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“There are no happy endings in night city. Not for people like us”
That’s basically everything revolving around Cyberpunk
Just watch it you’ll like it
i will i will
i liked cyberpunk but i didnt get as crazy immersed in the world and the story as some of my other friends
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
I think that Edgerunners does a bit better job of telling a story using the world of Cyberpunk
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
thats good to hear, makes me more excited to check it out then
Edgerunners is a very good story that happens to exist in the cyberpunk universe
It uses it to its advantage and it does a lot using the context of the cyber dystopia
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
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
Cyberpunk is more a game you experience because you like the world than the gameplay being particularly stellar
I did enjoy the gameplay but I stuck around for the experience
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
it did give us this scene though
Braindances did have very little part in the game
You only do them a few times but they are a low point for how little they were explored
They could have been more important and executed a bit better but I don’t think they drag down the game
“You look like a lovely person have a nice day” and Adam Smasher said nothing else
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"
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
Cyberpunk is definitely a world you want to spend more time experiencing and less time messing around with
absolutely beautiful game though for sure
bro i forgot to mention, i was soo sad about jackie. my friend didnt even care about him, he said he was annoying
he was literally my favorite character 💔
Jackie is divisive on whether you personally get attached to him. He’s not around for very long which is the sad part
It’s entirely up to whether or not your short time with him left an impact
hes just such good vibes, such a chill guy. such a bro
Yeah it’s either because you find him cool or attractive. If it’s neither then it probably doesn’t land as hard
XD
hes kinda of a cutie too thats true
tbh i never found any of the cyberpunk characters that hot
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
The characters are mostly just real. They have flaws and aren’t meant just to appeal to you in that way
You like them if you like them but they’re meant to be their own characters
this is true but i always see people talking about them like that 😭
particularly since they added romance paths, i guess
i think goro is my actual favorite character, jackie would probably be higher up there if we got more of him
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
i quite like panam as a character actually
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
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
“To Haboobs”
I do get the criticisms though that I’ve seen for River Ward being rushed
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
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
so i dont remember anything about river, but i know he exists
Kerry is very out of the way and the only other one you can do with male V
Judy’s side story is nice
I’ve not dealt with with River
I did get Panam’s ending though that was the first one I did
One of the paths for the final mission requires Panam
It’s a very solid ending imo
i chose male V for my first playthrough, i started a female V playthrough afterwards but didnt get too far into it before stopping
I did accidentally lock myself out of one of the ending by not saving Takemura
Judy has a sort of Easter egg ending for female V
the ending i got, after accidentally killing myself i mean, was where you go insane in the white room being studied by arasaka
me too man, and my friend made fun of me for not saving him 😭
I didn’t realize you could
Or rather I guess I just missed the direction I needed to go to save him
So I ended the mission without knowing
yeah i didnt know either
It’s fine I’ll go back and do it at some point
what kind of build did you go for? like katana, hacker, sniper, knives?
i love snipers so thats primarily what i did
though i think my friend said katana is fun
Cool, intelligence, and technical, though it did become a little boring after a bit when everything died instantly to hacking or smart weapons
I’ll go for more of a gunplay build next time
But that’s my own fault
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”
While ignoring dashing and double jumping around like a roided out cyberpsycho with a shotgun and a sandy
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
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
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
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
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
But yeah go watch CSM I know you want to and you keep putting it off on other stuff
lolol dont worry im already 3 episodes in after starting today. ill be finishing it, and im downloading cyberpunk edgerunners too
but yeah im about to head to bed myself. thanks for the chat
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
youve been warned
i just watched epic the musical for the first time and cried 
Oo what part did you cry at? 
I mostly cried at Odysseus and Telemachus first meeting with each other
hera's voice is my favorite 😋
i also saw the little skit with hermes' VA that isnt really in the musical
Oh yes! I love that guy, his name is Troy!
my favorite artist has to be Neal tbh
Neal mentioned! 
Neal has a webtoon dedicated to the Greek gods called Famtheon! It's like a slice of life type of webtoon, some of them are really silly some of them are kinda more to lore stuff 
You should give it a go! 
imma be watching The Daily Object Show with my gf in a bit cuz weve been meaning to watch it together
epic is pretty good
I don't really know what that is but hope you guys have fun ! 
I really really like epic but I'm more into Paris the musical 
Medea is really beautiful, I just saw a picture of her while looking around the Hades 2 wiki 
@faint panther hi do u still do karuta
O Akane-banashi how I love you so. Still giving me chills 200+ chapters in
What is akane banashi- woah this sounds like peak
Because it made me think of March Come Like a Lion which is peak fiction
It's a sports manga+anime, except it's actually a theater manga+anime!
