off-topic

[rough yew]

@past adder
I have no opinions on you.

@clever apex
You I find a bit irritating atm, but ignoring you for a while will cool me down

[past adder]

Ah cool, clarification XD I'm glad, and did you mean Jaseih or Fredd?

[rough yew]

@manic birch
I don't even know who you are

[clever apex]

Why am i irritating you? 😭

[past adder]

Fredd said one thing so I was confused XDD

[clever apex]

I literally only said two things

[past adder]

And I am the one who argues that water came from space

But that is because of my earlier arguement, when in reality I know it formed on earth

[clever apex]

Technically, if you dumb it down enough, youre right

[manic birch]

Good terms means that we do not have bad or good blood

[past adder]

I just enjoy debating with intelligent people

[rough yew]

Oh, you're that dingus. I forgot all about you.

[past adder]

I give the most broad statements to piss people off, and my best friend loves and hates me for it

[manic birch]

It's a umbrella term or in other words a shadow term

[past adder]

See, you don't dislike me now tho 😄

[manic birch]

Used for covering up what most would consider being rude

[past adder]

I don't intend to be rude at all, and I apologize if it comes that way

[manic birch]

You could argue planets and any other object in "space" in a collective is considered apart of space

[past adder]

Saying it was to piss people off makes it come the wrong way I guess

[manic birch]

It being formed on earth wouldn't matter

[past adder]

Like earth, yeah

It isn't to piss people off but more so get the most active debate from them? Not sure how to word it

[rough yew]

So...you're just gonna be an intentional pest? Alright, just be aware that I will treat you as a hostile opponent from now on and depending on my patience level, I will put you on the same level as a flat earther or some other pseudo-intellectual jerk

[manic birch]

A flat earther 😭

Now me personally

[past adder]

Fair enough I don't really care about that

Usually people leave with a new fact

On that note, I'm back to BG3

[manic birch]

What is bg3 @past adder

[past adder]

Baldurs Gate 3 😄

Basically DnD but GoTY in my opinion

[manic birch]

Intresting

I miss fictional debating

[rough yew]

I don't tolerate that sort of bad faith disruption in my classroom. I won't tolerate it in my personal time.

[past adder]

I can't tell if this is satire or not

[rough yew]

Either we foster an atmosphere of curiosity and open-minded learning or were slinging mud

[past adder]

I like the first one??

If- If I actually upset you, you have every right to block me and I'm sorry beforehand if you do, that wasn't what I intended

[rough yew]

Eh, if you keep it up you'll earn your blocking in due time.

[manic birch]

The good days

I was so dumb back then 🤦‍♂️

But it was so fun

[past adder]

Feel like an anime protaganist 😎

[manic birch]

You are not one sadly

You are in my world

[past adder]

I am in Baldurs Gate 😭

[manic birch]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-glasses-push-nerd-gif-4899021

I can only be sure that I exist

I can only prove my consciousness

Not yours

So I am the main character

Everyone else is a npc

[past adder]

No 😭 Do not fall for that

[manic birch]

Let my god complex live

[hard topaz]

i'm the pov though

GOD SOMETIMES I GET SCARED

LIKE WHAT IF I REALLY AM THE ONLY CONSCIOUSNESS

AND EVERYBODY ELSE IS JUST A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION

im worried about sounding crazy talking about this, but does it even matter if im the only one???

[rough yew]

...that's the fold of the Universal Mind theory. Bruh. You looking for a slapping? Lol

[manic birch]

I said that first grr

[manic birch]

You are a npc don't talk to me

[past adder]

Doesn't that make everyone the main character

[manic birch]

🥱

[rough yew]

I'm pressing A to interact and you answered. Get wrecked, NPC.

[manic birch]

How God complexs start 😭

[past adder]

Why people go to jail you mean xD

Nah that's also stupidity

[manic birch]

Honestly

I'm starting to believe it the further I look into it

https://tenor.com/view/meme-gif-18201388

[past adder]

Back to Bg3 for me- I gotta stop checking discord lmao

[manic birch]

Npc

[rough yew]

That means you're two steps removed from the Consciousness Instantiation argument. You'll soon be who I am now.

[manic birch]

What are you

A npc?

I'm so funny that's more proof I'm the mc

[rough yew]

A master of my own domain

And an anthropologist, so kinda your natural enemy.

You search for proof, I search for facts lol

[manic birch]

Intresting

[rough yew]

It's a whole fun thing

[manic birch]

So you are a npc

Just a more important one

A side villain

[rough yew]

If that helps you sleep at night, do whatever you want

[hard topaz]

who am i then

[manic birch]

Okay I'll stop now 💀

[rough yew]

Text on my screen

[manic birch]

Cringing myself out ngl

[manic birch]

Fr

[rough yew]

Majorly lol

[manic birch]

But hey I'm on the Internet no need to shy away

[rough yew]

Reminded me of when I was an edgy 14yr old and learning about non-localized consciousness for the first time.

[manic birch]

I'll have you know that hurts to be compared to

[rough yew]

Good.

[manic birch]

But feelings aren't real so I'm chilling

[rough yew]

https://tenor.com/view/bo-burnham-inside-welcome-to-gif-22074441

[manic birch]

Thanks just got the Internet today

Opinions on the new "alien" thing going on @rough yew

I'll tone down my sarcasm and jokes lmao

[rough yew]

Oh man, wait until you learn that feelings are actually neurochemical and neuroelectrical complex interactions which create real changes and electrical fields around you, which other people can pick up through their mirror neurons and react accordingly.

[manic birch]

Intresting

[rough yew]

Oh wait, I literally posted that paper here

[manic birch]

I don't have a full on reply to that because its far too long it would take me quite some time

[rough yew]

Funny

[manic birch]

To form a reply that would make a ounce of sense

[rough yew]

That's my exact answer to this lol

[manic birch]

What, funny? 😭

[rough yew]

That I ain't gonna be writing no dang essay for this right now lol

Also, posting now to reply to later when it inevitably becomes important

https://tenor.com/view/ichbinhanna-cite-gif-26016972

[manic birch]

Are you from the United Kingdom? Or the west or any other part of the world

Would give me a better understanding of how your mind works

[rough yew]

Western Hemisphere, that's the best you're getting out of me. But here is a twist for you, I'm part of a pre-contact indigenous minority.

[manic birch]

The western hemisphere

😭

Very helpful

[rough yew]

🙂

[manic birch]

Isn't there like 20+ countries in the western hemisphere

I'm not sure of the exact number

Wait I think it's actually way more than 20+

Eastern has like 100

[rough yew]

Closer to 60, along with territories and incorporated islands

[clever apex]

Imma be fr, i think i made a horrible mistake

I got Taco bell

[rough yew]

Want me to make it even harder? Because the population of my specific indigenous peoples group, we are considered an anthropologically-extinct peoples. Our land, language, people, and artifacts were mostly destroyed by colonizers and the rest was enslaved. I am being quite literally serious when I say that I am the last of my kind and that my bloodline will end with me since I ain't having kids lol.

We were deemed extinct in March 27, 2021 iirc. That or March 23. One of the two dates.

[clever apex]

Wow

[rough yew]

Oh yeah, took me a couple of months of therapy to get over that fact lol

[clever apex]

Imagine being the last of your kind

[rough yew]

...I don't have to. I am.

[clever apex]

I couldnt imagine

[rough yew]

I'm technically within the [Endling] definition. Like I said, took a lot of therapy to deal with this fact.

