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The reason that I've largely stopped caring about these net neutrality discussions is how apocalyptic the discussions are. I mean that both in the sense of how overblown the predictions are for what will happen if it net neutrality vanishes, but also in how frequently it is presented as a final battle between good and evil which will determine the ultimate fate of the internet. It's like if Wagner was still around he'd be writing about this instead of the Goetterdaemmerung. Rather than dealing with specific pieces of legislation or specific historical precedents, the conversation all too often turns to hypothetical dystopian scenarios gleaned from cyberpunk novels. It also all too often becomes a melodrama with one side full of mustache twirling villains who want to destroy the internet for laughs, and the other side a bunch of shining cavaliers making a brave last stand to save the internet. The reality of the situation is that we are largely dealing with a power struggle between various factions of large corporations and the government, each of which have shown that they are more than willing to fuck over the common internet user if they can get away with it and each of which stands to personally benefit quite a bit should their preferred set of regulations go through. It's also clear that the reality of the situation is that there is nothing final about any of these conflicts. No matter which way the matter is decided during the current conflict, it will inevitably be challenged a few years down the road. In the end I don't think that we're really discussing any course of government action (or inaction) so much as we are discussing the extent that we like the status quo of the internet. Thus the discussion actually becomes something along the lines of "do you want the status quo, or do you want horrible dystopian internet or no internet at all?" Of course everyone's going to say the former, and anyone who disagrees is going to be mocked. But at that point I don't see why it's worth having the conversation.

Jazz Jackrabbit 1 and 2 are now on GoG Selling at $10 a piece when both were distributed as freeware for years

Screw it let's get it back in the results:

No, but you do have to have beaten Chaos;Head.

I thought this movie had a high chance of being a clusterfuck back when I thought they'd be smart enough to just include the core avengers characters and the guardians of the galaxy. But from the looks of this they are attempting to give at least cameos to nearly every single one of their heroes, and certainly it looks like some people outside of the two core groups (like Dr. Strange and Spiderman) are going to have more significant roles. Plus apparently Loki's going to do some stuff because of course he is how else are we going to get the fangirls in. So that's around fifteen characters who are at the center of the action, plus another ten or so which may have a significant cameo. And that's without getting into Thanos or any of his underlings. Presumably they want to make Thanos a more interesting villain than "guy who sits in chair and contemplates getting stones" so he'll need quite a bit of development as well. And of course you need actions scenes on top of that. Even if this is three hours long I don't see how you fit that all in, and if it is three hours long it seems like it'll be really tedious.

The problem with democracy is that everyone must have a correct political opinion on everything, even on things that they don't understand and can't actually change.

In retrospect it kind of surprises me that no one mentioned in this thread that the new 2hu is on steam. On that topic I'm starting to think that ZUN's intentionally doing crap art at this point.

Alas that hot trap sex picture seems to have vanished from spuf image results entirely.

Youtube keeps putting "Pop Music" at the top of the recommendations. According to youtube these are the top four pop music songs I should listen to:

Yeah, I remember them posting the explanation "it's half the healing of the sandvich but also half the recharge time, so it amounts to the same thing in the long run!" I was actually unaware that they changed it from those stats until today.

Now that the actual SPUF forums have been down for long enough you are finally free from having ye olde reputation is magic image from showing up in google image searches for SPUF. It still shows up if you search huff spuf though.

After replaying Magic 2014 I do kind of like that sometimes it forces you to play with deck choices you'd never make, but which are (relatively) balanced based on what you can face. In particular, the red-white samurai/equipment deck definitely needs better creatures (the only decent one that isn't a 1-of is Kitsune Blademaster). But it's pretty interesting to see how the deck can still hold its own nevertheless due to the presence of the busted Jitte, and to a lesser extent the swords. The 1/1 bushido samurai might not be very good, but you run them anyway just to have someone to carry your top-tier equipment early on, and that's kind of an interesting deck to play. Though I still don't get what they intended for the sliver deck.

I think it's about time to start placing bets on when the Heavy update is going to come out. My money is on January 2020.

Also it contains one of the greatest scenes in all anime: (For context the blue-haired guy is our hero Yuu, the blond guy is his rival Jonathan Glenn, Quincy Issa is Yuu's sister and Midori Isami is Yuu's mom.)