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
But oh my word the manga somehow not only translates theater performances to paper but does it so well it like moves me
(Also, the author + artist need to do a horror manga once they finish Akane-banashi)
Don't let the banner of Akane-banashi on Viz.com fool you; Akane is not a 20-some office lady
What's really fun is that like half the characters have main character energy
Oh! And one of the best sympathetic antagonists you could hope for 
Thanks that sounds really cool! Have you seen march comes like a lion?
I'm not in school anymore!!
i am!
Is that the shogi-themed one? I've seen this other one with a Double Central Rook game, but cant quite remember
Got a stack of books with mate problems as well
Yesss it's so good
Let me copy what I said about it to friend
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
I have not! I thought I heard it beat people up and made them cry though 
Worth it!
is anyone here also in the hades modding discord?
Yeah, what's up?
if i wanna share a friend's comic, do i post it here or at #self-promotion
its not self promoting but
oh, it needs to be related to supergiant stuff
Persona 5 royal is great
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXINtfakhVX/
she's so peak
What it’s like in my head: Vex from Borderlands 4 and Melinoë from Hades 2 have a chat 💕
#voiceactor #videogames #hades2
#Melinoë #Vex
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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 🙇♂️
ping me in your answer if any pls
I know a bit, and I have friends who know a lot!
(they're all asleep, as I should be, but I can ask them tomorrow)
ok ok ok what would you give as a gift to someone who enjoys it? not counting keychains and stuff like that
something more easily accessible even if it’s more expensive than a keychain
Oooh. Posters, maybe?
mayhaps! i was thinking of drawing something for her myself but idk where i would start
i probably need sleep but any other ideas as well, help meeeee
Do you know her favorite character(s), song(s), or chapter(s) ? That could narrow down a lot what to draw
hi
sorry for not responding, i slept the day away and forgot
she told me her favorite characters but she seems so reluctant to get anything at all... maybe i have some cool stationery i could wrap up nicely and give her
glorp
oh jeez
geoff... you doing alright there?
better than ever, bim! 
... well her friends got her a fancy copy of the odyssey so my backup plan is gone LOL
RIP
I think a little character doodle would probably be appreciated, if nothing else? I got one of those for a Christmas thing, for one of my favorite characters from a game, and I have it on display on my desk xD
This is the official trailer for the feature-length documentary, "What's the Story, Wishbone".
The film goes behind the scenes of the beloved 1990s PBS TV series that turned classic literature into adventure – starring one unforgettable little dog with a very big imagination.
The documentary will air on public television stations nationwide ...
Crazy blast from the past!
I heard Invincible S4 Ep 7 was fire
||but weebs still whining about the animation||
not even a weeb and they could do much better imo
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
its a very understandable critique to say that the episode (Invincible S4 Ep 7) ||has a hard time mixing floaty, directionless, space combat with the concept of face to face fist fighting.|| but yeah it was a pretty great episode, if slightly predictable
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
none of them block, they telegraph their attacks for way too long
people get hit by things they shouldnt have gotten bit by
i wouldnt even mind the horrible power scaling if they made the fights interesting, but they arent
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?!"
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
Hi
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

||damn they destroyed planet viltrum||
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
the only thing i know from invincible are the memes
THINK!!
mark, I made a steak
A STEAK!?
On the 3rd point: one is a season finale and the other was not, (though that point is a little weak, but that's probably the explanation, and the whole fight going on wasnt just mainly about Conquest vs Invincible, there were multiple fights )
On the 4th point, they are setting up a redemption arc (which kinda already happened)
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.
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.
Counter point i was not comparing invincibles animations to anything anime related. Its just not as a good as it could be
A little jank at times. The budget clearly goes to the action/gore and the story
hmmm this is probably the first time ive liked one of olivia rodrigos lead singles
i always end up being meh on it but then liking the album
speaking of mainstream stuff
did you guys see that nine inch nails set with boys noize at coachella
invincible animators are horrified of going off-model which just leads to an overall stiffness
The show is better than the comics, for sure, but the comics make me feel more
which is why i like the comics
ryan ottley and cory walker are just insanely skilled
later cory walker art is some of my favourite
he’s great
Everything I hear about the behind the scenes is just they have it awful
They don’t have the man power needed
season 1 looked absolutely phenomenal
I personally don’t like the way animation as a whole is going where hyperflashy impact frames are what people find "good" animation
season 1 was incredible in my opinion because it fit the story invincible was doing
still think its a great show
At Amazon? Of all places!
