How do all these microbes get their energy tho? Do they have this pocket of sulpher and they're just slowly oxidizing it for energy?

You're not pronouncing that correctly, it's pronounced Phở. 🤓

this was much more fun than I expected it to be, not sure why I didn't think I'd enjoy it because this sort of thing is my youtube bread and butter, thanks for the devtesla seal of approval cos I don't think I'd have watched it without a trusted recommendation!

I want to stress that these are all very funny dreams. A "you had to be there" thing. Like, I am simply the victim of a Bugs Bunny or a Clown perhaps, but there is no malicious intent.

That sounds stressful. I don't have nightmares about assault but losing teeth is a frequent one and my most hated one

sure but that's just what self acceptance is. you're already doing stellar

no im bad actually, who i am is bad unfortunately, hate to say it

oh thats not so bad lol. i am unfortunately terminally afflicted with Modern Attention Span so I probably read half of this paragraph, looked at 10 other things for 30 seconds each, then came back to the second half of the paragraph. unfortunately it was me who was pissing on the poor today

or they did something like this

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although they don't seem to be using PHP

showing this to my mum next time she complains about the 50kg crt i brought into her house that's too heavy to move

Update: I am just playing "Sonic Adventure 2 Battle" again.

This style of Sonic game translates really well, and I think it's because the levels are navigable at-speed. I think having small segments to explore, interspersed with "hold forward here" sections, is a really smart idea.

And that opening level really holds up as one of the best of all time. Sorry Doom E1M1, there's a reason you aren't an opening level so beloved that it's casually and consistently remade like Mario 1-1 or Green Hills.

The casual absurdity and destruction is fun. The game is so janky but so charming.

Within context, this sounds like they're talking specifically about those inside the Executive branch of the United States:

But the further down the ranks you go, the more pervasive the anger at the US’s complicity in mass slaughter becomes. An entire contingent of junior White House staffers, for instance, made up a “staffer bloc” in pro-ceasefire demonstrations in Washington, DC. As a former US diplomat, I know that many people have resigned quietly and anonymously over Gaza. Many want to quit but literally don’t know what other work they’d be qualified for. These administrators—the ones who make up most of the foreign policy bureaucracy that the Obama administration derided as “the Blob”—are the ones angriest about American policy in Gaza. They are also the ones who can do the least about it, and they know it.

(That said, I have only read part of this article so far)

i'm not hostile to the overall thesis but

These administrators—the ones who make up most of the foreign policy bureaucracy that the Obama administration derided as “the Blob”—are the ones angriest about American policy in Gaza.

ooooh i wouldn't say that around a palestinian lol

These are many points in the Mania camp!

I appreciate this breakdown, I remember Mania receiving a lot of love.

I definitely tried to play the original a few times over the years but I never understood how Sonic was meant to be played. The levels in most 2D Sonics seem to zip by too fast for me to meaningfully interact with them. I think I might start with Mania and then move back

!!! Incredibly cool. Thank you Shadow the Hedgehog for this Plural Pride thread

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Sonic Mania is the only sonic game where I truly felt like I was enjoying myself the entire time, lol

Well that’s a nice surprise; I’m plural as well. In fact part of why I’m here is to practice fronting in a space the others don’t consider “theirs” - otherwise they try to butt in and take over the conversation.

Plurals represent!

(yoooo i'm plural too, plural high five)

(i still stand with Shadow the Hedgehog of course)

actually i'm plural so sometimes i'm just half of me

A re-release of Sonic Generations just came called Sonic × Shadow Generations that ads a new campaign just for Shadow. Sonic Generations was already the best of the boost-style Sonic games but the Shadow Generations portion they added might be even better.

From the 2D side of things Sonic Mania is really good and there’s also a port of all the old Mega Drive games to the same engine on modern systems called Sonic Origins.

Sonic Frontiers is janky as all hell but I also love it and it’s honestly just really fun to move around in an open world as Sonic and I feel like the first game where they were finally figuring out how to actually do boss fights for Sonic (though they are still also janky as hell).

play the original sonic the hedgehog. if you enjoy that, i suggest also playing these other 2d sonics:

• sonic cd
  • introduces the spin dash.
  • play the japanese version. they absolutely butchered the american release. sega of america decided that slapping house music is too much for innocent, christian, american children to handle, so they replaced most of it with a bunch of other shit that's thematically unfitting, but left the 'past' versions of the tracks alone because they couldn't figure out how to replace the non-red book pcm audio.
  • this game is easy to beat, but hard to find all the secrets in.
• sonic 2
  • refines the spin dash
  • has tails
• sonic 3 and/or knuckles
  • yes there's actually three combinations. they split the game in half so they could rush it out as 'sonic the hedgehog 3'. then they released the other half of the game as 'sonic & knuckles'. if you stuck sonic 3 onto sonic & knuckles, you'd get to play the whole game as one, so basically it was dlc for the prehistoric era of gaming.
  • very long, stages are quite complex
• sonic mania
  • 2017 game, homage to the old sonics
  • mixes old and new stages

don't play knuckles & chaotix, it sucks. also don't play sonic 4, it's a shitty cash grab.

i also recall sonic advanced being not terrible, which is high praise for a sonic game, really.

magic the gathering booster

Sonic moves too fast for me. This might be the Sonic for me