They still working though? Battery damage? I can't imagine the next scandal, lol
I found a couple of my old VMUs a while back... Luckily the batteries didn't leak and they worked once i found batteries to try em with! The Dreamcast really was awesome 😌
Exactly. But the reality is the republicans would attack whatever side paints him in a negative light. If Walz was attacking video games the republican spin would be “first they’ll take your guns, THEN they’ll want to tell you how to spend your free time!”
Damn those were the good old days… Setting up my PC as a run through to fool the Dreamcast into thinking my DSL was dialup internet. I played PSO and Shenmue so much my family hated it.
I did some shenanigans back in the day to fake a local network for my xbox 2001, so we could 'LAN' with others over the internet, mostly 2v2 deathmatches. I remember you neede cross-over UTP cables, and we had to learn what that meant. What did your DSL/Dialup switcheroo give you ins PSO and Shenmue? Just regular old multiplayer?? or something like pokemon trading over the link cable?
I did similar for the Xbox lol, and I live in the states, so everything worked fine in both DC games for me.
I was surprised it was that simple, because these days it wouldn’t be as easy. I remember being super safe trying to avoid the save corruption called NOL.
For anyone reading not sure what NOL’ing was:
When the code is enabled, you withdraw a certain item from your bank depending on which slot you want to target. The victim's character then reloads as one of the game's NPC characters. NOL is NPC 00, so she was the default chioce and thus became the generic name for all NPC overwriting. The victim would then have to turn off his Dreamcast to avoid having his character destroyed permanently, and doing so would instead cause him to lose all his unequipped items, since he didn't save.
Auto-save NOLing could either be accomplished by waiting to NOL somebody until he had already entered a teleporter, so that his game would automatically save at the end of the loading screen and destroy his character permanently on its own, or by combining a NOL code with a teleportation code that would forcibly send the victim to another floor after overwriting his data. Once the save is complete, the victim has to delete his character and start over, since his class, level, and inventory are forever replaced by that of the NPC. It was quite common on Oberon, which is why most people would play in locked teams on other ships to hide from the people who used those codes.
Various other codes were also created to improve the efficiency of NOLing other players, such as the "bank reach" code that allowed you to merely face the direction of the bank counter and press the A button to access it, which would allow you to immediately NOL other players after entering a team, instead of having to spend time running from the Hunter's Guild to the Check Room. Other codes would allow you to load your character data at the Telepipe locations instead of the Hunter's Guild when joining a team, so that you would be closer to the bank and not have to run as far.
Dunno where op was but in the UK at least it wasn't possible for the longest time to get the Dreamcast to use a flat rate dial up because Sega did a deal with British Telecom. This made multiplayer pricey af... I know this because my dad was not amused at the £230 phone bill I racked up in the first month of PSO 😅
Ultimate Dark Falz was one thing (3rd form putting your buddies voodoo doll in its mouth so damaging it damaged the player), but Ultimate Olga Flow, yeesh. My brother and I loved that first form, then that second one was always rough.
Exactly. That lets me respect him more. With a more common answer of x-box or playstation, I would have thought "okay, who cares?" And move on. Now I think, man this guy has taste.
Conservatives value conformity; they think they are 'normal', and that being 'normal' is by definition good. Pointing out how fucking weird they are hits them where it hurts
they're trying so hard to turn it around. just listen to anything they say nowadays; it either involves calling democrats or leftists weird, or calling what they do normal.
this is why this word is more potent than anything you could say about them. say they're fascists and draconian, they wear that as a badge of honor. fascists love being feared, fearsomeness is the refuge of the pathetic.
but they can't handle being called weird. the entire conservative mindset is about how a set of nonsense beliefs and traditions are "normal" and everyone who doesn't align with that is degenerate. that's what they're conserving after all, the "normal". once that's turned around and everybody agrees that they're the weird ones they lose their fucking minds.
so now they're trying to call everything the democrats do weird. they're so desperate.
They took "deplorable" as a badge of honor because "deplorable" is a term a high school teacher would use to describe the cool kids who smoke and hang out.
"Weird" is a term the cool kids would use to describe Barbie Bible and her farm boy buddies.
while i generally agree, I'd argue that calling conservatives weird means less "stupid" and more "creepy".
it's not that they're stupid, though they have a tenuous relationship with reality either due to ignorance or deception...
but they're fucking creepy sex obsessed weirdos. that's what weird is about. they're always thinking about people's genitals and who's fucking who, who uses what contraception and what they do with their body. they think about trans people more than trans people think about trans people. they're fucking creeps.
My favorite was that he came out of retirement after 9/11 to rejoin the national guard, but somehow his second retirement was timed to skip out on a deployment.
(My real favorite part of that is they have Corporal One-And-Done from the Public Affairs office trying to cast shade on a 24-year veteran).
I despise Republicans so much. Bro your candidate is a rapist insurrectionist who spent all day in the White House watching TV. Now he's using Twitter's AI to make fake images of himself being popular.
Glad being called "weird" is enraging them this bad, though.
Also there is so little context to this. What counts as "addicted"? Was she just mad, that he wasnt spending enough time with her? Was she maybe just generally against playing video games? Or was he actually addicted? We will never know and its also completely irrelevant information.
I'm really sick of the age thing when it comes to gaming. Tons of middle-aged and older men spend hours watching sportsball every week, but nobody gives them shit.
HE WAS WATCHING SO MUCH SPORTS AND GETTING SO DRUNK HIS WIFE HAD TO UNPLUG THE TV AND THROW THE BEER IN THE TRASH. Isn't that quirky and relatable? Dare I say demure?
Games like Cities: Skylines are perfect for middle-aged and older dads. It fits right into things like fixing up and old car or building some wooden stuff.
But also any games for any people. I'm a 43yo dad who just got my kids interested in hotseat Mass Effect (they don't enjoy doing the combat so much).
This sounds like a great way to spend time with your progeny, my sister and I used to do that with Actraiser. She'd do all the city building and answering prayers, and I did all the combat acts.
The family that plays together stays together.
My dad was a city contractor before he retired and several bridges and roads locally built by his company. When he retired he got really listless and started drinking way too much. So I updated his PC to something reasonable and got him a ton of city builders from Simcity2000 all the way to Cities and Skylines II. Completely turned his time around. I mean he still drinks, but a lot less and he and I always have something to talk about.
So definitely. He was also part of the Navy for 20+ years... People like this and walz actually give me a whole new respect for the people in the military honestly. In the past I actually pictured it as incredibly toxic due to someone I met from the Army.
But, at least in the case of the Navy, everyone I've met or heard about are so incredibly honorable and respectful.. They're literally normal people
Here in Australia everyone watches the AFL (Aussie Footy).
We had a customer who was a major footy player, and it was obvious he was surrounded by "yes men" his whole life. I watched as everyone around me started laughing at everything he said the moment he stepped in the room...
What he was saying at the time really wasn't that hilarious honestly..
And it reminds me of the time we got a phone call from danii minogues family to tell us a "special guest" was coming to our store. The room was full of a bunch of nerds. None of us really cared (even if it was Kylie) lol.. None of us even recognised her. Even my audio engineer friend who works with good celebrities (like she's worked with Tim Minchin) just sees them as normal people (and yeah, she's a gamer)
Yet I guarantee, lots of people super into celebs dislike gamers.