hi guys its 2026 and i just learned what splash mountain was about and why it got removed and Oh My God\
song of the south ride until 2023. jesus christ
i think every place in the world deserves their own version of country roads bc hawaii has one and its a banger
and whedn i was a kid i didnt know the lyrics to the original so i would sing west makaha mount ka'ala
They have 4 vfx artists
They absolutely don’t have the man power
I think they have not a lot of animators ether
Actually they have between 130 to 200 animators it seems
for what is 8 one-hour (give or take) episodes
and given what invincible is trying to look like
definetly not enough
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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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXHd8TRgRuH/
is that heracles in his arms? :V
has anyone ever heard of "hot green" as a color
I saw that used to describe a slightly neony light green
i heard of hot pink for a similar neon type
I hate how every new movie or tv show about Greek mythology is all defy the gods
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
It a cool idea but every story does it
It almost this idea that people from greece hated the gods when they worship them
I mean, that's because in the original Greek mythology, the gods were, in fact, massive a-holes
That's not something people invented in modern times lol
Well yeah - that’s why I find the subject at hand interesting, but
Like
I know what @spare heron means, I just can’t think of any particular examples
The God of War series?
The movie in which Liam Neeson goes "Release da Kraken!"
The new odyssey movie with the literal title of defy the gods
Well fair enough
But then again - who isnt a rage-fueled a-hole in this series?
I haven't actually played it, but from what I recall of watching my partner, Atreus?
No I mean the old GOW
Aphrodite maybe?
Aphrodite was in old gow?
And the gow was in Aphrodite
Sorry for the joke
But that all shd did
She appears for one scene
And it a you know what with kratos
Old gow was nasty
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
well most of them, she don't fw Hades
Yeah I heard of hot pink but never hot green
Nah that was a good one 
Hiiiii
wa zaaaaaaaaaap
Yoooooooo
I think it must've been Linus Torvald
Good morning
Buenos días
Someone's GOTTA add Eris in
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
At least with Heracles, he has a lot of dialogue
What other good roguelikes are there? I’ve only played both hades games and Nightreign
I quite enjoyed Boyfriend Dungeon personally, and Cult of the Lamb is also a lot of fun
Crypt of the Necrodancer!
slay the spirwe
Slay the spire 2
Slay the spire 3
If only
Dead Cells is one of the best.
@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
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
Dead cells, rogue prince of persia
If you like Pokemon you should try the Mystery Dungeon series, my favorites are explorers of sky and rescue team. They're very different from the Hades games in that each story chapter is a different dungeon, meta progression is very heavy, and the "true" rogue experience doesn't kick in until end game, plus the story + music are pretty nice
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.
who up slaying they spire rn
second on Dead Cells being great. slightly more casual but still roguelike is Vampire Slayers (omg theres so much to do in this) and BallxPit (a bit newer and extra simple)
i was gonna hop on it yeah!
i lost a bunch
Systems have properties that are beyond their individual components
But therefore, where does free-will comes from?
It would be an emergent property of the brain
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 ...
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?
Did I learn to speak english because I truly wanted to, or because circumstances lead me to do so?
You can make the decision to not eat
The state of being hungry is not relevant to freewill
You cannot decide physical reality but you can decide your actions
You could have chosen to not learn English
But why? Why do I make this decision? Is that because of free-will or because of unknown factors? Am I truly free, or just the puppet of causes and consequences I don't actually know?
If someone puts a gun to your head and tells you to learn English
You can choose no and die
But is my survival instinct programmed to say no?
Unless you elucidate these other factors then you can assume that it is what you perceive,being free will
Chose to act against it?
If you think we are wholly controlled by our impulses then actually no we arent
The point is, I consider that the existence of free-will is the most "comfortable" option, and maybe because of my scientific background (even though not all of scientists are like me), I tend to exercise caution about what I consider as the "comfortable option"
💀
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
Imo the argument against freewill is weak
I believe it can exist materialistically
And I don't see an argument for any other explanation
Well, I have an argument from a philosopher, called the Demon of Pascal, or the Genius of Pascal
Here since there is a lack of evidence for an afterlife you would assert that consciousness stops since that is the perception (other ppl seeing that dead people lack consciousness)
And I would argue it's a similar dynamic on the question of free will
You perceive yourself to be acting out of free will and others too
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.
