#off-topic-discussion

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silent mist
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i dont even know what edgerunners is about honestly

bronze mason
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“There are no happy endings in night city. Not for people like us”

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That’s basically everything revolving around Cyberpunk

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Just watch it you’ll like it

silent mist
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i will i will

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i liked cyberpunk but i didnt get as crazy immersed in the world and the story as some of my other friends

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well, the world is really cool. its an amazing atmosphere, and it feels like a place with real history. but the story of the game itself didnt stand out to me TOO much, like the story of V and johnny and arasaka and stuff, it didnt really "grip" me necessarily. but i enjoyed it well enough

bronze mason
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I think that Edgerunners does a bit better job of telling a story using the world of Cyberpunk

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2077 does a solid job of making the world and having some considerably good moments, especially Phantom Liberty, but I left Edgerunners with a lot more to think about

silent mist
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thats good to hear, makes me more excited to check it out then

bronze mason
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Edgerunners is a very good story that happens to exist in the cyberpunk universe

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It uses it to its advantage and it does a lot using the context of the cyber dystopia

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Goes a lot more in depth about really exploring the impact is has on real people without having to go into all the side content

silent mist
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i almost feel like cyberpunk 2077 being a game instead of a show kinda held it back for me. i never got much out of the inventory management or the skills, the hacking mechanics, even the gunplay is just fine

bronze mason
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Cyberpunk is more a game you experience because you like the world than the gameplay being particularly stellar

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I did enjoy the gameplay but I stuck around for the experience

silent mist
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yeah, shooting things is fun no matter what. mostly just the skills and the hacking stuff that i really didnt care for tbh. also i remember being bored when you have to analyze the braindances and piece together information by finding clues or something? i dont remember very well

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it did give us this scene though

bronze mason
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Braindances did have very little part in the game

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You only do them a few times but they are a low point for how little they were explored

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They could have been more important and executed a bit better but I don’t think they drag down the game

bronze mason
silent mist
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yeah, i just appreciate lighter/simpler/minimal gameplay for my open world games. like for gta 5 (one of my favorite games), you rarely get taken out of the world. there are cutscenes, but besides that its just "walk around, drive, shoot gun" rather than "navigate menu, upgrade skills, find clues, press E to interact"

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but the gameplay of cyberpunk isnt bad. just i would be quite interested to see a version of cyberpunk with more minimal gameplay like that

bronze mason
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Cyberpunk is definitely a world you want to spend more time experiencing and less time messing around with

silent mist
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absolutely beautiful game though for sure

bronze mason
silent mist
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bro i forgot to mention, i was soo sad about jackie. my friend didnt even care about him, he said he was annoying

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he was literally my favorite character 💔

bronze mason
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Jackie is divisive on whether you personally get attached to him. He’s not around for very long which is the sad part

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It’s entirely up to whether or not your short time with him left an impact

silent mist
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hes just such good vibes, such a chill guy. such a bro

bronze mason
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Yeah it’s either because you find him cool or attractive. If it’s neither then it probably doesn’t land as hard

silent mist
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XD

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hes kinda of a cutie too thats true

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tbh i never found any of the cyberpunk characters that hot

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dont like judys hair, nor the other girl with the blue hair. dont like her hair either. and panam is cool but im not crazy about her. actually the japanese guy, jogo or gojo or goro, hes kinda a hottie i forgot about him

bronze mason
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The characters are mostly just real. They have flaws and aren’t meant just to appeal to you in that way

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You like them if you like them but they’re meant to be their own characters

silent mist
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this is true but i always see people talking about them like that 😭

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particularly since they added romance paths, i guess

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i think goro is my actual favorite character, jackie would probably be higher up there if we got more of him

bronze mason
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They’re not all gonna appeal to a general audience. Panam is brash and strong-willed, Judy is kinda self centered and emotionally troubled, and I’ve yet to really do much with Kerry or River since they’re more out of the way

silent mist
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i quite like panam as a character actually

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shes one of the ones i felt had the most depth, like i was engaged in hanging out with her and being friends. when youre sitting in the hotel drinking a beer or whatever, during the big sand storm

bronze mason
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Yeah they’re good characters I’m just saying the reasons why they sit outside the standard mass appeal basis of character design in games

bronze mason
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I do get the criticisms though that I’ve seen for River Ward being rushed

silent mist
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yeah i get what you mean, they arent made to be generally lovable. jackie is really the only example of that that i can think of. the vibe of night city is kinda that everybody is sad and troubled and possibly a snake

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i didnt get much into any other romance paths besides panam and even her i dont think i got all the way with? i did help her with the mission that she gives you a sniper rifle for, thats about it

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so i dont remember anything about river, but i know he exists

bronze mason
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Kerry is very out of the way and the only other one you can do with male V

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Judy’s side story is nice

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I’ve not dealt with with River

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I did get Panam’s ending though that was the first one I did

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One of the paths for the final mission requires Panam

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It’s a very solid ending imo

silent mist
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i chose male V for my first playthrough, i started a female V playthrough afterwards but didnt get too far into it before stopping

bronze mason
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I did accidentally lock myself out of one of the ending by not saving Takemura

bronze mason
silent mist
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the ending i got, after accidentally killing myself i mean, was where you go insane in the white room being studied by arasaka

silent mist
bronze mason
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I didn’t realize you could

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Or rather I guess I just missed the direction I needed to go to save him

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So I ended the mission without knowing

silent mist
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yeah i didnt know either

bronze mason
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It’s fine I’ll go back and do it at some point

silent mist
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what kind of build did you go for? like katana, hacker, sniper, knives?

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i love snipers so thats primarily what i did

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though i think my friend said katana is fun

bronze mason
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Cool, intelligence, and technical, though it did become a little boring after a bit when everything died instantly to hacking or smart weapons

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I’ll go for more of a gunplay build next time

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But that’s my own fault

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I guess it wasn’t boring just I get why some people would go down that path and say “damn this combat is lame I just have to freeze time and spam contagion and overheat on everybody”

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While ignoring dashing and double jumping around like a roided out cyberpsycho with a shotgun and a sandy

silent mist
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my cyberpunk playthrough was me playing for a bit, qutting for a few months, playing for a bit, quitting for a few months again, playing for a bit, quitting for like 3 years, then finishing the game. sooo... i never really interacted with the combat system as deeply as i maybe could have, because every time i reopened the game i had forgotten almost everything. but thats fine. like i was never using abilities. just gun and grenade

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but i did spec into cool i remember, my male V had a wide open jacket with no shirt underneath. so it only made sense that he was cool as hell

bronze mason
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I played like 75 hours in maybe 2-3 weeks

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So a much more distilled experience

silent mist
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im either a binger or i give up on a game for years, no in between. hades 1 and 2 i played ungodly amounts of, like 6-10 hour days for a couple months straight for both of them. but for red dead 2, my save has been sitting at like 10% completion for a couple years

