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1st: Ditto, though it wars with Lapras, Vaporeon, and Articuno (I liked water/ice a lot when I was a kid)
2nd: Espeon? Also partial to Crobat, Ampharos line, Suicune.
3rd: Rayquaza or Milotic.
4th: Arceus (big shocker), but discounting that, Mismagius and Leafeon, I guess.
5th: Chandelure. Extremely hard pick, though. Lot of ones I like in this gen.
6th: Noivern or Xerneas.
7th: Lunala or Kommo-o.
8th: Corviknight or Spectrier? no real strong feelings about gen 8, tbh.

*shrug* I am indecisive.

One of my relatives has thrown up in therapy repeatedly from EMDR processing of extreme trauma.

Yeah. I know it's really weird, but I think people ought to be able to live comfortably in exchange for their labor.

The word is censored specifically because 9S has conflicting feelings about 2B.

The story seems to hit very differently from person to person because it sort of masks what the CORE message is behind other messages. What's more, you kind of have to do ending E AND try to look at the game from a variety of angles for it to fully hit, and even then YMMV.

I actually consider NieR Replicant/Gestalt to have the better narrative, but Automata is a solid game. It's just that like all Yoko Taro games, it's definitely not for everyone.

GanonsSpirit posted...

Probably having to do a second playthrough with worse combat before you can actually see the ending.

I will say that the combat could have used more work in ALL playthroughs, unfortunately. Enemies are damage sponges on higher difficulties, which sucks, and the came could have used better weapon combo mechanics where you're actually rewarded for pulling things off (like... bonus EXP or something).

Pretty sure what you need is therapy, not philosophy, though they do intersect at times.

CBT is probably a good fit, though I will say I have had a couple of sessions of EMDR and it was some of the most brutal stuff I ever experienced but you know what? Felt better about the events processed afterward and have ever since. Didn't expect to either. I only stopped doing it because of the cost.

My sibling says. "Everyone who didn't pick spoon is a fool, but everyone who didn't pick straw is a coward."

Sure, but it's weirdly cheap which makes me wonder if it would break easily.

Lokarin posted...

No, that's very very bad - I was saying the best outcome was adding a murder charge to the warranted teen

Holy shit, how about no? This is brazen scapegoating/shunting of responsibility.

Lokarin posted...

Are you or are you not in favour of punishing the higher ups?

Sure, IN ADDITION to the cops involved.
This changes nothing; no knock warrants should not be an option for cops to take.

I have respiratory issues, so probably not.

Ehm... listened to SoaD's Toxicity the other day. Does that count?

I usually get stuck on a song or songs rather than albums.

I liked the part where the half-asleep black kid was being more responsible with his firearm than the paid professionals that broke into his house and murdered him.

The_Viscount posted...

The problem here is just the cops once again got the wrong address, which is a problem across all raids.

There is no "the problem." There are multiple problems. Shitty police work, no knock warrants increasing fatality rates by an obscene percentage, people using the argument that having a weapon means agents of the State are justified in shooting you (anti-2nd amendment),
No knock warrants should not exist. They give minimal benefit and cause massive amounts of harm.
If agents of the State are permitted to execute people for being armed, we functionally do not have a 2nd amendment.
Arguments have been made that no knock warrants are unconstitutional.
If police can't do their job right, they shouldn't be police, let alone trigger-happy police with military-grade gear that can break into people's houses with no warning.

So only conventionally attractive women are allowed to use makeup? Like... what is even the argument here?
Just another excuse to shit on a random person who hasn't done anything wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg8DA1LuZFk My own thoughts on this are in this video, put more succinctly than I could phrase it.

I don't care about other people's difficulty choices, true, and which level I prefer depends on each game. I think difficulty SLIDERS where you can change individual aspects of the game are better than preset modes, though; Xenoblade Chronicles 2's sliders were something I appreciated a lot in that game, and I think that slider systems to customize challenge to suit you just makes sense.

I haven't bothered to really sit down and listen to them but the stuff I've heard isn't bad.

This is actually not an uncommon sentiment from social conservative politicians. Just type "republicans on rape" into a search engine.

Fam_Fam posted...

it appears that

It appears that you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/romantic-or-sexual-relationships-patients (ethics regarding therapists are even stricter for reasons that should be obvious to anyone with a functioning brain)
https://metooteachingcollaborative.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/stabile-why-faculty-shouldne28099t-f__k-their-students.pdf
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/dating-at-work/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191308521000113?via%3Dihub

1 biological, 1 not biological.

My mother's sister, father, and mother all died within one year of each other. My father's father died like... months before my oldest sibling was born. My father's mother and her 2nd husband are still alive.

It's not a matter of pedophilia; it's a matter of abusing a position of authority. It's annoying that people still need it explained to them that teachers shouldn't fuck their students, doctors/therapists shouldn't fuck their patients, bosses shouldn't fuck their employees, etc.

