As a teen, there was a brief period where I thought that 5 Gum actually gave you full body hallucinations.
What about the rest of y'all? Any ads capture your imagination only to disappoint you? I mean more than usual.
my first election was 2012, so i had a chance to see he was full of it by then, but in 2008 I genuinely thought Obama was gonna end the war on terror and close Gitmo lol
He got me in 2008 but I figured it out and didn't repeat my mistake. The murder of al-Awlaki is what truly, finally, completely broke any lingering illusions I had about the USA.
technically he was right in that we all hoped it'd be over soon
I ended up casting my first presidential vote for Nader after Obama vowed to filibuster the bill that gave telecom companies legal immunity from their participation in Bush's warrantless wiretapping, then turned around and voted for it after getting a campaign donation from AT&T.
Then I voted for Obama in 2012 :blob-no-thoughts:
I thought owning a Dreamcast would make me a cool rebel who does graffiti. In reality it just meant a lot of saying "no shenmue is good actually"
In my Trump head canon he's a sega fan who still plays dreamcast and adores shenmue. Love to see it, lovely game :trump-anguish:
He gives entire speeches to the Seaman and it's reply is "BORING"
In reality it just meant a lot of saying “no shenmue is good actually”
That stings. :bawllin-sad:
holy shit i was just about to tweet this. you know what's the worse part? that a girl actually smiled at me on the bus after using axe once so i totally hallucinated for like 2 weeks that this shit did work.
One of my female friends gave me a hug and told me I smelled nice when I was wearing it once, that was it
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Tbf, back in 2012, the idea of promising to make a video game and collecting money for it and then just ... not doing it was almost completely unheard of.
not doing it
They're doing something but that something is deliberately not delivering a completed product because edging the bazingas keeps them hoping and paying "pledges" for overpriced spaceship jpegs.
Yup, I find it most satisfying to refer to what they're doing as just "not making the game they said they'd make." The hope is that someone will get baited into saying "what do you mean they didn't make the game, I've played it" and I can be like "then why isn't it released more than 10 years later?" :comfy-cool:
I was too. I didn't put money into it, but still had hope for a time. :meow-hug:
Before I learned the extent of the game's space fascism and remarkably horrid ideas of what constitute "the good guys," I just wanted a new Privateer/Freelancer myself. :sadness:
I just wanted to be a space trucker, I couldn’t care less about the whole squadron 42 thing. But this earth will long be dead before the game ever releases
The core of the kickstarter was Squadron MemeNumber; I didn't care about it either and was only excited about the vague promise of an open world campaign as one of the stretch goals. Over a decade later and there's still one small star system where everything's named after the bazinga corporations that own everything in the space fascist setting. Gross.
they actually made you jump about half as high as usual and also made you six thousand times more likely to obliterate your ankle
I wanted some pretty bad but my parents must have saw through the scam so here I am ankles intact.
You probably are just too desensitized to taste it but green m&m's are actually very spicy by mayo standards
I don't know about "fell for" since they were just fun, but those Old Spice commercials got me to try their product. And I liked it better than the deodorant I was using, so I still use it 20 years later. Pretty successful on their part.
Why would you believe an alteration to the perfect meal (hot n ready pizza) would be better than the original?
You're a fool and most of all, a liberal.
It's called crazy bread, there's nothing crazy about pretzels! They're a one trick pony! "Oh I'll do a little twist" who gives a shit Wetzel
I was really legitimately excited for Cyberpunk 2077 and believed it would be on par with Rockstar's work. :deeper-sadness:
Same here. Ordered it day one and everything. Come to think of it, that'd the last game I tried before moving away from games as a whole. Barely play them anymore
Won't happen again. Hopefully Rockstar keep up their standards, Red Dead 2 is the benchmark for what I hoped Cyberpunk would be though and it's really disappointing that CDPR did not aim for those standards. They didn't even try to in my honest opinion.
I started listening to The Archive after that slick teaser came out. But then years later when actual screenshots started coming out it looked like someone liked the superficial aesthetics of cyberpunk but had no understanding of the themes and values of the genre, or what it was warning about. And.... Yeah.
all those dudes who joined the marines after seeing a guy fight a shitty cgi dragon or whatever
as a gamer, the Fable and Spore hype marketing got me good, but pretty much inoculated me entirely to future game hype.
SPORE oh my GOD
It actually was supposed to be good. They nuked it. The alpha version was probably better than release. You were tricked by the marketing because it straight up lied and they dumbed the game down intentionally despite internal controversy.
- Animal abilities are based on attached feet, eyes, and beaks etc. of varying points. Legs arms necks and tails literally do not matter. They were actually going to matter. The body design would have actually mattered.
- Once you hit the space stage, planets are colonized by shooting fucking nukes and terraforming missiles. That's fucking it.
- You don't go back and play the cellular stage to evolve the right kind of animal to terraform a planet
- You don't go back and play the animal or tribal stages to help create specific types of alien allies
- You don't go back and play the city stage to consolidate power and allow your allies to become spacefaring
You just play a 4 hour long fucking minigame and then run around for 100 hours shooting missiles and upgrading a ship. The entire game is fucking pointless.
I played Spore as a kid and never knew about how if was hyped up so I've got fond memories of it
Spore is still a great game, and to this day completely unique. Though there are spiritual successors in the works now.
It doesn't come anywhere near the hype, but it's still good.
Yup. No preorders, ever. Sometime's I'll throw money at an early access if I like the concept but I do so with no expectation that the game will ever be released as a finished product.
When I was a kid I thought Viper car alarm involved a real viper.