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its usually bigger AAA games that get the latter experience, even if a AAA game is good they usually just end up being "exhausting" to me in some way... idk

bronze mason
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That’s valid. Well I gotta go do some stuff then head off to bed. You’re also welcome to just DM if you end up watching more stuff and wanna talk lol

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But yeah go watch CSM I know you want to and you keep putting it off on other stuff

silent mist
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lolol dont worry im already 3 episodes in after starting today. ill be finishing it, and im downloading cyberpunk edgerunners too

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but yeah im about to head to bed myself. thanks for the chat

silent mist
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to anybody seeing this chat in the future, just dont scroll up, there are a couple unmarked spoilers for various anime and video games. i marked some spoilers but gave up halfway through tbh

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youve been warned

distant skiff
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i just watched epic the musical for the first time and cried shadegrief

distant skiff
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THE ENDING

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IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL

keen bluff
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I mostly cried at Odysseus and Telemachus first meeting with each other

distant skiff
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hera's voice is my favorite 😋

keen bluff
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My favourite singer there gotta be Zeus though

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And maybe Athena melthink

distant skiff
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i also saw the little skit with hermes' VA that isnt really in the musical

keen bluff
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Oh yes! I love that guy, his name is Troy!

distant skiff
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my favorite artist has to be Neal tbh

keen bluff
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Neal mentioned! melblush

keen bluff
distant skiff
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YEAH MY GF TOLD ME ABOUT THAT WHILE WE WERE WATCHING shadesmile

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i love the shade emojis

distant skiff
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imma be watching The Daily Object Show with my gf in a bit cuz weve been meaning to watch it together

fast marlin
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epic is pretty good

keen bluff
keen bluff
keen bluff
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Medea is really beautiful, I just saw a picture of her while looking around the Hades 2 wiki melthink

versed basin
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@faint panther hi do u still do karuta

smoky jay
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O Akane-banashi how I love you so. Still giving me chills 200+ chapters in

muted smelt
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What is akane banashi- woah this sounds like peak

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Because it made me think of March Come Like a Lion which is peak fiction

smoky jay
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It's a sports manga+anime, except it's actually a theater manga+anime!

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It's based around a Japanese form of theater known as rakugo in which one person plays all the parts while sitting on a cushion

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But oh my word the manga somehow not only translates theater performances to paper but does it so well it like moves me

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(Also, the author + artist need to do a horror manga once they finish Akane-banashi)

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Don't let the banner of Akane-banashi on Viz.com fool you; Akane is not a 20-some office lady

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What's really fun is that like half the characters have main character energy

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Oh! And one of the best sympathetic antagonists you could hope for shadesmile

muted smelt
muted smelt
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Omg hii tidb

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How's school

tall owl
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I'm not in school anymore!!

muted smelt
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Whaaat

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That means you can play video games!

tall owl
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i am!

empty lance
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Got a stack of books with mate problems as well

muted smelt
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Let me copy what I said about it to friend

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It's a very grounded show about this boy in high school who is also professionally competing in Shogi.

As you can imagine, that's a lot of pressure for an introverted, most likely autistic boy.

The focus is less on shogi and more on the human experience. There an impressive range of characters of different walks of life influencing our protagonist.

It also has amazing visual language as even the colors of the environment change with the tone of the scenes. The animations also love to use striking visual metaphors despite the show being so grounded, it looks amazing

smoky jay
wide cargo
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is anyone here also in the hades modding discord?

limber walrus
subtle sun
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its not self promoting but

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oh, it needs to be related to supergiant stuff

fickle bloom
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Persona 5 royal is great

ripe hearth
sharp grail
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question to all, is anyone here a fan of epic the musical? i could use some help from someone who knows about it 🙇‍♂️

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ping me in your answer if any pls

limber walrus
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(they're all asleep, as I should be, but I can ask them tomorrow)

sharp grail
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ok ok ok what would you give as a gift to someone who enjoys it? not counting keychains and stuff like that

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something more easily accessible even if it’s more expensive than a keychain

limber walrus
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Oooh. Posters, maybe?

sharp grail
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mayhaps! i was thinking of drawing something for her myself but idk where i would start

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i probably need sleep but any other ideas as well, help meeeee

limber walrus
spiral pewter
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hi

sharp grail
austere halo
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glorp

royal relic
austere halo
royal relic
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you look different
did you do something with your hair?

sharp grail
limber walrus
stable comet
smoky jay
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Crazy blast from the past!

cerulean vortex
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I heard Invincible S4 Ep 7 was fire

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||but weebs still whining about the animation||

vocal yoke
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maybe they shouldnt put john hamm to va a random bodyguard or mark hamill as a god damned episodic character that makes costumes and invest more in the animation department

stable comet
austere halo
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my biggest gripe with invincible is the fight scenes. they do a poor job of making the civilization of genocidal military super people feel like they know how to fight

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none of them block, they telegraph their attacks for way too long

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people get hit by things they shouldnt have gotten bit by

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i wouldnt even mind the horrible power scaling if they made the fights interesting, but they arent

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every fight scene is a back and forth tug of war where one person gets to hit the other person 3 times, then the other person gets 5 hits, and they expect us to be on the edge of our seat going "omg whos gonna win?!"

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imo the show just has so many issues that keep it from being enjoyable. its fine to watch it if youre a "i have joy and whimsy in my heart" kind of person but i dont think that should invalidate any real criticisms with the show

prime dew
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Hi

languid shell
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I watched Ep 4 and 5 of invincible

  • animation kinda mid (i heard thats nortorius)
  • the fights were cool
  • || conquest vs mark round 1 was better than v2||
    -|| and them forcing Nolan in as a good guy after he beat the crap out of mark and called Debbie a pet is an interesting tatic here, but a war is happening||

Overall 6.7/10

twilit idol
languid shell
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||damn they destroyed planet viltrum||

fast marlin
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invincible is weird for me bc i know the first season was really good but it was too gorey for me so i didnt wtahc any of it after

royal relic
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the only thing i know from invincible are the memes

fast marlin
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THINK!!

vocal yoke
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mark, I made a steak

royal relic
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A STEAK!?

cerulean vortex
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I dont think comparing an animation studio to an Anime studio (which is known for it's notorious quality of life for artists) is a fair criticism. Comparison is the thief of joy, and when you start to analyze it so in depth, of course it will be miserable. That being said, yea, the animation is upper middle of the pack when it comes to animation quality.

