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NeonOctopus posted...

God, this show is so old

old as balls

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gbc/580529-from-tv-animation-one-piece-maboroshi-no-grand-line-boukenki

Released in 2002, was compatible with both Game Boy Color and the OG Game Boy.

Irreversible surgery being performed on ignorant and non-consenting minors: intersex people have been going through corrective surgery for years. Whichever set of genitals look the most developed tend to get preferred, and the other set of genitals is surgically altered in the hopes of granting the child a normal life.

Unfortunately, both male and female symptoms of puberty tend to manifest in intersex people. This also causes problems as internal and external sex organs begin to change, and the effects of that corrective surgery tend to lead to permanent health problems as intersex people grow older.

A recent study has shown that intersex people who weren't operated on as babies tend to be a lot healthier, and there's a call in the intersex community to raise awareness of this and to end the practice of childhood genital surgery. Your empathy for children receiving inoperable surgery on their genitals and being left with regret and health problems for the rest of their lives would be much better aimed at the group of people who overwhelmingly suffer that fate - intersex people.

Trans people are always going to exist, no matter how ostracized or criminalised they become. You don't see gay people being radicalized into being straight with all the heteronormative media they're exposed to since birth - they still end up being gay. No straight person was turned gay by Will and Grace, or an open and accepting family.

This backlash, focusing on supportive parents gone wild by injecting and cutting their children with gender-altering procedures, plays on a greater moral panic of harm to children. No child is getting surgery to transition their gender. No child is getting testosterone or estrogen before they're an adult, or at 16 in the most extreme cases where they've already been identifying as trans for years and receiving counselling. No person would put themselves through this series of hoops if there wasn't something innately resonant about the transgender experience, and tightening those hoops isn't some way of ensuring checks and balances. There's already a mountain of checks and balances just to put the framework together for a transgender child to medically transition as an adult.

This study might prove that to a handful of ignorant bystanders, but anyone who's been paying attention to this over a long enough period of time? They aren't suprised. Because this has been the story with so many transgender people who've talked about their experiences, how they've found out at a young age and either been closeted their entire lives or come out to supportive parents, or came out to abusive parents and who suffered a harder life for it. Not to say that's every trans person, but it is a significant enough subset of them that it is an observable pattern that you can see in your own research into transgender people and the trans experience.

And that brings me to my main point, tying back into what I said about this being a greater moral panic about child abuse.

Because tightening the hoops that a transgender person has to jump through to receive gender affirming care isn't a way to protect children from undue "woke" influence from abusive parents.

It's abuse in itself. It is cruelty being leveraged against an other, with legal ramifications for both open-minded and loving parents and for the transgender individuals in question. And the cruelty is the point.

Parents can be legally reprimanded for letting their AMAB children wear skirts at home. People can observe this and dob them into the police. Like countless supportive families over the years, those parents can take away the skirts and the dolls from their kids before they leave the house and send them to school in shorts, and yet they can face fines and child protective services because one of their neighbours clocked the kid as queer and saw them dressed in pink one time.

And you can say that's ridiculous and hystrionic, but look at how women are being treated in the wake of their reproductive healthcare rights being stricken. Women are being reported to anonymous tip lines for miscarrying. A data collection company is selling period tracker information in the hopes that abnormal cycles can be pinned to pregnancy and miscarriage, and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Right now, children who are trying to cope with a fundamental disconnect with their body are facing a future where their parents are going to be penalized for trying to help them. The purpose of that is to drive them as deep into the closet as possible in the hope that they'll be good, moral, upstanding cisgender citizens whose transness never manifested because the Good Guys nipped it in the bud.

But studies like this, conducted by people who are focused on the physical and mental welfare of children who present an unorthodox suffering in the form of gender dysphoria, show that the worldview in which that happens will only hurt them more.

The majority of harm to transgender people comes from bigotry and a lack of acceptance. Attempts by their parents to counteract those harms with their support? Punishable under the law. Where's the fucking logic in that?

The people who do detransition - the smallest minority of a miniscule minority, of which an even smaller minority of those go on to become anti-trans activists. Most detransitions come about because of societal pressures, because people don't have the inner strength to live as themselves and go back into the closet because they're sick of feeling like the world hates them. And sometimes, those people retransition when they're in a more loving and supportive environment.

