They still working though? Battery damage? I can't imagine the next scandal, lol
I found a couple of my old VMUs a while back... Luckily the batteries didn't leak and they worked once i found batteries to try em with! The Dreamcast really was awesome 😌
Same, lol. I thought this was a post to make me think he was more relatable and cool. Cause that’s how I felt after reading the first paragraph. When I realized who was making the post and his take on it, all I could think was, why is this guys face so small relative to the size of his head!
Exactly. But the reality is the republicans would attack whatever side paints him in a negative light. If Walz was attacking video games the republican spin would be “first they’ll take your guns, THEN they’ll want to tell you how to spend your free time!”
Damn those were the good old days… Setting up my PC as a run through to fool the Dreamcast into thinking my DSL was dialup internet. I played PSO and Shenmue so much my family hated it.
I did some shenanigans back in the day to fake a local network for my xbox 2001, so we could 'LAN' with others over the internet, mostly 2v2 deathmatches. I remember you neede cross-over UTP cables, and we had to learn what that meant. What did your DSL/Dialup switcheroo give you ins PSO and Shenmue? Just regular old multiplayer?? or something like pokemon trading over the link cable?
Ultimate Dark Falz was one thing (3rd form putting your buddies voodoo doll in its mouth so damaging it damaged the player), but Ultimate Olga Flow, yeesh. My brother and I loved that first form, then that second one was always rough.
Exactly. That lets me respect him more. With a more common answer of x-box or playstation, I would have thought "okay, who cares?" And move on. Now I think, man this guy has taste.
Conservatives value conformity; they think they are 'normal', and that being 'normal' is by definition good. Pointing out how fucking weird they are hits them where it hurts
they're trying so hard to turn it around. just listen to anything they say nowadays; it either involves calling democrats or leftists weird, or calling what they do normal.
this is why this word is more potent than anything you could say about them. say they're fascists and draconian, they wear that as a badge of honor. fascists love being feared, fearsomeness is the refuge of the pathetic.
but they can't handle being called weird. the entire conservative mindset is about how a set of nonsense beliefs and traditions are "normal" and everyone who doesn't align with that is degenerate. that's what they're conserving after all, the "normal". once that's turned around and everybody agrees that they're the weird ones they lose their fucking minds.
so now they're trying to call everything the democrats do weird. they're so desperate.
They took "deplorable" as a badge of honor because "deplorable" is a term a high school teacher would use to describe the cool kids who smoke and hang out.
"Weird" is a term the cool kids would use to describe Barbie Bible and her farm boy buddies.
The beauty of this is that we don't actually have to attack weirdness by calling Republicans weird.
The left can be as weird as it wants, and Republicans can call us weird, we never built our platform on being "normal".
The only reason we call Republicans "weird" is because their political and social beliefs are fringe nonsense. We're basically calling them stupid.
They can use the same word against us, but it will never mean "stupid", it'll only mean "unique", and we can embrace that without looking like weirdos.
My favorite was that he came out of retirement after 9/11 to rejoin the national guard, but somehow his second retirement was timed to skip out on a deployment.
(My real favorite part of that is they have Corporal One-And-Done from the Public Affairs office trying to cast shade on a 24-year veteran).
I despise Republicans so much. Bro your candidate is a rapist insurrectionist who spent all day in the White House watching TV. Now he's using Twitter's AI to make fake images of himself being popular.
Glad being called "weird" is enraging them this bad, though.
Also there is so little context to this. What counts as "addicted"? Was she just mad, that he wasnt spending enough time with her? Was she maybe just generally against playing video games? Or was he actually addicted? We will never know and its also completely irrelevant information.
I'm really sick of the age thing when it comes to gaming. Tons of middle-aged and older men spend hours watching sportsball every week, but nobody gives them shit.
HE WAS WATCHING SO MUCH SPORTS AND GETTING SO DRUNK HIS WIFE HAD TO UNPLUG THE TV AND THROW THE BEER IN THE TRASH. Isn't that quirky and relatable? Dare I say demure?