I don't find that anecdote weird, but I do find searching through the life events of some politician to find things to signify that he's weird to be creepy and fucking weird.
But that's par for the course for you, Chuckie, you fucking balloon headed weirdo. Get a real job you mutant potato.
Meh, I wish they had done this with George Santos before he got elected. Being scrutinized is part of the process of running for office. That these are nothing burgers is a good thing.
Yeah and they don't realize that latching on to these nothing issues just shows they don't actually have anything and are grasping at any straws they can see.
I agree with you that scrutiny for public office holders is a necessary part of the process.
However, the angle of scrutiny is what is strange to me. I understand their position in that they definitely are grubby little terminally online weirdos but desperately want to escape being characterized as such and so they're looking for ways to squirm out of it...but their attempts are also weird.
"Angry bitter pathetic woke feminist betraying the white race by refusing to grow up, who actually wants to have kids but is too ugly to attract even a beta cuck"
God I feel filthy just writing that, I can't imagine how people are okay thinking things even a quarter as nasty as that.
It’s a slow slide into that nastiness for them. And the entire time the only thing they’re really concerned about is themselves. They’re pathetic losers
If they have a cat, they must pay the cat tax. That is the law of the Internet. This is why we all need to protest Kamala and get her to pay the cat tax as she is breaking the Cat Tax law.
Playing Dreamcast games. No politics, just him talking about his experiences with the console and shooting the shit with chat. HEAVY MODERATION though. Cause damn.
That stream is super fun to watch. I don't remember any politics being discussed, but I do remember Ilhan Omar's endearing giggle when she killed people as the impostor.
That is quite the laboured attempt at insulting Walz. Like the worst thing you can say about him is that he, like so many humans, got hooked on a video game? You're really not finding anything on this guy, Republicans, you fucking weirdos.
I could be wrong, but i imagine him just furiously playing on the dreamcast and his wife told hil like 5 times to do something and he kept telling her: soon honey. And then she unplugged the dreamcast and they had a good laugh and he jokingly chased her around the house. And they can't stand that, because we know how the other racist wannabe comedian conservative influencer treated his wife. (I can't believe i forgot his name, but don't tell me, it makes me quite happy.)
I don't want to destroy your happiness but I do think it's important people see the video. Everyone should be able to say "oh that horrible guy" if anyone ever brings him up for anything. Dude's career should be destroyed already and nothing but a mere wimper of a passing fart in time. Anyone that listens to his opinion after seeing his real personality at home needs to re-evaluate their influences. He just cares about his position in life and everyone else is just a passing thought he dismisses.
edit: I realized people thought I could be talking about Walz if they were skim reading lol, I'm referencing the conservative influencer wife abuser.
It's impossible to know what anything looks like when your face is that small and your eyes are that close together, you really have no depth perception at all.
I'd say the story shows more character than anything.
Meaning "This politician sometimes knows how to realize when they're obsessed with something and will take steps to make sure they back off of it".
I like when politicians have functioning frontal lobes and can self-moderate. Usually it makes them far less extremist, or likely to be extreme in their viewpoints.
With each new revelation, Walz gets better and more relatable, while Vance gets creepier and weirder. It must be tough for the Republican strategists having to come up with attacks against Walz when this is the kind of material they have to work with.
Tinyface McGhee is trying to dictate who is weird? Talk about pure deflection. That clown is basically in a villain group for talentless weirdos (along with Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Tomi Lahren, Matt Walsh, and Steven Chowder).
And after all the weird shit Kirk and company have pushed over the years, they are gonna have to do a lot better than Walz being hooked on playing a games console.
Exactly, we all get a little too into something from time to time. The fact that his was video games from the 90s is both charming and a reminder that he’s not 80. Also it’s the sort of marital conflict that you see in healthy and happy marriages as opposed to the kind you expect to see in politicians’ marriages
Bumping up on 50 here. I'll be playing something or other before bed tonight, maybe PC maybe PS5... who knows, but it will be fun... and it will actually be IN BED... and in the background will probably be the DNC nomination acceptance speech. It isn't weird, it is relatable...
Also, if he was playing Soulcalibur on Dreamcast then who can blame him. That was one of the few games my attention span actually pushed through from start to finish.
I've never been a GQ model, but I've not yet understood how someone who literally looks like Butthead has become such a focus. I feel like I missed out on being a pundit.
Easily one of the best Dreamcast games imo 🙌 i loved the bowling stage where you try to drift into the pins for a strike... I don't remember how you got there but it was so much fun. That game was also a blast in the arcade in the sit-down style cabinet.
Are they weirded out that he didn't beat her like a conservative man would if his wife did that? And are they going to pretend there aren't countless women fed up with their manchildren conservative husbands?
(I don't remember how the rest of the copypasta goes, because I'm a leftist video game enjoyer and try to distance myself from Gamers®.)
That said this probably won't go anywhere. In the Gamergate days the right wingers kept outright insulting Gamers® and the Gamers® just did some mental gymnastics. Political literacy among Gamers® has gone to even deeper depths since.
Wow, the propagandists have fucking nothing huh? Seeing the bots and troll nets flounder like this is pathetic and fun to watch. Money down the drain for the fascist. You love to see it.
Genius. Gamers are such calm and quiet people and definitely not prone to loud retribution against people they hate. Legally, of course. No gamer has ever perpetuated violence against someone.
I love how they keep trying "no u" as their attempt to counter the weird label democrats have put on the MAGA crowd.
Seems to be working great for them.
You are aware it's more of a computer than a gaming console right? It runs full on Linux. Don't make the mistake I did by going in blind lol. I got it all figured out now but I had great difficulty getting various things to work at first. If you are aware disregard this message I'm just trying to look out for a fellow steam deck bro
The "computer" part is required to install highly recommended add ons for game mode that improve overall deck performance. It's also required for when game mode starts acting off, like when sound suddenly stops playing, for example, or when a game won't run in game mode and needs tweaking. If you want to emulate your games from other consoles, it is also required to maneuver. It's also required for when you inevitably want to start modding your games to get the most out of them. Sure, you can totally avoid it if you want, but you will eventually have to use it. "Decky Loader" is another good example. It unlocks the steam decks potential in many ways, but you need to use desktop mode to get it working in game mode.
Aren't you basically just saying that if you want to do computer things with it, you have to treat it like a computer? None of the stuff you're talking about is even doable on a typical console.
It's NOT a gaming console. It has a GAMING MODE that is similar to one. It basically just emulates the console experience. When GAMING MODE acts up, which it will, desktop mode is usually required to fix it. It's more of a hand-held computer than it is a console.
My issues were just learning to navigate Linux (coming from windows) when I had to problem solve or install recommended add ons. Also "verified" doesn't mean "runs perfectly". For example, BG3 is "verified" but in the city, act 3, the game chugs badly. "Cryotools" helps with that, but you need to go through desktop mode to install it.
I have to assume it's because it's less easily dismissed.
Call Donald Trump a pedophile and it's dismissed as extremism. Call him weird and that's not extreme language, so it helps focus on the behaviour being called weird instead of distracting people with the language being used.
