WokePalpatine [he/him]

@ WokePalpatine @hexbear.net

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2 mo. ago

Exogollion juche is the ultimate synthesis of Star Wars and Marxism.

What about dark woke?

2d ago

Bulletins and International News Discussion from November 17th to November 23rd - 50 Years of Resistance - COTW: Western Sahara

Might as well be. It's wrestler Waldo von Erich.

2d ago

Bulletins and International News Discussion from November 17th to November 23rd - 50 Years of Resistance - COTW: Western Sahara

2d ago

Occupation of Alcatraz - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-23th of November 2025

Damn. Episode 5 is basically just a cop melting his brains on QAnon.

2d ago

Occupation of Alcatraz - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-23th of November 2025

https://anidb.net/creator/1136

2d ago

Occupation of Alcatraz - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-23th of November 2025

3d ago

Occupation of Alcatraz - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-23th of November 2025

And playin' shmups this morning. Playing Blast Wing and Sonic Wings Special on Saturn. And Sonic Wings/Aero Fighters 2/3 on NGCD. I'm getting better at shmups at least. Learning to do pattern recognition, better overall positioning, reading the playspace, etc. Still not great though. I'm not good enough to actually beat AF2 without using a 2nd player to spam infinite continues in the harder stages in loop 2. Although I finally beat the last stage in loop 1 without doing that on easy which was an accomplishment for me.

I think I hate arcade-centric shmups. I just don't like how they're made in regards to difficulty and how aggressive they are with bullet patterns and stuff. AF2 has this really herky-jerky difficulty curve where it's clear that in arcade they're trying to stop a player from getting 30+ minutes of playtime. AF3 actually has a pretty smooth one for some reason, maybe they realized their mistake with 2. And Sonic Wings Special (which is basically AF4) is kind of inbetween where they drop the second loop/NG+ system and instead have more unlockables and encourage you to keep replaying the game with all/most of the characters/ships.

3d ago

Occupation of Alcatraz - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-23th of November 2025

Finished re-watching Welcome To The NHK last night. It was really good. Pretty sad that Japan and the world are basically the same now. I think it does a good job showing people pulling each other down and/or trying to exploit each other to cope with modern life, either as a social issue or a more specifically economic one. Over and over it shows the main character relapse and even as he expands his horizons via otaku hobbies (or his IRL 'friends') each one has this dark underside that needs to be resisted or avoided or hoped against. You can see the seeds of misogyny and fascist-conspiratorial thinking in his friend Yamazaki, but also himself and his female sempai from high school (which I thought was really interesting to do since it's easy to present it as a male-only thing when it's not). She clearly has some kind of schizophrenia and depression that rubs off on him because he's probably just depressed or something. I read that the original book has him taking legal drugs and that's the cause of the visions and thoughts but since the anime cut that it makes it seem like he has some form of intrusive thoughts or schizophrenia as well, which ends up being a little clunky message-wise. Only thing I really didn't like is the first ED song and the way it ends in . . .

spoiler

. . . a very, very convenient, happy way for everyone. I definitely think they should have had at least one person still sad and or relapsing into their past ways at the end to not make it seem so fairytale-like.

Misaki in it plays the part of the external anime girl saviour/manic pixie dream girl type so it's obviously being unrealistic from the get-go and its double-mindedness on whether it wants to praise or condemn otaku/hikkikomori culture make it hard for me to discern if it's being used as a warning to otakus or praising them in a "just get a job and things will work out; your way of life is can coexist with being married and working" sort of way, which I don't find nearly as interesting.

I like the double aspect to each character, they have a side that's able to coexist with social living but a dysfunctional side that doesn't that they usually hide and seemingly other people choose to overlook or ignore as well. So many times it's obvious that there's a problem with them but people choose to believe the obvious lies they're saying because they don't want or can't do anything about it.

3d ago

"actually we're doing animals a favor by breeding them for mass exploitation ☝️🤓"

This guy does not think there's a difference between domestic and wild sheep. Same reason a lot of people think cows just make milk all the time. Their human-made purpose is considered the default for various reasons.

3d ago

"actually we're doing animals a favor by breeding them for mass exploitation ☝️🤓"

Yeah. You gotta' wonder what they think wild sheep do exactly.

3d ago

Occupation of Alcatraz - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-23th of November 2025

It's crazy how homogenized and wasteful the video game industry is with stuff. Especially peripherals. People spend so much money on steering wheels, fishing rods, analog dial controllers, barcode scanners, fight sticks/pads, light guns, etc. And then like 4 games, maybe, use them. Coolest thing I heard of was Starsky & Hutch on PS2 (and maybe other versions) supports steering wheel & the light gun so two people can play it like they're in a car together, one driving and one shooting. Or you could do both which seems like it'd be fun.

The Oniimusha games had a motion sensor katana controller. FF10-2 had some gimmick gun controllers based on Yuna's pistols. They spend so much money on this stuff and no one utilizes it.

3d ago

Occupation of Alcatraz - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-23th of November 2025

I tried playing Donkey Konga with a dancepad and had to fold the pad over itself and stuff to make it almost work, but it's just not good slapping a floor pad over a conga.

3d ago

Occupation of Alcatraz - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-23th of November 2025

I hope someone shows BMF Boogiepop Phantom. They'd lose their shit.

3d ago

New game from the Vampire Survivor devs

None of you will try to "correct me" when there's slot machine jackpot graphics cascading in the trailer video showcasing more randomized (read: gambling) mechanics.

3d ago

New game from the Vampire Survivor devs

Another skinned skinner box, huh.

3d ago

Bulletins and International News Discussion from November 17th to November 23rd - 50 Years of Resistance - COTW: Western Sahara

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-oyster-retraining-employee-subsidies-offered-9.6985187

Might be climate change-induced disease. Canada, in a different ocean, is having disease-based harvest collapse of oysters right now.

Edit, more info:

Oyster farmers are worried the parasite multinucleate sphere unknown — also known as MSX — will destroy the industry, which has sustained their families for generations, Bob MacLeod, president of the P.E.I. Shellfish Association, told a legislature committee on Thursday.
“We have participated in more than 100 meetings since July, addressing the hurdles, concerns, frustrations resulting from the MSX invasion,” he said. “We have appealed for assistance time and time again, explaining that the longer we wait for action, the sooner we may lose our industry.”
MSX targets both wild and cultured oysters, and typically kills about 95 per cent of affected mollusks within two to three years of the initial infection. It was found in oysters in P.E.I.’s Bedeque Bay and several other areas in July, leading the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to institute quarantines. It has been in Nova Scotia waters since 2002 and has also been detected in southern British Columbia.

Oyster harvesters on Prince Edward Island have been spending the last year worried about the detection of a disease called MSX, which doesn’t hurt humans but can kill off oyster production in a big way. Now another disease has been confirmed in P.E.I. waters: Samples from Egmont Bay have tested positive for a disease called dermo.

3d ago

Look at this. Just wanted to watch a magical girl anime.

I was looking at Minky Momo and then saw it had crossover episodes and then I see this relationship graph with all these other '80s magical girl shows.

4d ago

Trump just signed the Epstein files bill