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raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:06 AM

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At least the female protag got to show up again

hasty kernel May 4, 2020, 4:07 AM

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Here is to hoping Persona 6 lets you date the guys too

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:07 AM

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Please

vivid ridge May 4, 2020, 4:08 AM

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not if they keep the director

odd grove May 4, 2020, 4:08 AM

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No

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No

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:08 AM

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IIRC he's already stepped down

faint panther May 4, 2020, 4:08 AM

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Bold hopes for the people who brought us Catherine.

odd grove May 4, 2020, 4:08 AM

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Listen, we need SMT V

hasty kernel May 4, 2020, 4:08 AM

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Whats this about the director?

odd grove May 4, 2020, 4:08 AM

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Persona has had it too good for too long

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I need a goddamn SMT game with actual good fusion

vivid ridge May 4, 2020, 4:09 AM

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persona has had the gay before

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in another life

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 4:10 AM

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Gimmi my Persona Fighting Game

odd grove May 4, 2020, 4:10 AM

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Just play P4AUSH

vivid ridge May 4, 2020, 4:11 AM

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then persona 3 came with the new director and they became the butt of a joke

hasty kernel May 4, 2020, 4:11 AM

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Play BBTAG

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:11 AM

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At least there's just No Hope for it, instead of FE3H's "only two of these options are actually mlm"

hasty kernel May 4, 2020, 4:11 AM

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You get all the good P4A characters

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But also Tank

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 4:11 AM

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But I want to play Joker ~~And live on a society~~

odd grove May 4, 2020, 4:11 AM

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Yeah honestly...

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It's just upsetting

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Not something to disregard the game

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:12 AM

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I'm still mad about Alois

odd grove May 4, 2020, 4:12 AM

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But seeing the attention went mostly to the lesbians makes me kind of sad

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What about Alois

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:12 AM

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His S rank is explicitly not romantic

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Where you give him a Best Friendship Ring Like Bros Do and go off to marry unnamed women

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Your other option is Lindheart

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And then they added one and it also wasn't great

vivid ridge May 4, 2020, 4:13 AM

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the same sex s ranks in 3 houses aren't explicitly gay

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just really good bros who do bro stuff

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 4:13 AM

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Ok I didn't play 3H is as bad as Soleil?

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I honestly can dig a well written Bromance tho

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:14 AM

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You and Linhardt literally get married

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Which, fine, cool, I didn't care for him but he's not bad

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But you're telling me I can't romance Claude Von Reigan

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Really

vivid ridge May 4, 2020, 4:15 AM

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unlike the ones in fates where it is pretty much 100% gay

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:15 AM

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Or Demitri

vivid ridge May 4, 2020, 4:15 AM

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not everyone can have DJ Khalid

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 4:16 AM

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Yeah we need to talk to the CEO of Homophobia like, right now

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:17 AM

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Also I kind of wish they like

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Differentiated romantic and non-romantic S ranks in some fashion

vivid ridge May 4, 2020, 4:17 AM

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in my mind's eye i picture edelgard's s support

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but it's the minion version

odd grove May 4, 2020, 4:18 AM

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Wait i just thought something

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 4:18 AM

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They need to differentiate between 'I love you, bro' and 'I love you, bro'

odd grove May 4, 2020, 4:19 AM

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Are all females in FE3H romanceable for both male and fem Byleth?

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:19 AM

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Looks like they did add another one in the Ashen Wolf DLC, so that's uh... 5. Two of which are barely to not at all romantic, and one of which is a murder villain

vivid ridge May 4, 2020, 4:20 AM

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only some are gay

faint panther May 4, 2020, 4:20 AM

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Thanks, Japan.

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:20 AM

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I'm not seeing any exclusive romance options for female Byleth?

odd grove May 4, 2020, 4:20 AM

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Or bi?

vivid ridge May 4, 2020, 4:20 AM

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and when they are the straight versions are scuffed

odd grove May 4, 2020, 4:20 AM

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So they are bi, like all of them?

vivid ridge May 4, 2020, 4:20 AM

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only some are bi

odd grove May 4, 2020, 4:20 AM

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Ah, good

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:21 AM

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I haven't pored through the endings so some also could be explicitly non-romantic

odd grove May 4, 2020, 4:21 AM

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Making everyone bi doesn't feel right at all

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 4:21 AM

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In my opinion, the MC should be whatever you like and the Romance options depending of sex

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I already talked here about it

vivid ridge May 4, 2020, 4:21 AM

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221343247081930753/676260768685097030/image0.jpg

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:22 AM

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Like I said, I wish they'd let you know who ends up romantic vs platonic

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It would do a lot to alleviate things

faint panther May 4, 2020, 4:22 AM

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Definitely like staring into the abyss.

odd grove May 4, 2020, 4:22 AM

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How can you do that in a game, in an obvious, well written way

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 4:22 AM

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I don't want all my companions to be pansexual thirsty guys 3 conversations away of shagging me. I want them to have AGENCY

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:22 AM

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X color for romantic, Y for platonic

odd grove May 4, 2020, 4:22 AM

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Hm, honestly i'm really concerned about game writing cuz i sorta wanna work with that in the future

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:22 AM

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Or they just like, tell you in a support convo

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Or make it Sr rank and Sp rank

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Literally any indicator of "this character is not interested in you romantically" would be better

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 4:23 AM

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@raven harbor In greedfall if you try to romance a non compatible character they tell you outright on the first quest

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You can still Bromance them

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:24 AM

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See, that's fantastic

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And sometimes you just want a bromance and that's wonderful

vivid ridge May 4, 2020, 4:24 AM

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the edelgard one is also goofy straight because she just explains her plans then calls you her friend

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truly byleth is the biggest simp in this holy war

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:25 AM

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Look I'm just mad I only got to romance one of the three house leaders

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Instead of uhhhhhhhhh

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Choosing from all three

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Seems Fair

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 4:25 AM

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Like, there are 5 companions, one straight guy, one straight girl, one bi guy, one bi girl, and a straight guy you can't romance period because he is older and sees you as family

raven harbor May 4, 2020, 4:25 AM

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That makes sense

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 4:26 AM

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And the romance quests are about building trust

odd grove May 4, 2020, 4:26 AM

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Hoenstly, yeah

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Anyhow... Writing is hard and threatening, surely!

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I can't even learn more on college cuz of quarantine

modest path May 4, 2020, 5:35 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/may-the4th-be-with-you-may4-4th-of-may-gif-14064307

Tenor

odd grove May 4, 2020, 6:20 AM

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RIP in peace War of the Stars

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😔

tender cobalt May 4, 2020, 6:40 AM

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In peace is already included in the RIP shadesmile

autumn pasture May 4, 2020, 7:22 AM

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oh man i missed fe3h

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i also would like to romance claude

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there's no way that man is heterosexual. look at that man.

upbeat scroll May 4, 2020, 8:18 AM

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Too many games disappoint in that regard

gaunt valley May 4, 2020, 10:27 AM

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And unfortunately most games that pander to women (and the gays*) with husbando material are VNs.

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I don't know of any exception.

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And I'm just not into that.

hexed hollow May 4, 2020, 10:31 AM

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I guess Little Busters, Clannad and the like might be an exception, but I've only watched the anime adaptations and I have no idea when the Angel Beats VN is gonna be finished (the anime happened first and is a good series imo)

hidden siren May 4, 2020, 10:33 AM

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Theres that new otome anime which might be for women

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basically a girl gets reincarnated into the body of a villain in her favorite dating sim

hushed zenith May 4, 2020, 10:36 AM

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It sounds like Common Sense of a Duke's Daughter but with less, uh... crunchy politics involved.

hasty kernel May 4, 2020, 1:21 PM

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I think thats "My next life as a villainness, all routes lead to doom!"

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Its surprisingly good

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 1:32 PM

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God, why all those names suck so much?

hexed hollow May 4, 2020, 1:33 PM

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because direct translations from japanese usually always suck

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 1:33 PM

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn_as_a_Vending_Machine,_I_Now_Wander_the_Dungeon

Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon

Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon (自動販売機に生まれ変わった俺は迷宮を彷徨う, Jidōhanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyū ni Samayō) is a Japanese light novel series written by Hirukuma and illustrated by Ituwa Kato. The series was originally published in 2016 as a web novel by...

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The most hilarious title in Japanese history

hasty kernel May 4, 2020, 1:38 PM

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I mean the villainness is a title and subtitle one basically

velvet fjord May 4, 2020, 2:10 PM

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scrolling through this chat and I see minion edelgard

I don't like edelgard but not even she deserves that fate 😔

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 2:10 PM

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People complain about Corona

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But the Minion pandemic

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THAT was infectious

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You couldn't go to a shop without seeing Minion merchandise

velvet fjord May 4, 2020, 2:13 PM

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also when marketing for the minions movie came out, and they were on everything

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 2:18 PM

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/351166263772446722/706872185419202560/d8fcyjy-b0add5b9-d2c8-4f84-9d1e-8cba508bf494.jpg

odd grove May 4, 2020, 5:30 PM

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Hah hah

velvet fjord May 4, 2020, 5:39 PM

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god is dead and Illumination Entertainment killed it

odd grove May 4, 2020, 5:50 PM

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I think god did that himself

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Illumination merely encouraged it

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 6:17 PM

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https://youtu.be/V3Um7TJWsoI

Random meme of the day

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faint panther May 4, 2020, 6:39 PM

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Okay, so we all agree that light novel names by and large suck.

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There's no translating them gracefully into English or likely any other language because they're horrible mouthfuls even in Japanese.