I get what they were going for considering I've known certain people who have been so addicted to specific games that they've ruined their lives but I don't think Walz is in that crowd. He's still married, looks like he's a great father who's involved with his kids and is a more responsible and active politician than 90% of those in politics.
It's such a poor jab. Besides gaming being this mainstream hobby that everyone partakes of these days, there's also the fact that even if he was irresponsible, the youngest two of the voting generations would vibe with it. I know people who overspend their money or ignore reality entirely because they feel helpless. It's a symptom of a problem.
My coworker told me he's spent I think he said $8,000 on Destiny 2. That was half a year ago or more. So more by now. I was so floored that I don't remember the number exactly but it was astronomical. One of the few times in my life I struggled not to show a disrespectful amount of shock or however you wanna put that.
Today he told me his friends are trying to get him into Warframe. But he said he didn't like the idea of not being able to get into the main quests without jumping through hoops. I don't know either game well, but I'm pretty sure that's ironic.
It's escapism for him, I know that much, so it's tangential.
Yeah people meme about it but the addiction exists.
Even before microtransactions were huge on mmos, I remember people letting Runescape ruin them. Knew a guy with 3 daughters who was divorced over it. Had an old friend who wouldn't last more than two weeks at any job cause he'd quit to play and the whole group we played with would get to hear his girlfriend screaming at him over it sometimes (he did get better though).
Now days we have gachas and games with loot boxes so it's even more predatory.
It's a damn shame if we're being real. It reminds me of sports betting. I'm glad your friend has overcome that obstacle. I can't grasp the issue myself because the idea of it offends me, but I recognize addiction and destructive behavior when I see it.
Hopefully things will change for the better. At least in the US, we'll have to wait for a regime change, however that comes about.
Bro, if the Dreamcast taught me anything it's that the world would be threatened by giant lizards anally pleasuring themselves via death-laser equipped space colonies far less often if we could get political figures capable of telling Sonic from Shadow.
Tim Walz has my support. Prevent Biolizards from threatening the planet!
Apperently Walz did get caught drunk driving once, but then stopped drinking entirely. Which reading between the lines sounds like he had a drinking problem and used that ticket as a catalyst to kick the habit entirely, which if that is the case, I have mad respect for him breaking that addiction. Addictions are hard to break
I once heard someone arguing a similar thing back around 2010, and we already thought it was an odd thing to say. Why, yes, grown people do play video games, and certain mechanics are addictive no matter how old you are.
It's just a very dated critique. Like calling someone satanic for collecting Magic Cards or implying they're a loser for spending a summer driving for Uber. Also just very... anti-fun. Same with the "How dare he lead a class trip to visit China!" What high school student body wouldn't have loved to go on a trip like that?
And also, sometimes you get too into your hobbies. If it was the key to his wood shop or his fishing pole it’d be some relatable joke to boomers. Whether it’s that you just got really sucked into a current project/game or you’re struggling and overdoing it with a healthy coping mechanism (I know when I’m burning out my wife has to remind me to take us time or I will be on my bicycle from the time I get home until it’s too dark to bike). This shit happens sometimes.
Well he not only isn’t a college graduate he’s also in his 30s. He was supposed to be targeting people who are now 30 year old taxpayers and instead targeted our grandparents. And yet they still seem to treat him like he has appeal to college students.
I'm sure like many, my 'X' feed has felt injected with right wing posts since Elon took over. Just maybe two or three days ago, I noticed a new trend of posts it was serving to me. This whole weird new trough of posts has been super alpha male vibes and 'hot' women shaming men for playing video games. I legit wonder if this story has anything to do with why that's being targeted at me, a very casual gamer, now.
Just want to remind everyone, deleting your account and leaving the platform is a way to harm the platform that has turned into an enabler of bigoted hatred. And in doing so, stop being an enabler of the known enabler.
Not at all, I've been feeling that it's time to move on for a while now. It's hard to leave because I do care about staying active and up-to-date on political discourse, but this truly doesn't feel like that's what it is any more. It's yelling into a void. I fear for the sake of many less in tune with what political discourse should be that this is the only diet they're being fed anymore. It's a scary path we're headed down. All the love to you as well, stay groovy 🤙
Lol, never said I was important. It can be a great source of information and news and I enjoy staying up-to-date on stories big and small. That's the hard part to walk away from. Take 'er down a notch.
Conservatives appearantly are trying to appeal to the crusty vampires who peaked in the 60's and think Pong is too new school to be trifled with voting block...
They attacked cat ladies, grandmas, the swifties, and now gamers. Are they going to attack the Palestinians and the undecided movement (some more) just to be sure?
All it's ever used for is the odd Quake 3 game; for people to play Metropolis Street Racer on it when they ask what console it is; and serving as a reminder that I really need to set a week aside for playing Shenmue III.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
If you want the anime crowd to hate the republicans, then remind them which party made (and which former vice president helped to author it) the PROTECT Act (the law that put loli/shota into a legally gray area, as it's still subject to the Miller test).
Honestly? The idea that his wife had to pull a mom move on him? Yeah, a little bit weird to me.
I'd like to say that's because I have enough self-control to not get that far-gone, but it's probably more that my wife is more likely to join me, rather than stop me.
This is weird tho aside from context. 35olds should have some semblance of grasp on life generally or at least pretend cause no woman wants to be nanny in relship.
No offense, but are you married? Sometimes silly little disagreements can escalate like this, and then one partner will declare the other "right all along" to keep the peace.
I guess it can happen so the important thing if this is some kind of exception or the rule. If it is the rule then like who wants to be with such manchild? No ones got the patience for that stuff
FWIW, the genisis game out in 1989 in the US. he would have been 25. So. like. if he was playing the console a decade after it released.... he'd have been 35....
Naw. But 4yro me has lots of fun memories on the genesis. Never played on the Dreamcast, so I looked the genesis up. Incidentally, it was my uncles and he’d be about the same age as walz.
(Cooler, though. Unless walz had the full start trek collection on VHS,)
No stock, bonds, or investments of any kind.
No real estate
No home!
No 401k!
He owns literally nothing.
Tim waltz in a financially illiterate scrub. Not exactly someone I have confidence in to help run the economy of even a state, much less the whole country!
Just because someone isn't on your political side, you shouldn't jump to the conclusion that they are for the other side. I hate politics in general. It just so happens, on the whole, social media is mainly left of center. Hence, there are more people here spouting ignorant liberal dogma than conservatives spouting their own ignorant dogma.
But seriously, politics is dividing people more than ever, and that is not a good thing! My wish is that people would stop finding their identity in being "left" or "right"
Sorry if criticism of a politician makes you feel some sort of way. Every politician needs to be criticized. Lemme lay something out.
Tim waltz (and family) finances. Facts: Tim owns no stock, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs. He owns no real estate, investment property, or otherwise (neither does his wife). He also has no 401k, IRA, or any retirement fund. His net worth is estimated to be 115,000$ to 330,000$. All this is not great, considering he's 60(ish?) nearing retirement. the average net worth for congresspeople and senators is around $1 million. His only legitimate source of income is his pension.
Pros or cons, we can decide for ourselves if all this makes him a better candidate for VP or not. We can make some assumptions, and one assumption I can make is that waltz personally seems to be financially ignorant.
