VenTheHunter

[JOI | terra @XRTerra_]

Here's a good way to describe the PS1 trilogy

[RedCrayonAristocratFanClub @unlucky_Gurl_]

Controversial take of mine? I don't know but, like I've said many times, we need more standalone games. Not everything should be a full franchise, a piece of work that is one story only or has some bonus content is enough. Let things be small, trust me it is a good thing as well.

[Karafoo @kara_foo]

Wh... a new work?
(1/11)

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is the most documented conversation hack in FBI hostage negotiation, and Hideo Kojima accidentally built a video game around it in 1998.

Chris Voss spent 24 years as the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator and worked 150+ hostage cases. The first technique he teaches in his book, his MasterClass, and federal training is called mirroring. The instruction is one sentence: repeat the last 1 to 3 words of what someone just said, with an upward inflection, then stay silent for 4 seconds.

"My day was good."
"It was good?"
"Yeah I got ice cream."
"Ice cream?"

Voss calls it the closest thing in negotiation to a Jedi mind trick. He once mirrored a bank robber mid-hostage-situation and the guy confessed to a separate crime nobody on the scene knew he had committed. He volunteered it. His brain processed the mirror as "this person is with me" and started filling silences with truth.

The mechanism is brain stem-level. We unconsciously copy people we trust. Repeating someone's exact words trips the same circuit that fires when a friend matches your posture or laughs at your joke. Voss's clients call this "unlocking the floodgates of truth-telling." The person being mirrored can't help themselves. They keep talking. They keep going deeper.

Carl Rogers built a branch of psychotherapy on this in the 1950s and called it reflective listening. Patients reached insights in 6 sessions that took 60 in conventional therapy because the silence forces them to keep elaborating instead of waiting for the therapist to interpret.

Kojima's version is the codec. He had a UX problem in 1998. Metal Gear Solid was dense with military lore, character backstory, and Cold War geopolitics, and players were skipping the exposition. So he made Snake's dialogue function as the player's surrogate. "Metal Gear?" "FOXDIE?" "The Patriots?" Every NPC monologue was triggered by a one-word echo. Players got the entire geopolitical thriller delivered conversationally and never noticed they were being lectured because Snake was modeling their exact confusion.

Kojima recently called the codec one of his "greatest inventions." He was right, just for a different reason than he thinks. He didn't invent a UI element. He turned a 50-year-old therapy technique into the most addictive exposition delivery system in gaming.

The smartest people in any room talk the least and ask the question version of what they just heard.

[🩷🍉 Avery 🍉🩷 @WooperEnjoyer54]

Mark I do love your mother but she’s more like a… mutual to me.

[Mae🤍 @maegixx]

she is literally using yall as a wallet lmfao. ive never seen a vtuber this blatant about not giving a fuck about their fans

[key 📌 @tsukeyi]

“Garp made his choice if you disagree u just lack media literacy”

The difference is I DO understand his complexity and that's why I despise him more. He’s a coward thats made peace w the fact that he's perpetuating a rotten system even if positioned w the influence to change it

[COOLEE BRAVO @ItalianFiesta]

Everybody acted like I was trippin for sayin somebody should stab Frieza and dis nigga ended up cuttin himself in half. Which mean dis nigga can be cut.

[Resident Bio Evil @Resident_bio]

Requiem has many major plot revelations, but one of the most significant ones is that it finally gives us an answer as to why the BSAA was using bioweapons in Village. It also shows us WHAT these BOWs are, seemingly how they were made and who's behind this corruption.
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[kev @AwestruckVox]

A lot of grievances with Nayuta tend to reduce her death to shock value but I think that sentiment just comes from a desire for her to have more screen time. She has a complete arc, albeit a very brief one.

Nayuta’s very existence is centered around the question “Can the Control Devil change?” while she herself believed that devils and their lifestyle were superior to humanity. (People overlook how she could be as rotten as she is sweet, despite it being such a big part of her character)

She spends a majority of her screen time being controlling (even in class) and using her devil powers to resolve everything. But surprise, when she finally gets to go on a murder spree, she realizes she doesn’t actually rock with the devil lifestyle. She realizes she’d be much happier being human.

