You mean just handing over my money to billionaires and casinos is a bad thing?!

I get that. I use Revanced, my phone’s DNS is set to “dns.adguard.com” and it blocks all ads (browser and mobile game/app ads), and on my PC I use Ublock.

So maybe I’m one of the ones in my “problem.”

I’ve seen ads on Instagram for it. That, and Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die (which imo looks pretty fun, even though I have no idea what it’s about).

This (what your post is about) is a problem in that we all hate ads, so we go out of our way to not see any ads for anything. Then when new things come around, we’re frustrated that we had no idea this was coming. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point, that we’re the reason for our discontent.

I was always a “Sonic fan” in that I thought they looked cool, I never really cared to learn about the lore or even really get good at the games. Shadow was my favorite cause duh, look at him.

These movies honestly made me want to go and get into the story and lore, and the third movie just felt like they pulled out all the stops when they were making it. Every scene was fun, I don’t think there was a single moment where I thought it got dumb and annoying. The fucking SPOILER ::: spoiler spoiler Spoiler MOON PUNCH AND FINAL BATTLE, even the Robotnik/Eggman fight was kinda cool and fun to watch. :::

I went and promptly got Sonic Adventure 1 & 2, any Chao Garden playable content I could find (shoutout to Chao Resort Island on PC, a fun and free Chao Garden in the style of the GBA SA games) and got really into making my perfect Chao(s) with a couple mods that let you get some absolutely wild mutations.

Yeah, seems about right for some of the purists out there. There’s a whole fucking subreddit dedicated to talking shit about them. It’s honestly sad.

Like it’s one thing to have a semi-parasocial relationship and call it “hanging out with your friends” but it’s another entirely to dedicate time out of your life to get upset and angry over a goddamn YouTube channel.

I actually forgot that Game Grumps only play the newest of the new when it’s from a particular series or something.

Why did they get in trouble? Was it with Nintendo or the fans? I kinda remember some “controversy” over them using emulators instead of original hardware, but imo that’s bullshit. Sometimes old hardware isn’t better, and all kinds of things can go wrong with it.

Or as a passenger in a car

Yes and the third one with Shadow honestly fucking rules. It’s probably one of the best movie-from-a-video-game movies ever made.

At least they added the speedometer so if you go too fast the game doesn’t work.

Because they are? How many YouTubers are playing The Hot New Thing from Nintendo right now, because they bought it? They are the ones perpetuating this shit. It’s all a feedback loop meant to suck as much money out of the public as they can.

I can go and find at least 6 YouTubers that I subscribe to that almost always play the newest of the new thing so it’s featured on their channel. RTGame, Mo1stCr1t1kal/Penguinz0, Game Grumps, IronPineapple, VideogameDunkey, OboeShoes, hell even General Sam as much as I love his style and humor.

I played this one shortly after release and it honestly ran incredibly smoothly for me. The only issue I had was one of the bounties never showed so I couldn’t properly finish them, but I wasn’t too upset about it.

I actually loved the story, way more than Fallen Order. Dagan Gera is honestly a very cool and interesting antagonist (and it doesn’t hurt that his fights are fuckin cool with his one-arm-using-the-force-to-swing-his-lightsaber around thing). Even the minor villains, like that warlord guy, are pretty cool and aren’t just bad guys.

I loved the scavenger aesthetic that was so present throughout Koboh. The mercenaries use old armor and ships left behind from the Clone Wars, and they’ve even found a Lucrehulk full of droids to use.

The banter between enemies when they’re out on patrols is honestly top-tier, right up there with the random conversations enemies would have in the old Jedi Knight games. One of my favorites was a couple stormtroopers making their rounds, and one says “I like when we’re out on patrol together.” The other responds with “we do stand better odds with more people.” The first one is just like “yeah… That’s right…”

“I’m gonna fucking kill you if you don’t answer another question in under five words, okay?”

Iron Man 2 and 3. At the time I thought it was a little weird, probably just the way they portrayed it when he freaked out after the kid asked him how he escaped the portal in Avengers.

Even Captain America lost Peggy in his first movie, and didn’t get to truly reunite with her until Endgame. He talks about it a few times throughout the movies.

Superheroes in general deal with tons of trauma. Batman is probably the poster child for superhero trauma. Which is another thing; we can all enjoy Batman as a character and the stories he shows up in, but at the end of the day we all should realize that Batman is not healthy or even fully sane. He regularly throws himself and others into danger, trying to save himself as an 8-year-old night after night.

That’s been changing recently. Hell even the Daniel Craig James Bond movies have him deal with trauma from the job. He usually just shakes it off or says he’s fine, but you can tell it’s hard on him.

Superhero movies are even doing this now, that was a huge plot point in Thunderbolts. That’s basically Hulk’s whole character motivation, too.

Trust me bro! Just keep boycotting and singing songs and dancing in the streets bro! It’s working bro!

Fuck these idiots who keep saying shit like this. IT. IS. NOT. WORKING. When are they gonna finally fucking realize that if we continue to show our back, this administration is going to keep stabbing it.

Nothing. People on Lemmy are even bigger grammar Nazis than on reddit.

I saw an ad a few days ago for a game called Roadside Research.

It’s a gas station management sim where you play as an alien disguised as a human, running a gas station and “researching” humanity.

It looks pretty fun.

Maybe because I said I hadn’t seen anything for the game other than the announcement?

I went down a rabbit hole of emulation last year. I got PCSX2 and tons of games like Ratchet & Clank, Tak 1-3, Jak 1-X, the Sly series, Spider-Man 2, and so many others. I spent a good month and a half just playing old PS2 games and I had an absolute blast