There are other pros and cons about Waltz, but as far as finances, Tim Waltz is a scrub. And I think that these facts are very important when considering electing him into a position where he's at the controls for financial decisions for an ENTIRE country... whatever side you lean toward, all this should be concerning.
I like him even more now
I know right? The Dreamcast was awesome.
I still remember how exciting it was to see/hear the boot-up screen 😄
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rHmwksG_98Y
Piracy was rampant on it though. Kind of feel bad having contributed to that but I was a poor teenager.
There’s a non-zero chance that Tim Walz still has his VMUs.
They still working though? Battery damage? I can't imagine the next scandal, lol
I found a couple of my old VMUs a while back... Luckily the batteries didn't leak and they worked once i found batteries to try em with! The Dreamcast really was awesome 😌
Pretty sure all my Chaos from Sonic Adventure are long dead by now.
Exactly. But the reality is the republicans would attack whatever side paints him in a negative light. If Walz was attacking video games the republican spin would be “first they’ll take your guns, THEN they’ll want to tell you how to spend your free time!”
Walz likes video games? Like a third of the entire planet does? What a weirdo, so unrelatable.
188.9 million Americans are gamers. What a stupidly broad attack.
Walz is the guy who will join your 3 man group in Phantasy Star Online at 2 AM to go take down Dark Falz.
Walz manages to save your quarter from getting stuck behind the frame for the top display of the arcade cabinet, and lets you have next.
If “I was born in the 80s” were a comment…
Born in the 80s is more the NES and SNES times. That's gotta be born in the 70s.
What? I was born mid-80s and spent a lot of time in the arcades growing up.
But how much time did you spend at the drugstore?
"Back in those days, we called quarters 'arcade tokens', and they had pictures of Pac-Man on them! 'Gimme five Pac-Mans for the arcade', you'd say."
Damn those were the good old days… Setting up my PC as a run through to fool the Dreamcast into thinking my DSL was dialup internet. I played PSO and Shenmue so much my family hated it.
I did some shenanigans back in the day to fake a local network for my xbox 2001, so we could 'LAN' with others over the internet, mostly 2v2 deathmatches. I remember you neede cross-over UTP cables, and we had to learn what that meant. What did your DSL/Dialup switcheroo give you ins PSO and Shenmue? Just regular old multiplayer?? or something like pokemon trading over the link cable?
XBConnect! I 'member!
I did similar for the Xbox lol, and I live in the states, so everything worked fine in both DC games for me.
I was surprised it was that simple, because these days it wouldn’t be as easy. I remember being super safe trying to avoid the save corruption called NOL.
For anyone reading not sure what NOL’ing was:
Dunno where op was but in the UK at least it wasn't possible for the longest time to get the Dreamcast to use a flat rate dial up because Sega did a deal with British Telecom. This made multiplayer pricey af... I know this because my dad was not amused at the £230 phone bill I racked up in the first month of PSO 😅
OMG yes. I loved PSO.
Ultimate Dark Falz was one thing (3rd form putting your buddies voodoo doll in its mouth so damaging it damaged the player), but Ultimate Olga Flow, yeesh. My brother and I loved that first form, then that second one was always rough.
ig man, I lived that game. maybe I should return to it at some point
My god, you have incited my urge to pick up that game again
Been emulating it on the Steam Deck all week. :)
Hell yeah! That's how I have it set up
Walz the kind of VP to join the ARMA 3 session and play medic
The fact that’s it was the Dreamcast of all consoles puts so much respect on it tbh.
you just know this man was up all night playing phantasy star online with that wide ass dreamcast keyboard
I remember being a teenager PC gamer in that era and going, "I really want a Dreamcast to play games with a mouse & keyboard". I was a weird kid.
Getting all the unlocks in MvC2 and Power Stone, also too many games of Lucky hit.
Hi, Ryo!!!
Hi, Tom. Do you know where sailors hang out?
Exactly. That lets me respect him more. With a more common answer of x-box or playstation, I would have thought "okay, who cares?" And move on. Now I think, man this guy has taste.
You have no idea
The republicans really, really do hate being called weird, don’t they.
Conservatives value conformity; they think they are 'normal', and that being 'normal' is by definition good. Pointing out how fucking weird they are hits them where it hurts
this is much more concise than my comment. and i edited out a couple paragraphs.
they're trying so hard to turn it around. just listen to anything they say nowadays; it either involves calling democrats or leftists weird, or calling what they do normal.
this is why this word is more potent than anything you could say about them. say they're fascists and draconian, they wear that as a badge of honor. fascists love being feared, fearsomeness is the refuge of the pathetic.
but they can't handle being called weird. the entire conservative mindset is about how a set of nonsense beliefs and traditions are "normal" and everyone who doesn't align with that is degenerate. that's what they're conserving after all, the "normal". once that's turned around and everybody agrees that they're the weird ones they lose their fucking minds.
so now they're trying to call everything the democrats do weird. they're so desperate.
This guy gets it.
They took "deplorable" as a badge of honor because "deplorable" is a term a high school teacher would use to describe the cool kids who smoke and hang out.
"Weird" is a term the cool kids would use to describe Barbie Bible and her farm boy buddies.
while i generally agree, I'd argue that calling conservatives weird means less "stupid" and more "creepy".
it's not that they're stupid, though they have a tenuous relationship with reality either due to ignorance or deception...
but they're fucking creepy sex obsessed weirdos. that's what weird is about. they're always thinking about people's genitals and who's fucking who, who uses what contraception and what they do with their body. they think about trans people more than trans people think about trans people. they're fucking creeps.
Yeah it’s one of the elements of the authoritarian personality, and it’s fucking weird. It’s weird like someone in the bushes outside your bedroom.
Problem is most leftists embrace the weirdness because we’re proud of being unique. Right wingers are the ones who want to be clones.
My favorite was that he came out of retirement after 9/11 to rejoin the national guard, but somehow his second retirement was timed to skip out on a deployment.
(My real favorite part of that is they have Corporal One-And-Done from the Public Affairs office trying to cast shade on a 24-year veteran).
And they say this while ignoring that their guy dodged vietnam because of made up bone spurs.
Trump is absolutely the weirdest and they want to be just like him
I despise Republicans so much. Bro your candidate is a rapist insurrectionist who spent all day in the White House watching TV. Now he's using Twitter's AI to make fake images of himself being popular.
Glad being called "weird" is enraging them this bad, though.
No charlie, that's not that weird. In fact it happens all the time.
With normal people at least.
Also there is so little context to this. What counts as "addicted"? Was she just mad, that he wasnt spending enough time with her? Was she maybe just generally against playing video games? Or was he actually addicted? We will never know and its also completely irrelevant information.
Bingo! Rich people don't need games, their lives are a fucking game. The rest of us use them to relax and escape.
Also there's like good weird and bad weird. This is good weird. Bad weird is having your name on Jeffery Epstein's flight logs.
Dude... he has a fucking Dreamcast? Tim Walz is the dad I never had.
Every attack they try just makes Walz seem cooler
We call this the Hunter's Dick Effect
Well, not anymore.
I'm really sick of the age thing when it comes to gaming. Tons of middle-aged and older men spend hours watching sportsball every week, but nobody gives them shit.