I play every video of every person I'm subbed to. If it's not interesting, I will mute it and let it play in the background. I think by sheer volume, Vaush is probably the one I watch the most just because there's so much shit he puts out... either that or Beau of the 5th Column, who does more videos but of a much shorter length. Not sure what the metric is here, tbh.

Casual sexual assault seems to only be taken seriously when it's committed against a cop by a civ, it seems.

They're afraid of vaccines to the point where they'll shit out their intestinal lining by abusing anti-parasite medication first, and the people they're harassing are the cowards? Lol.

I don't think it's as simple as all that. I think people are grossly uneducated on a variety of topics that causes them to be easily swayed by misinformation in unpleasant times.

That said, it's hard to keep disdain in check for people who steal from services for the homeless because they failed to make food preparations beforehand.

slacker03150 posted...

Only when I first started using it on my face. I have since learned how to do it properly and haven't had issues with it.

IronBornCorps posted...

I had this problem, but my leg hair is thicc. I like nair for my legs, but you have to do it once a month or so.

Duly noted. Honestly I wish I just didn't give a shit. It's such a waste of time and money to be bothered about body hair.

CoorsLight posted...

I played that and cotm recently for the first time on that new collection. I don't understand how it came out after cotm and looks and sounds way worse. Aria is the best of the three by far anyway

It mostly has to do with budgeting issues, but it's actually paired with a problem that existed in cotm.

In emulations, you don't have to deal with this, but cotm had a big issue where the game was literally too dark on the system it was on, which made it difficult for people to see and play. As a result, the way hod visuals were made sort of... overcompensated for the issues that cotm ran into, and what they did to accomplish that apparently cut really, really hard into the budget. As a result, the audio quality took a massive hit; if I recall correctly, the tech they used for the audio was (Edit) from the Gameboy Color. Oof. Apparently they also had trouble balancing the processing power of visuals vs audio.

Unfortunately, the visual compensation that hod did for its lighting does NOT translate well when the game is emulated, which means the game gets double-whammied today as far as aesthetics go.

CaptainStrong posted...

Is Super Castlevania IV a tech demo too?

Oddly, I have actually seen someone refer to it as such before, lol. SCV4 showcased the tech of the SNES very well and it came out very early on in SNES history.

It's a strange insult to level at a full-length game. I don't fault devs for wanting to play with tech features.

custard500011 posted...

I should have the freedom to go to a bar without showing medical documents if I want. Is that really that ridiculous?

You are not entitled to entry to and service from a private establishment with no caveats. No shirt, no shoes, no vaccine, no service. Grow up.

The_Viscount posted...

sociological than political.

I shouldn't have to explain to an adult that politics and sociology overlap.

I feel like your mystery caller doesn't know what "politics" are.

My discord friend does in fact seem to understand that sociology is intertwined with politics, unlike you.
It turns out that whether or not the State thinks that witches should be burned to death, support for monarchies, denigration of minorities, etc... is both sociological and political. Who would have thought?
But I notice you have side-stepped my observation of their nationalistic "cultural preservation" that consisted of outright revision of culture... which is unambiguously, obviously political.
Do you like... have some sort of deep-seated emotional attachment to some sort of pure head-canon you've built around two men who have been dead for literal centuries? I don't understand why you're taking issue with any of this, it's really weird.

Are you suggesting Dink was acting out of malice or some ulterior motive?

Honestly I'm a bit confused about what Dinklage was hoping to accomplish as well.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

My understanding

is wrong and worthless, which is why the medical consensus contradicts you.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC164225/
https://www.chop.edu/news/vaccines-and-solid-organ-transplants-what-you-should-know
https://www.ucsfhealth.org/education/faq-covid-19-basics-for-transplant-and-other-immunosuppressed-patients

lihlih posted...

The only Tales games I liked were Symphonia, Abyss, and Vesperia. I haven't played any of the older ones, and I didn't bother trying Berseria or Zestiria though.

If you liked those three, you would probably like:
Destiny R was recently fully translated by fans and is a lot of fun, imo.
Innocence R (which fans are working on a translation for). Was shocked at how much I liked this one.
The gameplay of Hearts R (the story is absolute trash but it's a really fun game).
Eternia is of the same vibe as the ones you mentioned though the gameplay is not high-end for the series; it's a sollid installment.
Rebirth (again, fans are working on a translation and I have heard good things about it, though unlike the others I can't personally vouch for it).

And I actually enjoyed Phantasia, though its gameplay is VERY dated. Phantasia does not get enough credit for what it managed to do when it first came out. Impressive little SNES game.

Destiny 2 I am completely unfamiliar with so I can't comment on it, unfortunately. Legendia is an oddball with very high highs and very low lows. I think Phantasia and Legendia could easily benefit the most from being properly remade.