The legacy of my ancestors ends with me. After I'm dead, there ain't gonna be much of anything left to remember my culture by. All our historical artifacts fit inside a small museum less than 10mx10m in area.

Which is the size of the "warehouse" where they're all currently being stored. Which the local government wants to bulldoze like they did the other heritage sites [for the sake of progress we must abandon our primitive and savage past].

It's a very very racist government.

Wait, just looked it up. It's 8mx10m

Even smaller

And the reason for the bulldozing is because [they want to clear land to develop infrastructure]. The warehouse is on leased land by the national park system and they want to break the contract and take the land back. Whole lot of corruption and racism involved.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/555301947146502144/1145463717899804784/All_glooped_up_-_iFunny.mp4

[manic birch]

helo

[rough yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1sSy39CuU

[past adder]

@uncut citrus SO- My plan is to help the grove (since I want Karlach to like me ;w;) BUT ||I'm gonna knock Minthara out in the fight and hope that she just goes to Moonlight tower for me to save her||

[uncut citrus]

that's

not how it works I think

I do wonder if you can revifivy her regardless

[past adder]

I've embraced my urge every time, but I don't wanna kill her

EXACTLY

If there isn't a way, my steam review is literally just gonna be asking for them to add her getting knocked out and sent to moonlight as a feature

[uncut citrus]

I mean, there is no way she's going to be friendly

but who knows

[past adder]

A man can dream 😭

[uncut citrus]

also

it's not even funny

how much shit I missed in act 1

[past adder]

Oh same, I didn't even know Karlach had a problem with the people up the hill

Still haven't found that well either

And apparently I missed a lot of content by helping Minthara?

Idk

[uncut citrus]

huh

that's like the main thing she says

[past adder]

I didn't meet her until the grove was slaughtered in my first run

[uncut citrus]

ok this is not funny

[past adder]

She never mentioned them to me- ALSO

karmic dice moment

[uncut citrus]

I passed another one but wanted to see if it's different when I choose the other option

this is my 5th reload

[past adder]

KARMIC DICE MOMENT

[uncut citrus]

I dont have karmic dice

this is pure rng

[past adder]

Oh that's just bad rng

[uncut citrus]

and btw. karmic dice is supposed to stop that from happening

[past adder]

Unless your previous role was good-

Then it's destined to be bad

Much rather pure rng, even with rng hell moments like that lmaoo

[uncut citrus]

that works

yeah

no difference from the other one

[rough yew]

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

alright, I'm gonna need to double barrel this one

[manic birch]

who would win one of every pokemon (Bisides for arceus and macargo) or 1 billion lions

[cobalt vessel]

kyogre would just have to use water spout which targets all opponents

and while multi target attacks decrease in power by 10% when targeting multiple enemies, that decrease does not change when there are more enemies

[rough yew]

1 billion lions causes a condensation decline into a star, we've been over this. Unless you have a pokemon that can deal with a literal ball of plasma (which no, Solgaleo and Rotom alone cannot do), the lions will win by literally destroying everything and themselves. People fail to comprehend how many actual lions is 1 billion lions in a small area like a battlefield.

[uncut citrus]

[past adder]

Who did you upset

[cobalt vessel]

i don't think that's true, and besides it would depend on where the lions all are

[uncut citrus]

I have no idea

most likely Karlach and Wyll at the same time

with a singe dialogue option

[past adder]

Oh you're there

[cobalt vessel]

if they're spread out normally them they'd be fine, but to form a star or something they'd have to all spawn in one spot

[past adder]

Minthara is worth it, I don't blame you

But gods I need to know Karlachs story

[uncut citrus]

I couldn't care less

I'll get her next playthrough

[rough yew]

If you change the specifics of the scenario, then sure, the ONE BILLION LIONS will annihilate all 10XX biologically accurate pokemon through sheer numbers alone.

[past adder]

A true RPG enthusiast

I'll let you know if I see Minthara after knocking her out

[cobalt vessel]

how do you determine what a biologically accurate ghost would be like

[manic birch]

YOOOO

somkey!

[rough yew]

We've got plenty of essays on that. You've got analogs with bats, toads, salamanders, and other similar nocturnal/night-attuned organisms.

[manic birch]

spooky*!

[rough yew]

Pokemon fandom is full of nerds

[past adder]

I don't know of a Lion that can open a black hole like a Gardevoir, or call upon volcanoes to erupt by simply roaring

[manic birch]

i rember u from yesterday

[past adder]

But fair enough

[uncut citrus]

Nevermind

Karlach stayed

[rough yew]

irrelevant, it is still a numbers game. 1,000,000,000 lions vs 1020~ organisms.

[uncut citrus]

[cobalt vessel]

yeah i think the point is if the pokemon are biologically realistic, they would lose, but if they had their magic bs they would probably win

[past adder]

YASSSSSS

[uncut citrus]

Wyll left tho (should've sac'd him when I had the opportunity)

[rough yew]

Respectfully disagree. Humans have lost wars vs cats, emus, snakes, and most recently chickens because of sheer numbers alone.

Guns would be effectively magic to those species, and they still won in the end.

[past adder]

I don't like Wyll so I'm not saddened by that whatsoever

[cobalt vessel]

okay but you can't just apply that logic to equate guns to the type of magic that pokemon have

dialga and palkia can control both control time and space respectively, which lions would be bound by

[rough yew]

It isn't a 1 to 1 translation, sure, but it is a pretty accurate equivalent.

We've got cars for superspeed, flamethrowers for ranged fire attacks, bombs, guns, snares and traps, literal poison gas, etc. And even then we lost every time.

It isn't equivalent but it is a useful analog.

[cobalt vessel]

sure, but gods of time and space working together would be able to stop literally anything

[past adder]

If we're equating that, it would take only 5-6 rods of god to knock out every lion in that area, which by these standards are "magic"

Giant tungsten rods shot from space would decimate any number of anything

Even the whole planet with enough coordinated strikes, actually on that logic

Nuke the marianas trench. We all lose.

🙂

[manic birch]

im talking about a pokemon style battle heres a vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XdOSMo6Svc

[rough yew]

Technically we can control "space and time" from an animal point of view through things like floodlights, DEW, and radiation.

Floodlights turn night into day in an area, it's called light bombing.
Radiation turns an area into a wasteland, controlling space.

[manic birch]

pokemon would take the W

[rough yew]

Oh i remember that vid

[past adder]

That's kinda my point, is there's pokemon that literally can launch the moon at earth lmao

[manic birch]

y e a h

[past adder]

No matter what, numbers don't win unless it's gladiator style

[cobalt vessel]

okay but like you know what kind of time and space manipulation we're talking about when we mention dialga and palkia

[manic birch]

kyogeres Origin Pulse x3!!!

[cobalt vessel]

water spout would be better because origin pulse can miss

[rough yew]

I still bet on the lions, because we've got evidence of sheer numbers being the deciding factor in those scenarios several times over.

[manic birch]

thats what i ment

[rough yew]

This kills the pokemon too, nullifying the scenario.

[past adder]

Mostly, there'd be a few pokemon left, namely the one whom launched the moon

[rough yew]

Something something [phyrric victory]

[past adder]

lmao

[manic birch]

but pokemon dont die they faint

[cobalt vessel]

machamp can pick up a mountain and throw it

[past adder]

Woop, thats not fair xD

[manic birch]

i dont care lol

[past adder]

technically, Celebi can go back in time and just stop the first lions from existing

Same with Dialga

[manic birch]

or celery can bring mega rayray too

[past adder]

Mewtwo literally caused world-consuming storms in the first movie

Lugia did the same thing

[manic birch]

• shadow lugia

[past adder]

With a clap of Lugias wings, it can cause whole hurricanes

[rough yew]

notice that i did say [biologically accurate pokemon] in my initial thesis statement >.>

[past adder]

A CLAP

...I did not, but I wanna know what that sentence means-

[cobalt vessel]

then you also said even with magic, they'd lose, so

[past adder]

biologically accurate in our realm, or the pokemon realm?

