells through it
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But is the magic sword your boyfriend?
hey when can i get a magic sword girlfriend
if you want it to be 🤷
ya girl hasn't had a decent burger or craft beer in a loooong time but it's golden week now so i am TREATING MYSELF 😤
this place also has a "skillet smore" which i think i'm gonna have to try
"recommended that this be split between two or three people" yeah no i'm gonna eat it myself
update: they made a smaller size for me and it was Good™
that sounds so good omg
@tropic garden I love beer, but keto doesn't, and so I'm constantly struggling
I miss it so
I used to be the type of person that would never try the same beer twice
if I could help it
but now, whenever I allow myself to have one I'm just like, "I'll take a deschutes black butte porter please!"
because if I can only have a beer a month it might as well be one I know I'm going to love
ven im very jealous
@tropic garden sounds good as!
I miss going to craft beer places with my gang, most of them moved away lol
@warm basin moving the conversation from #supergiant-games: yes! and i just posted fanart for it in #self-promotion
nudge nudge
it is a very good game
have you played fallen london/sunless sea? they're made by the same guy who made cultist sim! 
both very good games too
oh i've heard of sunless sea!
its a fantastic game, they just released a sequel called sunless skies
about the british empire expanding into outer space
i'm a big fan of alexis kennedy (the guy who made the games) so I followed him to cultsim but I regrettably haven't had the time to complete it yet
I remember I tried playing Sunless Sea
I read a lot of text, set sail, and then died after doing nothing for 2 hours
I love the setting though
Basically how sailing worked at the time
@sacred quiver i just want you to know that i love and appreciate your ok ko twitch avatar
love that show so much 😭
ko is a precious little nugget
hi!
i love these games :)
i played bastion and transistor in 2016 and got back into bastions soundtrack recently, but i never finished pyre
im writing a speech on the media representation of lgbt people and my bad writing skills are rlly coming thru

aw syd u got this
this speech doesnt even count towards anything but imma put my all into it 
you can do this, my kin
ty... send me ur strength lgbt community of supergiant discord
🙌 🙏 ✨
✨ 📧 📬 📫
so was anyone gonna tell me season 2 of she-ra came out or was i supposed to find this out myself
hjfhjfj yesss im watching the first new ep now!!!!! she ra time!!!!!
Uuugh
I need that transburger emoji
someone who has that transburger emoji plz react to some of those comments above with it for me plzkthx
If you search transburger in this server it’ll find it!
I don't have that particular one, but I have a bunch of others
I only get transistor 😦
ive nearly finished the first episode and im,, not enjoying it ,,, ?
awwwww :<
i feel like there was a lot of......character development jump....that just kinda went by offscreen so its slightly jarring?
esp (tagging just in case bc the shows out for like, 2 days,) ||frosta||
Yes. i agree with that big time
||like out of nowhere she goes from strict rulestickler to jokey overexcited kid||
||and it COULD make sense if we saw the character development, but we dont||
||yeah, it feels like they forgot her personality ,, im finding her kinda annoying||
;o; yea....||i wanna give her a chance, see where they go with her.... glimmer being like AAAHGH I SOUNDED LIKE MY MOM was a nice touch
honestly i think? the writing team just hit a wall w frosta and said ok total rewrite||
||catras bit w shadow weaver in jail is 💯 tho like. CATRA....UR A MESS AND I LOVE IT||
||''no princess left behind'' ''im talking into this recorder bc thats what the best scientist i ever knew did'' OHOOHOHO...THE FORE SHADOWING||
@somber ferry It's not my avatar I was just shilling for a friend😅 But I will pass the message along
@ionic viper I love ur icon he’s so good
i'd die for caduceus clay
https://sheepskin.tumblr.com/post/183880685097/ here's the full set!
plus kiri
Chibi Caleb and Nott are so good...
the itty bitty frumpkin has slain me
molly looks like he’s declaring a trap card in yugioh haha
jester's lil >:3 face is very true to her character
it IS that’s not her it’s a duplicate
Worth mentioning ALSO any time I see Yasha+flowers I die
wth they're so cute
no u
hey mythies is proserpine an alt name for persephone, some friends are wondering n here sounds like a good place for answers
proserpine is a different roman goddess
though i wouldn't put it past romans to syncretize together two gods because their names sounded kinda similar
Proserpina or Proserpine is an ancient Roman goddess whose cult, myths and mysteries were combined from those of Libera, an early Roman goddess of wine, and the Greek Persephone and Demeter, goddesses of grain and agriculture.
