The Blackangel

I got this in an email tonight. It seems more suited for the politics board than the gaming news board to me. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Wall Street elite are in a frenzy this week after young traders on Reddit decided to hedge their own bets on the stock market — resulting in struggling companies like GameStop seeing their stocks skyrocket in value, and causing massive losses for wealthy investors. Now — at the insistence of Wall Street — trading platforms like Robinhood and TD Ameritrade are restricting trades, thereby allowing certain traders, like hedge fund managers, to keep buying and selling normally, but freezing out all others. The wealthy and powerful have always claimed our country’s free market is the cornerstone of the American Dream. Well, if it is then everyone should be allowed to participate. If you agree, add your name asking Congress to open an investigation into Robinhood and others’ decision to freeze trading for retail investors. Apparently, it’s okay for Wall Street to treat our economy as a casino, but when average people on a message board decide to do the same, they’re freezed out? We don’t think so. That’s why we’re calling on the Congressional Committee of Financial Services to open an investigation into Robinhood and other retail trading platforms’ decision to block retail investors while hedge funds are able to keep trading freely. For decades Wall Street has been doing exactly what these new traders are doing, but now that others outside of the circle of wealth have access — it’s a problem. The “market” was so quick to act when billionaires started losing their money, but when those same billionaires cause recessions and millions lose their homes, no one bats an eye. It’s time that Wall Street is held accountable. Add your name to ask Congress to open an investigation into the decision to freeze retail traders out of the market.

We can't all do that. If you're in a wheelchair, you're screwed for getting up and moving around.

I think one of the reasons that kids these days have terrible taste in games is the lack of options. Everything is a damn simulator. You name it, there's almost a 100% guarantee that it has a simulator game. I saw House Cleaning Simulator for fucks sake! Who the hell is actually going to want to play that??? Sure there are good games and bad ones, as per our discussions here. But the bullshit that is all over the shelves is enough to make someone sick. A lot of parents won't get their kids the games we play because they'll see that little T or M in the corner. So that narrows down the choices significantly. If your choices are only simulators then you might as well sell the platform and go back to tiddlywinks.

Can I get some constructive criticism on this video that I made several years ago and posted?

I would love to see some new Castlevania games, as it's one franchise that I have loved from the beginning. But the sad fact is that Konami is going to go to the grave holding on to these games. They'll never release them. I'm absolutely positive that they wouldn't even lease them to another studio, let alone sell them. So we're kinda screwed.

Good choice.

I'm older than you are (not by much though), so don't feel too ancient.

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I have no intention of monetizing either of my two channels. I don’t upload very often, and I just do it for fun.

It snowed overnight here and left around 4” of powder. I can’t even look towards a window. The light reflecting off the snow is so bright it can burn my eyes and leave me blind for up to two days. I’ve spoken to doctors and optometrists and they aren’t sure what to do about my photosensitivity. They just tell me to keep up what I’m doing. Sunglasses all the time, and double up if I’m going out.

We should be on lockdown here in the states, but so many karens bitch and moan about it violating their constitutional rights. I’ve read the constitution, and apparently I missed the amendment that gave everyone the right to continually spread a pandemic due to their arrogance. In my opinion, anyone who goes out and refuses to wear a mask and social distance should be arrested. Lock them up for a day and fine them. I’ll admit that most if the time I’ll get to the door of wherever I’m going and realize that I forgot to put my mask on. I keep an extra in my purse, so I stop, put it on, and then continue going in. I don’t know how many morons I’ve heard screaming about how they don’t have to wear a mask for one reason or another.

The republiKKKlan party doesn't even stand by its own people. During the terrorist attack on the Capitol they were intending to execute Mike Pence. he and his wife are now homeless and have been couch surfing in Indiana for a while. A friend sent me this article about it. I find it funny as hell that people at Mar-A-Lago are fighting to keep Adolf out, and Pence is homeless. They're getting what they deserve in my opinion. I've been homeless. i spent 3 years on the street. I know how hard it is. But I can honestly say that these two assholes deserve this.

I've seen some that refuse to play >insert game< because they don't want to "waste their time" playing against pussies they would beat in ten seconds. Translation: I don't want to get my ass kicked again because I suck at all games.

Something people don't realize is that we modeled our system of government after the Roman empire. And we all know what happened there, so it's inevitably going to happen here.

