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"We do not go below the hard deck of 5,000 feet." Wimps.

screenshot of the smoking wreck of a fighter jet in the side of a house in a snowy suburban landscape with MISSION FAILED in the center of the screen

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Oh, he wants that Summer's Eve Sweet Romance...

Miles Teller with a gay little mustache in a flight suit talking to Tom Cruise who is much shorter in front of some F-18s and saying "You gonna wash me out?"

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If Joseph Kosinski wasn't a fucking coward, Tom Cruise and Miles Teller would be rawing by the end of this movie.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 4h

I'm sorry but this extremely homo opening of Top Gun Maverick is fucking demolishing me.

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No idea, I haven't finished this long ass game yet. But once I finish this campaign, I can't imagine going back to it, so it wouldn't really matter.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 6h

Why would you put all the effort into letting me pick planes for my wingmen but not let me change their livery or loadouts? Why would you do that? What sense does that make? You've just added more consternation and button presses between me and flying the mission.

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 19h

We all love verbs, but often far too unquestioningly. Today @decafjedi.com, @graysond.bsky.social and I reveal our definitive list of top 30 game verbs RANKED on Quest Quest: the adventure game podcast. Listen here or where ever: zencastr.com/z/qDVfMT5A

Maniac Mansion. Dave stands in front of a mansion.

A list of text at the bottom:
Walk to door mat
Push
Pul1
Give

Open
Close
Read

Walk to
Pick
What

UP
is

Unlock
New kid
Use

Turn on
Turn off
Fix

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I just look at digipaint anime and realize how old I am.

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I mean, there's more factionalism among who is a true Gundam fan than there are Gundam series. But generally yes, the giant blob that is Gundam Fans, will come for you if you talk shit about Seed.

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You know, I don't think Ace Combat 8 needs to be 150gb. I don't think it's 100gb better than Ace 7.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 10h

Gundam fans think SEED is good.

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I think the most difficult ones are maybe where it's making an oblique assumption based. Like the cat-mustache in GK3. The hard part is figuring out it's playing off "how do we deface a photo of someone" (draw silly mustache) and "what are the semiotics of disguise" (silly facial hair & hat)

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 10h

So many gamers just don't want to break down "what is this puzzle asking me, what does it presume I know, and what are the options available to me." But if you do that this totally falls into place!

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 10h

Honestly so few of these are truly *non*sensical too? It's just the answers to the problem being presented have to be dealt with in terms the game offers up and usually require a shared understanding of the situation "i.e. subway track/electrified/shock -- insulation/rubber/pool toy"

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Oh no, we can't have more baseball hat discourse.

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I keep getting ads for these on Instagram but they're much wetter and only a little smaller.

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That man has no nose, ears, neck, or head. It's barely a person. It's like that Nicholas Cage torso that grew fur from being in the back of the fridge.

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Native American, I get to make fun of your team all I want. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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I just feel sad for them, that they'll never know real love.

Soft and breedable, the Phillie Phantatic walks the field

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 14h

Learning that the Atlanta Braves decided to have a rip off beige Phantatic who gets racist with it every now and then?

Blooper the weird beige Phillie Phantatic in a sombrero and poncho with one maraca

Blooper in his racist Braves shirt leaning on a big Atlanta Braves tomahawk

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running up that hill (it is January and i am sledding)

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 14h

Why does the Twitch man look like a failed Richard Branson/Jake Busey hybridization attempt? Has he thought about not looking that way?

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 16h

XO: Air units will defen--

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 17h

Logging into Ace Combat Online and immediately want to die.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 18h

I have a newish publication at @analoggamestudies.bsky.social ! I co-wrote a piece on what "gameplay" is in TCGs and whether or not deckbuilding is gameplay (I think so! Most people do! But the scholarship and a lot of general writing splits it off!) escholarship.org/uc/item/2gt8...

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Hu Lao? Great. @cheflubu.bsky.social · 19h

I still get mad when adult anime fans tell me they haven't watched Robot Carnival

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 21h

Give it ten seconds and then one of your wingmen will be like "Wait... What's... That...?" and another one will be like "...AN ORBITAL LASER??!"

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 23h

Air to Ground Message: THE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS WOULD LIKE ME TO PASS ALONG THAT THE GALLEY CART IS COVERED WITH ANTS. Area: Washington DC, USA Type: Airbus A220-300 A: #a64a1cc29e5 F: #f08f1cc5b3f

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Ace 8 NPC: We're running out of fighter missiles. Well, maybeif you guys didn't give me 100 each mission... 🤷🏽‍♀️

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I replayed it a couple months ago, it's like maybe 6 minutes tops before you're in the first mission.

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Every time they say "the wings of theve" I want to close a cockpit on my head.

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No, they apparently don't, this is call of duty bullshit.

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We don't talk about Assault Horizon. We NEVER talk about Assault Horizon.

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See, if I was writing the intro tutorial for this, I would have a wingman say that and then get shot out of the sky.

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I'm sure it's going to be great once the game lets me into the air, but dude... If Paste Games, where we gave proper numerical scores to shit, still existed I would knock this down to 6 just on principle.

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Get this cartoon Call of Duty shit out of my Ace Combat, what the fuck are you even doing????

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