HE WAS WATCHING SO MUCH SPORTS AND GETTING SO DRUNK HIS WIFE HAD TO UNPLUG THE TV AND THROW THE BEER IN THE TRASH. Isn't that quirky and relatable? Dare I say demure?
I overheard a probably-55 yo guy saying something about playing Assassin's Creed this morning. Games are for everybody.
My dad is 72 and builds amazing stuff in Cities and Skylines
Games like Cities: Skylines are perfect for middle-aged and older dads. It fits right into things like fixing up and old car or building some wooden stuff.
But also any games for any people. I'm a 43yo dad who just got my kids interested in hotseat Mass Effect (they don't enjoy doing the combat so much).
This sounds like a great way to spend time with your progeny, my sister and I used to do that with Actraiser. She'd do all the city building and answering prayers, and I did all the combat acts.
The family that plays together stays together.
My dad was a city contractor before he retired and several bridges and roads locally built by his company. When he retired he got really listless and started drinking way too much. So I updated his PC to something reasonable and got him a ton of city builders from Simcity2000 all the way to Cities and Skylines II. Completely turned his time around. I mean he still drinks, but a lot less and he and I always have something to talk about.
I was watching youtube yesterday, and some elderly 72 year old gamer actually came up.. https://www.youtube.com/c/GrandpaGaming
So definitely. He was also part of the Navy for 20+ years... People like this and walz actually give me a whole new respect for the people in the military honestly. In the past I actually pictured it as incredibly toxic due to someone I met from the Army.
But, at least in the case of the Navy, everyone I've met or heard about are so incredibly honorable and respectful.. They're literally normal people
I bet people said the same thing when baseball just started pro leagues.
'It's a children's game, they'll grow out of it as they mature'...
God yes..
Here in Australia everyone watches the AFL (Aussie Footy).
We had a customer who was a major footy player, and it was obvious he was surrounded by "yes men" his whole life. I watched as everyone around me started laughing at everything he said the moment he stepped in the room...
What he was saying at the time really wasn't that hilarious honestly..
And it reminds me of the time we got a phone call from danii minogues family to tell us a "special guest" was coming to our store. The room was full of a bunch of nerds. None of us really cared (even if it was Kylie) lol.. None of us even recognised her. Even my audio engineer friend who works with good celebrities (like she's worked with Tim Minchin) just sees them as normal people (and yeah, she's a gamer)
Yet I guarantee, lots of people super into celebs dislike gamers.
☝️🤓 akshully sportsball bad
That wasnt their point and ya damned well know it. Ya aint being quirky youre being obnoxious.
Agreed
Depends who’s finger
This just makes me respect him more.
Dreamcast was a fantastic console, but it didn't have much success in the US due to poor marketing decisions.
The fact that Waltz recognized its value back then shows good judgement IMO.
thps was best played on the Dreamcast IMO.
I wonder who his favorite skater was and why it was Kareem Campbell
It's thinking
Uhm.. I suck. Nevermind.
I don't find that anecdote weird, but I do find searching through the life events of some politician to find things to signify that he's weird to be creepy and fucking weird.
But that's par for the course for you, Chuckie, you fucking balloon headed weirdo. Get a real job you mutant potato.
Meh, I wish they had done this with George Santos before he got elected. Being scrutinized is part of the process of running for office. That these are nothing burgers is a good thing.
Yeah and they don't realize that latching on to these nothing issues just shows they don't actually have anything and are grasping at any straws they can see.
I agree with you that scrutiny for public office holders is a necessary part of the process.
However, the angle of scrutiny is what is strange to me. I understand their position in that they definitely are grubby little terminally online weirdos but desperately want to escape being characterized as such and so they're looking for ways to squirm out of it...but their attempts are also weird.
He supports a criminal who openly lusts for his own daughter.
But please, tell me how too much video games is the issue here.
Thought you meant Hulk Hogan until I realized you meant the Commander-in-Cheetoh.
It's difficult to tell the difference between pieces of shit.
Wonder how Kirk and weirdo conservatives feel about women who play video games a lot?
Do you think their heads would explode? What if they're voluntarily childless, have a cat, and play video games?
"Angry bitter pathetic woke feminist betraying the white race by refusing to grow up, who actually wants to have kids but is too ugly to attract even a beta cuck"
God I feel filthy just writing that, I can't imagine how people are okay thinking things even a quarter as nasty as that.
It’s a slow slide into that nastiness for them. And the entire time the only thing they’re really concerned about is themselves. They’re pathetic losers
If they have a cat, they must pay the cat tax. That is the law of the Internet. This is why we all need to protest Kamala and get her to pay the cat tax as she is breaking the Cat Tax law.
Women don't have rights in their America so I guess they would make them turn if off or send them to the camps.
Imagine:
You enjoy your hobbies. And you have a good enough relationship with your spouse that you’re able to keep each other accountable in simple small ways.
What a weird way to live!
Not only that, but also to have a sense of humor and understanding about it.
Oh, so Gwen Walz hiding Tim's Dreamcast so he's not tempted to waste away a Sunday playing Powerstone is normal?
But then Mike Johnson having his son install an app on his phone to sound an alarm when the Speaker of the House looks at porn is weird?
Pretty revealing double standard.
All politics aside, one of those scenarios in today’s America is objectively fucking weird. I see no double standard.
On the scale of "weird shit"
Being addicted to videogames<fucking couches
Playing games on the couch: normal. Playing games with the couch: weird.
Playing video games while you're on the couch: weird
Sitting on the couch over the split of the cushions you just splooged into without cleaning it up...
...that's just a Thursday evening for Vance.
Walz should host a Twitch stream
Playing Dreamcast games. No politics, just him talking about his experiences with the console and shooting the shit with chat. HEAVY MODERATION though. Cause damn.
Just get AOC's people on it - she did an Among Us stream a few years ago.
That stream is super fun to watch. I don't remember any politics being discussed, but I do remember Ilhan Omar's endearing giggle when she killed people as the impostor.
The new Crazy Taxi is almost ready for release. Sounds like the perfect way to preview it for the fans.
Holy shit this would be genius and they'd raise so much money.
Didn't AOC do that with LoL?
It would certainly be very highly watched
I thought I heard the Harris campaign was going to launch a Twitch channel?
They targeted gamers. Gamers.
You mean Tim Walz is one of us?
Way to lose the gamer vote, Trump
Kirk should be very careful about accusing anyone of being weird, a liar or a racist - those are qualities he has on his own resume.
Wow
Being racist isn't weird to them. It's the only reason they like him
Yeah but he was not really being raciat in the instance I pointed out.
The kid said it - that's trouble
I already like Walz you don't have to sell me on him.
That is quite the laboured attempt at insulting Walz. Like the worst thing you can say about him is that he, like so many humans, got hooked on a video game? You're really not finding anything on this guy, Republicans, you fucking weirdos.
I could be wrong, but i imagine him just furiously playing on the dreamcast and his wife told hil like 5 times to do something and he kept telling her: soon honey. And then she unplugged the dreamcast and they had a good laugh and he jokingly chased her around the house. And they can't stand that, because we know how the other racist wannabe comedian conservative influencer treated his wife. (I can't believe i forgot his name, but don't tell me, it makes me quite happy.)
