Fucking woke bullshit

VTMB Unofficial Patch is on GoG?

Fucking amazing. Wesp5's work deserves to be recognized as the real, finished version of VTMB.

Uh oh, looks like they finally realized we aren't the same thing

I've been playing through Black Ops II again recently, what with it taking place this year. The story is such a step up from 1. From playing as Menendez to interviewing Woods, it feels like the main actors on both sides are fleshed out. The story is insanely prophetic.

I mean, if you had asked me if BO2 or MW3 was more realistic back in the day, I would have said MW3 hands down. Yet Black Ops II's plot centers around advancement in tech due to rare earth minerals mainly owned by China, mass scale drone warfare, and a cult of personality grown through YouTube.

Realizing there were multiple endings was major for me as a kid, and I honestly get chills with every time I play it.

This one is a lame attempt to recapture what people loved about the first two games. That's what 5 and 6 were as well. Plus, the return of Menendez really dampens any excitement I would have had. If they can barely write Woods well, how are they going to write Menendez well?

This realization is the key to getting so much more out of life

Oh wow, really? Glad it blew up, definitely deserved.

As someone who never adopted TikTok, it's easy to forget that YouTube is not really the main content delivery platform anymore.

It would seem that most creative industries operate similarly, in that the artist must try to push their creative vision through the filter of the desires of the business or person funding them.

To give an example of this, Obsidian's team had to make New Vegas in 18 months, because their corporate and Bethesda's corporate agreed that was a reasonable amount of time. This was one of the factors that led to its buggy release and multiple areas that feel as though something was planned for them and not followed through. Still a great game, but definitely hindered by the needs of corporate.

You can find examples of this for as long as patronage has existed. Michelangelo famously fought with the Catholic Church over his depictions of nudity on the Sistine Chapel.

But Nintendo is a special case in that it seems the businessmen work for, or in tandem with, the artists. The businessmen at Nintendo believe in their artists and their products, and why shouldn't they? The creators at Nintendo make masterpieces far more often than not when they set out to make something new. So, when they make new games, especially when it's something big like Zelda or Mario, they let them cook for plenty of time, and the designers get to experiment with unique mechanics and twists on their franchises - for better or for worse.

So rather than seeing rushed 'AAAA' games and microtransactions due to focusing on the money, we see great games with insane price tags. Because the suits have let the creators do their thing and they will charge what they want to keep that going - through online service fees, $80 games or whatever else.

This feels like the type of video that was everywhere on early YouTube, and so rare today.

Love it.

My wife is going to stab me

OMG I HAVEN'T HEARD THIS ONE!

I hate how Neil's really good works get copyright struck all the time. It was so nice to see Alanis back on YouTube.

Liar.

I was thinking about people repurposing the MAGA slogan the other day when I passed by a HVAC shop with a sign that read, "Make Your A/C Great Again."

I wondered then, as I do now, how this trend will be looked at in the future. I'm sure a large part of them are idiots capitalizing on the current popular slogan, but every time I see something like that I imagine businesses in Nazi Germany with signs like "Let us be your final solution for hardwood flooring" or "Let us make your kampf, mein kampf!"