lol at the Takaichi shiba inu 
Not quite sure how to feel about the depiction of Israel as a squid that puppets the Trump eagle
The radio stations and other content from the DLCs are making constant references to the 2008 recession and financial crisis as a thing that's happening and there's even a news report about how lazy 20-something millennials are complaining that 8-hour workdays don't leave them enough time to play with apps on their iFruit phones 
Luis from the Ballad of Gay Tony has a touch screen phone while Niko starts out with a something that looks like an old Nokia and every NPC on the street has cellphones with bleeping ringtones
For reference, GTA IV came out in April 2008 while the first story DLC came out in February 2009
It's the classic Square problem where they're just way too up their own ass and keep making things way too convoluted and overcomplicated
Randomly remembered having a magazine with this promotional render on the cover. The 90s, man
Also
Johnny is an extremely dirty and unhygienic character. He only ever wears his The Lost MC jacket and during his idle animations, he'll often sniff his underarms with a disgusted reaction from doing so.
Johnny's primary mode of transportation was a customized LCC Hexer with a white and blue paintjob, a reference to his Jewish heritage (white and blue are the colours of the flag of Israel).
Our hero, ladies and gentlemen. I miss Niko already 
I finally made it to The Lost and the Damned, aka the GTA IV biker DLC that was probably made after the Housers bought a DVD box set of Sons of Anarchy. It's kinda funny in retrospect how much it resembles RDR2 in that you're part of a gang where you play the increasingly weary second fiddle to an increasingly unhinged leader that keeps making things worse for everyone by doing violent crazy shit. Many of the conversations the gang members have are extremely similar to ones you'd hear in RDR2, except with dirty smelly bikers instead of cool cowboys and a lot more casual homophobia
Ubisoft turned Raiden from bishounen to unc
They even nerfed his ass 
I mostly liked the first season but judging from the footage so far Season 2 might have a lot less cut corners (Buggy's crew cut almost entirely, the Kuro arc being a mystery/pseudo horror episode inside a mansion, etc)
Looking forward to 
ing this in a month's time
Also holy shit all the racist morons everywhere complaining about Vivi being "blackified" when her actress is British Indian
This is a follow-up to my previous post about Jeffrey Epstein shirts on AliExpress. People told me the t-shirt was a likely rip-off of Jeffrey Epstein replica quarterzips Nick Fuentes has been selling and I think this makes it obvious that's what's happening here. At least Nick Fuentes is being undercut by some randos in China
Unlike the t-shirt though this listing makes no reference to Jeffrey Epstein and I'm pretty sure a ton of old guys around the world are gonna end up walking around in Epstein cosplay 
Cant keep track of all these fucking countries with near identical flags
Can someone ask NATO
I honestly can't believe Ubisoft would've made a game like this even without Trump in office without somehow both-sidesing it by making half the KKK black or something
noooo stop, governments can't just do stuff that's beneficial to the environment 
It's not a novel observation or anything but man these people do really live in opposite land
In Terminator, Skynet sends an Austrian robot back through time to shoot you in the face
Roko's Basilisk creates a virtual version of you at some point in the future after your death that it then tortures for eternity... and you're supposed to piss your pants over the fate of this Metaverse NPC for some reason
From the Ryujinx subreddit:
Slurpy2k17:
And that piece of trash GDKChan just instantly took the deal and shut everything down? Zero announcement, zero warning, zero consultation with the team, zero consideration for everyone who used the product. What a fucking sellout.
isaa6:
Hi. I'm a former Ryujinx dev. They showed up at his house. I guarantee it was not a fun deal for gdk.
Holy shit, Nintendo is sending goons to people's houses. Reminder- this dude is Brazilian which is why people were fairly confident Nintendo wouldn't be able to pull off what they did with the US-based Yuzu, so instead they sent legal muscle to Brazil to personally intimidate him
I can hear Brace Belden's voice saying this
I'm half-convinced these guys have managed to work each other up into a state where you could show them a picture of Soul Calibur 4 Ivy and they would say she wasn't booby enough
I just find it incredibly depressing there's a generation growing up whose vocabulary is being directly influenced by Google's bots
It's just so fucking grim. In 10 years everyone is going to talk like they're trying to trick ChatGPT into saying something naughty
The lack of research & lib blinders are very funny, the writer even went to listen to the relevant podcast episode but still couldn't figure out it's not a right-wing pod
There's also the extremely fucked up racist dimension to this where people tend to assume cis black women are trans 
There was a period of time before the second part of the remake came out when younger people were playing the original after playing the first remake and were posting their playthroughs on Youtube. It was really fun watching their reactions to everything past Midgar