wine and agriculture
so basically the answer is: yes, technically
hmm now i'm wondering if bear was considered a low class drink or something, if ancient greeks only had wine gods but no beer gods
or at least maybe wine had some kind of religious association that beer doesn't
you have to be 21 to drink bears in the us
uh oh
drink 21 bears
I want that mug
this is my oc beeronysus, god of beer
18 in NZ for drinking lol
u gota draw beeronysus
It used to be 21 decades ago, now days on your 21st you're expected to do a yardie or 21 shots
froth beard
yardie is skulling a yard glass lol
oh is it those giant glasses
18 to buy + drink on your own, 16 if it's bought by an adult to go with a meal
here in the uk
well. england.
It is illegal to permit minors under the age of 5 to consume alcoholic beverages unless under medical supervision or in an emergency.
i..... don't know why this is a thing, but Apparently It Is,
what is with grandpas and trying to feed children alcohol
...glug glug
NO!!!
its an emergency, this baby is NOT DRUNK
🍺 🍼
also, at work if someone looks under 25 i gotta ask them for id and if they don't have any then i can't sell them it
same here, the posters are pretty lame "If we ask for your ID take it as a compliment!!! :>"
i like the phrasing.
"if you are lucky enough"
fun fact i once got asked for id for christmas crackers
you have to be 12 to buy christmas crackers.
can't find our posters online, weird
lol it was under 30 in the grocery store i worked at
Lol my partner is younger than me and gets carded way less than me, the tilt
any kh fans ,,,, i’m buzzing rn
also my friend got asked for id when she tried to buy mountain dew
I got asked for ID when buying cashews once
I was like 26 at the time
oh and for painkillers
they're too dangerous
caffeine
cashews??
nut 🥜
🌰
https://youtu.be/myqSETD5_bs
Y'ALL,,
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Hey I probably say this game is really good too much at this point, but RiME is only $2.49 right now: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/rime
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i got it in another fanatical bundle since you recommended it a while ago!
anyone else listen to world is mine remastered with recent miku voicebanks and cry
man I can't wait for the new godzilla film
I would never have dreamed that Go Go Godzilla would get a cover on an official Godzilla movie but here we are I guess
Yuh
They should make a new distribution platform called the super giant games games store
Or sgggs for short
has anyone been watching Carole and Tuesday? I watched the first ep a couple days ago and was..........underwhelmed,
it seemed like there was a lot of hype on it and they have a really good staff...
I liked it. It's a simple slice of life / music anime
and it's only been 3 episodes so far
they are still planting the decor
I like it as a sort of "relax and unwind" show. Y'know, there's no CRAZY HIGH stakes, which I get is boring for some folks. But I kind of enjoy watching it as a cute, wish fulfillment thing.
that's valid, i guess i was expecting it to be, like, engaging when that's not really the point
it's probably just not my thing then ^^;
for some reason, my brain is reading this as "EGGS! EGGS!"
Quite the SeGGway there Litvac!
Epic Giant Games Super Games Store (EGGSGS)
It includes a special currency for ingame transaction called "Decearing Egg"
still struggling with writing my speech 
take a little break?
if i do i feel like i’ll never go back to it
and it was supposed to be finished yesterday lol
and the date im actually speaking got moved and now im all muddled hhnm
Today is the end of the Heisei era, wishing everyone success and happiness in the new Reiwa era!
Oh?
He’s a whole new speed of hero. Watch the new trailer for Sonic The Hedgehog, in theatres this November. #SonicMovie SONIC THE HEDGEHOG is a live-action adve...
