The whole thing has a stink to it. Obviously I can’t be 100% certain, but whenever a story like that on reddit sounds a little too perfect, it’s probably made up.

Having more typos in the title than in the post is a hint.

It’s also just exactly the sort of thing that people will run away with on the internet. It’s hitting a hot button topic about something that people started seeing in memes a couple weeks ago.

Plus it’s too smooth. If the intention was to relay an event that actually happened, there’d be some kind of rough edge to it, something unexpected. But if the intention was to expand on that meme in an easily digestible way, this is what you’d get.

It’s not the most obviously fake post I’ve seen on reddit, and it’s possible I’m wrong. But like I said, I’d be willing bet on it.

I’d be willing to bet that it’s fake.

My very first Lemmy post was in what is essentially the only Lemmy comics group, and it got removed because it contained “profanity”.

I was trying to post original content directly to Lemmy, which is something no one ever does. But it got removed, so fuck it, I posted it to reddit. Two hours later, it was on the front page of reddit. So not to toot my own horn, but I think that’s a sign that it was pretty fucking premium OC, the kind of content that a Lemmy mod should want in their community.

I’ve since seen it reposted all over the internet, and it’s hit the reddit front page several more times.

The profanity in question: “balls”.

As a lifelong Magic player, I’ve reached a point where I’ve accepted that my strengths are more in drafting, deckbuilding, and card evaluation, not in reading complicated board states. I play more aggressively now and do better because of it. My new motto is “math is for blockers”.

No, that’s definitely not how it works. It would never be worded this way to begin with, but this “effect” is just a homonym of the word you’re referring to.

and shave down their Senate majority by two or three seats.

That’s not a wipeout then.

Something like ten years ago I got into a console vs PC argument on reddit, and everyone unanimously told me that starting up a PC with a controller was such an easy feature to add that it wasn’t even a consideration. I stuck with consoles.

I think he was on his way to come tell us something, then he got tired and fell back to sleep. He’s three.

I get that, but it seems disproportionate. I mean we’re still talking about it seven years later.

Most of the time it’s right in front of me, but my brain is just shortcutting over it.

It’s become a running gag in my house that my wife will set something down on the floor so that I can’t possibly miss it, like a laundry basket that needs to go downstairs, and I step over it without thinking.

One time, late at night, I went to my son’s bedroom to make sure he was asleep. His bed was empty. As I was leaving, I saw him asleep on the floor in the middle of the hall, which means I’d stepped over him.

Sometimes I just don’t see things.

Yeah I never really understood the backlash on that one. I actually would love to play Diablo on my phone. But like a good Diablo.

… Is that Dean Cain?

I like Bananza more than BotW, but I didn’t think BotW was that good. I didn’t play TotK for that same reason.

I don’t think Bananza’s length is a mark against it. It has more than 18 hours of content, so the time to beat it is irrelevant. Cost is also irrelevant to the quality of the game.

Look at it this way: remember when large portions of the internet community were all up in arms about the cost of games and predicted that the Switch 2 was definitely going to fail?

If your perspective on games this year aligns with those communities, then you only need to look at the runaway success of the Switch 2 for proof that you’re missing a big part of the picture.

It’s a good game. People like it. I don’t even like it that much, but I can still see why it’s a successful and popular game.

I don’t understand why you’re mentioning Zelda? There was one Zelda game this year, released a couple weeks ago, but it’s actually a Warriors game.

I’m sure Bananza is getting a boost from the Switch 2 hype, just like E33 is getting a boost because of its indie roots. None of this happens in a vacuum. But the hype wouldn’t do anything if either of these were bad games.

I don’t even know how donkey kong got in the list though, maybe they are being manipulated to include a nintendo title in some way.

It’s one of the best reviewed games this year, it’s in a classic but underrepresented genre, and it’s the flagship title of the fastest selling console of all time. Maybe you’re just a little disconnected on this one?

“another installment of Donkey Kong”, as though we’re flooded with them?

This is the first DK game in 11 years, and the first 3D DK game in 25 years.

I had a similar experience. I’d honestly prefer boring turn based combat to the ridiculous QTEs in the game.

The story was extremely well-told. Great voice acting and production value. But the actual plot didn’t hook me. It just seemed so arbitrary. I don’t know if there’s some big reveal or anything that makes it make sense.

I only played it on Game Pass, so luckily I’m not out any money. I would have given it another chance eventually, but the Game Pass price hike made me cancel.

It’s just nice to have another reason to talk about video games. All contexts in which we talk about video games have inherent biases.

I like the way they list those things in the title. Like which one is the most expensive: the hospital, the submarine garage, or fifteen gaming PCs?

I heard the opposite, that separating them ripens them quicker. In my experience this appears to be true.