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I dont think animation (overall the quality is fine) should be what people worry about when the (i hate to use this term) power scaling is all over the place. I get it's trying to stay pretty faithful to the comics, but they can definitely improve on some of those aspects.

languid shell
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Counter point i was not comparing invincibles animations to anything anime related. Its just not as a good as it could be

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A little jank at times. The budget clearly goes to the action/gore and the story

fast marlin
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hmmm this is probably the first time ive liked one of olivia rodrigos lead singles

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i always end up being meh on it but then liking the album

vocal yoke
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speaking of mainstream stuff

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did you guys see that nine inch nails set with boys noize at coachella

royal relic
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i saw some thumbnails on my feed

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haven't listened to any of it yet

high gyro
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invincible animators are horrified of going off-model which just leads to an overall stiffness

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The show is better than the comics, for sure, but the comics make me feel more

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which is why i like the comics

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ryan ottley and cory walker are just insanely skilled

high gyro
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he’s great

fiery holly
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They don’t have the man power needed

high gyro
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season 1 looked absolutely phenomenal

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I personally don’t like the way animation as a whole is going where hyperflashy impact frames are what people find "good" animation

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season 1 was incredible in my opinion because it fit the story invincible was doing

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still think its a great show

night niche
fast marlin
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hi guys its 2026 and i just learned what splash mountain was about and why it got removed and Oh My God\

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song of the south ride until 2023. jesus christ

fast marlin
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i think every place in the world deserves their own version of country roads bc hawaii has one and its a banger

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and whedn i was a kid i didnt know the lyrics to the original so i would sing west makaha mount ka'ala

fiery holly
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They absolutely don’t have the man power 🫩

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I think they have not a lot of animators ether

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Actually they have between 130 to 200 animators it seems

high gyro
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for what is 8 one-hour (give or take) episodes

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and given what invincible is trying to look like

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definetly not enough

tall owl
# fast marlin i think every place in the world deserves their own version of country roads bc ...

I think the german equivalent would be westerland https://youtu.be/tIFFfP87Ooc

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Westerland · Die Ärzte

Das Ist Nicht Die Ganze Wahrheit...

℗ 1988 Die Ärzte distributed by Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH

Released on: 1988-04-19

Producer: Hoffmann
Composer, Lyricist: Farin Urlaub

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ripe hearth
swift valley
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has anyone ever heard of "hot green" as a color

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I saw that used to describe a slightly neony light green

tall owl
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i heard of hot pink for a similar neon type

spare heron
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I hate how every new movie or tv show about Greek mythology is all defy the gods

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They always potray the gods as either bad guys or just generally ahholes and all the main characters either straight up fight the gods or win despite of them

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It a cool idea but every story does it

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It almost this idea that people from greece hated the gods when they worship them

hallow lion
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I mean, that's because in the original Greek mythology, the gods were, in fact, massive a-holes

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That's not something people invented in modern times lol

royal relic
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Well yeah - that’s why I find the subject at hand interesting, but

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Like
I know what @spare heron means, I just can’t think of any particular examples

limber walrus
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The God of War series?

smoky jay
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The movie in which Liam Neeson goes "Release da Kraken!"

spare heron
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The new odyssey movie with the literal title of defy the gods

royal relic
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But then again - who isnt a rage-fueled a-hole in this series?

limber walrus
royal relic
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No I mean the old GOW

smoky jay
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Aphrodite maybe?

royal relic
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Aphrodite was in old gow?

spare heron
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And the gow was in Aphrodite

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Sorry for the joke

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But that all shd did

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She appears for one scene

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And it a you know what with kratos

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Old gow was nasty

wild dragon
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Absolute wonder woman has a more nuanced take on greek gods, they are still scary and a-holes but even though Diana criticizes them she stills regularly prays to and reveers them

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well most of them, she don't fw Hades

swift valley
royal relic
normal beacon
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Hiiiii

mellow nimbus
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wa zaaaaaaaaaap

normal beacon
spare heron
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Can we talk about this guy

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🐧

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He so cute

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Who draw him

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He is adorable

smoky jay
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I think it must've been Linus Torvald

tall owl
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Good morning

slow creek
smoky jay
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Buenos días

fallen falcon
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🫃

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I've been very itchy lately

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what's up with that

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who can i blame for this

small bane
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Freaking melinoe jumpscare

delicate horizon
terse trellis
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I remember the first time I notice Matthew Waterson voicing a character was a vampire character called Dragan in Castlevania Season 4 yet he had three lines in one episode and then just made grunt noises afterwards

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At least with Heracles, he has a lot of dialogue

sour orchid
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What other good roguelikes are there? I’ve only played both hades games and Nightreign

shadow raft
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I quite enjoyed Boyfriend Dungeon personally, and Cult of the Lamb is also a lot of fun

smoky jay
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Crypt of the Necrodancer!

fast marlin
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slay the spirwe

delicate horizon
wild dragon
delicate horizon
still schooner
silent mist
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@versed meadow i see youre looking to play slay the spire 2 with somebody, i also am. none of my friends play 😭. you have messages turned off so let me know if you wanna

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this goes for anybody here tbh, though i would prefer casual low ascension runs. but im up to 4-5 ascension with all characters if you wanna bump the difficulty a bit

untold pumice
swift valley
night niche
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Anyone familiar with the following manga series and have any opinions: Eden of Witches, Leviathan, or Manhole?

They're all part of a humble bundle right now and the covers look cool.

tall owl
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who up slaying they spire rn

stable comet
stable comet
stable comet
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i lost a bunch

north pulsar
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Systems have properties that are beyond their individual components

nimble kestrel
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But therefore, where does free-will comes from?

north pulsar
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It would be an emergent property of the brain

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In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole.
Emergence plays a central role in theories of integrative levels and of complex systems. For instance, the phenomenon of life as studied ...

nimble kestrel
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Are we able to make some decision making that completely escape the laws of fundamental physics? Currently, for example, I'm hungry. Making the decision of "not being hungry" is beyond me. I cannot decide to not be hungry. So, if I'm not able to make this decision, why would I be able to make any decision at all?

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Did I learn to speak english because I truly wanted to, or because circumstances lead me to do so?

north pulsar
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The state of being hungry is not relevant to freewill

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You cannot decide physical reality but you can decide your actions

north pulsar
nimble kestrel
north pulsar
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If someone puts a gun to your head and tells you to learn English

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You can choose no and die

nimble kestrel
north pulsar
north pulsar
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If you think we are wholly controlled by our impulses then actually no we arent

nimble kestrel
north pulsar
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💀

nimble kestrel
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Like, I would absolutely love the existence of an afterlife, that would be a "comfort thing" to me ; which I why I don't trust my instincts and believe there is no afterlife unless I'm proven the contrary

north pulsar
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Imo the argument against freewill is weak

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I believe it can exist materialistically

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And I don't see an argument for any other explanation

nimble kestrel
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Well, I have an argument from a philosopher, called the Demon of Pascal, or the Genius of Pascal

north pulsar
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And I would argue it's a similar dynamic on the question of free will

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You perceive yourself to be acting out of free will and others too

nimble kestrel
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Imagine a form of intelligence who has certain specific characteristics : first, this intelligence has a perfect knowledge and understanding about every single law of the universe ; second, this intelligence knows exactly, even in the tiniest details, the current state of the universe ; third and finally, this intelligence has the necessary computing power to analyse everything that happens in the universe. According to Pascal, this Demon / Genius would indeed know absolutely everything about the past, present and future.

north pulsar
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And he is just asserting that

