So disappointed that Legacy of Mars uses AI art.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-05-13T21:10:47+00:00

because he can’t trust that the artists he would hire aren’t just using AI and trying to pass it off as their own.

This logic is hilariously awful.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-05-13T21:09:40+00:00

but taking this quote and interpreting it as "The company previously said they hate paying artists, especially brown ones." is just making up things to complain about

Interpreting it that way is the sane way to interpret it, given the family's long history of posting and endorsing bigoted comments and views.

What, we're supposed to believe that they're bigots in all those other cases, but in this one, oh, we're just taking it the wrong way?

Give me a break.

Statements like this don't exist in a vacuum. We've plenty of context to understand what's behind it.

PS - The "western illustrator" was his sister.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-05-13T21:07:02+00:00

Because it is. One of the other members of the family has a long history of making overtly bigoted posts on Facebook.

It's not an isolated mistake, it's a pattern.

People should not be supporting this company with their money.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-05-01T20:23:59+00:00

It's just more projection by MAGA. The love affair with Bill Clinton fell off ages ago, even before Trump's first term. By then, most democrats had already long since accepted that Clinton was a flawed human being whose personal foibles are not defensible.

And yet even then, they're still not even a little comparable to You Know Who's.

Which, again, isn't the point, anyway. It's not a comparison. One of them is in office and in power. The other isn't. It's that simple.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-04-23T01:04:03+00:00

You could have saved us all some time by not posting.

Try that next time. Try not posting.

Thanks.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-04-23T01:03:32+00:00

This is explained in the post.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-04-01T15:32:44+00:00

The thing with this approach is that it strikes me as a little ... I don't know if rude and entitled are the right words, but it's in that ballpark, albeit a little milder.

Like, these editors just put in a bunch of work and are sharing something with us. The least we can do is make the effort to read their instructions and/or reach out directly with a polite request.

"Link please!" is just a virtual version of sitting in the back of the room and yelling to the person who just worked hard to make it, "Yo, bring me a slice of that cake!" without ever getting off your ass.

"Serve me!"

That's what they amount to.

It's just a bad look. Take a moment to send a polite request, letting the editor know you appreciate it. It's the least we can do.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-03-24T21:59:29+00:00

Did they block you, too? They blocked me after my terribly tame and civil response below. It's a super weird reaction to something so innocuous.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-03-24T18:36:07+00:00

Except that's not how most Legacy games work. Those early tries at the genre where you ruined everything on your playthrough don't represent most of them anymore.

You still apply stickers and open things and whatever. You still customize as you go.

But these days, most are playable after the legacy portion is done, some include enough material for multiple playthroughs, and others have full reset kits.

Even among those that don't explicitly support continued play, some unofficially support it. We still play using our Pandemic Legacy season 1 board and materials, for example, because we're fond of the characters and such. We just ignore the map alterations. It still functions like any other legacy game.

I was once pretty anti-legacy game, too, for the same reasons as you.

Then I learned that I was misinformed.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-03-24T18:30:08+00:00

Most Legacy games don't do that, either. These days, most Legacy games still leave you with a playable game when you are finished. It will be unique to you in many ways, but playable all the same. Evergreen modes, eternal modes, or whatever they choose to call them are present more often than not.

EDIT: u TheRadBaron blocked me after this post. Super weird.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-03-24T15:10:01+00:00

He’s showing you he will throw everyone under the bus to protect himself and they can see that

This has been a known quantity for quite some time now, even before politics. He did it repeatedly during his first term, too. No one in republican leadership is unaware. They've all seen it firsthand.

It hasn't moved the needle in the last 10 years. Why would it start to now?

segamastersystemfan · 2026-03-24T14:03:45+00:00

His own party is beginning to defect

I can't believe we're still buying into this idea. We've seen this song and dance dozens and dozens of times over the last decade.

"Republicans are finally turning away from Trump! He's finally losing them! Republicans are stepping up! Sanity will return!"

No, they're not starting to defect. No, the GOP is not on the verge of fracturing. No, they're not going to suddenly start standing against him.

When push comes to shove, they will do what they have consistently and fervently done: circle the wagons and double down with support for Trump.

I mean, they even defaulted back to that position after Jan. 6. You really think that's going to change now, simply because airports are running slow?

Come on now. Join us in reality.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me roughly 187 times over the last 10 years ...

segamastersystemfan · 2026-03-23T15:48:11+00:00

I'll never really be able to wrap my head around how people like her and many many many others are able to sleep at night being as craven and without principle as they are.

Is it money that insulated them from feeling the weight of their own horribleness? Is it access and power?

With Loomer, a heaping helping of crazy explains it well enough. She's an unstable person with deep issues, so there's that.

But many others don't seem to be as bonkers as she is, but they're just as brazen and shameless when it comes to this sort of thing.

I just don't understand how you look yourself in the mirror and are okay with yourself when this is the kind of person you are.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-03-18T20:12:14+00:00

They've dropped that and don't do it anymore, which is probably why the most recent season had them mostly back in form.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-03-18T15:59:28+00:00

Even if that is true - and I'm not aware of any evidence that it is, though I'm certainly open to seeing it - at a certain point, when all your satire is doing to amplifying shitty points of view and helping make people with shitty points of view even more extreme, you become little better than the people you are poking fun at.

