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Sorry but “slop” has been reserved for AI-relater insults only and I will not accept any dilution of that.
My favorite definition was when it was used to describe cheap, mass produced clothes like your work clothes from around the 16th to 19th century, sailors would dress in their slop, etc.
The friendslop genre would like a word.
I mean, it’s a little funny. I saw people calling things quality-slop or artistic-slop
First, someone half-clever comes up with a neologism or repurposes an uncommon word to describe a new phenomenon.
*Monkey’s paw of linguistic integration curls another of its infinite fingers*
Someone not so clever hears the word and fails to understand the word. They take it to mean good or bad because they are too simple to comprehend more than a judgemental binary. Now they use their shiny new word that makes them feel clever for everything. More not so clever individuals do the same. Now it’s used by every idiot with an internet connection.
The clever person sounds like an idiot by simply being the human surrounded by parrots saying the same thing, and the concept they were trying to bring into public consciousness is treated as the noise of the rabble. It is a battle even to get people to take it seriously.
But, hey, at least the memelords get to feel clever and you can snort quietly for a half a second when you scroll past the memes.
Sounds like a pretty woke take to me.
/sMe while Alexandria is burning:
You: in despair, pitiful, will never create language faster than I can bastardize it :3
Memes in a nutshell
Wtf?
Nice rage bait lol
Truly. My 7yo plays enough Earthbound to put the lie to this meme, the classics are evergreen.
lmao this takes me back to the olden days of bait when you could just call something shit and people would argue.
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Old days, huh?
Time is a flat circle, my friend.
Ragebait is the meta now for any and all content instead of just the occasional troll stirring shit.
That never happened, as I will explain in my 42 part podcast…
This contextless superficial review of classics denies the groundbreaking gameplay, art styles, storytelling, and direction that these games contributed to the artistic medium that is video games.
Like saying that The Godfather sucks becuase it is derivative and stuck in the time that it was created.
Alright I’m done yelling at clouds.
Alright I’m done yelling at clouds.
Plural? I only see one.
I’ve yelled at Cloud far too much in my life. 😆
“All we had to do was follow the damn train Cloud!”
What “slop”? Stop using “slop” for everything now. Fucking kid.
Calm down grandpa
This kid missed the “be seen, not heard lesson”
No…they have a point. The word is so overused I don’t even want to type it out.
It’s fine. 40 is the new 30, 30 is the new 20, and this kind of youthful confusion about time and aging is exactly what I’d expect from a 10 year old, so it tracks.
I love my gramp games :(
2004 was 10 years ago right? Please?
The 90s was about 10 years ago. 2005 was about 10 years ago. The 2010s was about 10 years ago.
I don’t know why and I know it doesn’t make sense, but apparently everything feels like it was about 10 years ago to my millennial brain.
Except 2020, that was like last year.
Except for 2020…the year that never was.never ended…feels like everything changed after 2020.
It kind of did. Shit started going to hell a lot earlier, but Covid (and the associated conspiracy theories etc. going mainstream) turbocharged it.
feels like everything changed after 2020
I have a method for estimating how many years ago something was - I think of a number and then double it. Used to work pretty well, but nowadays I’m noticing I need to add 4 to the estimate of anything that happened before COVID.
Both last year and lasted 50 years
Bad news, it’s 2026. So 12 years ago.
I wasnt even born in 2004 and I will technically be able to legally adopt children in a few months
goodslop
bestslop
Mmmm…slop
YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS
It’s only slop if it’s bad. Otherwise it’s core. In this case, Grampcore.
Are they just mad that the best year in gaming was 1998. Games back then can still be played today they don’t need a always online servers that will get shutdown. Every multiplayer game came with a free dedicated server and you could vote kick the cheaters or just people being assholes. Mods were everywhere and encouraged by the devs not lawsuits. Most games didn’t come with with a rootkit pretending to be DRM.
I would argue MOST games don’t have DRM rootkits today, just not the ones that spend more $$$ on marketing than development and writing.
This is so fucking stupid. If you substitute movies or books for the images it would just seem stupid.
It’s weird video games get this strange space of “old”.
Damn good times.
I miss LAN parties, everyone coming over lugging their desktops and CRT monitors, having an 8-port 10gps Ethernet hub (not switch), staying up late playing 4v4 StarCraft maps and Diablo 2 games at max capacity.
Good times.
I’m a pizza delivery driver and three weeks ago I delivered to a party of 11-13 year olds who had a bunch of monitors and consoles together in a living room having a Halo LAN party. In the year of our Lord 2026. I thought I’d stepped into the past
There is hope with the young 'uns
11-13? So born in 2015-2013? So then those would be millennials’ kids, gen alpha.
The millennials loved LANs so much, they gave it to their kids. That’s lovely.
Did you at least stay for a round of CTF on Beaver Creek?
Unfortunately it was the beginning of dinner rush and I need money
I know man. The copious amount of pop, Doritos/Cheetos and pizza we’d consume… We were kings.
I just played Fallout 1 and 2 for the first time. Though they’ve certainly aged poorly in a lot of ways, both were still fun plays, and worth the experience just to see where the franchise came from, ya know?
Aged poorly as in the controls/UI? I remember seeing that people had modded some QoL changes, but I still haven’t taken the plunge.
There was certainly a good deal of that, but my main issues were with “of the time” content stuff - sexism, bigotry, ableism, etc. Things to be expected in “edgy” nerd media of the time. Like I said, though, still fun to play through.
For the more technical roughness, I highly recommend Fallout1in2 (if you have both 1 and 2), as well as the Fallout 2 Restoration Project. Both of those completely smoothed over the rough edges for me and added a number of QoL things that were very appreciated.
Yeah there are some really good mods for Fallout 2, even including some rudimentary party member control which helps a lot.
I also want to shout out the mods Talking Heads and Talking Heads Actually Talk which while yes, you may or may not want on a first playthrough are both fantastic and blends right in with vanilla.
Doing the same, just made it to Redding, trying to get this damn car working lol
Nice. I wouldn’t stress too much about the car. It’s definitely a later-game upgrade that takes a decent amount of work and resources to make happen. Definitely good to have, though, so keep it in mind as you play through the game.
Ugh then why did they give me the quest so early on, you bastards! Thanks!
You can get it reasonably early and i would personally recommend doing so as that’s when the game really opens up. I always beeline for it.
Hah, yeah, it’s a bit of a tease putting it at the beginning like that. I can’t say if my playthrough was typical or not, but I ended up getting it about mid-way through or so. The money requirement was the biggest hurdle for me.
The big draw of Wasteland 2 and 3 for me was getting classic Fallout-style gameplay with modern quality of life improvements. They’ve got very similar aesthetics and chunky gameplay, though Wasteland is more squad oriented
