#general-discussion

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fierce swan
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wtf is a movember

short berry
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same as no shave november

karmic ether
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i assume its β€œman-vember?”

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or something like that

woven scarab
potent gyro
cerulean spindle
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@fierce swan @short berry Nope it's not.

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NSN focus on letting your facial hair grow wild and use the money that you would've spent on beard grooming would go to charities that focus on cancer in general.

shrewd flume
fierce swan
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but what is Movember

cerulean spindle
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Movember is only about the mustasche and it focus on men specific issues like suicide, prostate cancer, testicular cancer etc.

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You can go to their webstite ad get more informed.

short berry
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no thanks

karmic ether
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I dont have to shave?

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Fuck yeah

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time to grow a neck beard blobsunglasses

maiden tinsel
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Foxhole update November : Cosmetic and Mustach

karmic ether
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I have a pornstache irl

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@hasty thistle petition to put this bearded fellow in the game for no shave november?

hasty thistle
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But that doesnt make sense!

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That beard is way too good to be unshaven

karmic ether
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all good things must come to an end

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Bruh moustache gang come on

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We have to bring it back

shrewd flume
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Now that im through with outer worlds i have a void no game fills

cedar bobcat
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Need no shaven character model

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Need one meow!

karmic ether
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Boo!!! πŸ‘» πŸ‘» πŸ‘»

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EEK! πŸ¦‡ πŸ¦‡

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eee

rose lotus
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@shrewd flume Around christmas a TBC WoW server launches

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1x. No cash shop

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It's the predecessor to my current server, gonna get two years worth of crap transferred

cold dock
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@keen mountain WHY DO YOU DO THIS
the fuc

keen mountain
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?

cold dock
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U join then leave

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Why

keen mountain
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I was having a look?

cold dock
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For the 2nd time?

keen mountain
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Yeah its interesting to have a look around.

cold dock
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You know you don't have to leave right

keen mountain
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THen becomes too many icons on the left<<<

cold dock
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Ok then

keen mountain
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Soz mate

cold dock
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Suit your self

keen mountain
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lol

cold dock
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I was just so confused

plain mountain
fierce swan
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why is everyone freaking out that it’s real

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I’ve seen people in other servers freak out about it

karmic ether
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because it sucks

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or, sort of sucks

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i'd wear it if it wasn't so retardedly expensive

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but it all just looks like grenda from the community church down the road designed them

fierce swan
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well duh

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that’s the kinda shit Kanye would do

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Honestly want that yellow β€œIf ye can” hoodie really bad

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but I can’t afford 240 dollars for literally anything

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So fuck me lmfao

karmic ether
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time to go into the negative

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do it for kanye

fierce swan
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I have to disappoint Kanye

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;-;

karmic ether
abstract furnace
karmic ether
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vore chat vore chat

orchid blaze
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What

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Oh god no

proven bridge
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@karmic ether I’m glad you agree with me

abstract furnace
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What did you done with Your son?!

dusky furnace
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That's how you end a lawyer gif war kids

karmic ether
dusky furnace
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@karmic ether You won't have to deal with CPS anymore

ebon walrus
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is SCP just an anagram for CPS

dusky furnace
karmic ether
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secure child protection?

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or no, "service of child protection"

dusky furnace
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Child Protective Services=SCP

charred atlas
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@spare plume I finished Next generation and deep space nine

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I enjoyed both and starting Voyager now

sleek wolf
spare plume
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@charred atlas VOY is alright, you get some great ones but also some shit ones. Best advice I can give is skip to the end of Season 3, as the two parter for s3 finale and s4 opener are probably the best VOY has to offer early on

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Kakyoin Polpo

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Kakyoin Polpo

main mortar
charred atlas
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Nop, from S1 to S7

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I embrace all of it

spare plume
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But yeah, TNG presents a highly idealistic version of Star Trek that’s great to aspire to

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And DS9 gets into realpolitik that makes it enjoyable as an analogy for what was happening at the time (Gulf War, etc)

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Bajorans are basically Jews post Holocaust

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And the Cardassians are space Nazis

charred atlas
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Oh I already figured that out

spare plume
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VOY attempts to return to the more fun and goofy TOS

spare plume
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In fact I think Berman said he wanted it to be a cross of cowboy diplomacy of TOS and the flung into deep space aspect of episodes like Q Who?

charred atlas
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Quark is the shit

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Voyager is borg right

spare plume
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Yeah

charred atlas
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Finally

spare plume
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First two seasons deal with amazon

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fuck

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*Kazon

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Which are retarded broccoli Klingons

charred atlas
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Aight im going to resume now

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Its also awsome how all of this shit is on netflix

main mortar
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yare yare daze

spare plume
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oh yeah @charred atlas the doctor of voy is probably my favourite crew member

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if you like quark, you'll like the doctor

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he's like an evolution of mccoy, and i love him

edgy siren
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Voyager without the Doctor would be worse than Enterprise

paper timber
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less than a month until december, the christmas month

vivid osprey
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Voyager without the Doctor is like Voyager without Voyager

edgy siren
karmic ether
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Is Dead Harvest still up?

zenith carbon
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nope. it's over

karmic ether
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Damn, was looking to get back into Foxhole, wanted to check it out. Was it any good?

zenith carbon
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Yes and no. It could have been great. But it needed a lot more work put into it than what they did. Which was a week. Which is also fair since they do this event for fun once a year and their main work and focus is on updating and adding to the main game. So maybe in the future they can iron it out more and make it into something really great in the future. All in all it wasn't too bad.