And as soon as she has that pivotal change of heart, as is the case with most CSM characters, she’s killed. Viciously torn apart by humanity, the very thing that she looked down upon.

She set out to finish Makima’s mission of destroying Denji’s happiness, lost sight of that evil goal as she grew accustomed to their normal life, only to tragically still fulfill it by getting slaughtered.

It’s gut wrenching. It’s dissatisfying. She had a whole life ahead of her, which is why her limited presence feels intentional to me, it plays into that. Still, it’s an arc. It says something about the effect humanity has on devils.

But a nothingburger? Nah, we just didn’t get them adventuring in Hell like we wanted lol

[Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity @cyber_razz]

A both funny and educational meme. Let me explain:

In the first panel, Joey is excited because the hotel’s “free Wi-Fi” is extremely fast. Anyone who has stayed in hotels knows their Wi-Fi is usually slow, overloaded, and frustrating. So when a connection suddenly feels blazing fast, it feels like you got lucky.

In the second panel, Joey checks his device and notices his IP address starts with 172.16.42.x. His expression instantly changes to shock — because that number means something very specific in cybersecurity.

That IP range is the well-known default network configuration used by a device called a WiFi Pineapple.

A WiFi Pineapple is a portable penetration-testing tool that attackers can use to create rogue Wi-Fi access points. It can imitate legitimate networks … like a hotel’s Wi-Fi and trick nearby devices into connecting to it instead of the real network.

Once your device connects, the attacker effectively becomes the network in the middle, allowing them to observe or manipulate traffic passing through it. This is a classic Man in the Middle (MitM) attack.

The reason the connection feels “fast” is simple: you’re probably one of the few people connected to it, and the attacker is letting your traffic pass through so they can monitor it.

So if you ever connect to public Wi-Fi and notice an IP address like 172.16.42.x, there’s a good chance you’re not actually on the hotel’s network…. you might be connected to a rogue hotspot controlled by someone else.

[💧 @gojokuns_]

love it. gege your dialogue. <3

[Jonini konini @joniniplo]

Nuzlocke discourse affirms me in my takes that playing games for an audience is the root of so many evils in design discussion

[zumi CMS OPEN (1/3) @silvertiers]

🧵 Silver the hedgehog and suicide

-not from someone professional, just somebody who tried it.

[Ivan Jr @Kryptomightguy]

She sucks. Her gag is funny for the first few times, until it gets old due to her just being a boring character in comparison to the other women in the series. I don’t care about the fanservice, she’s a shitty character.

[Iheartjustice @IHeartjustice_]

RDJ talks has a pretty serious heart-to-heart with Tom here that I honestly quote a lot to this day.

Being a marvel fanboy during this era really left me with some amazing life lessons and I want to discuss two in particular here that helped me as a someone in the FGC :

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1⃣ "I just wanted to be like you"

"And I wanted you to be better."

When I first started out in the FGC, I really had no idea what I wanted.

I was embraced by this community of people that I really wasn't sure I had anything in common with and given immense comfort despite feeling like I offered nothing.

I immediately grasped onto the culture of it all, which at the time, was highly competitive, spirited, but containing a bit of an ominous energy.

There was nothing inherently bad with it by the way, I just mean there was like this aura of variable mild toxicity that existed.

I'd play games with people and have an amazing time. We'd play games for hours then eat at Dennys or some random late night spot. Conversations would be full of whimsy, rivalries, and good memories.

I couldn't help but keep thinking back to that weird energy I encountered though. Was it really toxicity or was I just being a baby about it?

And there in was the issue.

I was already a part of this energy

People in the fgc back in the day would talk shit, sometimes in person, sometimes too much, and sometimes make you feel bad for not being so good at it. It was a punishing environment where you had to be good, good at talking shit, or good at rallying with the people that could.

It was a weird energy, fun when rules were followed, but the rules were never spoken and people weren't sure when "enough is enough."

