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Red vs Blue

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I got into Achievement Hunter because I recognized Michael.

What, from Rage Quit? No, silly, his early work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lycdmvj9Rbk

I watched this video like ten times back in the day then eventually stumbled on a Lets Play. Hearing his voice talking in the same room as Grif from RvB was so bizarre I had to learn more.

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Yeah what Adam did is nowhere near the level of what Ryan did

It's actually fucking me up how much of a monster Ryan turned out to be. It's not like I knew the guy personally but I still watched a shitton of videos with him, and apparently knowing him personally wouldn't have helped either because the other AH people seem genuinely shocked and devastated. You just never know what other people are capable of when they're behind closed doors.

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Fiona brings a lot of energy to videos that the rest can no longer bring because...well, they're older and have been doing this for ages. She's like a more insane early-era Gavin.

TheRock1525 posted...

You can never taint "Game Kids Trevor?!?!" for me. You can see poor Michael sitting there stone faced and Geoff losing his shit.

Michael is consistently one of the calmest people in videos these days. He plays the straight man much more often the guy who yells. It just makes the moments where Rage Quit Michael comes out that much funnier, though.

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I can't watch solo streamers in general - always just wind up wondering why I'm not playing the game myself - but I'm glad Ray is doing well for himself.

Actually, if I had to create a list of AH content being released right now that I drop everything to watch, it's something like...

Face Jam
F**face
Gmod (Fiona in it preferred)
Off Topic

The rest is mostly filler I listen to at my leisure.

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Bane_Of_Despair posted...

oh that's nice to hear, I haven't seen anything with Fiona in recently since I don't watch everything from the company but I remember how horribly people were treating her when she first started. Her early videos were a little rough trying to gel with the rest of the crew but she seemed cool enough, but not being the best at games plus being a female just sets fandoms like this off. Seems like she's found a spot with the podcasts and such too from what I've seen, which is cool. Hopefully the RT fandom likes her more than they did earlier, I know Lindsey went through the same thing too.

There was a big blowup regarding the roosterteeth fandom and endemic racism, and the company and talent are taking a much more proactive approach towards telling racists to fuck off. It's a work in progress but the community is overall significantly more supportive than before.

Fiona herself is fantastic in videos now that she's found her groove.

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TheRock1525 posted...

Hell, him showing up on that Off Topic last year showed how quick-witted he still is and how he can get to his coworkers. Like when he high-fived Geoff on his divorce.

Yeah...that Off Topic is a tainted now though because it contains a segment where everyone wonders about why Ryan always takes an extra day off when they travel, and brush it off as him wanting a bit of extra alone time. The extra 'day off' they were pondering matches up with one of the victim's reported dates of meeting up with Ryan.

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Off Topic is also up there for me, especially if Michael is one. Michael can talk about anything for hours and make it interesting.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

Between as transparent as he and Lindsay have been about their personal lives I would be shocked if Michael even had the amount of free time necessary to be a terrible person the way that Ryan was.

Transparency yeah, but the time thing applied to Ryan just as much as any of them. When you look into how far the extent of this go - we're talking potentially over thirty victims - it's mind-boggling that he found the time to be a serial predator in between work, family, and streaming.

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Maniac64 posted...

Do you listen to F**kface? He sounds much less defeated on there imo.

F**face and Face Jam are the two best things the company is putting out right now, followed closely by Gmod videos with Fiona in them.

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Ray was the top performer for about a year but he burned out and went from the best to the worst after like 1-2 years of videos.

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LeonhartFour posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvZRUrRZ6Ps

Man he doesn't sound anything like Andrew Ryan here. Impressive range.

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Yeah I was more referring to the non-Hollywood side of things.

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Haley Quinn

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TheRock1525 posted...

Not gonna lie, I always figured the scummy one would be Jack.

That would've been my last pick. Jack is basically the founder of Extra Life.

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This one actually gets worse the deeper you dig down into it. Might actually be the worst MeToo outing there's ever been. Ryan is a narcissistic psychopath and it hurts.

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Yes

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Fate/Stay Night's removed a sex scene and replaced it with a scene where the disembodied spirit of the protagonist gets attacked by a giant CGI dragon

Nothing else in the plot changed

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Armin Shimerman

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A5UwDuadiZY

Gold from start to finish

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Later tonight yeah

We congregate on the Discord

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DR3 is the best one and DR2 sucks

I'm not the target audience for those games though

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House in Fata Morgana is the best VN I think

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Bionis Leg
Satorl Marsh
Sword Valley

Fallen Arm would be Top 3 but the enemy placement drags it down.

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Bugs Bunny vs. Daffy Duck

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As far as the checklist goes, I can more or less do the stuff on the Visual list but it's difficult and I have to add the detail manually. Doesn't come naturally to me. Audio section is easy peasy. Touch, Smell, Taste, not so much.

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Jakyl25 posted...

I still think youre defining it differently

Your brain is still aware that the things youre imagining ARENT real, right?

