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Indie Dev | Mario & Zelda Superfan | Star Trek Nerd | Business Enquiries: me @tharaxis .com

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@GeekyBlackGirl Because... that's the joke. If she was actually intentionally supposed to be ugly they'd make her look ugly.
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@JakeSucky I'm sorry, no chance he flicks, stops on a dime like that, and then maintains complete stability throughout the engagement even while he's moving. This is 100% cheating. Anyone thinking this is possible is just deluding themselves.
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@Rovio So your non-microtransaction game was cannibalising sales of your microtransaction game because customers felt there was no real differentiator between the old game and the new games except for microtransactions, and you don't take that as a massive hint about the products?
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@UnsilencedChaos @SlashLP89 It's a magazine with a semi-naked man on the front... I don't think it takes too much thought to get what kind of magazine it is given the further context of the dialogue. There's no "show runner interpretation", it's quite literally in the game.
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@ur_fav_lesbians She was in love with, and also had sex with, a man... so... I'm gonna call no on that.
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@shoe0nhead When I originally read this I had a visceral reaction... the sheer selfishness of this person is staggering. Not only does she leave him for herself, but then she sits making it again about herself and how good she is. What an awful, awful person.
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@Duckable_ They didn't have to run a competition, they could have easily just watched the speedrun videos to see what people were doing. This is a total nothingburger. It's actually great for them to support the speed running community in this way.
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@_4729473728481 @ur_fav_lesbians That would require she express non-hetero interest at some point following on from that interaction/relationship so as to MAKE it history. Since she never does I'm going to assume that the ONE hetero relationship she has defines her sexuality within the story.
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@bennyjohnson Ah yes, a true representation of gun safety and mechanical inspection, constantly pointing the barrel towards an onlooking audience and acting like you're doing the robot. Be real, this isn't serious, this is pageantry. No real inspection is occurring here. This isn't a
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@GenePark These types of games legitimately need to figure out a way to map analog movement speed for keyboard/mouse players. Otherwise provide some way to match speed with characters.
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@CtrlDub @LoganPaul I mean think with your brain on this one, if Logan Paul abandoned the pig it would have had to have been 2 years ago before he moved to Puerto Rico, so... it would likely not be alive today if that was the case. Like Logan deserves shit for a lot of things, but this ain't it.
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@Timcast Not at all like you and your ilk perpetuated the kind of vitriol that causes people to act out over such a thing, no, not at all, totally is unexpected.
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@ErinInTheMorn I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised, when I saw the original picture my mind immediately went to "they're obviously there deliberately, I wouldn't be surprised if they know people inside, either friends or family".
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@Bornakang The cut before the popping, super suss, I suspect it was swapped out, secondly, very clearly the caramel and corn is burnt when she takes it out. Absolutely atrocious.
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@DouglasKMurray @benshapiro Ben should try debating people with actual knowledge and experience instead of kids, some of which are like 2, 3 years out of high school, but he doesn’t because debating inexperienced kids is easy mode and you all act like it’s an accomplishment.
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@Timcast She is absolutely not cited as a "climate scientist", but a climate activist, no-one in the field would call her a scientist. Stop spreading absolute fabrications. Just because what she's saying aligns with what scientists have been saying for decades does not make her one.
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@Wario64 Good, this man has done so much damage to that brand. Ideally they'd bring in someone who better understands the gaming space outside of monetization, but in reality they'll probably just put in another marketing and business guy probably from, like, Pepsi or something.
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@CQuill97 If they play that song one more fucking time...
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@BaldDavid_ @IGN I'm sorry, what, that Bear looks like shit. LMAO.
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@helenzille Helen I think this is a bad direction to argue in, it's well established that the infection and mortality rate of Covid-19 surpasses that of usual flu/pneumonia. The reduced rates globally are due to massive social effort you don't see with flu, which requires careful comparison.
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@ContraPoints Unfortunate since I felt you always had a good perspective and angle on things, and could always articulate the issues in ways that others couldn’t, understandable though in the current climate.
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@WestLinnMobster @CtrlDub @LoganPaul And yet that has nothing to do with the pig. As far as I can tell from everything I've seen surrounding this, Logan did the right thing in this situation. Plenty of people rehome their pets when they have to move away. This is normal.
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@assassinscreed Yeah maybe don't show ads in your games at all - don't even put that functionality in them. We don't need you advertising your other games in the games we've already given you money for - you have PLENTY of other places you can advertise to us that aren't as intrusive.
