off-topic

[dense juniper]

#pokimane

[elder patrol]

[calm elbow]

[gaunt cipher]

[peak solar]

https://tenor.com/view/omg-cliff-gif-20388560

[calm elbow]

Don't flip out, dude

[peak solar]

I need 2 glide

[calm elbow]

https://tenor.com/view/panda-snow-sliding-playing-mei-xiang-gif-11548077743247121929

[peak solar]

https://tenor.com/view/caindo-lago-falling-lake-cliff-jumping-gif-17831027

[sinful terrace]

!pf me vibing

[hollow raven]

Electgela - PokéFusion:

#125 - Electabuzz

#114 - Tangela

[elder patrol]

!pf me jiving

[hollow raven]

Dragoish - PokéFusion:

#149 - Dragonite

#43 - Oddish

[hasty nova]

This shit is so fucking good

[raw python]

!pf 122

[hollow raven]

Mr. wth - PokéFusion:

#122 - Mr. Mime

#52 - Meowth

[shell sparrow]

I want to be there right now

not sure what I want more - be a human surrounded by those doggies or one of them

[unreal quiver]

finally

[hasty nova]

[peak solar]

#wow-general

Pulled a god damn muscle

https://tenor.com/view/harold-cat-cat-man-turns-into-cat-gif-12776094546305210466

The pain

[hot crystal]

3 whole bosses lmaooo

[soft pendant]

Yeah this is off topic so

Ignore the haters being mean

[timid kayak]

the ones that would sometimes burn holes in your tongue cuz they fked up the concentration of the chemicals

BiS candy

[hot crystal]

You changed

[hasty nova]

[soft pendant]

New bit catching on huh @unreal quiver

[peak solar]

https://tenor.com/view/what-happened-to-you-brandon-harlem-whats-become-of-you-i-dont-know-you-anymore-gif-24064379

[sharp ferry]

Yeah, but remember that ai art shill

Nah you 100% can show your stuff here (unless mods say no), just don't go self promoting commissions etc

[waxen latch]

oh god i totally forgot that one

[peak solar]

That was a good one

[sharp ferry]

Was it

Was it tho?

[peak solar]

I like the self promotions better tho

[sharp ferry]

That ai art shill was infuriating LOL

[peak solar]

Ronkles teleports in with the hammer like sorry kid

[sharp ferry]

Nothing personnel, kid...

[peak solar]

https://tenor.com/view/ban-banned-administrator-admin-moderator-gif-18223846

[slim epoch]

oh did that guy get banned

i remember he just kept posting ai art and not actually talking to anyone lol

[peak solar]

I thought he got yeeted for promoting commissions

[calm elbow]

[clever sleet]

[brazen eagle]

openai released audio and image input for chatgpt.
the blogpost is very uncanny because the audio is muted on the video that showcase audio capability.

^ this is because they use vimeo instead of youtube, and you need to login on vimeo to get access to the video.
They are on youtube too, so can easy watch on the openai channel.

[unreal quiver]

wdym

[waxen latch]

commisions for ai "art"

[pulsar trail]

I don't remember

but I remember who you're talking about

wasn't that the dude who went on like multiple rants about AI art

just like straight paragraphs about how people shit on AI art all the time and its unfair

totally unprompted?

[waxen latch]

i remember telling some guy in multiple channels to fuck off with his ai bs

[clever sleet]

Yes oxi

[pulsar trail]

imagine being more unhinged than me

that's an accomplishment

[pulsar trail]

!ban @twilit ruin disguising asking for feedback as an advertisement is definitely not acceptable. Good luck to you fam.

[slim epoch]

lol that was quick

[umbral whale]

I remember that

[unreal quiver]

wait what

what did i miss

[slim epoch]

someone asked if they could post their art

but it was thinly veiled commission bait

[unreal quiver]

did it have big tiddies

[pulsar trail]

no

[slim epoch]

2 dudes

[unreal quiver]

fuck em

[umbral whale]

Yeah I dunno I thought we had a rule against self promotion so

[slim epoch]

unironically would have been fine if they didnt have the copy paste spiel added that every deviantart artist adds

[pulsar trail]

yep

just be like "hey what do you guys think of this?"

and no one would've even looked twice

[sinful terrace]

!vibecheck

[hollow raven]

166: Your vibe is acceptable, but watch yourself.

[wet cradle]

!vibe

[hollow raven]

277: On the come up I see you.

[elder patrol]

!vibe

[hollow raven]

7: Go take a nap big guy, get some rest.

[elder patrol]

[soft pendant]

[soft pendant]

You said “you changed man” now everyone is saying it

@ me

[unreal quiver]

oh yeah

im an influencer

[soft pendant]

I’m checking my student loans for the first time in like

6 years

This is gonna be a shit show

[peak solar]

whatd i say @soft pendant i can read the vibes

!vibe

[hollow raven]

314: Vibes.Rising.Cannot.Contain.Muchlonger

[soft pendant]

1. How dare you

2. Yeah okay

[peak solar]

lmaoooo

[soft pendant]

My student loans are on deferment till 2/10/2025

No way the government knows I finished grad school in 2019

[sharp ferry]

Well fuck mb

I wished for good intentions

[sharp ferry]

Why dont you influence some bitches

[sharp ferry]

Yes

Quake banned him

[peak solar]

https://tenor.com/view/based-jesse-lee-peterson-jlp-baste-amazing-gif-17196628

[unreal quiver]

i did and she is sitting next to me

[sharp ferry]

BASED

[sinful terrace]

!vibecheck

[hollow raven]

177: Your vibe is acceptable, but watch yourself.

[soft pendant]

@cyan oxide are you hype for the Connor O’Malley YouTube special

[cyan oxide]

[soft pendant]

Just saw a snippet pretty good

[sinful terrace]

Quarter sized hail possible with a storm coming through wtf

[umbral whale]

Bro I drank too much caffeine today.

[hasty nova]

[shell sparrow]

@cyan oxide

[hasty nova]

[modest lion]

[cyan oxide]

currently burning out

[hasty nova]

[shell sparrow]

it made a mistake, we are fine

[modest lion]

ye

barely

[shell sparrow]

find 3rd job to speed up the process

[cyan oxide]

need a 2nd job to get a 3rd

[dense juniper]

i believe that was me (?)

I did post ai stuff like once on general chat

[hasty nova]

[sinful terrace]

You're not banned so it wasn't you

[hasty nova]

[dense juniper]

oh the guy tryan complained about got kicked?

then yes

def not me

Altough i do have fun using AI to create cool stuff, but its all for me

[hasty nova]

[dense juniper]

[umbral whale]

Me too

[waxen latch]

nah, then i would have you blocked

[dense juniper]

[clever sleet]

Block this

[cyan oxide]

I'll block your cock with my mouth you dumb fuck

[clever sleet]

?

[dense juniper]

[cyan oxide]

?

[hasty nova]

[subtle quail]

Who is writing these articles?

[shell sparrow]

it's right there

by Jinjoo Lee

[modest lion]

the same people who write informative snippets like "how i became a selfmade millionaire living in my parents condo while working for my dad"

[shell sparrow]

@modest lion @gaunt cipher @pulsar trail

[pulsar trail]

@shell sparrow

[modest lion]

[sinful terrace]

!pf

[hollow raven]

Speaeebel - PokéFusion:

#21 - Spearow

#71 - Victreebel

[crude kettle]

2

[gaunt cipher]

[plucky wigeon]

What if i dont want to Block it

[hasty nova]

How I became a billionaire by 20.

[cyan oxide]

@pulsar trail rate the food consumption (it's 17h33)

[hasty nova]

I signed a contract with my father for a billion dollars

[sinful terrace]

I'm on hour 16 fasted

[pulsar trail]

I know what time it is in brazil

and that's fucking horrendous

[cyan oxide]

why

[pulsar trail]

eat more food

[cyan oxide]

you eat more food fuck you

[pulsar trail]

I'm literally eating at my desk rn

[cyan oxide]

what you eating bud

[pulsar trail]

chipotle grilled chicken

[sinful terrace]

Need to lose weight

[pulsar trail]

with brussel sprouts and carrots

[cyan oxide]

that sounds great

[pulsar trail]

and I decided to treat myself with some jalapeno kettle cooked chips

[cyan oxide]

brussel sprouts are so good man

they get a bad reputation for no reason

[pulsar trail]

because they taste like bathwater if you cook them poorly

[plucky wigeon]

Your bathwater?

[pulsar trail]

I only shower

[plucky wigeon]

Unlucky

[cyan oxide]

golden?

[clever sleet]

Minalba

What the fuck man

[cyan oxide]

[clever sleet]

R Kelly ass mf

[plucky wigeon]

[hasty nova]

[steel snow]

[shell sparrow]

Flower?

[timid kayak]

[hot crystal]

Bro when theyre all crispy and seasoned up

Thank god for selectively breeding the extreme bitterness out too

[timid kayak]

[shell sparrow]

@pulsar trail @steel snow @gaunt cipher

[steel snow]

[hasty nova]

Fucking rad.
https://fxtwitter.com/zemotion/status/1788793158329118877

[pulsar trail]

good picture of @steel snow

he's so much cuter than he gives himself credit for

[steel snow]

[umbral whale]

I need a new job

[clever sleet]

You need some bitches

But really i’m sorry homie

[shell sparrow]

I need some bitches

[clever sleet]

Amen brother

[shell sparrow]

if I was even half as handsome as @torn mural or @pulsar trail ....

[clever sleet]

That’s a high bar

Those are some handsome lads

[pulsar trail]

same

[clever sleet]

Half as handsome is still a high bar

[pulsar trail]

dadsen is like 8 billion timers more handsome than any other human being

[timid kayak]

You misspelled George

[pulsar trail]

no I didn't

[timid kayak]

[pulsar trail]

enough said

[clever sleet]

Dadsen is the George of humans

But way less chunky

[pulsar trail]

GEORGE IS NOT CHUNKY

HOW DARE YOU

HE'S WELL FED

[clever sleet]

Yes he is

[pulsar trail]

[clever sleet]

He’s still my goat

[pulsar trail]

our goat*

ftfy

[umbral whale]

Am I making a mistake bro

[torn mural]

[pulsar trail]

probably

[umbral whale]

[pulsar trail]

idk regarding what

but probably

[hot crystal]

Send it anyways no regrets

He means being a lawyer

For sure

[pulsar trail]

lmfao

IDK MAN

I SEEM PRETTY HAPPY WITH LIFE

SO DOES @flat scaffold

GOOD IDEA

JOIN US

[hot crystal]

Stealthi is the happiest guy i know he has a girlfriend big muscles and he lives with his parents

What could possibly be better

[pulsar trail]

stealthi's miserable

wdym

lmfao

[hot crystal]

/s

[pulsar trail]

mfer can't even walk

[hot crystal]

Plays wow

Does lawyering

L

[pulsar trail]

lawyer life steals you away from wow eventually

rip to my boy ryfie

[umbral whale]

I wonder does law make you miserable or does the type of person that wants to law have a natural affinity for being miserable

[hot crystal]

Lucky him

Living the jayoma life

Irl saul goodman

[hot crystal]

Definitely both

[umbral whale]

Yeah

[hot crystal]

Like its 100% both no argument

[shell sparrow]

yes, but you are number 2 anyway

[hot crystal]

Driven people are for sure all miserable

And learning about the law has to be miserable

With the whole state of affairs

And the justice system flaws

[shell sparrow]

your handsomeness is as unreachable to me as @torn mural 's is to you @pulsar trail

the man even cooks like a bloody Gordon Ramsay

literally perfect

(apart from being French)

[pulsar trail]

the man is perfect despite being french

[torn mural]

https://tenor.com/view/adrienbronner-cooked-gettingcooked-gif-23742801

[shell sparrow]

@pulsar trail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qckup156qwI

[timid kayak]

At least not French Canadian

[shell sparrow]

I have no idea why YT decided to recommend me that but I am glad it did

[pulsar trail]

I dislike this Sheikh very much

[shell sparrow]

but now you know that @steel snow sitting on your praying mat is fine

[pulsar trail]

I wouldn't know that

because his religious jurisprudence is different than mine

He also does not consider me a Muslim

via his own words:

https://twitter.com/Assimalhakeem/status/1470239902424043526

Assim Alhakeem (@Assimalhakeem) on X

Shia are not part of Islam as they don’t believe in the Quran, they insult the companions, disrespect the wives of the prophet and had changed all rituals of Islam into a new mutilated religion based on shirk, hatred, revenge and innovation

Among other issues as well!!

Twitter · Dec 13, 2021, 3:51 AM

same with the "brother ew" meme guy

unfort

[swift imp]

AINT RELIGION FUN?!

Having an awful day... Hope you guys are having a better one

[gaunt cipher]

[pulsar trail]

Mine's pretty chill

plus we got banger music

[umbral whale]

Mfs just don't be friends with coworkers

Don't sleep with coworkers

[hasty nova]

[umbral whale]

I beg you all

[timid kayak]

Tru

[hot crystal]

you saying this is like deeny saying this

[hasty nova]

[timid kayak]

Just sleep with you ex-coworkers when you get a new job

[hot crystal]

also not being friends withh coworkers meh just dont be friends with all your coworkers

[timid kayak]

[hasty nova]

I know that it's been said for the past thousand years and people literally won't stop saying it, but don't run with scissors.

[umbral whale]

[hasty nova]

There's plenty of like wives tales that are bullshit, stuff about bad luck

[hot crystal]

you cant stop me

[hasty nova]

There's plenty of slogans made by businesses that are designed to get you into their store and buying dumb shit that you don't need

[pulsar trail]

wasn't planning on it because I'm not 19

[hasty nova]

Buuuuuuuuut...

[pulsar trail]

but thank you for the advice

[umbral whale]

I dunno bro just sometimes your coworkers can't be trusted and if you tell someone the wrong thing it can create bad drama

[hot crystal]

SHADE

[hasty nova]

People can be pretty self-interested

[pulsar trail]

trust no one

ever

with anything

[umbral whale]

Adults have relationships with coworkers oxi it happens but ye it's a bad idea

[hot crystal]

im trusting

[pulsar trail]

the only people you can trust are your parents because they're the only people who have your best interest at heart

even if you have best friends bro

[hot crystal]

too bad i dont!!!

[pulsar trail]

there's shit you share with NO ONE

I went into business with my best friend, I was the best man at his wedding, and he fucked me over

trust no one

[umbral whale]

What if one of your parents is an alcoholic and the other burnt you with car cigarette lighters.

[subtle quail]

Idk. I think sharing intimate details of my life with strangers online is therapeutic

[pulsar trail]

then I probably wouldn't trust them

[cyan oxide]

honestly even parents sometimes

but then again

[umbral whale]

[hot crystal]

mine didnt even do that and i still dont trust them so definitely dont

[hot crystal]

agreed

[cyan oxide]

you have to choose to trust people, can't blindly follow this "trust no one" mindset because then you're shut off from the world

trust is a risk

[pulsar trail]

my parents have always had my back, because I'm blessed and I acknowledge that blessing

[cyan oxide]

gotta take risk sometimes

[hasty nova]

I trust my parents but I'm still not going to talk to them about a lot of things

Most things

[hot crystal]

im sorta trying to build mine back

idk

i kinda have to if im gonna live with them again

[pulsar trail]

I trust you

[timid kayak]

Same fam supportive parents are the real ones

[hasty nova]

My parents somehow didn't get divorced, I count my miracles

[pulsar trail]

real talk if it weren't for my parents I'd actually be homeless rn

[hasty nova]

Yuh

[timid kayak]

Proppin my ass up for many years in my 20s while I figured out my bullshit

[hasty nova]

💯

[timid kayak]

So true bestie

You might pull yourself up by your bootstraps but your parents bought the fukin shoes

[pulsar trail]

brother my parents propped my broke ass up as I struggled for 5 years to make my solo practice work

[timid kayak]

I’m getting the parent loan rn for flight school

[pulsar trail]

and unfortunately it didn't, but because of them I'm able to get back on my feet quick

[umbral whale]

I dunno I'm a little annoyed because this particular person I was discreet and kept their secrets and twice now they've opened their mouth about something I said and created drama

[pulsar trail]

papoxi and mamoxi are great people

[umbral whale]

Like holy fuck can adults act like adults

[hot crystal]

no

[timid kayak]

Momma shmeeps the realest

[hot crystal]

nobody ever changes

[pulsar trail]

THE MVP

[timid kayak]

Korean immigrant when she was 15 didn’t speak English

[umbral whale]

Work is like fucking high school sometimes

[hasty nova]

https://tenor.com/view/tupac-2pac-trust-nobody-gif-5000085

[pulsar trail]

bro it's always immigrant parents eh

[timid kayak]

When she retired she was making more than her boss

[hot crystal]

everything is high school always

[pulsar trail]

unmatched hustle

[timid kayak]

Cuz she retired before and got rehired as a contractor lol

[hasty nova]

Work is full of people that are doing their best to not die, it's like high school but the stakes are real.

[pulsar trail]

it's wild to think about what my parents did, immigrated here because of a civil war, got educated (my pops earned his third college degree in the states), met, got married, started a family, and actually pulled themselves up by the boot straps

had to learn a 3rd language

[umbral whale]

Gigachad parents

[shell sparrow]

And they raised oxi, who is great as well

[pulsar trail]

I'm okay at best

I'm kind of a bitch sometimes

[hot crystal]

is the 2nd language french or something

[pulsar trail]

yes

english was my dad's fourth language

[shell sparrow]

And?

[pulsar trail]

my dad speaks Arabic, French, German, and English

my mom speaks Arabic, French, and English

[undone bone]

just speak minor languages like catalan like me and you seem more learned

[shell sparrow]

[pulsar trail]

mamoxi also has a masters degree is biochemical engineering

she smort

[undone bone]

spanish catalan french japanese english is my stack

[umbral whale]

[undone bone]

just french and japanese need some extra power

she is going to make cyborgs

[shell sparrow]

I speak minor language

[pulsar trail]

my dad was a lawyer and journalist in lebanon (lol unfortunate jobs during a civil war), came here, got an associates degree in dental appliances, and became a dental technician

[timid kayak]

Smartest thing my dad ever did was marry my mom

He was the life of the party though. Coolest dad

[pulsar trail]

ye bro my mom's smart as fuck

[pulsar trail]

my dad wouldn't be the man he is today without her

real talk

[timid kayak]

Look at this Chad

[undone bone]

ready to take all the bitches at the roller disco

[wind cloak]

white affro is cheat

[pulsar trail]

ok

[pulsar trail]

I go home now from work

love you all

[timid kayak]

We had this at a golf tournament he ran with his friend the summer after he died

[pulsar trail]

esp @shell sparrow @modest lion @torn mural and @gaunt cipher

[timid kayak]

[shell sparrow]

Love you more

[ashen ravine]

https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2024/05/13/08176479817baf0e.mp4

[modest lion]

get home safe sir

[torn mural]

drive safe

[dusty scarab]

Drive safe

[hasty nova]

https://tenor.com/view/fast-car-gif-22098603

[ashen ravine]

https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2024/04/11/8209f38546660b59.mp4

[hasty nova]

https://youtu.be/ZO5VeOP9ND8?si=okf9NmxFm7qcujE-

[modest lion]

good graphics

[vernal vortex]

Mmmm, recklessness on public roads

[hasty nova]

it's a racing game, cars don't go that fast
https://youtu.be/QaEpYc3YLz4?si=46sXW01XEtwqE-R9

[timid kayak]

it took me a hot minute

to realize that was a game

i didn't look at the title lol

but people driving recklessly on public roads make my blood boil

intrusive thought to sacrifice my car and safety to blast them into the median while they're overtaking me

[vernal vortex]

Oh it's a game? Well then yeah that's fine

[hasty nova]

It is a really good looking game though

[vernal vortex]

Yeah I wasn't looking too closely at the details haha

[hasty nova]

This is the land speed record for a production car.
https://youtu.be/N22JfNHiC1k?si=UJ9UZ149dhoOkzcM

[remote surge]

!iq

[hollow raven]

108: soloxcx IQ Classification: Average

[pulsar trail]

!of me and @remote surge hanging out on my birthday

God damnit

[remote surge]

!of

[pulsar trail]

!pf me and @remote surge hanging out on my birthday

[hollow raven]

Nidocate - PokéFusion:

#29 - Nidoran♀

#20 - Raticate

[remote surge]

!pf oxi posting on of

[hollow raven]

Poliachu - PokéFusion:

#60 - Poliwag

#25 - Pikachu

[pulsar trail]

[hasty nova]

Rerun: https://youtu.be/-rDWkdhvfGw?si=9313edztJxc5VUTN

What a pain.

[vernal vortex]

!pf metal show tomorrow

[hollow raven]

Blastsaur - PokéFusion:

#9 - Blastoise

#2 - Ivysaur

[hasty nova]

[vernal vortex]

Very Pog

[swift imp]

Not a fan of any type of organized religion

[hasty nova]

How about disorganized?

[hasty nova]

OH BABY ITS FUCKING TIME
https://youtu.be/mOJlg8g8_yw?si=uvmwgIJiuA51dK5Z

[vernal vortex]

I fucking love mapo tofu

[peak solar]

same i had mapo tofu udon once and it was the greatest thing ever

[vernal vortex]

I had some with my mom on mother's day

[warped wedge]

@clever sleet why didnt you tell me you play lost ark

[peak solar]

@hot crystal do you main support or adc

[clever sleet]

Actually going to Subaru

[peak solar]

that bard was nasty btw

[hasty nova]

Feels like I want to marry your mother because there's no way you made that.

https://tenor.com/view/dab-gif-26049198

[vernal vortex]

https://tenor.com/view/50-cent-entourage-gif-12898382

[remote surge]

https://tenor.com/view/black-cat-wiggle-cat-wiggle-cat-black-gif-25712759

[peak solar]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hIYO2ZTfYo8

[warped wedge]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/121880917579923458/1127823122159112402/whythink.gif

[hot crystal]

Ad

[soft pendant]

https://vxtwitter.com/tt_frommtv3/status/1790110542859784280?s=46

@cyan oxide

[subtle quail]

Why did you tell me to drink so much last night

[peak solar]

Ads make the best supports just like dps healing

[lean stump]

Gm ot

[clever sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-finger-gif-23872051

GM mister reality

[lean stump]

How could the apple typer always “correct” my type

[warped wedge]

turn it off!

[lean stump]

How

[warped wedge]

I have no clue I dont own apple im sure theres a way

[hot crystal]

I did no such thing

[subtle quail]

You and deeny were yelling at me to chug

[wet cradle]

it's been awhile since i cursed people who don't know about it

so

iti s time again

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXKAG8g1Ls_Ax-SU7rCgyiGWjylB5NHL-

[peak solar]

ayo what the dino doin

[wet cradle]

ye

[hot crystal]

No i was not i have literally never spoken to you

[hot crystal]

Its true

[warped wedge]

wow so rude!

[hot crystal]

What hes never heard my voice

[clever sleet]

I have tho papi

[inner wadi]

you need help

[subtle quail]

I meant you were yelling with your typing. Not literally. SMH my head

[hot crystal]

Its true!!!!

[remote surge]

u can be one gorgeous mf in d4 i swear

[raw python]

!pf 122 me waking up at 12am

[hollow raven]

Mr. shrew - PokéFusion:

#122 - Mr. Mime

#27 - Sandshrew

[vernal vortex]

Apparently shadowforce is ready to party at 12am

Waking up at midnight because you started drinking at 3? A likely story

[raw python]

yes except the partying is me filling my vault slots and the drinking was smoking instead

[edgy lion]

12 am Is a good wake up time

Night gang

[raw python]

night gang

[valid tartan]

guys

just found the amv that got me into anime

this shit hits so hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4qmY9rxCq8

[shell sparrow]

@pulsar trail @gaunt cipher @clever sleet @steel snow different kind of cutie

[cyan oxide]

goes hard, long live kenny

[sinful terrace]

!PF

[hollow raven]

Tentatrio - PokéFusion:

#73 - Tentacruel

#51 - Dugtrio

[steel snow]

[grizzled iris]

who would win a battle of most copium

average rogue player or average ashes of creation believer

[warped wedge]

ashes of creation not even close

beta in 2027

[grizzled iris]

nah they waiting for unity 6 for that

cant rush a game

[hasty nova]

Say that about crowfall I dare you

[warped wedge]

I dont even know what that is which says something

[elder patrol]

!pf 73

[hollow raven]

Tentacuno - PokéFusion:

#73 - Tentacruel

#144 - Articuno

[grizzled iris]

the game that just grabbed a bunch of unity assets and pasted them together?

[peak solar]

a game in 100 year still 100 dollar - shigeru miyamoto

scamtendo

[waxen latch]

holy shit guys

i had 7hours of sleep with no interupttion

feels like a cheat code

[native flower]

lucky

[peak solar]

i be sleep sleepin

[native flower]

havent had more than 4 hours of sleep in years

[peak solar]

8 hours a night

https://tenor.com/view/cuddles-cuddle-cat-cat-cuddle-sleepy-cat-cat-sleepy-gif-13127427148831486106

no dreams just snooze

[peak solar]

stop smoking crack

[soft pendant]

Don’t take your adderal after 2PM

[undone bone]

🦖

[plucky wigeon]

You guys dont have consistent sleep?

[undone bone]

i usually sleep 3 to 4 hours at night then some hours in between in the day

[brazen eagle]

oh, thats why star citisen is still not released while they started development in 2010

[spare drift]

if its never realeased there is a chance it will be good some day

[plucky wigeon]

Also look at fortnite, as soon as it had the 1.0 it lost its huge player numbers

(The early acces thing was ridicilous tbh)

[waxen latch]

?

fortnite had its highest playernumbers ever a couple months ago lol

[plucky wigeon]

But wasnt there a dip after the map change?

[plucky wigeon]

Wasnt that due to the OG map?

[brazen eagle]

fortnite is one of the best games ever

[lean stump]

do they fix Android discord problem?

[waxen latch]

idk

[lean stump]

like openin emote will cause phoon lagged

[brazen eagle]

O.o

[brazen eagle]

mainly because it gives "children" a generally loved game and keeps them away from other games

[plucky wigeon]

BASED

You are so real for that

[lean stump]

check this problem

when i open it the phoon lagged

[waxen latch]

isnt that league

[brazen eagle]

surprisingly, not

but league is in general a very big game

[waxen latch]

league is holding the mid 20-early 30 manchildren at bay

[brazen eagle]

valorant still eats counterstrikes cake

like it or hate it

riot in general has 3 rly strong titles

tft for the more casual crowd
lol/wild rift for the moba crowd
valorant for the tactical shooter crowd

[waxen latch]

ye, if they keep their idiots at bay there, good riddance

i dont want league players in other games

[brazen eagle]

the entire problem with league is just the sheer size

[waxen latch]

the problem with league is that they pander to the worst demographic of onnline gamers

[brazen eagle]

idk you could say this for a lot of games

one thing that holds true tho is, if a game gets a extremely high critical mass

it starts to create more negativity

impacting gameplay experience

in league of legends, the fact that you are dependent on 4 other players is already a big friction point

for europe servers, having a lot of diffrences in languarge is another one

additionally, games are longer, so you can feel getting helt hostage if a player decides to missbehave

negativity is infectiouse, and every game will have one losing site

so someone ruining your game will make you more likely to ruin someone elses game

only 1/9 players need to missbehave to impact the other at least 4/9

add the lack of patience and you get quite some explosive combo

(A lot of games are lost from people who just give up if they fall behind, or start to play the blame game and focus on writing messages in chat instead of finding the best solutions to get the game back in your favor)

(spoiler, you are less likely to win a game if you type in chat instead of using your attacks)

[plucky wigeon]

So what you are sayin is, when i typing to flame someone and die due to a mechanic in M+

its not the games or others fault but mine?

[grizzled iris]

I would agree but adults ruined those games

Id say for me that game was roblox

Now its full of questionable models

But when i was a kid it was a banger

Id say the top 3 games for kids were roblox, minecraft and add any korean f2p game from the 2000s that was obscure enough to only hit the spots of a LAN cafe and become cult famous

Gunz, lineage, ragnarok online, maplestory, rakion, gunbound

Bc no parent would buy a kid a wow or ff sub

That i know of

Oh almost forgot about the goat Wizard 101

[ornate aspen]

OGs played flyff

[ashen ravine]

lol

[grizzled iris]

Oh no not flyff

[brazen eagle]

i never played roblox

only things i know about these games are negative ones

some rly heavy accusation of child labor and a gigantic pedophilia problem

[undone bone]

yea kinda but they were our negative games

spent so much on maplestory holy fuck

i could buy a car

and people think wow is bad

[ashen ravine]

https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2023/04/16/cc028361104fa761.mp4

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/684681667943727133.webp?size=96&quality=lossless

[grizzled iris]

I think the internetization of roblox brought all those issues if that makes sense

Like the youtubers looking for viral content and clickbait roblox servers

Back then when i played as a kid we had shit like pokemon mmo where u change ur model to a pokemon and just explore the region and that was it

Or the survive the apocalypse

Mostly just stuff oriented at base building

Or puzzle platformers

The most casual stuff that u can think of

I think in that era it was genuinely a safespace for kids

I think it all went to shit when roblox went more "3d"

And started letting people make their own models

The og trailer

https://youtu.be/LTnMKjXEnMY?si=h0M3DOm7h-VpAYeh

[shell sparrow]

@pulsar trail @steel snow @gaunt cipher @modest lion @clever sleet @torn mural “hey, are you okay?”

[grizzled iris]

Wasnt maplestory the game that opened the pandoras box scandal of lootboxes

[waxen latch]

ask the maplestory expert @lilac heath

[lilac heath]

I mean yesn't

it did bring up concerns with RNG

[shell sparrow]

Also @daring mauve

[lilac heath]

but it wasn't really lootboxing that was controversial

[undone bone]

kinda yea

they were not lootboxes but also kinda the first itearation of P2W rng upgrades

[shell sparrow]

You mean surprise mechanics?

[undone bone]

gachapon were the lootboxes

cubes came later

[lilac heath]

also no one plays the P2W servers on maplestory anymore in NA/EU

it's like 85+% of the community on the free to play stuff

[undone bone]

yea it is only some old people if i came back i would also play the what was it called

reboot?

[grizzled iris]

I did try maplestory 2

Wasnt it chief

[undone bone]

i stopped after getting to 200 when 3rd job released in EU

[lilac heath]

maplestory 2 was legit dogshit

[undone bone]

yea literal water

from the sewers

[lilac heath]

there's a reason they shut it down after a year and a half

[undone bone]

unfiltered

[lilac heath]

lmao

[undone bone]

now you can get to 300 it is crazy

i didnt even play that long when 250 released before they closed eu i lvled like 5 or 6 times then left again

my gear also got snapped by some hackers or something

[brazen eagle]

was it released in the time frame companies tried to rush new game releases ?

[undone bone]

it was just one of the worst kind of games to try and market to the west

and mechanics were super dated

so it got rekked

[lilac heath]

I mean that's a pretty big stretch

there's one guy that can get to 300 in a reasonable time frame

[brazen eagle]

oh ms2 went from 2d to 3d

[lilac heath]

and he spent the last year of his life grinding 13-14 hours a day

in order to do it

[lilac heath]

kinda-ish

[undone bone]

haha i remember it took me almost a month from 199 to 200

or even more

[grizzled iris]

People be like "blizzard bad EA bad capcom bad" they dont know the 4 horsemen of apocalypse

[undone bone]

yea they dont know kek

[undone bone]

EU was a wild thing man we didnt get 4th job until so late

i was still using lucky throw at 200

XD

or almost there it did release but so late

[lilac heath]

people love using maplestory as a posterchild for how bad nexon is

[grizzled iris]

Maplestory wasnt big here but i was HUGE on a game that had a similar vibe to maplestory

[lilac heath]

and like

nexon is very bad

[grizzled iris]

I think it was called mini fighter?

[lilac heath]

but maplestory also is basically unrecognizable compared to a decade ago

[grizzled iris]

Theres better choices like elsword, dragon nest and archeage

[lilac heath]

yeh

[grizzled iris]

Huge games with potential soooo high

And boom

Dead bc horrendous p2w

Im honestly glad to see bdo is in a redemption arc

Yeah the rng is still a bit sus

But its no longer pay or uninstall

I hope lost ark goes the same route

[lilac heath]

yeh

that was the maplestory revival like 5-6 years ago

[grizzled iris]

Idk if its a hot take but if lost ark chilled on the p2w

Itd be easily

No dispute

Most played mmo

[waxen latch]

..... when was that NOT the case lol

[lilac heath]

yeh idk bout that one chief

[undone bone]

dont think that many people enjoy lost ark skill things and party play

[brazen eagle]

its not the case anymore for quite a while now

[modest lion]

lost ark has very little to no p2w tho

[brazen eagle]

they killed a lot of games/studios doing so tho

[grizzled iris]

[brazen eagle]

e.g. the gothic franchise

[undone bone]

i mean even if you whale you still get 1 shot from 1 shots

in maple P2W you had literal 10000x dmg and life of plebs

[queen hornet]

Hey guys! I don't know if anyone has had this issue before, but everytime without fail when I update my addons via curseforge, I get disconnect from wow and discord for some reason. Does anyone know what might be causing this and how would I fix this? Cheers ; )

[undone bone]

you literally had extra item slots

LUL

[grizzled iris]

Now that we are all gathered

I wanna open this beautiful ceremony

With a nice debate

[modest lion]

i mean did they tho?

[grizzled iris]

What is considered p2w

[modest lion]

gothic is no more, sure, but we got risen and its sequels, and ELEX1 and 2

[grizzled iris]

Ive heard a lot of people say for example

Wow is p2w

[modest lion]

and elex is just as jank as gothic was, even 15y later

[undone bone]

wow has always been p2w

but no one cared?

i mean being p2w is not inherently super evil people just need to stop coping

[brazen eagle]

the death of gothic gave birth to other parties filling the gap

[modest lion]

people are significantly misusing the term p2w as it was coined 15-20y ago by games with massive RMT shops where pay for power was the main way to progress characters

[brazen eagle]

what gothic was back then, is witcher now

[modest lion]

but gothic never died. neither did piranha bytes

[hot crystal]

i played it i agree

[modest lion]

the devs still exist, still making games

[brazen eagle]

fair

[undone bone]

you only needed to see someone not even play it to know it was dog

[modest lion]

eurojank RPGs are still going strong in this day and age imo, one of the few things that never really "died" in that sense

[grizzled iris]

I had the most fun in maplestory 2 hub where people would post daily pictures on the town screen

Or someshit like that

And that was it

The moment u left the hub

Game was over

[hot crystal]

i mostly just leveled and messed around but i didnt think the combat was very fun

[lilac heath]

is frogster still around

[grizzled iris]

Thats interesting that you mention bc its also an interesting thing to say about mmos

What makes a mmo fun

Or combat

[hot crystal]

flow

[grizzled iris]

Bc like some people can be like

Yeah i grinded 99 agi in runescape

[lilac heath]

damn what's it like to be mentally ill

[grizzled iris]

Some people look at wow combat and say this is shit, you only press 1 2 and 3

clearly watching bm footage

[undone bone]

i mean wow combat is super bad in the grand scheme of things just bosses are kinda good

but the thing about wow is that it has so many things to do

even if we dont really do them

[grizzled iris]

Ngl that kinda sounds like the argument ff players use against wow

"The combat is eh but holy the bosses"

[undone bone]

mmos right now are this things that does not excel on anything but if enough people enjoy something it becomes a thing

nah even the bosses in wow are whatever

not even a good % of people care about raiding

[grizzled iris]

No i meant ff lol

But yeah

[undone bone]

ff is the same thing i guess most people cba about raids

and just log in to chat

or rp or whatever

same with wow

[grizzled iris]

Yea

Or get a house and run a club witch a live dj on twitch

And you have 50 players dancing

At the end of the day, both games you end up in goldshire/shirogane with the characters with tails

[hot crystal]

not everyone does

[grizzled iris]

Yet

But yeah for example

I rlly tried to get into gw2

Heard a lot of good things about it

It felt kinda nice, combat was a bit repetitive and cool

The mounts... were locked behind a paywall

The puzzles were fun tho

But never really clicked with me the same way wow or ff did

[waxen latch]

nah

most people do the Story and then dont play for 1year while repeating "akshualy a mmo with no content beyond the leveling story is perfect because le wholesome japanese dev said unsibbing is good"

[undone bone]

actually idk what happens with mmo dev time it gets stuck in a time twister

like adding 1 dungeon or something every x time would end the world

[grizzled iris]