karmic ether
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Oh cool, I haven’t played since 2016 so I feel like I’ve missed a lot since last time

edgy siren
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I have an impression you were here 2017

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Nope. Guess not

paper timber
potent gyro
abstract furnace
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When you life

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for work

abstract furnace
crystal jacinth
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πŸ‘€

drowsy cipher
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Guri sleeping in hammock starter pack

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@rose lotus

karmic ether
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very chill

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much comfor

vestal girder
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Uwuwuuuwuuwu

rocky igloo
keen parcel
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Idk, if it's the right server for it, tbh.

orchid blaze
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Did it get delated

karmic ether
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@rose lotus hethick

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He also just clawed the bottom of my chair

rose lotus
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Chonk boi

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Extr fluff for hugs

karmic ether
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he loves plastic bags too

keen parcel
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fatty

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that cat's a fat boi

vestal grove
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why is are what

polar flume
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Who saw the shittiest apologize in blizzcon?

dusky furnace
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@polar flume HK situation?

polar flume
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Yeah, that was shitty in my opinion

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They didnt mention Hong Kong /China directly if not wrong

dusky furnace
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kek

polar flume
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Blizzard still afraid from China and under US congress pressure

vivid osprey
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what's even worse is that new overwatch game

dusky furnace
vivid osprey
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60 dollars they're charging for a story mode and customizable abilities julianlol

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"oh look you can fight bosses now"

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"please pay us 60 dollars"

polar flume
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So many AAA game developer companies going to trash recently

vivid osprey
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it's a PR stunt to mitigate damages done by the recent hong kong controversy

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get people talking about their new shitty game

woven scarab
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this is art

dusky furnace
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gud kid

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but dat camera steer after that

vivid osprey
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the absolute mad lad

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need more people like that

polar flume
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@dusky furnace I wonder why...

dusky furnace
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me tooadamthinks

polar flume
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Now if you excuse, I am going to try to play a game not owned by tencent

pseudo badge
drowsy cipher
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Im tired

sleek wolf
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leo stay sexy

polar osprey
analog kernel
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You guys know nerds candy? A single one has managed to lodge itself somewhere in the back of my throat near my windpipe

karmic ether
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as nerds typically do

native sable
junior mortar
drowsy cipher
olive thicket
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You look like that discount Darth Vader from the new Star Wars trilogy no one likes

full rampart
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πŸ˜‚ lmao

karmic ether
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Leo stop your scaring me

sleek wolf
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@junior mortar Hong Kong unite

olive thicket
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πŸ‡­πŸ‡°

dusky furnace
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πŸ‡­πŸ‡°

astral oak
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πŸ‡­πŸ‡°

abstract furnace
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πŸ‡­πŸ‡° For Freedom

junior mortar
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what

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why ping me

olive thicket
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Yes
Atlantis is the best Disney movie

potent gyro
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Eyup

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But my favorite movie is called Titan AE

plain mountain
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@brisk ermine @zenith carbon

brisk ermine
dusky furnace
zenith carbon
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Never played Stronghold 3 or Crusader 2. Mainly because of reviews. Especially for 3. Played and really enjoyed all of the others though. And at least they came out with new stronghold games faster than it took bannerlord to even receive a release date. wardenlol

plain mountain
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3 was meh

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2 was pretty good

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3 was like they were trying to take that big modernization step for the franchise but they screwed up big time

north gulch
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i heard the overhead cam was pretty bad

plain mountain
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I don't have a lot of experience playing it but overall it just didn't feel great to use or build anything in

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plus the whole "houses get worse the further away you build them" just was a dumb mechanic

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wish you could just upgrade them instead so you could have more options for how you want to arrange your layout

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wall building was also fairly cumbersome, which is a pretty integral part of a castle building sim

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campaign was also dumb and poorly made as far as I played it

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overall it had a lot of potential but just wasn't built properly

vestal grove
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What

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rip

long falcon
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Wrong chat oops

wintry patio
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I own all stellaris dlc, am I of any use to you

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I'm planning to get federations too

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no?

edgy siren
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I plan on it

wintry patio
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i just want a comfy galaxy

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with comfy players

edgy siren
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It's been awhile since I played Stellaris

burnt lagoon
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bro imagine doing a federation run on stellaris

edgy siren
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So many other games

burnt lagoon
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go back to the last federation plebs

wintry patio
edgy siren
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I've been playing 7d2d

wintry patio
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oh my god i play that one too

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i mean, played
for a single night where i couldn't find any water so i died

edgy siren
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The update is cool

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Too much Mesa

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And I clip through the world a few times

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But the update is πŸ‘Œ

wintry patio
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i wish i had people to play games with

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have you checked out remote play

edgy siren
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Elaborate

wintry patio
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steam's most recent feature that lets you play couch multiplayer games over internet

edgy siren
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Me

wintry patio
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is your internet good and would it be convenient for you to play and voicechat right now

edgy siren
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Oh, that's cool

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I'm at work

wintry patio
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"last online 28 hours"
yeah that's not very inspiring

edgy siren
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?

wintry patio
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26 hours ago you were online, but not anymore

edgy siren
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I turn on online when I want to be bothered

wintry patio
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when's that

edgy siren
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I was on before I came to work

wintry patio
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damn, 26 hours of work

edgy siren
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6 hours ago

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Plat, be cool

wintry patio
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what am I doing that can be considered the opposite

edgy siren
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I work tomorrow as well. But Monday or Sunday would work

wintry patio
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most of the games are for 4 players though

