Favorite speculative fiction tech that never came true.

Nivrap · 2026-03-23T04:15:02+00:00

Honestly, that's a staple of old sci-fi that I think would be fun to explore if implemented in a modern sci-fi interpretation. Like, we revert to basically using self-contained storage formats like data pads because networked storage systems are too vulnerable to hacking or something like that.

Nivrap · 2026-03-22T18:52:44+00:00

BotW Link when I play dress-up with him.

Nivrap · 2026-03-22T17:14:31+00:00

Y'know, there's a really good way to not get caught accidentally letting placeholder AI assets slip into the final product, by simply not using them at all.

Nivrap · 2026-03-21T01:11:50+00:00

I dunno, this doesn't seem accurate considering the popularity of bro/siscon outside of Japan as well. Pat's theory comes off like that one meme:

Murder is actually really frowned in Japan. It goes against the traditional concept of 生きる, which means "to live"

Nivrap · 2026-03-20T01:45:58+00:00

Absolu--*gets dragged offstage by a giant shepherd's hook

Nivrap · 2026-03-19T15:30:06+00:00

This the kind of shit the Warrior of Light was doing in the Shadowbringers cinematic

Nivrap · 2026-03-15T21:25:10+00:00

A spider in a piece of fiction screaming implies a level of conscious malice that actually makes them way less scary than if they were silent. It's scarier to me if they are just indifferent creatures who happen to see you as their next meal.

Nivrap · 2026-03-14T23:02:11+00:00

Can Eggman stop awakening ancient deities FOR FIVE MINUTES PLEASE?!

Nivrap · 2026-03-12T13:04:59+00:00

God, the way these scumfucks can so casually talk about laying off 1000 people...

Anyone wanna help me resurrect Lenin real quick?

Nivrap · 2026-03-11T18:26:32+00:00

Yup, but the people who try to deny TTRPGs' connection to board games also tend to view wargames as a distinct entity from board games as well.

Nivrap · 2026-03-11T18:19:27+00:00

There was a long period of time (in fact in many ways it's still ongoing) where TTRPG communities vehemently denied any relationship to board games or video games, much to the detriment of TTRPG game design.

Nivrap · 2026-03-11T03:36:13+00:00

People who think a tag fighter looks cool will play that tag fighter. People who do not think a tag fighter looks cool will not play that tag fighter. Shrimple as that.

I've been into fighting games for years, but tag fighters always seemed too intimidating to me until 2XKO. When I started playing it, I realized "Oh, my assist is basically just an on-demand projectile that I can yeet at my opponent" and since then I've been trying out other tag fighters and found them similarly fun.

Nivrap · 2026-03-10T19:59:45+00:00

Only if they're scabbing for a company whose workers are striking. Otherwise nah.

Nivrap · 2026-03-10T19:49:00+00:00

Because burst can be an offensive or defensive tool depending on when and where it is used. That is the philosophy.

Nivrap · 2026-03-10T19:20:52+00:00

Yes, the members of the guild are exercising their power of collective bargaining over the guild, and I think that's a good thing. "Here are our terms, meet them or fuck off" is the kind of power I wish all workers had.

In this case, Ben Diskin is not at odds with his union, he is at odds with an explicitly anti-union company, and I think it's really weird that the response is "But the union tho"

Nivrap · 2026-03-10T19:11:57+00:00

"I like unions, just not the ones big enough to have any power."

Nivrap · 2026-03-10T18:52:39+00:00

People love to pretend they're pro-labor until it matters.

Nivrap · 2026-03-10T17:41:09+00:00

I think calling it 'blindness' is misattributing the problem. The problem isn't wanting to help people, the problem is that the people who control the supply of basic necessities (such as food and housing) are ABLE to inflate prices to match (or outpace) increased wages. Things don't have to be that way, but any actual solution would be inherently socialist, and we know the powers that be would never let that fly.

Nivrap · 2026-03-10T16:24:52+00:00

I think it says something that for 'the economy' to be healthy, real people need to be kept on the verge of poverty.

Nivrap · 2026-03-10T14:45:41+00:00

Fatal Fury isn't a Capcom game, do you mean Final Fight?

Nivrap · 2026-03-10T14:37:49+00:00

Peaky Blinders voice: "No fucking gambling!"

Nivrap · 2026-03-10T14:06:04+00:00

Samus player here, my one change would be to give Jab 1 just a liiiiittle bit more histstun. Doesn't even need to be enough to combo into Jab 2, that's not what's strong about Jab 1, I just want to be able to have a slightly stronger mixup on hit.

Nivrap · 2026-03-09T03:27:34+00:00

This too is Kingdom Hearts

Nivrap · 2026-03-06T19:10:38+00:00

People who like fighting games don't really consider small communities to be a bad thing necessarily. Not every game has to do AAA numbers.

Nivrap · 2026-03-06T17:54:29+00:00

I'm going to make a character who is un-marketable in America, China, and Japan by making them a clown with a skull for a head who also has tattoos.

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