And of course I got the name wrong. It isn't the Demon of Pascal but the Demon of Laplace
Again you cannot predict emergent properties based on the properties on the individual elements
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Well the thinking of Laplace is that there is no other force in the universe that the basic laws of this universe. So if you perfectly know them, you know the future
Again I refer to emergent properties
So you think that there are other laws than the basic ones
No bruh read the Wikipedia
I'm currently reading the article, sorry I'm just doing many things at the same time
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
But that's a solid argument I can't really counter
Personally I don't think we have a soul or anything
But I don't see an argument against why free will cannot be an emergent property of a sufficiently complex computational system
Well if that's the case it is quite scary I think
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
All of this is quite funny because free-will is actually one of the main topics of Hades 2
But I promise I will meditate on this argument, I never heard of it before and I will integrate it to my ways of thinking
For me that part was a bit silly
It's not really a big theme throughout the game other than that one quest
Well I think that, the Fates being the Fates, it had to be adressed at least once
It kinda has the classic religion blunder of failing to explain why the fate deciders has free will and everyone else doesn't
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?
I think the fates influences are more targeted at morals
Since each thread is a moral life and all
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
Like, for her, the cosmos is not supposed to work without the Fates
*I have a friend, sorry
I think if the fates stopped there would be no more new humans and existing ones wouldn't die
Because of the thread thing
I don't see any relation between the fates and the existence of the world
Well I'm not an expert on greek mythology, so I didn't really answer to that
(But she also hated Hades 2 because she didn't like some chara designs)
(And I never quite understood why but hey, to each one's their own tastes)
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
And I enjoy playing them both a lot
i think that opinion is very parroted
i dont know if people have actually thought about it but it feels very much like bandwagoning to me
h2 gameplay feels alot worse to me than h1
especially the transision from h1 to h2
Bandwagoning? Sorry, I don't actually know this word
not being able to animaiton cancle alot of moves really disrupts the flow of combat for me
its when you adopt the popular opinion without having thought about it much
the aspects of h2 i think are better are
cast, arcana, more content
Well I did my best to compare the games and I just happen to agree with the consensus.
But the fact that there is "more content" is not a quality for me. It's not a flaw either, I'm just indifferent to this
for h1, core combat mechanics, boss design, weapon aspects
i think the hades fight in h1 is leagues better than every other fight in the franchise
especially mono dash hades with a close range weapon
Well I agree with this, I take more pleasure in fighting Hades than Chronos
the hades fight (mono dash close range) is very dual esque
you are on more or less equal footing and you win by reacting correctly to the moves he does
when close range with monodash the attacks need different timings to be able to dodge or iframe
this kinda goes out the window with doubledash though
this also sorta applies to fighting meg in ff
though i will beat h2 ff eventually and push high feat and see if i change my mind
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
to me each of the h1 weapons had more of an unique personality
for h2 aside from the gimicky ones non were super memorable to me
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
The only thing I really didn't like in Hades 2 is the plot-twists of the story who were...meh
i didnt really care
i was wondering how they were going to keep the gameplay loop after you kill chronos
the ending was a bit contrived and out of nowhere
they should have built up to it more
Indeed
The whole ||"Well thanks to a flash-back Chronos is nice now"|| seems farfetched to me
i think it is acceptable if there was ground work
i could imagine chronos feeling very bad and becoming nice
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
its kinda a similar dynamic to the h1 ending where the "bad guy" becomes nice but it was exicuted much better with hades lol
Happy 420 yall
pls spoilertag hades spoilers in the not-hades channels ✌️
i just realized how late to this discussion i am but the statement stands i guess 😭
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
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?
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
unless you decide to dedicate your entire life to the opposite like trying to achieve immortality
which is cool but also kind of scary because there are a lot of things to consider about that
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 
my favorite story-wise is... pyre
you should play pyre
This is also my position, since we have the perception of free will and act as if we do I don't feel that it matters if it is illusory. But I am also unconvinced by arguments against free will
This is a bit touchy
More often than not the idea of an afterlife is not isolated
what do you mean by that?
If you have the notion of having to prepare for one then you will have guidelines on how people should act
This would very easily lead to encroaching on people's freedoms in life
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
For me, not being able to animation cancel alot of moves in h2 makes it feel quite clunky
And for me the final boss of H1 is much more engaging than both in h2
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.
