@JackPosobiec
I can’t even put into words how thankful I am I got be a kid in the past
The only word to describe this shit is “creepy”, children’s books should not be such bald faced political propaganda regardless of the politics in question
@TerrelleGraham
@brielarson
Yes, because making money means a movie is good, which is why Michael Bay’s Transformers movies are considered some of the greatest movies ever made.
@pierbiwierbi
@LanternJS
Plus it has a film/camera like filter to smooth everything out a lot of games had around that time, sadly you don’t see it as often anymore
@JivemasterJ
@semiopath
Psychological warfare, in the days before forensics, security cameras etc you kept people in line with the fear of “oh, but if I DO get caught…”
@ChaosDriviar
@bluesuns_
They almost assuredly never did, weirdos latch onto revivals of things like this and then gaslight everyone into thinking the original was something it’s not
@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN
And yet the themes of Metal Gear are more relevant now than ever, as someone that had the shadow of nuclear weapons impact their personal life, I’ve always been amazed by your genius and prescience
@giantgio
Most of it was just teenagers giving each other shit, it wasn’t too hard to find a friend group who wouldn’t bother you if it became less playful banter and more outright hostility, 99% was just teenagers messing with each other in a non serious way
@nostalgiaooc
All I remember gamers back in the day talking about was how much they hated Call of Duty and everything it stood for, now people are nostalgic for it? Was it just /v/ or have video games only gotten so much more worse that now stuff like MW2 retroactively seem better?
@VincentStClair
@GlomarResponder
Cuz you gotta understand this isn’t a fumble, these things were crashed into the ground on purpose to make a point and grind an axe
Misandry as its core
@From_Gardens
Ninja Gaiden? Jet Set Radio Future? Panzer Dragoon Orta? Fatal Frame 1 AND 2, Otogi 1 AND 2? I’m sorry but you’re speaking nonsense
Even 360 had Guilty Gear 3, Ace Combat 6 and Tenchu Z
@viperwave
A lot of PS2 games are expensive now, some quite expensive, there will be a never time in which something like Asscreed 2 on PS3 will be expensive, destined for the landfill
@TMannu6
No disrespect to the guy on the right but I hate how polarized society has become and this pic illustrates that well, everything is boiling down to one thing or the other these days
@VincentStClair
@GlomarResponder
Society got hijacked by extremism and it’s insane these people didn’t get the door slammed in their face at some point over the last ten years
It doesn’t freak me out any less how this has happened no matter how long, just where did it all come from?
@RichardWaggles
@DAKKADAKKA1
If it’s set in modern America, this is the sort of thing you’re gonna see, what do people expect? The last games reflected their respective eras of America too
@Walkuriie
The “cringe” era of weebs were actually cool and I’m tired of pretending they’re not, irony has been the death of all that is interesting, “cringe” is another way of saying genuine
@pillowfort
@headfallsoff
What kills me is how much worse most movies simply look today
With rare exceptions if you’re not shooting on film you’re not shooting a real movie
@therealcliffyb
Where’s the lie? Gaming could use a hell of a lot of gatekeeping in fact
Do we act like watching Breakin 2, Battlefield Earth, Meet The Spartans and The Room makes you a cinephile? Having some experience with something doesn’t make you a connoisseur
@robertlasagna1
Random story, when replaying Halo 3 in 2020 it struck me that I may as well be watching a Flash Gordon serial from the 1930s for how different in tone and vibe it was
Basically the 1930s have more in common with 2007 than 2007 with today
@KILLTOPARTY
The face of whats literally driving the human race towards extinction or at least civilization’s end, everything wrong with the world today in one character design
@americanmcgee
It just sucks you didn’t end Alice as a trilogy, would have been the perfect note to retire on, refresh me, did you release the game’s script or something so we can at least know what the story was?
@ddaawwggyy
@RoseEmojiTico
I was going to say the same thing, Goonies is probably the same world as Indy since adventure seem to be so easy to have even kids can have them
@VincentStClair
@GlomarResponder
For sure, but in some of these corners some people were able to worm their way in and the attitude at first may have been “we have so much profit, why not allow a little social messaging?”
After a point they get dug in and you’d lose face by firing them, so on the spiral goes
@LazlosGhost
It was really great living in a culture that saw you as irrelevant, boring, unimportant, not worth analyzing, definitely normal to sum these movies up as “white male rage”
@C_U271D
I think Jar Jar was to really make kids like it, stuff like Nickelodeon was big, no it didn’t slapstick comedy but I think that was the thought process
@StellaNoxEclair
Music got 1000 times worse, people were comparing it to Zeppelin, AC/DC, the Stones, now it don’t seem too bad compared to mumble rappers