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and I believe you're in US, which would make pings less than ideal

edgy siren
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West coast

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So the worst I suppose

wintry patio
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yeah

edgy siren
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Sorry this isn't in your favor

wintry patio
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yeah, and it wouldn't hurt to have two other players, but that could be difficult as well

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can be quite tricky to get a group for a lot of niche things in this day and age, surprisingly

edgy siren
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My 7d2d settings is probably unfavorable

Nomad difficulty
No loot respawn, 200% loot
Air drop 1 day
Zombies run during day
Zombies Sprint at night
Zombies are nightmare blood moon
Blood moon 7 days
90 minute day cycle
14 hour days

wintry patio
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yeah that's definitely very customized

edgy siren
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I want the feeling of survival

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No loot respawn ya know

wintry patio
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how's that 200% loot working out for you though

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forces you to move around, does the game favor that much?

edgy siren
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12 feathers in a nest when and if it spawns feathers

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I still find a lot of empty stuff

wintry patio
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but like, crafting and storage-wise, the latest update makes me feel like it's harder to just go all nomadic with the encumberance mechanic and stuff

edgy siren
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Oh yeah

wintry patio
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or do you do serial settling

edgy siren
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I have check points

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I'll save a car, and deposit bulk into it, and go back for more

wintry patio
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outposts, gotcha

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what weapons do you use

edgy siren
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The spear is nice

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But bow arrows naturally

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I like how crafting costs more materials

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It's not just. "Oh, I got it" it's "shucks.. I need more"

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Gives the survival feel

wintry patio
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i'm still upset at having a good start, except I was shafted water-wise so I just kind of died a thirsty boy

edgy siren
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You can drink from toilet?

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I forget

wintry patio
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I think they literally cut a lot of toilet bits, and I didn't end up running across any that would be safe for me to tackle

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So toilets are just furniture now

edgy siren
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Ah

wintry patio
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Maybe I'm wrong, but no, I still didn't have any success in that particular start water-wise
The one jar you have doesn't really last a whole day-night cycle, unless I drank that too early

edgy siren
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Especially through the Mesa-desert

wintry patio
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you get environmental protection buff now though

edgy siren
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Yeah

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But I'm 6 days, and holy

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I'm burning alive

wintry patio
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I'm still not sure how I feel about those reverse difficulty curve games, in a way

edgy siren
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I settled in a Mesa, because I established center map.

wintry patio
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I mean, it's cool and all, but it's not cool having to redo the dull, painful part for the 10th time before you get to enjoy yourself

finite stag
wintry patio
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like, it's easier on day 3 than day 1

finite stag
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Plat

edgy siren
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That's a lot of GB

wintry patio
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by day 3 you'd have stuff to ensure a somewhat stress-free existence

edgy siren
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Yeah

wintry patio
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but day 1? it's a mad scramble, and if you get hurt, you have just one bandage

edgy siren
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I made Zombies stronger, and faster

wintry patio
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again, it hurts the most when you're unarmed

karmic ether
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7d2d? 7 Days 2 Die?

wintry patio
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can be quite an annoying roadblock
yeah, that game

edgy siren
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I'm legit startled when I go in a house

wintry patio
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xcom 2 was the same thing for me

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are you familiar with xcom

edgy siren
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Yes

wintry patio
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have you ever tried gatecrasher on legend

edgy siren
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I beat Xcom. I need to finish Enemy within

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Negative

wintry patio
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not xcom 2?

edgy siren
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I own it, but I want to finish Enemy within

wintry patio
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xcom 2 is a lot dearer to me, but it does have some flaws

edgy siren
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Naturally

wintry patio
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but its improvements outweigh the flaws

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but I still want to complain about the flaws

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would that be okay or do you feel it'd ruin it for you

edgy siren
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Um

wintry patio
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oh, do you own the xcom 2 dlc
the one with the lost is great

edgy siren
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I enjoy surprises

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I don't remember

wintry patio
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well, wouldn't call it a surprise, but naturally you start the game without all the stuff that gives you tactical flexibility

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and that made the early game frustrating for me

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because the character system is miles better, and I don't like my carefully crafted dummies dying early

edgy siren
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I see

wintry patio
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the character pool idea is great

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basically you have an out-of-campaigns area where you can just make people and customize them, and they'll show up in games, and it's great

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anyway people still can get critted from full to death in full cover from across the map

edgy siren
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Ah

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Back to 7d2d

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I'm digging a huge hole. And setting it so from the surface, I can fall into a hay bale, and fall into a hay bale, and fall into a hay bale until I reach the very most bottom. At the bottom, there is 2by2 ladders going straight up to the tower

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From the tower top. Is the living conditions. Below that is the crafting and forge

wintry patio
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how's the game for a very settled in playstyle, though
can you arrange production of everything you need

edgy siren
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A pyramid of stakes will go to the tower. So if Zombies want to get me, they'll be dying to get to me

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Play wise, you can make everything

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There isn't anything you find that isn't useless

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I'm obviously not at the tower part yet

wintry patio
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so, everything is useless?

edgy siren
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It's been 6 days

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I worded it wrong
Nothing is useless

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Everything has a use

wintry patio
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the ol double negative

edgy siren
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I'm American

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Heck. Bones make glue. Glue makes duct tape. Duct tape makes repair kits. Repair kits help you keep your tools longer

wintry patio
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can't drink glue

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can't quench thirst with it

edgy siren
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Can drink mucky water

wintry patio
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how long have you been playing 7d2d, anyway

edgy siren
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I like how infection and diseases work in game. It's a gradual thing. It works up

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I don't know

wintry patio
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tens of hours? hundreds?

edgy siren
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I don't know

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256 hours

wintry patio
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yeah, that's more than I have, so you probably did get good

edgy siren
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Good?

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You mean survive

wintry patio
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yeah, that's what i mean

edgy siren
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I'm teasing

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Survival games are fun

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I'm not prudent, I'm just a try hard

wintry patio
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i can't stop myself from cranking up the difficulty because ego, then dying quickly, then trying it a few more times and giving up

edgy siren
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I'm that way with Rimworld

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I keep losing, but anything less than challenging is weak

wintry patio
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oxygen not included is fun

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until you die

edgy siren
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I'll look into it

wintry patio
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if you're into rimworld for the in-depth moving parts, oxygen not included will be great

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it's full of moving parts

edgy siren
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So many games

thorny solstice
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I prefer rimworld but that's just my opinion

edgy siren
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I prefer playing with people

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But I seldom have time that others do too

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So I play alone

wintry patio
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i'm going to bed though

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good night, thanks for the chat

edgy siren
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Rest well

sleek wolf
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What

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Also the show we did went well

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The crowdcheered

edgy siren
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πŸ†’

sleek wolf
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So it went pretty wel

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Marching in front of people was fun

potent gyro
fierce swan
karmic ether
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xD

still plaza
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water routes are the most preferable when shipping a lot of stuff

abstract furnace
edgy siren
abstract furnace
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snap

edgy siren
still plaza
potent gyro
untold lance
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m e m e z

ebon walrus
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Damn just learned about that delta force raid

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heard about the dog but not the raid itself haha

abstract furnace
karmic ether
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nngggggh

abstract furnace
signal wadi
abstract furnace
karmic ether
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bork

abstract furnace
upbeat wave
karmic ether
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Chonk boi

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holy shit

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Rare footage of me being told to do a morning jog

compact flint
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When PUBG becomes real life

karmic ether
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Looks staged but ok

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nicely done xD

abstract furnace
woven scarab
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I keep finding more impressive ones

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the hieroglyphs are awesome too

astral oak
edgy siren
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@woven scarab keepem coming

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Oh

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Steamed hams and cat crossover

woven scarab
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@edgy siren didya see the hieroglyphs too

edgy siren
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Show

woven scarab
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Just look at the pic

vestal girder
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my fan sounds like a broken flute

edgy siren
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@woven scarab I see a few I recognize

sleek salmon
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Loxen is looking pretty damn good

edgy siren
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Not mine

sleek salmon
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fucking NICE

edgy siren
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I know, right?

sleek salmon
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really damn clean

edgy siren
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Ye

full rampart
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oh shit

sleek salmon
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I like everything about this image

edgy siren
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Agreed

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I want to contact the artist to suggest more

sleek salmon
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and recruit him to the colonial cause

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a diabolical scheme

edgy siren
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Well, naturally

astral oak
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Awww that cute

wintry patio
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that really does look great

drowsy cipher
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give more

olive thicket
woven scarab
edgy siren
woven scarab
karmic ether
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stop ur turning him on

woven scarab
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πŸ‘Œ

astral moss
plain mountain
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congrats!

astral oak
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ayyy nice one

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Congrats

orchid blaze
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Congrats

lapis harbor
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Congrats

astral moss
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Thanks guys

sleek wolf
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HB production

karmic ether
native sable
dusky furnace
potent gyro
paper timber
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what poor potato pc made this meme

soft jungle
woven scarab
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This is quite interesting. from reading this I understood that the issue the OP is stating is that inherently very few players are actually committed to the avatars they play but rather are more interested in the items that they possess.
I'd say no, but that almost all RPGs on the market push for it.

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I've seen very few RPGs that don't focus on getting better items and making your character more powerful

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(all the while making enemies also more powerful, thus negating the whole thing anyway)

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IMO you shouldn't so much as "build" a character, as be that character

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If I end up chasing items that are 1 level higher than what I have now, I won't be having a good time

soft jungle
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thats the ideal, but i think you can only build a avatar, and you can only be a character when it has a history and personality.

In dark souls, I had a plan that I wanted to execute, and my character was a way for me to fulfill that plan. I never embodied that character

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if i understand you correctly.

woven scarab
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For me, SWTOR was (and still is, I haven't abandoned it completely yet) one of the few games in which I was actually given choices that allowed me to express my character.

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The history and personality is something I always end up making myself

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like headcanon

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Star Trek Online lets you write biographies for your character and each bridge officer. In several cases I have, varying from 4 lines to 3 paragraphs.

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In Skyrim I decided that the Khajiit burglar I rolled had an obsession with nord mead and I ended up stealing it wherever I could.

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But even so, in Star Trek Online and Star Wars The Old Republic, your characters are still only vessels for your path through the major story missions. Between the two STO is the most linear and it's why I've lost interest in that game.