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What is the reason you think that is true

nimble kestrel
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And of course I got the name wrong. It isn't the Demon of Pascal but the Demon of Laplace

north pulsar
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Again you cannot predict emergent properties based on the properties on the individual elements

north pulsar
nimble kestrel
north pulsar
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Again I refer to emergent properties

nimble kestrel
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So you think that there are other laws than the basic ones

north pulsar
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No bruh read the Wikipedia

nimble kestrel
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I'm currently reading the article, sorry I'm just doing many things at the same time

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From what I read I'd say that's a good argument but I'm not fully convinced yet. I don't know, free-will looks like such a powerful thing. I would be more comfortable with the idea if we actually knew where it comes from and how it works

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But that's a solid argument I can't really counter

north pulsar
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Personally I don't think we have a soul or anything

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But I don't see an argument against why free will cannot be an emergent property of a sufficiently complex computational system

nimble kestrel
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Well if that's the case it is quite scary I think

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Doesn't mean it's wrong, I just hope that if free-will indeed exists we will be able to study its mechanisms in the future

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All of this is quite funny because free-will is actually one of the main topics of Hades 2

nimble kestrel
north pulsar
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It's not really a big theme throughout the game other than that one quest

nimble kestrel
north pulsar
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It kinda has the classic religion blunder of failing to explain why the fate deciders has free will and everyone else doesn't

nimble kestrel
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And it brings some in-game questions : Fates used to forbid the existence of free-will through their weavings. But was that control absolute? Did it apply to themselves, the Fates depriving themselves of free-will? Was Chaos themselves affected by their weavings?

north pulsar
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I think the fates influences are more targeted at morals

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Since each thread is a moral life and all

nimble kestrel
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I had a friend who actually hated Hades 2 because of this detail, because for her the disappearence of the Fates' weavings should end existence

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Like, for her, the cosmos is not supposed to work without the Fates

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*I have a friend, sorry

north pulsar
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I think if the fates stopped there would be no more new humans and existing ones wouldn't die

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Because of the thread thing

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I don't see any relation between the fates and the existence of the world

nimble kestrel
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Well I'm not an expert on greek mythology, so I didn't really answer to that

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(But she also hated Hades 2 because she didn't like some chara designs)

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(And I never quite understood why but hey, to each one's their own tastes)

north pulsar
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I think h2 is not as good as h1

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But its alright

nimble kestrel
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I think both games have different qualities. I think Hades I has a better story and better musics ; I think Hades II has a better gameplay

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And I enjoy playing them both a lot

north pulsar
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i dont know if people have actually thought about it but it feels very much like bandwagoning to me

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h2 gameplay feels alot worse to me than h1

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especially the transision from h1 to h2

nimble kestrel
north pulsar
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not being able to animaiton cancle alot of moves really disrupts the flow of combat for me

north pulsar
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the aspects of h2 i think are better are

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cast, arcana, more content

nimble kestrel
nimble kestrel
north pulsar
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for h1, core combat mechanics, boss design, weapon aspects

north pulsar
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especially mono dash hades with a close range weapon

nimble kestrel
north pulsar
#

the hades fight (mono dash close range) is very dual esque

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you are on more or less equal footing and you win by reacting correctly to the moves he does

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when close range with monodash the attacks need different timings to be able to dodge or iframe

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this kinda goes out the window with doubledash though

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this also sorta applies to fighting meg in ff

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though i will beat h2 ff eventually and push high feat and see if i change my mind

nimble kestrel
#

Well I tend to appreciate more the weapons of Hades 2 but that's maybe because of my very "un-daring" style of gameplay, I'm far from being a risk-taker or a daredevil

north pulsar
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to me each of the h1 weapons had more of an unique personality

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for h2 aside from the gimicky ones non were super memorable to me

nimble kestrel
#

Well I won't really be the judge of that because on both games I haven't tested everything yet but from what I actually played I like H2 weapons more

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The only thing I really didn't like in Hades 2 is the plot-twists of the story who were...meh

north pulsar
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i didnt really care

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i was wondering how they were going to keep the gameplay loop after you kill chronos

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the ending was a bit contrived and out of nowhere

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they should have built up to it more

nimble kestrel
#

The whole ||"Well thanks to a flash-back Chronos is nice now"|| seems farfetched to me

north pulsar
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i think it is acceptable if there was ground work

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i could imagine chronos feeling very bad and becoming nice

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but sure his bad actions were of a magnitude where you woudlnt expect the fricking ghosts of christmas would be enough to change him lol

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its kinda a similar dynamic to the h1 ending where the "bad guy" becomes nice but it was exicuted much better with hades lol

sand pivot
#

Happy 420 yall

sharp grail
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pls spoilertag hades spoilers in the not-hades channels ✌️

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i just realized how late to this discussion i am but the statement stands i guess 😭

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i personally dont think about free will and afterlife and such often. and while reading this discussion i found myself thinking, why does it matter so much?
maybe its my own experience that makes me feel this way but for example, if you decide do shave your head (regardless of it its impulsive, something you thought about beforehand, etc.) and you go ahead and do that. does it matter if you did it of your own free will or if it was somehow preordained or if some external force is pulling the strings?
so you want to shave your head, and you do that or you dont. all of this "free will" stuff is completely out of your control (and even not visible or proven) so why agonize about it? like who cares, the only thing you are doing by pondering that potential external motivation is tormenting yourself kinda

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and as for the afterlife, if there is a concept of it you are specifically drawn to, and it brings you comfort, and its also what you want to believe. as long as it does no harm to anyone else, why agonize over that?

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its probably not something you can know for certain. so like, youll get there when you get there. both getting there and finding out what constitutes as an "afterlife" are things that are inevitable as well

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unless you decide to dedicate your entire life to the opposite like trying to achieve immortality

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which is cool but also kind of scary because there are a lot of things to consider about that

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also i personally like the gameplay from hades 2 way more than h1, i played from the start of h1 early access and idk when h2 early access came out i thought it felt so much smoother already. and since then a lot of things were improved like ||not having to equip specific tools once you unlock them, or stuff like eris giving rewards in early runs if she impedes you instead of just cursing you and leaving||. now its way more refined. so even then it felt like wow i can never go back to h1 gameplay in the same way, even though i played it a lot
as for the story i cant tell i have not finished h2's story melshock

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my favorite story-wise is... pyre keikaku you should play pyre

north pulsar
north pulsar
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More often than not the idea of an afterlife is not isolated

sharp grail
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what do you mean by that?

north pulsar
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If you have the notion of having to prepare for one then you will have guidelines on how people should act

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This would very easily lead to encroaching on people's freedoms in life

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This is more of a problem with organised religion and not the concept of an afterlife necessarily, however I would consider the fear of death / comfort of the notion of an afterlife to be very central to it

north pulsar
#

And for me the final boss of H1 is much more engaging than both in h2

nimble kestrel
# sharp grail i personally dont think about free will and afterlife and such often. and while ...

Well the question of free-will is interesting because it opens another : why people do what they do? Why do we do what we actually do? Because indeed for something as trivial as shaving your head the question doesn't matter.