I can't wait to rent it on google play mere days after its release
it's okay he'll get bald
He's in the mushroom kingdom
PLEASE no
not my favourite shwo
i feel like they wouldnt let marceline be the bi icon she is
Yeah, that would def be necessary
also the voice actor would HAVE to play her theres no other marcy
Oh what? She played doof's daughter?
also really need DiMaggio to play Jake.
but also i cant see jeremy shada as anyone but finn,, so
Wait
John dimaggio made up to look like a dog(a La barf) but with all of jake's powers
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/spaceballs/images/1/1d/Barf.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20181205062949 <-- Barf, for those who never watched space balls
Aww
I miss it too
I went to the premier of Bee and Puppycat and met so many AT folks
they were all so cool
I brought along a friend of mine and he ended up playing smash brothers at a party at Ashley Burch's house and I'm so jealous
He then never did anything with them again x.x
how strange
I don't know what those words mean D:
me either

I am full of hurt
the sonic stuff... makes me crave death
i think they showed robotnik 2 days early because otherwise we wouldnt be able to tell which character jim carrey was playing in the trailer
oh same
the trailer gave my depression depression
#notmysonic
hollywood has already destroyed or mediocritized all my favorite IPs so I'm dead inside now and can only find Sonic's new look hilarious
thousands of years of human evolution has led to the day when a Ryan Reynolds comedy about pokemon solving mysteries looks better than a Sonic movie
Its just such an absurd premise
good content
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/04/30/far-right-party-vox-posts-anti-lgbt-gay-ghost-emoji-backfires/
that far right party got like 10 percent in a voting system where the congress is proportional to the vote
there's like 24 seats filled with these awful folks now
it's great to reclaim the funny ghost emoji, but it's also important to notice the growth of these movements worldwide
To me it feels more like lgbt rights and their opposition have just switched positions in society
So now it's the far right trying to start grassroots campaigns and movements and the like
Although it might also be me not paying much attention to news
The other idea i have would be that conservative groups are just starting to get on board with this kind of stuff, since they're inherently resistant to change
I jumped in a voice chat with friends, since I saw a bunch of them together, and they were playing dnd
I am now in a dnd campaign
Not how I expected my day to go, but I'm not complaining
That sounds like a great way to have a day go
I know, right? I'm working with the dm to figure out how to slot my character in to the campaign. Short version of her backstory so far: pocket dimension hippie commune (plus memory loss)
i wanna live in a pocket dimension hippie commune :(
I mean, same
so... tempted to sleep... must work on code....
@copper lark hey im starting the last shera ep rn and like. crying real tears for catra
AAAGH i still haven’t watched anymore but my friend was the same when she watched it
i would die for catra
also btw im so scared for entrapta shes got the knife dangling over her head
entrapta is just miku but a nerd
why have a real gf when you can build a gf
entrapta/miku will be endgame
honestly im super worried for entrapta she has like.....no support system bc everyone sort of shrugs her off as annoying
im like. 
Maybe she'll get an episode about her
Where she gets a character development and a big hug
i’ll give her the hug
Entrapta/Miku is the best ship of 2019
darn, I don't have any good 2019 ships :<
@vocal brook I've always wanted to play a DND campaign where I'm a spellcaster who believes they're a cleric for a fake god.
That's fantastic omg
you should do that so I can live vicariously
I'm playing a barbarian, sadly (sadly for your idea, I'm going to have lots of fun)
lol
The short version of her backstory is:
Pocket Dimension Hippie Commune (plus memory loss)
nice
She has 16 strength, 18 constitution, and 6 intellect
daaaaaang
Strong as a brick wall and about as smart
i just accidentally blew a fuse in my house and now none of the lights are turning on

howd you do that
i don’t know ???? at all????
i turned the light on and there was a sound like smashing glsss
and then none of the lights worked
my dad fixed it tho 😔
so i just learned that epic games bought out psyonix (rocket league devs), and theyre gonna pull rocket league off of steam and sell it exclusively on their game store...
now im even less interested in having anything to do w/their launcher
if it gets them more money i support
they could be using that money to actually secure their platform better
think hades will ever come to steam?
after it’s out of development
👍
epic buying psyonix means the linux port is cancelled and linux players are just screwed and will not be able to play a game they bought for a considerable amount of money
becuase epic has stated specifically they will not, nor never, have an official linux client
And considering Valve sees Linux support as an important step forward for the industry, it stands to reason that Epic, who makes their decisions based around the opposite of Valve's practices, would be actively against Linux
Seems like with all the money they're throwing around they might as well hire one or two Linux devs
The Linux build for rocket league already exists and it runs well, I wonder where that'll go
It seems like those who bought it on steam will still own it
Its one thing to poach games that aren't released yet, but games with established userbases seems like a jerk move and a bad idea.
