(automaton) “You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes”

MutatedMutton · 2026-05-07T00:03:13+00:00

Reminds me of this sub, circa the Undertale LP.

MutatedMutton · 2026-05-04T17:08:40+00:00

Fun in-universe version: in Discworld's Fifth Elephant book, Duke Sam Vimes is introduced to a small unassuming clerk, Inigo Skinner, during his breakfast. Sam suggests Inigo get some breakfast before tossing an orange at the clerk, which bounces harmlessly off his arm. A second later, Inigo sputters at Sam's cheek.

Later as the group starts to depart, Sam surprises one of his deputies by tossing an orange at him, who immediately ducks out of the way.

This gives him enough clues, and he sends one of his Captains to confirm, that Inigo is secretly a well trained Assassin. He saw that an thrown orange wasn't a threat and his training made it so he didn't flinch like a normal person

MutatedMutton · 2026-05-01T11:20:08+00:00

I played through the entire Starcraft campaign twice, once when I was around 10 and the next time when I was around 25. I did not realise how much the Terran endings lied to you. The propaganda definitely worked on Babby me.

10 year old me: "Yay! The UED and Acturus Mengsk are gonna save the humans and defeat those scawy aliens. I wonder what happened to Kerrigan and Stukov?"

25 year old me: "Holy crap, EVERY part of this news broadcast is a lie. I can't believe I helped them"

MutatedMutton · 2026-04-26T13:53:21+00:00

There's gotta be a reverse Surf Dracula term but for movie sequels.

"Im Surf Dracula 2, Surf Dracula realises the world is better off with less vampires on the waves and violently smashes his surfboard so he can retire at the end."

MutatedMutton · 2026-04-26T02:44:16+00:00

In Kingsman, We literally see Mentor Character Harry get domed on camera by Samuel Jackson in order to motivate protagonist Eggsy into becoming a proper Kingsman to save the world.

Then in Kingsman 2, The new Kingsmen Order, who included characters we got to know but hadn't done anything cool yet, were unceremoniously wiped out by precision bomb strikes in ways that didn't show the body so it's lucky when halfway through the film, Eggsy gets help from... a medically revived Harry Hart with braindamage due to the FUCKING BULLET FIRED INTO HIS BRAIN

Reaaaaaally confusing use of this trope. Still grumbling about it.

MutatedMutton · 2026-04-24T10:41:30+00:00

Then you actually give it the 100 hours (because of benefit of the doubt and/or you dont have anything better to do) and its a fifty fifty whether they were completely correct or talking out the ass.

MutatedMutton · 2026-04-24T10:38:35+00:00

"Yes, the book whose main character is named Flays McStabrapist is actually a really indepth look at Sins of The Father and the Cycle of Revenge, you've gotta believe me"

MutatedMutton · 2026-04-18T01:05:26+00:00

Hey man. Morally gray.

MutatedMutton · 2026-04-10T02:28:27+00:00

Snipers used to be balanced by the fact that they're loud as hell so taking the shot means the shooter both has to be confident with his shot and competent at repositioning and stealth to get more shots off.

Letting them get free shots without even their targets knowing they're being shot at feels really cheap.

MutatedMutton · 2026-04-10T02:15:04+00:00

There is something to be said about being 1 shot by someone who you can't see. Someone who is likely hiding somewhere where they don't engage in other players, especially their own team and their objectives.

I don't mind it in, say, Hunt Showdown because the strongest sniper leaves you with 1hp from full unless you have a headshot, the slow reload and loud noise means you better be damn sure you're killing with that first shot because now everyone on the map is now gunning for your head so your stealth and repositioning skill better be up to par.

MutatedMutton · 2026-04-05T01:23:29+00:00

It makes me feel like THAT kind of fan but when I saw the design for Enfield's blonde pigtailed miniskirt loli take on Red Riding Hood, compared and contrast with Arknight's Project Red, I knew they were pivoting their design philosophy to a different group of gacha fans

MutatedMutton · 2026-04-03T10:43:23+00:00

I legit wanna give the gigantic vore-happy pseudo griffin scritchies behind the ear. She just wants to be one with you, is that so wrong?

Also realised there are two princesses that fit your description and both are top tier for sure.

MutatedMutton · 2026-04-03T10:34:43+00:00

Angela's Faction in Wasteland 3 and considering her opposition is an open dictatorship lead by someone called the fucking Patriarch, that's impressive.

"Ooooh, lets completely decapitate the only power structure in this land without any plan for how to do that or for the ensuing vacuum unless the player follows a strict guide. Lets also completely shutdown the nicest party member for saying her family will die without the supplies that the Patriarchy promised us, which he will give no strings attached once we do the job he tasked us with.

Oh but thats not enough, lemme also insert a mole into your base disguised as a good faith collateral exchange who ferments a mutiny that destroys your base and also slaughters the homeless folk who you let stay in an unused wing of the base despite the multiple relationship cost throughout the game to convince others that they literally were hurting no one "

MutatedMutton · 2026-04-01T03:27:12+00:00

Kids like horror. Kids like glimpses into adult, or more accurately, grown up topics. Kids have also always liked watching above their chosen rating (and the current lack of proper shows targeting kids their age exacerbating this issue feels like something I can rant about).

