I wonder which of the 3000 things over the past decade changed their minds.

What?! Is he trying to improve the lives of those that don’t normally have easy bathroom access? How dare he! Government money should be a spent on improving his self image and ego!

I’ve never heard of Zardos personally, but it sounds like you’re looking for movies that have deep significance and application to the real world. My number one recommendation is Waking Life. It is a movie that thoroughly explores what it means to be human all without imposing any specific viewpoint or agenda.

It’s a series of borderline interviews taken from all walks of life and then rotoscoped into a beautiful dream sequence.

I can find ways that it’s relevant to just about every day of my life. It’s packed full of serious challenging conversations about the self, spirituality, morality and mankind.

If this isn’t the type of thing you’re looking for, maybe elaborate a bit more on what you mean.

I ended up making the choice to just avoid the games that don’t work under Linux. They seem to all be almost exclusively AAA twitch shooters that require far too much from me as a player anyway.

The only way I can vote on the topic is with my wallet.

Yeah, cause the way I want to be honored is to have my murder scene recreated. These people only know how to put themselves in a spotlight.

What I keep wondering is who is taking the pics. Who just takes random pics of two people talking in a room during a conversation that is supposed to be ultra-private/exclusive? Is it just for blackmail? If so, it’s not working well enough.

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I like David Cronenberg’s approach. Make it visually horrific, but so alien that you don’t know how to visually parse it and it just overloads your brain into ‘blech’ territory.

Loved The Thing and Videodrome for this style of horror.

Otherwise, give me omnipotent horror. Things like Oculus really get me.

Something something something dark side. Something something something complete.

Maybe we’ll find out it was microplastics all along.

One word: Gaudy

I don’t suppose those people are paying taxes… something something Boston Tea Party

When my ad blocker is doing what it’s supposed, not nearly as much, but yeah, especially on mobile news sites. They’ll just aggressively blast you with constant shit loading in.

I work with customer art for my job. And every time someone brings in AI art for their project, it just tells me they don’t respect artists. I usually put a lot less effort into their orders.

It also usually doesn’t have any personality.

The biggest struggle I had at first was getting out of video game mode. With no objective trackers and maps being static on walls, it forced me to approach it differently. You have to rely far more on intuition than any other game I’ve played. You also have to pay attention to notes and general signage as it’s your only guide through a large portion of the game. Hopefully it clicks on your second go around. I wish there were more games like it.

Infra. You play as a structural analyst sent in to document damages on infrastructure that was being neglected due to a corrupt governor.

Technically a walking sim, but plenty of puzzles to solve and “mazes” to navigate. The game offers no minimap or objective list. No HUD whatsoever. It’s just you and one action button.

Each area is exquisitely detailed for being a 9-year-old game and visually holds up better than I expected. If you ever wanted to know what it was like to explore abandoned infrastructure, this one’s for you.

Done. Am now resisting arrest in the Wendy’s diner.

You’d think with those fuckloads of money he could afford an actual makeup artist. Then again, that would require paying someone to do their job.

If you’re an audio nerd but don’t care to much about a “premium” look/feel, the Fiio Retro Mini hit the bill for me perfectly. Only $70 and has balanced audio out.

The screen is tiny and controls are a bit awkward, but couldn’t beat it for the price. My only complaint is no gapless playback. There’s about a 1/4 second gap.

I see why people are skeptical. It looks really good. If this actually releases looking like this and plays well, I will be shocked. And will probably play it a bit.