I don't want to destroy your happiness but I do think it's important people see the video. Everyone should be able to say "oh that horrible guy" if anyone ever brings him up for anything. Dude's career should be destroyed already and nothing but a mere wimper of a passing fart in time. Anyone that listens to his opinion after seeing his real personality at home needs to re-evaluate their influences. He just cares about his position in life and everyone else is just a passing thought he dismisses.
edit: I realized people thought I could be talking about Walz if they were skim reading lol, I'm referencing the conservative influencer wife abuser.
They're trying to turn weird around? Fucking LMFAO!
Is the defense familiar with the "I'm rubber, you're glue" gambit?
Kirk apparently doesn't even know what normal looks like!
It's impossible to know what anything looks like when your face is that small and your eyes are that close together, you really have no depth perception at all.
Haven't they ever heard of the Streisand Effect?
I'd say the story shows more character than anything.
Meaning "This politician sometimes knows how to realize when they're obsessed with something and will take steps to make sure they back off of it".
I like when politicians have functioning frontal lobes and can self-moderate. Usually it makes them far less extremist, or likely to be extreme in their viewpoints.
With each new revelation, Walz gets better and more relatable, while Vance gets creepier and weirder. It must be tough for the Republican strategists having to come up with attacks against Walz when this is the kind of material they have to work with.
Tinyface McGhee is trying to dictate who is weird? Talk about pure deflection. That clown is basically in a villain group for talentless weirdos (along with Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Tomi Lahren, Matt Walsh, and Steven Chowder).
And after all the weird shit Kirk and company have pushed over the years, they are gonna have to do a lot better than Walz being hooked on playing a games console.
Exactly, we all get a little too into something from time to time. The fact that his was video games from the 90s is both charming and a reminder that he’s not 80. Also it’s the sort of marital conflict that you see in healthy and happy marriages as opposed to the kind you expect to see in politicians’ marriages
Oh yeah that fucking loser Charlie Kirk is going to call other people weird. Nah.
Just a reminder he did this
It's almost spectacular someone could induce so hard a cringe.
I remember those days. The era of “wait you really should be embarrassed by this, why are you not embarrassed by how you’re acting?”
That's oddly topical this election
Is this the same guy that shoved stuff up his ass on camera to prove he was a man or whatever?
That was proud boys founder Gavin mcinnes.
Bumping up on 50 here. I'll be playing something or other before bed tonight, maybe PC maybe PS5... who knows, but it will be fun... and it will actually be IN BED... and in the background will probably be the DNC nomination acceptance speech. It isn't weird, it is relatable...
Also, if he was playing Soulcalibur on Dreamcast then who can blame him. That was one of the few games my attention span actually pushed through from start to finish.
I've never been a GQ model, but I've not yet understood how someone who literally looks like Butthead has become such a focus. I feel like I missed out on being a pundit.
GAME ON FOREVER MY FRIENDS
Fellow GenX Gamer! Good to see the One Button Generation still representing.
And Soul Calibur was the REASON I bought a dreamcast lol!
Been playing Elden Ring all day, helping others in their games. Between summons I've been watching DNC clips and hyping HarrisWalz on twitter.
THEY CAN TAKE MY CONTROLLER WHEN THEY PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD, DORITO STAINED HANDS!
I'm playing cs2 with my dad. I'm 40.
Dang, I wonder if Coach was really into Crazy Taxi. Or maybe Space Channel 5? 🛸
Soul Calibur
Shenmue
Hey, uh, I'm looking for some sailors. Do you know where I can find them?
Gotta be Powerstone
Hell yes! Loved Powerstone 1 and 2!
Jet Grind Radio (Jet Set Radio for international players).
Nah 100% PSO, staying up stupid late with the guys to do one more run for that bazooka with a 0.001% drop rate
Hey hey, come on over, have some fun with Crrrrazy Taxi!
🎵Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
Easily one of the best Dreamcast games imo 🙌 i loved the bowling stage where you try to drift into the pins for a strike... I don't remember how you got there but it was so much fun. That game was also a blast in the arcade in the sit-down style cabinet.
Skies of Arcadia
And now all I can think of is Jello apocalypse bits.
Rain of swords!
nba 2k. when it was good.
Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2
Come on Lemmy, it is in the contract:
https://blovish.github.io/kirkslider/
This is art.
There's no way 100% is standard Kirkface. 108% looks normal but I'd take 104% as a standard.
I will admit I don't look at this dude face that often but 108 seems off, i can't put my finger on it but it just does. I'd meet you at 104 though
I settled on 44% & was quite pleased with the result.
Oh no, I meant 108% is a normal face. I think 104% is standard Kirkface.
Edit: I took a shower, ate lunch, and commented previously before revisiting the Kirkface slider. 108% is abnormal for normal face.
About 68% just made me wheeze with laughter.
What a very weird, sad thing for a very weird, sad person to say.
Anyway, my Saturn crawled so that the Dreamcast could fly.
Are they weirded out that he didn't beat her like a conservative man would if his wife did that? And are they going to pretend there aren't countless women fed up with their manchildren conservative husbands?
They attacked gamers.
Gamers.
(I don't remember how the rest of the copypasta goes, because I'm a leftist video game enjoyer and try to distance myself from Gamers®.)
That said this probably won't go anywhere. In the Gamergate days the right wingers kept outright insulting Gamers® and the Gamers® just did some mental gymnastics. Political literacy among Gamers® has gone to even deeper depths since.
It's good not to make copypasta a standard here as well. There are tons of places for it already.
The stuff they say is cringe af. They try SO HARD.
I was pretty addicted to league and my wife had to give me an ultimatum. It was affecting my sleep and work.
I haven't touched that crack in 8 months.
They attacked gamers. Gamers.
This is clearly an attempt to make a second Gamergate happen.
This Charlie Kirk guy seems to be counter productive to the GOP.
So far, I've seen him antagonizing:
Not that I'm complaining...
Dude, Trump pissed off the swifties and then followed that up by kicking the beyhive. I think he's trying to crack the earth in half.
I think he's gonna get his head cracked in half.
Wow, the propagandists have fucking nothing huh? Seeing the bots and troll nets flounder like this is pathetic and fun to watch. Money down the drain for the fascist. You love to see it.
Genius. Gamers are such calm and quiet people and definitely not prone to loud retribution against people they hate. Legally, of course. No gamer has ever perpetuated violence against someone.
They let the SWAT teams do it for them.
I love how they keep trying "no u" as their attempt to counter the weird label democrats have put on the MAGA crowd. Seems to be working great for them.
I can't keep my racists straight, is Charlie the one who picks boogers to the point of blood or is that Nick?
Anyway, I like video games. Looking to get a steam deck so I can sit with the wife.
Charlie is the one where you can't tell if he's got a giant head, a tiny face, or both.
whispering voice says "little biiiiiits"
10/10 Deck. They're consoles made for adults.
We love ours!
