friendly reminder that the game developer himself said this game ‘needed no female players’" and claimed “some things are made only for men”

I anticipate this game dying in a hot fire.

Article for reference. Unfortunately all the original source (twitter posts and whatnot) seem to have been deleted.

Jordan Klepper makes a habit of angering MAGA supporters. The Daily Show correspondent, known for going into the field and asking Donald Trump’s diehard supporters hard questions and creating comedy out of their responses, shared how he pulls it out without getting his “ass kicked” by the crowd, some of whom are known for easily resorting to violence.

In a sit down with Jon Stewart at a recent FYC event for Emmy voters, Klepper said that being a “white guy” is a big help—but he has even more protection than that.

“Being a correspondent is one of the most difficult things you can do because you have to be versed in so many different things,” Stewart said, kicking off the discussion. “You can take on these certain characters that you play, usually the high status idiot or one of those types of things, or you go out in the field and you do improv scenes with people that don’t realize they’re in an improv scene.”

Klepper interjects with an important distinction: “Armed—armed people who don’t realize,” he added, before sharing his secret to keeping ass free from kicking, as asked by moderator Matt Belloni. “Well, I have a couple things. One, I’m a white guy at a Trump rally. It helps.” On top of that, he added, “I’m a tall white guy.”

An even bigger help though? He said he has ”four security guards” when he’s out interviewing MAGA supporters, which he admitted “is wild.”

“I will say when we started doing this, going out in the field, you didn’t need a security guard because you were an improv teacher a week and a half ago,” he joked, “so the idea that somebody would want to kill you or murder you seemed asinine. And yet—here we are, walking into spaces to talk about politics with four armed guards, but that’s what comedy wants in 2024.”

Klepper recently pow-wowed with MAGA immediately following both Trump and Hunter Biden’s guilty verdicts, where one loyal supporter said she’d donated thousands of dollars to Trump every time Trump he was found responsible for a crime. That same supporter said that she supported the ex-president because we “need to save our country from the border surge.”

He then asked innocently whether she was “sick and tired of [her] money going to people who committed crimes,” as she responded, “That’s right”—a shining example of how Klepper’s able to combine his improv and correspondent skills to prove a point without inciting the mob.

Because most of them aspire to be one of the folks that collects the green segments from others. Even though they never will.

The AG responsible for this said almost literally that, in the article.

Now Oklahomans can be assured that our tax dollars will not fund the teachings of Sharia Law or even Satanism.

I’ll still take it, though.

Yet another proof that I stumbled into the best instance from the beginning.

Little of both.

He’s got a healthy love for video games, and there’s certainly plenty of overlap in favorite titles (Celeste, Mario Odyssey, Pokemon, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Link’s Awakening). But there’s also games he enjoys that I don’t (Bloons TD, Gemcraft, Mario + Rabbids, Mario Maker) and games I enjoy that he doesn’t (Hollow Knight, Breath of the Wild, Factorio, Satisfactory).

We also watch a handful of different animes/cartoons/shows together (with some episodes or scenes excepted). We’ve done Avatar: The Last Airbender, Futurama, Sword Art Online, Death Note, Animaniacs, and we’re currently working through The Owl House and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

On top of that, he’s got hobbies I’m not into. He loves drawing and takes Karate classes. We play D&D together as a family, but it’s not really my thing otherwise. As it happens, these are all interests he shares with his mother.

On the topic of exploration, world design, story… basically everything except combat, it’s fantastic. Everything Elden Ring is, but better. Which is par for the course for FromSoft DLC.

On the topic of combat (boss combat in particular) it’s also everything Elden Ring is, but intensified. Which is rather disappointing for me, they’ve amplified some of the worst aspects of Elden Ring’s combat: the speed, the combo chaining, the utter lack of response windows… I can’t tell if they’re trying to cater to hitless runners, or they’re trying to start an arms race with hitless runners. Either way, I’m already seeing some long time FromSoft fans, end even Elden Ring fans, feeling alienated. People who don’t have the skill or can’t invest the time to learn to play like a hitless runner. A minority of them, for sure, but it’s a trend I hope gets rectified in the future.

The difficulty scaling mechanic is definitely interesting, I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. There was one very valid point someone else made that it makes the combat and boss fights feel somewhat pointless, since the runes you earn don’t actually help you in DLC-land. I wonder if just make a whole separate type of “shadow runes” specific to the Realm of Shadow would have been a better choice.

Careful, or the next thing you know, we’ll have lightning powered tumbling sheep evolving, as a defense response.

Not that there’s anything I’m seeing wrong in the pic, but since you’re asking…

Never walk away while cooking them. They’ll burn REAL quick.

Try heating a little bit of oil in the pan, before plopping in each quesadilla. The tortillas get a nice crispy fried texture. I can take it or leave it, but my wife insists on them that way.

I tend to cover the pan while cooking, to make sure there’s enough heat to get everything inside thoroughly melted.

Let them cool, ideally on a wire rack, for a minute or two before cutting, otherwise you can squish all the innards out.

This has been their MO for at least a decade, for shit they don’t like.

That game’s still around?

An even more pertinent example: “I know you went out-of-state to get an abortion last month, Janet, so now I refuse to treat you for the Flu. Better head to the nearest hospital, 40 minutes away.”

Hehe, definitely a good character pull.

I’mm’a need a gif of the two guys, arm-in-arm, sinking slowly into the lake. I smell a new meme format.

Shit shit shit, I just remembered I haven’t attended English class all semester.

Shit shit shit, I can’t remember my locker combination, and I can’t find the orientation sheet that has it, also I can’t find my class schedule, I have no idea what class I’m supposed to be in right now.

Plus a few other variations. All High School. I dunno why the focus on High School, I’m 34. I get one of these once or twice a month.

I remember when Toonami gave it a 10/10 and I agreed wholeheartedly.

I’m probably a lot more willing than the average person to forgive the occasional part that sucked. All games have them, so I try not to hopdbthat against a game that has plenty of non-suck to offer.

Lord knows Sunshine has a few. Fucking Plinko.

I dunno what would be funnier, if a bunch of people did this and got themselves arrested, along with Jones, for obstruction, or if just no one showed up at all.

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I fucking wish.

A man should get violent and angry and protective when someone hits on his woman.