But if I see a poor person stealing food at the grocery store...is that because they truly decided to steal, or because they were brought to steal by circumstances out of their control? And the answer to this question could bring some serious topics, for example the question of punishment and rehabilitation in justice.

nimble kestrel
sharp grail
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thats very abstract

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if a poor person is stealing food this is because they need food and they are poor. the circumstances that led to them being poor were probably out of their control

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like, yep

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and people can be poor and not steal 🤷‍♂️ its just that that's the reason the hypothetical person you are talking about stole food

nimble kestrel
sharp grail
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the circumstances are out of their control
like being born to a poor family
or family trouble that lead to them being poor
etc etc

nimble kestrel
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I agree with these but this is not universally agreed

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Like, I don't know if you've ever met such peoples, but if we keep on the example of the poor people stealing food, I've already seen people on the Internet expressing the idea that the poor are actually responsaible for their miserable life, that it is entirely their fault and that analyzing the circumstances of crimes such as stealing is useless. Doesn't mean I agree with them, on the contrary, but these people exist

sharp grail
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but stealing is a choice (spurred on by this circumstances)
and some poor people dont need to steal because they have better support to their bad financial situation
some dont have that support, and still dont steal
some people are not poor and they do steal?

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yes i met such people and i do not agree with them just like they can disagree with me

nimble kestrel
sharp grail
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people who argue that poor people "deserve it"/can simply Choose not to be poor/whatever are usually rich or well-off enough to afford that stupidity

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i dont understand why the question applies in the first place ngl

nimble kestrel
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And many, many people disagree with this way of thinking

nimble kestrel
sharp grail
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im confused

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but ok

nimble kestrel
#

Well maybe this is just me being bad at explaining my train of thoughts but I think that concerning the serious topic that is crime and delinquency, if we want to be truly fair with people, we need to establish where free-will starts and when it stops

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Because if free-will exists, then I don't have a solution to propose to actually reduce crime and delinquency, because if free-will exists, there is no way to properly induce the respect of the law except through dictatorship, which is not a good solution

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But if free-will has limits or simply doesn't exist, then everything becomes a matter of circumstances and we can actually help people respect the law by changing the circumstances of life.

nimble kestrel
north pulsar
#

colloquially when we say that someone is forced into an action or decision it is just that the consequence of the other option is so much worse

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But they are still asserting their free will in choosing the obviously less bad option

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There are obviously factors beyond ones control but i dont think they nessiairly have any relevance to the topic of free will

north pulsar
#

You can just choose to die

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We may consider this a lack of liberty on the practical sense but you can just choose to die

smoky jay
# sharp grail and as for the afterlife, if there is a concept of it you are specifically drawn...

Ooh! This is a really important one in Christianity: the default state of mankind post-Fall is that man is hecking dead, and apparently man's situation is hopeless enough that God himself had to die (and chose to die) in place of mankind for mankind to have a chance to live. As such, the afterlife isn't some abstract thing or one of many alternatives: it's the end result of a very specific, singular choice to surrender to a singular death and subsequent resurrection. Everything else is a different flavor of death, plus the universe's days are numbered

north pulsar
#

More like Ng+

spare heron
#

Dude i found out im allergic to flowers and dogs does are like the only things i love

north pulsar
#

Nerfed

smoky jay
#

Rekt. But on the plus side, aren't there medications that let you still play with doggos? I have a friend with cat allergies who has been able to live with cats thanks to medication and air filters

north pulsar
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I'm not a rly a fan of medicating for something like "wanting to play with dogs"

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All medication has side effects but ofcourse it's up to you to weigh the cost and benefit

smoky jay
#

Ah, a fellow cat person

north pulsar
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😭

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Cats too

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Maybe you can get hypoallergenic dogs

smoky jay
#

That's why nudie cats (hairless cats) exist!

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Hm. Hmmm. What to spend three wishes on

tall owl
#

unlimited wishes

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the biggest anticlimax of my life was discovering that dishwasher tabs aren't magically dissolved in their lil chamber and redirected through pipes n stuff, but they just fall out of the chamber...

muted smelt
#

no tidb

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santa is real

tall owl
#

santa i hope you have infinite wishes for me next time

smoky jay
#

At least it's fun to watch laundry machine tablets bounce around for a bit squirtnya

north pulsar
#

i was eating some bread with a tougher crust and damn ripping pieces of food off a larger piece in my hand is so satsifying to my caveman brain

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should try some persistence and making arrows while telling stories next to a fire

limber walrus
royal relic
#

it's like "oooohh are they gonna do some fancy radioactive magic stuff?"
nah they just boil water to spin up turbines

tall owl
#

it‘s all just steam…

royal relic
#

i mean
steam's good

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it has sales and other stuff

tall owl
#

tbf boiling huge amounts of water and pumping it through giant turbines at insane speed and pressure is kinda cool…

royal relic
#

yeah, but
on the other hand

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when did we as humans realize we can use steam to power engines?

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how many years ago?

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hundreds of years, i should say

tall owl
#

kinda like how the challenge ‚greatly accelerate an object‘ is solved by putting the object in front of an explosion. cannons, pistols, rockets and arguably cars

royal relic
#

manhole covers

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it's all just different ways of chucking rocks and boiling water

north pulsar
#

humans when water phase transision

limber walrus
#

humans when water

royal relic
#

pyuur wa-ah!

limber walrus
north pulsar
#

what is making those magnets spin buster

limber walrus
#

usually not an explosion? (I'm not talking about power generation, I know that's just steam, I'm talking about stuff like maglev or railguns)

royal relic
#

ah jeez

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what was the name of that magnet guy from metal gear rising?

#

i wanna talk in gifs but i forgot his name

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MONSOON!

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magnets

north pulsar
#

double double

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you can do this with dirty sources like coal but the gass would erode your stuff

spark stone
#

i wanna be a waterbender

wild dragon
#

im more of an earthbender type of fella

spark stone
#

i wish i lived in ba sing se

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there's no war there

fast marlin
#

happy weezer album

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  • dropout being nominated for 5000 emmys but they still gotta win
latent lodge
#

Zagreus

smoky jay
#

How 'bout this one?

north pulsar
#

Earth is easily the strongest style

smoky jay
#

As proven by Toph!

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That said, Aang bulldozering right through solid rock with just a bubble of wind is quite scary

wild dragon
#

earth and air look the coolest

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fire is the lamest one

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also they cheated by getting lightning, it makes no sense!

still schooner
#

Bending is (kinda) aligned with the four states of matter.

