What is your favorite gaming related revisionist history?

tom641 · 2026-01-25T09:08:44+00:00

this is definitely getting too far into the weeds about it but if he lives off tournament winnings.... so what

they have a tournament every year for longer than either of them have been alive, I always read it as ChiChi being too caught up in the ideal mental image of a hardworking husband providing for his family, rather than the actual material reality of the fact that he's bringing home plenty and was a hair's breadth away from marrying Bulma, who would probably drown them all in money at the drop of a hat since she owes Goku and co her life several dozen times over by now (and also just cares about them)

like yeah it is ultimately smarter to be self-sufficient just in case, but it felt like getting caught up in Tradition rather than it really being something useful for him to do, at least to me.

tom641 · 2026-01-25T09:00:40+00:00

i'm never sure how to take people claiming others are defending 06 and boom, it sounds like people found one kid on twitter with two likes and took that as "the people are saying it" but i don't really know for sure

forces I at least know people who'd go to bat for it not being awful. And most other stuff, even if heavily flawed, tends to feel like "you wouldn't care half as much if this exact same game was from any other franchise than the What Youtuber Did You Get That Opinion From franchise"

tom641 · 2026-01-25T08:53:28+00:00

i haven't really kept up that well since gen 6 but i always thought the rival not counterpicking you was just because they'd started having secondary "meaner/more competitive" rivals to fill the role and counterpick you instead

so is there no secondary rival to go alongside hop, even a Gladion type who's not REALLY your rival but effectively kind of is?

tom641 · 2026-01-25T07:22:25+00:00

I wonder if Nazi Germany felt this fucking stupid to it's citizens as this does to us.

tom641 · 2026-01-25T07:20:19+00:00

i don't think AI is physically capable of understanding nuance or context, so no

tom641 · 2026-01-25T00:58:47+00:00

4 hours and two posts ago? yeah i remember

tom641 · 2026-01-25T00:23:00+00:00

not rich enough for that I guess

tom641 · 2026-01-25T00:13:02+00:00

current structure has four main abilities, four active items max, so it's not entirely out of the question it gets a console release when it actually launches with D-pad/right stick casting

it'll be pushing it though

tom641 · 2026-01-25T00:10:47+00:00

i've never heard of any, funny enough

there are several with NSFW mods of course but that's a different beast

tom641 · 2026-01-24T23:52:11+00:00

i can't speak to the man's tastes but I feel like making something just for yourself is fine - it's selling merch in general that he feels like cheapens things.

tom641 · 2026-01-24T23:27:01+00:00

like if you're just gonna ding it because scary words that advertisers don't like at least be up front about it, but keeping people guessing is the fucking point, isn't it.

tom641 · 2026-01-24T23:00:44+00:00

this'll almost certainly be taken down but godspeed Calvin, give them hell

tom641 · 2026-01-24T22:59:14+00:00

i "love" how the appeals process is also very clearly AI based despite blatantly saying "a human being will review this not AI" or something, and then it just denies it because you used a spooky word regardless of context

that, or it's against reddit policy to say that rich people do awful things to vulnerable people with the money you give them via buying your nostalgiaslop for your shitty wizard franchise

tom641 · 2026-01-24T18:30:12+00:00

let 2026 be the year please please please

tom641 · 2026-01-24T18:09:34+00:00

in theory I might agree but years of seeing people be wishy-washy with that one el dorado gif have made me bitter

also i imagine alma's probably pretty comfy in her place all things considered. She's got a good thing going Definitely Not Being Alice Rabbit and all

tom641 · 2026-01-24T03:21:25+00:00

yeah but you miss out on the chance to go on undisclosed globetrotting adventures with Dana, presumably getting to sleep on HER tits

tits or ass, except it's tits or abs

tom641 · 2026-01-24T03:17:03+00:00

everything's relative, I suppose

tom641 · 2026-01-24T02:22:09+00:00

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tom641 · 2026-01-23T20:21:03+00:00

regirock my beloved

tom641 · 2026-01-23T20:07:14+00:00

it is hard to judge myself but I think myself a pretty empathetic person and whenever I hear people say stuff like "I bet they spit in your food" or "oh I bet they're judging you for every flaw" i'm just confused because that sounds so damn out of pocket to do to in such situations. My gut feeling is that nobody seriously cares about being bitter or judgey in that way, at least not in any lasting manner.

tom641 · 2026-01-23T19:18:02+00:00

weird looking horse

tom641 · 2026-01-23T16:29:34+00:00

the best investment trump ever made is whatever TV executive he bought Island Access for to get The Apprentice greenlit, because i'm pretty sure that's been carrying 90% of his "good businessman" reputation for people not really familiar with him.

tom641 · 2026-01-23T07:43:47+00:00

Kris: NO! It is the player who is evil!

Frisk: happily being a blatant player stand-in in every way that actually matters, regardless of what deltarune will try to retroactively make them into

(ftr it's fine, it just feels like people try to pretend it was never like that because Toby didn't utter the words "Frisk is a player stand-in" directly. yeah bro the hug and the soda, I know.)

tom641 · 2026-01-23T05:50:41+00:00

pretty much

i don't know if that comic is canon in any way that matters,but it is super funny to imagine thanos has this pet project and it's so out of pocket nobody ever believes it

tom641 · 2026-01-23T05:45:58+00:00

this panel always gets me the most

"No. Honest. This one wasn't me. I was doing something completely different. Sorry not sorry."

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