I would like a game like stardew valley that I haven't played do death, and has good writing
My Time at Portia just... I dunno
The setting is interesting but the writing just isn't
as much as I love Sam
Thinking about Kynseed but might wait until its out of early access
I mean, they have the dev power to do it, they're just choosing not to for now. Even as a linux user myself I recognise that the linux gaming market is a minority
They're choosing not to, and that'll be another reason I choose to avoid their store as much as possible
🤷
Makes me wonder what SGG thinks about stuff like this
Esp with psyonix's acquisition
Yeah, I mean I literally said they're choosing not to. It's not exactly a very viable business decision no matter how much you try and market linux support. The loudest people != the majority of people.
The loudest people are often the minority of people
I think Kynseed is very interesting idea
Maybe Im reading this wrong, but they only say that its currently not planned, not that it will never happen @limber horizon
as far as linux support goes, unfortunately "currently not planned" usually means "no chance in hell"
"we're looking into it" usually means "very unlikely but maybe if we have like, one guy on staff that really likes linux and bugs us enough
confirmed means we're working on it but we might jsut ditch it if we don't think it's worth it
I know Codex, I'm simply saying it's another reason that I (me, personally, as an individual) will continue avoiding their store
The part that infuriates me is that they have a great storefront, but they refuse to learn that exclusives just make people want to use your store less
i think, unfortunately, there's no way for the fight over digital distribution to not be ugly and underhanded at this point
valve has an unquestioned monopoly, and that kind of thing doesn't just, like, fall apart
unless regulation steps in and breaks it up - which is everybody's least favorite option - the whole point is that the market just isn't competitive right now and won't become competitive again by normal means
On the plus side, Epic's roadmap looks good on paper. We'll have to wait to see how it pans out in reality, of course
i think epic's whole shebang isn't very friendly to its users, for sure, they should have a more functional platform etc etc all the complaints people have already made, but it's gonna take a giant throwing some cash around to put a chip in valve's domination
Personally I think they have enough of a user base from fortnite that they don’t need exclusives, but I see your point
exclusives only leave a bad aftertaste on PC because we aren't used to it being a divided market...consoles have been like that since day one. not that i'm saying that's better, and it's a huge reason i don't do the whole console thing, but you get me
I'm not convinced regulators would even be bad at this point
The big boys have had their fun
I don’t see how you would regulate it
my heart says regulation is good but my life experience says they don't know what they're doing
big chunks of government are still on board the "video games directly cause violent behavior" train
and not for nothing but i don't exactly want those fingers in the game pie
Cosmetic only loot boxes are gambling is another trend
Yeah it is gambling adjacent at least
free-to-play mobile games have been exploitative since they started existing but since they were "free" it wasn't seen as being as big an issue
i remember hearing occasional stories back in middle school about kids blowing up their parents' credit cards with free to play purchases tho
Maybe if the business model requires people to be addicted for the business to function, it doesn't deserve to
it's a monetized extension of abusive skinner box game design...somebody realized you could stick dollar signs on it and the rest is history
Cough cough cigarettes cough cough
Id say exclusives only leave a sore taste because we were used to an unquestioned monopoly of exclusives
A lot of people probably dont even remember the time when you could get physical copies of PC games
Even then, its not exclusives that bother people
😔 i do, still have a whole cabinet of them back home
Its exclusives that arent steam exclusives
Yeah, I got a bunch of them to
I miss those times tbh
remember renting video games
blockbuster had video game rentals so you could play them before you bought them
<Blockbuster Flashbacks>
I think the local library still has a bunch of games you could rent
I also remember borrowing games from friends
these days even physical copies of games are still always-on internet DRM protected and require you to download 5 GB of the actual game onto your console
"physical copies"
Yup
i miss the days when pc games had big cardboard boxes that felt like the most exciting thing in the world
god we sound old.
tech has just changed v much v fast
bruh when i was in elementary school i put my reports on floppy disks
Ok Floppy Disks are too old for me
my first introduction to nu metal was because a friend burned a CD for me
We had some at home
so that sure is a thing
I remember that my siblings and I had to stop using the pc for a few hours when dad would burn his pink floyd onto cds
But I never used it
i remember games needing multiple floppy disks
babs wins
babs wins!!