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The only other thing they have going for themselves is chasing after more and more powerful gear

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There's little character development, and I don't mean skill and stat points

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I suppose that's why I want to actually try DnD someday

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It's a format that lets you actually play a role rather than drive a character and distribute skillpoints

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Now I'm reminded of 'The Gamers'

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been years since I've seen that

wintry patio
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@woven scarab do you ever find it difficult to write anything for a character bio

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do you have any tricks up your sleeve to still write up several lines for something you don't have a lot of ideas for

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do you experience difficulties coming up with these snippets of text

woven scarab
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Sometimes. Sometimes I don't. Some of them I write by first figuring out why that person is where he/she is.

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For example

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I maxed out a thing on my Klingon Defense Force captain and I could pick a federation bridge officer. Which I did. Then I starting thinking about who would join a KDF crew, and worked from there.

soft jungle
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@woven scarab my great fear is this: Diablo 4 has a chase of legendary items, and now new mythic items.

so then you can find a new item as your playing, change your whole build instantly, and you're back to diablo 3.
Personally, why diablo 2 didn't have that is because you play the game as a bowzon, find only javelins, and now have to start trading those precious uniques that you just found for the gear you actually do. There is a sense of progression because of the rigidity.
In order for you to become better at something, you need to have a goal, and you need to sacrifice something to do it.

If i want to farm, I cant be pushing the highest boss damage.

I personally would love for there to be bio's, but I have no expectation from Diablo to provide a way for me to get invested in my avatar nor would I think it would add anything to the core principals

wintry patio
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also, if you're interested in DnD, it should be possible for you to find a group to play with online

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it's possible that such an arrangement won't work for you, but hey, maybe it's what you're looking for

woven scarab
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I don't like playing online

wintry patio
#

man, are there even that many good action rpgs with rewarding loot anymore

soft jungle
wintry patio
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haven't seen one in a long time, but maybe that's because i haven't really been involved

woven scarab
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@wintry patio the fed bridge officer I picked was a Trill engineering officer, and I eventually wrote a bio saying she used to be a criminal sabotaging and hijacking federation vessels.

spice rivet
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maybe go play something more oldschool?

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if modern arpgs arent for you?

wintry patio
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ah, but that's not exactly what I'm after, in a way

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it's not a serious criticism, but there's only so many "orphans" and "lost their all" before having a quiet backstory starts standing out

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same with action hero kinds of origins

woven scarab
#

πŸ€”

wintry patio
#

it's a tricky balance to get right

sleek wolf
#

@soft jungle since i never played any diablo do you mind giving me a summary of each game?

wintry patio
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go into a dungeon, pick stuff up, beat up final man

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beat up lesser things along the way and get stronger

soft jungle
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@sleek wolf In order to kill the devil you have to get stronger by finding items. rinse and repeat

sleek wolf
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ah

woven scarab
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Perhaps the most interesting bio I'd written in recent memory for a STO bridge officer was for a chief medical officer who would go against his captain and perform medical experiments on prisoners.

sleek wolf
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i can make ok names

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but bios i can not

woven scarab
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IMO the worst stories I've seen all have "Get stronger" as the only driving force

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getting stronger is a means, not an end

plain mountain
#

heck

wintry patio
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I can agree with that

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Though it doesn't exclude clearly outlined goals that are still strength-based

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"I wanna be the strongest person around here" is a sensible goal

woven scarab
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getting stronger is something you do for or because, such as protecting the people you love, or taking revenge

wintry patio
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Yeah, but so is "get rich", it's could be both means to some other end, or the end itself

woven scarab
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"I wanna be the strongest person around here"
to me that's a very shallow objective for what might be a shallow person

wintry patio
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I'd use the word "naive"

woven scarab
#

possibly

wintry patio
#

But hey, if you think about, aren't those the goals of pretty much every faction in every piece of media with faction conflict in there

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Except maybe not "strong", but "powerful" or "influential"

woven scarab
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but even there, there's always something they'll want to do with that influence once they have it

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getting rich is also never an end goal for me

wintry patio
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Yeah, but that's not something a story would tackle, is it?
Stories are made from conflict, not from someone going up metaphorical stairs

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"get rich & powerful" is a pretty common motivation

sleek wolf
#

if i were to make a story

woven scarab
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I'll admit I've been trying to read manga ever since a friend recommended a few good ones to me, but over half of them are just so bad.

sleek wolf
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i would make the hero or main guy or whatever you wanna call him just an average man

woven scarab
#

wuxia in general is a genre I try to avoid like the plague

sleek wolf
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their is nothing special about you

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you are one in a million

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or billions

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you take your orders and you follow them

woven scarab
#

I like those stories

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Someone posted a manga here I enjoyed

sleek wolf
#

like say your town or city gets attacked

woven scarab
#

what was it again

sleek wolf
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you have the will to join the army and avenge your city

wintry patio
#

It's mostly hobbyist writing that has those overpowered characters which I criticize

woven scarab
#

oh right

wintry patio
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Since I don't actually read any other writing

woven scarab
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'Guns and Stamps'

sleek wolf
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or say your a civilian running

woven scarab
#

little odd, but good stuff

sleek wolf
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make it just a survival story

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where your just a random guy trying to earn a living and trying to survive a harsh night or something

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or have no hero make it all black and white

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where your neither good or bad

woven scarab
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It's mostly hobbyist writing that has those overpowered characters which I criticize
It's a powerfantasy. I can't blame them, everyone has daydreams like that. But when it comes to writing, I prefer a character that has earned that power. Who knows what to do with it and isn't just looking to be the top of the world. 2nd or 3rd is enough.

wintry patio
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2nd or 3rd is still pretty damn high of a shot

woven scarab
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You're right.

