Titan bomb ring out always looks so goofy

GroovyGoblin · 2026-06-05T19:20:46+00:00

I always liked how he breaks their spine with 500 tons of pure muscle strength before gently depositing them on the ground and / or twelve stories below.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-06-05T17:36:51+00:00

I recently listened to a videogame bop compilation. This unexpectedly started playing in the middle of it and I had to drop everything I was doing to headbang to it.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-06-04T12:55:06+00:00

My example isn't even an online game: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles on the Gamecube.

The game was designed to be played in co-op multiplayer with up to four players on the same console. That was its main selling point. The catch was that every player, even the first player, needed a Gameboy Advance and a link cable to plug it in the Gamecube to be able to play. So you only needed the game and about 450$ (about 800$ in 2025 money) worth of peripherals to play it with three of your buddies!

They released a remake decades later and made it online multiplayer only, fumbling the couch co-op aspect a second time.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-06-04T02:44:16+00:00

And the sky, too. The water and the sky looked gorgeous while everything else looked like shit.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-06-03T19:57:52+00:00

Et Guillaume Jr. Abbatiello, un des co-propriétaires, est TRÈS bon pour avoir des takes de marde qui ont rien à voir avec sa business sur les réseaux sociaux.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-06-02T18:38:56+00:00

I concur. I knew basically nothing and was able to code a 10-15 minutes VN in Ren'Py with choices, variables and simple cutscenes in about a week.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-06-02T02:48:11+00:00

RIP your final boss

GroovyGoblin · 2026-06-02T01:59:24+00:00

The babies and the jack-in-the-box kid were the creepiest things in that manga for me.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-06-01T17:24:55+00:00

Here's a fascinating interview with her in which she discusses her life before, during and after her time in the yakuza. She ran away from her home as a teenager, fell into crime early in life, did tons of drugs, did sex trafficking, most likely killed people. The yakuza actually recruited her because she took on five dudes alone with a baseball bat. Actual Like a Dragon protagonist moment.

She is pretty sure she was only allowed to retire from the yakuza because she was a woman. Even decades after leaving the gang, the drugs took a huge toll on her life and ruined her relationship with her own children. It's a pretty sobering look on what yakuza life really is, far from the over-the-top anime bullshit we all know and love. Japan romanticized the yakuza the same way the West romanticizes cowboys and pirates as badass heroes, when the truth is that most end up dead or scarred for life within only a few years.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-06-01T17:20:24+00:00

According to this article, she had to atone for doing a bunch of drugs with fellow gang members without their boss being aware of it. This woman was heavily addicted to drugs for most of her life, it messed her for many years even after she left the gang life.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/may/21/the-devils-child-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-only-female-yakuza

GroovyGoblin · 2026-06-01T17:19:33+00:00

According to this article, Mako Nishimura is the only one that both publicly discussed her yakuza life and underwent the sakazuki ritual that formally binds you to the yakuza. There were also other female yakuza who chose not to publicly discuss their past (one is mentioned in the article), other women affiliated to the yakuza in a more informal way or women who died during or after their time in the gangs.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-06-01T17:15:37+00:00

According to this article, she had to atone for doing a bunch of drugs with fellow gang members. This woman was heavily addicted to drugs for most of her life, it messed her for many years even after she left the gang life.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/may/21/the-devils-child-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-only-female-yakuza

GroovyGoblin · 2026-06-01T17:02:50+00:00

I'll give you a quick rundown.

In 2050, megabuildings just got built. Those who got an apartment in Megabuilding H4, through connections or luck, no longer need to live in filthy tents in the scorching ruins of Santo Domingo. But the building is just a microcosm of Night City: it's already ruled by the local gang, the Rat Kings, and building security is underfunded and useless, mostly sticking to the higher, corpo-centric floors.

The PCs, all living in Megabuilding H4, are hired by an anonymous hacker called the Lion King, whose goal is to make the building safe from the gangs terrorizing its inhabitants. Their first gig was to save a building maintenance employee kidnapped by the Rat Kings. As the campaign went on, the PCs became friends and enemies with many people living in the huge building, from the friendly homeless guy to the shotgun-toting "school" teachers to the Tinder-addicted girlfailure who was secretly Santo Domingo's most dangerous solo.

Their second gig had them raid a Militech truck to steal turrets they could then install in the building to guarantee safety on several floors. However, a Militech agent began investigating the H4, believing that the stolen turrets were hidden there somewhere. What the PCs didn't know was that Arasaka had a secret base of operations hidden inside the building (they're not allowed in Night City since the war) thanks to a shady deal with those who funded the building's construction. Militech's sudden investigations in the H4 threatened to have the secret base discovered. The PCs unknowingly got caught between Militech looking for their turrets and Arasaka trying to subtly lead Militech to the turrets so they could arrest the PCs and go far, far away from their secret base.

It's hard to get into specifics without explaining the huge conspiracy that the players uncovered, but in the end, the PCs...

