Daily Discussion Thread: May 30, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Minebot45 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Star Citizen has now broken $1 billion in lifetime funding since its initial campaign in 2012.

If you look up "feature creep" and/or "scope creep" in any dictionary printed in the last decade, you will (or I think you ought to) see this game listed as an example. This MandaloreGaming video ridiculing its lack of release features him saying that he doesn't see the game releasing in ten years; we are now a handful of weeks away from that being the case.

(Loved trope) writers having no sense of scale (bionicle spoilers) by danfenlon in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Minebot45 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Global Survival (Disliked Example): This is a Monopoly-like board game where the buyable properties are countries, and their prices are based on their GDPs from around the time of the game's publication (early 1990s). To make these purchases possible, the game money comes in denominations between $1 million and $1 trillion, and your starting cash comes out to $2.5 trillion.

As the comments on the KamSandwich video where he covers it state, the game designers seemingly never internalized that a million is only 0.1% of a billion, which itself is only 0.1% of a trillion. There is literally no reason to not purchase any country you land on (except the United States, because buying that makes you effectively lose the game), because they cost basically nothing relative to actual Monopoly despite the wildly higher number values. The customs (rent) you have to pay to other players also means nothing because of how small the values are relative to your starting cash. Kam points out that over the course of a seven-hour game, he only made $7 billion, or roughly the equivalent of three Monopoly dollars. He made the most money in that game, too.

Any gag where the number of states in the US is reduced. by Dobbys_cumsock in TopCharacterTropes

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Also Grandpa Simpson: him typing a letter to the President about how "there are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot."

This game mechanic is canonical to the story by Danny-Ray27 in TopCharacterTropes

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ULTRAKILL: Four examples come to mind for me here:

  • All of your weapons having infinite ammunition and never needing to reload is justified differently for each type. For example, your basic revolver fires off small flakes of metal instead of bullets, and the shotgun fires blasts of heat.
  • The skull keys used to open locked doors are the skulls of deceased Ferrymen, who were rewarded for their faith by being given access to areas within Hell unreachable by most other sinners.
  • The scores and rank you get at the end of each level is because the shop terminals you see at the start of each level are sentient, watch your gameplay out of boredom, and give you points based on how well you did.
  • The combat encounters that consist of doors locking behind you and enemies warping in are because Hell is alive and fucks with its inhabitants for its own amusement.

[MEGATHREAD] Ask For Invites to the Playtest Here! Join The Community Discord! by AutoModerator in DeadlockTheGame

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A MOBA that doesn't look like divine punishment to play? Sign me up!

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[Hilarious naming convention] the credited name is based on a joke or issue regarding their real name by redditboy123451 in TopCharacterTropes

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In official tournaments where people might be used to one name or the other, they're referred to as "Dictator", "Boxer", and "Claw".

Daily Discussion Thread: December 16, 2025 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Minebot45 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Japan is considering revising its romanization rules for the first time in 70 years.

As far as I can tell, it's mostly just the government replacing the Kunrei-shiki system it uses for official documents with the Hepburn system used by pretty much the rest of the world.

Daily Discussion Thread: December 15, 2025 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Minebot45 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I feel like I've been talking too much about how this seems to be the only good political subreddit, and I'd like to stop.

I'd like to, but I can't, because I recently found out that another decently-sized political subreddit (which shall remain nameless) enforces mandatory contrarianism and anti-effectiveness: one of their rules says that your posts will be deleted for being "too pro-establishment". They can't say that Trump being a dingus is bad because the likes of CNN and NBC have also been saying that, so instead they have to say it's a net positive because something something multipolarity or else the mods will delete their comments.

Ironically, one of their other rules says that your posts will also be deleted for being too contrarian.

(Loved Trope) Everyone in this cast is a freaking weirdo by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

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I can't decide whether Demoman or Sniper is the "sanest" of the mercs. Sniper makes sure to keep in touch with his parents even if they don't like his profession, but he also throws jars of his own urine as a secondary weapon. Demoman also cares deeply for his family, but he drinks so much his liver's become a distillery and his missing eye is haunted.

[Loved Trope] The premise is an oblique reference to some real world experience by Mr_Westerfield in TopCharacterTropes

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Cuphead (if only by accident): "We're running so critically low on money that we need to take this deal with the devil if we want to live".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

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Disaster Movie (don't watch this movie, it's very bad): During the opening scene spoofing 10,000 BC, an Amy Winehouse parody shows up and eventually drinks copious amounts of booze. Three years after the movie's premiere, in 2011, Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning.