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So when these mooks imported Baka and Test and I look up the Japanese title and it should be the simplest garbage ever to directly translate makes for that for a nice snappy title, some idiot screws it up by a mixed Japanese/English title, it makes me want to not watch it at all.

gaunt valley May 4, 2020, 8:56 PM

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I dunno, the Light Novels I own seem to have very common names. Seems to be a niche phenomenon with disproportionate attention.

faint panther May 4, 2020, 8:56 PM

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Yeah, you're probably right.

north hamlet May 4, 2020, 10:09 PM

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i believe the style of naming is also a bit of a meme in japan too

hasty kernel May 4, 2020, 10:37 PM

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Alright, finished Whispers of a Machine as well

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It was a nice enough game

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 11:02 PM

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What ending? @hasty kernel

hasty kernel May 4, 2020, 11:02 PM

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||Fenrir||

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 11:03 PM

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||Did you adopt the kid?||

hasty kernel May 4, 2020, 11:03 PM

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||No. Thought Vera had too much baggage in this exact case||

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 11:04 PM

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I did

hasty kernel May 4, 2020, 11:07 PM

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Doesnt seem to change much though

gaunt valley May 4, 2020, 11:10 PM

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Girls, do you know any games OSTs that use baroque orchestration?

serene tulip May 4, 2020, 11:30 PM

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I miss my gym :<

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 11:40 PM

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Me too

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I hope the Gym misses me too ron

wide ember May 4, 2020, 11:42 PM

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Gym: where have my humans gone y no come back :<

blissful charm May 4, 2020, 11:50 PM

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this whole lockdown happened like right as i was getting back into going to the gym

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wanna lift... get buff

upbeat scroll May 4, 2020, 11:58 PM

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My gf used to work at a gym before this happent

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 11:58 PM

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Quick question. Now all gyms are closed how can I reach the Pokemon League?

upbeat scroll May 4, 2020, 11:58 PM

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The owners wanted to pump some sort of bio mist into the air to keep the place open

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Or bio gel or something

fervent zenith May 4, 2020, 11:59 PM

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Damn Alex Jones was right!

upbeat scroll May 4, 2020, 11:59 PM

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Gym battle over a video conference...

north hamlet May 5, 2020, 12:09 AM

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pets don't carry the disease

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so i'd assume if the pokemon could get to the gym on their own you could still have battles

fervent zenith May 5, 2020, 12:54 AM

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Remember if you Pokemon catches the PokeCoronarus just put it in quarantine on its pokeball during 15 days

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If its syntoms are severe put it in the nearest Intensive Pokecare Unit

north hamlet May 5, 2020, 12:55 AM

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wait i thought the pokemon virus was good

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gave extra exp

fervent zenith May 5, 2020, 12:55 AM

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That's the Pokerus

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The PokeCoronarus on the other hand...

north hamlet May 5, 2020, 12:56 AM

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amateur diagnoses are a big no no

fervent zenith May 5, 2020, 12:57 AM

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I know that's why if you have doubts let the closest Nurse Joy to take care of all

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Also keep social distancing. Stop running to each 13 year old to challenge him to battle

hexed hollow May 5, 2020, 2:03 AM

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as a pokemon my hooman suit may be able to contract covid but my pokemon body cannot

ionic viper May 5, 2020, 3:12 PM

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lies down and breathes into a paper bag

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hey do we have any world of warcraft players in here

serene tulip May 5, 2020, 3:19 PM

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and in that bog there is a bog a rare bog a ratlin bog

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bog in the bog in the bog in the bog in the bog in the bog in the bog in the bog in the bog in the bog

fervent zenith May 5, 2020, 4:54 PM

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Gotta say the demo of Hellpoint is pretty great

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Even for a DS clone

serene tulip May 5, 2020, 9:40 PM

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I am full of hurt

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I'm such a poor excuse of a human being

north hamlet May 5, 2020, 10:07 PM

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what happened?

serene tulip May 5, 2020, 10:31 PM

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I'm just bad at doing things

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like basic housework

autumn pasture May 5, 2020, 10:37 PM

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i feel that :(

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me too, ocelo

north hamlet May 5, 2020, 10:44 PM

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Basic housework is hard though

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There's way too much assumed knowledge

serene tulip May 5, 2020, 10:45 PM

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Also, I relate to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhOadP3i3a8

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except for the going on a date part

wide ember May 5, 2020, 11:13 PM

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is that your mood for the homework

fervent zenith May 6, 2020, 12:18 AM

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I swear I thought that was weird Al

serene tulip May 6, 2020, 12:27 AM

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They do look similar and are both in comedy music

odd grove May 6, 2020, 12:35 AM

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Glad i wasn't the only one

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I guess...

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Everything i know is wrong

fervent zenith May 6, 2020, 1:11 AM

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Everything you know is a lie

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Except your love for Pyre. That's genuine

wide ember May 6, 2020, 5:16 AM

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I really should sleep but I finally have internet after two days of no internet

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I need to do tech detox one day

serene tulip May 6, 2020, 4:15 PM

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https://gfycat.com/SleepyElegantInexpectatumpleco

Gfycat

gifreversingbot

odd grove May 6, 2020, 5:59 PM

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Peng

fervent zenith May 6, 2020, 6:14 PM

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uin

desert wadi May 6, 2020, 6:24 PM

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i wanna hug them all

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the hopping T-T

magic sentinel May 6, 2020, 6:45 PM

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bring me the adoption charts. now.

fervent zenith May 6, 2020, 10:44 PM

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DVfTGFBJ8a8

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Guardian News

Penguins openly explore aquarium closed due to coronavirus

An aquarium in Chicago has let its penguins wander around freely after closing to visitors indefinitely due to the coronavirus outbreak. The Shedd Aquarium said on social media: 'While this may be a strange time for us, these days feel normal for animals at Shedd'
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Imagine seeing so much food and you can't eat it

wide ember May 6, 2020, 10:50 PM

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so like watching a foodie movie

mild pelican May 6, 2020, 10:55 PM

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Imagine seeing so much food and you can't eat it
exactly what happens now, with all that restaurants ads..

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and youtube vids like "easy dishes made with some cheese, bread and tomato paste"

wide ember May 6, 2020, 10:57 PM

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chewing expired cheese right now

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I miss flavoured cream cheese and artisanal bagels so much

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I just had some smoked trout with salted capers and expired cheese and overripe banada it's definitely not the same experience

north hamlet May 6, 2020, 11:13 PM

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that sounds very not great by comparison

wide ember May 6, 2020, 11:14 PM

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it's better to eat the actual mixed fruits cheese with smoked trout and capers in bagel

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and fresh, not expired

north hamlet May 6, 2020, 11:20 PM

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does your usual mixed fruit cheese have banana in it?

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seems like something with more sour and juice would go better

wide ember May 6, 2020, 11:21 PM

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no I just don't have dried berries

north hamlet May 6, 2020, 11:23 PM

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that's a shame

wide ember May 6, 2020, 11:27 PM

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https://www.google.com/maps/place/La+Fabrique+de+Bagel+Montreal/@45.5021667,-73.559638,3a,75y/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipPPEkgQFMO_ZBTCyKzJmG6PoUlX_1waU3kdvR-f!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPPEkgQFMO_ZBTCyKzJmG6PoUlX_1waU3kdvR-f%3Dw203-h145-k-no!7i3797!8i2714!4m10!1m2!2m1!1scream+cheese+bagel+world+trade+centre+montreal!3m6!1s0x0:0x2e69b27308509bf1!8m2!3d45.5024033!4d-73.5602063!14m1!1BCgIgAQ

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look at those cheese

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they change the flavours once a while too

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it's in montreal's world trade centre

fervent zenith May 6, 2020, 11:35 PM

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/351166263772446722/707737271217946684/Screenshot_20200507_012832_com.google.android.apps.maps.jpg

I wonder what's on that box

wide ember May 6, 2020, 11:37 PM

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this photo is just world trade centre - montreal in french

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oh you mean the box the person is carrying

fervent zenith May 6, 2020, 11:42 PM

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Yeah lol

serene tulip May 6, 2020, 11:56 PM

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anyone know of any games that do vocal recognition to work?

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e.g. that I can play while working out?

upbeat scroll May 6, 2020, 11:58 PM

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the classic ps2 game "lifeline"

north hamlet May 7, 2020, 12:19 AM

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oh that one's cool

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i've seen a let's play of it

fervent zenith May 7, 2020, 12:25 AM

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Coincidentally today I heard about it for the first time

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https://youtu.be/6W0IhyQuN34

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This video was in my recommended this morning lmao

wide ember May 7, 2020, 2:11 AM

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(note to self: please stop eating expired food and go buy some fresh ones)

serene tulip May 7, 2020, 2:26 AM

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You wouldn't feed birds old millet

serene tulip May 7, 2020, 5:25 AM

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https://i.redd.it/bnqgi3rwl6x41.jpg

olive junco May 7, 2020, 7:44 AM

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shadefear

fervent zenith May 7, 2020, 10:46 AM

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https://youtu.be/svZIZArhjQQ

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Real Big Boys

GREET FIGHTER

It's not as exciting as the original, but still pretty fun.

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Wholesome

tender cobalt May 7, 2020, 5:34 PM

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HowareyouKen

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Thank you for the laugh

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 5:56 PM

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Im just slightly saddened that there is no "sure you can" joke in there

wide ember May 7, 2020, 7:49 PM

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there is a raffle for a nintendo switch lite, I just posted that in self-promotion

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I already have a nintendo switch so I'll let you people take it

faint panther May 7, 2020, 7:49 PM

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I can feel the Nuclear Throne (heh) radiating from that game.

knotty stag May 7, 2020, 7:51 PM

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Thanks a lot
I've been saving up recently, but it would be nice to get one for free 😄

fervent zenith May 7, 2020, 7:54 PM

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Hi, games recommendation guy here. Celestian Tales: Old North is at 2 euros. Which is a great price for a great game

fervent zenith May 7, 2020, 8:45 PM

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/468419754139451394/708020751109849138/unknown.png

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Lmao

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What a bunch of memesters

fervent zenith May 7, 2020, 9:11 PM

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So I am watching a Prologue for Realms Beyond in YT

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I'm glad they streamlined it

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1284240/Black_Book_Prologue/

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Black Book: Prologue

Black Book: Prologue is a free standalone version of the game, featuring an essential part of the story - the First Day of Vasilisa becoming a witch. Welcome to the mysterious, yet intriguing world of Black Book - an Adventure game mixed with deck building turn-based combat, i...

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This one looks kinda interestng

tranquil bay May 7, 2020, 9:17 PM

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for any old fans of the disney hercules movie... a neat thread id-ing many of the pieces of art that appear at the start of the movie https://twitter.com/CBPolt/status/1258218458803777537

Christopher Polt (@CBPolt)

The opening sequence of Walt Disney's Hercules (1997) is filled with depictions of actual works of physical art — an appreciation thread with photos of their real-life objects. Let's start at the far left before the camera begins to pan right (1/24)

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tender cobalt May 7, 2020, 9:22 PM

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Oh, I was taking a peek at Black Book. It sure seems interesting!

desert minnow May 7, 2020, 10:47 PM

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https://twitter.com/CSMFHT/status/1258340406640558080/photo/1

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens (@CSMFHT)

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hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 10:59 PM

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I wonder, was any greek god faithful to their significant other?