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@JennyENicholson Why did you cut your hair like a wig. And while we're at it, why did you put product in it that makes it look like shiny plastic?
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@UnsilencedChaos @SlashLP89 ROTFL don't project. You did bring up the show runners and that it was their "interpretation", and it wasn't, it's right there on the screen. As for Frank hating Bill, there could be lots of reasons why he would hate him. Doing so doesn't rule out them having a relationship.
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@VoicesByZane Going on about this looking bad is missing the point. It is rn, but this is just step 1, a rough idea using today's tools. In 5yrs this is going to be common, and significantly better. This stuff is inevitable, and sticking one's head in the sand will not change that.
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@yassnito Cuz they all have Jada in common.
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@JennyENicholson I think it's a combo of rose tinted glasses and exhaustion caused by the deluge of Marvel stuff on TV in the interim. People haven't had an opportunity to really "miss" Marvel and look forward to the next thing. That and this latest set of films seemed to be treading water.
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#StarTrekDiscovery Ep9: Now this was a great Trek episode. Well told, well acted and well written. Loved every minute of it. Love how the show is evolving. What does January bring? Hopefully plenty of great stories to come. A+
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@_4729473728481 @ur_fav_lesbians To clarify, the hetero relationship she has is the only relationship she has and expresses interest in.
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@CDisillusion I think we need a full 30 to 60-odd minute episode on this, stat!
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@UnsilencedChaos @SlashLP89 I'm not crying about anything, you're just making incorrect assertions about who's interpreting what and what's depicted in the game. If you played it 8 times and never got the connection when many got it on the first time, then maybe you need to get your head checked.
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@ContraPoints I can't speak to his other endeavors, but it's seemingly clear he doesn't know how to run a social media/content platform. Every move seems bone-headed.
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@ExileGrimm I'll take those 3 stars away if reading your book is motherfucking hard work.
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@jesthehuman It's a competition, no different from Survivor or any other physical/mental competition that has prize money at the end. Participants have plenty of personal agency, many are not desperate and destitute as it being claimed here. In interviews, Spencer Hawkins (the player here)
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@alanwake It's so sad, I was so looking forward to him returning in the Payne remakes, especially after his showing in Alan Wake 2 and how it brought back so many good memories of the character. At least he got one last hurrah as Malex Payncey.
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@VoicesByZane One day some artists will wake up and find they no longer have a job because instead of figuring out ways to ride the coming wave and embrace these tools positively, much like digital artists did computers, they instead yelled at it in the hope it'd go away and drowned.
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@FlawdTV @hasanthehun It's both, it's the parents and those that are creating this type of toxic content.
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@JennyENicholson Didn't you hear, scenes in a film are like Lego blocks, they're completely interchangeable and disposable.
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Cannot stress enough, check out @SgtSmokem . This guy puts a ton of effort into the production of his content. Don't miss out on this guy, he's crazy good! Click through now! Do it! You won't regret it.
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@ShadayaKnight Tell me you're a virgin without telling me you're a virgin.
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@Mikado44827143 @Duckable_ A lot of speed runners don't make that kind of money doing what they normally do, also you're going to have to explain to me how watching speed run videos that speedrunners publicly put out is "underhanded", because I'm going to call bs on that.
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@bushman_bu Not even remotely racist, this is from Deadshot's perspective.
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@SendingAchiever @BaldDavid_ @IGN Really? Is that what I said? I think I called a poorly made CGI bear poorly made CGI. Perhaps learn some comprehension skills. Also riding a horse in a film is not fucking Animal Abuse, get a clue.
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@niggasbewilden @bennyjohnson I'm a beta for pointing out you're playing make believe toy soldiers? okay buddy.
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@JennyENicholson Weird, I still don't see it, I think it still looks extremely good (for what it is). The only thing that did stand out for me was that the lip sync was off. I do think that Ahsoka's costuming is still too clean and unweathered, even in the new show, looking plastic.
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@halomancer1 Guy has legs thinner than the railing behind him.
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@NicholasPas5 Flash got a lot of (I believe) unfair press. It was great, it was super fun and had some actual solid laughs, even if it had some really bad parts (use of CG), but Shazam absolutely stank. The titular character hardly features or matters. No-one cares about the Shazam family.
