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Could not tell if this is fake or not. Saying they’re bigger than Jesus is something famous popular people do all the time.

People be forgetting that the first season or two of the big bang theory was legitimately very good.

The first season or two of the IT crowd was… oh yeah, the whole show.

IT crowd’s best episodes were best-in-class. tnetennba. But it had a lot of meh too.

I believe in some jurisdictions it is in some circumstances a crime, yes.

Right, it’s the fact that melee does no damage in Doom Eternal which I find aggravating. It worked just fine in 2016 as a last resort. They clearly removed its ability to deal any damage in order to force the player to engage with the flamethrower mechanic, which provides ammo (and also does no damage). It seems to me like clumsy design – it achieves the desired gameplay loop, but in the most heavy-handed way imaginable. Fun gameplay loop sure, but zero effort to justify it with what’s happening visually on screen.

I did enjoy the combat ballet though; in particular, it was fun to be always switching weapons. I just found myself often shaking my head because it’s so contrived how it’s implemented specifically. I’m sure most people didn’t care, but it did pull me out of it.

Also, I couldn’t understand the plot in Eternal whatsoever. Am I supposed to be saving Earth? It sure doesn’t feel like Doom Guy gives a damn. He’s just there to do some kind of prophecy I didn’t really find myself pulled into. In contrast, 2016 is punctuated sporadically by plot points I at least understood and felt some amount of motivation for. Take, for instance, the scene where Mr. Glados says “don’t dismantle the power generator things! They’re really expensive!” And Doom Guy is like: “IDGAF. Demons bad.” Best scene in the whole franchise if you ask me. (I’ll admit, some of the dialogue moments that lock you into a room are way too long though.)

I find “zionism is fascism” pretty sensible. Hot in the public eye, perhaps, but not such a hot take for me personally.

But your same argument goes:

• White supremacy is racist against white people (because it speaks in their name)
• Nazism are racist against so-called Aryans (because it speaks in their name)
• Male chauvinism is sexist against men (after all, it doesn’t represent all men)
• Pro-choice is anti-feminist; after all, it misrepresents what pro-life women find moral.

I actually do agree insofar as there is a second-order effect that causes harm for some jews – the Star of David is less popular than ever, now! What a shame Israel appropriated it for its flag! – but I just can’t bring myself to agree with the basic premise here. If your movement elevates one type of person over another, you can’t be said to be against that type of person, even if you’re scoring own-goals. In that case, you’re just failing despite your intentions.

Well yeah that is true.

Um, but… isn’t this the guy who murdered several guards and robbed star wars fort knox though.

Like, maybe killing cops and stealing from the government isn’t the most heinous crime, but he’s hardly wrongly accused. I’ll concede that they pegged him by accident and for different reasons – but if anything, the moral is “arrest enough people at random and you’ll get the real criminals too.”

NGL I would love to see Nintendo give Luigi Mario a rocket launcher.

I don’t think I can agree with “I personally want them gone from the region” in any context unfortunately. Maybe some day I’ll be disillusioned.

It’s been a while since I’ve played it, but as I recall, melee combat worked very differently and much more intuitively in 2016. It’s always there in case you run out of ammo.

Agreed about the story. What I didn’t like in DE was the transparently arbitrary gameplay loop. You can’t punch enemies to death anymore, and your flamethrower instead of doing damage causes… items to appear. All are obviously in service of a gameplay loop, but they are terribly contrived. I wouldn’t say I go into Doom for immersion, but c’mon.

I would not say that is an easy solution. And I do not think people should be expelled from the place where they were born.

I liked this game better than Doom Eternal

If there were an entirely separate kids internet, which only kids can use (and it requires some sort of proof-of-being-a-kid to use the kids’ internet, but not the adults’ internet), what would you think of that idea? (Actual implementation would not be exactly like that of course, more like individual websites would offer kids’ versions separately.)

I suspect that non-radicality is actually the norm, because who can really be bothered. But all it takes is a vocal minority of radicalized people to keep the fire burning, and to flip non-radicals.

Well yeah, but now you’re saying something very different from what you were saying before. And I agree, Israel was a mistake. Unfortunately it’s a problem that’s hard to fix now.

I hardly use nor see reaction gifs on discord, though the emoji UI/UX is a big deal. (I think the gif system they use has an open API though, so it could be added to other platforms…)

Well… yeah I mean I do actually think people can see past that. I know of holocaust survivors who later became friends with not just germans but even people who were active nazis. If you’re saying the cycle of violence can never end then we don’t really need that kind of negativity around here IMO.