As for the newer stuff... the only one I would recommend quickly but with a few caveats is Berseria. Berseria has some pacing issues, but I think it's the closest the series has come in recent years to capturing the strength of the older games. Arise TRIED, but it was clear that Arise suffered a lot from a lack of proper revision and it is VERY rushed towards the end in a way that really hurts it overall.

Oh, ffs. The entire reason that you are supposed to be vaccinated prior to donation is because post-transplant, your immune system is going to take a MASSIVE hit in order to ensure your body doesn't reject said transplant.

There's no excuse for not knowing this.

I have not played the latter, but Arise is okay. I have some pretty big issues with it, but it was worth playing. My sibling disliked it more than I did. If you want me to go into more detail I can, but I am a bit of a Tales of nut, so... might be a bit long-winded. I really liked Dohalim; he's inarguably a standout character from Arise.

RoboXgp89 posted...

arise is cliche and too long, people were saying zestria was better

Zestiria absolutely is not better than Arise. Zestiria was a fucking dumpster fire. Arise has serious problems, but it is more comparable to the Xillia games than Zestiria in terms of quality.

Nade Duck posted...

i liked it in spite of its flaws, but never felt a need to go back to it. aria and the DS games were just too perfect.

Did you play Circle of the Moon? I liked that one, too, though the controls are a bit awkward and I thought the pacing was off. Aesthetics could use a bit of work, too; it was very dark (edit: literally dark, not tonally. The game's palette was too dark for the system it was on).

Admittedly, I like most metroidvanias a lot.

Lokarin posted...

Ya, playing it I noticed a lot of the background artwork is really good - lots of gothic arcitecture that is lacking in the other games

From what I understand, they blew their budget on the visuals, and that's why the sound card is such garbage.

How will we ever heal from this?

Does Martian ever actually make a relevant point or does he just hide behind ill-fitting memes 24/7?

I don't think whining about people calling spades spades is much of a joke, dude.

In b4 "he has so much ahead of him and he was cooperative so he gets probation/community service"

It's a shame because I actually like Harmony of Dissonance. I actually thought the way they did the castle in Dissonance was really cool, but I know a lot of people didn't like it, and unfortunately the game is poorly balanced even by metroidvania standards, the controls are... oddly floaty, and the sound chip is a travesty that made compositions that are honestly pretty interesting and unusual almost unbearable to listen to.

Game could benefit A LOT from a remake.

The_Viscount posted...

I feel like your complaint suggests there were definitive versions for most folktales.

No, my point was that the Grimm versions are NOT definitive and neither are the Disney ones, so people shouldn't get their panties in a twist over Disney choosing to change things. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear.

I was asking if you had a source that might prove the changes were done with a deliberate intent to promote specific "personal political views," because that's what you originally suggested. And that's an unusually specific claim. You're not saying social views or morals, you're saying politics. And I feel something like that should be easy to prove if there's merit to it.

I... don't know what to tell you; this has always been the case for these stories, and I'm kind of weirded out that you're challenging it. But citations, sure, sure... I doubt I can find the first works where I learned of this (first learned it from a book I read years ago and I have no idea where that thing is now, nor do I remember the title).

This blog post in and of itself is not a citation, but I don't want to link all of the citations it contains, so here is this:
http://fairytalefanboy.blogspot.com/2016/11/fairy-tales-and-socialpolitical-issues.html

"Fairy Tales and Political Socialization" Page 183 starts talking about the Brothers Grimm works specifically and their influence on European socio-politics.
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/89845/3/Samadzadeh_Mehrdad_201806_PhD_thesis.pdf

"Cultural Nationalism: The Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales" - Related.
https://www.crsd.org/cms/lib/PA01000188/Centricity/Domain/667/English/Fairy%20Tales/Cultural_Nationalism.pdf

"Breaking the Magic Spell: Politics and the Fairy Tale" is an interesting related work, though definitely people won't all agree with its assessment lol.

Ahem...
https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm110.html

Like... how do I put this? Their reasons for writing the texts that they did were overtly political (cultural preservation/unification... even though some of the stories they used weren't even German tales, lol, and that alone should be a massive red flag as to what they were doing with these stories, claiming that they it was a matter of preserving German heritage, which... sure, there's nothing wrong with that, but why change the stories so significantly then instead of preserving the older versions?) if you know much of anything about them. It was not a mere matter of preservation; if it was, they would have compiled variations of the stories instead of writing their own heavily modified versions. Charitable people call them patriots, while less charitable people call them nationalists. This is not a condemnation; it's a factual observation.

I've never tried one. I heard they cause in-grown hair sometimes, is that a problem you've had?

The Brothers Grimm took preexisting folktales and HEAVILY modified massive sections of the story in order to support their political beliefs. I thought this was well-known? Then again I am a fan of fantasy so...

