Just did a cursory search on what goth culture is, what it stands for, and so far only found explanations that are incredibly vague/none-conclusive, or like Wikipedia focus entirely on metrics, but not on what it means.

So… Uh… Good luck to anyone else trying to learn what “goth” actually is outside of the established tropes or those cool guys that sacked Rome.

That’s so weird, because Trump essentially cut funding to NASA and now the Artemis Program is completely in jeopardy. But even have to be cancelled altogether.

Buzz Aldrin voted for that.

Yay, yet another once in a lifetime financial crisis.

And yet, no one party has all the power. A party is always forced to make a coalition to form a government, and we’ve seen how the right wing is woefully incompetent at doing that.

There is no open world that is too big. They can only be too small.

However, the quality of an open world is not predicated on the size of the open world, but rather what is actually in it.

And this doesn’t mean that open worlds must be drowning in content, as the quality of the content itself also matters, and certain worlds that are large and empty can still be interesting due to its traversal being good, or the sandbox nature of a large empty world.

Some of the worst examples of open worlds are the kind that are just filled with isolated little fetch quests; busywork that’s all marked on the map with no element of organic exploration. Or the kinds of open worlds where nothing actually happens “organically” without the player starting it.

The best kinds of open worlds are the ones that emphasise exploration and/or have background systems governing the world in some way (i.e. factions that interact with each other without the explicit involvement of the player).

Ah! The Somebody Else’s Problem field! Someone actually knows it!

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one in the world who read the books.

Just blaming god again for all the unexplainable stuff. Only instead if god it’s a simulation.

Oh I love it when artists do this. Similar vibe to that one Gumball episode where they ran out of budget.

Any LEGO game can be good if it’s your first LEGO game. None of them are badly made, with the exception of a few, but they’re all made the same way.

If you’ve played one…

I wouldn’t put the LEGO games on that list. Traveller’s Tales just basically copy-pasted most games, to the point 3 were releasing within the same year.

It made them horribly bland.

*Most licensed games suck. There are some good ones.

I mean, Hideo Kojima tells stories that are a little convoluted and has layers of metaphor in them… Kinda like The Matrix, so he’d have been a perfect fit.

The ozone hole was caused by a different man-made chemical. After 10 years of use, which caused 3 generations of problems, the ozone holes are slowly, very slowly, closing.

Has nothing to do with greenhouse gasses, however. And Earth’s global temperature is still rising.

It literally cannot be ignored anymore.

“You don’t miss the water until the well runs dry” has never been a more true expression. People expect that if something is going wrong here’d be immediate and apparent consequence. It seems like a vast majority of people completely lack the skill of extended foresight, where one can look at a current situation and see how it can accumulate into a worse situation later.

A great example of this was my mom during COVID-19:

“All this pandemic talk is just nonsense. I’m not seeing people dying on the streets, now, am I?”

If the effects of climate change aren’t immediately apparent with some big global disaster happening overnight, then it’s not a big issue or simply not real.

If eating something that causes long term health risks doesn’t immediately make you sick overnight then it’s not a big issue or simply not real.

I mean, it doesn’t anymore.

You can install Proton by other means. It doesn’t have to be through Steam. And by now, since Valve made so much of the groundwork already, the development of Proton can be done by the community, like so many other FOSS projects.

So we’re not dependent on Valve.

Pretty sure the Cambrian still has us beat.

Pretty sure I first saw this as a skit in ASDF Movie.

I’m 32. I’d totally build a tree house.

I’m not questioning his motives in the context of things turning to normal when he eventually dies. I’m questioning his motives in the context that his actions seem to indicate that he’ll live forever. As if somehow Trump believes biology doesn’t effect him.

But then we’re talking about a guy who thinks a glass of water destroys magnets.

Dude literally doesn’t have that long to live. How does he think that’s going to work!?