As if that wasn't enough, me thinking "am I just being a baby about it?" indicated how immersed I was already. I was always valid for feeling a bit uncomfortable with it but felt like I wouldn't fit in if I didn't jump in myself.

One day though, a great friend caught me saying something stupid (on stream) and immediately checked me. He said "hey, don't say that ever again."

"wait why, everyone else says it here, you've even said it I'm just trying to be like you"

"and I'm trying to make sure you are better than me"

And there it was. A lesson in humility that I can be the change I want to see in the world, and so that I became. I still love to talk shit and love being a competitor, but now I've always tried to implement it with rules that make sure I'm always making it about the fun of it all, not the negativity or "putting down" of others.

The FGC has mostly abandoned this culture and honestly, for most people, it's probably for the best lol.

"Playful Shit talk" as someone once called it for me is hard, requires great social awareness and tact. But damn is it fun and makes for unforgettable times.

Maybe another day I'll post my "rules for talking shit tastefully" if people are interested in that (comment below if so!).

Which brings us to-

2⃣ "If you're nothing without the suit, then you shouldn't have it."

I quote this, to this day, A LOT lol. Even just in humorous situations because the idea of it is quite funny.

I would find a much more practicable reason to relate to this quote when I took my FGC prowess to a new plateau - content creation.

We live in a much different world for content creation in the FGC than it was a decade ago. The only thing you'd really find before was combo trials, shitty quality matches, maybe an analysis (IF you were lucky).

I took it more seriously when I won a pretty prolific match against an opponent in UMVC3 I had no business beating. I just remember my phone almost bricking from the amount of notifications I was receiving. Immense praise and validation that reminded me why fighting game competition can be so addicting.

My awesome friends told me to stop playing around and try to make content, I knew I was funny, liked to tryhard, and made it fun so fuck it, why not?

Years later I'd grow to a pretty amazing level of fame and notoriety that I really never planned for. The idea of having fans I still quite foreign to me, even to this day, but I appreciate it immensely.

However, in this space, it does not take much to really warp your headspace. We as humans are not designed to handle so much positive (or even negative) reinforcement at the scale in which social media moves. On top of it that, it really just takes one bad comment to rattle your confidence, even as someone socially not plugged in.

So then it happened -

Someone hit me with "your just a insert content creator wannabe and you wouldn't have gotten this far without them."

Crazy to invalidate someone's entire body of work by amounting it to "who helped you" or "who you know."

That is what happens though, anyone "making it" will have haters and smart people would ignore that.

We're not always smart though, sometimes we're just human.

That comment would sink me for a bit, was I nothing without my friends? Was my success deserved?

Fuck all that.

I decided to let my FGC spite fuel me, and while I don't think you should let haters dictate ANY of your actions, I proved that guy wrong.

I made videos without unfair advantages, just because I could. And honestly? at first they didn't do that well. But I improved, I kept trying, and I'd also still make more with my friends because fuck that guy.

I was plenty without my friends, plenty without the suit. Doesn't mean I didn't like wearing the suit though <3

If you made it this fair thanks for reading! Marvel is sick, the FGC has evolved but I hope to bring back rivalries and tasteful shit talk, and I hope you found your place in whatever community fills you with happiness.

As for me, ima keep being better and wearing my suit. 🕴️

[kij @kijuler]

no fucking way scott the woz is the person to understand the issue of a potential mother 3 localization/a new mother game

[zoë 🩸⋆｡°✩ @fawntasiez]

THE MONSTER BEING HUMAN WAS CONFIRMED BY MOLLY BROWN HERSELF AKA THE DESIGNER OF THE CREATURE oh my god there’s several skulls on its face, its tail is arms and legs and the teeth appear to be rib-like bone THIS IS SUCH A FIRE DESIGN

[zoë 🩸⋆｡°✩ @fawntasiez]

i’ve been scrolling reddit, tumblr and the iron lung wiki quite a bit today so here are the most interesting theories i found: a THREAD 🧵
#IronLung

[razz || COMMS CLOSED 🦐 @razzydjazzy]

when my intrusive thoughts get bad and i miraculously stumble across this image i feel so much better