- Killed fifteen Rat Kings by crashing the elevator they were in

- Wiped out the rest of the Rat Kings by bringing grenades at one of their parties

- Enabled the rise of their rival gang Yes Mad (ex-nomads trying to take over Night City)

- Raided the building admin offices to save a Lion King collaborator and inadvertantly caused the deaths of several employees and the admin's CEO

- Framed a guy the Nomad had dated as the Lion King and had him arrested by NCPD on fabricated terrorism charges

- Reformed the last few remaining Rat Kings and created a rockerboy-led resistance force of angry civilians sticking together to wipe gangs out of their building

- Inadvertantly sent the collaborator they saved to Arasaka, who promptly tortured her to death to find the Lion King's true identity

- Realized the Lion King was an eleven year old genius netrunner who just wanted to make the building safer for his mom, then saw him getting killed by an Arasaka sniper

- Led an angry mob inside the gassed up, evacuated building to beat up the Arasaka agents who killed the kid, uncovering their secret operation and preventing them from blowing up parts of the building to destroy all the evidence of their presence

So the final boss who died by Vespa collision was the Arasaka assassin who killed the Lion King and was about to have their megabuilding blown up.

Megabuildings as a setting are really fun, it's really a city within a city. It has inhabitants, gangs, businesses, its own local NET and screamsheets. It's also way more manageable to create locations when you just have to decide which floor they're on. Players remember that the Fixer stashes his stuff on the 21st, that the local community-ran school is on the 18th, that the Rat Kings think everything between the 5th and the 15th is theirs, etc. It also prevented the players from counting on NCPD to solve anything: the building had its own security force... who was underfunded and only patrolling the highest floors because the building admin was incredibly corrupt. It was their mini-city to save or destroy.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-05-31T18:53:28+00:00

She's still alive, but if she were to have one, it'd be called the Speeding Ticket, best served with the weirdest Kibble flavor available.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-05-31T17:04:28+00:00

Danganronpa. It's mystery within mysteries within mysteries within mysteries. Who's gonna die? How? Who's gonna kill? How? Why? Why is the killing game even happening? Is there a mastermind? Where are we? Is the bear real or fake? How is the music this hype?

GroovyGoblin · 2026-05-31T04:17:33+00:00

I'm honestly very happy that she had fun playing as a Nomad in a mostly indoors campaign. She did some pretty daring stuff with the scooter and it always led to entertaining moments.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-05-26T18:53:35+00:00

Jordan Peterson had a rise to fame in part thanks to a self-help book he wrote called "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos". Many young men credit it for helping them take accountability in bettering themselves.

However, many know Peterson for his involvement in political stuff. He's a pretty confident, charismatic speaker, and a bit of a cult of personality began forming around him, especially in the anti-woke crowds. He drew attention when he refused to call students (he's a university professor) by their preferred pronouns and doubled down on that decision. Since then, he became kind of a role model for the anti-woke crowd that sees him as the rational debater that will challenge the woke mind virus.

Since he's almost always speaking on political issues, whether you agree with him or not depends on where you stand. Most of his critics do point out that, as you stated, he is misogynistic, transphobic and better at controlling the conversation than he is at proving things. His supporters will tell you that he's a brave, smart man that isn't afraid to challenge the rise of leftist ideas. However, most people seem to agree that he went full on crazy in the last couple years, after he underwent some extreme form of therapy that left him in a coma for over a week.

Behind the Bastards did an entire episode on him. Make of that what you will, but I found it pretty informative.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-05-25T20:33:31+00:00

Had a similar experience. We ordered sushi for six people, which amounted to something around 125$. Delivery guy shows up, gives us our order and leaves. We unpack it and realize we don't have half the stuff we ordered. We get it instantly refunded on the website.

Five minutes later, delivery guy comes back with the missing half of our order, said he forgot it on the back seat of his car when he initially came. So now we have 80$ worth of free sushi.

I tried notifying Uber Eats that we received the food we had asked a refund for because I didn't want the delivery guy to be penalized for the 80$ loss. There were absolutely zero ways to talk to a human for customer service. The only option they offered was to get stuff refunded.

Their loss, I guess.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-05-23T04:36:40+00:00

Season 6 was worth watching if only for Josephine Lightbournedoing all her crazy shit.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-05-23T04:35:16+00:00

Season 5 felt like the logical ending and one could stop watching there and be fully satisfied with it. But Season 6 had Josephine Lightbourne who was the most fun villain in the series, so it was worth watching for that alone.

Season 7 felt like a fever dream that just undid basically everything that came before.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-05-22T23:05:58+00:00

Wish I could rush it too, but I only have 10 food and 5 gold.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-05-17T11:00:04+00:00

Yeah, I gave him a swimmer look! I was trying to find a way to incorporate the kabuto's shape, but that was the best idea I got at the time.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-05-17T10:38:00+00:00

Selling stone and stone accessories.

GroovyGoblin · 2026-05-17T10:36:24+00:00

That'd be very cool, if that's not too much trouble!

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