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  • I’m sure now this doesn’t seem especially impactful but it was back then. Zombie games are so obsessed with headshots, but the way you damage necromorphs is primarily severing limbs. Not only did it make the games just automatically different from everything else available, this tutorial delivery method was pretty good. It wasn’t a subtle hint like you might get to a SH puzzle, they told you exactly what to do, and it’s a little cliche to find a dying message written in blood, but it fit, it had the impact it wanted to, and it taught you something.






  • I don’t think I have much faith in a list that says you’re not allowed to say “that’s insane” but I also did Google it and apparently spaz has always been really offensive in the UK, but became really divorced from its origin in the US.

    I was an aid for disabled people for 3 years, and they talked a lot about language, including person first language which is itself controversial and obviously retired words like retard (which is falling out both as an insult and in the medical community) but no one ever mentioned spaz once









  • What do you mean YOU were talking about the USA? I was talking about the USA, goober, you replied to me, not the other way. Take a breath, and a walk, and a chill pill, and then count backwards from ten.

    There’s this tendency to infantalize other countries when compared to the imperial juggernaut that is the USA. I get it, on some level, but it strikes me as super performative when you just refuse to also acknowledge that the US didn’t invent colonialism or slavery or that there are still places in the world girls can’t go to school. War and geeed and genocide are a human problem that predates the US and, unfortunately, will probably continue after it’s gone.

    So, when it comes to history, take the good with the bad. But that doesn’t change what I said about my country in the present, either.