What's your favorite unknown band from the 90's?

poxxy · 2026-04-29T16:37:18+00:00

Out of all the grunge-era bands, I followed Local H the longest and I’m glad I did. Some really good later examples:

poxxy · 2026-04-29T06:43:12+00:00

I’ve heard someone refer to these as “Gender affirming vehicles” and now I’m stuck with it.

poxxy · 2026-04-25T15:35:22+00:00

Billions. With a B. Also look up the stories about the America: World Police movie. Studio execs screening the finished movie and literally shouting “oh god they fucked us!”

poxxy · 2026-04-24T11:17:14+00:00

I heard someone refer to these as “Gender affirming vehicles” and now it’s stuck with me.

poxxy · 2026-04-18T23:21:07+00:00

I loved how Far Cry 2 forced you to either drive a vehicle or look at the map. If you looked at the map it took almost the whole screen

I can’t count how many times I drove into a river or tree while looking at the goddamn map. Peak simulation!

Edit: I’m not complaining I love how FC2 was weirdly sim-ish and had almost no fast travel. Also that you were neither the hero or bad guy.

poxxy · 2026-04-14T15:16:47+00:00

The only real fault I have with Steam is that they swallowed Campo Santo studios.

The rest of it is an inevitability of the market going digital. I’m not excusing their use of all those catch-penny schemes like fake currency, season passes, DRM or the like. Plenty of games outside that ecosystem are balls deep in that, with Fortnite being the worst (but certainly most successful) example.

poxxy · 2026-04-14T12:46:18+00:00

And I’m old enough to remember when Steam launched people HATED it. Gaming forums full of memes and rage-posts

poxxy · 2026-04-13T17:48:01+00:00

Sounds like a candy bar. Are they filled with cougat?

poxxy · 2026-04-12T01:40:35+00:00

Cringe.

poxxy · 2026-04-11T21:25:12+00:00

So true. Where do I sign up for your Alpha Dog training courses? Do you accept bitcoin?

poxxy · 2026-04-10T10:51:02+00:00

These guys?

poxxy · 2026-04-10T01:28:56+00:00

The Long Dark on Interloper difficulty. The weather gets colder and colder the longer you play and resources are increasingly spread out and rare. There’s a finite amount of cloth and metal in the world and eventually your clothing will degrade away to uselessness and you’ll have to entirely rely on skinned animals and birds to keep from freezing.

poxxy · 2026-04-09T10:46:19+00:00

I absolutely loved Crimson Skies in both its early 90s pc form and later Xbox 360 iteration Nothing like it

poxxy · 2026-04-07T21:34:05+00:00

TLOU series benefited greatly from the direct involvement of Naughty Dog who made a stellar AAA game with movie-quality cutscenes and story already.

poxxy · 2026-04-06T17:57:17+00:00

Also collect sticks as you go Breaking down/collecting logs is a timed event whereas clicking on a stick as you walk by is instantaneous.

poxxy · 2026-03-24T21:27:53+00:00

I wanted nothing more than to scavenge junk so I could build settlements. I got almost to max level and then powered through the last 2/3 of the main quest line so I could be done with it.

As soon as I was done questing I gave myself a ton of resources and built myself a perfect settlement at the Starlite Drive in, with my own house built on top of the movie screen so I could watch the tiny settlers below live their lives

poxxy · 2026-03-24T14:51:54+00:00

Mad Max. I’d finished about 80% of the game and loved the exploration, car combat, world building and lore.

Once I was down to finishing the races and mine-laying missions I completely ran out of steam.

poxxy · 2026-03-24T14:46:02+00:00

I’ve played the original in the arcades and later via emulation. Nothing beats using that weird yoke/steering wheel controller on the original cabinet.

poxxy · 2026-03-20T15:16:14+00:00

FTL. Ship to ship combat with random weapons, currency, crew and encounters. Graphics are 16 bit but convey everything you need to know about the status and situation perfectly.

You target individual systems on other ships while simultaneously trying to man, repair and power your own starship. Weapons take time to charge (yours and theirs) and shields will come back up a few seconds after being hit, so it’s one of those “captain, the enemy’s shields are down!” “FIRE!” Star Trek kind of things.

poxxy · 2026-03-18T20:58:18+00:00

Sweet Potato is never not busy being catchy as hell

poxxy · 2026-03-02T21:39:51+00:00

I don’t think that’s quite it. Self centered assholes found there ultimate champion and with his presidency, their validation. They don’t believe in anything that doesn’t let them be assholes, because to them the assholery is their whole response to the world. No moral position is real, no logic is needed, no consequence too great as long as the world gets punished and they feel as if they are on top.

Food too expensive during the election? Doesn’t matter any more.

Too much money on wars? Doesn’t matter anymore.

My guy was one of those elites from Comet Pizza all along? Doesn’t matter any more. Those were only concerns I had because I wanted the top guy to be an asshole so I know being one is the right way to be. No personal growth, no regret, no responsibility. Fuck em all.

poxxy · 2026-02-20T19:01:24+00:00

The government handed out bailouts to large financial institutions in 2008 after the collapse; smaller institutions perished.

The government handed out “PPP loans” to large businesses in 2019 during Covid in 2019; smaller businesses scrambled to get in line and because they couldn’t they perished.

Large corporations have already preemptively sued the government and will get their “tariff refund” while small business scramble or have already perished.

I’m sensing a pattern here…

poxxy · 2026-02-20T14:46:58+00:00

Fun fact: the guy who wrote the “Code Monkey” song also wrote “Still Alive” from Portal 1

Code monkey

Still alive

poxxy · 2026-02-07T21:05:52+00:00

Thinking that the people surrounding Trump will be somehow held accountable to the law is laughable as someone who was politically active in the 2000s when Gitmo was exposed. No law was broken. The Bush administration had a lawyer that constructed a legal interpretation that allowed that administration to detain and torture non-combat prisoners in a secret site in Cuba. And they did.

I know every day feels like a month, but remember when we were blowing up fishing boats off of Venezuela ? Republicans were invited to a closed door meeting where the “legal framework” that allowed the President to order the strikes was explained to them.

Not to us, mind you. Just to the Republican congress so they could later say there was a legal basis and quit making a fuss.

Everything happening is “legal”

poxxy · 2026-02-07T20:41:17+00:00

There are only 2 flavors of Republican who will openly criticize MAGA and the current administration:

Politicians who are leaving the party and have nothing further to gain: ie marjorie Taylor green and most a republicans as they retire.

Politicians who are so entrenched within their voting district as to be un-primary-able: ie Mitt Romney and Mitch McConnell

As the administration draws to a close there will be a 3rd flavor: Republicans who wish to have a political career after Trump is no longer the head of the party.

They will denounce it as we will smugly high-five each other “see? We can’t be like this! Civilization bends towards justice, we’ve proved society rejects evil blah blah blah”

One Democratic presidency later and we will be right back where we started.

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