Same tbh
i am ancient
what's incredible tho is that we're all at like
2-3 year age gaps with each other
and all of us have very different early tech memories
I got introduced to Linkin Park when a friend burned Meteora for me
Breaking the Habit still is one of my favourite songs, too
this wasnt my time but i rember finding tech magazines from my older siblings/parents that were like, dos games u had 2 program urself
my mom used punch cards and told me about the experience extensively
it was like "heres the free game of the month :))) [page of code]"
My dad works as a sys admin, so he brought home a lot of old computers that were either recently replaced or just bad enough to not be secure, so in our house we had a lot of old monitors and keyboards
Weve hit like 3 seperate walls
ooooohh
Progress is gonna be a hell of a lot slower, and user-end it wont change all that much for a couple decades probably
i guess market forces are a big part of determining at what point games will hit a physical nostalgia point like vinyl
arcades are already there - 30 year nostalgia cycle is solidly in the late 80s right now
no i mean nostalgia for owning physical copies of games - like we were talking about
drm is easier to enforce on digital games, though, and they're cheaper to produce
hdjcn if games are exclusively unphysical game stores will sell boxes w download codes in them
True
not that they were ever not computers in some sense, but, you get me
But there is still a strong physical aspect to them
that’s already a thing they do, kam
Especially stuff like the Switch
oh do they? im out of loop by now
doesnt switch have online tho
consoles basically have exclusives, and design to their credit now
and you can take a bite out of the design with the fact that controllers work on PC
i can’t remember which game it was but i remember buying one and it had no cd, just a download code
ahhh
wow....
I havent bought a game in a store in ages
Especially a PC game
I think the last one was Starcraft II
my laptop doesn't even have a disk drive
same 😔
the last physical game i bought was, puyo pop fever for ds, last week jcncn
gamestop used section eternally my go to spot
i can see the appeal of handheld consoles, but not of home systems
I can tbh
other than the exclusives - which mostly just make me mad because i don't want to spend the money on a system for one game - my pc can do all the same stuff with less baggage
Home systems are easier and cheaper than PCs
i move around a lot so home consoles are just not really feasible for me now either >>
Yeah thats a big downside
i haven't been settled in one place for the last 6 years
But the same is true for desktops
solution: no desktop
i have a like, mid-range gaming laptop that i just use for everything
usually i'm not playing games with super heavy graphics loads
i feel like desktops are going out of style for hone usr
and because it has utility to me outside Just Games i don't need to discard it when it gets outgrown
mhm!!
i'm Very Ok with not having a precision-built desktop
probably not, with a hobbyist and enthusiast crowd it's obviously a much better option
ohhhhhhh gamers....ironically, id forgot,
i don't think souped up gaming desktops are much of a Thing outside of enthusiasts though
which, like you said, is part of the appeal of consoles, which are ready to go from boot. a gaming laptop is basically just an all-in-one console, but you only need to carry one around
....as long as the exclusives don't eat you alive
sobs
The problem I have with Laptops is the screen
I like a big screen
Thats a decent distance away
i only got to play journey because my thesis advisor lent me his playstation 3
Laptops dont usually do it for me
And yeah, souped up are mostly enthusiasts
But decently powerful ones are relatively common
me: i'm writing my thesis on games!
my advisor: oh cool have you played journey
me: ....no! : ' )
my advisor: my ps3 is in the corner over there, i don't use it, please play
The only reason I personally don't have a desktop is because I have yet to live someplace long enough to make it a feasible purchase. From the moment I left HS and started college 10 years ago, I've constantly been on the move.
College made it especially crucial for me to have a laptop. I lived in Jersey but went to school in Georgia, so I had to take a 15~18 hours car/bus/train ride anywhere from 2 to 4 times each year I was there.
(SCAD runs on a quarter system instead of semesters, so we'd go home before Thanksgiving and come back after New Years.)
Yeah, whenever I hear about semester system schedules, I'm like ???? what is this alien speak
we did not go home before thanksgiving but we did go home right after
which made going home for thanksgiving totally pointless
because you'd go home, then come back and immediately have finals, and be on break by like december 7th
i don't have time to travel, i'm writing a term paper
yikes, i feel that
(this resulted in my staying with a local friend's family for thanksgiving two years in a row)
But yeah, I miss physical copies
And Im annoyed that Steam effectively killed them
I want to be sure that if the apocalypse hits and the world gets destroyed
That I can still play Transistor
lol
I think if the world got destroyed, I'd just be dead anyway.