So definitely. He was also part of the Navy for 20+ years... People like this and walz actually give me a whole new respect for the people in the military honestly. In the past I actually pictured it as incredibly toxic due to someone I met from the Army.
But, at least in the case of the Navy, everyone I've met or heard about are so incredibly honorable and respectful.. They're literally normal people
Here in Australia everyone watches the AFL (Aussie Footy).
We had a customer who was a major footy player, and it was obvious he was surrounded by "yes men" his whole life. I watched as everyone around me started laughing at everything he said the moment he stepped in the room...
What he was saying at the time really wasn't that hilarious honestly..
And it reminds me of the time we got a phone call from danii minogues family to tell us a "special guest" was coming to our store. The room was full of a bunch of nerds. None of us really cared (even if it was Kylie) lol.. None of us even recognised her. Even my audio engineer friend who works with good celebrities (like she's worked with Tim Minchin) just sees them as normal people (and yeah, she's a gamer)
Yet I guarantee, lots of people super into celebs dislike gamers.
I don't find that anecdote weird, but I do find searching through the life events of some politician to find things to signify that he's weird to be creepy and fucking weird.
But that's par for the course for you, Chuckie, you fucking balloon headed weirdo. Get a real job you mutant potato.
Meh, I wish they had done this with George Santos before he got elected. Being scrutinized is part of the process of running for office. That these are nothing burgers is a good thing.
Yeah and they don't realize that latching on to these nothing issues just shows they don't actually have anything and are grasping at any straws they can see.
I agree with you that scrutiny for public office holders is a necessary part of the process.
However, the angle of scrutiny is what is strange to me. I understand their position in that they definitely are grubby little terminally online weirdos but desperately want to escape being characterized as such and so they're looking for ways to squirm out of it...but their attempts are also weird.
Theory: every single American conservative man is completely weird when it comes to their opinions on women.
Kirk:
According to Media Matters, at the TPUSA Young Women's Leadership Summit 2022 Conference, Kirk said that the "biblical model" for women to pursue in romantic relationships is a partner who is "a protector and a leader, and deep down, a vast majority of you agree" and that "if you want to go meet conservative men that have their act together, that aren't like, woke beta men, like, start a Turning Point USA chapter, you'll meet a lot of them."[91]
Kirk has advocated for parents to never let their daughters receive prescriptions for birth control medication for any reason. He claimed that the medication makes women angry and bitter, which he alleged suited the political leanings of the Democratic Party. (Via Wikipedia).
"Angry bitter pathetic woke feminist betraying the white race by refusing to grow up, who actually wants to have kids but is too ugly to attract even a beta cuck"
God I feel filthy just writing that, I can't imagine how people are okay thinking things even a quarter as nasty as that.
If they have a cat, they must pay the cat tax. That is the law of the Internet. This is why we all need to protest Kamala and get her to pay the cat tax as she is breaking the Cat Tax law.
Playing Dreamcast games. No politics, just him talking about his experiences with the console and shooting the shit with chat. HEAVY MODERATION though. Cause damn.
That is quite the laboured attempt at insulting Walz. Like the worst thing you can say about him is that he, like so many humans, got hooked on a video game? You're really not finding anything on this guy, Republicans, you fucking weirdos.
I could be wrong, but i imagine him just furiously playing on the dreamcast and his wife told hil like 5 times to do something and he kept telling her: soon honey. And then she unplugged the dreamcast and they had a good laugh and he jokingly chased her around the house. And they can't stand that, because we know how the other racist wannabe comedian conservative influencer treated his wife. (I can't believe i forgot his name, but don't tell me, it makes me quite happy.)