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Water cheats getting 3 phases, lavabenders get 2, firebenders control plasma.

spark stone
#

toph also singlehandedly learned to bend metal and be the first of all history to do so??? at least if I remember correctly

stable comet
swift valley
#

Crochet hook tierlist based on how good they are at poking stuffing into small holes for making limbs/tentacles

past mortar
#

.

swift valley
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:

smoky jay
#

tall owl
#

sharp grail
#

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wild dragon
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bronze lintel
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| | 󠁰 󠁰 | _

smoky jay
past mortar
#

Would self promo be the place to promote a Greek mythology themed discord bot game? Seems like it more revolves around streamers self promoting

olive sorrel
#

Project Hail Mary 🚀 peak

tall owl
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Good morning

royal relic
#

Mornin’ PES_LookCoffee

keen bluff
#

Hey guys just asking what character I should draw and what they're basically doing meltada

royal relic
#

One of the sheep at poly’s fight being super confused about the whole thing

shadow raft
#

Hypnos finally meeting Asterius to get that autograph

spark stone
#

eris asking dora what's the meaning of life

keen bluff
#

Well all of these sounds really fun, sure meltada meltada !

stable comet
north pulsar
#

I'm thinking of pistol shrimp being able to make cavitation bubbles

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I think there is a comic where that one female air avatar could do smth like this

#

But if you could create vacuums that implode violently at atmospheric pressure that would be pretty nifty

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But I suppose you could make similar arguments for all the other styles

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What if earth Bender could bend singular calcium ions

muted smelt
#

Why don't they bend the entire earth

hallow lion
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Already round, cannot bend more

spark stone
#

why dont they bend all water in the world and throw it in the fire nation

mossy trail
#

hm last time I opened this server I wasn't even nonbinary yet

sharp grail
#

Markiplier, whose real name is Mark Fischbach worded so weirdly

fallen falcon
#

showered, moisturized, acne cream applied and in bed

#

if i was a victorian child I'd get a caramel candy

sharp grail
#

you can still do that

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get urself some caramel candy its also self care

fallen falcon
#

I keep forgetting to buy those

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caramel must've gone crazy when it was first invented

swift valley
royal relic
tall owl
past mortar
keen bluff
#

Do you ever feel bad about favouring a character that has a little sister that you bought a nendoroid of her melcry

#

I just feel so guilty of liking Zag more than Mel

frozen roost
#

man the invincible finale was good

#

I'm tempted to read the comics

#

but i just started harry Potter 😔

swift valley
#

interesting piece of media to start now

#

The only good harry potter movie

royal relic
#

ayyyy

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would you look at that

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and it's actually funny?

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must be my birthday or something

fallen falcon
#

i love bugs and creatures

royal relic
#

this one looks so goofy

frozen roost
#

i love me some fantasy slop and it keeps me off of videogames which is probably healthy

swift valley
#

I don't mean that I mean the author's increased derangedness

neon barn
#

Also harry potter is for children

#

play magic the gathering instead

primal stump
#

first rule of any strange occurrences (based on classical Greek myth)

#

"it's always a family thing"

night niche
#

I love what Ursula K LeGuin had to say about Mr Robert Galbraith

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"Q: Nicholas Lezard has written `Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.’ What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I’d like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling’s writing style

UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When soo many adult critics were carrying on about the “incredible originality” of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a “school novel”, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited."

night niche
smoky jay
muted smelt
#

@sharp grail would you like a book rec? I've been reading it for book club!

sharp grail
#

yes sure!

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as with everything i have accumulated a sizeable backlog but i would love to get back into reading for real

muted smelt
#

Okay i'll share the post where I recommended it to my book club

frozen roost
# muted smelt

i love me some books about how the world is depressing and everyone is evil and humanity is terrible but I'm currently not in the mental state to read another one 🗿

muted smelt
#

It's an opportunity to get to know people and their culture 😊

sharp grail
#

it does sound interesting, i will write it down so i can check it out some other time

muted smelt
#

Yay

spark stone
#

i know it also got an Apple TV+ show that's very well recieved

muted smelt
#

Oh yes the opening for that show is so addicting

spark stone
#

oh anna sawai is on it zagluv

#

damn i really wanna watch it. i wonder if I should read the book first or start with the show

muted smelt
#

I kinda started both around the same time lmao

#

I'd say the show is very very good, but you gotta expect that it takes a lot of liberties so a lot of things will be different from the book

#

So just reconcile it expecting they're different. But the show is good

spark stone
#

yeah i'm guessing it's more of a companion piece rather than one replacing the other. it's similar to what I felt with project hail mary

muted smelt
#

Each episode has these powerful moments it's well crafted

#

In the book those moments might come later and not composed close together as the show does it

#

But the show knows how to do that well

royal relic
#

folks
i have a very important announcement

#

this is my first weekend since like...
the beginning of march
that i actually have off PES_Lul

#

i don't have to do anything

#

man this feels good PES3_ThinkBeer

smoky jay
#

Congrats on your relaxing weekend!

royal relic
#

It’s Saturday and I’m back at work

#

They ain’t paying me enough for this crap

keen bluff
#

I just got a Melinoe nendoroid! meltada

royal relic
#

Nintendo is doing crossovers for prime 4?

#

Oh wait
I read that as metroid

muted smelt
#

Melinoid

royal relic
#

the last melinoe is in captivity.
the galaxy is at peace

#

🎺dusa

muted smelt
#

🎺

royal relic
#

||what’s a nendoroid?||

#

I genuinely do not know

muted smelt
#

Tiny cutesy dolls of various popular franchises

royal relic
#

So like a funko pop?

#

Or the amiibo

keen bluff
#

It's not an amiibo though

#

It's just

#

A little figurine

royal relic
#

Ye

keen bluff
#

I've been dreaming about a Hypnos nendoroid a lot lately

#

Could this be a sign or is the fate playing with again melproud

royal relic
#

both

spark stone
#

i don't like metroid

wild dragon
#

just the ones where she turns into a ball

spark stone
#

or the ones where she's in an armor

bronze lintel
#

Someone liked my AO3 fic enough to reach out and tell me they like it dusa

royal relic
#

aaaawwww

#

that's really nice of them

icy badge
#

good morning

keen bluff
#

Morning !

crisp lion
#

Idk if I've ever talked in this server but hi 😼

muted smelt
#

Hello!

terse trellis
#

Ben Starr is so based

fast marlin
#

oh and arcane

#

but thats bc LOL Is impossible not to improve on its sooo bad

royal relic
terse trellis
#

Video game adaptation can work if the people who worked on it cared about the source materials and the writing

fast marlin
#

i dont think its just that i think theres something more

fast marlin
#

bc theres plenty of adaptations where irs like. Yup. Thats exactly what happens in the video game.

wild dragon
terse trellis
#

Oh the misery, Everybody wants to be my enemy

smoky jay
#

The way people abuse commas in writing these days sees me reading their comments as though they're hyperventilating

spark stone
#

i loved fallout tv show

#

cyberpunk edgerunners too. and i think that's it

#

i can't remember any other good game adaptations

tall owl
#

postal

spark stone
#

wasn't that one directed by

tall owl
#

the one and only

smoky jay
#

Arcane. Inb4 Bim "glung"

limber walrus
limber walrus
spark stone
#

i thought arcane was one of the good videogame adaptations until it wasn't

#

that's why i didn't name it

barren jasper
royal relic
#

Whomst'd've

#

Or however that goes

#

Oh hey I didn’t get a warning this time peepoSmug2

muted smelt
#

OK'nt

junior oasis
limber walrus
royal relic
#

Swan over here inventing a new language to rival tolkiens elvish

tall owl
#

they're just beatboxing

royal relic
#

Careful now

#

You wouldn’t want to get a 20 minute timeout peepoSmug2

limber walrus
spark stone
#

i finished watching avatar

keen bluff
#

Hey peeps, is the Nintendo switch worth saving up for? And if so, which one should I save up for? shadeembarassed

fast marlin
fast marlin
#

if you dont and you want a portable console and you can afford it im a big steam deck fan

royal relic
#

yup

fast marlin
#

but if u want specific modern (ie un 🏴‍☠️ able) nintendo games thats where the switch is good

royal relic
#

can vouch for steam deck

spark stone
#

i say a switch is worth it because of the sheer amount of games, there's xenoblade, zelda, mario, pokémon, fire emblem, astral chain, metroid, pikmin, if you're into that stuff it's amazing

