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I'm a history nerd and a Swede, I pretty much had to link this:

Nice Back to the Future reference!

Yeah, the makers have said that the character of Biff Tannen was based on Trump, which is pretty appropriate for a guy who bullies a 16-year-old girl on Twitter because she beat him at a contest nobody really cares about.

Indeed. You wouldn't have to have seen the President Supervillain twitter, where they take real Trump quotes and paste them into speech bubbles of the Marvel villain Red Skull?

Nice Back to the Future reference!

Anyway, found a random picture of the Sydney Opera house... 

[McMansionhell]

I just find McMansionhell so hilariously funny, and it's full of pictures with witty comments like this:

I just want to tip you all about Rayman Legends being free on Epic games store right now, it's literally one of the best platformer games I've ever played!
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/rayman-legends/home

Happy Birthday Blondbraid!

Thank you so much!

*** Happy Birthday Blondbraid ***

Have a great day and lay off the sherry

Thanks!

...wait, I haven't even drunk sherry! 

So I saw this pic of The Rock:

Aaand I couldn't resist photoshopping it! 

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I just use my adblocker to block those elements, so I can click past them.
It surprisingly works about 75% of the time.

For me, those numbers are the opposite, and that's not even counting all the sites that don't let you use adblockers.

Isn't that the music from the Home Alone movies?

What with it being the time of Halloween and all, I thought I'd share a great spooky classic:

I just find this piece so inspiring, and ever since I first heard it I've thought of
one day creating a game with a gameplay segment synchronized to this music.

I don't know exactly what it'd be, but the Danse Macabre just has such a fantastic flow to it.

Well put, everyone.
I suppose what really grinds my gears regarding AAA games is that most of them have budgets larger than the GDP of minor nations to the point profit is the only thing that matter and we ger focus-tested-to-hell bland sandboxes with a ton of micro-transactions as a result.

And looking for alternatives, small indie games can be both fun and charming, but being made by just one or a handful of amateurs still do limit the scope of what can be done with games and not all genres work well with this formula. What I'm really missing is AA games made by minor studios that have some resources and professional experience, but can still take enough risk not to be a lesser clone of the Ubisof desert, but such games are harder to find than a Jeff Goldblum movie where he doesn't go "Uhhm" in every scene he's in.

I'll always be a PC gamer at heart. But because of DRM alone, I'll always play so called "AAA" games on a console. And if you need me to prove it, just look up Assassin's Creed Origins. (Not that I'd play such a terrible game anyway.)

Assassin's Creed Origins is the only Assassin's Creed game that I've started but never finished, and I didn't even bother with Odyssey due to the obnoxious trend of all AAA games turning into the same RPG/Sandbox blaha where you have to spend ages travelling giant maps with nothing worthwhile in them and all the fun abilities are arbitrarily locked behind a skill tree forcing you to do a bunch of pointless busywork and repetitive sidequests instead of just being able to do all the cool stuff you came for from the start.

Seriously, why cant modern AAA devs just make a well-paced game that prioritizes fun and unique gameplay instead of this ubiquitous mess of aimless open-world grinding?
It's gotten so bad some games are even offering boost packages as dlc just so players can skip the grind, which defeats the entire purpose of games for entertainment.

Something about a meat hat is just funny to me. Especially when a fruit hat is considered normal. 

..."normal" where? I've never seen anybody that wasn't Carmen Miranda wearing a fruit hat in my life.

(Not counting carnival costumes, of course.)

While I haven't seen many in reality, I've seen lots of comedies and cartoons featuring old women wearing them.

Good one! Anyways, I've drawn two new comics myself:

I got the idea for the follow-up thanks to an "I'll eat my own hat" joke on the first:

It grinds my gears, these armchair activists that are ready to get extra passionate about whatever the media put in their heads this week. This vaping frenzy is the perfect example.

The media deluges them with the 7, 8, 9 deaths that have now been associated with vaping. Not even with vaping itself, but with tainted cartridges. "But did you hear? 10 people who use vapes have now died! When will someone stop this madness?!"

Never mind cigarettes probably kill more people than that in a day. No thought is given to where those nicotine addicts will go for their fix once vapes are banned. These people are just ever ready to repeat exactly what they have been told, and nothing more. ("ANTIFREEZUH")

"SHOCK vaping DEATHS you won't BELIEVE" I'd rather smell unicorn fart smelling vapes than cigarette smoke any day of the week. What grinds my gears is these clickbait headlines that seem to be written by a bot. I get recommended articles come up on my phone, there's one website that has "SHOCK" in capitals every single article. Then if you do actually click it it's nowhere near as "SHOCKING", in fact it's an article about "NOTHING".

Exactly. It reminds me of just how many clickbaity headlines that gets pumped out about "millenials be crazy" and anything gets painted as a worldwide youth frenzy even when the only people recorded doing it were a handful of people as a joke or bet, or in case of all alarmist stories of teens eating tide pods, not even that. Like, I've yet to see one single verified news story of a real teenager eating one, yet there were tons of clickbait articles on it for a while.

I went to see the Downton Abbey movie a few days ago, and this comic felt topical: