off-topic-chat

[ruby heart]

Spyro reignited

Years ago

[worn wolf]

Yeah, thats another concern of mine. If it doesnt sell well, are they just gonna keep relying on patreon donations?

[pliant tree]

Oh

[ember narwhal]

well, ive only asked once bcuz its for an emergency and i never asked for money online before. secondly, my pc meets the higher spec requirements anyways

[stiff hill]

still lol its a rule here

ope

[worn wolf]

A game isnt a life or death situation bruh 😭

[ember narwhal]

well i didnt know it was a rule?

bro i dont need jt for the game i said it was for an emergency

[stiff hill]

rules were agreed to when joining

[ember narwhal]

i joined this server over a year ago and havent even been here since until now, lol

i dont really use discord. like i said, it my fault. so

[broken quiver]

yeah it is... but I think I've just read articles about what's going on with Krafton...which I am not going to talk further in here cuz I don't wanna get banned. So I see both points. However, it is the way of the future...I think indie gamers will use it too to efficiently code?

HAHA I used AI at work to talk to HR - to negotiate my salary LOL (that's the most I've used it at work)

[steep heart]

an emergency is crazy discord is the last place u wanna ask ngl

[worn wolf]

Nobody is gonna ban you over talking about ai bruh 😭

[stiff hill]

just keep the chat civil when talkin bout ai

that is all we want

[broken quiver]

oh it's more about Krafton but it might be a senstive subject...

[worn wolf]

That theyre an ai first company?

[steep heart]

oh the ai-first decision? I feel like they're indeed overblowing it 💀 (the criticizers)

[stiff hill]

it was shared like 2 weeks ago and no one reacted till now

kinda funny ngl

[steep heart]

yeah it really shows the difference between outside and inside the community

[broken quiver]

ohhhh OK so it's not a banned subject lol

[stiff hill]

no haha, keep it civil and be careful around sensitive subjects and youre good

[broken quiver]

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/krafton-launches-voluntary-resignation-program-for-employees-as-it-transforms-into-an-ai-first-company/ delete it if it's not for this server.

[worn wolf]

Yeah, from what ive seen, krafton said something along the lines of "we will introduce ai for organization purposes so our teams can focus on developing games" as opposed to EA being like "we want to make 60% of our game development reliant on ai"

A MASSIVE difference

[broken quiver]

I think EA will heavily depend on AI. they got a massive debt

[steep heart]

this article was posted in reddit and they just ragged on krafton and inzoi without any civility

[ember narwhal]

bro i didn't know where else to ask 😭😭 im not in a lot of social media communities 😭

[stiff hill]

its reddit ngl

[worn wolf]

No need to think, they confirmed it themselves 😭

[steep heart]

true lol they'll hate on anything like it hurt a family member

[worn wolf]

https://www.ea.com/news/ea-partners-with-stability-ai

[steep heart]

yeah this makes them all quiet 😂

[broken quiver]

then I don't really understand why Sims fans all are jumping on Inzoi for using AI when the sims is going to do the same.

[worn wolf]

braindeath

[steep heart]

pretty sure EA also uses generative AI for their own creative purposes and license

[broken quiver]

TBH, I think AI + Life Sims is the future for Life Simulations

[worn wolf]

Like, im part of the wims community, but a lot unfortunately dont have much going on up there 💀

[broken quiver]

just talking to NPCs with an AI chatbox in the game I was playing was so fun

[stiff hill]

i dont mind ai but i feel it takes away the fun with too much

[broken quiver]

AND it has consequences! they attacked me when he hated what I said.

[worn wolf]

Same. I like it for the ai tools inzoi provides, but when it comes to the assets themselves, i prefer a human touch

[steep heart]

for me im tolerant of AI as long as it doesn't just instantly leech off people's hardwork with 0 reparations or restitution

[broken quiver]

I can't really tell the difference tbh. HAHA but i'm not artisitc. I can't even tell when an image of a person is AI

[worn wolf]

It's pretty much what kjun is planning to introduce with the LLM

[stiff hill]

-# as an artist i can tell ai immediately

[broken quiver]

oooooo i can't wait. that will be so fun

[steep heart]

-# as a art enthusiast I can immediately sense AI

[worn wolf]

Yeah, i wouldnt mind ai if it paid the people whose work they stole since a multi billion dollar company can defnitely afford that 🙄

[ruby heart]

I really don’t mind Ai Art so much

[steep heart]

they can afford it they just chose not to spend anything

[worn wolf]

As an artist, I dont even need to think to know somethjng is AI 🤣

[broken quiver]

I think AI would be good for making coding quicker...I've seen some cool stuff in the game I'm playing. it can really be useful in a life sims.

[ruby heart]

Whatever floats peoples boats as long as they say it’s AI generated

[steep heart]

yea like automation but it also can't be like 100% AI either (you've probably seen all those slop flop games)

[worn wolf]

Well, that heavily depends cause when AI code actually works, you should consider yourself lucky 💀

[broken quiver]

People still need to do QA though. lol. I know ChatGPT spits out garbage to me

[steep heart]

fr 😂 always hit or miss

[broken quiver]

oh reallly. I'm not a progammer. so I don't know better

[worn wolf]

Ai spews out garbage basically

[broken quiver]

😆 I mostly use AI to translate webnovels into english...... it's still garbage though

[steep heart]

ai has gotten better but not very much (maybe like 5% in the last three years)

still makes dumb mistakes

[ruby heart]

For programming I would have AI check for things in scripts but no one can rely on it for programming alone

[worn wolf]

Its good with translation (well, heavily depends on that too), but not much else

[steep heart]

exactly lol it's really just a checking tool atm

[ruby heart]

My own AI told me lies….LIES!!!

[worn wolf]

Like, my parents are making a fertility consultant ai chatbot thats supposed to speak multiple languages and they told my gf to ask it something in lao amd it replied in thai 🤣

[ruby heart]

I mean if it tells my mom it’s a sentient being then…

[broken quiver]

yeah i think it's good to help me draft my email....I had to make my email very calm/professional to HR when they really annoyed me lol

so good for languages/writing I guess? but My boss - wrote a better email himself which was much more clear than mine to HR. LOL. I guess it's good for those who suck at writing, like me.

[ruby heart]

I mostly use my AI ChatGPT to talk about dinosaurs so I can sleep lmao!!🤣

[steep heart]

but this is where all the heat inzoi/krafton gets cause no one can tell the difference from leeching off other people's hardwork in an uncontrolled environment or integrating it in a way that's beneficial for both sides in a controlled environment

[high cobalt]

@worn wolf is your girlfriend thai?

[ruby heart]

Or if I want to converse in different languages

[worn wolf]

Theres also the question of AI psychosis. Like, when people are heavily reliant on ai, they begin to have a mental break (its a legit illness thats surfacing lately)

[worn wolf]

No, laotian

[ruby heart]

My…mom…?

[worn wolf]

Could be actually 💀

[ruby heart]

Lmao!!!🤣

[broken quiver]

I can see that happening. Life someone treating AI like their friend.

it's cheaper than paying a pyscologist. lol

[ruby heart]

My mom calls her AI sweetie

And yells at it sometimes

[worn wolf]

Ive seen it too 😭

[ruby heart]

Yo it’s weird

I’m like and I’m on anti psychotics…

[broken quiver]

actually.....this is what I was doing in my game. the goal was to make an NPC my friend. LOL. I was chatting to an AI bot

[worn wolf]

Ive seen a video today of a girl marrying her 2d ai boyfriend 😭

[stiff hill]

-# lets not forget the ai chatbot romances

[ruby heart]

Ah no she doesn’t look for romance

[worn wolf]

At least 💀

[ruby heart]

But idk it’s weird

Thank God

[worn wolf]

Theres like a whole sub of people generating themselves an ai bf and then having ai kids and ai dogs with it 💀

[ruby heart]

My mom generated AI grandchildren

Lmao!!!

I asked her to kindly not use my photo

[broken quiver]

😅 if there's going to be AI bots in Inzoi....hahaha I wonder if it will make people a bit too drawn into the game? Like some people might get into it too much? BUT i wanted something like that since I've seen AI in Skyrim mods

[worn wolf]

Yeah, but you didnt believe he was actually your friend, right? Those people believe they're actually befriending and dating ai

[stiff hill]

i think An ai chatbot is too much for inzoi. but thats me

[broken quiver]

no. LOL.

