[McD] James

Listening to that song just doesn't feel right when it's not being accompanied by the kickass opening cinematic.

I prefer Contras 1 and 2 over Contra 3 because those top-down stages sucked and were a waste of time. I've played through Hard Corps, but it was the patched version and I turned the difficulty way down. I'd like to revisit that game at some point on a higher difficulty. But yeah, nothing compares to Shattered Soldier. It's one of the greatest 2D action games ever made.

Shattered Soldier is the best Contra game, even though it's very different from the games before it.

"Dabble in non fundable tokens" This dumbass is a proponent of NFTs, and he doesn't even know what they fucking are.

That's generally true, and I've made the analogy to James Bond movies, but just as there are bad James Bond movies, there is also bad pizza. 342 Pizza is revolting and feels like razor blades in my stomach. I also had some truly disgusting pizza at a dumpy cafeteria one time. The cheese on it had the consistency of milk and made me nauseous. The more I think about St. Louis pizza, the more unappetizing I find it. I think I'll get by just fine in life never consuming Provel cheese.

I'm listening to Dangerous Days by Perturbator, and I'm not posting a link because I don't want to risk getting a warning for showing a mildly pornographic image.

I think the fact that this establishment uses Provel cheese is why people seem to either love it or hate it. I didn't know what Provel cheese was until now, but I don't think I'd care for it.

I dig Brawlhalla, which recently got Akuma, Ryu and Chun-Li added, though its art style won't be to everyone's taste.

Motion blur and bloom can both fuck off. I generally dislike texture filtering, but I don't mind it for Quake.

I've been eager to play this for a while now and got tired of waiting for the GOG update, so I purchased this on Steam when it was on sale a few days ago. I'm very impressed by just how good this version looks. This is exactly how I would want an "Enhanced Edition" of Quake to look. The static lighting and shadows are fantastic, and I really like the enhanced models. I can't believe I'm saying this, but this actually looks slightly better than running Quake on Quakespasm. Can't yet comment on mod compatibility though. Having Honey as a featured add-on is nice to see, as it's a fantastic mini-campaign with a brilliant ending that every Quake fan should play. The multiplayer seems very well implemented as well. Jumping into games is effortless and fast. I can't help but wonder why nobody is bunny hopping though? I'd love to see CTF included here. That's really the only thing I can ask for at this point. Excellent work, Night Dive. I'll check out the new episode later on tonight.

Saying "could of" makes no sense.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/04/us/inglewood-morningside-high-school-football-game-trnd/index.html This story genuinely perplexes me, so I'm hoping that maybe someone will help me to figure this one out. I certainly don't want to be lumped in with the "toughen up, snowflake" crowd, but I can't for the life of me understand why there's so much anger towards a high school football team for getting a score of 106 - 0. Am I being an insensitive jerk for not feeling bad for the losing team? Every time someone kicked my ass at any sort of competitive game, I'd just treat the loss as a learning experience and immediately move on. So, I'm hoping to read some measured responses that will help me to understand where the other side is coming from because most of what I've read has been the usual sort of reactionary, all-caps vitriol I'd expect from social media.

@Nine Inch Heels I realize that this response is very late coming. It was difficult for me to pull myself together well enough to compose all of this because even now I physically feel like I was punched in the stomach. I'm not usually the type of person to get offended by things, especially online. But whether intentional or not, your words were extremely hurtful, and I cannot help but feel that I've been unfairly maligned as everything I've ever worked towards not being as a person. The fact that all of it is coming from someone who once helped me in the past and that I've always looked up to makes this all feel especially bad. You've accused me of straw-manning, but as far as I can see, a lot of what you said was straw-manning and projection. Not even just aimed at me, but also at the students of Inglewood High. You've stated that you "cannot respect play to humiliate." You've made it clear that the winning team was playing to inflict emotional injury on their opponents, rather than just playing their best and working towards their personal goals. You also described the victory as "hollow", even though a quick Twitter search would yield videos showing the quarterback beaming with happiness and pride for being the first quarterback in over 100 years to throw 13 touchdowns in one game. So I think it was unfair and hypocritical for you to accuse me of the things that you did when you projected what the winning team's intentions were, as well as how they should feel about their victory. You believed that I made this entire thread under false pretenses. I suppose I probably won't convince you otherwise, but that isn't true. I made this thread not because I was looking for any arguments, or wanting to provoke anyone, but because I genuinely wanted to hear what the other side had to say and be a good listener. And I sure as hell didn't make it so that I would be compared to Steven Crowder of all people. I've never been mentally inflexible enough so that I can't change my opinion on something. At any rate, I've had enough time to figure out where the difference in perspective lies. As paradoxical as it may sound, I don't equate losing in sports to losing in general. As cliched as it may sound, I've always adamantly believed that "it doesn't matter if you win or lose, it's how you play the game." That phrase gets tossed around a lot, but not many people seem to believe it. I don't equate losing badly in a game to humiliation, because there isn't any reason for it. Everybody plays at different levels of ability, and how one applies themself should be more important than a number. Sports shouldn't be about winning so much as they should be about teamwork, self-improvement, and showing kindness towards others. It's not a fault on my part that other people don't see things this way. But I admit that there was one aspect to all of this where I was inconsiderate. I realize that for a lot of young people, the pressures from society and family to succeed in sports are often overly demanding and cruel. I wish that society in this regard was different than it is, but I know that it isn't, so it was at least a little thoughtless on my part to act otherwise. I know that there's a lot of young people out there who are held to unfair standards, and put under way too much pressure by their parents and society at large to succeed in sports. It sucks, and I wasn't thinking about what a lot of them have to unfairly go through. I wish more than anything that society's antiquated views about winning in sports and what the numbers entail weren't the way that they are, but it is what it is. Having spoken briefly about my own experiences with esports (as well as athletic sports, which I didn't mention that I played a lot of when I was younger.), my wanting of others to have the same feelings and perspectives regarding mutual respect, sportsmanship, humility, and being happy seeing one's opponents win certainly isn't for a lack of empathy. And what really gutted me the most more than anything was the insinuation that I lack empathy. That made me feel absolutely awful. I realize there's a lot of things wrong with me as a person, more so than I've ever let on here, but a lack of empathy isn't one of them. I know that I often display a much snarkier side of my personality when I'm here, but I've always tried to assume the best about people's intentions and be kind to others. And I'm proud of the fact that I've always been respectful towards my opponents, as well as the fact that I abhor toxicity, and that I feel happy to see other people succeed when they defeat me. Whether it be in sports, video games, Magic, poker, or whatever. So please try to understand that my desire to see areas of competition to be places where people can emotionally develop themselves, have fun, make friends, and encourage everyone (including their opponents) to always work towards self-improvement is not because I lack empathy for others. I realize that's not often the case, and I admit that it was thoughtless of me to behave as though it was. And that's it. I'm emotionally, and physically exhausted and will make no further comments. I've probably said some things that were redundant or grammatically incorrect, but I'm spent and don't have the energy to edit this. I don't know what I'll do going forward, but I don't see myself posting here again any time soon because being here right now makes me feel like I've had the wind sucked out of me. Thank you to everyone who's ever shared a Doom project, story, or goofy picture with me. Goodbye and take care.