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Hades I guess

desert minnow May 7, 2020, 11:00 PM

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And Hephaestus

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A lot of them are, it’s just that Zeus, Poseidon and Aphrodite kinda give the others a bad rep

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:02 PM

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Hephaestus didn't

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he tried to get it on with Athena

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Echidna and Typhon were faithful to each other, apparently

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:05 PM

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I mean Ares isnt really faithful either

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Artemis is Ace so she doesnt count

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Huh, Apollo never married

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:06 PM

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had too many lovers though

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:06 PM

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Yeah but its not being unfaithful if you break up

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/never marry

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:07 PM

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true, but what he did to Cassandra means he wasn't a good person

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:07 PM

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He is a greek god

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Although it depends on the version of the myth

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In some she broke a promise

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:08 PM

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she changed her mind, no need to go that far

autumn pasture May 7, 2020, 11:09 PM

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right

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dumping someone isn't a reason to curse them

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:09 PM

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Look Im not saying that he didnt overreact even in the context of that version

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But you really shouldnt break a promise you made to a greek god

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:10 PM

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there was a woman who, after being stolen away by Poseidon, said that she wanted to become a man so this would never happen again, and Poseidon not only made her a man, he made his skin invulnerable to all weapons

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apollo could've fixed some things when the illiad was happening

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nope

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:12 PM

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Again, he is a greek god

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The only greek god who was alright was Hestia

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I think

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:13 PM

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Artemis is alright too, she only had the hunter who saw her bathe turned into deer because he wasn't being polite about it, and the hunter who did the same but was polite got turned into a huntress

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(how the same pond didn't get swarmed by hunters trying to become huntresses later is anyone's guess)

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Hades is also alright

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:15 PM

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Again depends on the version

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In some he was just unlucky

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And Artemis transformed him so he could be torn to shreds by his dogs

desert minnow May 7, 2020, 11:16 PM

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Hades is
Mostly alright if you don’t piss him off and go with the version where Persephone was ol with being on the underworld

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:17 PM

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Also Callisto

desert minnow May 7, 2020, 11:17 PM

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Heph is generally an ok dude too

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:18 PM

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I mean even in the version where Demeter was ok with it, he did kidnap her

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:18 PM

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um, after the Athena incident, I'm not sure about Hephaestus

desert minnow May 7, 2020, 11:18 PM

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Athena is uuuuuuh
It heavily depends on the version and generally whether the myth is atenian or not and- wait, the athena incident?

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:18 PM

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ritual kidnapping was more like arranged marriage back then

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Hades did a ritual kidnapping, not a kidnapping in our sense of the word

desert minnow May 7, 2020, 11:19 PM

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Oh wait yeah
Hephaestus did try to assault athena

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:19 PM

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Yup

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:19 PM

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and did that on her legs too

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:19 PM

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Again, in some versions

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The only major god who as far as I can tell had no versions in which they did something bad

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Was Hestia

desert minnow May 7, 2020, 11:20 PM

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Yeah
Hestia was surprisingly respected on ancient greece

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:20 PM

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what of Harmonia? has she done anything?

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:20 PM

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She just kicked titan butt and then took care of the hearth

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I wouldnt call Harmonia major

desert minnow May 7, 2020, 11:21 PM

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Also i’d say Prometheus also counts as a swell dude if you count gods as gods overall and not just the Olympians

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:21 PM

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Minor gods and goddesses were less likely to do something bad

autumn pasture May 7, 2020, 11:21 PM

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prometheus was right

desert minnow May 7, 2020, 11:21 PM

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Gave us fire and the juicy bits of sacrifices

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:21 PM

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of Olympians, only Hestia has intact reputation

north hamlet May 7, 2020, 11:21 PM

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Only by modern standards tbh

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:21 PM

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unless you count Ganymede?

desert minnow May 7, 2020, 11:23 PM

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Apollo: hey, some guy is about to marry his mother without knowing who she is, should i tell him before they get married?
Nah, i know. I’ll let them get married and then send a plague upon their city as punishment. Great plan, me.

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:23 PM

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I mean yes different times different ideas of morals but

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The greek gods were still not great by the standards of their time

north hamlet May 7, 2020, 11:24 PM

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Yeah their ideas of how gods were was like that

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:24 PM

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I do have to say

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I like how its just one big mess of bad people

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And you just have a kindly old grandma keeping the fire stoked in the background

desert minnow May 7, 2020, 11:24 PM

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Actually, i think there were critiques that plays and stories made the gods too human, so a lot of the stuff we got was likely exaggerated versions of the gods proper

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Emphasis on think, been a while since i did greek

fervent zenith May 7, 2020, 11:26 PM

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Why is the Pantheon full of jerks?

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:26 PM

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wasn't it something along the line of gods were props?

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like, they were characters, but the foreground is left to human characters, and gods existed mostly as props to get the play moving

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:27 PM

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Deus ex Machina and all that

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Personally I think it might also have just been an attempt to make the chaos of the world make sense

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Bad things happen because the gods suck

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It kinda eases the mind

faint panther May 7, 2020, 11:28 PM

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Religion arises from a few things: Worrying about what happens after we die, someone wants to grift billions of people, or someone is trying to make sense of horrible things happening, to name a few.

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(In my super edgy armchair philosopher view).

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:29 PM

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Id say the biggest one is just trying to find explanations how the world works

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"Big shiny ball keeps rising up and going down. Must be man dragging shiny ball accross sky"

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Eventually you determine the things that do and dont make sense

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And religion usually just adapts

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:30 PM

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that wasn't what my teachers said though, it was more like they knew that wasn't how it was done, they were scapegoating

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:30 PM

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"I see that the ships go below the horizon if they travel far enough. The earth must be round"

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"Now the world is no longer a disc held up by 4 elephants standing on a turtle"

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I mean eventually perhaps

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Religions persist even past the point where they make sense (see the 7 days of creation thing)

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But originally, before religions were even quantified in words

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I do think that that was the big reason

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And then the story just got more and more absurd as every writer tried to introduce a new twist

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:31 PM

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I mean by antiquity

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sure, there are devouts in any era, but most just

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it was something to project on

hasty kernel May 7, 2020, 11:33 PM

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Yeah by that point it mightve just been a nice set of stories you could work with

wide ember May 7, 2020, 11:59 PM

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unrelated, but how I wish I could do like motoko kusanagi and have several bodies right now

serene tulip May 7, 2020, 11:59 PM

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right?

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Teleportation and flight are both tempting superpowers but shapeshifting is my jam

wide ember May 8, 2020, 12:34 AM

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I also want immunity to all diseases

faint panther May 8, 2020, 12:37 AM

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Teleportation with any sort of accuracy and range is busted.

wide ember May 8, 2020, 12:40 AM

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but in order to use teleportation, you'll also need some kind limited omniscience

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since you need to know if the place you are teleporting to is empty air or not, least you teleport inside a solid block of kitchen counter or something

faint panther May 8, 2020, 12:40 AM

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That's the accuracy.

wide ember May 8, 2020, 12:43 AM

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what's your preferred superpower btw?

faint panther May 8, 2020, 12:43 AM

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Teleportation.

wide ember May 8, 2020, 12:43 AM

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no wonder

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I think it's nifty but it wouldn't be that useful in everyday life?

faint panther May 8, 2020, 12:44 AM

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Delete my daily commute? Done.

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Never spend a dime on travel or vacation ever again.

wide ember May 8, 2020, 12:45 AM

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and can probably teleport away from any incoming danger

faint panther May 8, 2020, 12:45 AM

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Yup.

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 12:46 AM

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Bonus points if you can apport as well

wide ember May 8, 2020, 12:47 AM

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if I can freely generate new bodies wherever I want, wouldn't I enjoy some benefits of teleportation while having increased productivity?

faint panther May 8, 2020, 12:47 AM

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Some, sure.

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Depending on the flavor of teleportation I can visit distant planets.

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 12:47 AM

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I prefer beyond unlikely luck

faint panther May 8, 2020, 12:48 AM

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👏 SEE 👏 THAT 👏 BLACK 👏 HOLE 👏 IN 👏 PERSON 👏

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 12:48 AM

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@faint panther And then you die, because those planets can't support human life

faint panther May 8, 2020, 12:48 AM

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Well not willy-nilly.

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And I'd be wearing an atmosphere suit.

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I know not to go "I wonder what's at the bottom layer of this super violent brown dwarf?" in swim trunks.

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@north hamlet You mean send stuff without having to go myself?

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 12:49 AM

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yeah, or to bring stuff to you

faint panther May 8, 2020, 12:50 AM

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~~that just makes my hostile takeover of the world even easier~~

wide ember May 8, 2020, 12:50 AM

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please take over the world and abolish capitalism

faint panther May 8, 2020, 12:50 AM

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Oh, so done.

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 12:50 AM

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🙏

faint panther May 8, 2020, 12:51 AM

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But really, I would spend an inordinate amount of time floating in vacuum just watching crazy space shenanigans.

tender cobalt May 8, 2020, 12:52 AM

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Is this a Lord Schpoon fantasy or am I missing something?

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 12:52 AM

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Kars intensifies

tender cobalt May 8, 2020, 12:52 AM

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Because, if it is, I might join if I get a free mug

faint panther May 8, 2020, 12:52 AM

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What's your go-to superpower, Peach?

tender cobalt May 8, 2020, 12:52 AM

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(Reference to this btw)
https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aPM2VXV_700b.jpg

faint panther May 8, 2020, 12:52 AM

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I love Shen.

wide ember May 8, 2020, 12:53 AM

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do I also get a free keychain

tender cobalt May 8, 2020, 12:53 AM

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My go-to superpower would be mind control, maybe. I haven't put much thought on that thanthink

wide ember May 8, 2020, 12:55 AM

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mind control would be interesting especially if it works at long distance, I'd totally mind control rich people into removing all the lead water pipes from the cities and replacing them with better and safer pipes

tender cobalt May 8, 2020, 12:55 AM

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That sounds unethically good 😂

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 12:56 AM

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now that i think about it alchemy would be good

faint panther May 8, 2020, 12:56 AM

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Look, superpowers of a certain scale always result in world domination, it's just a question of whether or not the world is in a better place before or after.

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 12:56 AM

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get rid of scarcity and rubbish in one go

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transmutation i guess

wide ember May 8, 2020, 12:58 AM

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I don't want the hassle of long term ruling over a world, look at how much trudeau aged since he became leader of canada, or how much obama aged after his job as president of united states

faint panther May 8, 2020, 12:58 AM

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They were not heads of a kinda-sorta-not-really totalitarian state.

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Obama got 8 years of a nation's worst racism thrown at him, for all of his many faults that is admirable.

wide ember May 8, 2020, 12:59 AM

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yeah, and trudeau actually tried to keep most of his promises and succeeded

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https://trudeaumetre.polimeter.org/

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 1:00 AM

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also there's still heaps of people around who have tons of political clout and don't want to go along with whatever the head of state is trying to do

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for better and worse

faint panther May 8, 2020, 1:00 AM

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Exactly.

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 1:01 AM

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much easier to blame the one guy in the spotlight for everything

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 1:03 AM

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Some people just can't understand that head of state doesn't mean God Emperor

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You still need checks and balances

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 1:04 AM

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i'm still gonna be mad at our pm for being a coal fondler though

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that's on him

wide ember May 8, 2020, 1:06 AM

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mantra and invis.dragon, what's your preferred superpower?

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 1:07 AM

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can i pass?