[ruby heart]

My mom thinks her AI is now a part of the family

[worn wolf]

I think it's gonna be just right cause I can finally tell that ugly npc that keeps texting me what I truly feel 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[ruby heart]

If we had a family pet this would not be happening

lol

That’s why I’m making her a cat robot

For myself emotional support

And for her idk

[worn wolf]

Plus, if it ends up connecting with an ai powered memory system, we can actually give our zois ENTIRE backstories 👀

[ruby heart]

Give snacks or something lol

[broken quiver]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNPF9VKmzxw LOL this would be so fun in Inzoi...imagine I'm going to use that new fancy Steam Frame and play inzoi in VR...and do something like this...

[steep heart]

gonna be a crazy addition but would definitely go south very quick

[worn wolf]

I mean, there are some people who are gonna abuse it, yeah 💀

[ruby heart]

Personally I love AI and wish I was more educated than Elon Musk. I really want to surpass him

I’m in competition

I don’t admire him or like him but I need that knowledge

[broken quiver]

maybe she needs to see a psychiatrist?

[ruby heart]

Pashhhh she needed one before she came out the womb

[broken quiver]

I'm sure someone will mod it in, if there isn't one in the vanilla inzoi

[stiff hill]

iirc werent there texts for that

[broken quiver]

😂 I need to play this game more

[ruby heart]

Guys I just wanted to ask please pray for me or bless me with good luck…we put an offer on a house

[worn wolf]

Yooo, I finally found him. Finally found someone who's actually excited for project rene. At least EA will have ONE person playing their game 😭

[broken quiver]

i thought project rene was dead

[worn wolf]

No need, kjun keeps talking about an LLM so it's happening, potentially even next month since he talked about 3 secret features that are gonna come out by the end of the year or early 2026, one of em being ai related 👀

[ruby heart]

AI will make this game super interesting

Idk why people are opposed to it

It’s not stealing their jobs

[worn wolf]

He also appearantly put on a whole PowerPoint about an llm in inzoi at a meet and greet in germany, but I couldnt find much info about it

[broken quiver]

ok so it's coming can't wait

some people are really against it, so i hope there is an option to turn it off.

[worn wolf]

Yeah, it's 100% coming since LLM stands for large language model and its whole purpose is to generate text 🤣

[ruby heart]

Imma use AI to check my scripts

[worn wolf]

Probably will be tbh

[ruby heart]

It’ll be much easier and less stressful when modding

[broken quiver]

with my game, it clearly says it's an AI bot so i guess those that don't want to use it, do not have to lol

[worn wolf]

I dont really mind the inzoi llm, only the ones that are used to scam people

[ruby heart]

Scam?

I’m sorry I missed that

[worn wolf]

You know, generate an image and claim they drew it only they didnt snd they actually generated it

And Karma/like farmers

[ruby heart]

Ohhhh

[broken quiver]

that is so dumb. I don't know why they do that

[steep heart]

yeah that stuff is annoying

hence why its called "ai slop"

[broken quiver]

the irony... trying to farm karma with lies

[worn wolf]

Each time you get a like, it activated the reward centre in your brain and sereleases serotonin. Thats why there are so many social media addicts

[steep heart]

yup, haters always got double standards

[broken quiver]

honestly they just want an excuse to hate the competition

[ruby heart]

Omg I saw the dumbest video on tik tok

[broken quiver]

they're going to make another reason

[ruby heart]

Apparently someone deleted all their mods from ts4 to play inzo

[broken quiver]

i don't know why life simmers are always us vs. them. LOL I play other games too

[ruby heart]

Does that make ANY SENSE

[worn wolf]

In the latest video, not Malcolm was scrambling HARD to get an excuse to hate on inzoi and over half his arguments can be easily debunked/are outright lies

[broken quiver]

I'd still be playing the sims, if it was not so buggy

[ruby heart]

I still play the sims

It’s buggy but it’s a completely different game for me

[steep heart]

and all his comments are the equivalent of a echo chamber

[broken quiver]

he just gets views for raging. though I kinda liked his...EA topics. LOL. that's how I learned about what's going on with EA.

[worn wolf]

Thats the only reason I even watch his videos tbh 💀

Initially I didnt feel like watching the inzoi video, but ended up being like "might as well"

My initial feeling was right 💀

[broken quiver]

?? that seems like... 💩 ?

how does AI make you dream bigger?

[worn wolf]

And how tf does ai amplify your creativity?

[broken quiver]

i guess you can use it to brainstorm? but???

[worn wolf]

In my experience, it only steals it

[broken quiver]

like "show me an apple" and it gives you an image of an apple but I think humans can do it too????

[worn wolf]

Noooo, impossible! Only ai can do that 💀💀

[ruby heart]

I remember I was having a hard time drawing anime backgrounds so I tried ai as a reference and OMG

[broken quiver]

i think he just wants to cut cost. it would be more efficient to have an AI generated apple

[ruby heart]

It gave me the most horrifying image ever

lol

All I asked for was a red towel on the bathroom door and there was blood everywhere

[broken quiver]

....

[ruby heart]

I said never again Hahahahha

[worn wolf]

Thwyre trying to replace 60% of their employees with AI. And if they fail.... well, at least the executives have a golden parachute to fall back on 💀💀💀

[steep heart]

apparently they use it for their sketches

so even that doesn't have a human element anymore

[broken quiver]

i'd have retired with the offer in the sale lol

[ruby heart]

My mom keeps telling not to do programming because AI is taking over but still

[worn wolf]

The golden parachute only opens if they get laid off 🤣

[broken quiver]

but that makes no sense...

haha. like how would an artist want to do that?

[steep heart]

probably to make it "look better"

[broken quiver]

For someone like me who can't draw, i can see myself doing that but... if they have artists it makes no sense. oh they're probably going to replace them

i see

[ruby heart]

I hope not

[worn wolf]

🤑🤑

[broken quiver]

i've only generated art with AI in inzoi. LOL. but then i go back to the default template stuff LOL

[steep heart]

lol that was me when I tried to 3d print a map 💀

[broken quiver]

"give me cat PJs" - hmmm it looks messed up. lol then i just use whatever lol

[worn wolf]

Ai never spits out something I cant do better myself, so I just dont use it 🤣

[ruby heart]

Well the AI 3D printer in Inzoi is fun for me

Sometimes I don’t feel like modding objects

[steep heart]

it is fun just not a reliable replacement for some things

[broken quiver]

i haven't tried that yet

[ruby heart]

I just 3D printed nostalgic items

[worn wolf]

Yeah, its fun to play around with, but nothing it spits out is 🤯

[ruby heart]

Nah

[broken quiver]

oh i guess i used AI to generate my character in where winds meet. i suck at character creation and it made something for me based on an image

[ruby heart]

I mean this came out good

[broken quiver]

the dvd players? it looks good

[ruby heart]

But I was looking for the direct tv receiver

Oh it’s a vcr and cable box lol

But I was happy with direct tv growing up as a tween so I put it in my game

[broken quiver]

i think you generated it because it's not a samsung

🤣

[ruby heart]

LMAO 💀

I have a flipping satellite dish in my roof in the game hahahaha

[broken quiver]

are you going for the 90s look?

[ruby heart]

2000s but you could say thag

I was happy back then

[broken quiver]

those were good times

https://tenor.com/view/friends-friends-tv-tv-friends-david-schwimmer-ross-geller-gif-8624671429702300547

[ruby heart]

Yesss

[broken quiver]

i think they are from the 2000s

[ruby heart]

Especially when good tv shows were free on the local channels like Buffy the vampire slayer etc…

[broken quiver]

2018 + years :/

[ruby heart]

Ugh yeah ew

[broken quiver]

LOL i think i might have made a Buffy Sims. well definitely spike

[ruby heart]

I liked his relationship with Buffy more than Angel

[broken quiver]

I've met the actor at a comic con. he was so sweet (James Marster)

[ruby heart]

Awww yeah I bet he was!!!