Ff schedule is very predictable

If japanese players love something is predictability and organization

You have an expansion

You already know whats launching

In which order

There might be some flavors here and there

But i dont even know the core of the new xpac and i can tell you when will things drop

[waxen latch]

tbf, the game is at an alltime low rn

cus like

endwalker was kinda shit by itself

and content drops are shit aswell cus there is nothing AND its years bettwen them

[grizzled iris]

Can we say alltime low when 1.0 exists

[waxen latch]

tru

but imo still better story then "loli bird appears 3hours before the end was actually the big bad all along"

god i hate endwalker

biggest blunder i ever saw

[modest lion]

no idea

im trying to gear a new character and i already wanna do bad things to myself

[waxen latch]

dont do bad things

only good things

[grizzled iris]

Endwalker had the worst thing that can happen to an mmo

Had to somehow exceed or maintain the quality of shadowbringers story and bring it to an end while teasing something similar (impossible)

Give content that was at the level of relics and bozja but not too grindy so people dont hate it

Imagine if lets say wow next expansion sets the bar where raids are MOP, story like WotLK, gameplay and sidecontent like Legion

The next one after that has 0 chances

Its imo what happened to endwalker

[modest lion]

https://i.imgur.com/nWxKEpb.png

insane gear so far

[waxen latch]

mate

wotlk story?

[daring mauve]

[grizzled iris]

idk wow lore just said the story people jerk the most

[waxen latch]

you mean the LK appearing every 20min saying MUHAHAHAH im so EVIL!!! you will DIE!!! now fight my minion while i walk away!"

[grizzled iris]

I barely even know DF story

[waxen latch]

good old wotlk story there

[grizzled iris]

I know there were dragons

And uh

Power of friendship

[sharp ferry]

That name goes v hard

Lmfao

[grizzled iris]

I hate to jerk on shadowbringers more but sincerely dont think wow can make someone like emet selch

And i know its overcooked

To keep talking about emet selch

But maybe thats bc mmo stories are very wack generally

And the one time we get a story comparable to an actual stand alone title

Shit goes wild

[modest lion]

thanks

[undone bone]

mmo stories are just so sad rn for ff and wow

but im not a super writer so idk

[modest lion]

im really good with names

https://i.imgur.com/OputJBB.png

[undone bone]

it is like you can see that it is super pussy and nothing cool happens but

[undone bone]

just to rhyme with all my dinos

[grizzled iris]

Shadowbringers story so good the writter got a standing full 5 minutes of applause and was instantly promoted to lead writter of the whole game

And ff16 too

I think

And then wow released shadowlands

And mmos reached jerking levels

[waxen latch]

i like to compare Endwalker with Shadowlands

Shadowlands story was kinda bad but had some cool concepts that happend during it that are used right now/for future stuff, but everything around the Jailer was bad

Endwalker just did fuck all, 1 of the 2major Antagonist roles that was build up for almost a decade(Garlean Empire) gets defeated offscreen, and the other was waved aside for "depressed bird that talks like a 3year old talks about nihilism in the "im a edgy 14year old and nothing matter" Phase, you get 9fakeout deaths nand win with the power of friendship"

[grizzled iris]

That werent possible before

[waxen latch]

EW is so much worse BECAUSE people play ff14 for the story

and they just threw it all away lol

[grizzled iris]

I think shadowbringers is comparable to legion kinda

Idk much about legion

But i know they have that one morally grey main villain that everyone ships their oc with

[waxen latch]

kinda good but also overhyped af cus many of the bad parts get ignored?

[tropic skiff]

yeah the overwhelmingly cool expansion doesn't attract a lot of criticism

[waxen latch]

cus man, yeha Shadowbringers was good, but the middle part of it was really bad aswell lol

just nothing happend for ages there

which felt really weird

[modest lion]

You guys talking about the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, the one with an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award-winning Stormblood Expansion up to level 70 for free with no restrictions on platime?

[dense juniper]

ShB > EW

CHANGE MY MIND

[waxen latch]

shadowbringers has a strong start, strong end, but the middle is a big.....ok? nothing really happens

[tropic skiff]

[grizzled iris]

Coolest take ever

[tropic skiff]

no one is going to change your mind cuz everyone agrees

it's like saying hot take the godfather is a good movie

[modest lion]

i dont

i never played the game but im a contrarian so

youre wrong

[dense juniper]

Just wanted confirmation on the best expansion

[grizzled iris]

My man tried to cook and forgot to turn the stove on

[waxen latch]

not saying its bad, but the very weak middle part just always gets ignored which just imo stings wrong

[tropic skiff]

[elder patrol]

!vibe exp

[hollow raven]

362: You're in the fuckin zone lets RIDE!

[grizzled iris]

If you wanna be a contrarian say stormblood was the best expansion @modest lion

[modest lion]

the best expansion is soulstorm for dawn of war 1, dont @ me

[dense juniper]

EW killed my motivation to go forward to dawntrail

[dense juniper]

You

[grizzled iris]

Heres how it goes

[waxen latch]

yeha same....

[tropic skiff]

i mean covid happened lol

[waxen latch]

was shadowbringers during covid?

[modest lion]

I?

[dense juniper]

Yes

[tropic skiff]

yes it was

[waxen latch]

legit dont remember anymore

[dense juniper]

It was during shadowlands

[waxen latch]

covid fucked time perception

[umbral whale]

Bro covid was 4 years ago

[dense juniper]

?!

[grizzled iris]

Heavensward: the safe take
Stormblood: the hot take
Shadowbringers: the cold take
Endwalker: the overcooked take

[tropic skiff]

also idk man expecting to have constant stream of content is weird just unsub go do smth else

[modest lion]

didnt they make up covid so more people would play the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, the one with an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award-winning Stormblood Expansion up to level 70 for free with no restrictions on platime?

[dense juniper]

Yes

[umbral whale]

Holy fuck what has happened to time the last 4 years.

