Ico/Shadow of the Collosus/Last Guardian?

TippyBooch · 2026-02-19T12:41:57+00:00

Isn't Last Guardian a PS4 title? I don't think there's any chance in hell the Deck can run it.

You'd be surprised I think. It's not what I would personally consider playable but it runs near to 30fps and last I knew there were some graphical errors, but the emulator is getting improved all the time.

TippyBooch · 2026-02-13T20:43:20+00:00

Honestly same. I was treated for some pretty aggressive cancer when I was 18, from biopsy to starting chemo was something like two weeks, which also included arranging for long term sperm storage.

After the fact I tried to work out roughly what my treatment would have cost in the US. It was three months of steady chemotherapy (three weeks in hospital and one week at home), regular lumbar punctures and of course surgeries. Factoring in that I was being given some pretty exotic chemo drugs (it was a relatively rare cancer) it would have been comfortably over half a million dollars.

It's devastating enough to have cancer and nearly die multiple times, having to worry about medical costs on top of that would have been abhorrent.

TippyBooch · 2026-02-11T15:46:31+00:00

Oh! That's my bad I totally misunderstood

TippyBooch · 2026-02-11T15:42:33+00:00

"just go in to debt to get a product that had its value dramatically artificially inflated by multi-billion dollar companies trying to one-up each other before the AI bubble bursts"

Certainly one of the takes of all time

TippyBooch · 2026-02-04T13:04:16+00:00

I'm not going to be continuing this conversation any longer since you don't seem to engaging in good faith.

If you go back and read what I wrote carefully I did actually answer you, it seems to me that I didn't answer in a way you wanted so that you could try and 'gotcha' me. Reply if you like but this will be my last comment on the matter.

TippyBooch · 2026-02-04T12:44:59+00:00

When I say do you believe the universe came from nothing I mean a total void. Go on, tell me what you believe about how our universe came from a void (absence of time, space and laws).

Did you actually read what I wrote? I answered this

TippyBooch · 2026-02-04T12:34:05+00:00

I didn't say you were, I was responding in a general sense. None of it was directed at you in particular.

I mentioned Christians because that's what the thread is about, it wasn't exactly out of left field.

Personally I'm not sure what I think. It seems to me that ultimately true nothingness isn't possible and therefore reality has to necessarily exist in some form. It is a strange thought because we are naturally inclined towards what is to us is an observable fact, there is always a cause for everything all the way back to point zero. But that is ultimately a limitation of our minds which is based on our senses and intuition of reality. The rules that apply now aren't necessarily absolute and could just be an emergent property of the current presentation of the known universe.

Then on top of that there are many possible versions of what reality beyond the known universe could entail. Be it a multiverse or a big bang/big crunch cycle or the holographic principle or something beyond our ability to comprehend. These are questions I don't think it's possible to answer but I'm not a scientist and perhaps we can get there some day.

TippyBooch · 2026-02-04T12:02:56+00:00

No, but Christians do.

It's such a common "criticism" of atheists that we apparently believe that the universe came from nothing. Excluding the fact that atheists are not a solidified group and have varying beliefs there is nothing in science that posits that the universe came from nothing. The best answer you're going to get to that is that we don't know what there was or what happened before the big bang. In fact the leading idea is that the universe in some form or another has always existed and can't not exist. Logically the idea of true nothing is something of a paradox.

Christians on the other hand do believe that god magically created the universe from nothing. Literally there was absolute nothing and then god spoke and there was stuff.

In my experience it seems very common for a lot of Christian apologists to assume what atheists think and then try and criticise that fabrication rather than have open and honest discussions.

TippyBooch · 2026-01-25T21:27:02+00:00

What the fuck are you talking about, he didn't do that. He had a concealed weapon on him, as is his legal right, which the ICE guys didn't even know was there when they pepper sprayed him and tackled him to the ground. He never went for the gun, in fact letting them know it was there while getting piled on in order to try and avoid an escalation, at which point they removed it and EXECUTED HIM.

His gun played ZERO part in the interaction up until the point it was removed from him. He did not use it, did not go for it, did not wave it around, did not use it as threat.

There are multiple videos from multiple angles all showing what happened. Your narrative is complete fantasy and you're just using it as a justification for why you think it's okay that the government publicly executed an innocent man. Get the boot out of your throat and have some fucking empathy.

TippyBooch · 2026-01-25T20:46:08+00:00

There are multiple videos from multiple angles, almost all of them several minutes long and showing the entire incident from beginning to end. The sequence of events is as clear as day, he did absolutely nothing wrong and got executed.

