I had the opposite reaction. As someone who was on team PSX, the wobbly jank is pleasingly nostalgic. Didn't someone say that the limitations and artifacts of the obsolete media of the past become the sought-after aesthetics of the future?
They are certainly sometimes a key part of the retro look that makes things nostalgic.
But even during the PSX era I found it distracting and annoying to look at so I can't say I have any nostalgia for it even now in the way I do for N64-style low-poly 3-D games or good pixel art.
This is all subjective so I suppose I should add an IMO, Even back then many games were preferable on the N64 like megaman legends, what the PS1 offered that was superior was storage, which allowed for more music and FMVs, and also allowed for voice acting and probably why MGS is still talked about to this day, my guess is the lack of detail helps immersion the same way you would read a novel, and I imagine the PS1 with its storage would've been the perfect vehicle for Visual Novels, but that still is not popular anywhere but Japan.
Even with realism, ports to dreamcast were better overall and considering the latest port of Final Fantasy Tactics does not emulate any of its PS1 limitations, I don't think a lot of people strive/like the aesthetic.
As someone who was team N64 I do agree PSX has more of a "trademark look" compared to the N64 which is pretty much just a very limited version of a modern graphics rasterizer.
The war on drugs is a scam, but pretty sure if the primary goal was to oppress indigenous people in another country the US government could’ve found a cheaper way (both fiscally and politically).
I don’t think Nixon cared about indigenous people in South America. Not because he was a great guy, just because they didn’t matter to him even slightly. He definitely cared about communist militias though.
Calling the markings on the casings, "antifa" is premature, in my opinion. The arrows are a Helldivers II reference. "Bella Ciao" appears in Far Cry 6 and is featured on a Groyper Spotify playlist. (The suspect cosplayed as a Groyper meme, and Groypers hate Charlie Kirk, so it adds up.) UwU is a reference to furries.
My guess is he's a terminally-online gamer/channer/Groyper and he was trying to troll news organizations into broadcasting his spicy memes.
But this is just my guess, and until we get more evidence, my guess is worth about as much as your "antifa" theory, i.e., zilch.
It comes across to me like you're ignoring a plain reading of the evidence in favour of one that refers to an even more cryptic group. (There are also other comments in the discussion arguing that this group disdains political violence.)
The full etching was ""Hey fascist! Catch! ^ > vvv" (an up arrow, a right arrow, and three down arrows). This is a Helldivers 2 input for calling in an "Eagle 500kg Bomb."
The plain evidence is that each etching is a reference to an extremely online/gamer meme, not leftist slogans.
> The Terminids Icon Terminids, sometimes referred to as the Terminid Horde[1] or Terminid Swarm, and commonly called Bugs, are one of the enemy factions in the Second Galactic War. They have control over 21 planets. The Terminids have been identified as "Fascist"[2] by Super Earth Icon Super Earth, despite the individual Terminid clearly being incapable of comprehending the ideology.
But you're missing my point, which is that it's too early to speculate. Pundits were blaming trans people and leftists before the bullets were even found.
Putin controls the entire Russian economy. In other words, by today's valuations for companies his net worth would be something like 40*GDP(Russia). Which works out to about 80 Trillion USD.
You could say that number is artificial. But you could say the same about any stock market valuation. Even that ignores that even 80 Trillion wouldn't buy the power Putin has. It would, for example, not buy 8000 nukes. I'm 100% sure that if Elon Musk threatened to nuke Washington he'd be in prison within the hour, and if his wealth was 1600 times bigger than it is (which would bring him near Putin), that wouldn't change things. Reality is not a superman movie.
The grand duke of Luxembourg is worth about 400 billion USD by the same measure, or a bit more than Elon Musk (although that ignores that the risk to Luxenburg as a country is MUCH less than the risk to Elon Musks' companies)
Source? Their patent expired, and Wikipedia says they stopped making it on the 60s. Occasionally a sealed bottle of Delysid will surface somewhere, but I think that they are all vintage.
Hmm. I'm pretty sure Kojima directed Metal Gear before Snatcher (and worked on various other Konami games before that). And Snatcher was a PC-88 game, not a PC-98 game. All great games, at any rate.