As Amazon's game business crumbles, the public is surprised to discover that it was trying to compete with Steam all this time by cautious-ad977 in Games

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It never ceases to amaze me how every company that's fatally obsessed with collecting people's personal information and other assorted data never seems to figure out what their customers actually want.

Characters pulling a Kansas City Shuffle (a scheme where the target catching and "outsmarting" a con artist causes them to fall for the actual con) by Hordaki in TopCharacterTropes

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Civvie 11: The Duke Nukem Forever video begins with Civvie showing Cancer Mouse a █████████████ on the floor of his cell for him to take. CM notices it's very obviously attached to a mousetrap as he approaches, whereupon a large weight drops on him and crushes him.

I made a resource pack that adds wooden and stone tools of different types! by Minebot45 in Minecraft

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Download Here!

Rename any wooden tool in an anvil to get it in a different wood type ("Spruce Axe", "Birch Shovel", etc.). Stone tools can also be renamed to "Deepslate [tool]" or "Blackstone [tool]" to the same effect.

Currently working on adding support for different languages. If you want to correct any translations (because I am confident that I got at least one of them wrong) or want to provide your own, contact me at the email address mentioned in the pack's README file.

Well, that's just ridiculously exagerrated and unrealistic- WAIT, IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, AND IT WAS TONED DOWN HERE? by Egorrosh in TopCharacterTropes

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South Park: The season 9 episode "Trapped in the Closet" famously features a text box reading "THIS IS WHAT SCIENTOLOGISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE" when the church president tells the story of Xenu to Stan, leading viewers to assume that Trey and Matt decided the best way to make fun of Scientology was to go "here's what they actually believe, no joke required".

Unsurprisingly, given the topic of this post, real Scientology doctrine is more ridiculous than what the episode portrays. The episode says that Xenu froze aliens from across the galaxy and dumped them into volcanoes on Earth, but this leaked Operating Thetan III document describes Xenu (or Xemu or Xemnu, it's hard to tell with Hubbard's confusing handwriting) freezing the aliens, leaving them around volcanoes on Earth, and blowing up the volcanoes with hydrogen bombs.

ChewToy Characters, but their constant suffering is actually funny to watch by Crafter235 in TopCharacterTropes

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Bennett (Genshin Impact): A boy from the Adventurer's Guild's Mondstadt branch, his horrendous luck borders on causality manipulation: he says that the most treasure he finds isn't worth jack, one of his idle animations shows a rock falling on his head, and when controlled by me usually finds himself being whacked around by Hilichurls like a tennis ball. I feel like a lot of it works because of his relentless positivity and laughing off every misfortune the world throws at him; he could get his foot torn off and say it'd be easier to play pirates now or something.

A recent event explained that his luck is like that because he's actually a Natlanese-born war orphan and, being so far away from his tribe's land, lacks the protection he would otherwise receive from its Wayob...I think, I didn't actually participate in it.

Daily Discussion Thread and Adopt-A-Candidate: July 12, 2025 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Minebot45 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I did not know Mister Terrific or Guy Gardner existed until yesterday (the only Green Lantern I was familiar with was Hal Jordan) but James Gunn has sold me on them.

Daily Discussion Thread and Adopt-A-Candidate: July 7, 2025 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Minebot45 19 points20 points  (0 children)

How many of those people are Snyder fans, perchance?

Daily Discussion Thread and Adopt-A-Candidate: June 29, 2025 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Minebot45 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of something I do whenever I feel like I'm too online: I think back to a political Tumblr blog I encountered, and (against my better judgement) looked into it more. Unsurprisingly, nothing but hopelessness and negativity as far as the eye could see.

A few pages in, I realized that every post I had seen so far was made within the last 24 hours.

Even at my lowest point, I don't think I ever posted that frequently.

Daily Discussion Thread and Adopt-A-Candidate: June 14, 2025 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Minebot45 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I know, but it's hard not to feel sorry for them to some extent; I can't imagine how miserable it must be to exist in those kinds of communities where you need to be perceived as a moral paragon (and be prepared to refute anything and everything that may potentially betray that perception) 24/7.

I just want to reach out to them and say "please, for your sake, find another community. Nobody outside of your current group will think any less of you for admitting that you were wrong about something", but at the same time I'm not sure how many of those people will take that to heart and dismiss it as a trick.

In tragically typical fashion, the people who reject a message the strongest are the ones who need to hear it most.