Longes @longes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And Joe Brand also couldn't be bothered, but she still felt like she buys into the premise of the show. While Richard just feels like he doesn't want to be there. 010
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm surprised to say this, but Richard Ayoade is by far my least favorite Taskmaster contestant. It always feels like he can't be bothered and thus sandbags or sabotages the tasks. 200
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Off-screen animals kill the donkey's owner, rats seize power, declare a military dictatorship, and work the donkeys harder. 000
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's an Animal Farm joke. The donkey who delivers bodies to you complains about harsh work conditions imposed by his owner, and blackmails you into providing supplies to the alliance of donkeys and rats plotting a revolution. 100
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Her popularity 'cratered' from 63% in November last year to 56% in September this year, and her cabinet has higher performance approval that every Abe cabinet in the last decade. 001
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Did you buy the teleportation stone from the tavern guy for 1 silver, that you can use at no cost forever with a very short cooldown to teleport to most places? 100
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Zero Company tripples down on the clone chips, which was one of the worst things to happen to the clone narratives IMO. 100
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Thing is, it's not like there's a massive pro-slavery contingent of players. Consistently by all polls most people play Chaotic Good, and few ever play any flavor of Evil. But when the devs pick a fight with this windmill, everyone can tell it's done for the culture war and nothing else. 140
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026That just makes things more confusing because his example of non-slavery oppression in Dark Sun is slavery. But you are owned by the government. 150
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"I am Sorcerer-King Progressive Force. From the History." I'm just confused about who this is for. Dark Sun was never a popular setting to begin with, and now you are alienating grognard fans with sensitivity purges for... what? To make it palatable to the Actual Play crowd? 141
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026"The Last Ringbearer" is a Russian novel with the premise of taking LOTR as a fictionalized propagandistic account of the War of the Ring. In this narrative, Sauron was a human king, "the One Ring" is fiction, and orcs and trolls were just steppe people demonized by Gondor in their accounts. 000
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It's not, though. It's a conspiracy of witches and monopolists that required the assassination of dissenting religious leaders after they voted the wrong way. It's outright spelled out in the books that it was done to keep the uppity middle class from overpowering the planet-owning nobility. 010
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The lascivious Jezebel in question that the modder wants censored: 022
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I'm always confused when people use the Butlerian Jihad positively, because in the book it's a conspiracy of monopolists and witches to protect the aristocracy from a rising middle class, the rich have high tech anyway, and the series ends with it being dismantled and technology restored. 010
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026There are strong signs that Owlcat might be making Baldur's Gate 4. 000
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Ah, the sifu has finally written down his cultivation technique! 020
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026A regular modern-day person could take all CP cybernetics at once and not go cyberpsycho or even notice any mental health difference. CP people are all permanently on the threshold of shooting up the Walmart *before* they get Walmart-Wiper-3000 implanted and always available. 110
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Thing is - in Cyberpunk 2020 you explicitly have Humanity and Empathy scores only because the regular people are so exploited and shell-shocked that any genuine interaction is a challenge. Patrick Bateman would be a high Humanity person because he felt any emotions at all. 110
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026That's because TLoU began as a game called "Mankind", where the zombie virus only affected women, and Ellie was the last non-zombie woman. 110
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026There's a very incel-rhetoric undertone to all of this between "anyone who goes to dating events is undatable, just get dates normally by ???" and "of course no women went there, there was a Chinese strip club next door full of tall muscly male models". 010
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The reactions to AX speed dating disaster fall into two camps: 1. "Lmao, anyone who goes to speed dating is a creepy incel; why don't you go pick up women on the streets like a normal manly man" 2. "Of course no women went there, there were male strippers next door" Both are dire. 000
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I was part of the Taiwu translation mod as an editor nearly a decade ago, when it just came to early access. Sure hope their official translation is good now... 110
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Time for everyone to pretend that they were always big fans of the We Happy Few studio, studio best known for making the infamous hype flop, We Happy Few. 000
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026In retrospect, Ncuti Gatwa's doctor who ended up a perfect representation of a twitter bully. Faking being affable, hiding behind big displays of emotions, while also immediately baring fangs and sadistically torturing people when he can get away with it. 010
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026New Fable is getting the weirdest hate from the bluechecks. 000
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Dean Takahashi hated Mass Effect because he never realized you can level up in it. So it's not like the Cuphead incompetence came out of nowhere - the dude was already infamous. web.archive.org/web/20080103...web.archive.org Mass Defect: Why Mass Effect falls short of its hype - A+E Interactive: Your Bay Area hangout for gaming, music, movies, culture - The movies, gaming, music, theater and arts and entertainment blog from the San Jose Mercury News 030
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026They weren't just contemporaries - Howard and Lovecraft were close friends. 010
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The conservative parts of Lovecraft amount to "living during literally the Jim Crow era" 000
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Lovecraft was hardly a conservative. He was heavily pro-science, anti-capitalist (he believed in a state-run planned economy), and anti-religious. He also wasn't "terrified of the Dutch". He wrote an essay "Some Dutch Footprints in New England" documenting the history of Dutch colonialism 220
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I love my uncomplicated great men! Like, uh... Napoleon... and Ceasar...static.klipy.comChef Skinner's Intense Reading ReactionALT: Chef Skinner's Intense Reading Reaction 030
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026In my region they were called Компьютерный Зал (computer hall) 190
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I have fond memories of playing Counter Strike and DotA (Warcraft 3 one) in computer halls in Russia 080
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Checked if Nighthawks is out yet. It's not. It's been 8 years. Even text-based indie RPGs are Duke Nukem Forever now. 000
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026This becomes math I don't have the immediate skills for. What if all voters are random voters? What if half of the voters are random voters? I'm sure someone who remembers game theory can math it out. And you don't actually know in advance how many voters are random voters. 000
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026This is only "tricky" if you assume some number of people are random voters, because they are babies or stupid or something. They randomly voted blue and now need other people to vote blue to save them. 100
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026No part of this is deceptive. You as an individual pick red or blue. If you pick red, you always survive. If you pick blue, you sometimes die. There is flat-out no upside to picking blue on an individual level. 200
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026The only thing threatening the blue pushers is their own choice. They are only ever in danger as a consequence of their choice to press blue. The only thing blue pushers are trying to save people from is the choice of pushing blue. 100
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026I feel like people are being unfair to J's VA in the Expanse beta. I don't think he fits the model (J should look younger for this voice), but the voice acting itself is totally fine. 000
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026The rationale for picking blue seems to boil down to "some people must be saved from themselves", which is not a super positive view of mankind. 100
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026If there are two choices in an election, choice R says "We will do nothing", and choice B says "Every B voter will kill themselves unless B gets the majority". Who do you vote for? As it is an election your vote, for now, is secret. 000
Longes @longes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026I am confused why people frame "hold myself hostage in a suicide pact" as prosocial. You were not being prosocial when you entered a suicide pact and demanded everyone else save you from the suicide pact that you willingly entered. 000
