Mikey

[Miilato @litteralyme0]

Life when you understand being sad won't change anything

[The Little Platoon @PlatoonPod]

One of the most telling and depressing phenomena in social psychology was elucidated by the Asch Conformity Experiment.

First conducted in the '50s, the experiment sat participants in a room with a number of (unbeknownst to the participant) actors.

The participant was shown a card with a line drawn on it. They were then shown a number of lines on a screen. The lines were of different lengths: A, B, and C.

They had to state aloud which of the lines on the screen matched the line on the card.

During the test, the actors were told to all give the same incorrect answer. If Line B matched the length of the line on the card, all the actors said Line C was the correct answer.

The test: how many people were prepared to deny reality to fit in with the consensus position.

The study found that 75% of participants - all educated to at least undergraduate degree - conformed with the incorrect majority at least once during the test. Only 25% of participants refused to conform at all.

More than a third of all answers prioritised conformity over reality.

Reading about this formed one of the most important planks of my worldview: the more a position relies on social enforcement, the less sound it is as an argument.

This exposes an underlying truth that explains repeated outbreaks of fanaticism among human populations on all manner of topics, from Israel to Mao to the Moonies.

It also explains why radical movements deploy so many of the same tactics to achieve said fanaticism, and why celebrities are so strongly pressured into taking political stances.

It is about moral fervour. The more people you can find to repeat a line, the more people will conform to that line, regardless of its basis in reality.

And, sadly, the goodness in humans - the desire to be agreeable - makes many of us particularly susceptible to this sort of manipulation.

[Savvy ( ˶ˆ꒳ˆ˵ ) @MadamSavvy]

"he is mocking him!"

this is the best those writers could come up with? a soulless "thats my boy"?

Thats it? really? then perhaps they should not be working on an M rated game and instead work on something more childish, more their "creativity" and "maturity" level.

"mocking" someone to Sabertooth is dismemberment.

Create dark and fucked up characters because it is fun. do not pussify this world.

This game should have been endless blood baths and slaughter- we have this incredible graphical engine tech but instead of cascades of crimson covering our viewport, we are forced to watch Days of Our Lives Tumblr edition.

Wolverine is a savage. He fights savages and some of the most ugly that world has to offer. The fights should be brutal. We should HEAR the tendons breaking, wince at bone snaps, and be in AWE at the sheer effort it would take to pull someone's head clean off their body.

This game should have been a more beautiful version of Outlast basically.

Instead, we are stuck with Barney's First Scenting and brown nosing for representation.

Imagine defending this dogshit. Gaming is a 3d endless sandbox for creative story telling potential, and THAT was the best they could fucking do.

[Veloria🐬 @veloriahq]

Ataraxia

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

As confirmed earlier through our official channels, in mid-June of this year, we unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios that they would cancel the PHYSINT project. PHYSINT is an important project both to me personally and to KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS. Determined to keep the project alive, we have spent the last three months searching tirelessly for a new partner. In the course of seeking advice and pursuing negotiations with people across many fields, we found in XBOX a partner with whom we share a common vision for the future, and we have decided to team up with them once again. Please rest assured that development of PHYSINT, our genre-defining action-espionage title, is ongoing and will continue moving forward.

[𝔍𝔞𝔢 𝔚𝔞𝔶𝔫𝔢 @EandnotY]

I hope they work it out

[Heel vs Babyface @heelvsbabyface]

Goodnight the sweetest of Princes

[Memory Card @MemoryCardFiles]

Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009)

[Heel vs Babyface @heelvsbabyface]

RIP lovely lady

[StabTheDabb 🇺🇸 Twittur @StabTheDabb]

I think I'm starting to understand why Dan Houser left Rockstar Games

[Arachnid's Bizarre Neighborhood @YFNArachnidY]

Zendaya should quite literally not being involved anymore. Her arc has ended.
As a matter of fact her and ned should literally not be in these movies anymore.

[Miilato @litteralyme0]

How the shotgun in my closet looks at me on a Sunday after 5pm

[Nerdrotic @Nerdrotics]

James Gunn's The Odyssey

[james hawkins @james406]

"hey do you have 5 minutes to hop on a quick call"

[PointlessHub @HubPointless]

My only exposure to this movie is out of context clips of Skeletor fucking about

[MauLer @MauLer93]

Halo: Campaign Evolved

[MugenLord @MugenLord]

No one gives a damn what this industry plant has to say.

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

pharmacists when customers arrive at the pharmacy