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Though most of those stories where such a thing even matters is stories where power or combat prowess is the only thing that matters.

wintry patio
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"Power fantasy" is a really fitting term

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In a way, it's written not for the reader's pleasure, but for writer's

sleek wolf
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thats every anime ever

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where you see one man take on 10 guys at once

wintry patio
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"slice of life" as a genre in anime is literally the "just a regular person going about regular day things" though

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what you're thinking of are shonen

woven scarab
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"slice of life" as a genre in anime is literally the "just a regular person going about regular day things" though
which tbh isn't interesting unless it's sci-fi or fantasy

wintry patio
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which is, yeah, power fantasies for male teens and young adults

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well, what's interesting

woven scarab
#

things I don't encounter in real life

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this real life anyway

wintry patio
#

five years or so ago I really was into all those stories where it's like, brutal and dramatic and the main hero lost parents and then friends and they were betrayed, and now they're on a revenge quest!

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but eventually it got oversatured and it stopped being interesting

sleek wolf
#

i only watched like 4 animes, and thats because i was forced to watch them

woven scarab
#

oof tbh

wintry patio
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what do you mean "forced"

sleek wolf
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but ive seen other ones like an episode because i was also forced to watch them

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when your sister has the remote and you have to beat her up to get it

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i never beat her up so i was forced

karmic ether
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Bruh

woven scarab
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I once indulged a friend by watched episode 1 of that little girl with blond hair in discount WW1

wintry patio
#

there are many valid reasons to dislike anime, but this isn't one of them

woven scarab
#

I had to drag myself through that episode

sleek wolf
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i didnt have an xbox in my room

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so i was forced

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no tablet, ds no phone nothin

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just a tv was all i had for a while

wintry patio
#

but surely that experience scarred you permanently and made you grow, so you spent 20 years in a shaolin monastery practicing martial arts, and in the final episode you beat up your sister and finish the character arc, right?

woven scarab
#

sounds like an oof plot

sleek wolf
#

no i just find anime very stupid

karmic ether
#

Honestly as much as I dislike β€œplot armor” I don’t think I’d enjoy reading a story where the protagonist dies of tuberculosis 5 meters before the climax

sleek wolf
#

i see no joy in it

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the drawings are yuck

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family guy and american dad is better

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looney tunes

wintry patio
#

ehh, death can be a very powerful too used in the right hands

sleek wolf
#

the classic American cartoons are where its at

wintry patio
#

and whether you want it or not, stories always will have some bits conveniently arranged

woven scarab
#

Speaking of anime, there's one scene I enjoy very much

karmic ether
#

Definitely, Plat

woven scarab
#

πŸ˜‚

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muh jets and artillery

sleek wolf
#

also the always go auhhH?

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and huh

wintry patio
#

like, "then the main hero commuted to work" can conveniently leave out all sorts of gruelling and boring scenes that actually are involved with commuting

sleek wolf
#

so annoying

woven scarab
#

hero of what

wintry patio
#

of morning commute

sleek wolf
#

and then they announce what they are gonna do sometimes

wintry patio
#

that could be because a lot of anime is manga adaptations, and while you can do thinking scenes on paper without much inconvenience, it's very tricky to adapt that into animation

woven scarab
#

If I could sort/filter on type of plot, 75% of the stuff I find online goes in the bin

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I just don't like it

sleek wolf
#

how can you find anime enjoyable

wintry patio
#

alright, that's fine, that's your taste

sleek wolf
#

whats the joy in it

woven scarab
#

I try to find popular websites to read webliterature, but half of them are flooded with chinese translations πŸ€”

karmic ether
#

Anime is wild cringe for me

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Like scraping a piece of chalk against a blackboard

woven scarab
#

oh god

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I can feel it

sleek wolf
woven scarab
#

don't do that!

sleek wolf
#

i would 10/10 watch it

woven scarab
#

you remind me of something good, hold on gotta find it

sleek wolf
#

chalk board scratching asmr?

karmic ether
sleek wolf
#

hole shit

karmic ether
#

finally some good asmr

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what's asmr

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I'm too lazy to google

woven scarab
karmic ether
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autonomous sensory meridian response

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somehow i knew that off the top of my head

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eh

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wat

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basically when you're listening to something and the sound causes a pleasant tingling sensation in your head/spine

sleek wolf
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@karmic ether sounds like a cat crying in pain

karmic ether
#

huh

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aka just good sounding sounds

sleek wolf
#

you ever get those tingles in your neck as a kid

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pretty much what it is

karmic ether
#

ngl i listen to ASMR when i go to sleep it feels nice

sleek wolf
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ngl i listen to it as well

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but mainly because it has some funny stuff in it

karmic ether
#

you listen to autonomous sensory meridian response when you go to sleep

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what

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i've listened to some but the ones where they whisper just make me angry

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it helps me relax

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i hate the sound of whispering

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plastic crinkling or something like that i can get down to though

sleek wolf
karmic ether
#

i also listen to it when i'm writing up reports/essays for uni

woven scarab
karmic ether
#

Isn't it basically music with a rhythm then @karmic ether

sleek wolf
woven scarab
karmic ether
#

the food surgeon

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is this like that one retarded surgery on a grape meme

woven scarab
karmic ether
#

yes but unironically

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@karmic ether i suppose so, but its kinda wierd i enjoy listening to music too much so i dont want to fall asleep if i listen to music but tapping ans shit like that is the perfect median