You are aware it's more of a computer than a gaming console right? It runs full on Linux. Don't make the mistake I did by going in blind lol. I got it all figured out now but I had great difficulty getting various things to work at first. If you are aware disregard this message I'm just trying to look out for a fellow steam deck bro
the 'computer' part of it is hidden away behind a menu, you can absolutely use the steam deck without ever touching it
The "computer" part is required to install highly recommended add ons for game mode that improve overall deck performance. It's also required for when game mode starts acting off, like when sound suddenly stops playing, for example, or when a game won't run in game mode and needs tweaking. If you want to emulate your games from other consoles, it is also required to maneuver. It's also required for when you inevitably want to start modding your games to get the most out of them. Sure, you can totally avoid it if you want, but you will eventually have to use it. "Decky Loader" is another good example. It unlocks the steam decks potential in many ways, but you need to use desktop mode to get it working in game mode.
What an odd thing to downvote lol
Aren't you basically just saying that if you want to do computer things with it, you have to treat it like a computer? None of the stuff you're talking about is even doable on a typical console.
It's NOT a gaming console. It has a GAMING MODE that is similar to one. It basically just emulates the console experience. When GAMING MODE acts up, which it will, desktop mode is usually required to fix it. It's more of a hand-held computer than it is a console.
What did you have difficulty with? For "verified" titles the deck is basically 100% a console experience.
My issues were just learning to navigate Linux (coming from windows) when I had to problem solve or install recommended add ons. Also "verified" doesn't mean "runs perfectly". For example, BG3 is "verified" but in the city, act 3, the game chugs badly. "Cryotools" helps with that, but you need to go through desktop mode to install it.
Ahh... So it was too easy to mod. Got it.
I mean yeah it's pretty simple once you figure it out. I had just never used Linux before.
I'd rather a politician be addicted to Dreamcast than cocaine.
Ah. Trying to switcheroo the weird insult to imply they aren't the weird ones. Clever girl.
They really don't like that they're being called weird.
It's funny that amidst EVERYTHING they've been called, "weird" is beyond the line.
I have to assume it's because it's less easily dismissed.
Call Donald Trump a pedophile and it's dismissed as extremism. Call him weird and that's not extreme language, so it helps focus on the behaviour being called weird instead of distracting people with the language being used.
Keep watching and you might notice this is part of a larger pattern with conservatives. It's related to the "every accusation is a confession" thing.
It's hateporn addicts blaming someone else for being addicted to something.
“Conservatives try owning the insult!
It wasn’t very effective.”
In other words, "I am rubber, you are glue"
I get what they were going for considering I've known certain people who have been so addicted to specific games that they've ruined their lives but I don't think Walz is in that crowd. He's still married, looks like he's a great father who's involved with his kids and is a more responsible and active politician than 90% of those in politics.
It's such a poor jab. Besides gaming being this mainstream hobby that everyone partakes of these days, there's also the fact that even if he was irresponsible, the youngest two of the voting generations would vibe with it. I know people who overspend their money or ignore reality entirely because they feel helpless. It's a symptom of a problem.
Poor guy couldn't stop gaming. Ruined his life. Ended up becoming a governor, and soon to be VP. CANCEL SEGA.
In a different universe:
'Timmy, you need to keep playing if you want a chance in government!'
'But mom I don't wanna! Can't I just do a few more pages of homework?'
'Young man you will pick up that controller and beat that boss or no dinner for you, please consider your future!!'
My coworker told me he's spent I think he said $8,000 on Destiny 2. That was half a year ago or more. So more by now. I was so floored that I don't remember the number exactly but it was astronomical. One of the few times in my life I struggled not to show a disrespectful amount of shock or however you wanna put that.
Today he told me his friends are trying to get him into Warframe. But he said he didn't like the idea of not being able to get into the main quests without jumping through hoops. I don't know either game well, but I'm pretty sure that's ironic.
It's escapism for him, I know that much, so it's tangential.
Yeah people meme about it but the addiction exists.
Even before microtransactions were huge on mmos, I remember people letting Runescape ruin them. Knew a guy with 3 daughters who was divorced over it. Had an old friend who wouldn't last more than two weeks at any job cause he'd quit to play and the whole group we played with would get to hear his girlfriend screaming at him over it sometimes (he did get better though).
Now days we have gachas and games with loot boxes so it's even more predatory.
It's a damn shame if we're being real. It reminds me of sports betting. I'm glad your friend has overcome that obstacle. I can't grasp the issue myself because the idea of it offends me, but I recognize addiction and destructive behavior when I see it.
Hopefully things will change for the better. At least in the US, we'll have to wait for a regime change, however that comes about.
Australia is certainly a harbinger.
Bro, if the Dreamcast taught me anything it's that the world would be threatened by giant lizards anally pleasuring themselves via death-laser equipped space colonies far less often if we could get political figures capable of telling Sonic from Shadow.
Tim Walz has my support. Prevent Biolizards from threatening the planet!
Poor Charlie never had a dweamcast... 😫
Real men get addicted to booze, pain pills and fox
Apperently Walz did get caught drunk driving once, but then stopped drinking entirely. Which reading between the lines sounds like he had a drinking problem and used that ticket as a catalyst to kick the habit entirely, which if that is the case, I have mad respect for him breaking that addiction. Addictions are hard to break
Omg he's literally me
I once heard someone arguing a similar thing back around 2010, and we already thought it was an odd thing to say. Why, yes, grown people do play video games, and certain mechanics are addictive no matter how old you are.
It's just a very dated critique. Like calling someone satanic for collecting Magic Cards or implying they're a loser for spending a summer driving for Uber. Also just very... anti-fun. Same with the "How dare he lead a class trip to visit China!" What high school student body wouldn't have loved to go on a trip like that?
And also, sometimes you get too into your hobbies. If it was the key to his wood shop or his fishing pole it’d be some relatable joke to boomers. Whether it’s that you just got really sucked into a current project/game or you’re struggling and overdoing it with a healthy coping mechanism (I know when I’m burning out my wife has to remind me to take us time or I will be on my bicycle from the time I get home until it’s too dark to bike). This shit happens sometimes.
For Walz, it was apparently Crazy Taxi, so yeah, you can totally see how that'd happen.
Your face is weird. Like, really.
Powerstone was fucking awesome. And Soul Calibur.
Just remember that Charlie is an extra special flavor of stupid. That oversized head of his is filled with more bullshit than he spews
Or it's empty. Only reason I'd say otherwise is with that much empty space the little shit would drift off uncontrollably.
But, did she give it back?
Maybe if he wins the election, he'll get it back 😜
...said the normal man who's been a Koch Brothers funded propagandist since he was 18, normally.
Lmao they're trying so hard.
"I'm not weird, you're weird!"
Charlie Kirk, would be school shooter.
Well he not only isn’t a college graduate he’s also in his 30s. He was supposed to be targeting people who are now 30 year old taxpayers and instead targeted our grandparents. And yet they still seem to treat him like he has appeal to college students.
Please tell me he played Sonic Adventure that would be very awesome!
Their best guess is that it was Crazy Taxi. Can’t blame him if so.
I think the GOP know it as weirdy taxi
I'm sure like many, my 'X' feed has felt injected with right wing posts since Elon took over. Just maybe two or three days ago, I noticed a new trend of posts it was serving to me. This whole weird new trough of posts has been super alpha male vibes and 'hot' women shaming men for playing video games. I legit wonder if this story has anything to do with why that's being targeted at me, a very casual gamer, now.