@Shagger I wasn't trying to discredit anything you said, as you were more or less right on the money. You could say I was adding to what you said. And I totally agree that the politics here are complete shit.You take the two main political parties and the two are pissed off at each other 100% of the time. It doesn't matter what party has the white house or control of the senate. And half the country thinks the other half has lost their damn minds. All of this will never change. This political situation doesn't just affect Americans. it affects everyone. America is what I would call the most entitled country on earth. Nothing is ever enough or good enough. We should have it just because we want it, and we shouldn't have to pay for it. Bull. Fucking. Shit. If I could afford it, I would leave in a heartbeat. I would try to gain citizenship elsewhere. Canada would be my number one choice, with Mexico being my number two. But me being on disability, I can't afford to pack up and leave. Also I don't know what the laws are in either country regarding disability. If they have it, I don't know if I could live on it. Especially since the Canadian dollar is worth roughly 78 cents US. So the exchange rate could screw me bad. Also the Mexican peso is worth a nickel. So if I took the money I have across the border and kept it at the same number it is here, I don't know if that would mean I was poor or rich. Americans are screwed, whatever way the politics go. And foreign nations need to pay attention to what happens here. Because what happens here, can and eventually will affect them. We're not exactly known for minding our own fucking business.

Kinda like an internet badass. Some scrawny punk IRL, but online he is the baddest meanest man on earth. He could easily take down a god and not break a sweat doing it. If anyone is a joke, it’s them.

That’s just those counted in the census. A large part of the population doesn’t respond to it when the census is taken. Especially those in the inner city, which is predominantly black and Hispanic areas. As a result, they aren’t counted in the population results. That’s what makes it seem that the US is mostly white. But you have to consider others that don’t respond, including but not limited to Asians and Native Americans. Reservations are technically American land, but governed completely separate, like American territories such as Puerto Rico. Add in the homeless and the numbers change drastically.

Any word on a release date or if it will be available on PC as well?

I'm sure everyone has encountered this at some point. Online gamers have most likely encountered a hell of a lot more of it. Have you ever gamed with/against someone who was so superior that it made you not want to even play the game in question ever again? Or someone who was so entitled that if you won, they would act like a spoiled 2 year old and throw a tantrum? I've seen gamers go nuts over losing and revert to infancy. There's several reddit review videos on YouTube where the channel host reads a post from people going nuts over being shot in CoD, or losing in Super Smash Bros or some other online game. One kid even got his mother on the game line and she threatened to have the person who shot her son arrested and sue him for it. If that isn't entitlement and superiority, I don't know what is. If I remember right the kid was banned from the group, and after it made the rounds, no other group would let him in either. I encountered this in a minor scale. When I would beat the neighbor kids in a fighting game like Mortal Kombat, they would get so pissed off. Mainly because they got their ass kicked by a girl.

The US was victim of a cult. The members followed their leader like lemmings off a cliff. If they were hanging onto Adolf's dick any harder they would have been his nutsack. Too bad they didn't all actually jump off a cliff. That would have been the best thing for the world.

I had the same issue a couple weeks ago, and just said fuck it.

Seriously? Five cameras? That alone is enough to make me move on.

The left saved the nation and the world from nuclear war. If Adolf was still in power, we would still have the "my dick is bigger" game going on against North Korea, all while being manipulated by Russia the entire time. The right already committed a domestic terrorist attack because they're a bunch of butthurt crybabies. Whereas the left has overturned unconstitutional mandates set in motion by Adolf. If you had a clue about the left or even the US, you would know that we will not bow down to China. Do I need to continue, or has it gotten through yet?

Personally, I think RDR2 plays better on the PS4 than Xbox. The controls are just a lot more straight forward and simple to use to me. What I would really like to see is a release of RDR2 for the Switch, but there's apparently some bad blood between Rockstar and Nintendo.

Gaming isn't necessarily an non chemical addiction. The pleasure centers of the brain release dopamine when a person does something enjoyable. People have been known to become addicted to that sudden rush of the chemical. Some people can't get away from what it is that is releasing the dopamine, and have literally died from it. There have been gamers who dropped dead because they wouldn't leave their game for days on end. It's a psychological disease when it reaches that point, and a chemical addiction. Sure through therapy, they can learn to give up the games, but the brain will find other avenues to release dopamine. After a person beats an addiction, regardless of what that addiction was, it's 1000 times easier for them to fallback into it than people who haven't been an addict in some form. I'm a former addict. Combining the years I was using and the years it took to get clean, I lost 4 years of my life to heavy drug abuse. I'm 39 now, and with all the chemicals I put in my body, it's entirely possible that I may not make it to 40. I've been clean for 17 years, and every day is a war against myself. I keep thinking "just a taste". But it's never "just a taste". Not for drug abusers. Not for alcoholics. Not for gambling addicts. Not for gaming addicts. The disease of addiction takes many forms. Some beat it. Some simply can't. Some don't even want to. There's nothing we can do but watch from the sidelines.