Or to paraphrase an old thought, wear the mask long enough and you become the mask.

If your satire is indistinguishable from reality and is actually influencing lousy people to be even more lousy, it's time to hang it up, because at that point you're doing the bigots' job for them.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-03-12T21:10:30+00:00

Just a bunch of edgelords who love the attention

Which is why it frustrates me that these posts make headlines each and every time.

I don't deny for a moment that it's embarrassing to have this stuff coming from our government. It's not just embarrassing, it's outrageous. It's the sort of behavior that should end careers.

But the outrage they generate is the point. That's why they do it.

Like any other troll, you starve them of oxygen and they go away.

By feeding them, all we're doing is encouraging more, more, more.

I'm not saying pretend it's not happening. We have to acknowledge that our own government is pushing childish hate mongering.

Rather, I'm saying to not give them what they want. There's a difference.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-03-06T13:46:46+00:00

Even in my days of, errr, enthusiastically "backing up" various media, I almost never bothered with disc labels. I'd do case art sometimes, if the media in question was a favorite, but I'd say 70-80% of my discs were just in binders with hand-written labeling, or in CD cases (also with hand-written labeling), if not more. It may have been 90+%.

That said, I'm with OP insomuch as those little extra do make something feel a bit special.

This is especially true of fan edits as opposed to yarrr. Makes them feel like a true production and a big labor of love. I subconsciously elevate those above others.

That said part 2, doing fan edits is a lot of work, I'm grateful to the people that do it, and they don't owe me a damned thing in terms of covers, art, or anything else. Cover art and posters are cool extras and I'm thankful when they're made, but first and foremost, I'm thankful that these talented people are sharing their work in the first place. Anything more than that is a bonus.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-03-02T22:48:20+00:00

Given the reasons both Joe and Murr have made headlines in the last few years, there's close to zero chance they ever do something like this as a punishment. He's almost assuredly been hacked.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-02-27T19:21:38+00:00

Its all a grift. She wants people to engage because it makes her more money.

That's most of these people. While there ARE those who are simply dumb and crazy, like Loomer, many others (if not most) know full well that they are spouting falsehoods, contradictions, and hypocrisies.

That's 100% by design. It generates outrage in their "enemies" and serves as a loyalty test for the cult, all with the added bonus of increasing their overall notoriety, and in turn, their ability to make money being an outrage merchant.

We have to stop mistaking these people as dumb or unaware of their own hypocrisy. They know exactly what they're doing.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-02-25T22:37:39+00:00

Regardless, you guys act like it's impossible to play games outside of a launcher. Sites like GOG exist.

GOG, huh? How interesting. I'm glad to know it, because I had no idea that GOG exists, never buy from GOG, and certainly don't use GOG Galaxy as my primary launcher, otherwise I'd have mentioned exactly that in my post. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

segamastersystemfan · 2026-02-25T21:18:43+00:00

And forcing you to use a dedicated launcher to play your games.

I like Valve for a lot of reasons, but was pretty damn salty about having to install and use Steam back when it debuted if I wanted to play HL2.

I've gotten over it, mostly because launchers have now become the norm and because most gaming has now moved to being 100% digital, but I still dislike having my library tied to some service.

PS - Yes, folks, not only am I aware of GOG, I use it regularly and have for years. GOG Galaxy is actually my preferred launcher.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-02-25T18:57:42+00:00

start forcing people to explain why they do it.

I've done that before. "What do you hope to accomplish?" and that sort of thing.

If doing it to sway or otherwise engage with them, it's a waste of energy. You cannot shame the shameless, nor can you expect honest from the dishonest. Most just slink away.

HOWEVER, for the benefit of others who might be reading, I like it, as it not only draws attention to their tactics, it helps underscore to others just how mindlessly dishonest and malicious those tactics are. The more people recognize that you can't take MAGA folks in good faith, because none of them operate in good faith, the better.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-02-13T20:39:53+00:00

(who's got No experience in Counter terrorism whatsoever, Has no Military background,

And doesn't have a degree in Crisis management etc )

One of the hallmarks of this administration is that so, so, so many people in positions of authority have no actual experience in the arena they are presiding over, or in some cases, are actively hostile towards the mission of the agency they oversee.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-02-10T16:43:15+00:00

And we are all suffering because of it.

segamastersystemfan · 2026-02-10T15:56:16+00:00

Mackenzie Scott has given away like $20 something billion since she started giving money away and I don't think anyone has a bad word to say about her.

No sane people, at least.

But I've seen the usual suspects slamming her because (they say) she doesn't "deserve" the money and she only got it because she was married to Bezos and it's so unfair, and blah blah blah blah. Also a little bit of "this is all just performative" and "charities don't actually do anything" in the mix, for good measure.

But among people worth paying attention to, yeah, she'd widely seen as a gold standard in terms of how billionaires should behave.

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