[rough yew]

i only said it was a useful analog

[manic birch]

dood bro lugia can just go "clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap"

[past adder]

I'm confused what biologically accurate means, that's all-

[manic birch]

pokemon realm but they die

[cobalt vessel]

well i've taken your original statement and warped it to have the meaning i want it to have, so take that

[rough yew]

uhh, you ever heard of SpecEvo/Speculative Biology?

[manic birch]

no

[rough yew]

spoken like a true academic, well done

[past adder]

So we're going off of real world biology, got it

[cobalt vessel]

https://tenor.com/view/thank-you-bow-michael-scott-the-office-gif-18616386

[past adder]

That kinda nullifies the fight to 1000 animals vs 100000000.... That nullifies any arguement lol

[rough yew]

yeah, real world biology (ignoring the square-cube law otherwise we have the plasma star scenario again)

[rough yew]

exactly 😉

[past adder]

In that terminology, yes, 1000 would lose. But if a pokemon was given a fraction of their power, the scenario differs wildly

[rough yew]

ehh...not with a fraction. The number difference is too huge. Now if they had anime-accurate power? It's more of a coin toss, but the numbers are still a huge advantage.

[past adder]

While we mostly disagree, I'm glad we found a middle ground to agree on 🙂

With that, I have some druids to maybe slaughter

[rough yew]

I have some BUGS to shoot at

[uncut citrus]

@past adder well

I was wrong after all

https://tenor.com/view/trollge-troll-troll-face-meme-horror-gif-24782665

well

that's 3 people gone

[past adder]

Oh no

no no nooo

I'm trying so hard not to resist my dark urges

I hope I can satisfy the urge with goblin blood 😭

[uncut citrus]

Gale, Karlach and Wyll

[past adder]

GALE LEFT TOO?

[uncut citrus]

unrelated

[echo marsh]

Yo is this still about baldur's gate?

[uncut citrus]

yup

[past adder]

Yes it is!

[uncut citrus]

but I completely ignored him

[echo marsh]

Which one?

[uncut citrus]

and this was the last straw ig

[past adder]

Ohhhhhh he wasn't magically sated

Yeah I ignored his needs too

[uncut citrus]

It's not like I couldn't have just rushed to act 1.5

and resolve that

but I'd rather have him completely gone

[past adder]

He opened up to me about them and I was like nah and he ran off

EXACTLY

He's a good wizard, not that good

[uncut citrus]

My sorc is waaaay better

[past adder]

As a sorc, I no longer require his services

EXACTLY LOL

[uncut citrus]

yeah

[past adder]

4 level 1 evocation cantrips is really nice

[uncut citrus]

my ray of frost deals

[past adder]

Plus Shadowheart is the perfect cleric

[uncut citrus]

waaay too much damage

[past adder]

Still in act 1?!

[uncut citrus]

yup

I am doing everything

that I can

[past adder]

Apparently if you get both companions in the nautiloid killed, you can find a flame sword that rivals endgame loot

I have no idea how or where tho

[uncut citrus]

isn't that from the commander?

[past adder]

No idea- I think you need to find a key

I read very minimally

[uncut citrus]

GOD MINTHARA IS SO COOL

ACTUAL FLESHED OUT CHARACTER

worth the sacrifice

[past adder]

She really is the best owo There's a reason I'm having a hard time

[uncut citrus]

I won't miss you Gale, Wyll and Karlach

[past adder]

I won't miss Wyll, I already killed Gale-

BUT KARLACH 😭

Maybe I can get her to like me enough not to leave..

Aaaaaaaa

[uncut citrus]

what you need to do

is find her asap

keep her in your party

[past adder]

I have been!

[uncut citrus]

and do everything to please her

[past adder]

I LITERALLY HAVE BEEN XD

She's at 25 now!

[uncut citrus]

YOU CANT MAKE THIS SHIT UP

WTF IS THIS BULLSHIT

good thing I had inspiration

[past adder]

That d20 really messes with you

A nat 1 was the only way to fuck that up

And you almost nailed it

Ok- My problem...

I don't wanna trade anyone in my party out for Minthara

But clearly it's gonna be Lae'Zel

[uncut citrus]

fkn lmao

https://tenor.com/view/mujikcboro-seriymujik-gif-24361533

[past adder]

That creche is crap and we know it, gotta be chads

[hard topaz]

ah yes, quantum physics, a normal topic for a conversation over dinner
my brother and i discussed the trolley problem and schrodinger's cat

[uncut citrus]

I'll be keeping lae'zel up until minthara

coz god knows she carries me

[past adder]

SHE REALLY DOES

But Minthara will carry me better c:

[past adder]

It really is, I get into quantum talks with my best friend all the time xD

[uncut citrus]

SCRATCH YOU BEAUT

[past adder]

WHAT DID SCRATCH FIND

[uncut citrus]

another bag

and told me he thought of me when he found it

[past adder]

[hard topaz]

also i love having science conversations with my dad because we're the only two in the family who understand eachother with science so much

[uncut citrus]

god they made him so lovable

[past adder]

That little mugger

[uncut citrus]

[hard topaz]

god i love talking to people about science <3

[past adder]

Some items he finds, he had to be stealing XD

[uncut citrus]

[past adder]

And yassss

[cobalt vessel]

hey guys it's regional miltank time

[past adder]

Ohhhhh time to cash out

[uncut citrus]

now for the thing I hate

[hard topaz]

one time for like half a month i was obsessed with the science of LCD screens

[uncut citrus]

inventory management

[past adder]

I bet that's all armor weight

[uncut citrus]

as much as I love BG3

the inventory UI fucking sucks ass

[hard topaz]

i know how DSM and polarized LCD screens work

[past adder]

AUTO INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

Yeah

They need to add auto organizer

[uncut citrus]

but tbf

[past adder]

I do not- That's impressive

[hard topaz]

because of youtube lol

[uncut citrus]

I did decide to keep literally every enchanted item there is

[hard topaz]

most of the science info i know is from youtube actually

[uncut citrus]

I haven't sold a single green=< item

and wont

[past adder]

Same, even the watchers spear stayed with me just incase

[hard topaz]

either from youtube, or from conversations with my dad and brother

[uncut citrus]

I've locked myself into my party before

because I dont have gear for other classes

[past adder]

Also, nice! I watch Carl Sagan talks sometimes but yea

[uncut citrus]

this time, I am keeping everything

[past adder]

One of the many reasons I love being a monk

Fists go br

[hard topaz]

if you like science i highly reccomend Kurzgesagt
https://www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt/videos

also posy, but theyre a bit less of science and a bit more of design
https://www.youtube.com/@PosyMusic/videos

also posy makes music. based music i love his music

[past adder]

I just copy pasted that in my personal server, thank you 🙂

[hard topaz]

i listen to him allllll the time on bandcamp

[hard topaz]

yw!

also im on my uh. 7th rewatch of this, i think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VckU9UXI_XE

[uncut citrus]

Kurzgesagt

[hard topaz]

beloved!

