#you are bad at the game

[itsbasil]

this literally never stops being funny like dog they made starship troopers with the Baby's First Satire cranked up to 11 and these people are still fucking dumbfounded that the creators don't share their politics

[koobiie]

based on that one q&a... i'm a sucker for a pokemon crossover

[blueskittlesart]

i hope everyone in nintendo’s management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and i’m not kidding

[chloesimaginationthings]

This could be a kart if FLAF wasn't fucking around..

[paintedcrows]

They're both autistic (and ADHD) 2 me

[ruporas]

trigunned the hades or hadesed the trigun (id in alt)

[glassrooibos]

FABIAN DON’T DO THAT. THAT’S SCARY.

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!

[wynandcore]

Saw the sonic 3 trailer are you telling me the movie based on Sonic Adventure 2 is Not anti-military??? No anti-authority theming here?? Nothing?? The game where a kid gets gunned down? Where Shadow’s grief and hate for humanity is BECAUSE of the military?? Where Sonic runs from the cops and is consistently annoyed at their existence?

[triaelf9]

"how do you enjoy *insert fandom here* I hear they're the worst"

Find the ppl who enjoy the thing you like the way you do. Ignore, mute or block the ppl who don't.

Ta-Da~

[taub-truther]

We know that the new cast members in S4 were basically auditioning for their jobs as much as their characters were, and i can't help but notice how exceptionally cunty Taub is in these early episodes

he werked his little ass off for that job!

[lotus-pear]

the dialogue choices in this game should be more diabolical

[lily-s-world]

People often say, "Andrew first time of being taken care of was with Neil," but I feel that that is completely wrong because Nicky was there before Neil.

Nicky gave up his life on Germany, a happy life he built after years of trauma and depression, to take care of Andrew and Aaron. Nicky returned to the place he hated the most because the twins needed him. And he did it out of his own decision. He gave them a house and a chance to start a new family.

And yeah, we could argue that Andrew didn't care, but then again, the reason he ended up in juvie and medication was to protect Nicky.

Nicky wasn't able to break down Andrew's barriers, but that doesn't mean that he didn't love him or cared about him.

[cassberry]

the link dying montages are going to be incredible in totk

[chloesimaginationthings]

The Mikes and Vanessas celebrate 10 years of FNAF!

[toskarin]

anyway, before you make a game in any action genre, it's important to check if there were any notable arcade games in that genre or adjacent to it, because then you can find developer interviews where they've spent the past 20-30 years talking about features you were considering and saying "oh yeah, we tried that and it wasn't fun because it made the game suck"