Yeah, that place still had a bit of the reddit stench on it, but its heyday was probably the most active I was on that web-site. So many great posters.

On the old Chapo subreddit, the sub was made private for like a day or something as a bit. A very angry person made a lengthy text post that was titled something like “Closing the Sub as a Bit Was NOT Ok”

The State, besides being great, gave birth to so much great absurdist and alt-comedy projects. David Wain’s whole career is basically non-stop hits of incredibly funny shit.

Plus, if you want to go further back in Odenkirk’s DNA, he credits Janeane Garafalo with getting alt-comedy really going. She’s fantastic in Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer (the film and the first season of the TV series for sure are worth a watch).

The Larry Sanders Show, which Garafalo was in as well, is worth a mention as a 90s pre-cursor to this type of humor as well. It’s definitely still stuck in some traditional sitcom trappings, but it was way ahead of its time.

There’s a few things in the 00s that predate Tim and Eric in that same vein too. Whitest Kids U Know and Wonder Showzen immediately come to mind.

Basically, Tim and Eric are super fucking funny, but alt comedy is a much wider world than them.

I can really only comment on how integral combat and looting is to the game and the answer is very. There are clever ways you can navigate a lot of side quests especially to avoid combat, whether by stealth, hacking or finding “hidden” paths through maps, but the main storyline is a whole lot of shooting or shredding people in your way.

Looting is also vital. It’s basically an RPG in that regard. In addition to looting money, junk to sell, upgrades to your gear, etc, you can break down stuff you find and use it for crafting too (which may or may not be appealing, but crafting is quasi-optional). Gear management is less important on lower difficulties anyway.

Overall, I think the game has fantastic design elements and the gameplay loop is satisfying. The story is also, in some ways, very nice, tight, contained narrative that doesn’t explode into a Final Fantasy-type “main character is the only thing between all of existence and extinction”. But, as a cyberpunk tale, it really, really lacks the punk part of the equation. You can literally do quests for cops (most of them are side things, not even quests, more just combat opportunities, you can just ignore).

100%. Roads do not make profits or even break even. They’re a huge cost that all taxpayers are just supposed to gladly subsidize. But it is nice to see that this rail expansion meets the arguably unrealistic expectation put on rail in less than two weeks.

This is hitting the spot. Thanks!

Will dig into these soon!

Glad she has this for free download because I can’t find it anywhere on Apple Music. May toss her a few bucks if I end up really like this. Thanks.

This is pretty close. Reminds me a little of Portishead.

I feel like I’ve heard the name FKA Twigs before, but definitely did not recognize this song. Adding it to my playlist, thanks!

Thank you, Mister Mayor. I hope Kamala picks you as her running mate later this month.

Exactly what I’m looking for. Will have to look for more by them. Thanks!

Disco beats not necessarily my thing, but that Purple Disco Machine track definitely on the right track of what I’m looking for. Might look into more by Agnes.

That Sonique song must have been in a film or something, I do think I actually recognize that (and of course the original of that Donna Summer track haha).

Definitely going to look into more by KNOWER. Thanks!

Thanks! The We Rob Rave track sounds like something from Jet Set Radio, fun.

Cynthia horny, Michael.

“If our candidate gets the most mild and common sickness, he becomes an incoherent mess. Please vote for him.”

Absolutely incredible. He’s edited himself into the debate. He has a fake moderator tossing him questions. He has an actual audience in the room with him applauding his zingers he’s saying to no one.

GGGarbage.

I’ll build on your 2nd and 4th ones. I truly do not understand the appeal of the TikTok aesthetic. Vertical video is already really ugly. But now we’re doing incredibly bad green screen of a floating head talking at me like I’m holding up the self-checkout line at a grocery store. And then the auto subtitles that I cannot turn off that change colors or some other nonsense rather than focusing on readability that are autogenerated and contain numerous errors (subtitles are very good, but should be VTT or the like files that can be turned on and off so the platform can place them properly on the screen). Then there’s just an ugly UI laid over it along with seeing reactions pop up on screen further just making a mess of styles and crowding the screen.

I feel like some old guy that loves paintings seeing these new fangled moving pictures everyone is talking about and not understanding how anyone can willing fry their attention span on them.