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too many good options and i'm indecisive

wide ember May 8, 2020, 1:07 AM

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sure

faint panther May 8, 2020, 1:07 AM

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~~Coward.~~

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 1:07 AM

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https://worm.fandom.com/wiki/Contessa

Worm Wiki

Contessa

Fortuna, more commonly known as Contessa, The Bogeyman or simply "the woman in the suit", is a founding member of Cauldron. How much her shard has influenced her personality is an open question.

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This one^

wide ember May 8, 2020, 1:07 AM

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so that's what you meant by more than unlikely super luck

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 1:07 AM

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'The Path To Victory'

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Ye'

wide ember May 8, 2020, 1:08 AM

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I need to finish reading worm one day, I stopped in early chapters

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 1:09 AM

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when you said super luck i thought of andrew smith from gunnerkrigg court

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also i should read worm too

tender cobalt May 8, 2020, 1:09 AM

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She sounds like the better version of Maxine Caulfield

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Except she doesn't have to rewind time. She just succeeds on the go

wide ember May 8, 2020, 1:10 AM

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comtessa is more like the NULLs from katana zero but without the assassin part

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and no need to inject chronos

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 1:10 AM

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Maxine has The Stand Mandom instead

hasty kernel May 8, 2020, 1:11 AM

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Oh superpowers

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Id like immortality

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 1:13 AM

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No, you don't want to

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 1:13 AM

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yeah the and i must scream scenario is pretty bad

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 1:14 AM

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No, when our planet gets consumed by a Supernova or you are forced to be still alive after the heat death of the universe

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 1:14 AM

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do you know the reference?

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because that's basically in the same spirit

hasty kernel May 8, 2020, 1:14 AM

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See you say that

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But I have considered that option

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And its still my choice

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Anyway to steer away from this topic because its a minefield for me

wide ember May 8, 2020, 1:16 AM

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and to be the one to say "let there be light" and initiate the-

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aw

hasty kernel May 8, 2020, 1:17 AM

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Nvm I had a thought about a potential idea

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Then realised "the roman empire had that"

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 1:17 AM

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what was it?

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 1:18 AM

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https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/425/509/cc6.jpg

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 1:18 AM

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nice

hasty kernel May 8, 2020, 1:19 AM

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Basically adoptive monarchy

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Where rulership wasnt handed down by bloodline, but by selecting from a number of potential candidates

tender cobalt May 8, 2020, 1:19 AM

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Pikmin meme friendly

hasty kernel May 8, 2020, 1:19 AM

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But the roman empire had that

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Right before the period where they got very stabby

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 1:20 AM

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That's literally the Roman Empire until Commodus

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 1:20 AM

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yeah, problem with rome was the bit where adoptive monarchy could be ignored with enough pointy sticks

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 1:20 AM

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Aka Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 1:21 AM

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they still have that system in japan for family owned companies which is neat

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you just add someone good to the family as an adopted child

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 1:22 AM

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Meanwhile the Japanese monarchy has somehow lasted for Millennia

hasty kernel May 8, 2020, 1:22 AM

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Oh

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Yeah that is a thing over there, isnt it

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Huh

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 1:23 AM

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During the last 2100 years mate

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Also technically speaking Vatican City is a weird elective theocracy

hasty kernel May 8, 2020, 1:25 AM

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~~Look the japanese work culture is honestly depressing so I dont tend to think much about anything related to japanese work~~

faint panther May 8, 2020, 1:25 AM

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Japanese work culture is bad.

wide ember May 8, 2020, 1:26 AM

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overtime till you drop?

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refuse and lose your career?

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still, people are starting to notice that and try to fix it

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there were talks about laws to maybe ban certain forms of overtime

hasty kernel May 8, 2020, 1:28 AM

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I sure hope so

wide ember May 8, 2020, 1:29 AM

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"Several provisions take effect April 2019. Currently, Japanese law permits employers to enter into special agreements with employees that require employees to work an unlimited number of overtime hours. The law, however, generally will limit overtime work to 45 hours per month with a maximum of 360 hours in a year."

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^this was last year

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 1:29 AM

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nice

hasty kernel May 8, 2020, 1:30 AM

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Its a start, at least

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 1:30 AM

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'There's also one issue that doesn't get discussed much... in public. In private it induces attacks of stark, apoplectic terror in politicians, business leaders, and anyone interested in seeing Japan continue as anything like a world power. Simply put, the Japanese seem to have forgotten how to make babies.'

wide ember May 8, 2020, 1:31 AM

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that's just to shift blame

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most Japanese refuse to make babies because they won't be able to afford a baby

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fix the economy first, and they'll observe a baby boom

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 1:32 AM

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Ever since the post-World War II baby boom, the birthrate in Japan has fallen like a stone. It now hovers at around 7 per 1000 - the lowest birthrate of a full nation in the entire world. Meanwhile, the death rate has steadily crept up as those baby boomers age and die. And several years ago, the death rate officially outnumbered the birth rate, and Japan's population began to contract. As the Japanese allow very, very few people to immigrate permanently, this essentially means that birth is the only way they have of growing or even sustaining their population - and that isn't happening.

The causes are widely debated — independent women not wanting the burden of a family, Japanese men being overworked and not very attractive mates, social pressures to not have many children, the sluggish economy, some combination thereof, something else, there's no obvious answer. But the result is clear: deaths outnumber births, and even with a larger overall population compared to several decades ago, there are fewer and fewer children in Japan. The current median age of the Japanese population is 45.

wide ember May 8, 2020, 1:33 AM

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burden of a family, overworked men are both part of the economy

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if they can work 8 hours a day 5-6 days a week and afford to feed a family of three on that salary...

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 1:35 AM

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That's the point

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Or the work culturrme changes

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Or Japan gets rekt economically

wide ember May 8, 2020, 1:35 AM

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(there won't be even the term of "independent women" if women were casually allowed to work and paid a good salary)

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yeah

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Japan itself is to blame

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at least the Japanese know to not make babies when they can't afford

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that's much better than their bigger neighbour to the west

blissful charm May 8, 2020, 4:25 AM

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hey anya you hooligans play acnh

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im looking for good turnip prices

somber ferry May 8, 2020, 4:30 AM

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AH HECK

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you should've said something yesterday!! i had 605 in the morning!!

blissful charm May 8, 2020, 4:30 AM

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oh nooo

somber ferry May 8, 2020, 4:30 AM

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D:

blissful charm May 8, 2020, 4:30 AM

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this is the 2nd time ive managed to miss out on 600 bell turnips

somber ferry May 8, 2020, 4:31 AM

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it was my first large spike and i'd been playing since launch dfgjhkgdjfkh

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the game was apologizing for how long it took for me to get one

blissful charm May 8, 2020, 4:31 AM

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maybe tomorrow the acnh gods will look upon me and grant me good turnip prices

somber ferry May 8, 2020, 4:32 AM

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you been tracking your prices at all? i used https://turnipprophet.io/ this week, and it was really accurate

Animal Crossing - Turnip Prophet

blissful charm May 8, 2020, 4:33 AM

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oooh this is good thank u

somber ferry May 8, 2020, 4:33 AM

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np!!

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 4:47 AM

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i want a switch

wide ember May 8, 2020, 4:49 AM

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if a switch lite is fine there's a raffle

north hamlet May 8, 2020, 4:49 AM

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will they ship it to me in spiderland

somber ferry May 8, 2020, 4:50 AM

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god i love my switch so much

wide ember May 8, 2020, 4:50 AM

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they didn't say there's limits to where they ship it

somber ferry May 8, 2020, 4:50 AM

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it's such a great console. i use it loads more than my ps4.

wide ember May 8, 2020, 4:51 AM

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but I can watch netflix with my ps4

somber ferry May 8, 2020, 4:51 AM

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my ps4 has unfortunately become more of a netflix machine these days sadboicowboi

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i need to finally get around to playing p5r though

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I HAVE IT but have hardly started it

wide ember May 8, 2020, 4:52 AM

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I wish you could let me play it first since you are not playing it now

somber ferry May 8, 2020, 4:53 AM

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my life has been.............................animal crossing

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and work, but also animal crossing lol

blissful charm May 8, 2020, 4:53 AM

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i have rdr2 to play but acnh is like. oh my lovely island friends, im going to fish on a sunny day

somber ferry May 8, 2020, 4:54 AM

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animal crossing is the burst of sunshine i need in these dark times

wide ember May 8, 2020, 4:54 AM

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if only we have real life ponds in the city to fish...

blissful charm May 8, 2020, 4:56 AM

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pff don't you know fishing isn't actually real

wide ember May 8, 2020, 4:57 AM

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my life has been a lie, what are all those fishing gears doing in the garage

hidden siren May 8, 2020, 4:59 AM

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Hades be going animal crossing now

wide ember May 8, 2020, 5:00 AM

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true, we have fishing in hades

tender cobalt May 8, 2020, 6:10 AM

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Fun fact: one of Asterius' relatives is in AC 👀

tranquil bay May 8, 2020, 6:11 AM

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took me a moment to realize you meant animal crossing and not assassins creed, esp since i was just playing odyssey earlier

serene tulip May 8, 2020, 6:12 AM

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https://v.redd.it/qw7gorfxofg31

Shëęp

Posted in r/perfectlycutscreams by u/Enixooo • 37,492 points and 347 comments

tender cobalt May 8, 2020, 6:13 AM

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Asterius in a white hood tariq

serene tulip May 8, 2020, 6:58 AM

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Help

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I've been browsing /r/perfectlycutscreams for the last hour and a half and I need to go to bed.

wide ember May 8, 2020, 7:02 AM

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I also really need to go to bed, let's try both going to bed

hidden siren May 8, 2020, 7:04 AM

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3pm gang

tranquil bay May 8, 2020, 7:11 AM

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2am 👁️__👁️

blissful charm May 8, 2020, 7:21 AM

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midnight gang

hidden siren May 8, 2020, 7:37 AM

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yall way ovah 'der aintcha

toxic steppe May 8, 2020, 5:04 PM

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10 AM here

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My Discord clock is all wack so I thought y'all sent those more recently lol I'm late to the party

gaunt valley May 8, 2020, 5:19 PM

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I was gonna reply something similar a few minutes earlier, so...

wide ember May 8, 2020, 6:22 PM

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humble bundle is giving out free game again

queen rover May 8, 2020, 7:25 PM

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Noice, free stuff 👀

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I've never even heard of that Ashes of Singularity game. Is it any good?

wide ember May 8, 2020, 7:29 PM

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never heard of it until today either, though its steam reviews are mostly positive

fringe sparrow May 8, 2020, 7:44 PM

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@faint panther Ubuntu, but I have no idea whats best. Maybe using another one could be better, as AMD rly benefit from newer kernel

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on both GPU, stability and performance from what i heard.

sudden torrent May 8, 2020, 7:48 PM

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what free game

faint panther May 8, 2020, 7:48 PM

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If you're planning to play regularly on your system (and also newer games) I'd recommend a rolling-release system. There are only a few that are RR and are good: Arch Linux, OpenSuse Tumbleweed or the best of course: Solus. :)
I don't recommend Manjaro (it's based on Arch, but buggy and a bit arcane), but you could also try that, as it has a good first glance experience. But Solus is fantastic imho. (getsol.us)

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The reason for RR is: the most recent Wine and Lutris versions. And also recent drivers if you're using proprietary nvidia. For AMD it doesn't matter, default kernel drivers are good enough usually.

