caseyweederman

I just saw the live show and it was amazing

Outstanding
That art style looks like a cross between ND Stephenson and Brian Lee O’Malley

Ellipses or floating ellipses

Ultimate Spider-Man (and the Tom Holland movies) completely erases his hardships. He gets so much handed to him that he never has to struggle in the ways that really made him interesting as a character. Here, kid, Iron Spider suit. You make it by pressing a button in this armored limo and a supercomputer designs and fabricates it for you. Here are some glasses that can summon missiles from a space platform. Your primary rival is kinda just a bro from the start.
This is a subtraction of growth. They eliminated the need for him to grow.
I like the stories, but they fundamentally changed Parker to be more flat and less interesting.

Not the question :p

Alt text: A screen grab of an early Simpsons episode where a sign which is understood to have read “don’t forget: you’re here forever” has selected letters and partial letters covered with photos of Maggie so that it now reads “Do it for her”

Fuck I love boobs though, I just really like 'em

“As per my previous email”

Welcome… to Nightvale.

It’s because they did a thing with USB once

I mean, if it’s Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis…

Confirmation from the Sega Genesis Sonic 2 manual:

Two images, one of the front cover of the instruction manual for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (giant shadowed Doctor Robotnik head and arm in the background, reaching for and clutching a giant checkered numeral 2 in the middle ground, with Sonic and Tails in the foreground, with game title and the text INSTRUCTION MANUAL below them, with the console logo at the top with stylized text reading SEGA GENESIS / 16 BIT CARTRIDGE.
Second photo: the manual opened to page 10 (greyscale), title text Super Items, description text: Spin, bash or bounce to break open monitors any way you can – to get the Super Items inside.
Five square pixelated images are arrayed in a row beneath the text: a shoe, a ring, Sonic’s face, three four-pointed stars, and a circle with a horizontal gradient.
Beneath these is a bulleted list of names and descriptions:

• Power Sneakers make you run like the wind!
• Super Rings give you ten rings at once!
• One-ups give you 1 more Life. (You also earn an extra Life when you collect 100 Rings and 200 Rings.)
• An Invincible protects you from attacking enemies, but only for a short time.
• Each Shield protects you from damage 1 time only.

Under this list is a cropped screenshot of Sonic in a shield sphere, with Tails behind him and a mechanical preying mantis in front, the latter of which has launched small curved blades at Sonic’s shield.
The following page is visible in the photo but is outside of the scope of this post. It’s about Star Posts.

Cyborg Justice was great. I only learned recently that no, pits were not just a death sentence if you didn’t have the pneumatic legs, you can transition out of a jump into a forward lunge to get the distance you need.
Pulling robot pieces off and attaching them to yourself was an amazing mechanic. Same as kicking legs back upright and slamming torsos on to resurrect enemies (and possibly allies?)
And the music is peak Genesis music.

I feel the same about Ticket to Ride. Spend the whole game maybe doing something, maybe just drawing and passing, and then the game ends and somebody wins at random.

But these are good gateway games, games that lead from Monopoly and Snakes and Ladders to games like Betrayal and Root and Gloomhaven.

For the OP I would recommend Spirit Island, which is the perfect subversion of Settlers of Catan. Pass through Puerto Rico if you must (it’s a better game than Catan but yeesh, slavery, and then double-yeesh, casual slavery erasure).

I’m surrounded by assholes!

I see the gateway board games but not the advanced ones, why stop when you’re so close?

No that was me

obligatory “something something aur is a haunted wasteland and it’s your fault for ignoring the forty warning signs”

Linux Mint is Debian with snaps without snaps!
(I am now going to take this opportunity to point you all towards Linux Mint DE (Debian Edition))

Like putting a typo in the title. It’s to hook people in who wouldn’t otherwise engage by voting and replying.
That said, I have two thoughts:

• it’s probably just instance drift causing posts not to show up, and
• this is Lemmy, who cares about artificial engagement?