[tropic skiff]

tbh the only take is ff14 story was always kind of ass with like a few moments which were good

[grizzled iris]

Yoshi p wanted you to go play his game ff16

[tropic skiff]

and the good moments are like 60% from shadowbringers

[dense juniper]

And HW

Stb was a mistake

[tropic skiff]

and also you have to deal with the fact the story is a slog to get through gameplaywise and that the game should not be a mmorpg if it's trying to do what it does

[dense juniper]

Besides eureka

[grizzled iris]

Nah dont do stormblood dirty like that

[dense juniper]

I love eureka

[grizzled iris]

Yall know

[waxen latch]

stormblood and endwalker have imo a simmelar problem

stuff just happens and you are....there....., you dont interact with it and watch others do it

also that they are expansions where you do HUGE area jumps that are not really connected

[grizzled iris]

ew was saved by the gay couple

[tropic skiff]

what's the gay couple

[grizzled iris]

Zenos and his femboy

Forgot the name

[dense juniper]

Any eureka players in the chat?

[grizzled iris]

Endwalker made the impossible, for people to like zenos

[waxen latch]

ye

its highs are really high, but most other things are always bettwen "whatever" or "just make it stop"

[grizzled iris]

I think thats a huge w

[umbral whale]

Heavensward and Shadowbringers were bis

[grizzled iris]

Even the hardest zenos hater grinned when he got combatsexual with you

[dense juniper]

If that's true

What was the option you choose

In the final fight??

[waxen latch]

"shut up man"

[tropic skiff]

i wouldn't call kind of cool high fantasy moment "really high"

[grizzled iris]

"Youre right now kiss me"

[waxen latch]

yes im boring

[dense juniper]

There was only 1 right answer

[tropic skiff]

like if inbetween 70 hours of the most bland writing and gameplay ever there's like one reveal and a cool quote

[dense juniper]

The "boy you bet I also wanna (kiss you) fight you"

[tropic skiff]

that's not really high

[grizzled iris]

Royal gets it

[dense juniper]

The goosebumps on my character smirking

And they fighting

Top tier

Wow never made me feel anything lorewise

[hot crystal]

It actually started over 4 years ago

Cuz it was march ish

[dense juniper]

Meanwhile FF14 made me tear up a bunch of times

[waxen latch]

meanwhile i was standing still the entire fight, spamming 1-2 as gunbreaker and healing trought the failure dmg

[tropic skiff]

i just dont think a game like that should have a story focused gameplayloop

[dense juniper]

I wasn't too far off

Playing warrior

[hot crystal]

Gonna be honest i dont think i could get invested enough in a game to feel emotions that strong

Other than rage

[grizzled iris]

https://tenor.com/view/ffxiv-emet-selch-shb-gif-18075484

[tropic skiff]

like most stories sucks in games but at least they're not 200h long and doesn't gate you from doing the rest of the good things

[grizzled iris]

When this happened

[dense juniper]

The single tear

On my face

[waxen latch]

eh, there are quiet a few people that seem to like it, so let them have it gues

[dense juniper]

And hype

[tropic skiff]

yeah i mena that's cool it's a successful game

just it kinda sucks in the way it's so narrative focused imo

[dense juniper]

I had to try ff14 3 times before actually getting hooked

[waxen latch]

but i get what you mean flower, dont worry

and i agree overall

[dense juniper]

Ff14 is an rpg first and an MMO later

[undone bone]

i only played ff14 on the first time it was omegakrangled

then never came back

[tropic skiff]

like i actually dont want wow keeping the raid by making me go through the entire lore of a zone i dont care about

[undone bone]

they gave me a fat bird tho

[tropic skiff]

yeah well the rpg element sucks lol

literally all the good things in ff14 are the mmo things

whenever it tries to be a solo experience it BLOWS

[dense juniper]

Especially emotes and housing and glamour

[waxen latch]

yeha, stuff like you having to unlock old dungeons/raids by doing questlines is........lets not do that please.....

[dense juniper]

Imagine wow with emotes

[tropic skiff]

and dawntrail story is going to suck like

u just know it

[grizzled iris]

Ff14 can be resumed in "this character that appears in a sidestory for 5 minutes and is completly irrelevant to rn wil make you tear like in 3 years"

[dense juniper]

You also get it

[tropic skiff]

ff14 is making you save the world by giving you 62927'282792 quest asking you to gather some random highlighted items you dont care about or kill random mobs in the most boring uninteractive way

[dense juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/crystal-exarch-graha-tia-shadowbringers-ffxiv-ff14-gif-22458617

Yes

[waxen latch]

its really important that you play with moon bunnys now

REALLY important

[dense juniper]

Yes

Só tou can PARTYYYY

[tropic skiff]

ff14 is fun when you do the fucking goofy ass raids with foolish music with your friends

ff14 truly discovered the secret formula of making you do a 14min boss fight while a very bad sounding alt rock song blasts in the background

but the story is like what if your bad YA novel took you like 62528729 hours to complete and a monthly payment

[grizzled iris]

shadowbringers starts playing

[hot crystal]

I feel like mmos are more about presentation and spectacle than actual good writing

[tropic skiff]

that's true for like every games

[hot crystal]

Its like oh you do all these quests and shit and you hit that moment of story and its better

[tropic skiff]

like very few games actually have good writing

[waxen latch]

but somehow its hype af

idk why but you can put shity alt rock with nonsense lyrics over stuff and its suddenly hype

[hot crystal]

A lot of games rely on it less than mmos do tho

[tropic skiff]

no it's very fun that was my favorite part of the game

[hot crystal]

Like look how much the casuals bitch about shitty writing in wow

Nobody bitches about cod

[tropic skiff]

well MMOs rely on the world but not rly storytelling ? but a single player experience specially now includes like 10h of cutscenes with dialogues

which are written

[hot crystal]

No yeah yeah

[tropic skiff]

people bitch about every single thing in wow

like anything in the game is a good excuse to bitch

[hot crystal]

What i mean is storytelling in an mmo can be more important than a lot of other games not that its like the most critical piece

[tropic skiff]

people bitching about the lore r kinda to me like if you complained about the story of Lego Atlantis set

[grizzled iris]

"Hm this character thats here for 5 min doesnt even speak but is kinda funny and interesting"

1 expansion later

"WTF YOSHIP I CANT TAKE THIS ANYMORE THEY ARE MY NEW BFF FOREVER"

[tropic skiff]

not storytelling, world building yes

[hot crystal]

Well theyre complaining because theyve invested a lot of time into getting to know the characters