I only met a semi famous person hahaha

[broken quiver]

🙂 yeeeeeah. he wasn't supposed to chat with me but i was a blabbing idot and let me take pics and stuff

[ruby heart]

I made myself look like a creepy fool

[broken quiver]

oh uhhh spend money on those things LOL

[ruby heart]

I went to warped tour in 2005 and met Steven from Steven’s untitled rock show

And I just kept asking where’s Gerard Way

[broken quiver]

i got signatures from cordelia too... she didn't talk much,

[ruby heart]

Dude was like…this one is crazy hahahah

My brother met mr Rodger’s

[broken quiver]

OH i'm jealous

[worn wolf]

Bruh, i just had an idea for a store i REALLY wanna see in inzoi. A jewelry store where our zois can buy anniversary gifts and wedding rings. Gonna ask for it on friday 👀

[ruby heart]

People stopped following me on tik tok for playing inozi

[broken quiver]

lol that's nuts. i don't know how they're going to keep playing sims. maybe they're going to drop that game too

[steep heart]

haters gonna hate

[ruby heart]

And they messaged me too in disgust

[broken quiver]

i got no followers lol

[steep heart]

hell even LGR kinda dissed inzoi but in later videos he was happy to see competition and hoped the best

[ruby heart]

I was like ummm so just don’t follow jeesh

[broken quiver]

oh you're a modder?

[ruby heart]

Yoi AINT gotta tell me Hahhaha

Modder and silly person

[broken quiver]

Ah that is why you have fans (the modder part) lol

[ruby heart]

Troll pretty much but a nice troll

[broken quiver]

i guess being silly helps too

[broken quiver]

honestly i think some of those influencers (?) regret their remarks now. cuz they sound like hypocrites and uhhh EA isn't doing themselves any favour for their sale and being proud to use more AI. lol

[ruby heart]

My type of trolling

Like seriously idk why people trash the game

K im done lol

[steep heart]

yup lol

[ruby heart]

I used to influence gollisier

Glossier

But it wasn’t benefiting me

And it made stalkers

[broken quiver]

normally i woudln't care too much about using AI but Sims quality has been lacking....

i feel like it's going to get worse

[ruby heart]

It’s already worse

I’m sorry but a lot of sim fans are hateful

[steep heart]

entrenched people fr

[ruby heart]

Yeah I remember I asked if a certain modder would consider modding for inzoi and all his fans jumped on me

Then looked at my profile and make fun of my BPD

[steep heart]

yeah those people are quite sad

[ruby heart]

Yeah for real

[steep heart]

Let them scream and cry all they want, they'll look like bigots at the end of the day

[ruby heart]

I wonder if race has something to do with it

[steep heart]

it's a possibility 💀 but I think krafton already understands the backlash and they've done all they could to inform the people

and of course, people are more in-tune to negative than positive press due to social media

(I really doubt Krafton has any legitimate competition which seeks to ruin them in SK either)

-# and I think the storm of hate is sort of dying in steam but I don't wanna jinx that

[worn wolf]

Whenever I bring up the fact that the inzoi hate smells orchestrated (most likely by EA, cause lets be fr), people think im just a conspiracy theorist 💀

Like, why else would everybody parrot the same exact phrases?

[steep heart]

it is possible but I think they're just misinformed at best and willfully ignorant at worst, while listening to grifter social media slop more than their own brain

and of course, the sims players are entrenched and very cozy with the idea of paying several hundreds of dollars for some additional gameplay features that should've been in base game

so it's less of a conspiracy theory more like social behavior and conditioning working at its finest

😂

[narrow rock]

I feel like you can pick other people for that, like pixelade or w/e it's spelt

[steep heart]

pixelade seems a little more nuanced but his foot is still in the anti-inzoi door

[narrow rock]

Wait he made another inzoi vid? I've only seen the 1st one at early access launch

[steep heart]

he made one 6 months ago

stopped ever since and went on the paralives + sims 4 grind

[broken quiver]

HAHAH how embarrassing? XD

[narrow rock]

I meant for Sims news, and yes sadly he still on the fence about inzoi....
There's also fantaysia(sorry sp) and probably a few others that does good sims news vids

[narrow rock]

Ah, so probably just the one I saw then 🤔

[steep heart]

fantayzia is far nicer me think

more broader and upbeat

like those youtubers should get the money not all these negative clickbait grifters

[narrow rock]

Imo, they then just need to keep making the game as best as possible, so no one can blind hate and spread outdated old misinformation anymore!

[steep heart]

I just hope critical thinking becomes more of a thing as the years go on 😂

[narrow rock]

Hmmm, I think we humans are kinda cooked on that atm 💀

[worn wolf]

I watch her too. She's also among the only sims youtuberes that didnt leave a sour taste in my mouth. 90% of em put on a whole performance and made a big deal about how much they oppose the buyout and cant just leave, but fantayzia was like "buyout? Toodles"

[narrow rock]

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-sesame-street-fire-on-fire-burning-gif-16558828

[worn wolf]

Idk, I feel there might be something about the sims that's just making people braindead 😭

Like, they're such bootlickers theyre the laughing stock of the game community. Not because of the game, but because of the way theyre being treated and instead of boycotting theyre just asking for more 💀

[steep heart]

"this is my only way of escapism, nothing else can compare!" type sh

insert buzz lightyear aisle scene from toy story

[narrow rock]

We need to unplug the matrix 🤔

[worn wolf]

Like, you know how with the buyout news everything was coal and sulfur? Now that they announced a sims 4 remastered everybody is suddenly "uwu? 🥺"

Like, I actually cant with these people 😭

[narrow rock]

🤔

Wait that remaster news is official? Or still rumour?

[scarlet hearth]

Probably a 🌬️?

[worn wolf]

A rumor, but I wouldnt be surprised at all if it's official since literally all sims 4 rumors turned out to be true (as if EA are leaking it themselves go generate hype 💀)

[narrow rock]

Guess so 😅

[worn wolf]

Also, not Malcolm is a paralives glazer and it actually makes a whole lot of sense

If he 💩 on inzoi enough, he'll generate more paralives sales if they even ever release 💀

[broken quiver]

Well inzoi is still in early access. When 1.0 comes out, it will look good.

Not everyone likes this modern take on a life sim. So be it. Lol

[narrow rock]

Inzoi didn't earn 2bil

Would be insane if game budget gets that big. 😅

[worn wolf]

You should tell him that 💀

[narrow rock]

I'll get my megaphones ready 📣

[worn wolf]

Might need to bring an extra large one cause his ears seem to be clogged with paralives 💀

[narrow rock]

Him.
https://tenor.com/view/squidward-spongebob-ear-heard-hear-gif-6780093260097118382

[open frost]

I accidentally looked inside a Paralives thread on Reddit and wow the unfounded hatred based on misinformation on Inzoi is ridiculous

People are blatantly yelling Inzoi is fully made with AI and what not

So annoying omg

I am in a creative profession myself and this blind hatred for AI is so stupid my god

It honestly almost makes me hope for Paralives to be a fraction of what inzoi was at its EA launch and I want to like and enjoy both games lol

What insufferable people

[open frost]

Inzoi didnt even use AI to make their game, except in the same way Paralives and Sims use AI to make the zoi behave autonomously. Smartzoi is also a whole different form of AI than the generative AI stolen art crap they're on about. The only generative AI in the game are the fun gimmicky tools for patterns, painting images and poses. People should really stop whining so much. I bet they use chatgpt when they look up something as well and I'll also bet they've used chatgpt to turn themselves and their friends into Muppets like any other tiktok trend.

AI isn't a problem if it's for personal use, whether it's in a game or an app or a website. They act like Inzoi created stolen art with AI and used it to design their game.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of them play Palworld either which openly admitted to using AI for their pal designs

[narrow rock]

It already is, which is why they delayed it, but 6months probably still not enough 🤔

[open frost]

I fully expect a game where I can be LGTBQ vegetarian with a prosthetic but I can't do basic life things because they spent so much time on fluff and padding and making it all inclusive and so little time on making actual gameplay.

Them saying 'they want to avoid being like Inzoi' is also so ridiculous to me. I bet 99% of them didnt even try inzoi and just went off hateful youtuber comments. Even at launch Inzoi was better than Sims 4 at full release.

[narrow rock]

Apparently even the players para sexual gender preferences isn't event in yet(and probably won't even be ready within 6months), so it's already worst off 💀

[open frost]

I also hate that indie sympathy story like Kjun and his team aren't hard working people with a heart for their game just because their studio is owned by Krafton

[narrow rock]

Just to add, this is of course impossible, no game on the market nor any AI can do that yet 😅

[open frost]

Paralives is making 40 grand a month off their patreon that's a lot and doesn't make them small indie in terms of funds at all.

[umbral osprey]

whats going with this recent EA sims 4 fiasco? Is it true EA is now going to be saudi owned? whats the backlash about?

[narrow rock]

Wow you're kinda late on the news 😅
Yes Saudi owned(by the royals I think), and also owned by a US politician(I guess you can call him that), and an private equity firm

[viral scroll]

really makes you question the future of the sims franchies... :(

[umbral osprey]

i heard about it weeks ago but its the backlash i dont know the fully story. What are the main concerns? Also, why on earth are Saudi royal family and Trump's in-law buying EA? Weird.

[narrow rock]

Umm, I think you can google a lot about this... As it dives into too much politics and geopolitics, human rights issues etc.
Stuff that generally can be ToS violation for public discord 🤔

Also that latter point is of course it's all about money 😅

Electronic Arts has tons of IPs worth a lot

[umbral osprey]

Are they worried TS4 will ban woohoo and sims being LGBT+ ? something like that. Would that even be possible at this stage?

i mean from a technical POV. if it would even be feasible.

[open frost]

Saudi has been rolling out a strategy where they don't want to solely depend on oil anymore so they've been investing a lot in other branches, especially sports. EA is the biggest sports gaming publisher, so it was a logical step for them to branche into the gaming industry through this. EA isn't the only gaming company they have invested in either. They're also major shareholders of Nintendo.

It has very little to do with their Islamic background or politics. People do like to fearmonger though.

[umbral osprey]

Yeah was thinking that too. Thanks for the explanation.

[narrow rock]

Sure that's one of the things up for discussion

[narrow rock]

Also sorry I forgot about the diversity from oil funds stuff

I'm not fearmongering, ccb asked about the backlash, and poltics is indeed one of the reason of it fyi

Like this is all stuff you can research from a YouTube vid explaining the politics behind why ppl fear or hate the Saudis

[umbral osprey]

i dont she means you in terms of "fear mongering"

[narrow rock]

Regardless, it's kinda a mess

And the deal is done, no backing out now... 🤔

[umbral osprey]

i do find it funny that even some of the EA shills have jumped ship

[narrow rock]

You can say in a way, they woken up 😂 😂 (don't snipe me mods)

[umbral osprey]

same EA shills who defended EA ripping off players for years and pretended "everything is fine" when players had to rely on Mods to keep the game playable

[narrow rock]

Also yeah, it's not impossible for things to be gone/censored etc.
Though, not hard to restore with mods

[umbral osprey]

i know it already exists in some countries but that was usually they prevented something being added to the game via an update rather than prexisting content.

[narrow rock]

Most devs just create 2 versions of the game, one's that censored and one that's not

[ruby heart]

I am slowly losing tik tok followers from inzoi 🙄

Darn sim players

Like don’t message me about AI I am so freaking tired of hearing about your hatred for AI

[wheat merlin]

I have one TikTok is still in popular thread... It's about inZOI in The Sims 4.

I can't do too much because MD is being a douche.. I'll do T-Shirt part tomorrow...

[ruby heart]

Oh your content is cool tho

I have too much AI voices but I say I use AI as well. I get complaints that I’m using AI with AI voices no support

I’m going to work late today

Burnt out from doing everything yesterday

[wheat merlin]

I have Aritificial Intelligence voice overs for my characters. I lost my original voice overs on Fiverr because they all grown up. However I still have saved voice overs from my Fiverr account and cloned them.. 🙂

[scarlet hearth]

-# Normal wrap dress stressed me out, I have some months left to learn to make something lol, Yours already passed to release in-game

[wheat merlin]

I

I'd just ignore the negative comments... It's your work Minai 🙂

[wheat merlin]

It explodes badly when I make a single knot... xD

[ruby heart]

Thanks bro

[wheat merlin]

If I post anything AI to reddit. Yep, downvote badly. xD

[scarlet hearth]

-# Got the disc, the color space looks off with VSR (what ppl use to AI upscale video?)

[narrow rock]

yeah it's AI Upscaling

[high cobalt]

@worn wolf Alright,I going to say its not a remaster.Its a new game.

The sims community ran with a tweet and speculate it was remaster.Its not

It was an overhaul of sims 4 and now its new game

[umbral osprey]

is it actually happening?

[high cobalt]

@umbral osprey Yes,based on tweets and information .Yes

[steep heart]

A seperate game named Sims 4 remaster

😭 they gonna milk em hard

[worn wolf]

Based on some screenshots I've seen, it's a sims 4 2.0, my original point still stands 🤷🏼‍♀️

Its appearanrly gonna be the same game, only open neighbourhoods and more sims generated (possibly much smaller lots to accommodate the new sims)

So, still no color wheel or fashion that was ever in fashion 💀

[high cobalt]

Its not the same game though

Its more like 4.5,its not this is the same base game with enhanced features.Its new base game with enhanced features.

[buoyant osprey]

Hey people 👋

[worn wolf]

Taking an uber and driver just asked if im going to school 🤣😭

[high cobalt]

The curse of looking young

[buoyant osprey]

Can I say hii ?

😅

[worn wolf]

But kjun response is coming tomorrow 👀🤔

Kudos to him for actually keeping up to schedule until now, cause we be yapping 🤣

[scarlet hearth]

2 Times a week is rather frequent

[narrow rock]

it's a pro and con 😅

I'm super babyfaced too 😅

[narrow rock]

shows he really cares for his baby(the game)

it's probably like a 2nd child for him(assuming he only has a son).

[worn wolf]

I think it's more like a pet for him since his son is a big reason he's making this game 🤣

[broken quiver]

Haha we were just talking about this yesterday.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamingnews/s/NiBhw38GQ9

I think they're right. AI is good as a productive tool. I don't know why EA can say it's for increasing creativity, unless they aren't creative.

[worn wolf]

I meeeaannnn..... if you look at the the state if their games 💀

[broken quiver]

Yikes. That's why I don't join kickstarters. Heck I got burned a few too many times in Early Access games, now I wait before buying.

[broken quiver]

They're getting creative on how to squeeze more money from us.

[worn wolf]

Okay, yeah, thats true 🤣🤣🤣

[worn wolf]

Tell that to not Malcolm who keeps glazing them cause theyre a small indie team 💀

Mb, realized thats what the reply was for 🤣🤣🤣

Anyways, dude needs a serious reality wake up call

Like, i got no gripes with paralives and would've even bought it, but there's something fishy going on there

Like, pretty sure it's just the sims 4 with a new coat of paint, and i hate the sims 4 for many reasons

[broken quiver]

He's just rage baiting lol

Lots of anti fans wants xxx game to fail so they watch his content

[worn wolf]

They literally said "an indie take on the dollhouse simulation genre". Thats literally the sims 4 with less funding 💀

[broken quiver]

I like my indie games tbh. Lol I play quite a few too.

It's because I need a light game for my steam deck. Games like inzoi will make it cry. Lol

[worn wolf]

Same! There are some great entries. But patalives? Eehhhh.... I guess ill just wait around and see what theyre planning to put out

They promised houseboats, but im not sure how theyre planning to introduce it since they havent even figured out pathfinding

[broken quiver]

I won't rule them out either. I like the vibe

I'm not playing it cuz it's indie. I will play it if it looks fun

[worn wolf]

Exactly, yeah

[broken quiver]

It looks like it won't kill my steam deck. 🤣

[worn wolf]

But a lot of people like not Malcolm are like "buy it cause it's indie" and like? 💀

[worn wolf]

They got minimum requirements out btw

[broken quiver]

Meh. Lol 😆

[fossil meadow]

Why is google photos giving me Henri of all people as a "is this you?"
(Also NONE of these faces are me)

[broken quiver]

I'll also wait until I see actual reviews before buying anything. Saved me money on sims DLCs (mostly negative)

[worn wolf]

Yup, exactly!