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@FaZeClan Grace did absolutely nothing wrong, and it's awful how everyone's dogpiled on her. FaZe unfairly brought this down on her in an attempt to bank on her celebrity status in a way that most people view as extremely cynical. It's unfair that she's gotten such negative attention
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@karaokecomputer Last time I checked the New York Subway system was a public facility financed through tax dollars... so...
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@IGN It's a cool idea, but they only way a battery on a TV is anything but a non-starter is if it comes with dual batteries (with 1 being active at a time), allowing you to charge and swap a battery without it interrupting what you're doing.
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@IGN Maybe her going on about how the name "X-Men" was dated and probably needed to be changed, and clearly not understanding the value of the brand name beyond just "male and female terms", possibly played a role.
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@MbalulaFikile First you leak his resignation, then publicly malign him, then you walk it all back and act like everything's good and none of this smells like total rotten garbage. You are such a clown.
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@LoganPaul @coffeebreak_YT While you def deserve all the knocks you've gotten over this, I think it's fair to say that this is a very positive and welcome development. All of this seems very positive and while it took a while this definitely deserves a "good job". Hopefully it stays that way.
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The fact that @ultimadragons still is just chugging away, is testament to how sad it is that @EA has not made a single modern entry in the #Ultima series. They sit holding the torch for a series so ignored. What's it going to take for a Witcher-level Ultima game? Like, seriously!
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@TheKavernacle Or maybe they've come to rightly realise the extreme left, especially the online left, is just as toxic, in some similar, and also some distinctly different ways, as the extreme and online right. Ana seems to be taking on a more moderate stance, and I think that's a good thing.
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@reaver_troll this is a very different thing, these interiors are all part of the same level geometry, they just teleport you to different areas in the same in-memory map. That is not what happens in Ratchet and Clank, which dynamically loads in complete other levels as you make the
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@JesseCox I think the idea that consolidation of large companies in the gaming space automatically leads to "reduced competition" isn't really correct. The gaming space is highly competitive, and the growth of the indie scene has shown that even in an already very consolidated AAA space,
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@bmcnett Imagine the government trying to declare the acceptability of your programming language choice or even how high or low level you choose to develop things in, even if done so subtly. Ridiculous.
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@YoutubeBard @GeekyBlackGirl I think it's you that has fundamentally misunderstood the joke. Meg is no different looking from anyone else and the humor is in the responses of the characters that are all wildly overblown and irrational. It's that extreme disproportionate response where the laughs lie. The OP
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@Eskom_SA Honestly I think for every day that there's load shedding ESKOM executives should not be paid a dime of their salary. They can start drawing salaries again once they've resolved the problem.
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@ashleylynch What utter nonsense.
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@JennyENicholson I personally walked away from it feeling that it was an unintelligible 2.5hr movie that was missing about an hour of "stuff" required to make it possibly an intelligible one.
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@MsBlaireWhite I don't know if I'd say "no-one", but definitely once kids got involved a far larger group of people had a problem.
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@JennyENicholson So sorry to hear, he was truly majestic.
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@itszaeok Rap-unzel.
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@zacalsopp Can afford a walking robot, can afford a Vision Pro, cannot afford a suit that fits.
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@jessiegender Jessie, you continuously act like as if you are an authoritative figure when it comes to any of this, and speak as if the things you are saying are just intrinsically correct, but whenever people call you out for your sometimes extremely myopic windmill tilting you cannot take
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@neon_heartbeat It's not really people being in relationships that's the problem, but rather main characters being rapidly shoehorned into them as a trait. There's less antagonism to a relationship that culminates in the last season of a long running series than that which occurs in 3 episodes.
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@ArKnightham I mean, while I know this is Kevin Conroy, I don't think this is a particularly good version of his Batman voice. I get that in this context Batman is essentially evil, so that's what he's trying to go for, but it's too "growly" and not like his regular take. It's like he's
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@AMAZlNGNATURE Please don't believe this is real.
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@Saltiest_Gaming Yeah, you're not at all posting this as cope.
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@shoe0nhead Unfortunately it seems like the cringy shitty side of Buzzfeed is what's remaining, and only the News side which is going down... which to me seems kinda the worst possible option.
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@Liqvidity @Timcast Imagine being so socially and mentally damaged that you think anything of the above is acceptable. Holy moly.
