It’s to give talking points to the politicians they paid for.

The ritual is done at midnight because you have to spend all day trawling thrift stores for matching candelabras.

Back in 2018, Steam stated its approach to content on its platform was "to allow everything onto the Steam Store, except for things that we decide are illegal, or straight up trolling".

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A social media account linked on Steam to the game’s developer includes a post suggesting Ukraine’s refusal to surrender will provide “a lot of content to make more missions in our game”.

I’m pretty sure that qualifies.

There needs to be a mandatory parenting training course if you’re expecting a child.

I like this in theory. But I know in practice some idiots will always manage to get their hands on the curriculum.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1at1k7qIo5dgPp6K1aCrYIyAgNOjY-IhF/htmlview

These are the total numbers and includes the at-risk games. Which may not be helpful to some, since the fate of those games is unknown.

Starting to sound like you do think there’s a stringent definition of what a meme is.

…Dead games, which means no one on Earth can currently play the game. It’s not possible…

…At-risk games, which means these games are currently working, but they’re designed in such a way that the second the publisher ends support, they will become dead games without some sort of intervention…

…Dev Preserved, which means the game would have died, but the publisher or developer implemented some sort of endof life plan, so now the game is safe…

…Fan Preserved, where the publisher did nothing or practically nothing to save the game, but fans managed to either hack it to remove dependencies or reverse engineer a server emulator so that the game was saved in spite of the publisher actions.

There is no stringent definition of what a meme is or can be

Then by my personal definition (not Merriam whatever), it doesn’t feel like a meme.

If it’s a meme to you, that’s fine, too.

A screenshot of the headline of a satirical article (if it exists).

Which is fine.

I just don’t think it’s a meme.

Survival horror is not my cuppa, but Alpha Beta Gamer recorded some gameplay from the demo(?) it for people who like that sort of thing:

[YouTube] Labyrinth of the Demon King - Crunchy Retro-Grim Survival Horror Set in Feudal Japan!

By that point, big tech will have created the Torment Nexus, and half the country take out Klarna loans so they can own the libs with it.

Is this even a meme?

Small, local communist Ws would enable more state and national communist Ws.

“Well, that co-op just outside of downtown is doing fine. Molly’s daughter worked there when she was in high school and said it was the best job she ever had. I guess communists can do some things right.”

is an improvement over

“I’ve never met a communist, but I know they’re all stupid and evil. I’m going to vote against anything with the word socialist or communist next to it because [media personality] told me so.”

I can’t unsee the source as BDSM Movement.

Who?

I’ve done this. It had the opposite effect.

Shame on Harvey Randall for platforming executive bullshit:

The problem, he puts it, is inflation. Which is an unerringly boring but also correct answer: “We live in contrasting times, where inflation is real and significant, but people expect games that are ever more ambitious and therefore expensive to develop to cost the same. It’s an impossible equation.”

They’re not responding to the expectations of the people; they’re responding to the expectations of their investors.