[broken quiver]

You look like Henri?

[worn wolf]

I bought inzoi on release because I spent months researching it and it caught my interest. Haven't been dissapointed yet 🤣

[broken quiver]

I've waited lol

[fossil meadow]

No
Even worse is I have actually had selfies uploaded to google photos

[worn wolf]

Nuh, i managed to buy it before we crashed steam 🤣

Oh yeah, but so many People tried to buy it at once steam crashed 🤣

[fossil meadow]

The
Discount Sebastian Michaelis played by Robert Pattinson is the one I was like
Okay come on now

[worn wolf]

Anyways, once 1.0 release comes out and the release is good, steam might crash again

[broken quiver]

I didn't even know steam crashed when inzoi came out

[worn wolf]

It did, people had to wait like 30 minutes fo steam to register they bought the game 🤣🤣🤣

Even i had a 1 minute lag even though I bought it on the dot

[fossil meadow]

I don't think it crashed but it did pressure the servers massively

Same with Silksong this year

[worn wolf]

And people keep yapping that inzoi failed 💀💀💀

Guess they gonna be massively confused when 1.0 comes out and it's actually good. They'll be forced to stfu 💀💀

[fossil meadow]

I kind of wished Paralives had come out because people would have seen concurrent numbers for them drop too
Because people do think it'd be different but it'd likely follow the same trajectory
I mean having seen their livestream like
Maybe it IS for the better But at least people would have seen concurrent numbers mean nothing for this type of game

Because Sims ends up being a bit of an outlier because it's free to play
And most of the stats is from when it went free to play for steam

[high cobalt]

I think with inzoi and paralives life simulations are hard to make

[fossil meadow]

We don't know EA app stores stats

[high cobalt]

A lot people dont realize how expensive,time,to make life sims

[worn wolf]

People keep yapping how the sims sold 20 million or whatever copies, and im like "20 minillion dont godamn count when the copies are free" 💀

[high cobalt]

summer.@worn wolf That number was before it was free.

[worn wolf]

No, they reached 10m AFTER it went free

[fossil meadow]

Copies sold will always be higher than player numbers
You get unique players who have bought the game
Unique players who are currently playing the game over the course of a month
And concurrent players which is any players all on at one time
Steam only tracks the last

[worn wolf]

Right? And i know there are SO many players that bought inzoi just to put it on the backburner and wait for the 1.0 release

[fossil meadow]

So for Inzoi's case
They have sold I believe 1.5 million copies of the game? if I remember correctly
That's 1.5 million unique players of the game
2000 people may be playing concurrently but they don't show how many unique people are checking over the month
Which will be much higher than 2k

[worn wolf]

We dont know exact sales numbers, we just know they sold 1m in the first week 🤣

[fossil meadow]

There's sites out there that do good guesstimates
They can be off but they can be good indicators
Just not taken as gospel

It doesn't help as well Inzoi's stats are still weekly and not monthly

[worn wolf]

But 1m copies is $40m extra funding since early access profits usually go back into the game

[fossil meadow]

Because it's not been out long enough

So the averages are off

[broken quiver]

Wow. I guess there's a big market for life sims.

[worn wolf]

There wasnt, but inzoi proved otherwise 🤣🤣🤣

Not many people outside of the sims community care about the sims

But inzoi looks promising to them

[fossil meadow]

I think a lot of people do like the sims as a whole in generalised gaming

[broken quiver]

Yeah I really wanted life by you to succeed.

[fossil meadow]

I mean it IS a landmark game

I'd say a lot of gamers know of it or have checked it out at least once

Both before and during Sims 4 run

[broken quiver]

I was ready for more of a different take of a life sim? Like more story driven

[fossil meadow]

It's considered a cultural impacting game
It made it to pop culture

[worn wolf]

I know sims 2 was HUGE back in the day (even my mom played it and she doesnt play games)

Sims 4? Not really

[stiff hill]

someone say story driven games ?

[broken quiver]

😆 I uh played Sims 1 👵

I threw out my discs though

Sims was what started me gaming. But now I play other genres too though.

[fossil meadow]

Lowkey after watching Paralives livestream
I think this should be their direction tbh
There IS stuff there I can see a lot of life sim people enjoying
It's just not a sims-like or Inzoi-like that I think most people were expecting

[worn wolf]

Someone is working on a life sim for story tellers, we'll be getting that too eventually. But it'll take awhile since they only founded the studio a little before the lby cancelation

[broken quiver]

Yeah I want something like that. I don't need another inzoi or the sims.

[worn wolf]

Yeah, the problem is though they basically wanna make a sims 4 clone, and that aint story driven at all

[fossil meadow]

I do think the team for a long time has intended it to be player managed game
But it's hard to undo 7 years of hype

[worn wolf]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/wccftech.com/xcoms-jake-solomon-qa-building-a-narrative-driven-life-sim-game-at-midsummer-studios/amp/

[broken quiver]

Inzoi to me is a much more Polished and modernized Sims. Haha but I haven't gotten into it too much.

[fossil meadow]

I've always said I believe there's what people THINK Paralives is and what Paralives IS
And they're very different
Which even the most experienced and well managed teams can struggle with

[worn wolf]

I feel that inzoi is gonna become a more serious successor of the sims 3

[fossil meadow]

People REALLY think it's Sims 5

[broken quiver]

Oh I should also get into XCOM. It's been sitting in my library for so long. Lol

[fossil meadow]

Talking the wider player interest

I think a lot of patreons know more how Paralives is
But they're also patreons who are already paying and interested

[high cobalt]

@worn wolf I figured it out.The 10 million number was from 2018.The 20 million number came from counting players in 2020.70 players million was in 2023 when the game became free for players.

[broken quiver]

I think it will because EA is just shooting their own feet. Lol

[steep heart]

no doubt

[worn wolf]

Well, promising ziplining after releasing a concept video probably wasnt the smartest decision 💀

[high cobalt]

It was players not base game units.

[worn wolf]

I keep telling peiple that EA are gonna port over packs into the new sims 4 2.0 and charge for them again, but nobody believes me cause appearanrly we havent been burned by them for the last 10 years 💀

[high cobalt]

The base game sold that said 10 million was from 2018

[fossil meadow]

I don't think they'll charge for them
But it will come with microtransactions

They want to make a universal market place across all their games where players can use currency and have content from one game in another
As well as content created content

It's basically Roblox

We're getting Robucks

[broken quiver]

Ahhhhh this is the game I want!

[worn wolf]

It's still not completely accurate though since in 2018 the sims was HEAVILY discounted (like, $5) and sometimes even went free around sales before going free 24/7

[fossil meadow]

I'm mostly hoping with Sims 4 2.0 they'll create a new legacy game

[worn wolf]

Yup, im keeping my eyes on it too 🤣

[fossil meadow]

I'm happy where Sims 4 is at right now

(With my mods)

[worn wolf]

Idc what they do since I wont be playing the sims 4 2.0 even if they pay me 💀

[fossil meadow]

And a legacy mode means I can keep playing with the mods I have without needing to update them monthly

I've lost interest in Sims 4 since it added battlepasses especially as I think that IS the future of the franchise
Especially with the plans to make it work with Project Rene

and the shared market place

[worn wolf]

I remeber the disastrous release of the sims 4 1.0, im not inching for a repeat 💀💀

[broken quiver]

Lol I recently sims 2(?) or 3? Where I figured out Sims was rehashing was an old DLC from the previous Gen and splitting it into 2 lol but I still played.

