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now this is it

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

anyone who defends this asshole when they can’t fill up their gas tanks is truly impossible to save. they’re gone. full cattle status. look there’s plenty to hate w dems, i do it all the time- they hate me for it. but i’ve never seen a more irredeemable group of despotic crooks.

[Swizz @SwizzleDrizzle1]

Medieval king: ouughh im eating so much partridge and lamb and wine and rich saffron sauces ouggg my ass is so getting gout oughhh

the drunken yet melodic royal lutenist:

[Rado Klasa || 🥔WISHLIST 1,000,000 POTATOES 🥔 @Radoslaw_Klasa]

It’s every indie dev's worst nightmare.

I created this concept for the GMTK game jam. I held off on my Steam page to obsessively polish the mechanics... and it just got cloned and shipped. Probably mostly with a simple AI prompt.

Here’s my original build vs theirs 👇

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

This is it?!?!? You do not hate right wingers enough

[LA\/ENDER @LavenderGhast]

I'm still surprised there were and still are, so many people who still to this day don't realize this was an obvious comedy/parody on par with airplane and just thinks all the corny dialog and effects were unintentional and just signs of the times. You're meant to laugh at it, unironically.

It's like the original Street Fighter movie, it's meant to be a joke. You don't write Bisons banger dialog if you don't know what you're doing.

[Average (Lightbringer Era) @Halswayne1]

This clip fries me every time it genuinely feels like it was pulled straight out of The Office 😭😭

[Mightykeef @MightyKeef]

He is 100% right, and I partially blame Cinema Sins for this.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

7 yrs ago i said WE brought 9/11 upon ourselves. 7 yrs ago i apologized for my language. since then ive helped get a 9/11 1st responder elected into office which you guys also called a terrorist cus he’s muslim. i don’t think zionists care about 9/11 beyond fomenting islamaphobia

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

transphobic man wearing a face full of bronzer advertises new hormone replacement therapy options for cisgender male troops. everything is gender

[davey @justdaveyjustin]

Breathing in hefty lungfuls of smoke as I get explosive diarrhea from salad, the sky turns apocalyptic orange while oil companies drill in protected lands, screwworms are eating cattle alive and the president just paid $6 million for rape. And I’m also able to bet on all of it!

[Socialist News Media @Socialist_Wins]

Under a Socialist mayor, New York City has reported its fewest shootings and murders in its recorded history.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Thank god because if this ruling had applied during her race, instead of shamefully coming in 5th, she would have victoriously come in 5th

[4quest.❤️🔱🖤 @thinkpiecetribe]

The New York Post treats Zohran Mamdani like how J. Jonah Jameson treats Spider-Man lmao

[Sellia @HuntressSellia]

the idea that every minority character needs to be representative of their minority instead of being a fucking character has poisoned media talks irreversibly

[🎃CT🎃 @CaffeineTweaker]

What 24 year old these days is given the opportunity to be a show runner? I find it ironic that past generations complain that adults now 'act like kids' when that's how they're treated. You want adults, treat them like adults. Pay them properly, offer career advancement, and the ancient gnomes these companies call CEOs need to actually retire and get out of the way.

[dead domain @DomainDead]

Oh this is going to piss him off in ways we’ve never seen.

[ETHOS @DevEthos]

I'm sorry Bioshock Infinite. You were in fact, right on the money.

[🌈Caitlin Koi — HIATUS🔞 @caitlinkoi_]

LOUDER 👏 FOR THE👏PEOPLE👏IN THE👏BACK👏
Wendigoon's opinion on people who defend A! for "democratizing" art

[des toriyama☆ @Gawddessss]

this is literally the perfect time for a renaissance in art

[Arin Hanson @egoraptor]

This clip is a great example of why I didn't want to continue making Sequelitis.