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Wine is the compatibility layer that lets you run Windows apps/games fluently on your system and Lutris is a game library/starter tool that lets you start windows games that way you need them to (eg. older or more recent dxvk/wine/proton versions, whichever works best).

fringe sparrow May 8, 2020, 7:52 PM

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I had using Lutris, 5.8 or something for HAdes it was running without anything more to config.

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Whats the shell your recommend? Gnome is default under Ubuntu, but also heard its bugged in latest versions

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So it might causing issues for me too

faint panther May 8, 2020, 7:54 PM

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Why would you use Lutris for Hades? Usually Steam handles the start via Proton, so no need to emulate Steam via Lutris in the first place, unless you run into issues with Proton of course.

fringe sparrow May 8, 2020, 7:56 PM

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I dont have to turn on Steam

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the Hades is drm free

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and yeach i was not even able to execute Hades using steam (via proton)

faint panther May 8, 2020, 7:59 PM

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not sure about appropriate naming, gnome is not only a shell, but a full stack of things. Also Gnome is integrated tightly in Solus, but it's not buggy, at least not for me. Not sure what you're referring to. You should never really see "Gnome" anywere, as it runs in the background or just supplies functions or apps for the system. But it's nothing you'd try to "get" or "avoid", if that makes sense. -- Maybe you mean DE (Desktop Environment), that is the look-and-feel of the distro.

On Solus you have a few choices: the slickest and best experience is Budgie. There is also MATE and Plasma. Both are worth a look, Plasma has improved dramatically over the years in terms of performance, I've heard its pretty good today. But I'm love with Budgie, so I haven't tried it recently. :)
https://getsol.us/download/

Solus

Download | Solus

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the Hades is drm free
@fringe sparrow i'll try to run in outside of Steam then, good point. :)

fringe sparrow May 8, 2020, 8:04 PM

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For me its blazing fast compared to Windows 40fps with drops on 2500u vs 70+ stable on linux, but the freezes -- hope its the ubuntu issue for me. As i said it was doing it also while i did not played

faint panther May 8, 2020, 8:05 PM

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niiiice :)

fringe sparrow May 8, 2020, 8:05 PM

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thats the difference in OpenGL windows vs linux

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4raMkzwwU7Q

faint panther May 8, 2020, 8:05 PM

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What GPU is built in your laptop?

fringe sparrow May 8, 2020, 8:05 PM

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vega 8

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Huawei Matebook D14, the only issues was the freezes ( hope its Ubuntu issue on amd) and it have 4 speakers -- had to use little app to fix it.

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Also do you know how to get an nice FPS overlay under linux and lutris?

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I gathered FPS via the LOG, and it reported FPS every 1s

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Quite good, but there was also so many other lines logged which did not interested me

faint panther May 8, 2020, 8:17 PM

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https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen3-2200g-vega8&num=1
Here is an article (2018) about vega8, drivers and performance on ryzen. Maybe you find some interesting bits there.
In general I'd say: give a rolling release distro a chance, recent kernel (atm 5.6 on Solus) and that AMD GPU should run fine out of the box, no further driver installation needed or fiddling with newer than baseline kernels on Ubuntu.
FPS Overlay: well, DXVK has a nice and simple one. If you're using dxvk for Hades (which you probably want to do) add this to Lutris in System Options - Environment Variables: DXVK_HUD with the following value: fps,gpuload

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(mind the capitals and underscore and the comma without space between fps and gpuload)

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this adds simple numbers to the top left corner ingame.

fringe sparrow May 8, 2020, 8:23 PM

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is not DXVK vulkan vrapper for DX?

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Hades doesnt use DX

faint panther May 8, 2020, 8:25 PM

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yep it is. does hades use vulkan?

fringe sparrow May 8, 2020, 8:25 PM

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OpenGL

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its Monogame

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engine

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Overall Monogame supports DX but SGG doesnt use DX for the games

faint panther May 8, 2020, 8:27 PM

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hmm, haven't had that yet I think. I was just assuming that when you develop a game for windows you'd use dx as most of the games. mono is .NET isn't it?

fringe sparrow May 8, 2020, 8:28 PM

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it is .

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Sure but SGG games are also available on Apple store , Xbox and PS4

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and its easier to port OpenGL game to other platforms

faint panther May 8, 2020, 8:31 PM

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I see.

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Trying out Hades now with Lutris-5.7 and freshly downloaded wine-mono package, see how it goes. :)

fringe sparrow May 8, 2020, 8:35 PM

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25% solus with current slow overloaded network due of quarantine// LTE XD

faint panther May 8, 2020, 8:37 PM

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I'm all cables. :)

fringe sparrow May 8, 2020, 8:38 PM

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I wish , I cant.

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20Mbit ulimited LTE is my only friend, over night when i rly got 20Mbit hah

serene tulip May 8, 2020, 8:55 PM

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I miss snow :<

wide ember May 8, 2020, 8:56 PM

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it snowed just this morning today here

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where is my spring

serene tulip May 8, 2020, 8:56 PM

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Over here

wide ember May 8, 2020, 8:56 PM

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come back spring

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 9:19 PM

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@wide ember Sooooo. Have you played The World Next Door Demo?

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Opinions?

wide ember May 8, 2020, 9:19 PM

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yes I finished the demo, it's decent

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more than I expected actually

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but I'm bad with connect 3 games so I'm not sure if I'll be buying

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 9:20 PM

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Understandable

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Also some of the monsters protagonist designs creep me out

wide ember May 8, 2020, 9:20 PM

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I liked the first enemy monster though? the lady with all hands

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wished she could join as a party member but turned out that she's a generic enemy type

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 9:21 PM

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5CFy0IW0AARyzy.png

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The two in the middle of the second line

wide ember May 8, 2020, 9:22 PM

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aren't they just your egdy highschool classmates

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 9:22 PM

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Ye'

wide ember May 8, 2020, 9:22 PM

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the orb inside open head one looks a bit more concerning

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like how are you not getting infections and stuff

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 9:22 PM

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Why we humans can't be so varied?

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I want wings too!

wide ember May 8, 2020, 9:23 PM

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wings is unlikely but we could totally have bred ourselves to have many types of colour patches and freckles

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 9:24 PM

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Wings, gills or we riot.

wide ember May 8, 2020, 9:25 PM

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I do want feathers, especially on elbows and above

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and gills would be practical, and expandable gel suits that we can secrete from our skin

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and breathing from skin surface

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 9:27 PM

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Lol, MGSV flashbacks

wide ember May 8, 2020, 9:28 PM

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I was thinking of Thermohalia ;-;

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(kicking the Quiet flashbacks)

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like this: https://66.media.tumblr.com/1705bbc140db9f252c70163582c42a5b/tumblr_nru3j4CLNJ1tixp3xo1_400.jpg

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this webcomic got deleted and it's Protean Sea now

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it comes out of her skin like this: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-13xyInrRb4w/U1f4_6_3EAI/AAAAAAAAI5Y/Lchpj-rS32g/s1600/ther1.JPG

serene tulip May 8, 2020, 9:31 PM

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My boss wants me to call someone but I'm not really feeling like talking to anyone

wide ember May 8, 2020, 9:31 PM

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you can do this

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 9:32 PM

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https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/1063490/extras/EmptyShell_sml.png

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:(

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I decided to replay it

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And the game somehow got me even sadder than the first time

serene tulip May 8, 2020, 9:33 PM

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why the heck am I so brainfoggy right now?

wide ember May 8, 2020, 9:33 PM

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it's the spring maybe, oce?

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the spacesuit thing, that's such a nightmare mood

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 9:34 PM

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1063490/Still_There/

Steam

Still There

How Far is Far Enough?STILL THERE is a story-driven psychological adventure game about lingering grief, technical puzzles, wacky AIs and dark humour. Evade the past, welcome oblivion, make the perfect Italian coffee.LEARN THE TRUTHAfter receiving an emergency radio transmissio...

Price

$9.74

Recommendations

251

Metacritic

77

▶ Play video

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Like seriously, play it if you want to get depressed

wide ember May 8, 2020, 9:34 PM

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if I want to evade the past and welcome oblivion I'd watch Annihilation

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(I'll play still there once I'm out of the stuck at home stress)

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 9:37 PM

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Disclaimer on Fine Print: Game may not be depressing foryouas I maybe be just a person of easy tear. I don't take responsibility of the game didn't induce any negative feelings on you.

wide ember May 8, 2020, 9:38 PM

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oh I've watched the trailer when you recommended it to me the first time

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it would be depressing for me, though probably not in a bad way

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 9:39 PM

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I would want to reccomend operencia

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But I only played the Hour-long demo

wide ember May 8, 2020, 9:46 PM

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I want to recommend Orwell for those who haven't played it yet

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it's a drag and drop spy and report game

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 10:14 PM

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Played both

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I liked them

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Preferred the first one, tho

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 10:32 PM

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https://youtu.be/FYx_IGBX-EE

God damn it, I'm in tears

YouTube

it’s jer

Seddie

▶ Play video

faint panther May 8, 2020, 10:53 PM

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@fringe sparrow: got the game to run nicely without Proton. You need to patch your wineprefix with the latest dotnet version called dotnet48 using Winetricks. Can start winetricks with a simple push of a button from inside Lutris. It's just a matter of navigating the menus then, let it finish the installation and it runs smooth with Lutris-Wine 5.7.

wide ember May 8, 2020, 10:54 PM

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iCarly... what year is it... ;-;

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speaking of that, my windows xp PC isn't updating its time anymore and it's stuck in 1980

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not sure if CMOS battery expired or else

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 10:57 PM

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By the way the 'Seddie' wiki page has a total of ||one hundred ninety-two thousand five hundred eighty-two|| total comments

desert minnow May 8, 2020, 10:57 PM

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but why

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 10:57 PM

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Not enough LMAOs in the world

hasty kernel May 8, 2020, 11:48 PM

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Albino, we can barely handle having slightly different skin colour, do you really trust humans with more variety?

fervent zenith May 8, 2020, 11:52 PM

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Good point ._.