[uncut citrus]

@past adder

forgive the double ping

[past adder]

I... I need that-

Don't mind the double ping at all, got muh attention xD

I have to hop off Bg3 cause I promised my friend I'd play Warzone DMZ with him, but I am so continuing when I can

Is that wand act 1?

that's all I wanna know, is the act it's in

I will scour the lands for it

[uncut citrus]

it is

I can spoil the location

if you desire

single use tho

[past adder]

No need for the location, and.. single use eh? I know when and where

[uncut citrus]

still

a good trump card

or rather, hail mary

[past adder]

Ketheric

cough cough

[uncut citrus]

bruh

well tbf

if you're going the evil route

you'll kill ||nightsong|| again

so yeah, no wonder it's difficult

[past adder]

Damn you're right.... I was gonna change that outcome, but you're right

[uncut citrus]

beautiful

[past adder]

He is literally the hardest fight in the game to me

[uncut citrus]

this is what I call good inventory management

now for the other 3 characters

[past adder]

Is that what you've been doing this whole time

That took me a whole half hour

I get it

[uncut citrus]

well mostly yeah

[past adder]

Even then, I didn't do that good a job. Like, at all.

[uncut citrus]

neat

[past adder]

I never had that much food on one person, dayum

[uncut citrus]

I pick up everything

tatician asks for 80 supplies

instead of the 40 that you're used to

[past adder]

Do you hold alt while you walk xD

Huh- Back then it was like 50

I played Tactician on launch ;w;

[uncut citrus]

I make an effort to pick up whatever I can

[past adder]

Ketheric is legit my bane, like, I'm launching everything at em

Not even 2nd phase

Just the 1st

[uncut citrus]

https://tenor.com/view/skill-issue-gif-19411985

2nd phase was ez

[past adder]

FOR REAL 😭

[uncut citrus]

but I had ||nightsong|| with me so

[past adder]

I'll have nightsong on my 3rd run

I was semi evil in my first run, this time.. full evil

Have you reached baldurs gate?

[uncut citrus]

in my first ptgh?

ye

I defeated ||Orin||

now doing ||the steel watch||

[past adder]

Yasssss xD I made sure to fight the ||steel watch|| as thoroughly as possible for all the loots

[normal oxide]

ayooo??

[celest panther]

tread carefully nsen, your in milian territory

[uncut citrus]

[celest panther]

sorry your response made me laugh

it was very funny

[past adder]

Sike, a mutual friend already joined, I'm clear for more Bg3

[uncut citrus]

oh well

[past adder]

[celest panther]

[uncut citrus]

You know the grymforge puzzle right?

where the game somehwat teaches you how to ungroup and why you should do that sometimes

On my first playthrough, I didn't even see the puzzle, I just misty stepped my way into it

[past adder]

Yesss I hated that puzzle ;w;

I misty stepped too

ALSO-

The sirens....

The dark urge told me to do a terrible thing

[uncut citrus]

you mean harpies?

[past adder]

By the water off the grove

[uncut citrus]

yeah

harpies

[past adder]

ohh

Well-

I hope Karlach doesn't hate me for this

Otherwise save scumming time

Ok good

It wasn't as bad as I thought

I don't think it's possible to save Mirkon

[past adder]

I'M SORRY, DID YOU EVER MEET ALFIRA? I DIDN'T

OH MY GAWD

[uncut citrus]

Goofy ah

[past adder]

.....NOOOOOOOOOO

[uncut citrus]

[past adder]

I wanna revive her D:

[uncut citrus]

I'll tell you this much

there is nothing more to her

it's a DU specific encounter

[past adder]

At least she meant it when she said she'd give her life to the cause...

[uncut citrus]

[past adder]

I remembered something and my lord that was terrifying

Welp, time to attend to other matters xD

[past adder]

No way :0

[rough yew]

Ok so I watched this video, since I'm currently learning physics and I'm studying current and pre-contact mysticism for my anthropology research stuff. I wanted to make sure I wasn't losing sight of myself. Always good to listen to possibly dissenting points of view to learn about what blindspots you may have.

Not only did it reaffirm that I am doing my research and writing responsibly, but it made me go on a long goddang rant about how cults in general have been utter crap since they stopped giving out free drugs in the 70s. Seriously, at the 44min mark. That waffle-looking jerk is supposed to be indoctrinating me into his cult with Baby's First Ego Death/Existential Crisis with the whole [You are nothing, you are everything] spiel? Pete's sake, I live with chronic depression and PTSD in a post-2020 world. I eat existential nihilism and ennui for breakfast.

Jiminy christmas, if Scientology seriously ends up being the most successful cult of the 2000's, then I am going to be greatly disappointed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQTWor_2nu4

The generational trauma of Covid/Long Covid is more of an effective existential dread than this faux "new age" bullspittle. We really lost the controversial art of the cult grift with this pseudo-spirituality horseapple.

Which is a good thing, but raises very serious red alerts about the people who fall for these cons. We've gotta find some way to protect those vulnerable and strengthen their critical thinking skills.

[hard topaz]

the mere mention of scientology sends shivers down my spine

[rough yew]

What the New York Times was doing during the mid-90s->early00s with their Sunday Crossword Puzzles and Sudoku was great until it all turned into a dogwhistle-full elitist pissing contest between nerds and gatekeepers.

[past adder]

Did you open the chest on your first run? Cause I did

[uncut citrus]

what chest

[past adder]

The chest the note tells you not to open

[uncut citrus]

oh

ye

I still have the flask

[past adder]

SAME

I opened the flask

[uncut citrus]

you do get a cool thing for it

[past adder]

It was fun

[uncut citrus]

if you go through with it

which I did this playthrough

[past adder]

I'll go through with it this time

Nice 😄

Just talked to Rafael, time for more

I just tried rubbing a lamp to see if it was magic

[cobalt vessel]

this is a a regional form for nosepass and its regional evolution, islapass
since they're based on easter island statues, they would appear on islands in the verdant region

[past adder]

I uh

Is the joke that they're not there

[cobalt vessel]

i haven't gotten art done of them yet

this is just the dex entry i'm working on

[celest panther]

i just spent an hour trying to learn how a weird data graph thing works o.o it didnt work

can people tell me if they understand this type of graph so i can get an idea of how far above me this is

[past adder]

I feel like the graph needs more info?

[celest panther]

well they said its a graph that compares results based on a set of inputs.

[past adder]

It's a linear graph then

That's it

[celest panther]

and i kindof got it but...its hard to grasp for me

[past adder]

Essentially, the info evenly goes up from my view, so it's a linear graph, as in the information linearly goes up based on eachother

If there's no other info for the graph, that's all they want to know

(or at least that's what I did back when I was doing graphs)
This graph helps in depicting a result in single straight lines. There is no use of curves, dots, bars, etc., and a straight line is denoted by the term linear.

[celest panther]

o.o....hmmmm yeah this is def way above me

ty for the input i was just curious how far above me it reasonably was

[past adder]

I honestly don't think it's above you, it's just in a confusing setting. Go at these things at your pace, it's important not to burn out 😄

[celest panther]

no no its ok, im bad at math, and im very bad at graphs

like bar graphs are kind of the only ones i can reliably read.

[outer shoal]

You are not bad at maths
Maths are bad at you.

[celest panther]

https://tenor.com/view/sseth-ssethtzeentach-vibe-check-grab-gif-20363655

maths coming for me

[jagged geode]

Anybody here play pathfinder?

