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one of the most frustrating things about what Rowling has turned into is how hard it is to explain to offline people that she’s not just another author who has turned out to have shitty views - her entire life and fortune is dedicated to destroying trans people

Oh man the chuds would be mad over a black Pauline.

Im pretty sure Yoshis are also not Godot.

Reminder for everyone - the CEO of ModRetro is Palmer Luckey, who is a war profiteer (1), AI weapons manufacturer (2), fascist surveillance state supporter (3), genocide enthusiast (4), and pedophilia supporter (5). Supporting ModRetro means you're supporting fascism. Sorry, that's just the truth.

When you are a professional Smart Politics Understander, you know that thinking the countries that started a war are the bad guys and not the country that's defending itself against their aggression is a "fundamental problem"

The chintzy-looking M64 clone console of the N64 by a company named ModRetro has been released, I think, I don't pay attention that closely to shit. But as the great @frankcifaldi.bsky.social posted before, it is our civic duty to push back against this company and shun ANYONE who doesn't.

One random thing I will say is that the *squishiness* of the Cheep-Cheep movement noises when you're controlling one is a little bit disturbing to me.

Apocalyptic preachers were kind of the fashion at the time, and it's likely that was an element of Yeshua's messages. Though it's hard to say because our most direct source of ideas about Yeshua is Paul, who never actually met the man.

I thought Spyro was first. I was off by a few months. But regardless I think B-K is massively overrated but Spyro isn't.

Like you have to wait until Spyro the Dragon to get to a 3D platformer that even comes CLOSE to measuring up to Mario 64.

The way I look at it is "There as almost certainly an apocalyptic preacher names Yeshua who was put to death for making trouble by the Romans at that time period" Everything else is uncertain.

Halo is another example of a series that is just perennially, but quietly great.

They more or less built the rules of the genre from scratch and left everyone miles in the dust. There were other 3D platformers before it, but nobody had gotten it right yet before Mario 64.

It's kinda wild how Mario is the only 2D platformer who got the transition to 3D right the first time, at a time when there were NO OTHER EXAMPLES OF A GREAT 3D PLATFORMER GAME, and is still getting it right years later.

Obviously there is no 'real jesus' and Christianity has been functionally been a bloodthirsty genocidal religion for most of its history, but wow these people really don't read their own foundational myths.

Mario Odyssey really is the gold standard for collectathon platformers. There is SO much to do in this game and all of it feels extremely fair. There's a few "What the hell" power moons out there but a few stinkers in like literally 1,000 moons is still an extremely good hit rate.

👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it. What? x.com/sethharpesq/...