#

but i also think there's a balance and the deck has amazing possibilities on itself

spark stone
#

oh whoops i said fire emblem twice

fast marlin
#

as for which one a) it depends on whether you want to easily be able to play with other people in which case u want a full switch over a switch lie

fast marlin
spark stone
#

yeah i finished the last airbender now I'm watching korra

fast marlin
#

i like korra but a lot of people dont

spark stone
#

i can definitively see why this was a more divisive show but i honestly love this universe so much that I'm very invested on it

#

like I just want to see more

fast marlin
spark stone
#

switch 2 will probably be a great console in a couple of years when it gets the biggest releases. but for now it's hard to argue that it's essential in my opinion

fast marlin
#

yeah

#

every time they make a live action atla 5000 polar bears die trust i was there

#

and yes thus includes the new show

spark stone
#

like i imagine when there's a new epic acclaimed zelda game everybody's gonna rush to buy a switch 2

fast marlin
#

me when i add literally nothing except trying to fix things that werent problems because characters are obviously more interesting when they have 0 flaws

spark stone
fast marlin
#

its better than the movie!

#

but thats the lowest bar ever

spark stone
#

like yeah sokka doesn't learn to respect women anymore. is that supposed to be an improvement? 💀

keen bluff
fast marlin
#

i just never understood the benefit of live action anything

#

depends on the game!

#

some new games work on both and some dont

spark stone
#

i enjoyed one piece live action because the anime is not really the greatest experience right now. no wonder they're remaking that already

#

in that case it was great to see these characters in an epic scale

fast marlin
#

episode 50000000000 is getting adapted guys!

spark stone
#

but with ATLA it's another story. the animated show is already perfect, I see zero reason for a live action of that

spark stone
keen bluff
spark stone
#

so what's a single page gets very bloated so it fills a whole episode

spark stone
#

if you value the home console experience as much as possible, it's better to go with the standard or OLED editions

keen bluff
#

I think I might go for the standard or the OLED one ! melsmile

#

Thank you for the help, I appreciate it! meltada

royal relic
#

they're remaking one piece?

spark stone
#

yeah the name is really good. it's called "The One Piece"

#

i know i know. fantastic name

royal relic
#

but...

#

did they finish the original one?

spark stone
#

no. but they're already remaking it

royal relic
#

okay

#

regular dusa won't do here

#

it's time for a big dusa

#

THE F-

#

wha-

spark stone
#

yeah. it's how rough it is

royal relic
#

how's that work?

fast marlin
#

one piece is an infinite loop

royal relic
#

okay but it's like

#

they're making the remake

#

what about the OG series?

#

are they going to continue it too?

spark stone
#

the og series will continue yeah. the remake is by another studio

royal relic
#

WHAT

spark stone
#

it's by Wit Studio, from Attack on Titan and uh

#

what else did they do

royal relic
#

iunno don't ask me i've watched just two anime series in my life

spark stone
#

they did Spy x Family and Vinland Saga as well

#

anyhow here's my attempt at explaining this

royal relic
#

but this whole thing just feels wild to me

spark stone
#

here it goes

royal relic
#

oh boi

spark stone
#

one piece takes way longer than it should. like very long. so what should be just 25 episodes, becomes 61 episodes

#

because they can't reach the manga, so they have to make it way longer

royal relic
#

OONE PIECE

spark stone
#

the remake's idea is to be more manga accurate and be an easier entry point. and thus it's gonna be way shorter and more straightforward than the original anime

#

i guess that's about it

royal relic
#

this is what buying an online season pass feels like

#

get in a few months late, pay extra, skip the grind, get to the good stuff

tall owl
#

the one piece

spark stone
#

the one piece is real!

final nova
#

how do i get image perms :(

sick cave
#

you don't

#

only the victory boasting channels have image perms

#

if you want to share an image, you'll have to upload it to imgur or similar

final nova
wild dragon
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discord u okay?

spark stone
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I started playing "final fantasy"

bronze lintel
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So the cafe I'm working in switched to a different coffee blend

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Aptly named, Bunny blend

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Cause it's a blend of Kerinci and Kerinci sounds like Kelinci which is Bunny in Bahasa

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All this to say

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I got my tongue burned by a bunny

past mortar
royal relic
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FLUFFY! @bronze lintel
I need your help, as a pro in this business

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What do I do about my cheap portafilter looking like it’s rusty or whatever

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It’s got these stains I can’t get rid of

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Like - all the baskets are looking fine
But I can feel the portafilter being made of cheaper materials and it’s starting to look kinda PES2_DistortedWeird

bronze lintel
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haven't heard of rusty porta

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have you tried cafiza?

royal relic
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Nope

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What’s that?

bronze lintel
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Basically a coffee detergent. If it's coffee oil residue, it should clean them.

royal relic
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PES_Interesting okay, alright

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Yeah I could try that

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But let’s assume it won’t work and that I want to buy a bottomless portafilter
Is there like a website that would help me find a proper model and measurements?

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Cause I ordered one a while ago and got the wrong size dusa

native frost
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Yoooooo

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New spider Genis found in Australia called a Pelican Spider

royal relic
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Another one?

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Don’t you guys have enough? dusa

bronze lintel
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what kit does it have?

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poison? paralysis?

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hallucigenic?

royal relic
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Probably running a neurotoxin passive

muted smelt
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No it's a pacifist build

royal relic
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Evolution will soon correct this

native frost
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The best combo for spooder

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It also eats other spiders

royal relic
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Didn’t you guys get the brand new Newcastle Big Boy just a few months back?

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In other news

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Is it just me or is YouTube serving like double personalized ads now?

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Like yeah - targeted ads are one thing, they’ve been a thing for years now

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I’m mostly watching gaming stuff on YouTube so it’s serving me ads for crappy mobile games, right?
Sure whatever

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But lately I’ve been watching a lot of stuff about different subject
And now I just got a bunch of ads that somehow combine the two dusa

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And it’s either dumb luck or the algorithm is eerily accurate

swift valley
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You mean the ads are now for crappy mobile games about the different subject? dusa

royal relic
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Kinda

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It’s like
Here’s a game ad that also mentions that other subject you’ve been watching

swift valley
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I wouldn't put it past youtube to straight up AI generate ads at this point

royal relic
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Yeah

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But it was so weird
So eerie

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Some YouTube.exe type of thing
Where it talks to you

swift valley
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I pay for youtube so all I get is sports gambling ads on twitch 💀

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also ones in french that I don't understand dusa

royal relic
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I just use Adblock on pc
But this happened on my phone

swift valley
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yeah those ads I get are on my phone too

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If you get adblock and use the twitch website do you just get to watch the stream during mid-stream ads

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Or do you get silence but can't watch anyway

royal relic
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I dunno
Haven’t used twitch in ages

royal relic
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HA!