[cobalt vessel]

pov: you used trick/switcheroo and now i'm set up for a sweep

[dense tusk]

OK my heart was nearly rekted 36 mins ago so please fucking read this. It was 11:54 and I was finishing the last sentence of my paper that was due at 11:59. I was using a shitty Chromebook and for this one you can accidentally turn it off easily since the keys are shitty and the power button is the size of tab key at the top right of the keyboard.... Obviously I did this exact thing at 11:54... I literally started laughing hysterically as the computer screen shutdown before my very eyes and I immediately tried to turn it back on again. It felt like an entirety, and then I get the lovely surprise that I had to sign in via my schools email, then username and password, AND THEN 2FA!!!! I began freaking the fuck out because it was loading slowly and then I kept typing my username wrong. I looked at the time and it was 11:56. Then finally I got in and I clicked the restore windows button.... It was taking forever because I had a ton of tabs open.... FUCK. OK they load, so I quickly scramble to copy the words from the document and I go to directly paste it into the discussion box when it starts taking forever to load the discussion box... OH GOD OH FUCK.... Finally I past it and I notice I have 2 minutes left, so I quickly scramble to finish the last sentence not giving a fuck at this point, and I go to post and... OH THANK GOD IT POSTED.... With like a minute left..... Holy shit I was calmed down giggling at what just happened and I just start fucking laughing my ass off after explaining to my dad what happened. Oh god I hate fucking chromebooks so much

[grim lily]

Me: Can I have a McDonalds ice cream cone?

Employee: The Machine is broken

Me: but someone is using it right there

Employee:

https://youtube.com/shorts/gp0MF4m2pl0?si=0KQ2BOQgB-1PH0xv

[keen cedar]

I just learned about this

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2023/09/04/steve-harwell-smash-mouth-hospice-liver-failure/

[undone zenith]

i saw that on tiktok earlier 😦

[keen cedar]

It's crazy

Idk

I'm just spreading the word ig

[split quest]

h

[neon sonnet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/214824499395297281/1148013093457248286/image0.jpg

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/583296434812616764/1148138303510548500/2Kd67Aj.png

[hard topaz]

ooo, having a nosepass inspired by/based on the easter island heads is super cool!

[hard topaz]

i get that it's echolocation but i don't get why 55% of people would be confused

[night locust]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/238368289288486913/1148131502958317638/received_264274066557932.mp4

[hard topaz]

OHHHH LMAOOOOOO

[sweet pulsar]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cats-cat-eating-cat-eating-food-gif-24575246

[hard topaz]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[maiden cave]

hmm .. lets post some kind of nsfw
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e4/38/81/e43881f361fb6f0f165ae60cc2e221f0.gif

[hard topaz]

OH I GET IT

literally unsafe to do at work lol

[maiden cave]

well, its "not safe for work" ... or is my english bad? 😄

[hard topaz]

it's rly funny!

sent it to my friend saying "this gif isn't safe for work"

let's see if she can figure it out

also this video is rly cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbGNZQvobkc

and don't worry, the shape on the thumbnail will make sense, in time!

[maiden cave]

yeah, its 21 miunutes, i dont watch it 😄

[rough yew]

YOOOOOOO

Huge news!!!!

https://vxtwitter.com/plazi_species/status/1698547397998080159?t=ZvdX59ygG0aXpmjcn1_Wyw&s=19

SHES WEARING SUCH A PRETTY DRESS

NEW SEA SLUG DISCOVERED 😄

Basically it says that it is a Water primary type with Rock, Fairy, or Normal type as a secondary depending on if it's hunting/attacking/afflicted by a status move, breeding/using a Status move, or associating with others/using a move targeting an ally.

Unique ability: Dressage

• It changes it's secondary type based on move used.

[manic birch]

That's pretty cute lookin

[hard topaz]

am i crazy, or does this Gorgon sound effect from the minecraft mod Ice and Fire sound like Mapleshade from Warriors

[past adder]

[cobalt vessel]

nosepass is already based on the easter island heads, but i just wanted to give it a form for the region
i finished their dex entries too
basically, nosepass sits on beaches staring in the direction of the island, because it's the only place they can evolve due to its unique magnetism
however once they get there, the magnetism is too intense, and they become confused, and just wander the beaches forever

[past adder]

I thought I was in off topic

Oml

ANYWAY-

I still haven't found the well, but I found the ||OwlBear cave|| , decided to camp before fighting and Mizora shows up Edit:I remember the cave now.

Now Wyll is erm, changed

Oh yeah.. It's all comin together

[clever apex]

Yo

[uncut citrus]

[past adder]

Dammon died so I have to restart the entire attack on the grove

I refuse to let Karlach meet a tragic end

[uncut citrus]

umm

You can't save him lmao

or can you

[past adder]

You have to save him

He's the only one that can repair her

Which means I have to save the grove...

[uncut citrus]

yup

[uncut citrus]

you either go one way

or the other

no in betweens

[past adder]

I guess no Minthara this run

[uncut citrus]

laaaaame

https://tenor.com/view/boo-gif-26415146

[past adder]

You know what sucks, is Minthara is my favorite character, but I need to play every bit of the story

I'm gonna knock Minthara out and hope for the best, that I can find her at Moonlight

Otherwise, it'll be my head canon that we whooped her so badly she just left the region

[manic birch]

I have screamed until my veins collapse

Cringe ass pop ups

I refuse to believe a human can fall for this

[timber thunder]

So...I know this really isn't the place for it, but currently I'm having PC trouble. My USB mouse and keyboard are not working. I can't make any sort of input to my PC.

I need help with this ASAP, and Google isn't helping.

[hard topaz]

number one check: are they plugged in

[timber thunder]

They are plugged in, and I know for a fact that they both work.

The problem is with my USB driver.

[manic birch]

Get a new one

[timber thunder]

I'm not in the mood right now. I'm pissed that my $1,300 PC might be completely fucked. Either help or stay out of it.

[hard topaz]

they're trying to help

• how do you know it's a problem with your USB driver? it could be a problem with how the input devices are set up

[uncut citrus]

@past adder

[timber thunder]

So, initially, 2 of the 4 USB ports on my PC weren't working. I read several help articles saying that the USB driver may need to be uninstalled and reinstalled.

I went to device manager and uninstalled it...and then I restarted, because it said the driver should be automatically reinstalled as it boots up.

Turns out it was not. So...I'm fucked at this point.

[strange escarp]

https://voice.ai/r/Pb8CO

[past adder]

YESYESYESYESYESYESYES

You win, gg

[limpid cedar]

not at all fleshed out ideas:

1. there are possibilitIes to get remote access to a PC -> if you have a second laptop or something you might be able to figure something out that way
   tho I don't know if you can get a remote access configured without input devices
2. maybe Bluetooth could save you if your PC has a Bluetooth element - dunno if a bluetooth mouse is a thing
3. maybe there are things to buy and add to the PC with the old mouse and keyboard plugs
4. if nothing helps you might have to reset your whole PC

[timber thunder]

How would I go about doing any of that?

[limpid cedar]

well...
I don't know, but I'd start with googling
(sorry it's late here I'm really tired)

also just found this:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/deleted-all-usb-drivers-will-not-reinstall-drivers/6a3b07ed-0c64-4215-8b09-66640ce06bfe
maybe that helps?

[neon sonnet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/794249775511240705/1148325913709264976/0_No-entey-road-marking-harrogate.webp

[uncut citrus]

[timber thunder]

I FIXED IT.

Turns out it was in the boot menu.

