Scanman

saw this on Twitter

My son is teething and the Lord High Emperor has decided that no one in the house gets to sleep from 2-4 a.m.

Been seeing sponsored ads for this everywhere recently. I'm pretty hype about it when I eventually get back to the US. Breakfast cereal all day.

You hit the nail on the head. The baby vs videogame matchup is 10-0 FREE. I imagine once he gets a little older free time will be more frequent tho.

I relate far too much to this than I care to admit. I've been working on Sonic Mania for a month now, because I just never play it.

I'm a white American, I just live in Vietnam for work. Or am I black? it is SRK Megashock after all.

Autism is what's happening in this thread

Gotta love the genetic outliers of Japan!

whoa.....

I've been playing the classic RTS game "Battle Realms" and holy shit this game's single player is one of the most bullshit campaigns ever. The mission I'm on (the second to last), the enemy (the Lotus clan) starts with 3 complete bases, while you start with no base, 2 hero units, 2 archers, and a few peasants. The only thing saving you in this level is that the AI doesn't rebuild their base once destroyed- the AI only spends money on units. I'm bad at RTS but damn this stuff is ridiculous. I forgot how hard old games were sometimes.

C-Milk has been covering the disappeared Chinese tennis player for a week or 2. I think he was probably the first Western youtuber to cover it. I think I spend far too much time China hating haha.

When I worked at a concession stand as a teenager (this was in 2008, I think), I had a fat kid buy two candy bars with 2 dollar bill. I think they are phasing them out. Obviously due to inflation the difference between 1 and 2 dollars is a joke. I'm guessing they'll be worth far more than the notional value in the future, just not sure how far into the future haha.

Cowboy Bebop live action being bad was predictable, since the main actress was running damage control and insulting the fans before the show even released. But as everyone with a brain said, not every (good) anime needs to be made into live action. The 2 media forms are different.

It's a few months old but I just saw this. Can't believe they made a 90's cartoon to announce whatever this Aaliyah music is. Not sure what to think tbh, but I'm happy people haven't forgotten baby girl.

My old coworker died yesterday. She was my semi-boss (she was the payroll manager in HR, I was the accountant responsible for recording payroll). She was in her late 60's so it wasn't exactly unforeseen. I have no idea the cause, it could be any chronic illness or temporary sickness. I haven't spoken to her in probably 3 years, so no condolences necessary. It was sad though. Life comes at you fast 😕

As a recent father, I think it's very strange that people would look at a beautiful baby boy and say, "You know what would make this better? If we started cutting bits of his penis off." You're (people are) solving almost nothing by circumcising. Meanwhile you're potentially causing a littany of other problems, including ED. I listened to a video of circumcision happening and it made my skin crawl. I imagine my parents wouldn't have had me circumcized (without my consent, btw) if they weren't Christian. That's a big thing- you're mutilating a person who can't defend themselves. Not digging at religious people, but circumcision is a barbaric practice that we almost certainly wouldn't do -without- religion. Just leave that shit in the bronze age.

I know there's really no point, but I got into an argument (or a debate) against my Chinese student last night. Her: "There is a double standard that the West applies to China with regard to human rights (double standard not stated), they focus on political and religious rights and ignore financial rights when discussing human rights. They have no idea how much better life is for the average person in China." Me: "Yeah, but compared to what? The reason Chinese people were so poor in the first place was because the government spent 30 years following Mao Zedong's economic lunacy; sending farmers to make steel in backyard furnaces (while starving 30 million people to death) during the "Great Leap Forward" and sending college students to farm in the countryside during the "Cultural Revolution". The fact that their lives are improving now (mostly due to innovations/foreign direct investment from the West) is not a selling point of your terrible government. Even with their own measures of poverty alleviation, they simply changed the poverty line to ~$450 per YEAR, which is a joke of a poverty line." (note: I am aware that for the vast majority of Chinese history peasants were quite poor and had no rights, but this is true of the entire rest of the world as well, and the Communist programs made things demonstrably worse) Her: "You cannot talk about the past when discussing the financial situation today!" ----------------- later Her: "Of course, comparing China to the US, the US is more wealthy. But compared to another developing country like India, China is doing quite well." Me: "Then don't compare it to the US. Compare it to Taiwan, which was also poor as dirt after WWII, is also Chinese people, and is now much wealthier and more developed than the mainland, has an excellent human rights record, is a democracy etc. They developed first because they didn't go through the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution." (note 2: I am aware that for about 30 years Taiwan was a pretty terrible dictatorship under the Chiang family. They still developed much faster.) Her: "You cannot compare a tiny country of 20 million to a giant country of 1.4 billion!" ----------- It's a wonder if I don't lose this student. I was sick and in no mood for her apologist propoganda.

Hard disagree but I am prone to "the first one is the best" syndrome so whatever.

I watched Mission Impossible 3 last night. It was surprisingly good compared to Mission Impossible 2, despite the obvious Chinese pandering. The franchise did a F&F (before Fast and Furious did) and fell off hard after the first one, having a slight resurgence with the 4th-ish one, and then falling right back off again. Original Mission Impossible will always be the greatest for me.

What really needed to happen is some benevolent billionaire/company buying SF/other fighting franchises away from Capcom in 2003, because Capcom and most Japanese corporations are goddamn terrible and slow to adapt. It took them 15+ years to figure what rollback even -was-, let alone all the other problems they have. Really? I don't think he had much influence on 5 anyway. They'll probably still do their multiple installment, shitty netcode, dress up simulator with a fg thrown in on the side tactics. I'm a lot more hopeful for Project L, whatever it eventually is/whenever it's eventually released.

I hope they do the opposite, and go back to something that looks 2D, similar to GG XRD.... Obviously it's not truly 2D and it's a visual trick, but still. Really dislike how SF4, SFxT, and SF5 looked. Really fugly for my eyes. TvC and MvC3 looked good though. Might just be subjective bias.

I think you're pretty much the only person who wants Momoko back lol. I'm pretty happy with a team of Mai, Chizuru, and Luong (or Geese, if he's around), so XV is looking great to me!

Real rap I feel exactly like this. Gordeau is such a cool character, but I'm not suffering through trash netcode for this game (there is no offline scene in Vietnam outside of 1 city). Characters are much more interesting than Melty for me.

NBA Jam or Tecmo NBA Basketball. NFL Blitz. Or even Tecmo Football.