I wouldn't survive. I'm too lazy.
Well I didnt say who would cause it
why play trna on your computer when you can just go outside and get processed 
(kate beaton voice) process THIS
HJGHJFHJFHJFHJ
Anyway, so long as Steam loses their monopoly, Im happy
Id rather have creators get more money from my purchase
Especially indie devs
You can buy drm free games off of itch and the dev will take 100% cut
For the ones that are on it
Who wouldn't be?
I say, in a community server for an indie game company that isn't on itch
bruh when i was in elementary school i put my reports on floppy disks
I still did that in high school...
my first introduction to nu metal was because a friend burned a CD for me
Pizza pizza pie every minute every second pie pie pie pie
i am ancient
@blissful charm what a mood.
I got introduced to Linkin Park when a friend burned Meteora for me
I saw them live for their meteora tour lol
I was.... 14 when meteora came out?
That was my early high school years, too. Grade 9 or 10, I think
I would have been... 14 as well
lol
y'all are old
Sure seems that way
old group yells at cloud
I injured my shoulder in October and nothing has been making me feel older
"Congrats on being 30, here's an injury you'll never truly recover from"
RIP
I often forget that I'm 30, until someone asks
Sometimes folks don't card me
and it makes me super sad
well
not Super sad
but like, disappointed
Oh, I haven't been asked for ID in years. I thinking having always sported some variety of facial hair has helped that
the first time i didn't get asked for an id i was 27
I mean, I've been not asked for ID a buncha times, but they were mostly cases where I was obviously with people who could be considered my parents or in rural nebraska where it turns out they don't really care as much.
I'm amazed when I don't get carded lol
i'm in that weird place where i'm 24 and half the people i meet think i'm in high school and the other half just......don't?? card me??
Schroedingers age
Youre simulatinously too young to buy without an ID, and too old to need an ID
@faint panther i just noticed ur icon.... 🐱 🤝 🐱
YES
i love catra,,,
sameeeee
yall so old i feel like a baby
bapy
im baby?
@upbeat scroll welp

I wonder if SGG just read his comment
Looked at the site
And said "wait, why arent we on it?"
Its unlikely but hilarious
Therefore it is canon to me
A longer run-up than that, but a very well timed coincidence. 😄
Death of the Author, I stick to my canon 😛
Oh I mean... Canon Who???
The notorious criminal Pachelbels Canon.
I think I've bought like, 4 copies of bastion, back when I had a job that paid me better for friends that really needed to experience it
so yeah, a bit late
Yeah I think all of the folks I know well enough already have it
aww, we're your friends?!?
Lets not get ahead of ourselves
I jest, I jest
But yeah, this is cool
Im always up for SGG getting more money
ashamed bc i put this in the wrong channel but kh critical mode is killing me
Y’all they put the To The Moon sequel in Humble Monthly and I’m so eager to bawl my eyes out for months after again
and Monster Prom hhhh... big monster lovers...
monster prom is so good!!!!
fun with and without friends
also the new mod mode thing,, where u can make your own dates
how about a dating game where everyone is a clone of the same person? https://store.steampowered.com/app/949060/Love_Thyself__A_Horatio_Story/
OH COOL
Date up to nine weapons, from dancing swords to heart-piercing daggersGenerated action-combat dunj and challenges! Stay sharp!Various combat styles. For example, hit hard and dodge quickly with the dagger, or take on crowds with LasersaberInclusive, tasteful approach to gende...
when weapons are beautiful enough
no girls.......
Yeah, I'm not much of a dating sim person, but I'm definitely tempted by that one
yes girls
that looks cool owo
I'm not sure if Horatio subscribes to our gender roles
Glaive (Sawyer): they'd like you to get straight to the point Scythe (Rowan): reaping what they sow
also nb weapons
the glaive and the scythe are undoubtedly the coolest weapons, also, so i appreciate this
Yoooo I've been keeping an eye on Boyfriend Dungeon, it looks like it's gonna be lit
bapie!!!!
same,,
world is large, legs are smal,, rest,,,,
oh babie?