I had an interest in game design, and I had an interest in publicly talking about it, but my thing was comedy, and cartoons. So that's how I did the show... as a cartoon comedy. My schtick was loud characters, and chaotic shouting. Every topic in Sequelitis was shouted at full volume. Every little design choice I thought was smart was "fucking genius" and every minor annoyance I had was a full on meltdown rant. Some things I complained about didn't even piss me off, I just thought they were interesting to bring up. But I exaggerated them for the sake of comedy because I didn't really know how to make them funny otherwise.

And I'm sure because I was young and insecure, I had a morbid desire to shake things up... Ocarina was an untouchable game, a 10/10 across the board, and I think being provocative about that appealed to me back then, too. But I love Ocarina. I grew up with it. I genuinely did want to have a discussion about the things that didn't age well, because I think that's interesting. I think we can learn a lot from that. But I dunno... I just don't think I felt confident enough to talk about it with the appropriate tone, so I hid behind what I knew: a cartoon character that shouts.

This carried into Game Grumps... I had been doing Game Grumps for like 3 years when I released the Zelda video. I think the lines blurred for the audience because at that point I was "Arin Hanson," not Egoraptor. But Arin on Game Grumps is also a character. If I'm getting frustrated and shouting at a game on the show, it's for the bit. It's a show. Heightened emotions. And the go-to bit for me was saying "this game sucks, it's bad" and going on rants. The intent was to play the buffoon. But I think people just thought that was me.

And that's fine. I don't blame them. It is "me," there's always some truth behind that sort of stuff. And I think it was extra confusing because I WOULD just be normal sometimes on the show. But you may notice recently I've very deliberately changed how I handle those bombastic moments on Grumps, where I point the finger inward now. "I suck, I messed up, I can't believe I didn't see that, what an idiot, etc." I just didn't like the bad energy I was putting out there. I hated that people saw me that way. It disturbed me that people told me "wow, you're actually really nice" all surprised when they met me in person, as if they assumed I'd rip their head off.

And look, I'm not gunna pretend I'm an angel on the show now, the schtick of "buffoon that is easily angered" comes very easy to me when I'm performing, so I still utilize it constantly. But I usually find a way to channel it inward and be the butt of the joke, instead of just radiating it outward. It's funnier that way.

I think I just assumed this was all obvious. You see how I tweet. You've seen interviews. I don't talk like I do on the show, or in my cartoons. I like being supportive of people and I like discussing things. I don't shout in my normal life. So when I see people characterizing me as this idiot who has no patience and sucks at playing Zelda... it sounds so silly but it just honest to goodness hurts my feelings sometimes. I love game design! I love video games! But, I get it. All you can see of me in my shows and cartoons is this loudmouth asshole who says your favorite game sucks. Like, fuck that guy, right? I think that's valid. I think you're right to feel that way. I think I was playing fast and loose with this character and I was being flippant about how frustrated it made people. I regret that.

I suppose I should have thicker skin about this. And yeah... it feels so benign in the grand scheme of things. Who cares if people are circulating an 11 year old clip from a cartoon I made and saying "wow this guy's a moron." It shouldn't matter. Why should I care? But I guess I just have to admit that I do care sometimes, and it just kinda bums me out. I cared a lot about game design back then. It wasn't as prevalent as it is now. It was all dry GDC talks (which are, of course, wonderful). I found it really exciting to bring game design to light in a fun way for people that don't usually think about it. I hope I succeeded in that. But if I could go back, I think the in-your-face hyperbolic know-it-all character would go the way of the dodo. I suspect that aspect of it may have done some harm for game design discourse. And that sucks.

For the record, the waiting in Ocarina barely frustrates me. I think it's appropriate at times. The game feeling larger and more cinematic just kind of lends itself to moments of pause. Enemies are more sparse so making them "last longer" just kind of makes sense. Did I feel this way back then? I'm sure I did feel stronger that "waiting" was more frustrating... but not to the level in this clip, by any means. That's just being young and insecure, I guess. I felt like I had to beat my chest in order for anyone to listen or be interested in what I had to say.