But indeed for the afterlife question it doesn't really matter
thats very abstract
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
like, yep
and people can be poor and not steal 🤷♂️ its just that that's the reason the hypothetical person you are talking about stole food
This is also my opinion, but not everyone will agree on it.
And it also brings the question : what is the exact criteria that makes you think "Yup they steal but this is out of their control"?
But I ain't trying to prove a point here, I just wanted to explain why the question of free-will matters to me because it is related to the debate of Constructivism VS Essentialism
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
I agree with these but this is not universally agreed
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
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?
yes i met such people and i do not agree with them just like they can disagree with me
And this is why the question of free-will is important to me. Where should we draw the line between "fully responsible because of free-will" and "not responsible because victim of circumstances"?
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
i dont understand why the question applies in the first place ngl
I agree but this is why I tend to talk about the question of free-will, because if you truly are poor and that stealing food has become a question of survival, I consider you do not steal of your own free-will. You did steal because circumstances pushed you to do it, you have been deprived of freedom
And many, many people disagree with this way of thinking
In my case, the very messy topic that is : politics. That's what puzzling in my brain.
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
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
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.
Also I will definitely try Pyre one day, when I'll have the money to buy it
There is still the choice to steal or not to even though it might not be a fair one
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
But they are still asserting their free will in choosing the obviously less bad option
There are obviously factors beyond ones control but i dont think they nessiairly have any relevance to the topic of free will
Why not
You can just choose to die
We may consider this a lack of liberty on the practical sense but you can just choose to die
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
More like Ng+
Dude i found out im allergic to flowers and dogs does are like the only things i love
Nerfed
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
I'm not a rly a fan of medicating for something like "wanting to play with dogs"
All medication has side effects but ofcourse it's up to you to weigh the cost and benefit
Ah, a fellow cat person
unlimited wishes
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...
santa i hope you have infinite wishes for me next time
At least it's fun to watch laundry machine tablets bounce around for a bit 
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
should try some persistence and making arrows while telling stories next to a fire
it really is, just a fantastic feeling
it's kinda like realizing how nuclear power plants produce energy
it's like "oooohh are they gonna do some fancy radioactive magic stuff?"
nah they just boil water to spin up turbines
it‘s all just steam…
tbf boiling huge amounts of water and pumping it through giant turbines at insane speed and pressure is kinda cool…
yeah, but
on the other hand
when did we as humans realize we can use steam to power engines?
how many years ago?
hundreds of years, i should say
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
humans when water phase transision
humans when water
the other two options for that are "slingshot" or, more recently, "magnets"
what is making those magnets spin buster
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)
ah jeez
what was the name of that magnet guy from metal gear rising?
i wanna talk in gifs but i forgot his name
MONSOON!
magnets
actually when generating power with clean burning sources like natural gas you can also capture the pressure created form the combustion to generate energy along side the steam
double double
you can do this with dirty sources like coal but the gass would erode your stuff
i wanna be a waterbender
im more of an earthbender type of fella
Earth is easily the strongest style
As proven by Toph!
That said, Aang bulldozering right through solid rock with just a bubble of wind is quite scary
earth and air look the coolest
fire is the lamest one
also they cheated by getting lightning, it makes no sense!
Bending is (kinda) aligned with the four states of matter.
Water cheats getting 3 phases, lavabenders get 2, firebenders control plasma.
toph also singlehandedly learned to bend metal and be the first of all history to do so??? at least if I remember correctly
Friction bending! it has cool stuff to it
Crochet hook tierlist based on how good they are at poking stuffing into small holes for making limbs/tentacles
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Would self promo be the place to promote a Greek mythology themed discord bot game? Seems like it more revolves around streamers self promoting
Project Hail Mary 🚀 peak
Good morning
Mornin’ 
Hey guys just asking what character I should draw and what they're basically doing 
One of the sheep at poly’s fight being super confused about the whole thing
Hypnos finally meeting Asterius to get that autograph
eris asking dora what's the meaning of life
Well all of these sounds really fun, sure
!