Just want to remind everyone, deleting your account and leaving the platform is a way to harm the platform that has turned into an enabler of bigoted hatred. And in doing so, stop being an enabler of the known enabler.
You're 100% right.
Hot and fresh memes for breakfast
I know it's a meme, but it feels very plausible for Bernie to actually say that.
I hope you didn't feel attacked or criticized. Sometimes people just need to hear that they CAN leave. Regardless of what we are talking about.
Nothing but love to you.
Not at all, I've been feeling that it's time to move on for a while now. It's hard to leave because I do care about staying active and up-to-date on political discourse, but this truly doesn't feel like that's what it is any more. It's yelling into a void. I fear for the sake of many less in tune with what political discourse should be that this is the only diet they're being fed anymore. It's a scary path we're headed down. All the love to you as well, stay groovy 🤙
Just fucking delete it. You're not that important and anything you do on there supports Musk. Delete it and walk away.
Lol, never said I was important. It can be a great source of information and news and I enjoy staying up-to-date on stories big and small. That's the hard part to walk away from. Take 'er down a notch.
I fail to see that as both true nor necessary. Take it up a notch and stop being a bitch.
Charlie Kirk is both sad and weird
But what is a woman?
And if you vote for Democrats you're all gonna get free healthcare too! The horror!
I love how US political discourse has devolved into who can call the other party 'weird'
One side really really flips out when you call them that.
Charlie Kirk struggling to be relatable as ever
Getting a little addicted to video games is normal, even for men in their 30s. What's not normal is peeing on prostitutes in a bed Obama slept in.
What the hell? Where does this context come from?
The supposed contents of the infamous "pee tape"
Ha wow I never knew of that, TIL
9/9/99 rise up!
Conservatives appearantly are trying to appeal to the crusty vampires who peaked in the 60's and think Pong is too new school to be trifled with voting block...
Depends on what he was addicted to. Soul caliber? Not weird. Seaman? Weird. Yes, hide the console!
They attacked cat ladies, grandmas, the swifties, and now gamers. Are they going to attack the Palestinians and the undecided movement (some more) just to be sure?
Is he the rubber and we, the glue?? 😢
The rubber is what his dad should have worn.
Kirk has to still be a virgin.
These weirdos are so weird that every time they try to call someone else out for being weird it just shows how weird they are instead.
Shenmue 4 lyf
if it was Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense hes got my vote.
Isn't it sad and weird if people get mental or physical health problems like addictions and the flu? /s
I still have my dreamy in the office.
All it's ever used for is the odd Quake 3 game; for people to play Metropolis Street Racer on it when they ask what console it is; and serving as a reminder that I really need to set a week aside for playing Shenmue III.
I've been running the emulator on my Steam Deck this week.
Next level PvP
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
Welp
Guess I'm not a gamer
i wonder if he plays any online games, and if so, i wonder what his handle is
one more voting bloc for tim
Charlie Kirk looks like someone drew a tiny face on a caucasian pumpkin and set it on an over-starched shirt.
Games are bad, mmmmmk, because they're bad.
If you want the anime crowd to hate the republicans, then remind them which party made (and which former vice president helped to author it) the PROTECT Act (the law that put loli/shota into a legally gray area, as it's still subject to the Miller test).
I wanna see him play some Jet Grind Radio.
That would be based as fuck!
At least all he did (presumably) during to a couch during that time is sit on it.
Toilet Paper USA!
Charlie Kirk has a small face. Isn't that weird?
I would feel inclined to vote for anyone who has maintained a Chao garden for this long. Surely they can't be all that bad.
Proof that gamers are the most oppressed people :c
fuck charlie kirk, his forehead looks like the sega genesis with an adapter cartridge plugged in and then another one plugged in on top of that
i watch one debate with Charlie Kirk, had no idea who he is till 2 days ago and now hes everywhere!!!
Naaaaahhh he rocking those Fighting game bangers. Next we know he's gonna moneymatch WeirDee Vance On MvC2 lowtiers.
Honestly? The idea that his wife had to pull a mom move on him? Yeah, a little bit weird to me.
I'd like to say that's because I have enough self-control to not get that far-gone, but it's probably more that my wife is more likely to join me, rather than stop me.
It is. She didn't "have to" take a grown man's Dreamcast; this was a fight that wasn't worth making worse.
This is weird tho aside from context. 35olds should have some semblance of grasp on life generally or at least pretend cause no woman wants to be nanny in relship.
No offense, but are you married? Sometimes silly little disagreements can escalate like this, and then one partner will declare the other "right all along" to keep the peace.
I guess it can happen so the important thing if this is some kind of exception or the rule. If it is the rule then like who wants to be with such manchild? No ones got the patience for that stuff
Edit: lol.
FWIW, the genisis game out in 1989 in the US. he would have been 25. So. like. if he was playing the console a decade after it released.... he'd have been 35....Dreamcast is not the same console as Genesis. Dreamcast was released in 98.
9.9.99 to be exact.
"It's thinking"
And then you could be insulted by a fish, after it you talk to it with a microphone. Narriated by Lenard Nemoy.
yeah...uh... i was thinking of the console my uncle got addicted to.
heh.
fun times. (no. seriously. really fun times. We'd play for HOURS.)
TIL the fuglyduck also has bad eyesight.
Naw. But 4yro me has lots of fun memories on the genesis. Never played on the Dreamcast, so I looked the genesis up. Incidentally, it was my uncles and he’d be about the same age as walz.
(Cooler, though. Unless walz had the full start trek collection on VHS,)
Tim's also owns:
No stock, bonds, or investments of any kind. No real estate No home! No 401k! He owns literally nothing.
Tim waltz in a financially illiterate scrub. Not exactly someone I have confidence in to help run the economy of even a state, much less the whole country!
He sold his home when he moved into the Governor's Mansion and has pensions, but do keep trying, it's hilarious.
I think you missed the sarcasm.
Nope, the user they responded to appears to be an actual trumpet.
Just because someone isn't on your political side, you shouldn't jump to the conclusion that they are for the other side. I hate politics in general. It just so happens, on the whole, social media is mainly left of center. Hence, there are more people here spouting ignorant liberal dogma than conservatives spouting their own ignorant dogma.
But seriously, politics is dividing people more than ever, and that is not a good thing! My wish is that people would stop finding their identity in being "left" or "right"
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I think you haven’t checked OC’s comment history.
Keep trying... trying to do what?
Sorry if criticism of a politician makes you feel some sort of way. Every politician needs to be criticized. Lemme lay something out.
Tim waltz (and family) finances. Facts: Tim owns no stock, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs. He owns no real estate, investment property, or otherwise (neither does his wife). He also has no 401k, IRA, or any retirement fund. His net worth is estimated to be 115,000$ to 330,000$. All this is not great, considering he's 60(ish?) nearing retirement. the average net worth for congresspeople and senators is around $1 million. His only legitimate source of income is his pension.
Pros or cons, we can decide for ourselves if all this makes him a better candidate for VP or not. We can make some assumptions, and one assumption I can make is that waltz personally seems to be financially ignorant.
There are other pros and cons about Waltz, but as far as finances, Tim Waltz is a scrub. And I think that these facts are very important when considering electing him into a position where he's at the controls for financial decisions for an ENTIRE country... whatever side you lean toward, all this should be concerning.