All of this is known to people who've been following the trans experience for any reasonable amount of time. It's all out there. These talking points, these measures to force people into the closet, aren't new and they aren't clever. The measures being taken today aren't rooted in care or concern, it's ignorance leading to panic and bigotry with the intent to force any queerness into the deepest, darkest recesses of a person as it can be shoved.

In conclusion.

It's understandable that people would have reactionary takes on this viewpoint of 5 year olds being mutilated and fed drugs. It's simply not the case. As it stands, even before this increased criminalisation of trans-affirming care, a trans minor would be looking at puberty blockers at worst after years of counselling and a long, drawn out series of doctors and specialists before they ever got their hands on hormones or gender reassignment surgery.

Studies like this that are concerned with the wellbeing of trans-identifying children are showing a disconnect between physical sex and mental gender not only from a young age, but they show it persisting over the course of years. This isn't a bunch of faux-progressive frauds bullying their children into being queer, the study concerns dysphoria and mental wellbeing over a long period of time - during which, trans identification tracks far more often than it doesn't.

Every measure is being taken to ensure that children don't make irreversible, life-altering decisions about themselves that they might regret later. Studies like this exist for that very purpose. The question should be posed - for all this moral panic about the ones who regret it, who explored a non-conventional approach to gender and didn't like it, the ones supposedly being pushed into it by their overbearing woke shill parents, what about the ones who don't change their minds, and never end up changing them?

Because that is a majority of trans people. And studies like this are showing the extent of that.

Finally - if you want to feel some justified outrage over whatever platform transphobes are preaching today.

Faux-woke family abusing their children: Devonte Hart, the black child photographed hugging a police officer with unimaginable fear on his face in the wake of the 2015 BLM protests. He, several of his siblings and multiple other PoC children were adopted by a couple of suburban moms. They'd shuttle them out to BLM protests and have them pass water to police officers, and use them for pro-police photo ops as a rebuttal against BLM members criticizing the police.

The pair preached healthy vegan living, and had their kids pose with organic vegan food for their internet followers. In reality, the kids were fed on a diet of chicken nuggets and other processed food, and often so little of it that they were malnourished and underweight. The family lived in a large suburban range-style house - all seven children slept in one room with two loveseats and a piece of foam for a bed.

All seven were killed after one of the parents loaded them into a car and drove into the ocean after she had been drinking. Several of the kids were found deceased, most of them were never found. Devonte was never found.

Conservative backlash is happening across the western world. Australia's probably about to get a centre-left government in the next election, but the right-wing news media is gonna fuck them in the ass the whole way despite going out of their way to obstruct conservative wrongdoing in one of the - if not the single - most corrupt governments in Australian history.

We had a premier, the state leaders who are second only to the Prime Minister themselves, who was drummed out of her position because our independent commission against corruption found a mountain of shit about her aiding a corrupt Wagga Wagga mayor who was her secret boyfriend. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of sports grants were given away fraudulently, and that corrupt mayor was caught doing illegal deals with property developers to give them access to cheap land deals his electorate in exchange for payment. Gladys Berejiklian, in her position of power, oversaw this blatant corruption - and she resigned because an independent body uncovered her connection to it all and called her in to testify.

There were two reactions to this by the media.

The first: "She was just a poor soul misled by love! Can't we all see a little of ourselves in the premier?"

The second: "Ms. Berejiklian has been fighting the battle of her political life over the past two years, and today she lost that fight. Today in front of her office, people left flowers in memoriam of a courageous and illustrious figure in Australian politics."

Despite that mentioned "battle" being against CORRUPTION CHARGES. THAT SHE LOST.

I got side-tracked - basically, Australia is probably going to get a little better with the Labor government getting elected. Granted, they need to win enough seats as to not be so ass-fuckingly compromised that they have to be at the beck and call of the biggest shitstains of our government - much like the Liberal-National Party have been doing for the past three years. And the media is going to spend the entire time ripping them a new shitter, so that's not going to be pleasant. But Australia is gonna be a little bit better. Come and live with us.

Other than that, there's always New Zealand.

I was not a violent kid, aside from the year I turned 13 where I tried it out. It never felt good, and I just don't have the temperament.