hi hello please support boyfriend dungeon
i backed it on kickstarter, and it looks SO GOOD
and the folks at kitfox all seem super cool
I was mostly just making a joke about the messed up and confusing family tree
ohh ok
homestuck is so messy
I think that the horatio game was an april fools joke
like lovers of aetherhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1043180/Lovers_of_Aether/
Now is not the time for war. Now is the time for love! The homecoming dance is tonight and you need a date pronto. Spend your school day talking to the students at Aether High. All the original characters from Rivals of Aether are in attendance. It's up to you to decide who y...
too bad the game ends before you actually can date best girl clairen
,, owo
You basically need a walkthrough to read Homestuck
But thats part of what makes it fun
Yeah
Lol I love rivals, but that’s not what I meant dan
@analog spear TFW your april fools joke has better art and writing than the game its based on
Also best boye is orcane in case you didn't know
Tbh, Dating sims without the Persona-shaped game around it feels a bit, idk, empty?
but I have to struggle with sylv
Yea the story mode is... not very good
actually, etalus.....
damn
they did a good job of making in-game etalus look/act like IRL george
Things I know about Homestuck: There's a character called Vriska? Undertale???
If only we knew
Oh and uh its the second time Toby Fox used Megalovania
Undertale is the third
I actually prefer the homestuck version
i wana try bitsy sooo bad one of these days
Bitsy's a lot of fun! It's great for doing small projects, and a lot of people like to use it for small experimental art stuff
oh cute
rubbing my hands together........................ohoohoho
Would you like some mittens?
no it is like a villain with excitement for all the things i could do w bitsy
oh no sorry!!! these mittens rock
I was talking about the sonic
they're now irrevokably associated with the terror of the movie
ahhh hjgjghj
Mittsy
Can't believe detective pikachu is coming out next thursday
The degree to which I'm excited about this movie is, frankly, ridiculous.
I think I'm gonna buy advanced tickets for it if I can.
I haven't done that in a long time.
I'm glad it doesn't look like it's going to try to take itself too seriously
OK
I figured it out
Besides just looking like an alien
hmm
nevermind.
Hypothesis: The reason that Detective Pikachu is cool and sonic isn't, I mean, other than sonic just looks weirder.
Is that the only really weird thing in detective pikachu is the pokemon
everything else is just kinda normal
Not sure how well it works
hence my hesitation
Did you hear that the director plans to re-render everything who knows how much of the movie with a redesign for Sonic?
Honestly, couldn't care less
the only bad thing abt detective pikachu is mr mime
However, the conspiracy theory that they made him look wonky in the trailer so that they could get coverage from the fan outrage only to capitulate and bring out the "real" sonic which they had the entire time is interesting
Not One Bit
Well, I mean, significantly changing a cgi character design like that is quite a significant task. The fact that they can do that and not delay release tickles some of my skeptical bits
And we live in an age where creating outrage for visibility is a well documented marketing tactic
the thing is, the pokemon in detective pikachu still look like pokemon
they don't deviate too far from the base design
They somehow made bulbasaur look more cute
and honestly, rilly fuzzy pikachu is growing on me
ok, nevermind, i forgot how cute some of the bulbasaur sprites were
i honestly think the sonic design is like uglycute but also. also. there is so much sonic media out there, its not the be all and end all? i just really hope this isnt crunching the animators too much :< its fine to have a bad movie
it is known
it's either a poorly made fursuit or one of those cheap knockoff halloween costumes
god.
omg
actually why am i saying that, there is no god here when those things are around
what the hell are those urls
like yeah i know you're showing detective pikachu stuff but look at how long and ugly those urls are
The Pokemon stuff works because it doesnt quite hit the uncanny valley
Except for Mr Mime, but he is creepy no matter what he does
mr mime in the anime is creepiest
I love that they decided to fully embrace people finding Mr. Mime creepy, lol
As for the Sonic redesign thing... while it's kinda neat to see that the filmmakers want to respond to the feedback, I feel bad for the artists who are probably gonna be sent into an overworked crunchtime to try and make edits.
there's no "probably" about it
if they really are overhauling his design - and it will take an overhaul - that's a hell of a lot of work to cram in if they want to keep the original release date
There is that conspiracy theory that ugly-sonic was made for outrage advertising and they have the "new" sonic sitting in the wings the entire time.
