i prefer DPS style classses but i will always choose the class with 2 handed swords in fantasy RPGs. i would play mages more often but i generally don’t like the ‘big glowing colorful ground markers with area of effect elemental damage attacks’ genre of magic aesthetic, it comes across as gimmicky/fictitious/unimmersive, magic should be liminal/surreal/terrifying imo. i basically kind of hate the WoW style fantasy/videogame aesthetic and genre of RPG, the only one i really even slightly enjoyed was Guild Wars 2 (because huge playable cat guys with 4 ears and 4 horns and no paid subscription)

@Boredom is literally doing this right here in this thread lmao

i haven’t finished it yet because the controller i use on pc for emulators is broken. i do remember that there are like 2 significantly different campaign playthroughs depending on some dialogue choices in the early missions, there might be other choices as well. i think it determines which of the major political factions you work for in the campaign, and i’m pretty sure one of them features an ally/protagonist/party member that works for the Chinese who recruits you and your friends, who so far has been portrayed as an ok/good guy. front mission games from what i’ve played tend to be fairly pessimistic about any political faction i think, similar to Ace Combat kind of vibes. Left Behind (technically part of the series i believe) is the closest to having a clear-cut badguy faction and i haven’t finished it yet either (the on foot 3rd person stealth is just not very good, not enough robot missions but the robots are super cool when they show up) but i think it was leading up to revealing that the situation is less obvious than it seemed.

lmao navigating the relationship drama of those around me is exhausting. not even anyone’s fault so i can’t find toxic relief through blame lol. on top of all that, best case scenario i will be significantly more alone-er in the near-ish future. it will be a curse and a blessing, i like having (unproblematic) people around to analyze media and stuff with, to compare experiences etc., but i all too often find the expectations of dialogue to be an interruption of some obscure thought i’m trying to process. maybe more space and time and isolation-induced unhinged-ness will make me manic enough to accomplish something. worst case scenario it doesn’t work out for them and they relapse into alcoholism with a risk of self-harm or worse. i’m pretty terrified of the last person i talk to regularly being gone but i obviously want them to be happy. i know i’m going to be less upset than i expect and that will only bother me more, like dead family members or childhood friends that are completely forgotten until you have a weirdly emotional dream about them like once or twice a year that makes you question some of your past choices and priorities but otherwise change nothing about your current life other than a vague sense of existentialist ennui for a few days. i need to sleep now.

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someone plz tell me this isn’t a lolicon pedo game because it sure looks like it. is there like a joke i’m not getting or what? is it problematic for ‘frilly 18th century dress design’ and neonatal anime proportions/behaviors (thin limbs, large heads, childish affect) to trigger me? (i am autistic and have relevant PTSD so i might legit be overly sensitive)

wait people think the bathroom should be the same room as living/sleeping/cooking? what the actual fuck. like that could kinda almost work (not really) with literally one person in this multi-function room, but having families or groups live in something like that is just asking for increased risk of SV/SA imo. your horny uncle should not get to watch his niece shit. teenagers need private spaces to experiment with masturbation. a significant portion of adults and adolescents with a penis likely wake up with a rock hard erection in the morning, you should not have to go through that in the same bed or room as the rest of your extended family. i’m glad i’m not on twitter.

well i play dawn of war sometimes so i guess im smarter than the bazinga genius

heck i have spent literally hundreds of hours in ARMA 3, if you want to talk about more rigorous realistic simulations of reality than chess lol, that turn based icon clicker shit is nothing compared to frantically scanning that treeline 1.5 km away with your thermal optics for the anti-tank launcher that just took out your tracks and killed your driver while your ‘lock-on warning’ indicator blares in your ears. what, you need infinite time to decide actions on your turn? even chess often has a timer lol

i mean its about as okay as it ever is, as a being that is fated to inevitably die regardless. even if the USSR never fell and stalin never stopped at berlin and we had achieved fully automated luxury gay space communism in the 1970’s, it would all likely get destroyed eventually by the heat death of the universe if not something weirder. maybe there is some other sense in which things can exist, some other aspect of existence that will survive heat death, another universe or ‘dimension’ or undiscovered physics, but who knows. the mystery is half the fun. but probably not. idk. the uncertainty is the point.

i simply do not. 90% of my internal monologue is already too spicy for the normies so i’m used to keeping it to myself.

yes, i will teach the young ones how to become a pathetic sexless loser, how to be dead broke unemployed and living with your parents as a ‘middle aged’ adult, and how to obsess over niche sci fi military topics to the point where they cannot have a normal conversation with literally any person.

Shadow Of The Colossus Without Boss Battles does actually sound pretty cool. as long as it lets me climb stuff sometimes and doesn’t have the always-over-the-right-shoulder-with-no-way-to-switch fortnite camera every game seemingly has to have these days.

verizon phone service outages across USA: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/verizons-network-down-thousands-users-downdetector-shows-2024-09-30/

(idk if this is a good source but its happening to me at the worst possible time lol, my roommate went on a walk or something earlier while i was half asleep and i cant send or receive texts to find out whats up, idk if theres tracking stuff to fix with the link either)

(parenthetical edit: roommate is fine)

am i just paranoid or will this make it harder to get evidence of abuse etc. while being presented as a wholesome anti-phone-surveillance thing?

i want to Disagree With the president of the united states

i think the fact that its not part of a racist caricature or costume helps, people generally use bandanas as practical garments/accessories. if white people were claiming that bandanas made them specially connected to the rajasthani, or if white people were selling them and claiming to be authentic rajasthani craftsmen or something, taking up a market that rajasthani could have participated in otherwise, that would be more problematic. where exactly do we draw the line between a white person making a paisley pattern handkercheif and cultural appropriation? (the paisley pattern is not unique to the rajasthani, in fact it is a very common hallucination/pseudo-hallucination with LSD. the bent-teardrop shape is actually originally a Persian ‘boteh’ design, and may or may not be related to zoroastrian symbolism)

also, what exactly is the line between cultural appropriation and cultural influence? is using arabic numerals and algebra and algorithms cultural appropriation? is the west’s use of gunpowder appropriation of chinese culture? is wearing pajamas cultural appropriation of Indian culture? probably not. but obviously a white person wearing a feather headdress or selling ‘authentic native american dreamcatchers’ is, right? and both of those are different than like, a white person trying to genuinely engage with indigenous belief systems in their personal life. A white person reading tarot cards for money or ‘just for fun’ with friends might be culturally appropriating from the Roma, but a white person that genuinely believes that tarot cards are an effective religious/spiritual exercise and does it in private for personal reasons is not as problematic, or not problematic in the same sense at least. there has to be some defining factor but i’m not sure exactly what it is.

yea its pretty egregiously ahistorical, kinda like the 300 of samurai, or the anachronistic concept of ‘chivalry’ as applied to european knights. exactly as you said, a romanticisation.

‘disagree with lgbt’ lmfao no one is making you be gay you lawful-nazi lawyer weeb, by ‘disagree with’ we all know you mean ‘seeks the extermination of’, pathetically trying to hide behind ‘civil rational discourse’ jargon as a paper thin coating for nazi ideology. people like @MangaLawyer should be ‘disagreed with’ into a deep mine shaft . i wish his entire ideological cohort had been ‘disagreed with’ more thoroughly in World Disagreement 2. really out here using ‘disagree with’ the same way liberals think we use ‘deeply unserious’ but without the conviction to drop the facade of civil discourse lmfao