starbreaker

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most "simulation" games aren't simulators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Since 14 is an MMO you’ve really only missed two main-series games

  You can play most of it solo, aside from some of the major boss fights, and it's both a "greatest hits" nostalgia trip and a damned good FF in its own right once you get into the Heavensward expansion and beyond.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most "simulation" games aren't simulators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What are the new Final Fantasies like? 8 was the last one I “beat” and then I never played 9 because the characters looked so cartoonish.

  With its protagonist Noctis as the chosen lightbringer, Final Fantasy XV was just an Andrew Lloyd Webber song away from being Lucifer Christ Superstar.

  And Final Fantasy XVI is basically Devil May Cry with a story that resembles a George R. R. Martin fanfic only if you aren't familiar with Michael Moorcock's Hawkmoon stories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming Platforms Have a Profitability Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you've got time to be needlessly pedantic about shitposts, you've got time to practice your gun kata. Piss off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming Platforms Have a Profitability Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  pics aren't streaming video

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save thousands⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, it's in my will: funeral roast, weenie roast, Judas Priest on the boombox, and public bisexual fornication for all willing adult participants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most "simulation" games aren't simulators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Marketers gonna market. If "simulation" is a hot-selling category, then games are going to be sold as "simulations" if they bear even a slight resemblance to an actual simulation. This the same industry in which the customers con themselves into thinking that Final Fantasy is still a role-playing game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do it? For the same reason Mt. Everest is littered with human corpses, shit, and garbage. For the same reason there's an American flag and a plaque immortalizing Richard fucking Nixon on the goddamned moon.

  Because it's there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save thousands⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When I die, roast weenies over my funeral pyre and blast old Judas Priest albums out of a boom box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Laundry day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if I was into sounding that would be too hardcore for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming Platforms Have a Profitability Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you remember what the WWW was like before it became cable TV with a comments section?

  I posted this elsewhere, but you might like it...

  The World Wide Web...
  A communications medium barely alive.
  We can rebuild it.
  We have the technology.
  We can make it better than it was.
  Better... Stronger... Faster...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Upside of being a GenX latchkey kid, even if I was born in the tail end of that generation. My parents didn't really give a shit what movies I rented as long as they weren't pornos. Not that they looked too close. I got away with renting Caligula by passing it off as a sequel to Masterpiece Theater's I, Claudius.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming Platforms Have a Profitability Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Streaming platforms have a continued existence problem. The internet is for text.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here were mine:

  • Spaceballs
  • They Live
  • Escape from New York
  • Hellraiser
  • Heavy Metal
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, Asimov. Bite me.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The basilisk can eat my meaty ass. The nerds at LessWrong plagiarized Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream and they're too fuckin' ignorant to realize it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Envy Office: Can Instagrammable Design Lure Young Workers Back?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No kidding. I can't just go downstairs and steal a quick kiss off my wife if I'm working on-site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Envy Office: Can Instagrammable Design Lure Young Workers Back?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Double my pay, give me a private office with a locking door, and let me bring a cat. Then I might consider it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the age of public salary-range listings, some jobseekers feel duped⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  tl;dr: the upper bound of the range isn't actually the upper bound for new hires. So if the lower bound isn't high enough, don't bother applying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Your Office Holiday Party Is A Secret Evaluation — And Possible Job Interview⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I've known this for years, and I refuse to play the game. Any workplace that attempts to force me to attend social events after hours isn't a culture fit for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glad it's almost over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because From Software games aren't hard anymore.