odd grove May 9, 2020, 1:05 AM

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Yo

tranquil bay May 9, 2020, 1:16 AM

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@royal geode re: valhalla it wasnt a gameplay video, and ubi acknowledged afterward that it wasnt what people were expecting (as in, you know, a video that literally shows the actual gameplay within a game and not a cinematic)

odd grove May 9, 2020, 1:22 AM

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Imagine thinking people play games for everything but gameplay

fervent zenith May 9, 2020, 1:25 AM

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Wasn't the controversy that they said they were gonna put gameplay trailers and none of them had basicaly any?

hexed hollow May 9, 2020, 1:26 AM

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yeah, it was they released a gameplay trailer with no gameplay in it

tranquil bay May 9, 2020, 1:27 AM

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a "first look" at gameplay even

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lmao

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and it was just more pre rendered cinematic stuff

fervent zenith May 9, 2020, 1:27 AM

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You could think they hired Ron to do that

tranquil bay May 9, 2020, 1:28 AM

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not really sure what part of "hey we'd like to see what the gameplay is like" is hard to grasp

hexed hollow May 9, 2020, 1:28 AM

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it would have been less bad if they removed any mention of gameplay in the title and description

fervent zenith May 9, 2020, 1:28 AM

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I'm actually excited by Bright Memory

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I got the OG

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So I'll upgrade for free

tranquil bay May 9, 2020, 1:29 AM

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yeah the entire drama is bc they touted it as a first look at the gameplay and it was just another cinematic trailer. label it appropriately, gameplay is someone literally playing the game, its not a new term, come on

fervent zenith May 9, 2020, 1:31 AM

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Hell I would be satisfied with a fake CGI'd gameplay

tranquil bay May 9, 2020, 1:37 AM

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i wouldnt

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fake gameplay isnt gameplay

fervent zenith May 9, 2020, 1:37 AM

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I just want to see their Scandinavia

robust gust May 9, 2020, 6:03 AM

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They say time heals all wounds, but the truth is some wounds fester and kill a person if there is no intervention.

wide ember May 9, 2020, 6:08 AM

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they didn't say to not treat your wounds though

robust gust May 9, 2020, 6:23 AM

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Yeah, but I guess I'm just thinking about how I know people who are all it just needs time and sit by instead of trying to help a situation

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That and then there are those folks who do get upset at a person for being bad and demand the person changes but also decide before hand that they aren't going to give the person a chance even if they do change. Like, what's the point then

wide ember May 9, 2020, 6:46 AM

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what is this about specifically

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Hades (the dad) for Zagreus?

fervent zenith May 9, 2020, 12:10 PM

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Maybe if they went to Dr. Phil all the game would be solved

clear aspen May 9, 2020, 12:11 PM

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ehi there, did anybody play Fury Unleashed?

fervent zenith May 9, 2020, 3:35 PM

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https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/14956/Square_Enix_Eidos_Anthology/

Square Enix Eidos Anthology on Steam

This big collection features 54 games, including 12 Tomb Raider adventures, 5 Deus Ex games, 3 Just Cause titles and more! 100% of Square Enix revenue goes to food banks and other charities!

robust gust May 9, 2020, 6:14 PM

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@wide ember , sorta. Like I was thinking if Persephone left because she didn't like how Hades was handling himself, and if Hades did love her, Hades would probably try to change himself. But we see that in this, Hades is trying to bury his past (hid Persephone's existence and doesn't talk to the rest of the fam at all). He isolated himself and keeps himself busy while also lashing out at Zagreus from time to time. So the only thing I can think of is that Hades changed but Persephone didn't return, and from personal experience, nothing hurts more than that

paper stream May 9, 2020, 7:55 PM

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So kinda offtopic but i wanted help with something, im doing a college assignement about web design in game publishers sites and i wanted to know what features you guys think its interesting to add, what you think makes a great or cool website and what should be cut off from the project, thaks in advance

wide ember May 9, 2020, 7:56 PM

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user-friendly navigation menu

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if your navigation menu looks like 2010 McGill University's official website, you're doing it wrong

north hamlet May 9, 2020, 8:10 PM

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Usability should be top priority for any website

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Doesn't matter how cool it looks if you can't find anything

dry stratus May 9, 2020, 8:13 PM

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😔 had a dream last night that jen zee managed to land a spot in a release of imagine fx. what an amazing dream

north hamlet May 9, 2020, 8:14 PM

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Imagine fx?

wide ember May 9, 2020, 8:17 PM

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I dreamt of tons of rosary beads

fervent zenith May 9, 2020, 8:31 PM

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Doesn't matter how cool it looks if you can't find anything
@north hamlet

Tumblr.txt

wide ember May 9, 2020, 8:32 PM

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(Imagine fx is a magazine)

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Tumblr... ugh... /flashback

north hamlet May 9, 2020, 8:38 PM

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Good thing I've never really used it then

wide ember May 9, 2020, 8:40 PM

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tumblr didn't have many features to start with so at first glance it was good design

fervent zenith May 9, 2020, 8:43 PM

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But their search bar is worse than Reddit's

languid sundial May 9, 2020, 8:58 PM

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very fun game ty devs

toxic steppe May 9, 2020, 9:43 PM

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@fervent zenith Yo thanks for linking that bundle I scooped it

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Lots of these games are from my childhood

fervent zenith May 9, 2020, 9:43 PM

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👍

toxic steppe May 9, 2020, 9:45 PM

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dusaHeart

velvet fjord May 9, 2020, 11:32 PM

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the endless space collection is free rn if you link your steam account through games2gether

fervent zenith May 9, 2020, 11:47 PM

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Oh I already have all their games

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Endless is my favourite franchise

velvet fjord May 10, 2020, 12:02 AM

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endless space 2 was very good, but I just could not get into Dungeon

fervent zenith May 10, 2020, 12:09 AM

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The fact each game is a completely different thing is polarizing

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Also dungeon had the best elevator music ever created for a game

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I know it's a remix of a Endless Space track, but still

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VJFlc1SBBA4

YouTube

Jimmys G-OST

Dungeon of the Endless [Soundtrack] 15 - The Elevator Song

Want it? Get it!
Steam: https://goo.gl/ipwxcc

Music by FlybyNo

Titel: Dungeon of the Endless™
Genre: Abenteuer, Indie, RPG, Strategie
Entwickler: AMPLITUDE Studios
Publisher: SEGA
Veröffentlichung: 27. Okt. 2014

▶ Play video

velvet fjord May 10, 2020, 12:28 AM

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Dungeon was the first endless game I tried, I just didn't enjoy it

es2 is one of the best 4X games ever though

wide ember May 10, 2020, 1:00 AM

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if you have the endless legend bonus character in endless dungeon, you can see interesting conversations during the elevator scenes

fervent zenith May 10, 2020, 1:08 AM

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Fans: Soooo...... Which minor tribe the Vaulters decided to take with them to space?

Amplitude Studios: The one goes exclusively by busty women. Of course!

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(I'm not being facetious here)

wide ember May 10, 2020, 1:14 AM

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If your tribal specialty is teleportation shouldn’t you take the rock people

fervent zenith May 10, 2020, 1:25 AM

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Mèbi

hot goblet May 10, 2020, 3:01 AM

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@carmine wharf "Carpal tunnel syndrome is caused by pressure on the median nerve. The carpal tunnel is a narrow passageway surrounded by bones and ligaments on the palm side of your hand. When the median nerve is compressed, the symptoms can include numbness, tingling and weakness in the hand and arm. " from the mayo clinic :p

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it's nerve compression/damage, while it is can be related to ligaments and stuff it's still caused by pressure(and possibly eventually permanent damage) to nerves

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it's why posture matters, because proper wrist and elbow position can limit inflammation and mitigate pressure on the nerves

carmine wharf May 10, 2020, 3:03 AM

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Oh my doc said its the tendons and ligaments inflaming that makes it so bad

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i blame bad doctors

hot goblet May 10, 2020, 3:04 AM

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well, yes. Technically? Those inflame, but the symptoms are caused by those pressing on your nerves like a vice.

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like the best thing I can relate it to that most people do experience is when you hit your elbow and your hand goes numb. The elbow has a vulnerable nerve in it called the ulnar nerve, which pressure and damage to can cause symptoms similar to carpal tunnel syndrome.

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There's alesser known related syndrome to carpal tunnel syndrome where the nerve that's vulnerable in your elbow there gets pinched, especially due to the complex joint structure there that allows for your nerve to wrap around. Tingling primarily in the pinky and ring finger of the hand, it's why you should try and keep your elbows comfortably straight as much as you can.

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(i've had problems with that before in the past, I had to change how I sleep to keep my elbows straight and adjust keyboard posture to deal with it)

tender cobalt May 10, 2020, 5:49 AM

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My hands smell like cookie dough after baking 100 cookies 🍪

north hamlet May 10, 2020, 5:50 AM

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delicious

desert minnow May 10, 2020, 2:03 PM

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Man that’s a lot of cookies

toxic steppe May 10, 2020, 4:20 PM

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My hands smell like cookie dough after meaning to bake 100 cookies but eating 100 cookies worth of cookie dough instead.

fervent zenith May 10, 2020, 4:52 PM

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And now you are writing from the toilet

tender cobalt May 10, 2020, 4:55 PM

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How'd you know?!

fervent zenith May 10, 2020, 5:15 PM

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The 'eating 100 cookies worth of dough' part

wide ember May 10, 2020, 7:26 PM

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I got 11+ hours of sleep somehow

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From 10pm to 10am, give or take 2 hours

north hamlet May 10, 2020, 8:50 PM

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Don't eat raw flour people

desert minnow May 10, 2020, 8:51 PM

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what about raw flour animals?

north hamlet May 10, 2020, 8:52 PM

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Also bad

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Gotta cook em first

wide ember May 10, 2020, 8:59 PM

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I've gotten sick on uncooked instant noodle before so (note: that was unfried instant noodle, which is different from the usual north american fried instant noodle that is already cooked before you boil it)

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can't image how bad raw dough would be, probably worse

north hamlet May 10, 2020, 9:22 PM

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It would depend a lot on the storage conditions

blissful charm May 10, 2020, 9:46 PM

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raw dough is so delicious

fervent zenith May 10, 2020, 9:54 PM

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Uncooked food is dangerous as heck

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As Gordon Ramsay taught me

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Uncooked chicken can kill you

autumn pasture May 10, 2020, 9:55 PM

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raw dough is worth it though

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if i die of salmonella after eating raw cookie dough it will be with a glad heart

wide ember May 10, 2020, 10:08 PM

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that's how I feel about cheese and bamboo sprouts so I can't really retort that

autumn pasture May 10, 2020, 10:14 PM

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fortunately i will not die no matter how much cheese i eat

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this post made by lactose tolerance gang