[cobalt vessel]

@rough yew
what do you think of this regional bronzong line that's supposed to be based on aztec calenders

[hard topaz]

my baby <3

i might draw him with a fish tail later

[rough yew]

Drought may be a bit much of an ability. Also if you're going by Aztec culture then you're gonna want it to be Rain-based (yes, even as a fire type) because a lot of the spiritual structures are based on Rain as one of the main entities/phenomena. Tlaloc (rain/river/water-based phenomena/weather/storm/etc) is the deity of that domain and often seen as the third most important deity, behind the deities of life and death. The "calendars" also held information closer to an almanac than a traditional calendar, which reinforces the themes of searching and looking for more pieces to expand the information inscribed on itself, to add to the symbols and stuff in it.

You could add on flavor seeing that after incorporating enough artifacts, it breaks off a piece of itself (usually cracking both bodies) and sends it floating downriver. Where "forever youthful springs" fill it with life and turn it into a Bronzor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlāloc

Additionally, sending inscribed tablets floating downriver was a common form of communication with base camps and hunting lodges.

Hopefully that helps

[cobalt vessel]

that's really cool
initially i had just thought of it as calendars being contected to time, and so bringing up the sun would make sense to me

also because a lot of pictures of aztec calendars have shapes in them that closely resemble artwork of the sun, with the points around a circle

like this shape, to clarify

you probably already understood though

[rough yew]

Yep, but unlike in other regions the sun was it's own mythological thing rather than the main focus. Rain and Water were the lifegiving sources, not Light.

[cobalt vessel]

plus i personally think you can bend some aspects of the inspiration for things like gameplay

[rough yew]

Sure, you 100% can. Just giving you my $0.02c

[cobalt vessel]

a fire-type with drizzle would honestly suck so bad

[rough yew]

a fire-type with Storm Drain however, now we're getting spicy

[cobalt vessel]

true true

[rough yew]

Gastrodon has it as a Ground type. Just sayin~

[cobalt vessel]

but my water geyser mon is water/fire with storm drain, and i don't like repeating things like that

[cobalt vessel]

well it's also water-type

[rough yew]

Tomato, potatoh, details, schmeetails

give it a water-based Motor Drive

OR

HOLD UP

WAIT A MINUTE

Lemme cook a minute

[cobalt vessel]

don't mean to interupt you, but these are actually the dex entries for my two fossil pokemon, based on the dunkleosteus and stegosaurus

[rough yew]

what if...

Along with the Aztec pattern on one side, why don't we borrow a bit from pre-islamic Arabian mythology and have the other side be Shamsun. Just to give anyone that knows their anthropology some massive whiplash. Then give it a Forme Change move or something that sets up Sun or Rain alternatively.

In one form it has Drizzle/the attack sets up Rain and then changes the Forme. In another Forme it has Drought/the attack sets up Sun. Also ways sets up the opposite weather if one is already active.

[cobalt vessel]

that would be really cool

also, what's "shamsun"

[rough yew]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shams_(deity)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_pre-Islamic_Arabia

[cobalt vessel]

oh ok

i'll look at them rq

[cobalt vessel]

while i look you should check out the fossil mons

[rough yew]

one of the fossils isn't part Rock type
😦

no other comments

[cobalt vessel]

all of the fossils were rock types up until gen 8, so i think it's fair to give them some time before going back to it

[rough yew]

again, no other comment

[cobalt vessel]

but wolfraderm's name comes from wolfram, which is another name for tungsten, and its pre-evolved form is alederm, from the word alevin, which is a word for a baby fish
and derm comes from placoderm

[rough yew]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

you don't have to justify it to me

[cobalt vessel]

no, i just like explaining the name origins

[rough yew]

ngl i was kinda expecting a Wolfram Alpha joke

[cobalt vessel]

but basically, the pre-evolved form is a pure water type, and it feeds on underwater mineral deposits to form the metal armor around its head

the stegosaurus is basically just a stegosaurus but it's got chlorophyll in the back plates, so it can feed off of sunlight, and like irl stegosaurus probably did, it also uses the plates for thermoregulation

i say probably, because we don't know 100% but based on the fact that they had blood vessels in the plates, they probably could use them for that
we also think they could fill the plates with blood, turning them red to intimidate predators

pretty insane just how perfectly fossils get preserved sometimes that we can get all those details, down to some blood vessels

[cobalt vessel]

who would you say were the three major deities?

or the other two aside from tlaloc

[rough yew]

Huitzilopotchi and Quetzalcoatl iirc, lemme doublecheck

[cobalt vessel]

ofc the boy quetzalcoatl

also huitzilopochtli, makes sense

yes, i went to wikipedia to copy and paste the name, because my brain is stupid and the letters just kind of all melded together when i tried to read it

[rough yew]

fucking

Tezcatlipoca

completly forgot that one

"the blanket of night covers the world"

[cobalt vessel]

i considered using huitzilopochtli as the basis for the third legendary, since i have quetzalcoatl and tezcatlipoca, but i thought about what type it would be, and i couldn't think of anything other than fighting, which would be a huge disadvantage to ketzeal, a dragon/fairy-type, and tezkatl, a ghost/dark-type

tezkatl could also realistically be rock/dark if i wanted to lean more into the obsidian part of it

but isn't huitzilopochtli like the big one?

[hard topaz]

my friend rayne has a friend who has a black cat named Karma- look at this cat that just joined my clan in Clangen. rayne says it looks nearly identical to her friend's cat

[rough yew]

no, you're thinking in a monotheistic manner, in polytheism the balance of power is much more nuanced

[cobalt vessel]

i was moreso thinking about it, like how zeus was considered the big dog of olympus

[rough yew]

Think Odin, Loki, and Thor. They're all deities that are worshipped, but their hierarchy is nuanced.

[cobalt vessel]

ah ok

so the four tezcatlipocas would be the major ones then, right?

or at least the major group

[manic birch]

Problem with that example of Odin and them is Odin is king of the Æsír and married to the Queen of the Vanír. Most old religions have a similar structure.

[rough yew]

....not exactly. It depends on the area and the current moods of the spirits. That sorta determines which pantheons or individual deity needs to be appeased or heeded to

[manic birch]

You'll have a king or queen, followed by a loose collection of other deities.

[rough yew]

Twas the first thing that came to mind that wasn't an obscure Taino example.

[manic birch]

Fair enough.

[cobalt vessel]

also, there are usually a bunch of different sects within any religion, especially polytheistic ones

[rough yew]

Not sects, more like spheres of influence

And responsibilities

And territories

[cobalt vessel]

well it was the best word i could think of lol

[manic birch]

Tell me about it. For a while, there was a sect of Thor and Loki worshippers that sacrificed people.

[rough yew]

...fuck, there's a lot of nuance @.@

[manic birch]

And yes, sect is the right word.

[rough yew]

Yeah, sect is its own individual thing. We start getting into [splitting hairs] territory because different vocabulary words have similar but important tiny distinctions.

[cobalt vessel]

i think if we're talking about religions in a broad sense, though, sect makes the most sense

[rough yew]

Cult, sect, branch, wing, coven, house, hook, etc

[manic birch]

When you have a disorganized religion like old Norse, every village is its own sect.

[rough yew]

Yeah, organization level is its own can of worms

[cobalt vessel]

it's almost like when you have multiple cultures developing on their own across thousands of years, they all develop their own unique traits and nuances

[rough yew]

Also for the record, my field of focus atm is the mysticism and rituals, so things like legends, stories, and oral traditions. Not theology. It's related, yeah, but it's own separate thing. I'll expand my focus later own down the line when I am more knowledgeable on the topic.

tldr: I can't tell you much about the gods, but I can tell you how much peyote/ayahuasca/mushroom cacao drinks/etc you're gonna need to see them.