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@woven scarab USA, USA πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

sleek wolf
#

i cant beleive some people tried to get rid of it

karmic ether
#

the A10?

sleek wolf
#

yeah

karmic ether
#

AC130 inbound ASMR πŸ‘Œ

sleek wolf
#

some stupid politician was like "rEmOvE a-10"

wintry patio
#

leave it to the discord fellows to gear up a military

karmic ether
#

A-10 gun sound is probably more terror inducing than terroirists

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soulja boy has discord eyes_zoom

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also that is hilarious

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turn ur speakers down, he dont care

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what the fuck is this music

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jesus

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my ears

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@karmic ether which vid

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yours

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it's called soulja boy and it's art

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it's what little skaj listened to back in ye olden days of 2009

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disgusting

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free politcial prisoner bobby shmurda

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oh really?

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Free political prisoner Pie

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^

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who the hell is bobby shmurda

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"fuckin shurda she wrote"

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an important cultural icon

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@karmic ether he went to jail for this song because he basically grassed on all his gang mate by accident in it

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they used it as evidence in his and his associates in his and their trial

woven scarab
#

Not sure if I ever shared this story someone wrote

karmic ether
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im sorry but this is an exclusively shmurda zone ur post has been deleted

woven scarab
karmic ether
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@woven scarab i have to say that subreddit is pretty interesting

woven scarab
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@karmic ether pro-tip, sort by top all time and work your way down

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Just beware of multi-part stories

karmic ether
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what is this about

woven scarab
#

good shit

karmic ether
#

but what is it about @woven scarab

woven scarab
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@karmic ether you don't know Lablonnamedadon?

karmic ether
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I do not

woven scarab
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the subreddit is called HFY, and it's dedicated to all stories that make humans awesome

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So whatever the story is about, it has humans being awesome in it

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More so if it has a high upvote count

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Saying anything more would ruin the twists that a lot of these stories have

analog kernel
#

@edgy siren Using a gap drive to micro-warp right to the target freighters, diving underneath the shields to drop a massive purifier bomb on both, and warping back to my fleet before the escorts even could respond, meanwhile the frigate and destroyers tore apart the other freighters + their escort, friendly executor wiped out the sentry guns. Still had most of my capital ships by the time the Traitor Flagship showed up, and warped right up to him after taking out the repairs.

Was a fantastic turnaround for a mission that had whupped me so often in the past.

edgy siren
#

Shucks

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Wait

analog kernel
#

Here is that damned Prince Aum in his escape pod. Notice I've managed to preserve my destroyers somehow, even though their primary role in life is to be meatshields

edgy siren
#

Ha

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I thought you meant Crying suns

analog kernel
edgy siren
analog kernel
edgy siren
#

Apologies

fierce swan
#

it’s always very surreal seeing names I recognize in Foxhole in different games

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I see names in RS2 a lot

edgy siren
#

Ye

fierce swan
#

for example, I’m playing in the same server as Vaxsin rn

proven bridge
#

Tell him he smells

fierce swan
#

that'd be mean

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besides i think he went afk

compact flint
#

I see plenty of them in Insurgency

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Then I can laugh in spawnkills

umbral salmon
#

I've got something very important to share

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Very important

karmic ether
#

^ very important

plain mountain
#

100% important

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thank you for sharing

lime plaza
karmic ether
#

goty 2019

#

easy

lime plaza
#

look at the tags

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"Horror"

karmic ether
#

World War I

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God Game

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i'm dead

lime plaza
#

"battle royale"

karmic ether
#

Anime

rose lotus
#

@lime plaza do you make music?

lime plaza
#

no

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why?

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@rose lotus

rose lotus
#

Saw someone with that name

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They made music

lime plaza
#

???

sleek wolf
vivid osprey
#

They look fairly weak

sleek wolf
#

they were small

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when i was sieging anvil

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he only used them as reinforcements

vivid osprey
#

Yes

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Vets in the classic total wars are a lot stronger than the recent games

sleek wolf
finite stag
burnt lagoon
#

yo is imperator rome good yet?

chrome flower
#

No

keen hornet
#

holy shit g2 actually won semis against skt

astral oak
#

Sad news grandpa kitchen has passed away

karmic ether
dusky furnace
#

I don’t know him

sleek wolf
shrewd flume
#

Antiverse

karmic ether
#

some of the artists that draw avatar art are pretty good

lime plaza
#

^^^

karmic ether
nimble radish
#

that looks like someone tried to draw an animal and changed their minds half way trough the sketching fase

karmic ether
#

well can u draw better 😠

nimble radish
#

that's a nice one

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any suki art? She's probably my favourite

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Suki in earth kingdom uniform

karmic ether
#

lemme see if i can find similar ones of suki from the same artist

lime plaza
#

honestly, ATLA did character arches the best

meager breach
#

Iroh

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Was the best character

lime plaza
#

You know what

nimble radish
#

leaves from the vine

lime plaza
#

i agree

meager breach
nimble radish
#

falling so slow

#

I know that song by heart

karmic ether
#

you know what is sad

meager breach
#

You know that song was also a tribute to the voice actor of iroh who died of cancer

karmic ether
#

every art of suki is just chibi

nimble radish
#

I do

karmic ether
nimble radish
#

also the voice of aku 😦

meager breach
#

Suki was a good character

karmic ether
#

alright i found one that captivates suki's entire character, into one single image