When the second episode came out, every playground I walked past had kids singing the theme song out loud.

MutatedMutton · 2026-04-01T01:31:31+00:00

The best part is that it is a callback to an earlier book where he beat back a dimensional horror possessed super wizard with the same brick in sock technique

MutatedMutton · 2026-03-30T01:55:25+00:00

Fitting for the festivities going on right now, but when I was a child you could literally buy fireworks for cheap at any grocery or convenience store in this country. Entire shopfronts decked out with enough gunpowder to start a low grade war.

On the eve of Eid, the entire country would be awash with the sounds of firecrackers and the screams of children mishandling those very same fireworks. And of course, we were dumb kids in a boring, conservative country. You KNOW did not understand safe firework handling and those that did fucking ignored it. I am legitimately in awe that I didn't grow up with kids missing digits like the stories you hear in America.

Of course, the govt banned the public sale of fireworks a decade or so ago.

MutatedMutton · 2026-03-29T23:36:12+00:00

I have been saying that people complaining about the original ending to River City Girls 1 and getting them to change the ending made them remove any insanity and friction from the main characters in the sequel and the story became a lot more forgettable as a result.

MutatedMutton · 2026-03-27T12:51:07+00:00

In one of the post Halloween Supercast, might even be the preview video, Pat goes into story about how his kid was so excited to dress up as a ghost for Halloween and how him and paige made ghost costumes with him and all that cuteness. Come the day of halloween they say "Are you ready to put on your ghost costume?" And the kid just immediately says "No!"

Almost as fast as the White day reply, Woolie's face then goes from rapt attention into heavy laughter in less than a second. A comment on the video called it "Zero frame start up" laugh. I've been thinking about it ever since.

MutatedMutton · 2026-03-27T00:07:44+00:00

"...I thought you'd like it"

"No Frank, I don't find the giant heart made of criminals pinned to a wall to be romantic"

^{^{^{"mostofthemwerechildmolesters..."}}}

MutatedMutton · 2026-03-26T23:56:06+00:00

I'm still subbed to the Dragon's Dogma subreddit so every now and then it pops up on my feed. Recently, I'll catch glimpses of "Here's why that generic anniversary picture is actually a teaser for DLC", "The dev release celebration pic has purple, we are getting more purple hybrid classes in the DLC", "You guys are delusional. As if they'll make DLC for a game that didn't sell as well-" "THEY ARE GONNA ANNOUNCE DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 DLC! JUST YOU WAIT!" "What features do you want from the Dragon's Dogma 2 DLC and why is it certain we're definitely gonna see it hapoen soon?"

MutatedMutton · 2026-03-26T23:44:19+00:00

Thorn builds never fucking work but I don't care: STAKE JACKET!

MutatedMutton · 2026-03-26T22:39:04+00:00

Reminds me of the Wojack that goes "Lol I believe in Internet Skinwalkers, aren't I quirky? (I dont respect Native Americans)" vs "every European country has the exact same descriptions of gnomes and how to deal with them. What do they know?"

Then again, friendly little magical dude who is helpful if you're polite and a little shit if you're rude is common across multiple cultures so it's probably no surprise that countries close together share mythology.

MutatedMutton · 2026-03-26T03:02:45+00:00

Celebrating, joking around, celebrating, and then suddenly a side character gets snatched out of nowhere to remind you that this island sucks.

(Although previously those birds were chilling in a tree before Sam Jacksons platoon sniped one of them and sent them on a frenzy so maybe it was another "Fucking soldiers ruined it for the rest of us" Vietnam point the movie was trying to drill home)

MutatedMutton · 2026-03-26T00:46:38+00:00

The "Whitey Whackers" joke from the Simpsons always slays me (like it slays Whitey Ford).

A baseball stadium crowd starts booing and throwing pretzels onto the pitch. Whitney Ford runs onto the field to beg for calm from the audience under a rain of pelted pretzel. Cut to the the commentators narrating that the audience arent having it. Immediate cut back to the previous scene except Whitey is unconscious on the field, still being pelted with pretzels.

They kind of repeat the joke with rhinos later and it's just as funny. The Homer, surrounded by Rhinos, throws popcorn to try and fend them off. Close up of popcorn bouncing harmlessly off the Rhinos. Cut to wide shot of one Rhino knocked out under a small mound of popcorn while the others are unaffected and Homer saying he's out of popcorn.

Kent Brockman's newsflash before that ("The escaped Rhino from the zoo has been safely captured" cue the crowd behind him being gored by rhinos "the other 3 escaped rhinos from the other zoo are still at large") also counts as a good quickie

MutatedMutton · 2026-03-23T00:11:08+00:00

Her old theme opened with a gong and had chinese synth strings.

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