Lurker > GuessMyUserName

also just beated first ascension, for Gray

I was really hoping they wouldn't be doing the spy fake-out with Rozana, boooo

@Raka_Putra finally did get a bag of store-bought teh tarik I've been craving for years

hard to compare to the real thing since it's been so long now but aaaah still totally nostalgic, obvs had to pour into a mug i got during my travels

also enjoyed the english directions trying to teach the meaning: "Stir and 'Tarik' (pull) ready to serve"

yinz got shooed

wew thx mnkbae

early noon round really caught me by surprise just cookin' my noodles without concern

Cecil

Squall

trading Layle auto again

woah

Vivi

trading Layle auto

perimeter complete woooo

and aww yeah didn't expect to fully map that cave with 100s and snagging so much guarded chests even by a 102 unique

Mr_Lasastryke posted...

the implicit message of that line of thinking is "it could happen to YOU," when there's no way i would ever watch a second of a ben fucking shapiro video for fun.

tbf one problem is that this is essentially what everyone thinks of themselves (well, not specified to be about shapiro but to thinking they wouldn't listen to nonsense)

extremists don't think they're following extreme content

my dad watches cable news to call everyone an idiot and feel smarter than them

which i mean might sound reasonable given the state of media but he really doesn't know anything

foolm0r0n posted...

I liked 1 the best for a long time but then I looked up all the cool scenes and music and realized they were all actually from 2

i still prefer 1 but i mean yeah 2 has a lot of absolute top scenes in it

if i can give b8 a bit of comfort that their family members could be worse i've done my part

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/8/6/AAN7AaAADjSq.jpg

I mean the thing is propaganda doesn't have to be good if it fits into peoples preconceived notions and validates their ignorance, because people want to be told that they're right rather than be informed on what they don't know.

Now more than ever we live in a world where people can find whatever reality of truths they need for themselves. Confirmation bias has been pushed to the absolute extreme now where people will seek out the voices that back themselves up - and when they do, that person becomes an authority to them. Someone that proves all the others wrong, that you are right, and so the audience start picking up whatever else they're saying that they didn't particularly care about before just because the speaker is held up as a voice of reason for saying what really mattered.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

I don't think people are "naturally" far-right and propaganda does shape people, but it's a mistake to discredit people's agency and the choices they make afterwards.

^^^^^

I mean he was a piece of shit before he was explicitly rightwing, like that wasn't the beginning of his misogyny (threatening stalker behaviour towards exes) and racism (repeat: bell curve)

politically he was more of a South Park anti-establishment dude who loved being an edgelord and anti-PC

he fell into the right recently because they're the only people now saying what he wants to hear and he sought those voices out and now he's entirely consumed into every rightwing youtube/podcast/discord

StartTheMachine posted...

he literally never consumed anything right-wing before becoming a Nazi? it just happened spontaneously? obviously nobody young watches Fox News, they get all their Nazi propaganda from reddit and 4chan

he hated conservatives and liberals and had been a lifelong NDP stan (basic canadapoli lesson: NDP left, Liberals center, Conservatives right) til recently

nevertheless he still has a sketchy nazi high school history some of it edgelord shock shit, some of it New Atheist Sam Harris bell curve garbage

he's only gotten into actual right-wing shit over COVID and the PPC (new fringe ultra-right party), now calling the NDP shills for the ~mainstream media~

was also a big Yang guy

I was just doing the perimeter and thinking nothing of it but then I died to an NM and had to get back......... and that's when i finally opened the map and saw what i had done

*zooms out of map for the first time*

oh wait a fuck there's gotta be another way

StartTheMachine posted...

If you were already Nazi-affiliated before consuming some form of right-wing media, well fuck you. But you also probably don't even exist.

do i gotta mention my brother again

GuessMyUserName posted...

[Chapter 5] Just hit Erythia Sea and wew just from the like overlooking semi-cutscene when enter, it already looks the most like its referenced location (vs just Uraya / Maktha so far I think))

continuing of this

lmao it really is like my very first time exploring Eryth Sea except now I got a boat

part of their belief is because they want it, and that they really don't want to admit they've been eating up such gross horseshit for god knows however long

like it's gotten to the point for so many now that there's just really no turning back because you'd have to accept just how far gone you went and nobody wants to think that of themselves

