What gets me so often in retro gaming is the desire of some to “repair” the past.

This would indicate the ‘hate’ is on ideological grounds.

I tend to agree, if I’m being honest. I sometimes see the retro modding community excited about improvements they’ve made: new models swapped in for characters, upscaled backgrounds with 10x the detail that was ever put into them, 4k textures stretched over low-poly objects like an animal wearing a skin suit. And these are called ‘better’. This is how new people are told to play these old games: we have added 4 cups of sugar to make the horrible taste easier to swallow.

I see this and I think… why? Why be this way?

Can you imagine if we raised new generations to treat paintings the same way? The Mona Lisa is not worth seeing because it is too old and ugly, but it can be made tolerable to one’s senses with the new power of AI?

This image is profane. It can only be produced by a sick people.

I worry that people’s desire for this kind of thing indicates a lack of curiosity in life. An unwillingness to do anything not already familiar to them. I would consider this attitude a character flaw in most people, if I met them.

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I can smell jealousy from a mile away, man. If you want to wear a skimpy outfit, by all means.

I do admit that it’s feasible.

But, considering it has very little to do with the matter at hand, why bring it up? Why bring it up in this way? Why suggest that we and them are in league with each other?

Also, “do you condemn hamas?”
“Do you condemn hamas?”
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If I recall, it’s actually tit-for-tat with occasional forgiveness. Two tit-for-tats can get stuck in an endless back-and-forth.

Regardless, I love that you brought that up; it’s one of my favorite game theory lessons.

I’d say (different person) it’s just not relevant. It’s cry-bullying.

If he wants to show evidence, he can. But even then, he ought to be showing it to mods or something—what are we supposed to do about it? Are we suddenly not upset about the secret ban list?

Anyone with a touch of fame, caught in a scandal, loooves talking about the alleged violence of their opponents. Do you remember when BLM was happening and Fox was pretending that the entirety of Portland was on fire? Or literally anything Isreal has said about Gaza?

I don’t actually know that he hasn’t received one, single death threat, but since what he wants is sympathy for his crimes, I’m inclined not to give him any.

Oh yeah, I don’t hide them. Votes even on reddit can be a useful temperature check for audience engagement.

I do think it’s funny when people whine about getting downvotes, though; it betrays just a little bit of discomfort with whatever else they’re saying.

You could try asking onahole for that. Or Realbotix. Evidently, it would give bored teachers something to do during class.

Ahhh, I see. Thanks for that.

Ooh, ribald is a fun word.

I can’t wait for 2028 or whenever when they decide arbitrarily that Biden criticizers disappeared between elections, suggesting that we’re paid ops.

The votes represent, in some sense, a social consensus, and consensus actually does matter quite a lot to people.

If you ever see people arguing about which movie is objectively better than some other, that’s what they’re doing. They’re fighting for social capital.

People aren’t actually answering your question, so I will:

I have no fucking idea what -1 + 1 is supposed to be doing.

If it were "100" - 1 + 1, I might say he’s converting a string to a number, but he isn’t, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think that a person gets a little sympathy for their bad childhood when they show a willingness to be better than that, not before.

Like, I am capable of an absurd degree of forgiveness, but the person in question has to show that they’re worthy of it—they don’t just get it for free.

I’m not sure what you’re talking about. .ml I think censors words like bitch automatically, but that’s just .ml. I’m allowed to view them. I can see all the secret words.

You’re kind of missing the point, I think deliberately so, but maybe that’s mean of me.

It’s clear, though, that you don’t respect the element of skill or overcoming adversity as it relates to the non-textual story being told. That the difficulty is a part of Miyazaki’s writing.

If you and I both beat her at the same level of relative difficulty, what’s stopping us from having a conversation?

What is stopping two piano players from having the same conversation?

One could play a very technical, complicated song achieved through years of practice; another could play a lullaby they learned after a month of instruction—should we assume that these two understand the piano in the same way? That they would even enjoy talking to each other about the songs they played, especially if the latter is entirely disinterested in, and even seems somehow insulted by, the achievements of the former?

If two people play the same song at differing skill levels, they will have different experiences, but they’ll still be able to talk about the song, as it is. Their favorite parts to play, the trickiest bits to master.

The Dark Souls conversation really puts me at an impasse because I actually love accessibility settings, but it really bothers me when I see people, probably through a kind of learned helplessness, refuse to engage artistically with the thing that’s been stuck in front of them.

Dark Souls and its ilk are games about “rising to” and by choosing Easy before the game has even begun, you’re kind of failing the very first hurdle. You aren’t learning the piano.

Philosophically, I think you just don’t vibe with what Dark Souls is trying to do. Which is fine. And I would freely admit that an entire industry deciding to follow closely behind Dark Souls’ lead would probably be a worse one.

It might be nice to include less spicy options at a dinner party, but if you were at a hot sauce party, it would seem a little odd to complain about it, no?

Yeah, I remember what this fuck did to California’s high speed rail.

I think this is partly because bodybuilders, like culturally, are aiming for sexual appeal of a very masculine and stoic kind, which is to say that it’s not really that appealing.

To put it another way, to be sexy is to be the object of someone else’s desire, but straight men tend to think of this as damaging to their power. They both want to be objectified by women and always above them socially, which is a contradiction.

What I mean is: all men should want a fatter ass, but very few can be this honest.

I was gonna comment this myself :)

This is only a problem if you want women’s attention only and the lack of it is fueling insecurity and self-loathing, but I love to see men like these guys in the comic so cutely impressed with and supportive of each other.

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They can patch it before releasing it.