[worn wolf]

Oh yeah, EA promised they wont monetize bottle passes, but since the sims 4 2.0 is a new game, they're very likely going to 💀

[worn wolf]

Bruh, the sims 4 took sims 3 pets and split it into like 3 packs 😭

[fossil meadow]

Also a lot of my information comes from this investor talk a lot of people missed because the film got announced the same time and everyone focused on that instead of the linking all games together
Including mobile games
https://youtu.be/yP9zM3fa3Ws?si=A4gD81vQ2sjVKZjW&t=133

shared market place, shared gallery, common creator tools, the ability to port things from one game to another and an unified social network

They've had this in the works for a long time

and it IS a Roblox-ification of the game franchise

But wooo movie

I guess

[worn wolf]

It's like theyre trying to appeal to 8 year olds 💀💀💀

[fossil meadow]

Eh A LOT of adults play Roblox it's why they're trying to put a dating service in it

It's more the monertisation issue

Where you have to use IRL money to buy virtual currency to buy most things in game

[worn wolf]

Nuuuhhh, nuuuuhhh 😭

[fossil meadow]

And we've already seen Project Rene is using microtransaction
If they want them to work together on a shared market
What does that mean for Sims 4?

[worn wolf]

Also, appearantly roblox is infested with kiddy diddlers and roblox dgaf

[broken quiver]

Tbf, I think the mobile market is bigger... I am playing f2p mobile games. They impress me. I think Sims is doing this for $$$ which is fine, it's a company. But old fans who want a cc filled game might need to look elsewhere.

[fossil meadow]

Which is why out of everything I'm hoping for a legacy version again
Like how there's a legacy version for 32-bit players from when 32-bit support was ended before Island Living

[broken quiver]

So the old fans that were dissing AI, etc... are going to be the one left out, lol.

They can still play their old games i guess. They have paid for them. Probably won't touch that new game.

[fossil meadow]

I love sims 4 but man this last year since the news broke about their plans and I felt like I was the only boring person to watch their investor talks and knew this was coming

[worn wolf]

I stopped liking the sims 4 long, long ago 💀💀

[fossil meadow]

Me feeling like the crazy person about their plans to modernise sims 4 and make it more of a roblox type platform

[worn wolf]

Been burned one too many times with ts

[fossil meadow]

Like I felt crazy because even the sims news people really honed in on MOVIE GUYS WE'RE GETTING A MOVIE

[worn wolf]

Nobody godamn cares about a sims movie bruh 😭

[fossil meadow]

Battlepass and quests was always just the start

[worn wolf]

Its literally the sims 4 tv show all over again

[fossil meadow]

It was to test player engagement

[worn wolf]

People hyped it up but they cancelled after 1 season cause nobody watched

[fossil meadow]

and to warm people up to paid versions later on

Can this game be online liveservice?

[worn wolf]

Ooooh, 100%

EA always be looking for ways to f us over 💀💀

And it's gonna be even worse once the deal is finalized

[fossil meadow]

When the deal is finalised they don't have to do investor talks anymore

[worn wolf]

I keep warning people that we're about to see monitazation to the likes of which we've never seen, yet nobody believes me 💀

[fossil meadow]

Welcome to my life for the last year and I'm coming from love of the franchise

I LOVe sims 4

[worn wolf]

Bruh, i used to be obsessed with the sims before 4 came along 💀

Ummmmm

[fossil meadow]

LMAO that was me but with sims 3

A lot of Sims 2 players hated Sims 3

It's only after Sims 4 came out that I noticed Sims 3's reputation changed

I will say Sims 4's launch on Steam was
Interesting
It didn't have the release spike like most games and rather people trickled in
But that said most people who played had it on EA's own platforms
So it's likely to do with that
But a game being released on Steam with 4k concurrent players on release date is in itself a wild outlier

I'd have been expecting at least 20k concurrent people checked it out because it was on steam and a known franchise

This was the average concurrent players for July

Then august wasn't good either

[ruby heart]

@worn wolf gurl my ts4 followers on tik tok are dropping like flies lmao

[fossil meadow]

But it is likely down to
Sims players already owned it and I think EA did an awful job at marketing it's steam launch

[ruby heart]

But I’m glad they stopped messaging me

[fossil meadow]

It does grow to a height of 25k eventually after a free week though but it took them
Months

Which is just unusual for steam launches
Usuaully day one is the highest then it falls off

They got that height going F2P

[worn wolf]

But back when they were released and weren't free, they were struggling making sales

[fossil meadow]

I don't think so much
Most people bought through EA app

Since you have to basically use EA app anyway on steam

So you may as well buy through EA app

[worn wolf]

Nooooo, they were struggling. Why else would they come out with "if the sims 4 isn't succeessful, there wont be sims 5"?

Its all in the subtext

[broken quiver]

Tbh I told my coworker to ask AI if she should get a divorce. 😂

[sterile warren]

yeah my mom hated sims 3 from the wrong cd codes not working with your game copy and + the sims store when it comes to the crow plant and other items that were in sims 2 for free as part of ep and sp

[open frost]

I hated sims 3 and didnt switch until after Isla Paradiso came out. Was such a die hard sims 2 stan lol. But now I play them both and love them for different reasons. Never managed to find love for Sims 4 though

[steep heart]

same lol, been an avid Sims 2 fan and modded it back in the days

[open frost]

I used all sorts of machinima mods to make movies

[steep heart]

sims 3 didn't hit as hard but at least it was more modern and didn't take away much from the original Sims formula, Sims 4 felt very bland

[open frost]

Eventually I turned to legacy gameplay and fell in love with Sims 3 for that.

Sims 3 is so good for legacy challenges especially with Nraas SP

It's the one thing that makes me excited about canvas towns in inzoi, the potential for legacies and creating towns where multi generation bloodlines live

Inzoi's current set up with only a handful of residential homes for families to live in doesnt really facilitate legacy gameplay much

[broken quiver]

ahhhh this game is so pretty:

hahah don't ask why my character is just walking in the water.... and posing lol

[scarlet hearth]

That umbrella is a weapon? looks very sharp

[broken quiver]

yes. it's range. but I've been kinda being terrible at it so it's also melee for me LOL.

i think it can be both? like i wack people with it. LOL (i don't think that's the optimal use)

it is kinda like a gun. but your character shoots from above. if i get better at this game, i should be able to switch to a sword quickly for melee instead of using my umbrella

[sterile warren]

shes looks so mean and a total bad..s too but hopeful there is a way to have more then one char or change your chars gender in game on the global version

[broken quiver]

That's a nice dress

🤣 I swear everyone's playing the opposite gender

[cunning jacinth]

if I have to watch the backside of a character for 80 hours, I'm going to choose a backside I enjoy js

[wheat merlin]

Oh hell no. 😭

[broken quiver]

Uh what is that?

[wheat merlin]

Someone made a pose set in Blender and turned out badly wrong in game.

[cunning jacinth]

my honest reaction

[ruby heart]

Yooo

I can’t wait to go home

We accepted the house

[ruby heart]

Thats my mom

[cunning jacinth]

what dis mean

ah yes. the house is acceptable

ngl a Fallout 4 zombie survival game would go hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L03pY5OvY6U
omg I want this

the Minutemen are zombies

if the raiders die after being bit, more zombie

[scarlet hearth]

Still have to check out that London mod

[cunning jacinth]

oh I forgot that one!

[sterile warren]

same but i have to downgrade it twice now

[median vigil]

hey darth hey all👍

[median vigil]

like a baby bird opening the mouth for the worm lmao

i remember in sims when my toddler grew legs and got up and walked as an adult scary bugs

the worse bug i had in inzoi was the bald patch headed baby

and the freaky dislocated jaw on the kids

but other then that it still wasnt as scary lol

[median vigil]

nah sims monster kid was alot worse the legs was daddy long legs 😄

[worn wolf]

Im getting wings cause I had an appointment so waiting for gf to pick me up 🤣

[median vigil]

your making me fking hungry again i just had burger and fries

my fat butt getting peckish again

[median vigil]

oh them look suculent 😄

[median vigil]

very nice

[worn wolf]

Good too 🤣

[median vigil]

i could find some room for that in my belly 😄

[worn wolf]

I'll try begging ny gf to get me bubble tea after 👀

[median vigil]

instead im gonna have some chocolate sponge cake

my desert 😄

[median vigil]

ive never had bubble tea you are hooked on it it must be good

[worn wolf]

It is, yes 🤣

[median vigil]

what does bubble tea taste like?

i just googled it and it looks yummy

[worn wolf]

I always get passionfruit green tea with leechy popping boba, but their shipment got delayed so ive been getting jasmine milk tea with matcha cloud 🤣

