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Now games are developed in a way to let the player win, because the idea is that if you paid $60 you should win. Attention spans have definitely decreased and dying and starting over again makes today's gamers angry. Back then we just felt it was our fault and if we could just get better we could win. Now it's the game's fault.

Arcade games were the way they were because they were modeled on the old carnival midway games. Pay your coin, play for a couple of minutes and move on to the next one.

Console games were the way they were because back then, challenge was something you expected when playing a game. You were supposed to gain mastery of the game over repeated plays over months. Today, nobody has any patience to gain mastery at a game and they expect to win because they paid for the game. This is why interactive movies and walking simulators are so popular.

"There are said to be some victors who take no pleasure in a victory unless their opponents are as fierce as tigers or eagles: if their adversaries are as timid as sheep or chickens they find their triumph empty."

-- Lu Xun, "The True Story of Ah-Q" https://www.marxists.org/archive/lu-xun/1921/12/ah-q/ch04.htm

Oh, console games. I thought you meant DOS games.

Rental games sucked because how are you supposed to figure out how to play with no manual?

This was definitely written by a real leftist, there's too much authenticity in there. Especially the wordiness and citing a bunch of political trends and philosophers that chuds have never heard of. "Bernsteinians" for example. The way leftists treat chuds is easily explained because it is how you treat The Other. Anyone have a link to that greentext he's talking about?

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There was a song by Alice Cooper about screwing a dead chick called "Cold Ethyl"

Thinking you're owed sex is standard incel psychology, so it's no wonder why people had a huge negative reaction and the man got told to fuck off.

Ad for Salem? Traditional Chinese? Low-flying airplane? When was this taken, back when Kai Tak was open?

Oh.

I ran down that thread pretty far and all I saw was "Do it! They'd love it!"

Of course the journalist has to write a story about a Twitter thread and put the worst possible face on Americans showing kindness to one another.

More recently there was a bunch of puritanical zoomers claiming that wanting to fuck your partner was transphobic.

All I saw was the standard "nobody owes you sex, fuck off incel" discourse, which by now is standard and expected any time a man isn't getting sex from his wife.

I missed that one and wish to hurt myself. Link?

The actual food at restaurants is pretty cheap at cost. Garlic knots? Pff. Drinks are the cheapest part of any meal. This man paid pennies and perhaps got some new loyal customers. Plus, he probably genuinely enjoys pleasing people. I've known more than a few restaurateurs who do this kind of thing. They just love delighting people and making them thank him.

Hey, this is gnosticism! Cool

Should have done that during Katrina in New Orleans

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I don’t know enough about Laos to guess.

It's a tiny landlocked country in a strategically useless location.

It's more like, why would BRICS want them?

They're geopolitical mice (Vietnam) out of the way (who wants Laos?), and will only cause problems (DPRK).

Why not just move to Mastodon? It's pretty much the same thing, a walled garden.

Nice guys

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I love takes like this. They're so creative. It's like taking a Lego Wakanda set and building a Turing-complete computer out of it.

Oh, that won't help at all. Trump took that one cognitive test and passed with flying colors and everyone screamed that it was only because he cheated. Biden is obviously demented which is why they'll never allow him to take any test. Or participate in a debate. There's no upside for them.