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Should be a wild four years.

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Loose Goose said:
Beyond all that, if you were around at the time, the hype for BS Infinite was off the charts. It was an endless parade of puff pieces like "The Citizen Kane of Video Games", "Video Games Are Finally Art", and "The Deep, Resonant Message of Bioshock Infinite". It was massively hyped up to be The Thing, and for a while, dominated game journalism.

What's telling is that nobody remembers it anymore. People bringing it up ITT just reminded me of it, but before that, I hadn't thought of the game in several years. It has no lasting fanbase, not even anyone still bringing it up as some profound thing. It is probably the peak of the Soy Era, because all the soybeard guys were all over it.
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Of course Bioshock Infinite was forgettable. The initial pitch was you deciding who gets to be president of Sky America using nothing but your gun, sky jousting kills, and Vigors, aka. booze-fueled superpowers. They even said the Vigors were limited by the bottle, meaning that you literally needed to drink responsibly in order to have your nuke ready. When Elisabeth was introduced, she was supposed to be the sidekick that kept you on task, while giving you some support via awesome environmental combos to go with your whiskey magic.

Instead of an annoying waypoint arrow, you followed a pretty woman with support powers that made you more awesome while you fought with guns, explosives, sky-jousting, and copious amounts of magic alcohol. The pitch was the most American thing to ever exist in the gaming industry and we got something so inferior it wasn’t worth remembering.
 
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FreedFenrir said:
On Sunday my dad @Gehenna passed away.
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I genuinely feel like that gif of Walter White falling over right now.

There aren't enough posters like Gehenna. He will truly be missed here... although I'm sure that his legacy IRL extends much farther than a forum for retarded New Zealand agriculture enthusiasts. His archaic way of emphasizing words in a sentence won't be forgotten.

RIP king.
 
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WonderWino said:
PBS? *gasp* What will we do without shitty pbs red dwarf and mr bean marathons with hours of trying to get people to pledge absurd amounts of money for poor quality tshirts and signed pictures
So much for public broadcasting being made possible by viewers like you then huh. Perhaps they should go back to doing this
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Null took the ball and never looked back.
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But yeah, those drives were worse than a megachurch.
 
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Eh, if you don't pay PBS, what's the worst thing that can happen?
WonderWino said:
PBS? *gasp* What will we do without shitty pbs red dwarf and mr bean marathons with hours of trying to get people to pledge absurd amounts of money for poor quality tshirts and signed pictures

So much for public broadcasting being made possible by viewers like you then huh. Perhaps they should go back to doing this and getting pledges by offering signed trump and musk tshirts, license plate frames and autographed posters. I mean really, for all the screeching twitter loons do about hating musk do you really think they wouldn't pay obscene amounts of money for a blue checkmark twitter tshirt to lord over everybody on twitter? The left would buy trump and musk merch just to burn it in videos
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This is disappointing and kind of unsettling to witness. Cheong and Daugherty show up often as sources in this thread. Troubling that they can be so easily compromised. Total journo death.

Where do you all get your news? Feels like nowhere is safe. At least in USPG you can get a feel for the people behind the posts.
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Are you even aware of who Ian Miles Cheong is? the man was born compromised. Under no circumstance should the right have ever allowed him any clout.
 
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1: circle and letter or preferrably the number as it is the most specified data set being there is only one number, 1.
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But lemme guess they woulda interpretted it as wrong because my address at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane is incorrect because we speak english here or whatever which surely isn't used today in any way whatsoever to disenfranchise the majority to the benefit of the minority.
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All I see is: bring a gun to your designated polling place.
 
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Jace on ice said:
Who's this Ghenna guy?
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The Last Stand said:
First @Gehenna, now some news anchor's father called Dick. I'm sure @Gehenna would appreciate the humor in how they could be related to one another. AFAIK, he was a political analytic.
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Gehenna had a job with political analytics involved and was one of the most insightful posters when it came to how the sausage is made, pencil pushing, and attitudes/behaviors within the system itself. He also had access to a very consistent rumor pipeline he would share snippets of in here (with full disclosure that it was all rumors, but it was still very valuable on a website that's a gossip forum.)

Hearing he's died of his heart complications is genuinely saddening, he retired from the political analytics scene to alleviate those problems, if I'm remembering correctly. I don't think anyone can really replace the autism (affectionate) he offered and relevant conversation he enabled. He's on my subconscious 'good noodles' list that I reference when I want to contribute something here that's anything worthwhile.

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Have my anonymous condolences. He was very fun to have around.
 
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Osama Bin Laden said:
well now i’m conflicted at this newfound news
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he was an ethnic jew that was religiously a christian

Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE after her F1 visa was revoked for supporting Hamas in an OPED for Tufts university



usual suspects are crying about it
 
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browserbowser said:
Where the fuck are the Epstein files??
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I thought you had them
WonderWino said:
PBS? *gasp* What will we do without shitty pbs red dwarf and mr bean marathons with hours of trying to get people to pledge absurd amounts of money for poor quality tshirts and signed pictures

So much for public broadcasting being made possible by viewers like you then huh. Perhaps they should go back to doing this and getting pledges by offering signed trump and musk tshirts, license plate frames and autographed posters. I mean really, for all the screeching twitter loons do about hating musk do you really think they wouldn't pay obscene amounts of money for a blue checkmark twitter tshirt to lord over everybody on twitter? The left would buy trump and musk merch just to burn it in videos
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With YouTube and other stuff. What exactly is the point of PBS these days. As somebody who grow up with mid to late '00s PBS, I don't know what.
 
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Clyde Cash's Left Teste said:
I thought you had them

With YouTube and other stuff. What exactly is the point of PBS these days. As somebody who grow up with mid to late '00s PBS, I don't know what.
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It really is funny to see how much Bob Villa leaving This Old House back in the late 1980s fucked PBS for funding.
 
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