Just finished Infernax

Amazing dark, medieval-fantasy, retro, action-platformer with some Metroidvania elements, very reminiscent of OG Castlevania, and some player choice elements that allow for multiple endings, of which there are 5: 2 basic good/evil, 2 completionist good/bad, and a “redemption” route. Even has old school secrets like special characters if you input the right name and cheat codes you can find. Putting in the Konami code at the title screen even has something special.

Default experience is a classic mode that is very unforgiving, must save at in-game stations (one at each town and every dungeon entrance) lose everything if you run out of lives and try again from the top or try to [exit the dungeon/make it back to town] to save your progress, no fast travel until you find the spell for it, all that jazz. Plus a casual mode that gives some leeway like pitfalls not being instant kills and a checkpoint in the dungeons you can save at.

Gameplay is just good old school gaming. You hit, you jump, you duck and hit low, you can find some utility spells, you talk to NPCs that have cryptic sometimes-useful-sometimes-not dialogue to figure out what to do next, all the bells and whistles.

Warning: it is very gore heavy and even though the artwork is more retro styled, it is still things like guts spilling out, faces getting crushed, limbs being ripped off, etc… So not for the squeamish.

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Momma and her baby snakes

Had a friend in highschool who did this. Kept up the act the entire time until he graduated. I was two years behind and didn’t see him again.

Well, almost 7 years later I’m on hard times and delivering pizza just for some income and, low-n-behold, I see him is name on a delivery. So, I request that I be the one to bring it.

Show up and this chick answers the door. I tell her I’m dude’s old friend from HS, so she goes and gets him. We catch up and I make a joke that he finally got a real GF and doesn’t need the story about his GF in Canada.

She was the gf from Canada.

Which is why the retailer, Steam, already restricts certain regions from buying titles if they are deemed illegal in that region.

Again, it is not the authority of the payment processors to dictate what people can and cannot purchase. Period. No excuses or justifications will be accepted.

None of that is relevant to the other comment’s point that these companies should not have that level of authority to dictate what we can or cannot purchase. If it is legal to purchase, then payment processors should not be allowed to deny the purchase. Period.

Look at the post date. It’s Oct of 2012.

I never said science can’t be bad, Again, your myopic take is so fucking simplistic and surface level. You even admit to intentionally ignoring systemic reality as if it is inconsequential, which is fucking stupidity at its finest. Like, congratulations for stating the obvious: you need people to perform labor for something to happen. No fucking shit, Sherlock. Now that we have the obvious out of the way, maybe ask yourself why they are performing that labor and what are the system forces that drive thar labor to he performed in the first place?

It isn’t about could the park be built, but would it have been built. The answer to that is no, it wouldn’t have been built in the first place if not for the driving forces of capitalism (represented by Hammond, the capitalist owner who had controlling authority over the park’s production) dictating the actions of those who actually labored in the production of the park. The park also couldn’t have been built without the engineers who constructed the subpar infrastructure or an IT tech to create and install the park’s faulty security system.

Those engineers built the park the way they did because Hammond didn’t want to pay extra for fail-safes as noted in the book (i.e. the capitalist owner was driven by the profit incentive to neglect material conditions of the park) And the IT systems failed because Hammond decided to neglect staff pay, specifically Nedry, in favor of chasing the capitalist profit incentive. This same logic applies to the scientists who only conducted the research they were conducting because they were hired by Hammond to specifically do so.

Again, please fucking learn to look beyond the surface and critically examine things. I know it’s difficult but you can do it if you actually try.

And yes, bad science is being spouted from the white house. Did you never stop to think why RFK Jr was put in that position of authority to spout his bullshit from? Did it never occur that some people would be set to benefit from the spreading of misinformation? It’s explicitly so they can manipulate people into being okay with dismantling government functions so the oligarchy can pocket the savings from not having to spend government money on welfare.

It truly is sad, but people’s minds won’t be swayed without totally restructuring our economic and political systems which dictate their material interests, and that won’t happen without a total revolutionary war against the system. I don’t like it anymore than the next person but that’s just the logical conclusion to the reality we exist in.

Humans, as a species, are generally very stupid, selfish, and simplistic with short attention spans. We all simply want the easiest and most effective way to meet our material needs, regardless if a less convenient method would have better results, unless we actively train ourselves, through years of education, to be in the habit of going against our instincts and thinking critically about the world around us.

Unfortunately, due to our current systems, many people have tied their ability to meet those needs with the economic interests of the owning class, which intrinsically is oppositional to the needs of the working class. Most don’t understand that the small gains from doing so are simply going to be funneled towards the owning class anyway. Yet, it allows them to be better off than others and that is enough to scare them into contentment with their lot in life.

Additionally, the system is designed to be so convoluted that those who are uneducated in how it fundamentally works can readily be convinced of certain falsehoods, such as increasing wages results in increased price of goods or that immigrants are “stealing jobs”, because they simply have no understanding of how those claims are blatant falsehoods.

And they don’t question it, because it plays on the inherent flaws of human psychology by appealing to basal fears of the unfamiliar and playing on how our minds are predisposed to certain logical fallacies.

Crackhead nonsense.

It is 100% capitalism’s fault. Those scientists are doing a job because we live in a society that necessitates having one to meet our basic needs.

We don’t know their individual lives or circumstances that could be forcing them to take on that position, but we do know that those circumstances only exist due to the overarching system, i.e. the capitalist economy, they live under.

Your take is grade-school level simplistic that just assumes they simply have to be bad people instead of understanding the complexities of systemic forces that dictate our society.

Please, for the love of God, learn to look beyond the surface of something and learn why things are the way they are instead of just assuming nonsense.

Of course they are. They are both prime examples of settler colonialism in action.

People forget that Israel started as a British colony

I am honestly shocked to see a reference in the wild to Ken Ashcorp.

None of it was because the scientists thought that dinosaurs were amphibians. In the lore of the books, DNA from reptiles, avians, and amphibians were used to fill in gaps in the dino DNA.

The book explains that the DNA used to fill those gap was chosen specifically for certain traits that would make for more attractive or durable creatures for the theme park, highlighting how what was being done “in the name of science” actually had nothing to do with any real scientific progress or discovery.

Sam Neill, the actor who did the scene, has been asked about the scene before and confirmed it is 100% unintentionally foreshadowing.

It was just supposed to confirm that Grant is in fact a Luddite who struggles with tech of all sorts.

It is bad science because there’s no reason to be doing the science at all

This just rounds itself back to capitalism being the problem because the science was being done for a reason: to generate profit for Hammond.

Bad science is usually always conducted to suit the ends of someone trying to use the results for manipulative/exploitative purposes.

Majority of people rarely engage with any media beyond the surface to actually analyze it and come to those conclusions about the deeper themes. Most just think “well, that’s just people being people” and fail to see the social commentary.

In the books, and movie iirc, they used DNA from all three, not just frogs, to replace missing segments of the dino DNA.

It was just that Dr.Grant guessed at it being amphibian DNA that had the unintentional side effect of allowing some of the dinos to change sex (which is a thing called sequential hermaphroditism) when he finds the velociraptor eggs.

No, it happened due to decades of pre-configurative actions being conducted at local levels, all across the existing kingdoms of that time, teaching people that alternatives were possible and building their own power structures under the nose of the existing system.

The only reason people brought out the guillotine was because they had already experienced that shift in mentality due to the tireless work of those who decided to do something different.