They call that the Peter Principle, and there’s at least one Ig Nobel Prize winning study which found that it’s better to randomly promote people rather than promote based on job performance.

As a boomer shooter enjoyer myself, I think the main reason that the genre is partially inoculated from Gamergate BS is that its remained pretty niche and indie-driven, while the audience that generates artificial outrage about video games only target big budget releases. I mean the biggest release in the category that I can think of is probably Warhammer 40k: Boltgun, made by a studio with only 61 people.

Also I think that the age range for boomer shooters perfectly overlaps with guys who grew up with stuff like Xena and Buffy, but maybe that’s just me.

Sooner or later Id will make a Doom game with a female protag, and that’s when shit will hit the fan (until they play it and it turns out to be really fun and then they’ll all pretend that it was “anti-woke” all along).

“When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline.”

Hiding behind this excuse, when I could have sworn that they literally tackled this exact subject matter on The Disney Channel like ten years ago. It’s a pretty clear barometer for the cultural backlash period we’re currently going through.

I feel this comment. As I’ve gotten older my sleeping position has gone from “eh just fall on the bed” to “if I don’t meet every criteria on this fifty point checklist by the time I’m lying down I’m better off getting all the way up and starting over because I’m not falling asleep like this”

It’s also a remarkably good instinct from him. The debt ceiling BS always favors the minority party, suspending it until after your term is up makes a lot of sense.

100%, just look at that adorable pup!

It’s not terrible IMO. And it ends with a scene where the protagonists are in a shootout with a CIA helicopter, which is sure to be a crowd pleaser on this site.

Oh I just figured it out, instead of hold pressing the square you gotta press square to get your app overview, and then tap on the icon for the app you want to split screen and select the split screen option.

ytmnds were peak meme culture and the only thing that comes close is some of the sound reuse that goes on on TikTok.

Android used to let you use two apps at once, you would hold the square button for a second and it would shrink your current app to the corner, and then you would open another and it would split screen the two of them.

idk when they got rid of it but I used to use it a lot and it worked fine so I really don’t know why they did.

edit: they still have it but they inexplicably changed how to do it

YES HE DESERVED TO DIE AND I HOPE HE BURNS IN HELL!

You forgot “kill every enemy and then spend a half an hour running around a maze looking for the key you missed.”

Ya got deleted but I’m basically the same. I agree with basically everything they say but it hasn’t motivated me to change.

So are all “comfy” games, but that’s why I like it!

I said before and I still think that the Cybertruck looks fine, it’s the knowledge that it’s a $100k luxury vehicle loaded with bazinga features that they intentionally made in small numbers so that they wouldn’t have to meet safety standards that makes me hate it.

But if the whole car market could move over to visually distinct designs instead of streamlined aerodynamic pods, I would be ecstatic.

IMO the thing is that Sonic at its best only appeals to a small slice of gamers. Like if you talk to speedrunners about it they’ll have nothing but good things to say about it, and in general Sonic games get more cathartic to play the better you get as a player. The less time you spend bumping into things and the more confidently you can navigate the precision platforming segments the more you can just zone out and enjoy the flow state and the music and stuff.

But you’ve got to have a personality that leads you to playing levels multiple times to get into that flow state, and a lot of people who don’t have that will play a Sonic game, struggle through every level exactly once, and then put it away and declare that it sucked.

So this niche interest game got put up against Mario, which is superficially similar but much, much better at appealing to a mass audience, and the comparison has stuck in the culture ever since. People who like it continue to like it but because of its high profile and nostalgia factor lots and lots of people play it who don’t like it and that infects the discourse for it in a way that it doesn’t for other games.

…and of course lots of the games really do suck because SEGA and Sonic Team have had a bad habit of rushing games out the door before they were finished that goes back to the Mega Drive days.

understandable, have a nice day

Wood!

from natopedia

Lucy E. Parsons (c. 1851 – 1942) was an American social anarchist and later anarcho-communist

She was a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World and edited radical newspapers.

Following the Russian Revolution in 1917, Parsons moved towards communism. She became a notorious political figure and Chicago police attempted for decades to stop her speaking publicly.

Every day I learn about a new cool person from history, it never stops.

Preparing to submit my new pamphlet to marxists.org

A Dialectical Comparison of Conditions in the 19th and 21st Centuries and How Useful Revolutionary Tactics Have Changed

or Why It’s a Good Idea This Time