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@DrSpacemanGames Valuations aren't done at 1x. It's likely that a valuation of SOE would probably be closer to 5x annual, so you're looking at MS paying 69B to compete with something closer to 200B in actual market value.
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@Kotaku You know what else it gets wrong? Physics, the length of a day/night cycle, conversation, lighting, and soooo much more, why? Because it's a VIDEO GAME! This isn't supposed to be a treatise on how animal rescue should or does work, it's a game mechanic that tries to give off the
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@MsBlaireWhite How many young people worldwide do you think regularly die of, let's say heart attacks, on a daily basis? I feel this is more of a "I believe" than a "I know" situation. People die of shit all the time, it's normal for us to try and come up with a cause.
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@niehaus_carl So what are you arguing for, that she get off or he get prosecuted. I mean she absolutely did steal that money, so her prosecution is completely valid and fair. The Eskom coal situation is a different matter, and the message is so brazenly wrong about the facts that it's a joke.
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@hankgreen Let's just also ignore the materials cost, build quality, software, R&D costs and everything else that makes this likely to be more expensive, but also superior to other headsets. $3499 is a lot of money, for sure, but there's also a lot of tech going into this thing.
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@uhzoorise So there's a couple of issues here: Firstly, 24fps animation does not have 24 unique frames, most animations are on 2s, 4s or even 8s (in other words 1 animation frame is displayed for 8 real frames), so you could be looking at true frame rate of between 12 and 3fps. This kinda
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@alex_abads Look, he's obviously just very passionate about the film and the character and obviously the plans they had for the character being essentially cut short probably stings and is upsetting in a way that we probably don't really get. I think it's worth having at least a bit of a
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@blurayangel I think it's good, I think the idea of the lost love and the heartbreak and emotion surrounding it far more interesting than were they together. That feels like a destination, and these characters still need to be on the journey.
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@yacobg42 At best people are at least now getting to see in real time how these news outlets frame, twist and editorialize partisan topics to sell a narrative, you'd hope it'd create wariness and distrust of these organisations, but I'm afraid people won't take this knowledge forward to
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@velvetbnuuy Grok is quite literally a word in the dictionary that means to understand.
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@aseprite Originally you weren't a real artist unless you were painting on canvas. Let's be real, AI use is inevitable. Tools such as SD are going to be key for many future artists. Instead of being in denial and clutching pearls, artists should take the lead on how to embrace the medium.
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@TransRamona @TimSweeneyEpic That was absolutely not how it was ever used on Twitter before, nor was it how users perceived it, and saying anything otherwise is highly disingenuous. It was always seen as a mechanism for denoting those whose voice "mattered" in some way over others and this social credit was
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@pcgamer Jesus you people are such a bunch of babies.
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@DeanAlfier @VoicesByZane I think saying it steals art demonstrates a real misunderstanding of how the thing actually works, because it doesn't do that at all. The point however is that this is going to be very common in the future, and artists should be figuring out how to embrace it in positive ways.
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@unity @CactusVRStudios That is EXCEPTIONALLY flaky language to be using when you're trying to justify charging people. If I was being charged I would expect one hundred percent accuracy and transparency, not some fudged estimate that you can't provide any actual answers on.
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@JesseCox Activision, for example, owns basically everything from Sierra Games, imagine some other studios in Microsoft maybe getting a stab at properties that Activision has absolutely zero interest in making use of. Even though it remains highly unlikely, a new Space Quest? Yes please.
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@reaver_troll R&C _does_ use this windowing technique to place you into the "multiverse room" and then back into the level you're transitioning to, but the difference is that your target area is not loaded as part of the level you're in and instead loads during this transition.
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@Jsykes1024 @shoe0nhead @No_True_Name @bswagspeare Congratulations on explaining her own point back to her.
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@Luk2r974 It's very obviously glitching out.
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@TrekCore Have we not heard this question being asked and answered about a million times already? People need to move on already, it was 24-odd years ago. It's time to focus on the future.
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@JGZ_Foundation Jesus, this is the kind of writing one could expect from a 5 year old preschooler.
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@Sargon_of_Akkad The game makes zero judgement call about your choice of gender or skin color. Heels keeps referring to "Our fantasy" and "Our escapism". Who is "Our"? The game is for everyone who loves Bethesda RPGs, not just his narrow ideal. His is the true definition of boring and dull. Then
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@TheKiffness Well, let's be honest, without electricity all we'll have is gaslight.
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