Which one

At least game cutscenes tend to be less mumbly. Even IF the volume of things is all over the place.

TV and Movies? Fuck me, it’s like actors all forgot how to talk and instead just mumble every line.

Same, all my electronics look like abominations of electric tape, it’s the only way I can have them not light up my room at night.

Packaging for supermarket products should have what the product is big and the branding small. Not the other way around.

Oh. Sound mixing on movies/tv shows should be such that voice lines are always perfectly audible even on shitty speakers. Make actors e n u n c i a t e like they did in the 30s. Christopher Nolan has a lot to answer for, turning all of media into mumblecore chief among those things.

Personally I’m cool with that. I don’t think daily exposure to actual fascists is good for one’s head. And I wouldn’t mind .ml getting the axe too (though I’m not gonna be the one pestering my instance admin about that) because Tankies are equally as draining.

I wasn’t even under the illusion that it would be good for me, lol.

Even IF Diet Coke is a sometimes drink for me, that ‘sometimes’ means ‘once every saturday’ – It’ll probably give me diabetes long-term but y’know. Some people ruin their livers with alcohol, some people fuck their lungs with cigs, I’m screwing up my pancreas with diet soda. 🤷

Those pain medications that make you unnaturally sleepy.

Yeah but Coke isn’t JUST sweeteners (it’s real sugar over here u-u) and water. At least according to the ingredients list, there’s like, the extract of a weird nut (the Cola nut!), you’d think that would have some sugars and ~organic bits~ (proteins? Idk) of its own

Kinda like how juices with “no added sugar” still have some calories, idk

Most likely your instance is defederated from all the nazi-adjacent instances 🤷

I call it by two names, depending on how cheeky I’m feeling that day

Cheeky one is “hashtag-Basketball4Freedom”

Non-cheeky one is “one of three video game stories that made me legitimately cry, like straight up bawling – With a fantastical version of NBA Jam bolted on the side”

Does Supergiant Games’ Pyre count?

It’s been a millenium since I’ve heard it, as I no longer qualify as young.

But

“You’ll understand when you’re older”

I’m older.

I’m thirty.

The only thing I “understand” is that all the rules are arbitrary as all fuck, society was made up by idiots with giant sticks up their arses, and everyone should go fuck themselves.

The only “progress” I made is that I stopped hating myself for “failing at society” and started hating society for failing so many people.

“Spectacle Fighter”.

In the late aughts, game critic Ben “Yathzee” Croshaw came up with that term to describe games like Bayonetta and Devil May Cry, beat-em-up type games where the point is less “can you get through” and more “how high can you get that combo meter? How COOL can you make yourself look while beating up all these fodder enemies?”

A few years later the industry coalesced on an agreed-upon term for this subgenre – And called it “Character Action”.

Yathzee has just accepted defeat and uses the term everyone uses, he has to, he works in games media.

I refuse. Character Action is a dumb, DUMB term because every action game is a character action game, because there is ACTION and CHARACTERS in all of them.

Whereas “Spectacle Fighter” was perfectly descriptive of just WHAT made those games special. You are FIGHTING, and the objective is to LOOK SPECTACULAR.

True on all accounts.

Also fun aside – Evaporative coolers are sold under the name of “refrigerating fans” here, a sort of “alternative” for someone who can’t afford an AC (or can afford the machine but wants/needs to save on the power bill).

The percentage is just a quirky way of saying it’s a high chance, dw about it.

Not even central A/C here. Just Split units on the bedrooms/home office – But it already makes life so much more bearable

I live in a tropical humid place that regularly gets 40+Celsius temps even during “winter” (it is currently “winter”)

But I can afford air conditioning. A lot of people in my country cannot, and have just an electric fan and a lot of water to get them through the days.

Hey you’re like seven steps ahead of me.

I only entered the phase of hating society instead of myself when I was like twenty-three.

If you are a teenager and you currently feel like you have failed at being a man/woman/heterosexual/whatever, then there is a 79.8% chance you are some form of LGBTQ. Stop beating yourself up and start exploring instead. You’ll be happy you did.