That was something of an issue because I was bullied a lot. It's like, when all that the people around you can do is encourage you to stick up for yourself, what are you gonna do? You're not physically strong. You don't like pain. You just want to be left alone.

Violent video games were one way I was able to achieve catharsis. I was never going to hurt anyone else, but playing something stupid and gory and immoral was one way I was able to channel my anger into something.

It's like how people call Fortnite violent because players shoot each other. Your kid isn't going to pick up a gun and start shooting people unless they're really stupid, or they don't have that understanding and catharsis in their lives. A lot of it hinges on if they understand the difference between fictional violence and real life violence, which isn't outside of their realm of comprehension - I knew that from a young age.

Violence is painful for yourself and others, and it carries a weight with it. At least with simulated violence, there's a release for frustration that doesn't cause harm to yourself or others.

Fucking owned

I totally understand why they made two DLCs instead of a third game. First of all - how do you top this production value? Secondly, how many people did this game burn out or outright kill to make? This is a once in a generation game, there is nowhere else to go after this.

It's weird, but she's spent the last twenty years of her life under a conservatorship. This is what freedom is.

pinky0926 posted...

I need to give the Doom games another try. I found the frenzy a bit exhausting, but maybe I should just try for a level at a time.

I'm having trouble with Bloodborne for the same reason. Such slow progress.

Also isn't a FPS on an analog stick pretty difficult?

That's a part of the appeal, at least for 2016. I found myself getting really into it, Doom 2016 is a really well-paced game. Eternal just shoves a jar full of spiders in your butthole and hits you in the gut with a sledgehammer. But that's what difficulty levels - and in-game collectable cheat codes - are for.

And yeah, FPS games on controller kinda suck. Paladins plays really well, but I've never been much of a CoD guy. Back in the day, I LOVED Fallout 3, Borderlands and AssaultCube on keyboard and mouse - but controller is all I have right now, at least until I get my shit together and move so I have the space to set up a computer.

I actually just bought the Borderlands collection on Switch. I have 1 and 2 on PS3, but it's the Switch y'know. Recently got the SD card slot repaired, so I'm blowing stupid amounts of money on the big AAA releases I could never handle on the base memory.

A good relationship is built on equal representation and mutual effort. If you're trying to make a life and she's moving you back to her parent's place so you won't have to pay rent, that's the sort of disconnect that can tank a relationship. You deserve to move forward and make gains and have nice things - you both do, but you both have to want it.

Like if you both agreed to save money for future plans, that's one thing. Considering the fact that you're leaving her, I doubt that's what this is.

I'm sorry your relationship fell through like that. I hope she's gonna be okay, but don't feel extensively bad. If your values don't align now, who's to say whether they'll be aligned another eight years from now? Who's to say your relationship is gonna survive trying to raise a kid? Those are some bigger-picture questions you should be asking. Those are answers you need to sort out now. And I think you were right in doing so.

It's not easy being the bad guy - being the person who initiates a break-up tends to put you in that role. But you've gotta do what you've gotta do to look after yourself and move forward.

Like you can tell it's a downgraded Switch port, but this is like the cream of the crop. Like it's the sort of port every Switch port should aspire to be.

The game is fucking amazing. Each level is a marathon, I can only play a level every couple of nights. I LOVE the automatic shotgun, and I love the idea of the Microwave mod for the Plasma Cannon but I don't think it's gonna be practical at all.

The game looks and sounds amazing, even on the Switch. It's only 30fps, but it's solid and fluid and I'm having a great time. I'm not much of a twitchy player so I'm getting clobbered - only playing on Hurt Me Plenty, I played the original Doom like a survival horror game last year. I love the cheat code system, that's gonna be so much fun to return to.

My only complaint is that there's a lot of space between the end of Doom 2016 and the start of Eternal, and I don't know what's going on. Is it gonna be explained how the Doom Slayer broke free and began to take his revenge, or is there some extracanonical element like a comic book that links the two?

I had a really bad blackout this past Friday. Was gonna take it easy for a few weeks, but some drinking buddies are testing the idea of starting a podcast where the focus is on drinking. It's called Case Studies, and the idea is that every episode involves a different case of beer that we have to try.