[cobalt vessel]

lmao

the aztecs really had a group of gods collectively called "the tezcatlipocas" and one of them is just named "tezcatlipoca"

[rough yew]

YEP

and Quetzalcoatl can refer to any of like 5 different beings depending on context

[cobalt vessel]

reminds me of how colonists would find a river, ask what it's name was and then inadvertently name it "river river"

[rough yew]

Aye

[cobalt vessel]

i think i could base the legendaries off of the five suns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Suns

or just off of the directions if i only wanted to do four legendaries, since the tezcatlipocas are organized into cardinal directions

if i wanted to fit them into the pokemon universe's mythos, you could replace these two deities with arceus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ōmeteōtl

like how in legends arceus, how the whole game they refer to their respective gods as "sinnoh", perhaps i could incorporate lore about how the people of my region had their own unique interpretation of arceus

i could also just stick with quetzalcoatl and tezcatlipoca

[graceful cairn]

Completely and utterly off topic but:

[slim heart]

do you think the bread will mutate if it was teleported to more discord servers overtime?

[graceful cairn]

Surely not

...

Maybe

[rough yew]

if you take into account the degrading and artifacting of the image as it travels around, then yes, the bread will mutate until we can count all its pixels and implode on itself, becoming something unrecognizable

[clever apex]

Yo

[clever apex]

I have school tomorrow 😔

[clever apex]

Cat

Im sad fr

[outer shoal]

Imagine having tomorrow

[manic birch]

Off topic but I hate humans

Except myself

[clever apex]

https://youtu.be/qqK1FrO3BdM?si=QQouPaAzr970XEh7 you'll love this song i bet

[prisma gust]

i hope not, we dont want a massive mutated bread monster destroying the server

[cobalt vessel]

i've gone back and forth a bunch on the text for the dex entry, so i don't have anything yet, but this is my region's route 1 mammal, based on a capybara

i'll admit, neutralize would probably be better as a hidden ability

basically to make the effect of neutralize more clear, if you use an attack against it, it will always be neutral, so it isn't weak to any types, but it doesn't resist any either, and it can be hit by ghost moves
and the same applies when it's attacking something else

it's pretty strong for a route one mon, especially if you compare it to bibarel, 410 bst vs 476, but it actually has a lower bst than oinkologne

and it evolves at the same level

[cobalt vessel]

okay, so i changed neutralize so it's the hidden ability, and instead, its regular ability is simple

[jovial scaffold]

https://tenor.com/btqst.gif

[neon shore]

Kill.

[neon shore]

Mario was always his last name btw

His name is Mario Mario

[rough yew]

that ain't even that uncommon of a surname for an italian family

and Mario is a common first name

so a family with a sense of humor would definitely name a child Mario Mario

or a weeb traditional family in this case

Itsumi Mario Mario

[sour flume]

Hey who wants to make a umbreon team in the pif-projects with me because there needs to be at least 3 people

[rough yew]

tag yourself I'm Milk Snail

[neon sonnet]

https://x.com/cl207/status/1698744008888004766?s=12

CL (@CL207)

a pikachu, with a cat bag, full of cash, from a magazine 24 years ago

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Twitter · Sep 4, 2023, 5:05 PM

[rough yew]

Alien Commander - "Cows? Buffalo? Bison? Wildebeest? You mean "terror puppies" and literal biological breaching units? And the humans started making metal ones that can shoot and put armors on the biological ones? Just...exterminate everything with legs."

Alien XO - "We've got a field report coming in that something called "snakes" are a thing and that humans are lobbing them onto our troops with....catapult baskets? They have no legs. Please advise."

Commander - "The Mothership said that this planet was not to be glassed under any circumstances. This makes me think that they knowingly sent us here to die. My command: raise the Humans on the comms, announce our immediate surrender and announce that we are beginning a mutiny against those that sent us here. That if they want to take revenge along with us, the file transfer with all our tech specs is being uploaded to their internet, that we will set up a forward operating base on Luna, and that we will be leaving the Sol system to assault the Mother in ten of their years."

[past adder]

[rough yew]

https://youtu.be/yIR3NU3P_bU?si=gXg0nlr8cBNnW1wz

[marsh otter]

This matchup is so unfair

Should’ve been raditz saga goku instead of ssj goku

[past adder]

Radditz saga would be a more viable match actually, yeah. If Goky even had Kaioken I feel like it'd be unfair..

[clever apex]

Huh?

I dont watch anime so 💀

Confusion

[night locust]

Dragon Ball is where Goku is from and is best described as "Power creep: the anime"

By the time Goku becomes a super sayajin the power creep is at the point where they're destroying planets.

[clever apex]

I never heard of Power Creep

[clever apex]

Ah

[night locust]

The bad guy has been defeated, oh look there's a stronger bad guy to defeat now

[clever apex]

Isnt the dudes name from Naruto...Naruto? 💀

Ive only seen clips so i wouldnt know

[marsh otter]

Only kaioken x4 or x3 is needed or base form saiyan saga

If vegeta’s galick gun can blow up earth

So can goku kaioken x4

[night locust]

That's one of the few cases where name of protagonist = name of the anime/game

[clever apex]

Ah

[night locust]

Luffy comes from One Piece.
Power creep there is much more mild as the focus is this gigantic ocean world full of islands to explore

[clever apex]

Heard of it

[night locust]

So like, in 1000 episodes the power creep in one piece is about on par with the first season of the original dragon ball

[clever apex]

Ah

[marsh otter]

Just don’t compare dragon ball’s power level with other anime

Cuz it’s fucked up

[night locust]

Yes

[marsh otter]

To the point it’s unrealistic

That the multiverse is even stable

[night locust]

I honestly like One Punch Man's system for how dangerous something is

[marsh otter]

Imagine goku doing saitama’s training

[night locust]

Basing it on how much destruction it would cause by letting it loose

[marsh otter]

Except with 1 billion

[clever apex]

I never watched that either so

[marsh otter]

Basically

Very op main character

[night locust]

One Punch man is a satire take on superheroes

[marsh otter]

Beats everything with one punch

[past adder]

@uncut citrus SO- I knocked Minthara out, celebrated that night, and she's gone... SHE MIGHT BE AT MOONLIGHT

[marsh otter]

Kinda

[rough yew]

Nerds

[clever apex]

Ive seen anime before, i just aint a fan

[past adder]

Fingers are crossed and I have hope ;w;

[marsh otter]

https://tenor.com/view/angai313-spongebob-sad-spongebob-crying-gif-21679826

[night locust]

Very first scene of one punch man, obliterates the bad guy with one punch, instead of hapiness, the main character despairs as he's completely unchallenged

[rough yew]

It's time.

[night locust]

You do you

[clever apex]

Lol

[rough yew]

I have broken my office chair

[past adder]

[rough yew]

So I just had to spend like $300 for a new one. Why so much? Because it needs to be handicapped accessible.

[clever apex]

Ah

Why did you need an office chair tho

[uncut citrus]

[rough yew]

Because I don't want to do work and shitposting and just spend all day in bed, in general.

[marsh otter]

Huh

[clever apex]

Ah. Me personally, would spin around everywhere in the wheelchair lmao

[rough yew]

Also spending time sitting down is better for me than just laying down. Slows down the muscle atrophy.