I don't want to destroy your happiness but I do think it's important people see the video. Everyone should be able to say "oh that horrible guy" if anyone ever brings him up for anything. Dude's career should be destroyed already and nothing but a mere wimper of a passing fart in time. Anyone that listens to his opinion after seeing his real personality at home needs to re-evaluate their influences. He just cares about his position in life and everyone else is just a passing thought he dismisses.
edit: I realized people thought I could be talking about Walz if they were skim reading lol, I'm referencing the conservative influencer wife abuser.
It's impossible to know what anything looks like when your face is that small and your eyes are that close together, you really have no depth perception at all.
I'd say the story shows more character than anything.
Meaning "This politician sometimes knows how to realize when they're obsessed with something and will take steps to make sure they back off of it".
I like when politicians have functioning frontal lobes and can self-moderate. Usually it makes them far less extremist, or likely to be extreme in their viewpoints.
With each new revelation, Walz gets better and more relatable, while Vance gets creepier and weirder. It must be tough for the Republican strategists having to come up with attacks against Walz when this is the kind of material they have to work with.
Tinyface McGhee is trying to dictate who is weird? Talk about pure deflection. That clown is basically in a villain group for talentless weirdos (along with Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Tomi Lahren, Matt Walsh, and Steven Chowder).
And after all the weird shit Kirk and company have pushed over the years, they are gonna have to do a lot better than Walz being hooked on playing a games console.
As a lifelong gamer pushing my 5th decade, I think rednecks that beat their wives after watching their team lose at sportsball is a hell of a lot more cringe than a guy with a hobby.
It was reported as a fun relatable story because that is what is was. If he was completely addicted to the dreamcast demon machine would he have been able to be a soldier? A teacher? A governor? Nah, I didn't think so, Charlie. You're just making him more cool and relatable for the voters. This fucking guy.
Exactly, we all get a little too into something from time to time. The fact that his was video games from the 90s is both charming and a reminder that he’s not 80. Also it’s the sort of marital conflict that you see in healthy and happy marriages as opposed to the kind you expect to see in politicians’ marriages
Bumping up on 50 here. I'll be playing something or other before bed tonight, maybe PC maybe PS5... who knows, but it will be fun... and it will actually be IN BED... and in the background will probably be the DNC nomination acceptance speech. It isn't weird, it is relatable...
Also, if he was playing Soulcalibur on Dreamcast then who can blame him. That was one of the few games my attention span actually pushed through from start to finish.
I've never been a GQ model, but I've not yet understood how someone who literally looks like Butthead has become such a focus. I feel like I missed out on being a pundit.
That's so awesome. I used to play Atari 2600 with my dad. OUTLAW was our favorite, COMBAT probably #2. He became rather techy as part of his job before he retired, but he didn't continue in gaming at all so I'm super glad to hear you're able to share that with yours. Now he's a master gardener which I confess is probably better for survival, but I am what I am.
Easily one of the best Dreamcast games imo 🙌 i loved the bowling stage where you try to drift into the pins for a strike... I don't remember how you got there but it was so much fun. That game was also a blast in the arcade in the sit-down style cabinet.
Are they weirded out that he didn't beat her like a conservative man would if his wife did that? And are they going to pretend there aren't countless women fed up with their manchildren conservative husbands?
(I don't remember how the rest of the copypasta goes, because I'm a leftist video game enjoyer and try to distance myself from Gamers®.)
That said this probably won't go anywhere. In the Gamergate days the right wingers kept outright insulting Gamers® and the Gamers® just did some mental gymnastics. Political literacy among Gamers® has gone to even deeper depths since.
I'm glad it never came to an ultimatum for me, but at one point in my life it was like
1.Work
2.Sleep
3.Social Life
4.World of Warcraft
Pick 3.
I chose work, social life, and sleep. Things turned out well for me as opposed to some friends who went deep into WoW. These dudes would literally show up to get-togethers with their gaming laptop because it was raid night. Or even worse, miss out on sleep or call out of work so they could raid.
Video games can be a fun and healthy hobby, and shit they still are to me, but some things need to take priority.