Been rewatching brain powered. I recall that this was Tomino's attempt to show Gainax how to make Evangelion right (which he apparently felt that he had to do since Evangelion shared many themes with Ideon, particularly in the final acts.) I forgot how well he surpassed Evangelion in how quickly the animation quality could sink. But at least the soundtrack is as good as I remember:

Like all the duels of the planeswalkers before it, you get a series of pre-made decks and earn cards specifically for that deck. This does limit your deck-building a bunch, especially as many of the earned cards are absolutely trash for the deck in question, but there is still room for creativity. For example, the white weenie deck can be built as a mean "fuck you I'm getting creatures out fast and finishing you off with a bomb" deck or as a combo deck that puts out ridiculous number of human tokens in the late game. Similarly the mono-black deck in the expansion starts off as a vague demon/evil theme deck, but can be turned into a fun heartless summoning deck. It does get pretty annoying that there are cards programmed into the game that would go well in one deck, but cannot be placed in it since they aren't unlocked for it. Notably, there isn't any reason that the green ramp deck wouldn't run nature's lore over rampant growth, and nature's lore is part of the game in Garruk's deck, but you can't add it. Then again, the ramp deck is already good enough in the game without it. (More annoying to me is the fact that the red-blue counterburn deck never gets counterspell and has to make do with cancel, despite Jace's deck getting counterspell, since Jace's deck is arguably the best in the game). As for autotapping, it displays how the lands are going to tap before you cast the spell and you can change what lands are tapped. It's just a way of speeding the game up, which becomes particularly nice if you play two-headed giant in local coop. They dropped the deckbuilding requirements in magic 2015, which was pretty nice, but it came at the cost of making the netcode and interface worse in nearly every way possible, and certain themes were pushed so hard in the card pool that it was almost like you had premade decks anyway. After that they went for a continuously updated online game to compete with hearthstone, but at the cost of even more features. Honestly I'd probably play Magic 2014 over Magic 2015 and Magic Duels at this point.

Cop Yuki was the only costume I saw and thought "I absolutely need to get this."

Really there was nothing in there that the QA department of a AAA company shouldn't have been able to catch. Some of the problems were definitely due to intentionally trying to do things that the devs wouldn't expect you to do, but those are exactly the sorts of things that a QA team are supposed to try. This isn't even a Bethesda style game where they can use the excuse that the game world was too vast for it to be feasible for even a large team to find; the campaign is pretty short and constrained, all things to consider. We should also keep in mind that not only are they charging 60 bucks for this, they are using a pay2notgrind system and lootboxes to supplement their earnings, with part of the (public) justification for that being that it is necessary to generate revenue to keep updating the game. This isn't some one man project being sold for 15 bucks; they have enough money to actually bug test. Contrast a game like Portal where even if you do try weird things, you'll generally be okay. If you listen to the commentaries for the game, they discuss instances where the game had to be changed to accommodate ways that playtesters broke the level unexpectedly (sometimes by doing things that the vast majority of players would never try, sometimes by doing things that many players would try but which the devs never considered, such as leaving behind the companion cube before the dialogue and heart made it cute). Their reaction wasn't "maybe our playtesters should learn to play our game right." I also expect my AAA games to have a standard a little bit higher than "doesn't fuck up basic animations and movements like Mass Effect Andromeda did".

Just got babby's first phishing e-mail. The terminology used for our passwords and IT department were all wrong (in fact two different incorrect names for the IT department were used), the site linked didn't even attempt to match the proper color scheme or other graphical elements of the official sites, had several mispellings and all words lower cased. But to top it off it was sent by a random Freshman student using his institutional e-mail address. Forwarded it to the appropriate part of IT, got the response "yes this is a spam e-mail, but this is not really a of IT at this time." So the sad thing is that babby's first phishing e-mail may actually work.

What I would love to see is for EA to say "We've listened to your concerns and agree that this in game credit system makes more sense for a free to play game than for one that costs 60 dollars up front. Because of this, we have decided to make the game Free to Play starting December 26. Players that purchased the game before that date will receive 60 dollars worth of in-game credit to compensate their purchase." Then on the 26th, after everyone who bought the game already spent their bonus bucks, they add new blatant pay to win star cards again. Maybe they add a ridiculously expensive Yoda or something too. Would be the perfect way to blatantly rip everyone off while still pretending to be listening to customer complaints.

And if people didn't waste so much money on crap freemium mobile games, EA never would have dared to attempt to use the same model for a AAA game. But, alas, casuals are gonna casual.

I've hunted down SNES games and can say that the SNES classic is definitely cheaper than buying the actual games. SNES games are firmly in the $3 or less category (for crap) or $20 or more (for stuff people actually want), but the games on the SNES classic are largely in the second category. For example Yoshi's Island and Megaman X go for about $30, Star Fox, F-Zero and Super Metroid for about $20 (this is for pre-owned; for new quadruple those prices). Super Mario RPG goes for about $50. Thus you can see pretty easily that getting all 20 games (since you can't get Star Fox 2) would run you more than $80, or even the $150 you might spend if you get it from a higher priced scalper.

It runs okay for the most part, but some parts (particularly the Sector Y and Fortuna bosses, as well as the later forms of the route 3 venom boss) cause it to chug pretty noticeably.