The original versions of a lot of the stories they told are quite different, with everything from character personalities and behaviors to overall themes/moral lessons being completely re-written.

Uh, let me do some googling and see if I can dig up some more info for you beyond my assertions that this is the case. Oh! But one general example is that this is why so many of the fairy tale villains are like... evil stepmothers and such. That was NOT some wonky coincidental trend in folklore; that was manufactured.

Edit: Rapunzel is probably the most obvious example. I had to double-check because I wasn't sure I remembered correctly (have a terrible headache) but in older versions of Rapunzel, the heroine saved herself.
It should be noted that several of these stories are a meshing of multiple variations (Rapunzel is an example of this, actually). Which parts the Brothers Grimm chose to keep and omit should be noted. It is unfortunate that the older versions of the tales are extremely obscure today. Oral traditions and all that.
Edit2: I'm not going to hunt down all the variations, but here's one most people note. This one does have a love interest, but notice that it's not the prince that rescues her, and that she uses magic (in fact, a lot of folklore "good-aligned" characters used to, which obviously would not have flown in the culture of the Brothers Grimm. Magic-using women should be murdered, not praised):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrosinella
But yeah, just read the changes section on that page. They altered the main heroine a great deal in order to force her to conform to their beliefs about what constitutes a "good woman." It's not even subtle, lol.

Edit3: Wasn't satisfied with this post. The point is that these stories have a long history of being edited to conform to the cultural norms of the time, and that they were changed in far more dramatic ways in the past to do so. Changing superficial things like whether or not the 7 people Snow White hangs out with are human or not does not at least change substantive parts of the story; it is superficial. If people are bothered by deliberate changes for political reasons to stories, then they should probably be objecting to the way the Brothers Grimm fundamentally tweaked the characters, plot, and themes of these stories than whether or not the word "Dwarf" is used.

Edit4: I just can't stfu, lol. Uh, if you're curious, you should look up Snow White. It's fun to read about the old variations and speculated composite origins of these stories, and consider how they were altered to conform to the culture of the time and place that that variation was told in. Gives people some perspective on how people whining about "changing things to make them WOKE!!! will destroy the world!" is just... patently absurd.

As I said in the other topic, I think the solution might be to simply change some of the language and aesthetics. I don't have any problem at all with fairy tale adaptations changing with the times; historically that has always happened to such stories. The Brothers Grimm HEAVILY changed stories in order to push their personal political views onto the public, for example, far worse than anything modern Disney has done because they were attempting to permanently alter the understanding of the stories in society (and they in great part succeeded by stifling the original versions of the tales), whereas modern Disney adaptations do not suppress other versions.

So, making the story "Snow White and the Seven Fey" OR "Snow White and the Seven Miners" would have been a better move than cancelling the thing altogether, I think. The first alternative still is otherizing to the actors but removes the language taken issue with, while the second would remove the root issue but I expect some people would complain about it not being fantastical enough (though there are a lot of folklore stories with key figures that aren't fantastical, like the woodcutter in Red Riding Hood). They aren't perfect solutions, but I think tweaking these stories on a superficial level is good for modern audiences.

It is unfortunate that so many rolls for people with dwarfism end up casting them as non-human fantasy creatures. It's not difficult to understand why that is problematic, but this is a deep-seated problem in tne industry and Dinklage did not help here, I don't think.

Should be noted that I am neither a person with dwarfism nor someone in a creative industry, so I am very much talking out of my ass, lol. I might be missing something.

The fact is that Dinklage has deliberately played into the stigmatization, stereotyping, and fetishization of people with dwarfism, so I was honestly a bit surprised that his word alone was enough to cause this. From everything I've seen on this subject, I'm inclined to disagree with Dinklage. - an SJW

papercup posted...

They're not even protesting. They're pooping into their hands and throwing it at monuments and peoples houses.

They also apparently didn't make food arrangements and ended up fucking over soup kitchens, from what I've seen?

I might be wrong, but if I understand the situation between both Canada's restrictions AND the USA's restrictions...? This protest isn't even going to accomplish anything because the USA does not permit unvaccinated truckers across the border... so they're literally protesting over fucking nothing, lol.

Stress doesn't always correlate to your workload or lack thereof, obviously.

On my feed conservatives are using biblical passages to justify beating their wives.

So I guess the conservative you're quoting can't be that bad.

I always liked the core classes but I had a ptsd breakdown halfway through high school and my enjoyment of school went down the drain with my mental health, lol.

Favorite? Um... probably history. I'd consider literature but I honestly didn't like a lot of the books we had to read and my lack of access to a computer during those years impacted the quality of my work in lit, unfortunately. Science enjoyment depended too much on who your lab partner was, and I only ever had one math teacher I liked in high school.