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Suki dis nuts

nimble radish
#

fits more for sokka's moon girlfriend

meager breach
#

I found it was quite weird that in Korra it turns out that Toph married Sokka and not Suki

nimble radish
#

They never confirmed that

meager breach
#

I'm pretty sure they did

karmic ether
#

im crying

#

what why would sokka ever marry toph

meager breach
#

Doubt it

nimble radish
#

those two sisters are halfsisters

#

oh wait nvm

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it's toph that had 2 husbands

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not sokka

karmic ether
#

iroh is the best character

nimble radish
#

toph marries that tech guy from the comics and also toph, that's the theory

meager breach
#

I swear I remember some sort of reference to Sokka being married to Toph

nimble radish
#

I've looked it up there's no reference to sokka at all

meager breach
#

And I also remember a source saying that Sokka never married Suki

nimble radish
#

none of it cannon

#

but very likely speciulation

meager breach
#

Yeah

karmic ether
#

ohh

meager breach
#

You guys hear about the live action?

karmic ether
#

kaya is an earthbender, that's probably where you are getting it

#

wasn't the live action one shit

meager breach
#

The new one that's coming out

#

Netflix I think

karmic ether
#

sounds gross, the last live action one was shit so i don't have high hopes

#

i thought she like just disliked him

karmic ether
#

ohhh

#

idk i was super young

#

so i guess i just saw it as something else

nimble radish
#

I'm bingewatching it on netflix πŸ™‚

astral oak
#

Leaves from the vine
Falling so slow
Like Fragel tiny shells
Drifting in the foam
Little soldier boy
Come marching home

void geyser
nimble radish
#

Brave soldier boy

#

Comes marching home

signal wadi
#

No

nimble radish
#

Happy birthday my son

If only I could have helped you

😭

signal wadi
#

He ded

#

Crushed by the ambitions of his own father

#

And literally crushed

sleek wolf
#

62 battles won

#

and 16 lost

#

only 2 allies remain

#

struggling to hold my borders but i am holding

vivid osprey
#

Seens like an easy bridge battle if it comes down to it

#

What era does the mod take place in?

sleek wolf
#

4th but also 3rd

#

it's a mix

#

very confusing

#

it uses models from, oblivion, skyrim, and morrowind.

#

the emperor is from morrowind and oblivion

#

but the game takes place during the 4th era which is skyrim

#

good thing 2.0 may fix this soon

olive thicket
polar flume
void geyser
#

Jesus Christ

woven scarab
spice rivet
#

A krieger? I see you are a man of trench shovel culture

sleek wolf
#

Someone named their dog thanos

#

An my dog barks at him

woven scarab
#

rip dog

potent gyro
#

Nice meme Timber wolf

potent beacon
#

🀣 Timezone changed from BST to GMT now

karmic ether
potent beacon
karmic ether
abstract furnace
karmic ether
cold dock
#

@hasty thistle Hey KFC I want to take some pictures in foxhole but in the free cam

#

And be able to see the character models

#

something like a photo shoot

sleek wolf
#

their is still a way

#

i do not know it but their is a way

abstract furnace
potent gyro
limber minnow
rose lotus
#

Awwwwweh

#

Shes beautiful

potent gyro
vestal girder
#

Pepe

pulsar osprey
paper timber
topaz acorn
raw birch
acoustic lake
#

njj

#

!balance

woven scarab
#

@potent gyro +1 for MW4:Mercs

orchid blaze
abstract furnace
sacred oyster
karmic ether
potent beacon
rigid forum
#

@karmic ether As an Engineer who has followed multiple courses in Car design and vehicle energy management, I do not see what is wrong

obsidian hornet
#

π’Œ·π’„©π’€œπ’Œ…π’Š­

karmic ether
#

you may not like it, but that is peak vehicle efficiency

orchid blaze
dusky furnace
kind birch
#

Boar Vessel, 600-500 BC, Etruscan, ABS

atomic meteor
#

Siiiick

karmic ether
#

oh my god

#

the boar vessel

plain mountain
#

important video

potent gyro
#

@woven scarab What do you mean +1 for MW4:Mercs?

vestal girder
#

owo what’s this

potent gyro
vestal girder
#

Uwu

potent gyro
#

Yes mechnical war machines are amazing.

vestal girder
#

Owo

potent gyro
vestal girder
#

How bout tigers

ebon walrus
#

"real crusader" More like real trash

somber saffron
#

ok boomer

ebon walrus
#

ok zoomer

potent gyro
ebon walrus
#

But lets be honest, crusaders sucked

#

they had zero advantages against a PZ.III

potent gyro
#

Okay

#

But it is a real crusader.

chrome flower
#

Neubaufahrzeug best

ebon walrus
#

Its a fake crusader

#

it did about as well as the crusades did tho

#

so its got that going for it

potent gyro
#

Okay then Bubbadeej then.

ebon walrus
#

Otto Carius? Yeah hes chill

#

do you only post tank memes tho lmao

potent gyro
#

Why is it resending my posts?

chrome flower
ebon walrus
#

thats not just "best tank"

chrome flower
#

Its THE tank itself

ebon walrus
#

That is a tank so technologically advanced for its time it had to be eradicated from the face of the earth to prevent the destruction of society as we know it