[Chapter 5] Just hit Erythia Sea and wew just from the like overlooking semi-cutscene when enter, it already looks the most like its referenced location (vs just Uraya / Maktha so far I think))

looks like we're due for a snowy season next year

Layle

Cecil

I ain't setting anyone to a specific look until they've mastered everything... and no i can't bring myself to nopon coin anything so everyone appears to have 3 classes at 1 still atm

oh geez when you kill an enemy in a sdequest and then it pops up 1/26 o_o

Vivi

trading Layle auto

Trump is definitely shaped like The Penguin

like Manchin is someone that goes against Dems all the time but I wouldn't at all compare him to Tulsi/Yang's grifts

romney is a republican the same way that literally every other republican is one

I'm particularly confused at his mention

yeah you can easily find right-wingers cheering on Tulsi and Yangs statements as "even Demecrats see this madness!"... even ignoring the fact Yang has already formed a new partythey still label him a democrat because they want their little hit of confirmation bias wherever they can get it

slasher season 4 beated

...

what in the absolute hell was that... this season was just pure maniacal nonsense

so I beat chapter 4 and then I go to twitter and see Melia trendjng...... the fuck is with this brain-scanning algorithms

StealThisSheen posted...

Tulsi went on Fox News to cry for Trump being a victim of a "blatant, illegal abuse of power" and that every American should be afraid because we've lost the country. She's also full in on the Trump grift now, calling every investigation into him a "hoax."

searched "tulsi trump" and up came Andrew Yang alongside her to the surprise of absolutely nobody that's had eyes on him in the last year

shortly after starting Ch5 lol

... why is the party so shocked that Lost Numbers are fighting against Moebius....

also lmao

Monica: "I am Monica Vandham, daughter of the man who made you Ouroboros"
Noah: "You knew Guernica?"

c'mon Noah did she stutter. super minor but gotta admit to rolling my eyes at these reactions

chap 4 beated wew

ELEMENT WIND ELEMENT EARTH ELEMENT FIRE FIRE FIRE aww yeah gimme all those rapid fires

Shouldn't be a surprise about Melia being a fake, although lol N face reveal was hardly even hidden at any point of this game. But hey make up for that by throwing in a surprise Mio!

Crystal Bearers dance minigame does Althea's Waltz if you dance with a lilty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ9EvBgHVMM

Clavats get Moonless Starry Night which is an irish jig, selkies get Veo Lu Sluice as a tango

the head of a band of Windurstian catgirl thieves

she's actually pretty rad and I was glad to get her Trust so early but uhhh yeahhhh she is an odd add since she's not really even a part of the main story (then again, neither is Shantotto who's become the face of the game)

her mom is a central character to Wings of the Goddess's Windurst branch tho

also I guess these additions were pretty early into XI's life before the expansions added the great characters (and Romaa Mihgo)

*edit* oh right missed the comma about Lion, yeah she's pretty well the protagonist for the main scenario / Rise of Zilart and Gilgamesh's daughter. One of the cooler ones but kinda stays in the background as the main quest / Zilart are rather half-baked and it isn't until Chains of Promathia that the game starts telling quality focused stories rather than building the overall world with the original content / first expansion

bonus genmates chart

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/3/7/AAN7AaAADi_J.jpg

lol vaan

Ashe Out also means the end for all her genmates (SMFFFC VIII), only 3 others were even in the contest

Ashe 42nd, Basch 53rd, Balthier 85th, Rufus 98th
N/A: Fran, Seifer, Nanaa Mihgo, Lion, Penelo, Vaan

graph of the day: XII series performance
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/1/8/AAN7AaAADi-2.png

solid line cumulative stats dotted line individual contest performances

that's a hard b'nargin

Layle

a singular pea

garik ronso

Ghido

Vivi

trading Layle auto

thankss, it's cooll heh all the earlier 2010s years on B8 about me liking skirts/dresses and ShadowHalo17 calling me Heather had a lot more behind it nobody really realized~

You've actually nailed it on the name though with Lyn lol, nothing like a big change from my legal name or anything but I do like to go by Lyn. It was nice a couple months back visiting my niece and my sister had a sign up in the baby's room with "Welcome Aunt Lyn!" on it, and it's how I've been able to introduce myself to her partner's family. I've also enjoyed realizing my name perfectly anagrams to Lynda lol but so far COVID era's paused much consideration for change.

As for username, a few years back I made the @Grimlyn account (I think like as soon as I finally got my official date booked at Toronto's gender clinic) and was using it as my main as it was logged on my laptop which was my main posting device... but then last year gbro's laptop broke, got it working but then I bios bricked it updating. So I lent him mine under the expectation that he'd get a new one soon and I'd help a bit on its costs... but then he just never got a new laptop and I've been without since sooo just been on this account on my PC.

Hopefully by the end of the year I'll have a laptop again and I'll be back on the other account more but for now this account's PM box is needed for LFAQs (and hell GameFAQs itself knew to PM me here about the login script last week)

*edit* oh right I remember now, Grimlyn was made on the anniversary of the 13th year anniversary of this GMUN account so I enjoyed the symbolism of a rebirth exactly when this account was old enough to make an account. But yeah my appointment with the gender clinic was the next month I do know that.