then Dora asking Eris what is the meaning of Strife
-# Eris is the Greek goddess of strife and discord
Hm actually there is an argument for air being quite strong depending on to what extent you can control stuff
I'm thinking of pistol shrimp being able to make cavitation bubbles
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
But I suppose you could make similar arguments for all the other styles
What if earth Bender could bend singular calcium ions
Why don't they bend the entire earth
Already round, cannot bend more
why dont they bend all water in the world and throw it in the fire nation
oh those look so nice shiny colorful pretty
hm last time I opened this server I wasn't even nonbinary yet
Markiplier, whose real name is Mark Fischbach worded so weirdly
showered, moisturized, acne cream applied and in bed
if i was a victorian child I'd get a caramel candy
I keep forgetting to buy those
caramel must've gone crazy when it was first invented
When I first knew of mr beasts real name I was like that sounds like something off that screenshot of the list of generic American names that a Japanese baseball game dev came up with
in the movie he's still credited as markiplier
james donaldson

Do you ever feel bad about favouring a character that has a little sister that you bought a nendoroid of her 
I just feel so guilty of liking Zag more than Mel

man the invincible finale was good
I'm tempted to read the comics
but i just started harry Potter 😔
interesting piece of media to start now
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The only good harry potter movie
ayyyy
would you look at that
a moreparz episode i can actually share?
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Deeply unserious creature
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and it's actually funny?
must be my birthday or something
i love bugs and creatures
this one looks so goofy
classmate at college lent it to me
i love me some fantasy slop and it keeps me off of videogames which is probably healthy
I don't mean that I mean the author's increased derangedness
first rule of any strange occurrences (based on classical Greek myth)
"it's always a family thing"
I love what Ursula K LeGuin had to say about Mr Robert Galbraith
"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."
I think it would depend on which video games maybe
You should start the DLC of Outer Wilds too! Oh my goodness you're behind on your HP! At least it hasn't fallen out of the zeitgeist!
@sharp grail would you like a book rec? I've been reading it for book club!
yes sure!
as with everything i have accumulated a sizeable backlog but i would love to get back into reading for real
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 🗿
It's an opportunity to get to know people and their culture 😊
it does sound interesting, i will write it down so i can check it out some other time
Yay
oh i know this book!! always wanted to read it
i know it also got an Apple TV+ show that's very well recieved
Oh yes the opening for that show is so addicting
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The series stars Soji Arai as Mozasu, Jin Ha as Solomon, Inji Jeong as Yan...
oh anna sawai is on it 
damn i really wanna watch it. i wonder if I should read the book first or start with the show
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
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
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
folks
i have a very important announcement

this is my first weekend since like...
the beginning of march
that i actually have off 
i don't have to do anything
man this feels good 
Congrats on your relaxing weekend!
Fluffy piranhas
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/icDCCHUNMJk
Yeah
About that
It’s Saturday and I’m back at work

They ain’t paying me enough for this crap
I just got a Melinoe nendoroid! 
Melinoid
🎺
Tiny cutesy dolls of various popular franchises
Something like that?
It's not an amiibo though
It's just
A little figurine
Ye
I've been dreaming about a Hypnos nendoroid a lot lately
Could this be a sign or is the fate playing with again 
both
i don't like metroid
just the ones where she turns into a ball
or the ones where she's in an armor
Someone liked my AO3 fic enough to reach out and tell me they like it 
It's just really nice, eh
https://youtu.be/2fpIa30D6oM?si=sa0dIqaMPRWh_DdN
good morning
Morning !
Idk if I've ever talked in this server but hi 😼
Hello!
Ben Starr is so based
Except sonic
oh and arcane
but thats bc LOL Is impossible not to improve on its sooo bad
more like based starr
Arcane S1 was amazing. But S2 was a mixed bag
Video game adaptation can work if the people who worked on it cared about the source materials and the writing
i dont think its just that i think theres something more
like iron lung
bc theres plenty of adaptations where irs like. Yup. Thats exactly what happens in the video game.
cant hear you over the Imagine Dragons montage
Oh the misery, Everybody wants to be my enemy
The way people abuse commas in writing these days sees me reading their comments as though they're hyperventilating
i loved fallout tv show
cyberpunk edgerunners too. and i think that's it
i can't remember any other good game adaptations
postal
wasn't that one directed by
the one and only
Arcane. Inb4 Bim "glung"
but like,,, sometimes I just want different punctuation y'know :3
<clarity: I'm using ",,," to evoke a similar sense to "liiiike" where the word is being drawn out, as a distinct pause from the silence implied by "...">
(I'm also assuming, you're talking more about how people will, y'know, just stick commas, everywhere? like this, yeah?)
