#out of touch zillenial that I am

[coldgoldlazarus]

I think part of the reason I'm so affectionate toward Hunters is just how off-the-wall it feels. "Let's just throw up all the crazy, cool ideas we have and see what sticks" kind of energy. Metroid has always had its own particular vibe, sitting in this weird tension between Retrofuture Biological/Eldritch Space Horror and Hype Super Robot Anime. Hunters is still kinda doing some of that, but also kinda not.

Most typical multiplayer first-person shooters at the time, meanwhile, were in their Brown Is Real phase, along with an overabundance of Iraq War Jingoism. Even Halo, much as I do appreciate it for being... less that than the rest, still had undercurrents if you look at the subtext any amount. So Hunters, being a more multiplayer-focused shooter, could easily have gone that direction too if so inclined. But nope, not that either.

I don't know how to really describe it, honestly. The designs, if anything, remind me of like, Ben 10 aliens or Buzz Lightyear or Toonami Tom almost. There is just this very distinctly Early Aughts Saturday Morning Action Cartoon vibe to these characters and their backgrounds that you didn't see anywhere else in games, and just don't see anywhere period now. It's definitely still Metroid, especially with the main stuff with the Alimbics and Gorea, but it's also doing its own thing. And for how different it was from other shooters, Hunters also feels like it couldn't have been made any other time than exactly when it was.

The Prime Trilogy is already responsible for broadening the scope and adding a ton of worldbuilding. And then Hunters, this obscure spinoff on hardware much too limited for its ambition, tosses out all these crazy things in the span of some character bios that could fit on the back of an action figure blister pack, and refuses to elaborate further. And I think that's part of the vibe right there - action figures. They feel like action figures for some weird Jetix cartoon, and I adore that so so much.

[lightcaughtinaprism]

I'm a zillenial who always pressures himself into the alpha stereotype because I'm scared other men will not accept me or respect me as a man. I'm sadly not hypermuscular as gigachad or a marvel actor no matter how hard I work out and an absolut midget with 1,72m and nobody would want me. i was always bullied and abused and I don't have any good experiences when it comes to dating. I'm just desperate, lonely and depressed. I am aslo scared to vote for anything else than AfD or CDU because they'll win anyways and everyone in the place I live in is extremeist catholic and conservative. Also I cannot vote because I'm not legally German apparently even though I'm born here as I've been waiting for 5 years for my legal name and gender change (I'm ftm) and also surgery for 8 years which is tied to confirming ym identy as the people at the Amt told me that i'd have to be infertile and fully undergone surgery and need three appraisals from individual psychologists. It has failed twice so far because of waiting for surgery so long ebcause AOK is ass transphobic and wants a thousand documents to pay for a surgery and also the appraisers sent from cort wanted to see me naked and touch me to make sure I'm bioligically mtf and not intersex or a delusianal girl chasing after a trend. I denied that and got denied my legal name and gender change twice because of that. I'm already on hormones for 9 years but I have to get through so many obstacles in Germany to even exist legally.

things we need to address:

gen z men getting pulled into alt-right pipelines through andrew tate, joe rogan, elon musk, jordan peterson etc

the gullibility and stupidity of half the country voting against our collective best interests

the broad effect social media has on public and common good

lazy minds and lack of empathy

outside-country interference (trump and elon’s connections to russia and the amount of bots from other countries spreading misinformation)

the long-term effects of AI and rampant disinformation

[harrystylescherry]

FR THO i wouldn’t even blame you for saying that in fact i would fight WITH you against anyone who says otherwise! i know a lot of people have curly hair but harry is partly known for his hair so if anything if he straightens it out he just looks like your everyday typical dude to me and i think i’m realizing that’s probably a reason i didn’t really like snl apart from the memes and the monologue 😬

the fact is, regardless of how known he is for his hair, he just would NOT look good as a blonde lol. he is not the person who can pull off absolutely anything hair wise and thats FINE--honestly it's probably better since the man needs to be humbled SOMEHOW.

going to be honest i am not big into snl in general like i do not think it's made for my sense of humor and that's fine!!! i do think they did a good job of touching on my (gen z or like the zillenial) sense of humor or comedy with the sara lee sketch, but the dog collar thing was just so cringe to me--and that's not harry, it's snl lol. i much prefer the little skits he does with james corden bc i think those are so fucking great. but his monologue on snl was great!

i think i just don't like snl lol