[median vigil]

passionfruit and green tea together omg pass 😄

i like passionfruit not with green tea 😄

passionfruit and mango juice is nice

but i cant imagine it with green tea

eww

[worn wolf]

You dont taste the green tea 🤣

[median vigil]

😄

i hope you dont its horrible

i once went on a health kick that lasted two weeks

drinking that crap

and i threw the bags way at end of two weeks

never again 😭

[worn wolf]

Probably cause you prepared it in boiling water and burned it, so it came tasting bitter af 💀💀

[median vigil]

it was fking foul

[worn wolf]

Theres a specific temp you gotta prepare it 🤣

But bubble tea doesnt have any tea bitterness

I dont think it's even real green tea actually 🤔

[median vigil]

the worst taste in the world next to my ex boyfriend

horrible

[worn wolf]

I got a joke to make, but I cant make it here 🤣🤣🤣

[median vigil]

yeh there is few things in life what are truly that bad

everything else is nice in comparison

[worn wolf]

Cant be as bad as mine, he turned me gay 🤣🤣🤣

[median vigil]

everytime my ex boyfriend kissed me he made me wanna throw up not sure if he was brushing his teeth or not but part of the reason was i thought he had bad hygene

[worn wolf]

🤢

[median vigil]

yeh i know he looked clean but

[cunning jacinth]

[median vigil]

not with that horrible taste

at the time i tried to hold it back and not be sick

but i had to end it eventually lmao

😄

i was nice for putting up with it for so long i think

[ruby heart]

I think I spent more time on traffic than I did at work

[median vigil]

i spent two hours on the train at one job there and back in the past

to work

never again will i go that far every morning and night

[ruby heart]

It’s RIDICULOUS

I get paid nothing to wipe butt all day

I’m looking into geek squad after the holidays

[worn wolf]

Gf used to drive an hour and a half to work each morning until she switched to a closer location

[ruby heart]

And they’re giving me an anniversary party Friday with no paycheck

Just a t shirt are you flipping shorting me

[median vigil]

i couldnt do it now the cold gets to me so badly in my hands and toes

especially british weather you dont know

what it was like to wait for train 🫣

closer work is always better

[worn wolf]

Welp, I got diagnosed with fibromialgya today, yet another incurable condition without a cause 🙃

Gonna use it as my card for bubble tea

[median vigil]

i have ibs and gastroidritis

bad acid reflux

i dont think its that bad these days though

[worn wolf]

I got ibs and RA as well 💀

[median vigil]

i think i have it pretty much under control right now

[worn wolf]

I dont 🙃

[median vigil]

im not getting as much reflux anymore

[worn wolf]

Doctor requested an MRI to see if there's any inflammation, and if there is, then i'll be switching meds

[median vigil]

doctor wanted me to have a stomach camera but i chickened out of it and basically said if i die i die

thats how scared i am

that was like four years ago

i would of been dead by now if it was serious though

[worn wolf]

Don't they do it under anesthesia though?

[median vigil]

no he said i have to be awake

which made me say no altogether to it......

[worn wolf]

Welp 💀

[median vigil]

i asked to be put to sleep

and he looked at me as if i asked for the world

😄

so i just noped out of it.......

[worn wolf]

Good thing im not claustrophobic, cause id he having a bad time with the mri 🤣

[median vigil]

i cant have a camera down my throat and me be awake wtf

😄

[worn wolf]

Cause xray appearantly didnt show enough

[median vigil]

im not deep throating a camera lol

when im awake

😄

[ruby heart]

I tried doing the single ladies dance for my AI on inzoi and almost couldn’t get back up…

[median vigil]

im okay for now ive got barely any reflux

barely any stomach pains

i think if i was dying i would be in agony

by now

[worn wolf]

Welp, my hand has been hurting for the past 3 days, so

[median vigil]

i mean i get bad migraines i could just as easy go to sleep

and never wake up again

like a family member did...

[worn wolf]

Sounisa's family friend went like that

[median vigil]

stuff happens...we cant control..

yeh

[worn wolf]

Suddenly lost his balance and hit his head

Went to his funeral back in august

[median vigil]

my family member suffered from headaches for years and just took tablets for it it turned out to be a brain tumor but too late

went to sleep never woke up again

we just dont know...

sometimes we focus on the wrong things with our bodies

it happens..

we focus on the wrong pains..

[worn wolf]

I had a head ct scan a few years back cause ive been getting weird symptoms, nothing going on there 🤣

[median vigil]

i had a colonoscopy afew years ago and i had to be awake for that camera going up my butt

and it hurt so bad....

it put me off wanting that camera down my throat

to my stomach

😭

[worn wolf]

I once had a giant needle go directly into my joint. Not fun 💀

[median vigil]

it felt like i was getting my insides turnt around 😄

and i didnt like it

she said she was gonna give me some gas to huff on

but she turned the machine off

👀 never again

i started my period soon after that experience..

and i wasnt even due..

[median vigil]

the things women have to put up with 👀

its fking foul

[worn wolf]

Yup 💀

Gf is still 20 minutes away 🥲

Cause she forgot I had an appointment and scheduled her own 🙃

[median vigil]

oh well

[worn wolf]

....another card i can play for free bubble tea 🤔

[median vigil]

you and that bubble tea

the government gonna make you into bubble tea 😄

one day

when ai takes all the jobs 😄

and all the rest of us will be made into batteries to power

the robots 😛

we'll all become soylent green one day 😛

[worn wolf]

Welp, I spent a lot this month, gonna have to go easy next month 🤣

[median vigil]

that movie still has me thinking about it

when we are no longer of use....🫣

i hope im dead natually before yall get turned into mush 😄

[worn wolf]

Ill probably spend a lot again in january since im going away 🥲

[median vigil]

never mind enjoy it

i spend too much too

[worn wolf]

Im going on business 🤣

[median vigil]

i treat myself cause nobody else treats me

and if i was with someone i doubt he would treat me

like i treat myself

[median vigil]

so thats what i do 😄

[median vigil]

the secret sauce is rats and bugs in the food 😄

and maybe rat droppings

to add alittle extra 😄

but the future is humans 👀

[cunning jacinth]

I'm never eating at your house

[median vigil]

instead of eat the rich it will be eat the poors 👀

soylent green

[median vigil]

ill have you know im spotless ive got too bad of a germ complex not to be

[worn wolf]

Gf asked for takeout, so asked her for bubble tea 🤣

[median vigil]

my hands get sore from washing them all the time :/

and ive bad arthritis

[median vigil]

ive had take out too many times this month but ive got a freezer full of food for christmas

that i dont really want to touch yet

cause if i touch it ill eat it all before christmas

and it took me ages to fill it 😄

30 pounds heavier after christmas lol

never mind nobody is looking at me 😄

i can stuff my face as much as i want lol😂

i might cook family members a meal or two at christmas

[ruby heart]

Do you guys now what I had to put up with just now

[worn wolf]

My freezer is half full

The most interesting thing in there is ice cream 🤔

[worn wolf]

Jo mama?

[ruby heart]

Worse

[median vigil]

ive no guy to nag me and say you put on 2 pounds i can tell 😄

[ruby heart]

I tried single ladies again and got a CRAMP in both legs

[worn wolf]

If i had a guy nagging me that I put on 2 pounds, that guy would ve flying out the door 💀💀💀

[worn wolf]

Ah, story of my life 🤣

[median vigil]

i once dated a guy who wanted me to have half a pizza and him the other half i was starving when i got back home

i will never go out with any guy whos gonna starve me again

ffs

[ruby heart]

Some dude told me I put weight on and I told him I’m minding my business he should mind his too

[median vigil]

any guy whos putting me on a diet when im not fat

is in the bin

[worn wolf]

Nuh, if some dude told me that, I would have made him wish he didnt 😭

[ruby heart]

I couldn’t it was a coworker 🙁

[worn wolf]

Can still be passive aggressive

[median vigil]

i could understand but at the time i was thin enough and he wanted us to share every meal 💀

id be a consentration camp victim if i would of stayed with him

ffs

[worn wolf]

"Yeah, youre right.... i will when you take care of that horrible (insert something) of yours" 🤷🏼‍♀️

[median vigil]

i sent him straight to the gulag after he starved me

never again

i think i was in my 20s at the time and i was on a health kick at the time

but that broke my health kick........

