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What's the most unforgivable sin done in media that you're still bitter about?

Violet Evergarden: The Movie

Major Gilbert is revealed to be alive. And she goes back to him. And it's implied to be romantic.

The whole series was about her escaping her past as a child soldier and learning to live a normal life, and they end it by having her go right back to him. But it's okay, he may have made her into a child soldier, but he was kind sometimes, so he's a good guy and definitely not an abuser! And he was the closest thing she ever had to a father figure, but now that she's all grown up she can love him and that's perfectly normal! This is a great finale that doesn't undermine the whole show that led up to it, and isn't fucked up at all!

The rest of the show is still so damn good, just pretend the movie never happened.

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How's your language learning going this week? - Weekly thread (Aug 23)

Finally got my hands on my childhood holy grail.

When the sequel to my favorite game didn't get translated back in 2005, that became my villain origin story. I convinced my parents to sign me up for Japanese classes on the weekend just so I could play it. But it turned out learning a foreign language was hard and I had too much actual schoolwork to keep up with, so I didn't get all that far.

But now that I'm trying to learn again on my own, I've decided it's time to tackle this one. Took me almost an hour and a half to get through the opening cutscene, but with the help of OCR and a dictionary I understood nearly all of it. Made 30 new vocab flashcards out of it in the process.

Unfortunately my old GBA SP is not holding much charge, I may need to find a new aftermarket battery replacement. And the game's signature gimmick gets in the way of OCR, it already takes several tries to read the pixel font and it's even harder to recognize while playing outside.

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What's your favorite song lyric?

Pull up rockin', smack a racist in the face
Jet out, and leave 'em screamin' in the place
I come straight from the heart, you come straight from hate
And if you’re threatenin' someone I ain’t gonna sit around and wait
I just smacked two cops, I’m waiting to see what the case is
Because my hands automatically smack people who are racist

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2XKO Active Development Will End in December 2026

Still thinking back to when this was first announced and people were hyping it up like the mere presence of Riot's money was going to result in Project L completely dominating the entire rest of the FGC combined by an order of magnitude. I knew from the start that it would never live up to such unrealistic expectations.

From what I've heard, it doesn't sound like the game even did that badly, I wish some of my other favorite games had as healthy of a playerbase. But we're in this weird world where some games are perfectly comfortable with whatever audience they get and others have to pull the plug ASAP if they don't hit Fortnite-sized numbers overnight.

They just needed to have realistic expectations and they could've been fine with what they have.

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New Bill Would Make All Pornography a Federal Crime in the U.S.

Remember that the far right has been desperately trying to label any LGBTQ-related content as 'porn'. Educational resources? 'Porn'. Biographies about gay people? 'Porn'. Drag queens? 'Porn'. A book about a boy with two mommies? 'Porn'. Anything that acknowledges the existence of trans people? 'Porn'.

The purpose of this bill isn't to ban porn, it's to ban 'porn'. Anything they don't like will be deemed 'porn', and then this gives them the legal justification to ban whatever they want.

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Baldur's Gate 3 now has a native Linux build

This is huge. I was beginning to lose hope we'd ever see a big budget high-profile non-indie get a Linux port ever again.

Edit: Maybe not that huge...

Now that there is a Steam Deck Native build, is Baldur’s Gate 3 supported on Linux?

Larian does not provide support for the Linux platform. The Steam Deck Native build is only supported on Steam Deck.

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The Steam controller was ahead of its time

No d-pad is an instant dealbreaker.

Edit: Y'know what I'll properly expand on this. The Steam Controller failed because it tried to replace vital functionality people expect from a controller. The Steam Deck learned from this mistake and just supplemented that functionality.

TBH, the way I see it, the Steam Controller was designed for games I don't want to play on controller, while being bad for games I do want to play on controller.