[marsh otter]

The 17% of the people are the type of people to skip that one scene

[clever apex]

What scene?

[marsh otter]

Uhh

King kai saying vegeta is way stronger than him

[clever apex]

Ah

[rough yew]

Wheelchairs have their fun times, but they're fucking exhausting to use. Maintenance and upkeep can get expensive and annoying. You need to secure yourself to them depending on your mobility ability. And you can't go to like 60% of places. Plus driving around and pulling it out just gets me stared at and really uncomfortable.

Using a wheelchair isn't fun and games.

Think before you speak

[clever apex]

Heck is upkeep. Also why are you even in a wheelchair

[night locust]

upkeep is cost of keeping something in working condition

[rough yew]

Somebody hold me back before I make this little kid cry.

[clever apex]

Ah

[night locust]

Just make the tears flow already

[covert loom]

Hello off topic people

[rough yew]

@uncut citrus gimme a 6hr mute pls, I'm about to go ballistic on this kid and need to cool off.

[night locust]

Upkeep is something you run across in tycoon games

[clever apex]

I never had to use a wheelchair for long so

[covert loom]

What's going on?

[clever apex]

Im "annoying" them somehow

[night locust]

Trying to, I'm unaffected.

[clever apex]

Idk how im seemingly annoying them

[rough yew]

Where are your parents? I need to talk to them because they obviously failed somewhere.

[night locust]

People usually aren't in a wheelchair by choice

[uncut citrus]

[clever apex]

Tf do you mean. How do you expect me to know shit about wheelchairs

[uncut citrus]

just

stfu both of you

[clever apex]

Ik. But theres many reasons why you could be in one

[rough yew]

Yes, but the temptation to rip them a new one is pretty big.

[uncut citrus]

the temptation to mute you for longer than 6 hours increases

just go outside

take a breather

[rough yew]

Fair. Blocked them.

go outside
If I could, I would.

[uncut citrus]

congratz

[night locust]

Simplest reason for being in a wheelchair: both of your legs failed.

[covert loom]

You cant?

[clever apex]

True

[past adder]

[clever apex]

Ive been in a wheelchair before. But that was only after surgery

[covert loom]

Why were y'all talking bout wheelchairs anyway

[past adder]

I was in a wheelchair after surgery too 😄 I forgot my phone in the bed and went back by myself. That was my first mistake

I had no idea who I was or where I was, but I knew I was missing my phone lmfao

[night locust]

The addiction to smartphones is real

[clever apex]

Last time i had surgery, it was eye surgery. And we went to an amusement park a day or two after 💀

[past adder]

I'm poor, it's how my job/college contacts me x.x

[night locust]

It's kinda like psychonauts, after the brain is removed, people are reduced to the most basic instinct, watching tv

[past adder]

If I lose that I'm hard pressed buying another

[clever apex]

Im so poor i dont even have a job yet

[night locust]

Don't have other devices capable of acessing the internet?

[covert loom]

It really is

[clever apex]

I have a Nintendo switch

[past adder]

My computer, but I can't really call off of it

[covert loom]

Better eye sight

[past adder]

Am I supposed to email everyone 💀

[clever apex]

Nope cause now i wear glasses

[covert loom]

Glasses can make people look epic tho

[covert loom]

Yes.

[past adder]

Tbf, my ex emailed me after we blocked eachother and I read it immediately

So email does work 💀 But anyway, Bg3 again

[covert loom]

Bg3?

[past adder]

Baldurs Gate 3 😄

[covert loom]

Baldurs gate?

AHHHH I KNEW IT IM SO MSART

[clever apex]

Yea

[covert loom]

Is your pfp Godzilla?

[night locust]

You have a computer capable of playing that, your computer is capable of making calls.

[clever apex]

Yup. Its Godzilla holding a microwave

[covert loom]

Lmaoo

[night locust]

Just need to make sure it got a working mic and sound.

And those are nowhere near as expensive as getting a phone replacement

[past adder]

I don't have cellular service on my pc, and no job I know commonly uses skype

And yeah this PC is from 5 years ago

I just maintain my things

[night locust]

5 years ago still has very functional stuff

Might not be win 11 compatible

[covert loom]

Windows 11 more like

Cringe

[past adder]

I'm very confused-, Not everyone has the same situation my guy 😭

[night locust]

I moved to linux when ms canned win 7

[clever apex]

Me and my dad both had computers. Theyre all broken

[covert loom]

Ooft

[clever apex]

Yup

[night locust]

It can use whatsapp. Other messaging apps might also have web versions

[covert loom]

That's real hater shit right there

[covert loom]

Why

[night locust]

2025 is gonna be funky when ms cans win 10

[clever apex]

Idk

[night locust]

And likely by 2028 valve is gonna can steam in win 10

[rough yew]

Aaaaaaand my electricity is getting cut for 45 mins while they fix the power issue

[covert loom]

Well that makes sense

[clever apex]

What

[clever apex]

Could be far, far worse but still damn

[rough yew]

My options are go to bed or go to bed. I'm home alone so it's not like I can go out. Car needs repairs and I can't really get around much these days anyway. If I can squeeze out 1000 steps without a cane or chair it is a good day.

[covert loom]

Then go to bed

[clever apex]

You can use your phone unless thats about to die

[night locust]

Put the phone in do not disturb and get some sleep

[rough yew]

Gonna have to stay on my phone since going to sleep without meds is usually a bad time. @.@

And it ain't med time for another 8hrs

[clever apex]

We had a power outage like last month and it really was out from 2 am-3 pm ish

[rough yew]

Welcome to the complexities of adult/handicapped life.

[clever apex]

Imagine not having power tho for over 2 hours 😭

[rough yew]

Oh right, I forgot. No power, I can't sleep anyway. Not without my oxygen mask hookup, which is electrical. Woo

[clever apex]

Gyat damn

No power is the worst no matter what tho

[night locust]

Not having power for 4 to 6 hours at a time: Gaming under candlelight

[clever apex]

I literally used my Nintendo last time to try to preserve my phones power 💀

[night locust]

Battery life on the switch sucks

[clever apex]

It still lasted longer than my phone lmao

[night locust]

You used to be able to get like 20 hours on a gba with a decent set of double As

[clever apex]

Whats a gba

[night locust]

The Switch's great grandfather

[clever apex]

Ah

[golden yew]

game boy advance

[clever apex]

K

[rough yew]

Anywho, sorry. Reason I got heated before was because this dinklefink asked that very dumb question. Usually it only happens in person and I embarrassed the douchecanoe right then and there. Dealt with it for decades, I ain't got patience for it. This was just the first time it happened online in a community that I actually kinda like being in. Was really weighing my options there, get banned and dunk on this nerd or show a bit of restraint and stick around because there are actually a few neat peeps here.

Moving on.

[night locust]

I honestly just saw him as a kid that genuinely doesn't know stuff

[clever apex]

My guy, asking why someone has a wheelchair isnt dumb cause theres many reasons why you could have one

My grandma for example, has one cause she cant walk cause shes bedridden

[mellow basin]

ive been redirected

💀 yo my battles are just crazy don’t mind me screaming at hockey 😂 anyone on xbox wanna play sometime??

[manic birch]

I open some peoples profiles on here

[manic birch]

And I die from embarrassment

[clever apex]

What

[manic birch]

How do you not know what upkeep is

[clever apex]

How would i know

Lol

Like genuinely. How would i know 💀

[night locust]

Need to travel and talk to people