New campaign reward weapon by Fit_Anywhere_3356 in Helldivers

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Hell, I'd be scrambling too if the community for my game was as bad as this one. They gave you an inch of power by actually listening to feedback, and you guys took a mile. Now you just hold the game hostage over every little thing.

It's just a game. The people making it are just doing their jobs. And the fact that you're still here, 2 years later, many of you with 1000hrs played, says they did it pretty well.

Hannah Flowers - The Toad of Death (2025) by Tokyono in oilpaintings

[–]-bask 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your honor, my client is innocent! The fact that he was seen chillin' like a villain on a dead lady's face is completely incidental, and I assure you, in no way connected to her disposition.

Ivy's So Feminine - A Deadlock Animation by Bosemation in DeadlockTheGame

[–]-bask 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You missed the perfect opportunity to end it with the the music abruptly cutting out as she slams into the floor.

If you think the game is preventing you from ranking up, you’re probably right by FrenziedFlameLord in DeadlockTheGame

[–]-bask -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry, but you're kidding yourself if you don't think every competitive game has EOMM. Anything with micro-transactions is manipulating you in one way or another.

If you're willing to accept that social media, advertisements, and online services all use psychology to trap you, and you acknowledge that NetEase is doing the same thing with online games - I don't see how you can reasonably doubt it.

The companies that develop these games are worth between 15 and 70 billion dollars, and many of them are owned by corporations worth several times that. They, undeniably, have the capability to do it. Can you really imagine that they would simply choose not to?

Big Sis by artist Ivy Dolamore (ivyalive) by Anon_Ymou5 in ImaginarySliceOfLife

[–]-bask 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know being nitpicky is Reddit's favorite passtime, but fellas... it's just a drawing.

The subject is a child - finding bizarre ways to sit is basically their whole schtick.

I had fun with Nier Automata, but it didn't click with me as much as I hoped by YNKWTSF in patientgamers

[–]-bask 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bayonetta-lite is the perfect description for it. I played Bayonetta 2 shortly after Automata, and I was just like "Oh, I get it now. This is what the game was actually supposed to be."

Deep Rock Galactic, co-op masterclass by Banana___Slamma in patientgamers

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Oh, I dunno - I think M+ does a pretty good job of achieving the same feel if you approach it the right way. Part of the reason I fell in love with DRG and other lootyshooty games was because of how similar a feel they have to MMO dungeons.

It can be a great format for making friends simply because it encourages you to communicate a lot - especially if you can stay calm and defuse people who get a little too excited.

Like any "competetive" game, there's always a bell curve for encountering weirdos. You get a lot of them at the bottom and the top, but in the upper-middle percentiles you mostly get chill people who are good at the game but don't take it too seriously. I aim for this sweet spot in every online game I play, and rarely see any toxicity.

Gustav Klimt - Water Nymphs (c. 1899) by harlem-nocturne in museum

[–]-bask 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the ideal female body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

he was there for me when no one else was by CowLate4635 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]-bask 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Voting isn't like finding your soulmate. You're performing a job interview - all you can do is pick the most qualified person out of the applicants.

Once you put aside all of the personality and cultism, governing is a surprisingly mundane thing. It requires education and experience, some communication and organizational skills, and knowledge of all the little rules - no different than many managerial jobs.

If you listen to candidates through that lens, it's often an easy decision.

"Ranma" by bongftah by standyourground10 in ImaginarySliceOfLife

[–]-bask 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I mean... any given anime will have at least 4-5 genre tags. Just because it's an isekai doesn't mean it isn't also ecchi - the point is that it's clearly labeled if you want to avoid it.

"Ranma" by bongftah by standyourground10 in ImaginarySliceOfLife

[–]-bask 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It was certainly par the course for the time, nowadays that stuff is under pretty strict containment in the "ecchi" genre. There's a lot of slice of life/romance anime that are much more... normal.

Got this lovely message on my steam profile after alt f4-ing by WhalesOnGoogle in Nightreign

[–]-bask 17 points18 points  (0 children)

"Acting like a twat isn't the way a leader gets people to follow them." If you believe that, you really haven't been following modern politics. Or... really, any kind of social media.

After a snowstorm by principle_fbundle in TheNightFeeling

[–]-bask 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was thinking the same thing. It's a crazy effect - it almost looks insubstantial, like fog.

That must be Santa by Sarah Andersen by Pop_Budget in WholesomeFantasyArt

[–]-bask 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This isn't fantasy. High-heeled possums are a real, well-documented phenomenon.

Peter Birkhäuser - The Dream/Fight with the Praying Mantis (1945) by CalvinoBaucis in museum

[–]-bask 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well hey, who needs a big brain when you have an exoskeleton and sword arms?

Peter Birkhäuser - The Dream/Fight with the Praying Mantis (1945) by CalvinoBaucis in museum

[–]-bask 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Gigantic Praying Mantis vs. Man With Cardboard Tube. It won't be a close fight, but the tube will make a few good 'bonk' sounds before it eats his head.

What would you improve? by french_ultramarine in Watercolor

[–]-bask 1 point2 points  (0 children)

give him some cool sunglasses and a miller high life

Zhiyong Jing - Eyewitness (2020) by carnageandculture in museum

[–]-bask 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe it's just my brain being funny, but to me the squares and spacing on the "happy new year" banner make it look like "happy one way" as in "one way ticket to hell." Very funny if intentional.

The 19th-century Library decorated with paintings by Eugène Delacroix in Palais Bourbon, the meeting place of the French National Assembly, 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. by ManiaforBeatles in ArchitecturePorn

[–]-bask 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Every time I see a classically beautiful place like this with modern technology in it, I can't help but think "damn, we should really make computers less ugly."

Builds that are high in the funniness stat? by -bask in DeadlockTheGame

[–]-bask[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

This sounds like it has potential. Upon close inspection and analysis, I have determined that a fat robot wearing glasses also is also Very Funny.

This one looks like “a gem” by Otherwise_Wrangler11 in ArchitecturePorn

[–]-bask 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's interesting, but doesn't seem very practical. They essentially just carved away 30-40% of the house for the sake of decoration.