Pretty bad when one side’s perspective makes them look awful and the other side is the one accusing them of being awful 😬

The world’s not too bright, then, is it?

🤷

“Full-stack” 🤮

I wonder if they’d sell as well without the shiny. Doesn’t matter who nor how many they kill or merely irritate if they sell better that way, hm? Who wants to see an actual sea or even a tree, here’s an ocean of CARS! You can’t see it, though, 'cause they’re currently blinding you with reflected sunlight.

Fuck cars!

Hey that sounds like someone I kno- oh, yep, it’s from Kora 😅

So, I found Minne kinda cold, but maybe that’s just a big city thing or me feeling daunted by it. Duluth, though in a county that voted much more wrongly, is full of nice critters and much comfier and cozier. Small Town Duluth isn’t actually a small town 😅 Kinda funny place, but it’s home for me now :3

… And like Kora I’m much less dead here than I’d have been where I was before (Oklahoma, in my case).

Edit: Oops, just realized I admitted to not actually being in the Cities in the Cities community 😅 Not only that but I’m arguably trying to poach your transplants >:P … Oh well, I’m not sorry unless it’s worse here than it looks to me :3

Thanks!

I had to click anyway, though, just to be sure… they’re announcing that they’ll announce an announcement they’re going to announce tomorrow. Kinda baffling. Hopefully they’ll announce something interesting when they actually announce the announcement they’ve announced. 🤦

Soo ANNGRRRYYYY raaaaawrrrr!!! flails and makes exaggerated ridiculous squeaky angry noises ✊ 🐭 💢

Coooool! Thanks for mentioning that! :3

Why do they figure I never played one of my favourite games?

Played that, 2, Ascend, Vengeance… was there another? Feels like there’s another I played. Also played Starsiege. And Cyberstorm. … Now I want new stuff like those. Bleh!

Hm, all’ the code is GPL’d so I suppose Korkki is right, it wouldn’t do anything past the upset in leadership. He can’t unilaterally revoke any code, for instance. I think he can revoke Tux (the mascot) and maybe even the name? The latter could get irksome and the former’s already the case (see: Steam having to switch to a logo they made instead of Tux for games that support Linux).

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Holy fuck, “we” are seriously even considering letting a company hunt somecritter down over game cheats?

Imean, I knew this was a cyberpunk dystopia without the cool parts but… c’mon, really?

I see the matters as connected: I figure people who flip out about “antisemitism” at anything even mildly unfriendly to Israel are serving (deliberately or not) to defend, justify, or even glorify its vile actions. That is, I think it’s not “zomg those poor pixel Jews!” but rather “Shhh, don’t talk like people are fighting against the IDF for a reason! (Let’s just accept that they’re all horrible evil sub-humans who must to be exterminated for the good of our wonderful, beloved friends and allies!)”

Thanks for the information. I really didn’t know about that attack and was on my way out at the time so I was more reacting to generalities and what was right in front of me.

I don’t mean to suggest that anything and everything should be socially acceptable as freeze peach, just that I feel some people are being disingenuous and should be expected to point out an actual problem like “Look here, the rewards you get vary based on the racial and religious background of every civilian you kill!” Killing civilians who happen to be present regardless of other matters is murder. Killing opposing military personnel regardless of other matters is battle. Killing people because they’re Jewish is murderous antisemitism. Not wanting something seen doesn’t make it a crime… but I think some people are so stuck picking sides that even mention that there’s another point of view offends them 🤷

That said, could be Hamas is pure evil for all I know and there’s just no way to present anything they do without it being disgusting. I just… bleh, maybe it’s an autism thing. There’s a nit there that I can’t help but pick 😅 I want more sincerity and sense in this world.

The wording of the complaints has me wondering if the game actually does anything “wrong” by the normal standards of video gaming. Like, does it actually glorify violence specifically against Jews? Is there some mission objective to butcher a bunch of civilians? I glance at the Steam page and it looks like the political statement its creator claims it is.

I’m pretty sick of this “anything that isn’t hardcore pro-Israel is antisemitic terrorism” horsecrap. Either care about human life or don’t, don’t BS me and everyone else like the acts and atrocities committed in video games suddenly matter when characters who happen to be (presumed) Jews are involved.

… Is he trying to say the US is committing acts of war against Russia?

I think I need a nap.

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This term seems absurd and disgusting to me.

Eight billion dollars into a fad but somehow “the economy” is a shambles and no real people seem to be doing well. I suddenly have many unnice things to say 😮‍💨

Aw YESS! CrossCode rooooooccckksss!! flails excitedly to emphasize this fact! \ö/!!

Double Cross is neat too :3 https://graffiti-games.itch.io/double-cross Not as <3 as CrossCode, though. Not much is :3

We all know the importance of interpretative charity in online discourse.

Ehee, I think some critters missed the memo. I’ve struggled all my life trying to get people to understand me but somehow people often seem (to me, at least) to make mind-pretzels instead of trying a “charitable” interpretation. I’ve always felt like many just want to lash out and hurt others, even when there’s a perfectly reasonable interpretation that takes less effort to make.

mumblegrumble, et cetera