And, apo'strophe's!
yeah I just use thos for actual reasons, like when I'm talking to y'all and y'all're being silly <example>
i thought arcane was one of the good videogame adaptations until it wasn't
that's why i didn't name it
I've never seen y'all're written before, may need to steal that one 
OK'nt
Adi Shankar is supposed to direct an animated Netflix adaptation of Hyper Light Drifter
Hopefully that gets canceled
It's one of my favorites, honestly
And @royal relic please enjoy y'all'd've'f'I'd've :3
Swan over here inventing a new language to rival tolkiens elvish
they're just beatboxing
#Shorts
Let me show you how to scratch it
https://www.twitch.tv/pekacheeki
I wish I could take credit for that monstrosity lmao
i finished watching avatar
Hey peeps, is the Nintendo switch worth saving up for? And if so, which one should I save up for? 
the good one or the blue one
okay well it depends how much u want nintendo games specifically
if you dont and you want a portable console and you can afford it im a big steam deck fan
yup
but if u want specific modern (ie un 🏴☠️ able) nintendo games thats where the switch is good
can vouch for steam deck
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
the one where they throw rocks and air and fire at each other
oh whoops i said fire emblem twice
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
oh the good one
yeah i finished the last airbender now I'm watching korra
i like korra but a lot of people dont
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
switch 2 is a little a scam tbh its wildly expensive and the only real benefit is exclusive games that are also wildly expensive
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
yeah
every time they make a live action atla 5000 polar bears die trust i was there
and yes thus includes the new show
like i imagine when there's a new epic acclaimed zelda game everybody's gonna rush to buy a switch 2
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
i heard so many things about that show. pretty much none were positive
like yeah sokka doesn't learn to respect women anymore. is that supposed to be an improvement? 💀
Can the other switch support the games that recently been released or is it just the switch 2 
i just never understood the benefit of live action anything
depends on the game!
some new games work on both and some dont
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
episode 50000000000 is getting adapted guys!
but with ATLA it's another story. the animated show is already perfect, I see zero reason for a live action of that
yeah with one piece the issue is that it takes way longer than it should to adapt a single chapter of the manga 😭
How about the switch lite? I mean I never had a switch before, so I am trying to find the safest option so I don't regret it in the future

so what's a single page gets very bloated so it fills a whole episode
switch lite is pretty much the same console as the standard switch, with the main difference being that it's solely portable
if you value the home console experience as much as possible, it's better to go with the standard or OLED editions
I think I might go for the standard or the OLED one ! 
Thank you for the help, I appreciate it! 
wait
they're remaking one piece?
yeah the name is really good. it's called "The One Piece"
i know i know. fantastic name
no. but they're already remaking it
yeah. it's how rough it is
how's that work?
one piece is an infinite loop
okay but it's like
they're making the remake
what about the OG series?
are they going to continue it too?
the og series will continue yeah. the remake is by another studio
WHAT
iunno don't ask me i've watched just two anime series in my life
they did Spy x Family and Vinland Saga as well
anyhow here's my attempt at explaining this
but this whole thing just feels wild to me
here it goes
oh boi
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
OONE PIECE
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
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
the one piece
the one piece is real!
how do i get image perms :(
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
i made miis of zagreus and melinoe in tomodachi life and want to share :(
https://imgur.com/a/Xc4lL68
https://imgur.com/a/2qFTc4m
does this work
discord u okay?
I started playing "final fantasy"
So the cafe I'm working in switched to a different coffee blend
Aptly named, Bunny blend
Cause it's a blend of Kerinci and Kerinci sounds like Kelinci which is Bunny in Bahasa
All this to say
I got my tongue burned by a bunny


FLUFFY! @bronze lintel
I need your help, as a pro in this business
What do I do about my cheap portafilter looking like it’s rusty or whatever
It’s got these stains I can’t get rid of
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 
huh
haven't heard of rusty porta
have you tried cafiza?
Basically a coffee detergent. If it's coffee oil residue, it should clean them.
okay, alright
Yeah I could try that
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?
Cause I ordered one a while ago and got the wrong size 
Probably running a neurotoxin passive
No it's a pacifist build
Evolution will soon correct this
It has ranged
The best combo for spooder
It also eats other spiders
Didn’t you guys get the brand new Newcastle Big Boy just a few months back?
In other news
Is it just me or is YouTube serving like double personalized ads now?
Like yeah - targeted ads are one thing, they’ve been a thing for years now
I’m mostly watching gaming stuff on YouTube so it’s serving me ads for crappy mobile games, right?
Sure whatever
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 
And it’s either dumb luck or the algorithm is eerily accurate
You mean the ads are now for crappy mobile games about the different subject? 
Kinda
It’s like
Here’s a game ad that also mentions that other subject you’ve been watching
I wouldn't put it past youtube to straight up AI generate ads at this point
Yeah
But it was so weird
So eerie
Some YouTube.exe type of thing
Where it talks to you
I pay for youtube so all I get is sports gambling ads on twitch 💀
also ones in french that I don't understand 
I just use Adblock on pc
But this happened on my phone
yeah those ads I get are on my phone too
If you get adblock and use the twitch website do you just get to watch the stream during mid-stream ads
Or do you get silence but can't watch anyway
I dunno
Haven’t used twitch in ages
I can't browse reddit on my phone without the app now????
Iunno 
Lol
There used to be an X to close the "use the app ya scrub" pop up
Now I can't even scroll

Can’t you just click outside of the ad to go back to the side?
Or switch to pc layout for it to go away?
I just got this too
Doesn't work
yeah they killed it on browser
what to do now on my browsing phone hours...
what's This..
Bold F
Has that.. Not worked before?
F
Inb4 I join your timeout corner
Nah you get one freebie
LOL
dynobot keeps getting worse and worse
maybe it's time to take it back out
those are tears of joy
and you say im the one who’s baiting

anyway it was added to the server when h2 1.0 came out and the server obviously had a huge influx of activity
which was a lot of trying to bypass the swear filter at any cost than it was people talking about the game sometimes
yeah that checks out
Also
sweat filter

But seriously now
Was it really that many people trying to circumvent the profanity filter?
I rarely venture out to other channels 
guilty as charged 
then looks like dynobot keeps getting better and better 
LOL thanks i’m on mobile
Yea.
i paused my youtube watch history a while back and forgot to unpause it, now i get a completely empty home page. same on browser of course. i think i kind of prefer it this way
idk why i sent it as a reply, it seemed more related and relevant in my head
maybe i should do that too
my recommended algorithm is so scuffed right now 
Okna 11
10 okna is more than enough
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.
"just follow the rules" is a hell of a statement to say in today's political climate
This does tangentially remind me that, despite it being a stereotype that chinese apps collect your information, somehow my chinese social media apps never grab from my youtube history
Like the only video genres that I see on both platforms are the ones I've explicitly searched for
If I engage with a lot of one type of content on a chinese app, it doesn't affect my english algorithm at all
well this is about a server rule in this one server
As an anarchist there are certain rules I think are good, actually
Don't drink and drive
this is a discord server gang its not that deep in this case 💔
i've hidden the rules channel so i can do whatever i want
The authorities hate him
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I know what i hate. not playing videogames
what's your dream game that will never happen?
It's not that deep is also a wild statement to make nowadays cool let's outsource more thinking to AI
- cries in being replaced by ai *
Yeah and it's an asinine rule considering that one prior game explicitly shows an allegory of ||suicide|| and the previous two games have heavily implied sex scenes. The games have never been totally minor friendly.
you mean sgg games?
there's so many. maybe "perfect dark"
the new one that got cancelled
that game looked great. it's a shame it's not happening
on one hand - yeah
as a mirror's edge fan i have to admit - it had a bit of that energy about it
on the other hand, however
it's crystal dynamics
and i have enough bones to pick with them to make an entire skeleton
yeah there's one thing that needs to be reminded. "the best games are the ones we never got"
meaning the hypothetical game is always gonna be perfect
yeah
but it's another story in practice
exactly
idk that reads to me like a dream game could be perfect and would be 'the best' game but there are so many games that are so good that i would never have dreamt of
and games being imperfect also never bothered me
i mean that and so many others
okay - imagine this
SGGs making rollerdrome 2
maybe with some ex roll7 devs
like... that's it
pack it up - videogames are over
you can't top that so why bother?
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
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
ideally no game ever gets cancelled but the truth is, sometimes it just wasn't going to be a good game
or sometimes shareholders don't do so good at the casino and wipe the whole studio even if they make a banger after banger
'luckily' i havent been in that situation, most are just one-off indies. mirror's edge catalyst...
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)
when i think of a game that i didn't even know was gonna be my dream game, it's hi-fi rush
devil may cry meets music. how cool is that
yeah i can see that
have you seen that disco game?
what's it called?
dead as disco?
it's uh. integrated graphics card
that's probably why
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
yeah it's intergrated
sorry to break it to you
but this is the worst time to upgrade
unfortunately so I heard
so you hate gaming
i pissed away so... so much cash this month it's unreal

i got a bonus this month :---)
they pay me in woims
woims?
the woims panel being repeated 3 times has so much ytp energy i love it
woims
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
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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
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