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More of their free comics. The horror.

Owner was getting burnt out and tried to spread out the work by bringing on extra admins, but it turned out to still be too much. Ended up shutting the server down as they couldn’t resolve the issues they were having. Thankfully they provided ample warning, so most communities on the instance have found other homes.

I like that the title works both ways. “In the Land of Wonderful Dreams” or “In the Wonderful Land of Dreams”.

For sure. Not really something one would usually check for. I only noticed after happening to read the weird af comments under that one.

You first, fucko.

Just a heads up, that channel seems to be unironically pro-Hitler, so maybe not the best to link to.

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I’m pretty sure this has never happened.

That is also true!

RIP Trevor, and congrats to Zach (these statements are unrelated).

Most Christians think athiests just hate god. Basing your stance around irrational people is, itself, irrational.

I think that’s true, but at the time, the only canon was Luke swinging around a laser sword willy-nilly.

“Wait, so you’re not going to help us eliminate most of our media staff? We’re out.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbvuM83nhcg

Ask no longer - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3934270/How_Many_Dudes/

Played the (surprisingly lengthy) demo of this over Next Fest and found it pretty fun, though maybe a bit too easy.

I can fault them for choosing to push the button and for just accepting that the result is “pretty” without rebuke. For defending the end result against those of us criticizing it. The companies may be responsible for the pushed adoption of this ridiculousness, but people are the ones happily going along with it and actively defending it.

Afaik, that’s it for that one, but Junji Ito has plenty of even more messed up stories out there. Def look into him if you liked that.

*Unrelated side note - I happened to notice that this is my 1337th comment on this account. w00t!

People that issue death threats for shit like this are absolute trash excuses of humans. That said, DF is trying to double-dip here - sychophantically and uncritically hyping a product for the clout/money, and then acting like they still have the credibility to be considered objective critics. What a joke.

That’s unfortunately a lot of people going by the amount of “fixed” (ie sloppified) art and photos I see going around online.

That said, theres been so much focus on how it looks. IMO, its completely overblown, especially when all of this needs to be manually configued on a game-by-game basis. Devs can tweak the settings to their own preferences, and make things more or less extreme.

It’s wild that every defense of this bs is “Just have devs spend even more time finetuning for this.” Yes, let’s double (or more) the workload of artists and programmers that are already overworked and crunched beyond reason, all for a “feature” that looks like garbage in its showcase demo and that’s so resource intensive that very few users will be able to utilize it, if they even want to.

Hah, nope. The actual reference is decidedly more unsettling.