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write F in bold italics now peepoSmug2

swift valley
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I can't browse reddit on my phone without the app now????

royal relic
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Iunno PeepoShrug

royal relic
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Lol

swift valley
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There used to be an X to close the "use the app ya scrub" pop up

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Now I can't even scroll

royal relic
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Can’t you just click outside of the ad to go back to the side?

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Or switch to pc layout for it to go away?

night niche
royal relic
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F aPES_Salute

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Oh hey dusa
This works

wild dragon
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what to do now on my browsing phone hours...

royal relic
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just do what I do

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Bug people on discord until a convo starts dusa

swift valley
royal relic
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Bold F

swift valley
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Has that.. Not worked before?

royal relic
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Watch this

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Pay attention I’m not gonna do it twice

swift valley
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F

royal relic
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Do it in bold italics ***

swift valley
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Inb4 I join your timeout corner

royal relic
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Nah you get one freebie

swift valley
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LOL

royal relic
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It just started doing that lately PES_Lul

wild dragon
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dynobot keeps getting worse and worse

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maybe it's time to take it back out

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those are tears of joy

royal relic
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just look at the pretty flowers, dyno

sharp grail
royal relic
sharp grail
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anyway it was added to the server when h2 1.0 came out and the server obviously had a huge influx of activity

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which was a lot of trying to bypass the swear filter at any cost than it was people talking about the game sometimes

royal relic
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PES_Interesting yeah that checks out

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Also

sweat filter

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But seriously now
Was it really that many people trying to circumvent the profanity filter?

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I rarely venture out to other channels PeepoShrug

sharp grail
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then looks like dynobot keeps getting better and better keikaku

sharp grail
sharp grail
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idk why i sent it as a reply, it seemed more related and relevant in my head

royal relic
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my recommended algorithm is so scuffed right now PES_Lul

tall owl
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Okna 11

royal relic
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10 okna is more than enough

still schooner
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I don't understand why people try to dodge the bot. That just sets you up to be more strongly dealt with by mods. Just follow server rules.

swift valley
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"just follow the rules" is a hell of a statement to say in today's political climate

swift valley
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Like the only video genres that I see on both platforms are the ones I've explicitly searched for

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If I engage with a lot of one type of content on a chinese app, it doesn't affect my english algorithm at all

sharp grail
night niche
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As an anarchist there are certain rules I think are good, actually

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Don't drink and drive

fast marlin
tall owl
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i've hidden the rules channel so i can do whatever i want

royal relic
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The authorities hate him
Learn how to unlock the infinite money glitch with this one simple trick
Click here!

spark stone
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I know what i hate. not playing videogames

royal relic
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what's your dream game that will never happen?

swift valley
royal relic
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  • cries in being replaced by ai *
swift valley
spark stone
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the new one that got cancelled

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that game looked great. it's a shame it's not happening

royal relic
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on one hand - yeah

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as a mirror's edge fan i have to admit - it had a bit of that energy about it

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on the other hand, however
it's crystal dynamics

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and i have enough bones to pick with them to make an entire skeleton

spark stone
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yeah there's one thing that needs to be reminded. "the best games are the ones we never got"

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meaning the hypothetical game is always gonna be perfect

royal relic
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yeah

spark stone
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but it's another story in practice

royal relic
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exactly

tall owl
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and games being imperfect also never bothered me

royal relic
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||please say rollerdrome||

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aw come on

tall owl
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i mean that and so many others

royal relic
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okay - imagine this

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SGGs making rollerdrome 2

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maybe with some ex roll7 devs

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like... that's it

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pack it up - videogames are over
you can't top that so why bother?

tall owl
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never would i have said 'oh man i hope there'll be a game where you're a stoic finnish engineer walking through source levels of infrastructure where you occasionally solve a puzzle and at most can take pics of damages' but it's there

royal relic
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but then my summer car came out PES_Lul

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i should play that

spark stone
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what i meant about the phrase is less about the expectations going into a game and more about a lot of the feeling that goes into games we never got

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ideally no game ever gets cancelled but the truth is, sometimes it just wasn't going to be a good game

royal relic
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or sometimes shareholders don't do so good at the casino and wipe the whole studio even if they make a banger after banger

tall owl
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'luckily' i havent been in that situation, most are just one-off indies. mirror's edge catalyst...

tall owl
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i guess it's worse that catalyst exists than if it didn't (though i haven't played it and i don't like talking about games i havent played)

spark stone
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when i think of a game that i didn't even know was gonna be my dream game, it's hi-fi rush

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devil may cry meets music. how cool is that

royal relic
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yeah i can see that

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have you seen that disco game?

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what's it called?

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dead as disco?

spark stone
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yesss I played the demo

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it barely ran on my PC though 😔

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i gotta upgrade

royal relic
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this... doesn't look that taxing

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what hardware do you have?

spark stone
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it's uh. integrated graphics card

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that's probably why

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english is not my first language so i'm not 100% sure how to refer to this type of graphics card. but it's built in

royal relic
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yeah it's intergrated

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sorry to break it to you
but this is the worst time to upgrade

spark stone
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unfortunately so I heard

tall owl
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hey bim let's upgrade to 32gb ram for 007

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only got a month left

royal relic
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i wouldn't be able to even if i wanted

tall owl
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so you hate gaming

royal relic
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i pissed away so... so much cash this month it's unreal

royal relic
tall owl
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i got a bonus this month :---)

royal relic
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cool

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get me some ram for it

tall owl
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they pay me in woims

royal relic
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woims?

tall owl
frozen roost
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the woims panel being repeated 3 times has so much ytp energy i love it

wild dragon
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woims

late pawn
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13 Months ago, I completed my run through the grueling grind of Achieving Unseen One in Hades 1 whilst riding out the hiatus between chapters of another widely enjoyed indie game.
Today, Hades 2 has done all it can to see me through another of those hiatuses.

Thanks for the fun games, Supergiant.

https://bsky.app/profile/trinitywanderer.bsky.social/post/3mknznqwduk2c

(1/2)
It's rather poetic, all things considered. Hades 1 was there to provide a challenge back when we awaited DR Chapters 3 & 4.

And today, I have reached that same point with Hades 2 in the wait for DR Chapter 5. I have achieved all I set out to do here, too.
#undertale #deltarune #hades #hades2

spark stone
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chat

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I have something to say

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fortnite battlepass

still schooner
fiery holly
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Black clover ended

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Probably wouldn’t be writing without it