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but even if i wasn't, i would still consume cheese like my life depended on it

odd grove May 10, 2020, 10:16 PM

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Pls

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Don't eat raw stuff

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Unless it's sushi

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Cuz fish is literally harmless when raw

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@autumn pasture funny enough mammals ain't supposed to drink lactose during adulthood

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"milk is for babies" is more accurate than you'd think

autumn pasture May 10, 2020, 10:18 PM

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to which i say, imagine not being able to drink lactose during adulthood

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this post made by lactose tolerance gang

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honestly being able to eat cheese is part of why i'd rather be a human than an animal

odd grove May 10, 2020, 10:18 PM

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My dad gets a load of mozzarella every month

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So i consoom cheese a lot

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He has like 4 boxes of cheese intented for stores to cut and sell

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Or for restaurants

autumn pasture May 10, 2020, 10:19 PM

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nice

odd grove May 10, 2020, 10:19 PM

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God i love that cheese

autumn pasture May 10, 2020, 10:20 PM

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i love a good cheddar

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or gorgonzolla

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gorgonzola is DELICIOUS

odd grove May 10, 2020, 10:35 PM

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Bruh

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BRIE@autumn pasture

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I love brie

autumn pasture May 10, 2020, 10:38 PM

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brie IS very good

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with jam and bread? 😩

wide ember May 10, 2020, 10:42 PM

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gouda on rice...

tender cobalt May 10, 2020, 10:49 PM

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Net.Ray revealing his cheesy stuff 🧀

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I love parmessan cheese so much, I add it whenever possible

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And I am thankful I am not lactose intolerant or I'd suffer eternally as an adult

odd grove May 10, 2020, 10:51 PM

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Imagine being egg intolerant

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Like

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What can you eat that contains 0 eggs

north hamlet May 10, 2020, 11:14 PM

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A lot of asian foods

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This also works if you are lactose intolerant and coeliac

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Also guys i need help

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What do i do with a single egg white

hasty kernel May 10, 2020, 11:18 PM

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Bread Im pretty sure

tender cobalt May 10, 2020, 11:26 PM

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@north hamlet Meringue 😋

north hamlet May 10, 2020, 11:26 PM

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That would be a very tiny meringue

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But sure

fervent zenith May 10, 2020, 11:34 PM

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Chicken

north hamlet May 11, 2020, 12:36 AM

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@tender cobalt https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/605817649146101765/709201805766165012/JPEG_20200511_103330.jpg

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This is actually a respectable single serve of egg poof

tender cobalt May 11, 2020, 12:36 AM

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Woooo 😍

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Snack time

north hamlet May 11, 2020, 12:37 AM

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They came out a bit tanned so I'll have to tweak the cooking times

tender cobalt May 11, 2020, 12:45 AM

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Enjoy friendly

north hamlet May 11, 2020, 12:46 AM

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They are quite tasty

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Still a bit gooey in the middle too

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Btw here is why there was a stray egg white https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/202030058452418561/709205819236810873/JPEG_20200511_105035.jpg

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The eggs i ordered were a bit small so i added an extra yolk to the cake

hexed hollow May 11, 2020, 12:52 AM

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bittieChonk

north hamlet May 11, 2020, 12:52 AM

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Also it turns out my dog likes carrot cake

hexed hollow May 11, 2020, 12:52 AM

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huh, nice
tbf Carrot cake is quite tasty :3

north hamlet May 11, 2020, 12:53 AM

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Also smells good

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And she likes sweets

hexed hollow May 11, 2020, 12:54 AM

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now i wants carrot cake...damn it

north hamlet May 11, 2020, 12:54 AM

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You're welcome

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Actually now that i think about it

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The social distancing rules have been eased a bit here

fervent ibex May 11, 2020, 12:58 AM

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using discord light mode baby

north hamlet May 11, 2020, 12:58 AM

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Does coming over to eat cake count as providing support?

fervent ibex May 11, 2020, 12:58 AM

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sure

north hamlet May 11, 2020, 1:00 AM

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@hexed hollow good news you can come get some carrot cake

hexed hollow May 11, 2020, 1:00 AM

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Pog

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our state is slowly lifting restrictions, last I heard it was 2 adults and unlimited kids (of the same family) could visit another household

north hamlet May 11, 2020, 1:03 AM

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😱 unlimited kids

tender cobalt May 11, 2020, 1:04 AM

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Carrot cake 🥕 🍰

north hamlet May 11, 2020, 1:04 AM

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That would be terrifying

hexed hollow May 11, 2020, 1:04 AM

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ikr!? 1 kid is scary enough

tender cobalt May 11, 2020, 1:04 AM

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How did you do the frosting?

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Or any recipe you recommend?

north hamlet May 11, 2020, 1:04 AM

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This is actually instant packet mix

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I did add an extra yolk to the batter and a squeeze of lemon to the icing though

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It's just butter milk lemon and sugar mix

tender cobalt May 11, 2020, 1:05 AM

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Ah, a lemon glaze. Gotcha

north hamlet May 11, 2020, 1:06 AM

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This is still more delicious and moist than almost every other carrot cake I've had

tender cobalt May 11, 2020, 1:07 AM

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I'm also having a carrot cake craving right now...

north hamlet May 11, 2020, 1:15 AM

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https://33.media.tumblr.com/d06a736d6290511c1373f2f505676904/tumblr_n834x04kPW1sxfvy5o1_500.gif

queen rover May 11, 2020, 1:48 AM

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Carrot cake, you say? I could use some carrot cake

chilly briar May 11, 2020, 2:07 AM

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All according to keikaku

hasty kernel May 11, 2020, 2:12 AM

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Translators note: Keikaku means plan

lunar badger May 11, 2020, 6:40 AM

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Cake...

wide ember May 11, 2020, 6:45 AM

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Cake and grief counseling will be available at the conclusion of the test.

hidden ocean May 11, 2020, 12:05 PM

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Figured I'll ask here, anyone encountered issues with Steam not letting you use Paypal Balance as a payment method?
i.e I have money in my Paypal balance, I wanted to buy Hades specifically, but I can't select paypal balance - only shows my credit cards...

wide ember May 11, 2020, 6:02 PM

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Paypal seems fine to me?

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they added a PaySafe card option right below Paypal though

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which is a credit card middleman type of thing, so its interface is like a credit card

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 6:34 PM

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found an online app that lets you stream international radio, radio.garden

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it's kinda glitchy in win10 chrome tho

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or at least search doesn't work for me

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anyways, as an expat kid, i decided to see what's on moscow radio stations these days but it glitched and sent me to voronezh instead. so it's folk/old rock on blagovestie rn

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 6:57 PM

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wait, nvm, i just realized why we stream spotify instead of radio these days. ughhhhhh, the ads

faint panther May 11, 2020, 7:00 PM

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I try to not have 45 minute commutes, so radio is extra bad for me because I'll get 80 seconds of song, and then 7 minutes of ads, then another 45 seconds of another song (with the host talking over the first 15 seconds, of course), then I pull into my destination.

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If my phone is dead so I don't have my playlist I just turn the radio off.

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 7:04 PM

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basically. it kinda blows bc i was poking around eastern europe bc spotify's suggestions for non-eng artists are horrible

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or at least the algorithm literally lists piknik (old rock) as a related artist to nogu svelo (pop rock)

faint panther May 11, 2020, 7:07 PM

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Spotify, Pandora, and a lot of others are like that.

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 7:07 PM

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this is before we get into the licensing issues

faint panther May 11, 2020, 7:08 PM

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I made an X Japan Pandora station years ago and instead of playing their actual contemporaries like Metallica I got early Aughts J-rock like Asian Kung Fu Generation.

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 7:08 PM

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or the fact that it's all kpop promos in the homepage but i had to literally ask people online for korean alt

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so far only got surl and stella jang

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(side note but kpop stans scare me, as a casual bts/dreamcatcher/loona/kard fan)

wide ember May 11, 2020, 7:19 PM

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(oh hey, radio garden is still around)

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(thanks, bookmarked)

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 7:36 PM

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wait, is it really that old?

wide ember May 11, 2020, 8:09 PM

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radio garden? 5 years ago, back when there were rumours that cellphones won't be able to play radio anymore

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 9:03 PM

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and my lg v30 has a radio listening app

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(slow replies bc uni finals prep)

wide ember May 11, 2020, 9:04 PM

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I bought an old school radio last year

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so when there's no internet or electricity locally I still have radio

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 9:15 PM

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i'm a spotify-listening 2000's kid

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although i do wind up on youtube music for anything spotify doesn't have (bc seriously, their russian and ukrainian licensing blow)

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although they do thankfully have most of my fave punk groups available

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(a bunch of them have rather vulgar names bc punk)

wide ember May 11, 2020, 9:21 PM

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I feel so old, and I don't use spotify ~~for my anime playlists~~

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 9:22 PM

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i mean, that was like the thing of choice for my middle and high school and half the uni is on there

faint panther May 11, 2020, 9:23 PM

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I think Spotify was starting to really hit its stride my freshman year of uni.

wide ember May 11, 2020, 9:23 PM

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what is even uni like those days? I remember that as I was leaving uni my city uni had this fancy new glass building with a lot of sunlight

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didn't get to use it much myself

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 9:24 PM

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business school: everyone has a caffeine addiction and is in business casual half the time

faint panther May 11, 2020, 9:24 PM

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I feel like most American universities are largely the same as they were 10 years ago.

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 9:24 PM

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the liberal arts building i had to take uni requirements in: everyone has a caffeine addiction, looks like a hipster

wide ember May 11, 2020, 9:24 PM

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the building I had to use was very brutalist with a lot of heavy naked concrete pillars and very narrow hallways

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I was a hipster so I didn't have a caffeine addiction, I was drinking kombucha back then

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 9:25 PM

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business school building was an old building that you could totally set an episode of hannibal in

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liberal arts building was generic glass modernism. pretty but ironically less character than business school

wide ember May 11, 2020, 9:26 PM

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oh? the glass building was for business school in case of my uni

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I guess it was to get people used to offices with large windows that could not be opened for air

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 9:27 PM

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ya, no, it was surprisingly 1800's gothic

wide ember May 11, 2020, 9:28 PM

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I guess until coffee gets banned or tea goes extinct the caffeine addiction will be a permanent point of all uni

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 9:29 PM

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the on-campus shops do carry kombucha so it's become a more basic thing lol

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you now see most of the hipster-ing in music tastes

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(i usually auto-win despite being an accounting major bc obscure english, russian, and ukrainian indies in my libraries and russian punk)

wide ember May 11, 2020, 9:30 PM

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is firewind still considered hip?