Yeah we're definitely defining things differently.


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I can definitely imagine the star in a way that my mind interprets as a real image. It's not as defined as looking at a picture, and it doesn't feel real in a physical sense, but it still looks like a star.

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pyresword posted...

but I can't literally imagine the sight of a star in any way that my mind would interpret as a real image.

Yes, I (and most others) can do that.

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

wait are they ? Im seeing what I see in the same place whether my eyes are open or not, so it cant really be the back of my eyelids. Its sort of above them? Like if Im closing my eyes, the back of my eyelids would be this black stage that the mental images appear on top of.

This feels like what I was trying to get at. People in this topic seem to have different definitions of what they mean by 'see'. I can make a red star dance in front of me. It's not as 'real' as if it were an actual physical star, but I can still 'see' it. That counts as 'seeing' to me.

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pyresword posted...

I don't even really get what this is asking. No one is literally seeing a red star appear on the back of their eyelids when they do this right?

Yes, they are.

EDIT: People in this topic seem to have different definitions of what they mean by 'see'. I can make a red star dance in front of me. It's not as 'real' as if it were an actual physical star, but I can still 'see' it.

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Really getting the impression that Trump getting COVID was a turning point.

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Yes, and when I learned the term it blew my mind.

In what way? Because it gave a label to how you processed the world, or because you didn't know other people could visualize images, or both?

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Here's some counterpoints to the elephant image I posted:

I have aphantasia as well, and find this picture interesting but I don't really imagine an elephant like this. No words, descriptions etc. I'd just imagine the idea of an elephant don't really know how to explain it. I'll just know what it is without consciously thinking of these words or phrases. Saw someone else on this subreddit refer to it as Invisible Imagery. Similar to how I've heard people who can visualise imagine things, but just... without the visualization. Hope this made sense

Oh weird, I don't think in terms of visual characteristics at all. I mean I can explain what it looks like if I have to, that process is more akin to rote memorization than actual conceptualization.

But when I think of something like an elephant I would think about the sound it makes, it's feeding habits or ecosystem, behaviors, etc

So yeah, this varies greatly from person to person.

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https://i.redd.it/p0bwbtow4pq51.jpg

Found this as an example of what a person with aphantasia imagines when told to visualize an elephant. They get the impressions, ideas, and details of the object, but can't actually 'see' the object.

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skullbone posted...

I feel like I can picture things in my head pretty clearly but this topic is making me second guess things. I mean I can visualize a red star but do people actually see things in their head as clearly as 6? It's pretty hazy for me even if the colors are vivid.

If you can visualize vivid colors then you don't have aphantasia. The term isn't 'can't visualize things perfectly', it's can't visualize ANYTHING, or barely anything. Most people aren't able to visualize things perfectly.

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Lopen posted...

Well I mean I don't literally "see" anything but I do have a fairly clear feeling of what a star looks like that's hard to describe exactly what the feeling is, like I can roll my eyes around in my head to follow outlines and stuff. But as far as what I'm literally seeing it usually is just black. I dunno. I tried really hard just now and I thought I "saw" a 2 or 3 but that's generally more detail than I'll see.

So maybe I have it?

I do see images when I dream though.

People with aphantasia can have visual dreams, I think. Some can, some can't.

Are you able to visualize things in other scenarios? Like, if you're reading a book, can you picture the scene you're reading?

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Jakyl25 posted...

Im fascinated by how people with aphantasia describe reading books. Like they just process the words without actually seeing the scenes in their head.

I can somewhat understand that my ability to visualize things I'm reading changes drastically based on how I'm feeling at the time. The real mindblowing thing is people learning they have aphantasia and that other people can picture mental images, because I always see comments like "I thought stuff like 'picture this' was a metaphor, not something literal!"

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

I dont think so, but now im thinking about thinking while im thinking and its making me second guess myself

like am I actually picturing that red star or am I thinking about what it looked like and not really seeing the image but like what is seeing within your mind? is what I think is seeing not actually what seeing is

I mean Im pretty sure I dont have it, but even being made aware that its a possibility is messing with me now

From what I understand, people with aphantasia literally can't see anything but black when they close their eyes. There's also different ranges of people's abilities to imagine visual images - not everyone is going to be able to picture the star well, but as long as you get SOMETHING you don't have aphantasia. The opposite is hyperphantasia, which I've seen described as basically being able to play an HD movie in your head.

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I'm a 3 to 5 on the picture scale. Depends greatly on how striking the visual image is that I'm trying to imagine.

Also I mostly made this topic because people with aphantasia usually don't know they have aphantasia and I'm curious if anyone on B8 is in that camp

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Aphantasia is a mental condition characterized by an inability to voluntarily visualize mental imagery.

Essentially:

https://i.redd.it/uf5brm3to1e21.png

If you're told to imagine a picture of a red star in your mind, and you can't picture an image of greater detail than 1 or 2 on that image, you probably have aphantasia.

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Coffee smells bad.

Drakeryn posted...