i don't think they're that smart
If they were that smart, they wouldn’t have made a sonic movie
uuugh
when I first saw that ugly amalgamation
that they call "sonic"
I don't want to play Lost World anymore
the sonic movie has the same budget as an illumination movie
and sonic hasn't been relevant for about as long as illumination movies so I guess there's a connection
Just spent thirty minutes sending a tumblr mutual affection and compliments over anon and I am feeling full of energy and love rn
@vocal brook I think you're a cool person and I believe in you^^
Anyone else so hyped for the hades update they read through the entire tech fix channel just to see discussion of the game?
sometimes i get really tempted to buy funny numbers of dead cryptocurrencies
for less than 2 dollars i could be the proud owner of four hundred and twenty dogecoins
and i would be able to mention that any time anyone talks about crypto
or for 19 cents i could get a different number
maybe this is more funny to me than to anyone else
saint young men is getting a live action movie????
thank god, actually
they're wearing the t-shirts............
wait it says this is the SECOND one???
is there another live action saint young men movie out there
Participating in a Katana ZERO Speedrun race, being streamed here https://twitch.tv/iKainalo

Being set up atm
https://twitter.com/taciturasa/status/1125106408196907008
https://twitter.com/taciturasa/status/1125106411787247616
https://twitter.com/taciturasa/status/1125106414786162690
https://twitter.com/taciturasa/status/1125106416635789313
Epic bought Easy Anti-Cheat a few months back.
Before that, Valve had been talking with them for Linux support
Today, they announced all efforts to get it working under Linux have been halted.
Sweeney has compared using Linux to leaving to Canada.
I will break this down: Epic bought EAC so that Valve couldn't get Linux users support for these games. The CEO of Epic then compared championing FOSS software over corporate software to dodging social duties of helping marginalized people.
They also recently bought Rocket League, a game that has an official Linux port.
the EGS launcher will never have a Linux build.
The currently supported Linux build will be cancelled, leaving Linux users without any recourse, their game taken away, and no money refunded.
The next time someone goes past the legitimate claim that Epic exclusivity helps indies to state that moving to Epic never hurts customers, point to this.
Shutting down discussion of actually abusive corporate tactics to Own The Gamers is inexcusable.
Uh
They bought Easy Anti-Cheat in 2018
The news you might refer to was EasyAntiCheat working with Steam Play
Which came out 4 months after the acquisition
The timeline doesnt match up
does it matter? it doesn't change anything
It changes a whole lot actually
the fact of the matter is that epic has a very harsh stance against foss
nope
it doesn't
the effects of a buyout don't happen immediately
What reason do we have to believe that now, another 3 months later, they decided to interfere
Uh, no, they do
nop
Like, ongoing talks or such being cancelled, and upcoming projects being shelved within days of takeover are fairly common
Especially since the takeover itself is a long process
okay but like
The CEO of Epic then compared championing FOSS software over corporate software to dodging social duties of helping marginalized people.
nothing about this changes this
@JamesWidman @photex @intel @nvidia @AMD Installing Linux is sort of the equivalent of moving to Canada when one doesn’t like US political trends.
Nope, we’ve got to fight for the freedoms we have today, where we have them today.
epic might be better for indies
He is saying that in the context of swapping to Linux after some nonsense is pulled on windows
Which uh
Yeah thats a pretty good comparision
wait
How, exactly?
windows isn't a society or a nation
it's a corporate product
you owe no loyalty to corporations
why would people need to "fight for freedoms" on the microsoft windows OS by still using it
Right but the point isnt to have loyalty to windows
i don't think that works
Given that the original context was him being critical of windows
"windows sucks so it's illegal to not use windows"
comparing not worshipping corporate products to ignoring the plight of marginalized people is
gross
period
Again
Original context is him calling out windows
How is that "worshipping corporate products"
Like, way I see it his point is clear
Almost everyone uses windows
i don't understand his point
This is microsoft abusing their effective monopoly to push a paywall on windows folk
And the answer to that isnt "just switch off of windows lol"
Its specifically microsoft screwing over people on windows
insisting that you should stay on windows just because it's the most popular choice and saying it's the same thing as dodging the social duty to help and protect people in need
no
so why is using a different OS a bad tactic
Its more that you dont get the hell out of the system/nation youre on for one that might be better
WINDOWS IS NOT A NATION
the problem with windows is an inherent one with its licensing and status as a proprietary product
windows is not a nation!!! or a society!!!!! oh my god!!!!!!
i don't think Everyone With A Computer is obligated to "help the people" who happen to use windows OS