They want it to be like a general Roganesque podcast too, idk how much I'd like being on it because I don't wholly agree with their stances on stuff. They're a lot of fun to drink with, but they're not the sort of people I want to emulate and become. But I think the idea of drinking a different carton of beer every podcast and calling it Case Studies is a really fun idea, and it'd be a nice social environment to drink in.

Strider102 posted...

That 2000 mule topic shouldn't have been deleted.

Guy was getting destroyed by math and logic.

Nah, fuck that guy. The only point in making that topic and doubling down on it was to spread election misinformation, and the end result would probably be a net negative.

It'll be funny if he makes a new topic complaining about getting moderated, though.

For the most part, the moderation is fine. The last thing I got modded for was stupid as fuck, and the fact that it was moddable is an absolute joke, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that I can't post anything any more.

I'm critical of this place and specific users who post here all the time. You just have to be productive about it and have a reasonable point in mind. I don't bring up other users unless I'm goofing around with them, having a conversation with them or making a solid, reasonable statement about them or their behavior.

The last time I saw you post, you were complaining about the users from the drinking topic after you had a falling out with them - it seemed very personal and petty. This topic comes off in a very similar way. Maybe that's playing into your recent moderations.

It might be time to reflect on how you post, and how you can post going forward in a way that doesn't get you moderated. It's not hard, but you might need to take some time to get a change in perspective and figure out how to say what you're trying to say in a way that's productive and comes off as reasonable. As it stands, topics like this come off as emotional kneejerks that can be kind of bitter and clueless.

I can has Sans Undertale!?

The simple fact is that if needy people resort to squatting in a home that the owner hasn't returned to/needed in the last 6 months of those needy people squatting there, the needy people should probably get that home. The other party has enough money that they can live elsewhere for an extended period of time, worst case scenario they need to start renting another house somewhere else.

Where else are the squatters going to go? If you're so desperate that you've begun living in another person's home while they're away, I imagine there aren't a whole lot of other places for you to go. At least with the roof over your head you're going to survive, and having a home - running water, shelter, a place to sleep - means you have a foundational base to begin improving your life.

Maybe the home was left dormant because the person who owned it had to move for a few months for a job. Maybe it's a second home that the owner gets away to every now and again. I feel more sympathetic towards the former - like yeah, it's fucked up and a rude awakening to discover other people have claimed your home while you've been pre-occupied with working abroad. That being said, they probably weren't working out of a cardboard box on the street. They have the resources to live somewhere else. In the case of the latter, they've lost a piece of property they owned, but they still have - and will always have - a home. In both cases, the squatters needed the house more.

Am I right, fellow zoomillenials?

I'm genuinely really happy about Russell T. Davies coming back.

I defended Chibnall's run for a long time. Even now, I at least appreciate that he was trying new shit after Moffat left his fetid stench all over the franchise. The Creep mentioned Jekyll - I haven't seen much of that show, but it along with Sherlock and his run of Doctor Who just aren't my thing at all.

Russell T. Davies is a similar case, in that I've seen very little of his work outside of Doctor Who. But Queer as Folk has gone down as a pretty great television series, and I've seen a deep dive on his show Bob and Rose and it absolutely fucking slays me. My god, what I've seen of his work has been so far up my alley, it's ridiculous. He and Steven Moffat inspire the polar opposite feelings in me - Davies has a humanity, a life, to his work that makes it incredibly worth watching. Moffat's work feels sterile and condescending. The only time I bought into Moffat's bullshit writing was the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special, which was fantastic, and A Christmas Carol, which was a pretty solid twist on the story and one of Matt Smith's best performances as Eleven.

So given my misgivings about Moffat, I don't mind the Stenza - I wanted the one from series 11 to show up again by the end. I don't mind the Ancient Races, and I don't mind the Timeless Child. It's a plot device for other people to take or leave, and Chibnall has said so himself - I legitimately don't think Chibnall has a raging ego about his time on the show. Callback to when he designed a new set of Daleks, and then brought back the Time War design to slaughter them all - legitimately a really good moment in a really mid run.

I don't mind something new, and I don't fault Chibnall for trying.

