And Russia has shown that the return on investment for this type of propaganda is incalculably enormous.

, it is one of the rare cases of a sequel being shockingly better than the first game.

I feel like this happens (or at least used to happen) regularly in video games.

Holy shit I played the fuck out of this game as a kid. Completely forgot it existed until just now. I wonder how badly it’s aged

Love mine.

making Mario look incompetent

Lol that’s funny. Main line Mario games are matchless. Best performers there are (though Astro Bot does come close).

This is from someone who grew up with a Genesis. There is a reason Sega stopped making consoles…

Isn’t it meant to be like “better FS”? So you’re not too far off.

As usual, Star Ocean: Second Story gets overlooked (they did do a great job with the remake though).

You’re also leaving out the entire SMT/Persona series, but I guess it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.

I haven’t played through that one, but if the demon “Mara” is in it, then you bet your ass it’s horny lol.

Giant pulsing/dripping cock on wheels.

Well, plus all the other lady demons basically being naked. I believe most SMT games have succubi of sorts, and horniness is like their one known trait.

Software, Etc

Holy shit, core memory unlocked. I completely forgot that the Gamestop at our local mall was previously “Software, Etc.”

Goddamn.

I regret selling all of my PS1 and PS2 games. Back when the other (standalone) Gamestop in my town growing up was still a “Funco Land,” I found used copies of Tactics Ogre, and Ogre Battle (I think it was a two-disc Special Edition or something?) on PS1 for very cheap, and then sold them on eBay for like $150. I remember thinking I was so clever… Now I wish I had just kept them.

Huh, pacman always seemed to automatically work out those dependency loops, or whatever you want to call them, when I was on EndeavourOS. The only time I had an issue with updating was when I went like two weeks without updating, and then ran out of harddrive space halfway through installing the 600 updates.

I’ve been running Bazzite for several months now, and updating is absurdly easy and unintrusive. It’s basically impossible to fuckup (and if you do, it’s extremely simple to rollback). I can really see immutable/atomic being the future of Linux.

Perhaps its just gotten better, but I’ve been on it for a year or two now, and I haven’t come across an error message that didn’t bring up solutions when copy/pasted into google. Definitely varies by distro though, I was on EndeavourOS for most of that time, and being Arch, it has like infinite documentation.

Most normal people are nervous interacting with a GUI pop-up that gives them two options, never mind putting them into a terminal window where they could seriously fuck up their machine

Maybe this is a problem that we should be addressing, rather than just making technology more of a black box, and raising generations of people who have no fucking concept of how any of it works.

no restart required

Not true for immutable

Yeah, the reason I like Lemmy is because it reminds me of old reddit. Like old old reddit, before the Digg migration.

Have you read Vermis?

Thanks, that’s a pet peeve of mine. “Methamphetamines” oh so there was more than one? Ugh

Where do you draw the line between mental illness and substance abuse disorder? Are you aware that the latter is considered by pretty much everyone on the planet, to be included in the former?

Monero is untraceable. You can swap Bitcoin, or basically any other crypto, for it on decentralized exchanges and once you have Monero it’s a black hole. At least as of now, owning Monero isn’t illegal. And it’s impossible to track once it’s swapped.

Edit: oh, sans Monero. Yeah pretty much.

Yeah Suigi is the goat

You might want to look into what this dude was actually doing because he was really stupid. On like over a dozen occasions, he live streamed leaked games, days to weeks before their release.

He also sent Nintendo messages taunting them.

Dude deserves it.