This Snacktiv website is fucking awful. It's such a fucking non-issue. If I'm playing a game, you know what I don't do? I don't eat a messy snack. I don't even hate the concept for someone who, say, doesn't like touching certain food textures. But I fucking hate the marketing. It sucks ass.
There is something pretty fucking ironic about saying "don't gatekeep" and then following that with complaining about game websites that started posting about Marvel. Calling it a cynical cash-grab as if there isn't huge overlap between the type of person who visits a video game website and the type of person who likes comic book movies is insane.
This website is about to air its thirteenth episode of a show about internet memes.
One of two things is going on here. This is either real--in which case, what the fuck--or it's a bit, in which case, what the fuck?
Considering that Bill Paxton's estate is involved in an actual ongoing wrongful death suit, pretending that his estate was upset about this video is bad timing and severely unfunny.
I didn't hate Leslie Nielsen in this, surprisingly.
The DNA of this show can still be seen in the current Game Awards show. The nonsensical categories, dumb skits, meaningless celebrity appearances, and ads for games that have been a part of this since this show was on Spike TV are all here. Seeing Geoff Keighley's name in the credits makes perfect sense; it looks like this show made such a lasting impression on him that he's been trying to recreate it for decades.
My family got online in 1996 or early 1997 (I remember I was in 6th grade, so it was one of those years). From the beginning, I was told to be extremely careful. I was allowed to say my first name, age, and the state (but specifically not city) I lived in. That sounds like a lot of information, and maybe it was, but there weren't things like social media back then. Obviously the ability to easily take and upload pictures (and to do so from any location) was not a thing. My parents knew my password and I I know they checked on what I did.
People in my generation, who grew up with the same warnings about "the internet is forever," now display every little thing their kids do. From the moment their children are born, their children's lives are online--and notably, children cannot consent to this. It's messed up.
Gonna get this to play with my brother soon. We play a lot of various MMOs together.
I want everyone to feel as old as I feel: I'm in a small Discord server for a class I had last semester. I'm 36, so naturally I'm quite a bit older than everyone else in the class. Anyways, I saw one of the guys playing New World and asked him how it was. He said he was into it. He said it was only his second MMO ever. Do you know what his first MMO was? It was fuckingDestiny. I hope reading that made you feel as old as it made me feel.
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