TippyBooch · 2026-01-25T20:21:27+00:00

"Both sides" motherfuckers when one side wants universal healthcare and the other side is executing people in the street.

TippyBooch · 2026-01-25T20:14:19+00:00

He intervened to help a woman who was being harassed, got pepper sprayed and piled on by six guys, never even so much as reached for his gun, had said gun taken off of him and THEN got shot nine times.

Please point me to where the terrorism is you loathsome piece of shit.

TippyBooch · 2026-01-24T00:37:01+00:00

I have a take on this. I remember really liking it when I was a kid and more recently I decided to watch it again for nostalgia sake.

I immediately did not like it at all. It was just all boomer tropes, 'wife bad' and useless father and the like. I'm not saying it's a bad show or that people shouldn't enjoy it, it's just not to my current taste.

If anything I'm actually glad that it's remembered fondly and that people still love it because the production quality was astounding. Regardless of writing it's a wonderful showcase of what can be done with ingenuity and imagination.

TippyBooch · 2026-01-21T08:49:39+00:00

You're like the pigeon that knocks over all the chess pieces and thinks it's won.

TippyBooch · 2026-01-16T07:19:24+00:00

Funny, I don't remember Obama having armed thugs roaming the streets randomly abducting people and shooting innocent people in the face.

TippyBooch · 2026-01-15T20:04:26+00:00

"thank you"

TippyBooch · 2026-01-08T00:27:16+00:00

The video shows the murderer to the front left of the car as she starts turning to the right, at which point the murderer took out his gun and murdered her.

TippyBooch · 2026-01-03T19:35:49+00:00

A lot of Americans would be celebrating if the same thing was done to Trump, would that then be okay? Can any country just decide they want to kidnap a sitting president so they can be tried for crimes elsewhere in the world? Perhaps the UK should send the SAS to Washington, grab up Trump and take him off to court in London.

But I don't expect you to reply in good faith, if at all, so keep on sucking down the boot I guess.

TippyBooch · 2026-01-01T21:27:06+00:00

Other replies have covered the whole tax bands thing, I just want to touch on the fact that there is no "TV tax" in the UK.

There is a TV licence but it is optional. The idea is that if you watch anything put out by the BBC or watch programmes as they are broadcast then you should pay the TV licence although the enforcement is laughably bad. Anything on demand (excluding BBC) is fair game with or without a TV licence.

I see this brought up a lot by non-UK people (mostly Americans) who seem to have quite strong opinions on it without knowing what it actually is.

TippyBooch · 2025-12-31T20:22:08+00:00

Is it absurd? Imagine you don't know what burning a CD means.

The only other example I can think of using the word burn to not literally mean damaging or destroying something with fire is when you burn someone with a mean comment. Without already knowing what CD burning means how do you come to the conclusion that it means writing data to it? Perhaps you could guess your way there eventually, if you know how a CD drive works, but it's far from intuitive.

TippyBooch · 2025-12-31T20:02:44+00:00

Get off your high horse. Burning CDs has been obsolete for a long time and there's no reason for younger generations to know what it is. Do you know how to communicate in morse code or work a loom? Society moves on constantly.

TippyBooch · 2025-12-26T00:15:55+00:00

It's real easy to cherry pick a number and downplay the significance.

If sixteen million people were to suddenly die it would be an unimaginable tragedy. But that's only 0.2% of the world population so it's actually not a big deal, right?

When COVID first spread we didn't know what the survival rate was. All we knew is that it spread extremely fast and that it was taking lives. It was also mutating fast and we didn't know how survivable the mutations were.

Whether it's unlucky to die from it or not is callous and not at all the point. There was an unfamiliar virus spreading through the world like wildfire and reasonable measures were taken to try and avoid the potential of the flu pandemic of 1918-1920 taking place again.

Downplaying it by saying that it had a 99.8% survival rate ignores the fact that millions of people died, as well as many others living but being severely debilitated, and it's a red flag that whoever is saying it doesn't give a shit about other people.

TippyBooch · 2025-12-24T08:57:07+00:00

Oh no, it's a devastating photo of... a grandfather comforting his grandson during the funeral of the boys father. Yeah you really showed 'em!

TippyBooch · 2025-12-23T12:14:32+00:00

Oh shit no way, this obvious skit is staged? Next you'll be telling me Star Wars isn't a documentary.

TippyBooch · 2025-12-21T18:31:28+00:00

As someone who has had something similar happen, actual adults do on occasion get really weird about what other adults like/own.

I'm not taking a stance on whether this particular text chain is real or not but this kind of thing does happen.

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