Becksworth
Aging Hipster Dragon Dad
Steve feels weird and cumbersome to play to me, but yet somehow I still cranked out my second highest Classic Mode score with him first try. Huh...
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I just played for the first time since January and holy crap have they added a ton of spirits. Also I'd forgotten how damn fun the Spirit Board is.
I wouldn’t even mind if it’s a Fortnite; Honestly, as long as it’s not something I have active disdain for, it’s fine.
Yes. All Dooms except 3 are on Switch, in fact: 1, 2, 64, 2016, and Eternal.Doom Eternal did just show up on Switch recently, right?
Dunno how I overlooked that.3 is on my Switch right now, man. I haven’t played it, but it’s there.
Alucard or Zero! Sounds great to me!It's going to be an anime sword boy.
Overwatch is still kinda popular, but its star has definitely faded as of late. The inclusion of the franchise's de-facto mascot in the biggest crossover game in town is the sort of advertising opportunity Blizzard would probably sacrifice an entire team of overworked and underpaid devs on the altar of moloch for, especially since they're probably gearing up for a big Overwatch 2 marketing push after they announced it way too early in an attempt to distract from how badly they fucked over the guy that said "free Hong Kong" So have they done anything to earn our forgiveness since December? Should we be willing to welcome tracer with open arms this time around? NOPE! Not even a little bit! Fuck Blizzard.TRACER (OR ANYONE FROM BLIZZARD)
Blizzard's given us a lot over the years. Things like Lootboxes as gambling, MMOs as an addiction, Esports as sweatshops, gold farming, always-online DRM for single player games, terms of service that assert ownership of player-created content and retroactively forcing said agreement on people who'd owned the game since 2003, taking away money from people who'd already earned it because they said free "Hong Kong," and giving Agonizingly fake apologies for almost half of that shit. But does the company that famously waited for Overwatch 2 to add a black woman to the cast then bragged about how woke they were REALLY deserve to a smash bros Rep? Of course not! Fuck Blizzard fuck Tracer and fuck you if you disagree!
You know, somehow, when I wrote the above denunciation, I totally blanked on how Ubisoft used Black Lives Matter iconography for their fictional TERRORIST GROUP for their bullshit mobile game. That all happened well before I wrote all that shit back on Sept 30! I was fully aware of it! I should have mentioned it! What the fuck, past me?!? Fuck Ubisoft.EZIO (OR ANYONE FROM UBISOFT)
The first Assassin's creed famously opened with a statement that the game was designed by "a multicultural team of various beliefs and faiths", which was later updated to "various beliefs, sexual orientations and gender identities." Unfortunately the upper management profiting off those teams was an old boys club that fostered a legendarily toxic work environment rife with sexual harassment, exploitation and racism. Weird how that keeps happening, right?
GOGDAMMIT I MADE MYSELF MAD AGAIN. Fuck Notch.STEVE? (WELL SHIT)
Nowadays we all know that Minecraft came from space. Unfortunately, the guy who found it, (presumably smoldering in the center of a perfectly-circular crater somewhere in the desert) told everyone that it was totally his invention that he definitely didn't rip off of Infiniminer, and used it to gain incredible wealth and fame before selling it for more money than he could ever spend. He then spent the next five years being an aggressively transphobic dipshit, as he went about his business slowly dying alone in a mansion full of worthless money and (presumably) prescription drugs. And while he wouldn't PERSONALLY benefit from the little voxel dude with the dumb blocky head and obvious developer placeholder textures that somehow never got replaced being in Smash, it seems like the sort of thing he'd reactivate his twitter to brag about, and I'm not willing to take that risk.
Fortnight is still having a shitfit with Apple and Google over the terms of service it very obviously and blatantly broke, still targeting children with propaganda in an attempt to better their odds, still doing everything it can to avoid paying the choreographers of the dances it ripped off for emotes, still crunching its workers to death, and still operating as the single most successful "live service" game using every psychological trick in the book to bleed dollars from it's players, stopping just short of telling them that their parents won't mind THAT much if you steal their credit cards. Also I'm still not convinced the game actually HAS characters, so that too. Fuck Epic Games.FORTNIGHT (OR ANYONE FROM EPIC GAMES)
Does Fortnight even have characters? I don't actually know if fortnight has Characters. I always just assumed they were all just custom-avatars that you needed to pay actual money to make them look how you want, which is why they're currently running an actual fucking propaganda campaign against Apple to try and trick actual elementary schoolers into thinking that picking a side between two multi-billion dollar corporations is "Activism". Frankly, they can both go fuck themselves.
Everything quoted is still 100,000% true, and more than enough to make me tell the house of mouse to take a long walk off a short pier, but I also wanna link to Xiran Jay Zhao's glorious curb stomping of Mulan (2020), just in case you haven't seen it. It's entertaining, educational, and a great takedown of everything wrong with Disney's recent remakes, and the company as a whole. Fuck Disney.SORA (OR ANYONE FROM DISNEY)
Fun fact: Kingdom Hearts isn't owned by Square! It's entirely the property of the Walt Disney Corporation! Those guys just LOVE crossovers, with the tiny little caveat that they own every single thing being crossed over. Wouldn't it be cool if the guys who forcefully tore all the Final Fantasy out of the series that was literally conceived as "the game where Donald Duck can meet some Final Fantasies" was able to wrap one of their insidious tendrils around Sakurai's neck? I bet they definitely wouldn't live up to their decades-long reputation of being horrible monopolistic control freaks to seek grim ends!
You guys read about the Catherine remake? That shit was WILD...ly sexist, transphobic, and just depressing on the whole. No idea why I didn't mention it last time. as I really should have. My bad guys. Fuck Atlus.ANYONE ELSE FROM PERSONA
I just really fuckin hate that series.