My issues with Chibnall are mostly character-focused. In the first two seasons, one of the characters would be severely neglected per episode - no-one knew how to write for an ensemble cast of four. Yaz got shafted the most in series 11, getting overshadowed by her own mum in Arachnids in the UK - the Ryan/Graham dynamic was pretty forced, but it was something. One of her best series 11 moments was in Rosa with Ryan, one of the few episodes where Graham took a back seat; I really latched onto how her and Ryan bonded over being PoC, and they had friendly chemistry. After that, they barely connected like that again.

I think what drew me to Yaz as a character is that she was basically getting scraps - she was paired up with the Doctor because Ryan and Graham had their own plotline going on, and it left a lot of room to read into how Yaz was around the Doctor. She was shafted in series 11, but with the Ryan/Graham dynamic resolved by the start of series 12, Yaz became the closest person to the Doctor and got more focus - except this time Ryan suffered the most. Graham got more scenes about missing Grace than Ryan did, and they were really good scenes too. Ryan had nothing to do in series 12.

So that inconsistency really ate into the quality of the show. And then series 13 happens, and it's simultaneously Chibnall's best and worst season. They were literally writing it as it went along. The villains amounted to nothing. They blew their Timeless Child load with Tecteun way too suddenly, and it meant nothing. The villains were boring and invincible until they weren't. Most of the universe was destroyed, and it didn't matter for most of the season. Flux is, by all accounts, a complete and utter waste of time.

And yet Village of the Angels was one of the best episodes of Doctor Who in five-plus years. It's the first time I actually liked seeing the Angels and thought they were legitimately threatening, rather than jump-scare fuel. The Sontaran episode was really good, I have never enjoyed a Sontaran episode like this one. The only thing holding the season together was if they stuck the landing, and they fucking didn't, because they were making the season up as they went along. Both of these fan-fucking-tastic episodes, completely wasted.

And it's so disappointing because Chibnall's run had characters, characterization, dialogue, aliens, plot details, that I honestly enjoyed a lot more than Moffat's run. Jodie Whitaker held Thirteen's run on her back like Atlas, she was such a good Doctor weighed down by such compromised material. And it's immeasurably disappointing that the run flopped the way it did.

I think quality-wise, it is worse than Moffat's run - and I still like Moffat's run less on principle, because very little of Moffat's run was likeable whereas there were nuggets, solid chunks of Chibnall's run that I was holding on to from episode to episode. It just amounted to nothing. And it's such a fucking shame.

So let's see a return to Russell T. Davies. Let's see characters who might squabble a bit, but who seem like actual fleshed out people who can carry a conversation and bring an episode to life. Let's see plots that hinge on characters, not icons. Let's see a Doctor Who myth arc that doesn't rely on the Doctor being the centre of the universe, merely being at the centre of some ridiculous peril because he fucks around and finds out. I want more than anything else for the show to return to that standard of quality, and not some sterile space fairy tale that sucks its own dick so often that you can barely make out a garbled word from all the dick in its mouth.

Chibnall seemed like he was trying to get away from that, but what he created was somehow worse. If Moffat's run was overproduced, Chibnall's was underproduced. I'm looking forward to seeing the show go back to a state where it's just fucking produced.

I never got why women had to shave their legs and men didn't. Seems like a completely arbitrary and fairly modern standard of femininity.

I don't shave my legs or armpits, I don't expect women to either. It's not a turn-on or a turn-off, I'm perfectly neutral on the topic.

Chicken leg.

I mean you have games like Life is Strange that are trying to push the boundaries of video games as a storytelling medium, relying on variable and tailor-made narrative paths, emotional story beats that emulate media like cinema and television, and gameplay experimentation that push the boundaries of gaming. It's not perfect, but it's an attempt to make something enriching and inspired - the latest installment has an empathy superpower where you can detect and alter people's emotions for puzzle-solving, I think that's really cool.

I think the one game in this vein that next to no-one had an issue with was Telltale's Walking Dead game, season one. Any attempt otherwise is an SJW walking simulator that can't even be called a game. Though I think we're far enough along that this discourse has settled down somewhat, games that try to be "respectable" in the way that movies and TV shows are with a distinctly gamey twist tend to face a lot of criticism for "not being games".

saspa posted...

Good god. Motorola phones still around? I think I still have one of their phones from 20 years ago... it probably still works if I bust it out too

Lenovo bought Motorola about a decade ago, probably more at this point. Their phones have been rebranded to Moto, still credited to the Motorola company, but Lenovo is the parent company.

