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The Polar Express for the PlayStation 2
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Been having this really infuriating issue with Megabonk on Steam Deck where selecting a powerup will occasionally just select whatever happens to be beneath it. I have lost several runs to this because it will select a weapon completely antithetical to my build.

Anyone else having this issue?
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Here are some wonderfully illustrative direct quotes from Charlie Kirk:
"It's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights," he said during an April 5, 2023, appearance at the Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church. "That is a prudent deal." "I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I've thought about it," he said. "We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s." He claimed that the law brought about a "permanent" bureaucracy which promoted diversity and inclusion. He also labelled civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr "awful" and said he was "not a good person". In another podcast he suggested incarceration would solve the housing crisis in the US. "We do not have enough people in jail in this country," he said. One of my hopes is to turn the Republican party into a resolutely stronger party on crime," he continued. "We are not harsh enough on crime in this country... .and this is not just about stopping criminals. If you enforce the law, housing will be cheaper because more of the country will be livable." In February last year while discussing capital punishment he said children should watch people being killed using the death penalty and that executions should be public. "Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, it's an initiation..." he said before adding that the crime rate would go down if kids had witnessed an execution. We basically told a great generation of young women “don’t get married, don’t have kids, go get a corporate job,” and it’s created mass political hysteria. And then in their early 30s they get really upset because they say “you know, the boys don’t want to date me anymore,” because they’re not at their prime and people get mad when I say that — well, it’s just true. You’re in your early 30s, I’m sorry, you’re not as attractive in the dating pool as you were in your early 20s, but again, you have your corporate job and cats so I thought, you know. And I feel sorry for a lot of these young ladies. They email me all the time and they say “Charlie, I’m broken down in tears, I’m 33, I earn $130,000 a year, I travel a lot, and I have no one to share my life with.”
September 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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It's really cool to wake up and find out that the entire judicial branch is just this meme personified.
April 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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also the internet on mobile devices of any sort is very cool and totally usable.
A news article made almost unreadable by the amount of intrusive ads, including two banner ads on the left and right, one smaller banner ad on the left, a banner ad on the bottom of the screen, and an in-line video ad in the article itself. Of the whole page, 20% is dedicated to the article, while the rest is dedicated to advertising space.
March 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Just a reminder that Muskrat couldn't set an egg timer for a toaster strudel accurately.
Elon Musk responding to a user on Twitter (otherwise known as X) in 2017, asking about when Full Self Driving arrives for Teslas, to which he says "3 months maybe, 6 months definitely". Full Self Driving is still not function complete in Teslas despite Tesla accepting full payment for the feature.
March 17, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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what sin did i commit to have this be my entire youtube recommended feed
The Youtube homepage filled entirely with 45+ minute long videos of GenoSamuel's Chris Chan documentary series.
March 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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A quick little reminder of what happened the last time Nintendo went the "Powerful console" route.
A graph showing PlayStation 2 sales dwarfing the everliving fuck out of Xbox, GameCube, and Dreamcast, almost 150 million units vs roughly 40 million units.
February 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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we gettin the 🇪 with this one boys

#balatro
February 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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did you mean
Hot Fuzz (2007) - The joke is that the entire movie takes place in the English countryside, where things rapidly get worse and worse with every passing minute.
February 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Undertale is literally this meme incarnated and the fact that people still talk about it with such glowing praise to this day shows that most AAA studio executives are utter morons.
January 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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It's funny to me that my timeline since Season 2 of Squid Game was announced has rightfully been "why the fuck is there a Season 2?", and with everything that's come out afterwards (esp how the show's creator barely made any money from the first season), S2 100% should have failed.

So naturally--
Headline stating "'Squid game' Season 2 Aims To Dethrone Its Predecessor, Soaring To Second On Netflix's All-Time Non-English TV List After 12 Days"
January 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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I couldn't pick just one, so I didn't.
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker - Venat, a god from the time before the player character, asks the player character: "Has your journey been good? Has it been worthwhile?" after recounting the events of all games up to this point in Final Fantasy XIV. NieR: Automata - Ending E, where the player character fights through the end credits alongside others who have beaten the game to see the "true ending". The player is then provided the choice to delete their save file to be able to provide that assistance to another player. Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers - Ardbert, the "Alternate Universe" version of the Player Character, asks "If you had the strength to take another step, could you do it?", after facing near-death. UNDERTALE - The player character looking into the mirror of Toriel's house, with the game providing the dialogue "Despite everything, it's still you".
December 27, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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In other news, got my favorite game design book for Christmas.
A picture of House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. This is being referred to as a game design book due to the amount of involvement from the reader to understand the narrative.
December 26, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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A plane flying into the second tower of the Twin Towers as broadcast by CBS on 9/11/2001.
December 18, 2024 at 5:29 AM
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On a completely unrelated note, this is our new dog, Indiana Bones (or Indy for short.)

something something we named the dog Indiana
December 17, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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Sometimes I think about looking through Kickstarter again to see if it's become not a total cesspool of scams and godawful ideas and--
1504% funded kickstarter for an AI-Powered cooler and SSD for the PS5. 2571% funded kickstarter for an AI-powered speaker and digital photo frame. 223% funded kickstarter for an AI-powered planter. 253% funded AI-powered backpack.
December 8, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Thinking about how the 3DS had like 583,000 different themes and the Switch has
A screenshot of the Nintendo Switch's System Settings, showing Basic White and Basic Black as the only theme options available.
November 29, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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If you see this, post a knight.

(this is absolutely cheating because this is just my ffxiv character who's a Dark Knight but its my brainworms and i get to choose the shameless self promotion dammit)
November 29, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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It still bothers me tremendously Stress Level Zero used AI art almost everywhere in Bonelab, and almost no one seemed to pay any level of attention to it.
November 24, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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Okay, so turns out there's a shipment delay in Alaska presently where it got shipped for customs processing. Cool cool cool cool cool.

(i just want my fun laptops guys >:C)
November 23, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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These DRK changes we're SO FUCKIN BACK
A list of changes for Dark Knight in Final Fantasy XIV, including the addition of physical damage mitigation, improved self-healing, and an overall damage increase.
November 12, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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A bunch of my friends have been getting into art and it made me feel left out, so I said fuckit, downloaded aseprite, and sketched out some pixel art of my favorite little pokemon.

#gamedev #pixelart #2d #pokemon
November 10, 2024 at 3:42 AM
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how in gods name do you make an almost half-hour-long video from something that be summarized in literally the thumbnail.
A 26 minute long video talking about the backwards compatibility of the Switch 2, with two youtubers doing exaggerated faces on the thumbnail next to a picture of the OLED Switch with a red arrow pointing to some weird Switch 2 mockup.
November 7, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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BSKY Introduction Thread: FFXIV Edition
⭐️ Character: Paljon Mehilaisia
⭐️ Server: Crystal
⭐️ Main: Dark Knight
⭐️ When did you start: March 2022
⭐️ Favorite thing to do in game: MSQ, Trials, Normal Raids, and be Riku's lizard :D
October 20, 2024 at 4:31 AM
0x51.bsky.social
excellent argument you've made.

however, consider
October 18, 2024 at 12:31 AM