Genius. Gamers are such calm and quiet people and definitely not prone to loud retribution against people they hate. Legally, of course. No gamer has ever perpetuated violence against someone.
Wow, the propagandists have fucking nothing huh? Seeing the bots and troll nets flounder like this is pathetic and fun to watch. Money down the drain for the fascist. You love to see it.
You are aware it's more of a computer than a gaming console right? It runs full on Linux. Don't make the mistake I did by going in blind lol. I got it all figured out now but I had great difficulty getting various things to work at first. If you are aware disregard this message I'm just trying to look out for a fellow steam deck bro
I love how they keep trying "no u" as their attempt to counter the weird label democrats have put on the MAGA crowd.
Seems to be working great for them.
I get what they were going for considering I've known certain people who have been so addicted to specific games that they've ruined their lives but I don't think Walz is in that crowd. He's still married, looks like he's a great father who's involved with his kids and is a more responsible and active politician than 90% of those in politics.
It's such a poor jab. Besides gaming being this mainstream hobby that everyone partakes of these days, there's also the fact that even if he was irresponsible, the youngest two of the voting generations would vibe with it. I know people who overspend their money or ignore reality entirely because they feel helpless. It's a symptom of a problem.
My coworker told me he's spent I think he said $8,000 on Destiny 2. That was half a year ago or more. So more by now. I was so floored that I don't remember the number exactly but it was astronomical. One of the few times in my life I struggled not to show a disrespectful amount of shock or however you wanna put that.
Today he told me his friends are trying to get him into Warframe. But he said he didn't like the idea of not being able to get into the main quests without jumping through hoops. I don't know either game well, but I'm pretty sure that's ironic.
It's escapism for him, I know that much, so it's tangential.
Yeah people meme about it but the addiction exists.
Even before microtransactions were huge on mmos, I remember people letting Runescape ruin them. Knew a guy with 3 daughters who was divorced over it. Had an old friend who wouldn't last more than two weeks at any job cause he'd quit to play and the whole group we played with would get to hear his girlfriend screaming at him over it sometimes (he did get better though).
Now days we have gachas and games with loot boxes so it's even more predatory.
Bro, if the Dreamcast taught me anything it's that the world would be threatened by giant lizards anally pleasuring themselves via death-laser equipped space colonies far less often if we could get political figures capable of telling Sonic from Shadow.
Tim Walz has my support. Prevent Biolizards from threatening the planet!
Apperently Walz did get caught drunk driving once, but then stopped drinking entirely. Which reading between the lines sounds like he had a drinking problem and used that ticket as a catalyst to kick the habit entirely, which if that is the case, I have mad respect for him breaking that addiction. Addictions are hard to break
I once heard someone arguing a similar thing back around 2010, and we already thought it was an odd thing to say. Why, yes, grown people do play video games, and certain mechanics are addictive no matter how old you are.
It's just a very dated critique. Like calling someone satanic for collecting Magic Cards or implying they're a loser for spending a summer driving for Uber. Also just very... anti-fun. Same with the "How dare he lead a class trip to visit China!" What high school student body wouldn't have loved to go on a trip like that?
And also, sometimes you get too into your hobbies. If it was the key to his wood shop or his fishing pole it’d be some relatable joke to boomers. Whether it’s that you just got really sucked into a current project/game or you’re struggling and overdoing it with a healthy coping mechanism (I know when I’m burning out my wife has to remind me to take us time or I will be on my bicycle from the time I get home until it’s too dark to bike). This shit happens sometimes.
It's so funny to me that Charlie Kirk made his entrance on college campuses, and despite still being dedicated to representing college Republicans, is overwhelmingly most popular with boomers.
So he ends up saying boomer shit like this, deriding video games as disqualifying behavior for a politician...
Well he not only isn’t a college graduate he’s also in his 30s. He was supposed to be targeting people who are now 30 year old taxpayers and instead targeted our grandparents. And yet they still seem to treat him like he has appeal to college students.