I had a G5 Plus, fucking excellent phone. Never had a screen protector on it and the screen never cracked. All four corners of it were dented in from me dropping it, that phone ate shit like it was an all-you-can-eat shit buffet. Always worked perfectly, at least until the microphone got clogged with dirt and would barely work anymore.

Peter left Brian in a hot car to get some ice cream and left him there for a week. When he came back, the corpse was looking pretty stewey.

indica posted...

So, the bad magic book is insanely powerful and the good magic book is absolute s***?

Hate to say it, but that's magic in a nutshell. People love an underdog and whenever good wins, it's followed by a good epilogue where everything is good forever.

Bad persists because it overcomes good and good eventually beats it as a way of playing into our cultural value system.

Labor.

I appreciate the push for the Greens. The guy before Adam Bandt made an incredible speech about how our political system has been used as a billboard for political change despite those uses being used for personal enrichment, but this current Greens is doing shit like contesting Labor seats more than they're contesting Liberal seats.

I like how progressive the Greens are, and the more Green seats the better. But the Greens will get their policies implemented through the Labor party with enough support, and targeting the Labor strongholds seems like suicide.

The Liberals have national media on their side - Rupert Murdoch, Nine/Fairfax and the United Australia Party. The UAP are attacking all sides, but with Clive Palmer and multiple Liberal MPs like Craig Kelly shilling for them, it's clear that this party is a far-right swing.

So why the Greens, our largest lefty party, are going after Labor seats - our majority centre-left party - is a mystery to me. It pisses me off because we need to push forward against the LNP. This is some serious divide-and-conquer shit y'know. Green seats are counted with Labor votes in the case of a majority Labor vote, so if they target Liberal votes, their efforts will count in getting Liberals out of office. So why are they trying to win Labor footholds instead of Liberal ones?

Yeah, some Tumblr users have been really good about covering subjects like this

The choices are basically between a South Korean military weapons manufacturer and some outfit operating out of China.

Thought this topic was about Steve Jobs for a sec

Joelypoely posted...

I love many things about Australia but I'll probably never truly understand their politics

God I wish I could say the same.

"User is not currently an active member"

Of all the ways to suicide your account, this is one of the funnier ways to do it.

Edit: saw the message that got her moderated in the sex robot topic. It was kinda shitty and I don't blame the moderation, but as far as "*checks message* oh no... this is awful" goes, I dunno if it was that bad.

Before people go "wait what the fuck someone mocked suicide and you're saying it's not that bad?", I'm saying AssultTank's reaction to the moderation seems a bit much as a matter of personal preference. The message itself was in poor taste. What I'm trying to say is that the reaction seemed appropriate for like gore or roadkill or something. I saw an account suicide years ago that was a BDSM practice involving sensitive parts of the body being pierced with needles, and I could respect that reaction in relation to that topic.

The message that got Aphrosey modded was bad - I don't blame the moderation as some overblown stitch-up. But I think Assult's reaction is a bit rich.

That being said, I've had a few drinks so I might be missing out on some important context.

Joelypoely posted...

I mean Australia doesn't technically exist, it is just New Zealand's West Island

If Jacinta Ardern was our head of state, shit would be significantly less fucked over here.

TC is Technically Correct, he will visit the Trololo guy one day. Everybody dies eventually.

Any Raimi-isms? Any Bruce Campbell or Oldmobile?

You can claim it, it doesn't erase my life or how drunk I am

fucking lol. My former best friend was into this podcast.

He probably doesn't have an issue with it, but I hope it bothered him just a little bit.

Doom_Art posted...

SMAL can I sincerely ask you something?

Do you honestly and genuinely think people are impressed when you share this stuff

I think the answer is clear - no, he doesn't think people are impressed. He does it because he wants the rise that people get when he's pathetic on main.

How many of his accounts have been banned? Despite his most well-known handle becoming a shorthand term on this board for mocking obvious trolls and alt accounts, he keeps making those types of accounts and feeding off the negative attention everyone feeds him. I joined seven years ago, and he was a punchline then for the exact same reason. Seven years later, he's doing the same shit - if he thought anyone had anything positive to say despite the clear derision he receives, he wouldn't be doing this dumb shit year after year.

