there HAS to be a way to play balatro on the freeway
need this shirt
the main dev of ULTRAKILL is livetweeting their reactions to jerma failing at their game fantastically and it's really, really fucking funny.
I feel like it's important to note that they call him Amish here because earlier he got so mad during a hard boss fight that he went on a rant that "humans aren't meant to do this, they're meant to push logs in wheelbarrows"
Once saw something that said "Warhammer is quintessentially British while Dungeons and Dragons is quintessentially American"
I've thought about it a lot and it does add up in a horrifying sort of way.
There has been this lil thing needling my brain when consuming Warhammer content where I'm like...annoyed that nobody matters? That 95% of life in this universe is regarded as cheap and meaningless? That, unless you're part of this top echelon of humanity, you're basically on par with a mouse who's solely been bred into existence to feed a snake.
And I've known on an intellectual level it's a dumb thing to feel irked by--like it's a Grimdark setting, this is the whole deal--but I kept asking myself "why does this get under my skin?" and I think that quote perfectly explains why.
The British class system is so fucked and omnipresent that, like, yeah: for the vast majority of British history, most British citizens have been feeder mice and they're well aware of their place in the hierarchy. You aren't allowed to forget it. The aggessive classism is baked so deep into the culture that it becomes a sort of obvious, bland fact of life.
And America has it's own insane class issues and rampant inequality, but we also have the myth of the American Dream and a hyper-individualist culture counteracting it. So while you are almost certainly a feeder mouse, you're still raised to feel "I'm something, I'm important, the world just doesn't know it yet". A whole country of temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
So Warhammer represents the British class system turned up to 10000; most people are a speck floating by in the background of a story about bigger, grander characters and there's nothing they can really do about it. The random guardsman is never going to become a character as important as a fuckin Primarch, there's no narrative upward class mobility if you will.
But Dungeons and Dragons is almost always a story about a ragtag crew of random schmucks taking on Big Bads and defeating them, it's about equal opportunity heroism. You may be a rogue who started life as a pickpocket street urchin, but you and your friends still lay waste to an overpowered evil wizard using naught but wits and teamwork.
And it's embarrassing to admit, but my American brain worms start screaming when presented with such a British worldview because it makes it clear: I would not matter in this setting. If I existed in this universe, I'd be dead, enslaved, a servitor, working myself into an early grave in a hive world factory or cannon fodder because that's just how life is for 95% of humanity and there's no reason why I'd be the exception. And the fact is, as unpleasant as it is to acknowledge, my dogshit American main character syndrome ego does not like that.
But whaddya gonna do.
you can't leave this in the tags sis
"THIS SHIT SMACKS OF MARGARET THATCHER" I scream as I flip a game table
to paraphrase something I said long, long ago:
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only TORIES
Well.... There is the rumour that Gazkul Mad Udk Thrakah is named after Margaret.....
D&D is extremely American in that while there's social mobility it is basically entirely achieved by accruing wealth through violence. It's moved away from that somewhat but there's still a fair amount of "go into the hole, kill the people there, and take their stuff" baked into D&D's bones.
whenever i see people online go "this piece of media would be so much better if the creators just did xyz!!" i just think of that one message from Hakita
im a big fan of this one
Canadian Nightmare
JESUS CHRIST
WHO THE FUCK LET THAT EXIST
The Canadian regionalization DLC for Nyan Cat looks amazing.
This is nothing I wanted and yet everything I ever needed
Bless you Canada and your gigantic dinosaur snowplow monsters
Woo woo, motherfucker!
Goddamned Mezolithic Megafauna’s what that is. Goddamned warranty expired on those things centuries ago, but do they care? Do they go decently extinct, like the ground sloth, gigantopethicus, or wooly rhino? Fuck that, they’re doing downhill runs on your favorite skiing course is what. Because Fuck it, is why.
Now I understand why moose are built the way they are.
It’s so they can gallop untrammelled through six-odd feet of snow.
Jesus Christ I read those mother fuckers could run 55km an hour but seeing it is another thing especially plowing through the snow
DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW
GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY