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fire emblem is just a puzzle game for people who like bow lesbians

superheroes who hand criminals over to the cops because they trust in the criminal justice system

versus

superheroes who hand criminals over to the cops like “it’s your problem now, suckers”

see my problem is i don’t have any students i can apprentice in my weirding ways

remember when the french police raided Beaux-Arts to try to shut down Atelier Populaire during the May 68 protests in Paris, but were confused because they were looking for offset printers and didn't know about screenprinting

typoed google as goof but duckduckgo knew what i meant

somebody just @ me when the tangara supports ALAC so i can start considering it

obviously the correct way to format json is

{ "like": "this"
, "mother": "fucker" }

more money:
• can make games faster and cheaper
• can sell games to people who can’t afford $70/game and thus reach a wider audience
• GBA games are better and so should sell better
• GBA games are better and so will drive merchandising opportunities more than switch games
• lower development barriers = more exclusive third-party titles, driving sales

less money:
• GBA games are worse for performative gaming (streaming) and so have less cultural cachet
• the price of games is so disconnected from the costs of producing them that anything you can do to make charging $70 justified is worth it
• can't cash in on ports of iOS games
• most gamers only buy prestige games meaning they won’t consider anything cheap or technically simple

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if nintendo pivoted to rereleasing the game boy advance and developing comparatively low-budget, easy-to-develop games and selling them for $30 apiece, they would make

so local tv just died while i wasn’t looking huh

my take is that perhaps we can criticize the united states for its ethical and moral failings WITHOUT needing to fall back on a tired argument where it is singularly responsible for the actions of other nations and other world leaders, as tho its purpose in society is to be both the ethical rule and the peacekeeper/enforcer of geopolitical events and the rest of the world is but a current or potential colony that gets a bit unruly sometimes, sometimes with permission and sometimes without

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oh are we attributing and analysing international events as though they were solely orchestrated by the leaders of the united states and maybe, at best, a couple of specially designated enemies there·of in their eternal struggle for the fate of the universe again

aspiring to bourgeois levels of luxury isn’t very “end the american empire” of you

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look leftists, when you say “in a world where i am no longer plagued by capitalism, i would ⸺”, we all know that you are just spraypainting the american dream with a mildly progressive patina. you’re not selling revolution to anyone here

as a kid i didn’t think Bartimaeus and Harry Potter had much to do with each other but as an adult i recognize that “actually, the magic of British exceptionalism is a farce upheld by colonialism and slavery” is definitely responding to Something

i don’t love depending on G·N·U Make but there simply isn’t another option for what i’m trying to do

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