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 9:31 PM

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uh, who?

wide ember May 11, 2020, 9:31 PM

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oh no

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https://www.spirit-of-metal.com/les goupes/F/Firewind/pics/a796_1.jpg

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 9:32 PM

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the only metal groups i'm familiar with louna and aria ngl

wide ember May 11, 2020, 9:32 PM

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haven't heard of either

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 9:32 PM

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aria is basically russian dad metal

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louna is basically punk metal

wide ember May 11, 2020, 9:33 PM

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if you post them in the music channel I'll gladly give them a try

desert wadi May 11, 2020, 9:36 PM

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louna is on youtube music

serene tulip May 11, 2020, 9:44 PM

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oof

wide ember May 12, 2020, 12:07 AM

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I seem to have gotten a cold lately, feeling so lazy

serene tulip May 12, 2020, 4:27 AM

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booo

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you should only feel lazy when you want to

wide ember May 12, 2020, 4:29 AM

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(I had runny nose and foggy brain this morning too)

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if I were a cat, I would

serene tulip May 12, 2020, 4:30 AM

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Well I finally re-upped my stim perscription so I'm looking forward to not being tired and brainfoggy all day tomorrow

wide ember May 12, 2020, 4:31 AM

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hope it works

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:10 AM

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to continue on what we were saying in #h1-discussion , a lot of what we know about Ancient Egypt, we know it through...the Greeks. For instance Herodotus writing about Egypt's long line of pharaohs.

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and we call ancient Egypt cities...by the names the ancient greeks gave them

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like, Memphis, Thebes

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Crocodilopolis, Herakleopolis, etc

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:13 AM

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But it's not solely through the greeks themselves, yeah? They have their own texts, just like the greeks, and the greeks just made things more accesible to the archeologists that initially uncovered them

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even in history it was very clear that plenty of things were documented in a eurocentric way and that's just mmmmm

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:14 AM

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I wish you were right, but I'm afraid the Greeks deformed many things passed on by the Egyptians, and we can't know for sure about the truth, History was not a very precise science for Herodotus back then for instance, he meddles with myths a lot of times and what he's heard

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:14 AM

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the greeks wrote down what was important to them, and the rest is either lost to time because of the non-documentation or just... not uncovered yet

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yeah! but it doesn't mean it's not made accesible even if it's warped truth

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:15 AM

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basically, we do have a lot of information about Ancient Egypt from the ancient egyptians themselves, but a lot of it is through the buildings they left, and what's pictured or written on it. We don't have a lot of other texts though.

wide ember May 12, 2020, 7:15 AM

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There’s other people writing on the Egyptian

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But it’s in Ugaritic

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:16 AM

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yeah, i feel like what i'm trying to say that trying to accredit EVERYTHING to the greeks, especially info of egyptians issssssss

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mmm

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:16 AM

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it's not like i'm happy about it lol

wide ember May 12, 2020, 7:16 AM

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I feel like no one here is happy about it

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:16 AM

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not everything through the greeks, of course

wide ember May 12, 2020, 7:17 AM

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It’s just that Greek was and still easier understood than Egyptian or Ugaritic

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:17 AM

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Sure, greek gave their own perspectives and documentation on their interactions with egypt, but the emphasis on why the greeks were so important because of this rubs me the wrong way

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Doubtless, they have contributed plenty to knowledge and texts but

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y'know, they're not the be all end all

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:18 AM

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that's absolutely not what i'm saying

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but there are some cultures and periods of time we have 100 times more information about

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:19 AM

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It just comes across that way-- it sounds very dissmisive of other cultures

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:20 AM

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idk how it can come across dismissive to just say that we have more info about some cultures

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Ancient Egypt is, well, ancient, and we lost a lot of information on very old times, not just egyptian times ...

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if anything i'm shocked that we use so much the Greek lens to study Ancient Egypt

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:21 AM

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I'm not really just talking about ancient egypt though

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just cultures in general

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I acknolwedge that ancient egypt, especially the early phases of the civ is lost to time

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since language and writing was only beginning to form then

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:22 AM

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well, cultures in general, it's the same really, it's not fair but some cultures are pretty much unknown, and it's not fair or it does not indicate that they sucked

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the cultures of civilizations lost - the Greeks basically survived a lot bc we kept a lot, probably bc we felt we were sort of Greeks, in the West

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:23 AM

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I'm also saying that sometimes the reason why we have more info on certain cultures is maaaybe because it's dependent on the people who have the power to put those efforts into action?

wide ember May 12, 2020, 7:24 AM

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The libraries

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:24 AM

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well, we can do nothing about the library of Alexandria now lol

wide ember May 12, 2020, 7:24 AM

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too soon!!

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:24 AM

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yknow, the library of alexandria wasn't actually burned down

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like, there were parchements that were burned, and it was a lot of it, but the library itself was fine

wide ember May 12, 2020, 7:25 AM

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The parchments were the important parts!

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:25 AM

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yeah but not all of them were burned, though

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there were also like.... lots of other libraries back then

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the burning of the library of alexandria was greatly dramatisiczed

wide ember May 12, 2020, 7:26 AM

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yeah what I meant to say was thanks to that library, a lot of texts were produced and even if the library burnt, the originals (not the copies in the library) still survived

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a lot of things would otherwise not even be written down

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:27 AM

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idk if the burning was dramatized, maybe, i feel like we don't know, but we definitely lost bazillions of books

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like, even in Roman and Greek literature, which survived a lot

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:27 AM

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it was, there's sources

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they were just being drama queens smh

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:28 AM

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for thousands of years people didn't care about preserving History, and even now, we don't always care or spend money on it

wide ember May 12, 2020, 7:28 AM

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And honestly I feel worse about the library of Nineveh

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:28 AM

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people used the ancient monuments to build their houses or burned the books

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:29 AM

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why do you feel worse about the library of nineveh tho??

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isn't it still there

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:29 AM

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most of the time what we know, it's because there was some political intention to preserve it, or some cultural use

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:29 AM

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yeah, and js it sucks that MOST OF IT IS GREEK

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and the emphasis put on the greeks

wide ember May 12, 2020, 7:30 AM

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didn’t most of non-clay records from Nineveh burn back then?

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:30 AM

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they did but most of them were clay to begin with

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since there's a huge ammount of stone tablets found in there

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:30 AM

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well, i'm def no expert on Ancient Egypt or Ancient stuff but don't you find it somewhat shocking that soooo much of what we know is through Greek / Roman names, points of view, categories

wide ember May 12, 2020, 7:31 AM

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And didn’t some people take those clay blocs out of order so many texts became incomprehensible?

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:31 AM

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and i think that's still having a massive impact

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:31 AM

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ok yeah now that you mentioned it that's kind of sad-- indecriphable clay blocks that no one knows what to do with

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:32 AM

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it's the same for old "Europeans" in fact, what we know about Celts, or Italic people, it's through Romans / Greeks

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:32 AM

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there's also the fact that english has closer roots to greek than egyptian so like it makes sense

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:33 AM

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i'm not sad we know a lot about Greeks, its fascinating, but I do wish we had this proximity with other ancient cultures - I wish we kept and knew more

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and I mean, even Rome, there's a lot that's lost

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when you want to read Titus Livius,history of Rome, we lost most of it, and it was well-known

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fortunately ancient Greeks had the time to develop roguelikes like Hades

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:34 AM

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I'm not sad we know a lot about greeks-- I'm sad over the fact that it has been put to priotity over other cultures :/

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:35 AM

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i don't think nowadays it's a conscious choice

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:35 AM

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w

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what

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:35 AM

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i was joking xD but about this choice thing : there used to be conscious choices about what to destroy and what to keep

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like, religious choices

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nowadays i feel like choices are much lighter in impact bc the big thing is, even if we chose to prioritize this or that, we already lost so much info that it does not matter that much

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:37 AM

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yeah, there is, of course the religious aspect, but there's also the fact that people of the modern day also chose to prioritize the recovery of certain texts more than others...

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so yeah

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that-

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:38 AM

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sure, yea. But what's destroyed is destroyed, for instance we can't recreate burned texts of the Mayas or the Aztecs

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:38 AM

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some texts might just not be recovered because no concious effort is being built towards them, and people of their community/culture don't have the means to do so

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:39 AM

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and keeping stuff in a good condition is already costing a lot

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:39 AM

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I mean yeah, definately, those that are burned, are burned-- but even with a royal decree to burn every single book of the people, the chinese dynasties still managed to keep concise documentations for many many many years about their history

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:40 AM

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maybe...but i feel like today, many communities can organize themselves already, it's more the problem of what has been lost, but maybe i'm pessimistic.

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maybe we will still find lots of stuff

wide ember May 12, 2020, 7:40 AM

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I checked enc britannica and while the fire did not destroy the library of Alexandria, some iconoclastic religious fanatics did, after it had already suffered from budget cuts

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:40 AM

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wild

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:40 AM

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yea but China was such a big, powerful civilization

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:40 AM

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books are bad- illiterate people good

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:41 AM

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no wonder they kept stuff

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moreover, they still rule today, whereas the powers that got in place in Egypt and Mexico didn't really see themselves as Aztecs or Ancient Egyptians

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:42 AM

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It's not really a "no wonder they kept stuff" lmao-- since china was constantly fragmented and in war with each other, and with how the mandate of heaven works, it was a way to hold people accountable

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:42 AM

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we kept more about the cultures we saw as "family", or "friendly", but many times we saw these cultures as heretic, enemies, etc and then we destroyed

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:43 AM

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~~you know, like the american and the natives!~~

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:45 AM

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yea, sure, China had some very rough times, but I mean it was so rich and powerful even in those times that it's not surprising some texts survived, even when China was conquered by foreigners like Mongols they didn't destroy that much - well, they did, but a lot kept existing. But yes there were destructions, even quite recently during the Mao years, the Cultural Revolution

wide ember May 12, 2020, 7:45 AM

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and a lot of Arab merchants or travellers wrote on cool stuff they found in China

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:46 AM

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but yeah but i feel like you can't discount the fact that yes, maybe a lot of old civs and their texts were trampled by people who were big civs, but the reason why greeks have more info might also be attriubted to how much people valued the greeks

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:46 AM

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and that's what i say basically, there's the time factor and there's the "is this culture an enemy" factor

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Greeks sure had such a massive impact...maybe cause of Alexander, maybe even before, because they were merchants and colonizers - but then, Phoenicians too, and we kept less

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so maybe just chance

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and factors idk about :p

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:48 AM

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yeah it's really hard to underpin history and where it begins and where it ends

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I'm just very very sad that some cultures get unappreciated

wide ember May 12, 2020, 7:48 AM

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It’s also because our culture is descendent from them, if we are Koreans chatting in Seoul we’d be seeing this differently?

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“Finally, some exotic stories” maybe

haughty fog May 12, 2020, 7:49 AM

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actually, i like the work done by AC Origins, for instance, but i think it's very telling they did the Greco-Roman period of Egypt

lunar badger May 12, 2020, 7:49 AM

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well, my culture definately did not descend from them, lmao