Now you’re roughly getting how I felt reading the comment from OP!

I am so glad I left this bubble for a spell, because it’s fun to come back and see all the great new propaganda tactics being floated. Blue maga is hilariously internet! Love that for you.

Anywho, blaming the dems for trump winning, and ignoring all the people who voted for him is not coping, but pointing out that cities are liberal havens is?

I guess I’ll get back to focusing on my job instead of lemmy nonsense, because this place has always been completely unreasonably biased nonsense. My job is in a blue state whose taxes pay for the welfare of the rest of this shithole of a country, after all, so if I don’t do it, those trump supporters can’t buy his merch!

It’s not. My family is anti-trump, and mostly harmless these days.

But blaming the democrats for the people who voted republican is a stupid online trick that both sidesers like to use.

The fact is, if the democrats were “more in touch with this country” they’d all act like Trump. That’s what this country wants. That’s what this country deserves.

Darn, the world is getting shittier and shittier and I’m all out of Claridryl!

Or it shows that when you are truly awful, racist, homophobic, transphobic, idiots, your children move away from you to the cities where they don’t have to talk or interact with you, which concentrates the intelligent and worthwhile portion of the population into blue centers that aren’t evenly distributed across the electoral college?

That’s why I take Claridryl!

https://piped.video/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8

If I haven’t seen the first 9, will I understand the plot of ROG Ally X?

Some people don’t even have puffin friends.

Why bother with that? If you need shoes to dissolve, regardless of the materials, just subject them to my foot sweat for a few months.

It still failed to hit projected box office returns with that factored in!

It’s just funny because it’s a good movie and the first one won an academy award but is terrible.

And they won it for writing “damaged” on Joker’s forehead… at least in part.

Fun fact, The Suicide Squad (2021) was a box office flop, whereas Suicide Squad (2016), the only academy award winning DCEU film, was a box office smash hit!

Kids out of college who are grateful that they’re being given a chance to follow their passion don’t think they have collective bargaining power, and the people who stay in the industry tend to do so because they enjoy pain.

Plus back before the woke liberal agenda took over the media he was always talking about “boners” which I can relate to.

The art style looks lovely.

I was going to say that this feels like a weird franchise to adapt into a video game due to the age of its viewers but when looking up who the Smurfs are targeted at, I found this wiki page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Smurfs_video_games

It’s the set of background conditions and events leading up to the current story, but that’s not important right now.

Very true. Though I would click that bait so hard!

I still prefer this type of article to lots of others in the bait family. Obviously they want people sharing this article and saying “See! That thing I believe is proven!”

It’s a nicer engagement-driving piece of content.

While Helldivers 2 and Baldur’s Gate 3 might look like sudden jackpot successes

This article is funny. It’s like the feel-good inverse of a rage-bait article. It’s stating what we all want to be true and cherry-picking two games that only sort of provide evidence towards it, and only if you squint really hard.

Both games are sequels backed by huge publishers with tons of cash.

BG3 is a Dungeons and Dragons franchise title; a franchise which recently received a massively successful film, a huge boost in popularity during a pandemic, and a boost in cultural relevance in Strange Things.

Helldivers 2 fits the claim a bit better, but it is still a sequel to a well received, well selling title. The extraction shooter genre is also exceedingly popular right now, and the fact that it has Games as a Service bullshit built in says that publishers weren’t as hands-off as the article implies.

So the more realistic take-away from this is that good games with huge budgets for development AND marketing in reasonably popular genres can make a ton of money.

Which isn’t saying much. And it certainly doesn’t look like a sudden jackpot.

It’s not the reviewer’s fault! When they asked ChatGPT to peer review the paper it found nothing wrong.

My all time favorite MMO. I got to play in the beta, and made so many stupid characters all through it and City of Villains’ lifespans.

I haven’t revisited it since it was ended and revived. Almost afraid to, since it was such a bit part of an era of my life, and nostalgia usually depresses the hell out of me.

So close to filling the entire bingo card of trendy game genres all on its own!