I feel like your sense of smell is definitely jacked up if you don't like any cooking smells.

I'm not going to be like "you MUST like these particular smells that I like" but not liking any of them is definitely weird.

I can like a cooking smell, but not in any strong way beyond 'this is mildly pleasing'. I get way more enjoyment out of knowing that I'll be able to eat something I like soon than the smell itself. Conversely, cooking smells for something I don't like can be nauseating.

In general, even the smells I like the most don't go beyond 'mildly pleasing' status while the smells I dislike can be horrible to deal with. I had to room in a old, musty dorm in my first year of college that smelled gross and it was a thoroughly miserable experience. And I'm not a fan of really strong smells in general, even for stuff I'm normally okay with.

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HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

This seems like an easy way to tell how someone has never cooked before, or possibly ever been around anyone who has

I have, for many years. The cooking smells mean nothing to me.

swirIdude posted...

Maybe you should get your nose checked at an ENT?

Oh I know my nose is jacked up, although it has to do with airflow, not the sense of smell itself.

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The worst part about this is that the monsters themselves look awesome. Would be easier to accept the wasted potential if everything looked like garbage.

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Trump's attacks on Fox News always crack me up because Fox always bring him back and fellate him on air regardless. It's like an abusive relationship, which I suppose is par for the course for Trump

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More good explanations on how conservatives think

https://tinyurl.com/y4utf8g2

It's pretty simple.

Empathy is an evolved trait to facilitate social cohesion in a tribe and make sure other members of the tribe survive, since their survival increases your genetic success. So pretty much all humans, minus those with ASPD, have empathy for other humans they view as part of their tribe.

The issue is how a person internally views their tribe and what other humans are part of it. There are many people with what could even be considered an overdeveloped sense of empathy in that they view the human species in totality as "their tribe". Then there are people who at the very least view their own countrymen as their tribe.

Then there are people who only view their race as their tribe, or their gender as their tribe, or specifically their own friends and family and coworkers as their tribe. They have a complete capacity for empathy, but their brain only applies it to humans that they view as their allies. This is tribalism, and it's the root cause of bigotry and spite the world over.

Many conservatives only view other conservatives as part of their tribe, or even more narrowly the actually bigoted ones only view other conservatives of their particular "group" as part of their tribe (e.g., a racist white conservative won't view black conservatives as anything other than tools; a Christian conservative won't view Muslim conservatives as anything other than tools; etc.).

As soon as it's their tribe being affected, then they care. Then they care all too much. But if the "liberals" suffer, they're good. Those guys are an enemy tribe. If the racial minorities suffer, enemy tribe. If the other religious people suffer, enemy tribe. If the "urban people" suffer, enemy tribe. If people from other countries suffer, enemy tribe. And so on and so on.

It's also conspicuously why many conservatives who have a close relative come out of the closet are suddenly now pro-gay. The tribalism short-circuits, and they either need to determine whether the family member is no longer their tribe, or gay people are their tribe. Some go the first way and disown their kid or whatnot. Some have an astounding change of heart where gay people aren't an issue anymore because now they know "one of the good ones" and "that's family".

It all comes down to tribalism. Progressives are much more likely to view people outside of their arbitrary characteristics as part of their tribe. They're concerned with people they've never met, they see or hear of those peoples' suffering, and they want those people to not suffer. Conservatives, not so much. A progressive cares a whole lot that children are being held in cages. A conservative cares a whole lot if their children are being held in cages. They both have empathy, but the conservative's empathy is far more restrictive and narrowly applied.

It's not that all conservatives are sociopaths. They aren't. But they are tribalists, almost uniformly. And the actual sociopaths who message to them abuse that fact to keep them obsessed with petty divisions in order to trick them into voting for rampant corporatist exploitation. Full-blown false consciousness tactics, through and through.

None of these are earthshattering revelations, but people here seem routinely confused about why Republicans are the way they are, so I'll keep posting them as I find them

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XIII_rocks posted...

Um, yes?

The smell of frying bacon, or garlic and onion. Or wine. BBQ. Car when it's been cleaned, or bed, or new clothes/towels. I love it

I honestly don't care about any of these smells!

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Twizzlers

Appeared at basically the same time in my mind as Candy Corn, but I actually like Candy Corn.

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The number of things that smell nice that I also come into contact with on a regular basis are utterly dwarfed by the number of things that smell unpleasant or downright awful. If it wouldn't also affect my sense of taste, I would easily get rid of my sense of smell if possible.

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agesboy posted...

you can't really reroll anymore effectively since all of the server start bonuses dried up

MoogleKupo141 posted...

boy it must suck ass to try and start playing the game now

Oh

Know what else dried up? My motivation to start the game lmao

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Shame. Is there a way to 'reroll' at the start so you at least get 1 or 2 characters you'd prefer? Also how skill-based is the combat vs. relying on stats? Also are certain character with higher rarity strictly better than others?

Sorry for all the questions but a single player gacha game comes with a fuckton of caveats in my mind!

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