As a Sega fanboy I am obligated to bring up Virtua Racing. It was Daytona USA before Daytona USA

I don’t know that it was influential, but I’m wondering if anyone else remembers the PC game Street Rod. It had features like being able to swap out engines, transmissions and tires, change carbs, chop roofs, remove bumpers, etc. Those things were fairly unique for the time the game came out. I had a lot of fun with…

Man, Pole Position was the shit back in the day. Fucking loved that game.

This isn’t new at all. Like, in any way, shape or form. During Prohibition, federal agents looked for this fungus growing on trees and houses to track down illegal stills all up and down Appalachia. I learned it a decade ago on a tour of a distillery located 16 miles away from the Jack Daniels distillery.

What IS new…

You had me there in the first half.

Adult parasocial relationships are so goddamned weird.

i am definitely in the camp of...maybe in another 7 years. 

This is cult-leader behavior. 

You haven’t heard of them, even if you are using the same platforms because of demographically derived algorithmic bubbles. It’s similar to the way that even people who were terminally hooked in to instgram had no idea who Andrew Tate was, because they were not teenage boys, the platform didn’t serve them that content.

As is usually the case, the internet just wants to flame someone more than they want to help someone.

‘Only Pedro Pascal could make us thirsty with the line, “You focus right here or I’ll pop your fucking kneecap off.” Yes, zaddy, pop it.’

professed his love of non inverted Y axis in video games controls.

Ellie manages to reach a cleaver and deal multiple killing blows

Considering we have real-life rapist Andrew Tate saying these exact things to his victims, let's not pretend it's a massive stretch for a fictional character to express the exact same sentiment. It's about power for them, plain and simple.

I’m an atheist myself and am naturally suspicious of the motives of any self-declared “man of God”, but really, for the past twenty or thirty years, it would be more of a twist for a preacher in a movie or TV show to actually be a good guy given that the default is that they are a crook and/or a pedophile.

We think David is being gentle and fatherly with Ellie because he’s a man of god and doesn’t want to harm anyone.

Ellie doesn’t need an incredible sense of direction not to get lost. She had footprints in the snow. The same way the group managed to track her down so easily.

Told you that these corporate/tech bro shills are trying to turn creative human labor obsolete through AI. There’s a reason they’re trying to criminalize artists in general - they’re forcing an ‘easy’ and ‘ethical’ narrative that benefits only them. For instance, they call artist “privileged” because they built their…

“I see potential for tools like these to let an animator let this process propagate their ink and color easily across [an] entire shot, for example. It’s potential like that that gets me excited about this tech, and why we do these experiments in the first place,”
This is the real take here. No one is going to replace…

I don’t know how to explain it, but I’d rather watch a 9-part series about a gruesome, brutal serial killer than 20 minutes listening to a phone call with a pedophile.