I'm sure like many, my 'X' feed has felt injected with right wing posts since Elon took over. Just maybe two or three days ago, I noticed a new trend of posts it was serving to me. This whole weird new trough of posts has been super alpha male vibes and 'hot' women shaming men for playing video games. I legit wonder if this story has anything to do with why that's being targeted at me, a very casual gamer, now.
Just want to remind everyone, deleting your account and leaving the platform is a way to harm the platform that has turned into an enabler of bigoted hatred. And in doing so, stop being an enabler of the known enabler.
Conservatives appearantly are trying to appeal to the crusty vampires who peaked in the 60's and think Pong is too new school to be trifled with voting block...
But they also seemingly worship grown men like Trump and Musk who have nothing better to do than complain about how they've been wrong on Twitter and Truth Social. Like seriously, if I had the amount of money that Elon does, you'd never hear from me because I'd be busy doing cool shit and not posting on Twitter. Like how lonely is his life?
Folk like that require validation more than the regular person. They are not content to be rich they must be told regularly they are the best coolest person to have ever lived. Probably the worst thing to them isn't hate because they interpret that as validation... They fear indifference.
They attacked cat ladies, grandmas, the swifties, and now gamers. Are they going to attack the Palestinians and the undecided movement (some more) just to be sure?
All it's ever used for is the odd Quake 3 game; for people to play Metropolis Street Racer on it when they ask what console it is; and serving as a reminder that I really need to set a week aside for playing Shenmue III.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
If you want the anime crowd to hate the republicans, then remind them which party made (and which former vice president helped to author it) the PROTECT Act (the law that put loli/shota into a legally gray area, as it's still subject to the Miller test).
Honestly? The idea that his wife had to pull a mom move on him? Yeah, a little bit weird to me.
I'd like to say that's because I have enough self-control to not get that far-gone, but it's probably more that my wife is more likely to join me, rather than stop me.
This is weird tho aside from context. 35olds should have some semblance of grasp on life generally or at least pretend cause no woman wants to be nanny in relship.
No offense, but are you married? Sometimes silly little disagreements can escalate like this, and then one partner will declare the other "right all along" to keep the peace.
I guess it can happen so the important thing if this is some kind of exception or the rule. If it is the rule then like who wants to be with such manchild? No ones got the patience for that stuff
FWIW, the genisis game out in 1989 in the US. he would have been 25. So. like. if he was playing the console a decade after it released.... he'd have been 35....
Naw. But 4yro me has lots of fun memories on the genesis. Never played on the Dreamcast, so I looked the genesis up. Incidentally, it was my uncles and he’d be about the same age as walz.
(Cooler, though. Unless walz had the full start trek collection on VHS,)
No stock, bonds, or investments of any kind.
No real estate
No home!
No 401k!
He owns literally nothing.
Tim waltz in a financially illiterate scrub. Not exactly someone I have confidence in to help run the economy of even a state, much less the whole country!
Sorry if criticism of a politician makes you feel some sort of way. Every politician needs to be criticized. Lemme lay something out.
Tim waltz (and family) finances. Facts: Tim owns no stock, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs. He owns no real estate, investment property, or otherwise (neither does his wife). He also has no 401k, IRA, or any retirement fund. His net worth is estimated to be 115,000$ to 330,000$. All this is not great, considering he's 60(ish?) nearing retirement. the average net worth for congresspeople and senators is around $1 million. His only legitimate source of income is his pension.
Pros or cons, we can decide for ourselves if all this makes him a better candidate for VP or not. We can make some assumptions, and one assumption I can make is that waltz personally seems to be financially ignorant.
There are other pros and cons about Waltz, but as far as finances, Tim Waltz is a scrub. And I think that these facts are very important when considering electing him into a position where he's at the controls for financial decisions for an ENTIRE country... whatever side you lean toward, all this should be concerning.