NFTs are a contentious topic where the online zeitgeist is fully against them, but a handful of douchebags are not only into them but hype them up because they want to "trigger" people who don't like them. It's been the cryptobro MO for a while. So of course the CE user with a history of making dozens of blatant alt accounts to troll users on a board that clearly doesn't want him is going to make an account like "haha look at my ubercool NFTs, jealous?". It's the same shit he always does.

He's gonna keep doing this stupid shit as long as everyone keeps going along with it, and it's become such a mainstay that people are complacent to it. It's bizarre to me that anyone could see whatever the fuck SMAL is doing on any given day and think "is he joking, or is he that delirious?" - the fact that he keeps making accounts and bitching about being moderated after literal years of doing this shit should tip anyone off that he's trolling. I'd call his behavior pathetic, but the fact that people keep falling for this shit hook, line and sinker means that whatever he's doing is working and he's getting exactly what he wants.

Doesn't one of the Soulsborne games end with the main character sitting on a chair?

yet another thing that Oldschool Runescape, the superior MMO, beat them to years ago.

DeadBankerDream posted...

How is 13's ending good?

Look, after all the shit that the game puts you through up to that point, I at least appreciated having something of a happy ending.

Don't get me wrong, I fucking hate Barthandelus because he's this "no matter what you do to me it's all a step towards my master plan and no matter what you do I win anyway" motherfucker. This isn't about that - literally everything about that character sucks, and it sucks that he's written that way completely unironically the entire way through the game.

What I like about FF13's ending is that there's some sense of catharsis at the end. Whether it's earned or makes sense or whatever, I don't care. The characters are happy and their burden is lifted and it's something - anything - that feels like a reward after the experience of playing FF13. Maybe the more appropriate term is to say that I liked the ending, not that the ending is good.

Saying that - I thought FF13-2's ending was an anticlimax. It's the epitome of two-game-trilogy syndrome - the first thing stands on its own, and the second thing ends on a cliffhanger leading into the third thing. In this case, they literally had to rewrite the ending of the first game to make the second game possible, and then they end on an anticlimax. And the secret ending sucks too.

Final Fantasy 13 was a bad game with an ending that at least made me go "okay, the characters seem like they're gonna be okay and I like that because I like them". 13-2 was a good game that ended in a way that made me go "well that came out of left field and left a bad taste in my mouth".

gunplagirl posted...

Don't forget that they used some shitty song instead of the original theme, and that didn't just change the tone and mood of the ending but also is a shitty song in comparison. No offense to Leona Lewis or whatever.

I actually really like the song My Hands. I haven't heard the Japanese credits track and I'm not measuring it against that metric, I just like the song and it worked fine in the context of the ending imo.

Like I would take My Hands over Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis, every day of the week.

Final Fantasy 13 had a fucked levelling system, a tedious and annoying story, extremely railroaded gameplay and player environments, an okay ensemble focus all things considered, and a pretty good ending.

FF13-2 had a great levelling system that fixed everything that 13 fucked up, a decent story that was made better by multiple endings and alternative goals that would end the game early, gameplay that spanned across like eight timelines that you could jump to and from on a whim with wide open areas and multiple missions, pretty watered down characterization and an unsatisfying ending. And the graphics were worse.

13-2 is the polar opposite of 13. I like it much better because it fixed everything that 13 fucked up, even if it retracted the few good parts that 13 offered in the first place.

https://youtu.be/qy5dMJ8MquU

The state of the world is stressing me the fuck out. We have these conservative fucks in power who are doing everything in their power to rape the people of their power and wealth to further enrich themselves, who are blatantly lying to keep their opponents down, and enacting more and more laws that infringe on the privacy and rights of their citizens. America is the worst for it in the western world arguably, but Australia is going to shit as well and the anti-LGBTQIA+ laws in Britain are ramping up super hard too.

Add on top of that the war with Russia, and the threat of nuclear retaliation. I've always felt like I've been living because I have no choice and because suicide is too painful and messy, but Christ the state of the world is making me want to peace out right now - not going to, but the stress is fucking killing me. There's no future.

BlingBling22947 posted...

They keep asking about Kubernetes.

You should tell them to Kuber Deez netes

Republican movies: Left Behind, God is Dead, the COVID truther movie