[worn wolf]

Had an ex call me fat even though I weighed like 110 pounds (thats like 50kg) while his gut was hanging 💀💀

[median vigil]

being starved with half a pizza lol

[median vigil]

oh yeh they do it 😄

they try it on

try to mould you into something you are not

they do try it on 😄

but i dont let it anymore...

[worn wolf]

Ah yeah, he tried to mold me, but at the end he molded himself into a single 💩

[median vigil]

i dont let nobody control me as if i am a dolly anymore 😄

well thats why they ended up single...

i got rid

being constantly in the wrong...is draining

[worn wolf]

Yeah

[median vigil]

and bringing drama to my life when there is no drama is draining..

id rather just deal with my own baggage..

and nobody elses😖

[worn wolf]

For me, shen I fight with my gf, she always fights back to tell me im wrong, but the next day she fixes whatever we fought about, so at least theres that 🤣🤣

[median vigil]

yeh thats good but when it doesnt get fixed and issues fester..

it creates resentment

[worn wolf]

Unless I REALLY lash out, then she apologies on the spot 🤣

[median vigil]

and thats what i had resentment

towards em

now i dont bother...dating or anything

[worn wolf]

But I only ever lash out if it's bad

[median vigil]

i wont even take the chance now..

im done with it

[worn wolf]

Eh, it gets me where it should and not fighting builds up resentment 🤷🏼‍♀️

[median vigil]

id rather be miserable and alone then miserable with someone making me miserable

😄

[worn wolf]

There's bad fighting where you fight just cause, and productive fighting where you fight for a cause 🤣

[median vigil]

i dont care anymore you cant put all your hopes and dreams onto someone else

and hope they will fufill you

you have to do that yourself

and when they put all their hopes and dreams onto me....

its too much expectation 😄

im not gonna be noones hope and dream lol

anymore..

[median vigil]

ive had some bullshit over the 40 years ive been alive

im gonna go out peacefull and doing what i wanna do when i wanna do it

😄

the phone is silent.... nobody is sending me 50 text messages a day

asking me what i am doing and what i am eating..

and where i am...

[worn wolf]

Im not putting my hopes and dreams onto my partner 💀

[median vigil]

no male noise... in my head..

[worn wolf]

Im dating for the company

[cunning jacinth]

folks, I wasn't even dating. I just met a few people, and one stuck out. We hit it off and could talk. We are now each other's best friend and confidante. Don't overlook your social groups

[median vigil]

and thats good for you everyones different but for me im doing whats best for my mental state

i noticed whenever i date my mental state takes a nose dive..

and it goes back up again when im single

lol

[worn wolf]

I got my childhood friend for that, but i cant do things with him is can do with my gf 🤷🏼‍♀️

[median vigil]

yeh well i chat online abit that is enough social for me

im happy for people who can do that with other people though

[worn wolf]

Like guiltimg him into bubble tea 🤣

[median vigil]

my childhood friend abandoned me and she use to sleep over my house every weekend and i dont even know where she is now shes not on socials

i often wonder if she died 🤔

because nobody knows where she is

or people never wanted me to know where she was

[worn wolf]

The only way for my childhood friend to abandon me is if he actually dies 💀

[median vigil]

because we where so close and they where jealous

of our friendship i dont know

[worn wolf]

Cause we're basically siblings 🤣

[median vigil]

the reason im speculating..

i loved her so much...

and thats what still hurts to this day....

even after all these years

[worn wolf]

Eh 🤷🏼‍♀️

[median vigil]

it hurts to feel that abandonment :S

how can you go from staying at someones house every weekend for years

[worn wolf]

Again, try asking around

[median vigil]

to dissapearing off face of the earth...

[worn wolf]

Somebody might know

[median vigil]

and moving away

everybody said they dont know where she is but

i suspect they do

they just wont tell me

because of how close we where and jealousy they wasnt close with her

like me

[worn wolf]

Or they just dont 🤷🏼‍♀️

[median vigil]

i dont know

maybe it was one sided and i liked her more then she liked me

but i would rather know the truth

after all these years

because i could get some closure... i dont have

[worn wolf]

At least i know its not one sided with mine cause he says i love you 😅

[median vigil]

well why did she sleep at my house every weekend and no other girls house

for years

and then abandon me.....

[worn wolf]

Im probably the only girl he actually said that to 🤔

[median vigil]

and why did she always hug and kiss me

and tell me i was great

[worn wolf]

🤷🏼‍♀️

[median vigil]

that messed my mind up

abit tbh..

[worn wolf]

Had a friend like thag in hs

I just moved on 🤷🏼‍♀️

[median vigil]

i tried to find friends like her over the years

but nobody came close

[worn wolf]

Probably cause you weren't looking enough

[median vigil]

we where inseprable at the time

[median vigil]

dont know

its hard to move past all the things we did together

and then be shut out

[worn wolf]

Its been what, 20 years?

[median vigil]

i knew her when i was 8 years old to 13 years old

[worn wolf]

So only 5 years?

Not worth grieving over

[median vigil]

yeh but she was at my house

like it was her house

all the time

she might as well of been my sibling

[worn wolf]

So was i with my hs friends 🤷🏼‍♀️

Don't really talk to em anymore

[median vigil]

i dont know it just sucked

but thats life

life is dissapointment 😄

[worn wolf]

Eh 🤣

[median vigil]

dont mind me i am in my feels

looking back at the past lmao

im scrolling over the past 40 years 😄

like its youtube shorts lol

[worn wolf]

Some guy was taking up 2 lanes so gf left space, and then another guy pulled into that space and now all 3 are blocked💀

[median vigil]

im getting flash backs from the past haunting me 😄

[worn wolf]

Me when I try to sleep and ny brain throws the most embarassing moments of my life at me 💀

[median vigil]

its road rage on uk roads its like a game with the dlc 😄

everybody is too mad these days

gta uk...

[worn wolf]

Funny u say gta cause I live in the gta (greater Toronto area) 🤣🤣🤣

[median vigil]

after covid i felt everyone here get more impatient

and now everybody on the roads doesnt give a fk lol

i nearly got knocked down more times now then before covid 😄

[worn wolf]

We had a road rage incident in my city last year where a guy came out of the car and💀 smashed the windshield

[median vigil]

and cars are mounting the pavements more...

then ever

[worn wolf]

Ive also been break checked a few times

[median vigil]

and guys say women are the worst drivers..

its always fricking men...

whos crashing

they get self driving cars and they are still crashing the car...

[worn wolf]

One time a woman came out of her car at a red light to scream at me after I honked at her cause she was driving like a 🐕

I just laughed at her face 💀

[median vigil]

she was probably scared of the road taking it nice and slow while the rest is mad at her 😄

some people shouldnt be driving at all from what i see

[worn wolf]

Yup

[median vigil]

the amount of crashes round where i live......

[worn wolf]

Same

[median vigil]

its stupid amounts

[worn wolf]

I saw one literally yesterday

[median vigil]

i use to think as long as i was on the pavement i was safe but thats a false security lol

it use to feel like that though...because there wasnt as many cars and idiots on the road

going back 20 years

[worn wolf]

Gf once got ran over while crossing the road and the guy took her bike to dispose of the evidence, all the while she thought he was a nice guy giving her a ride home 😭

I still roast her about that 💀

[median vigil]

your gf too nice 😄

bet you get away with murder

[worn wolf]

Good thing she has me cause she wouldnt survive

Like, im the reason she even got a lawyer for her last car accident 💀

[median vigil]

what do they say........

whats the saying again about the weak being taken out

lol

i cant think of it my mind has gone blank

there is an old fraze but i forgot it

[worn wolf]

She also didnt wanna sue the guy at first, so i had to convince her

If it weren't for me, she's be walking around in pain AND an empty bank account 💀

[median vigil]

your gf is a hazard to herself

[worn wolf]

Yup 💀

[median vigil]

its a wonder she made it to the age she has...

[worn wolf]

So many times had I double check her "tiktok hacks" 😭

[median vigil]

tiktok hacks....

😄

shes wanting to end it all

lol