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humble parrot
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DRG Rat?!

tough comet
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what would they say if it was Golden mushroom?? panpaka_horse mono_explosion

sick flame
tough comet
undone osprey
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Fission Mailed, we'll get them next time

small berry
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Remember when I said I think something big will happen this summer and after that Trump almost died and we had the biggest system crash ever?

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crypto didn't dump cause of it tho, sad

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and this summer ain't over yet, heck the year isn't even close to being over

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Who's ready to go to the bunker to rehearse this weekend? Wooooooohoooo

tough comet
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we are in the middle of summer harapeko

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oh boy

humble parrot
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Oh, dam

small berry
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2 minutes later, still can't think of a pun with dam, please reboot in safe mode

undone osprey
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Two big furry hacks happened :v
That's something...

small berry
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can I furry hack you?

undone osprey
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Excuse moi? 🤨

frozen bluff
undone osprey
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or was it... i forgot

humble parrot
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😆

frozen bluff
small berry
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maybe if a radioactive cat bit a human...

frozen bluff
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Either way, that'd be a very dangerous business 😂

small berry
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nothing is too dangerous for a furry

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heat exhaustion be damned

undone osprey
frozen bluff
small berry
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how? what

frozen bluff
undone osprey
frozen bluff
grand falcon
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It's skating time!!

(Or well almost, I gotta head back to my trade school, and then all the people going, will be leaving on vans around 6:30)

frozen bluff
grand falcon
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Ngl, Im kinda nervous because it's been so long since I been skating 🤣

I don't even remember how to stop, but to be fair, even back then when I used to skate, I already didn't know how to stop lol(I always just let myself bang into a wall full speed 🤣)

small berry
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Enryou can react to A Person

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quick don't say anything else

grand falcon
lofty wind
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last time i tried skating i almost broke my arm

grand falcon
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OOF

undone osprey
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i tried skating but theres no ice where i live

lofty wind
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i felt that

small berry
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That man has lost a nipple

frozen bluff
grand falcon
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My mom's dad died from skating

Or well, kinda

He broke his ankle, and when he went to the hospital, they said there was nothing wrong

But a blood clot formed because of the thing they put on his foot apparently, and went into his heart

small berry
small berry
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we used to hurt ourselves skating or longboarding so much

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one kid fell off a cliff but got caught on a branch/tree, fun stuff

frozen bluff
lofty wind
small berry
small berry
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that kid was annoying

frozen bluff
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I would've

small berry
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maybe I should have

frozen bluff
# small berry maybe I should have

I mean not even a few days after a dude I work with lost a little bit of his finger, someone made the joke about how we indicate overtime, saying "so if he says we're working over, does that mean we're only working half over?"

small berry
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you indicate over showing your finger?

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I don't get it

frozen bluff
small berry
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oh I see

frozen bluff
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We don't really talk much when we're on a job. Everything's done by hand signals.

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If we have to talk, we get up close and yell because that's really the only way to be heard. Otherwise, we'll go somewhere more quiet to discuss things

small berry
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Hearing safety is important

frozen bluff
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Earmuffs and earplugs, sometimes both at the same time

grand falcon
undone osprey
small berry
frozen bluff
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These people are really nothing short of some damn geniuses, and they use their genius to demand anthro chicks. They're probably the closest thing to irl supervillains we will get

frozen bluff
small berry
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double protection, I see

frozen bluff
# small berry double protection, I see

At work though, rarely do we have a need to do that. Only if an airline busts, because when that happens (like it did in the compressor room recently), it's loud

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You can hear it across the whole plant

small berry
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waw

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heart attacks galore

frozen bluff
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It sure is startling

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I do like the double protection with gun practice for sure. I've shot my pistol without it before and my ears were ringing for a few seconds

humble parrot
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Meh, friends all called off

frozen bluff
humble parrot
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It only took 30 mins to download and the one in germany banished

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And the other 2 are playing another game

frozen bluff
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I called off work today but I wouldn't call off plans for friends unless I absolutely had to

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Always gotta have a good reason

frozen bluff
humble parrot
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😔

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Maybe tomorrow

frozen bluff
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Welp, time to go for a walk. Then when I get back, it's Palworld time

humble parrot
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What about Sandwich?

peak folio
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Meanwhile game anti-cheat vendors…

small berry
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What if we forgot about everything the Terminator movies taught us and we made every choice they did

tough comet
peak folio
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So uh…

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Since Discord uses Twemoji, does that mean the gun emoji is gonna actually be a gun again?

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Or is Discord gonna block that one? 😆

small berry
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god knows

peak folio
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There was a time where only Apple had the squirt gun…

small berry
small berry
tough comet
icy yoke
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Just got outta work wooo

rustic basin
peak folio
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||Posting that here because all the crowdstrike memes seem to bed too high brow for #off-topic-memes||

frozen bluff
fair sandal
brave dragon
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Does anyone know if palworld discord avatars are still limited time?

sand garden
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I don't regret my decision of not going to college.

grand falcon
sand garden
grand falcon
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Here's an easy test to see if college is a scam:

Look at the price of a college book

And then

Look at the price of the entire Harry Potter book collection

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If a single book costs more then that, then it's a scam

sand garden
grand falcon
sand garden
grand falcon
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Pretty sure it's like $300 for a single college book

sand garden
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compared to the collection Harry Potter novels, yeah. It makes no sense.

sand garden
grand falcon
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IDK

sand garden
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Hardvard, Yale

grand falcon
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College is a scam, so I have no plans on finding out

sand garden
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Fair. Just wanted to make sure, 's all.

grand falcon
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Not to mention the failure rate of collage students is like 50% or 60%

So your literally flipping a coin, on if your gonna burn your money(failing college), or throwing your money away(graduating college)

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Not to also mention, majority(if not all) colleges offer worthless classes, that clueless people fall for

Because colleges want to "please the media"

rapid marsh
grand falcon
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College and debt are quite literally synonyms for each other

rapid marsh
grand falcon
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Oh there's also this little side note:

Once you graduate college(if you do), your professors don't give a damn about you nor does the school, they just say "congratulations" and throw you out on your own

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Where with alternative options, such as trade schools

Once you graduate, your teachers will actually help you get a job

rapid marsh
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We used to have a scheme like that at the TAFEs, do a trade certificate and they’d place you, plus it was subsidised. They canned the subsidisation for it. 🥴

grand falcon
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Did I forget to also mention

College takes WAY more time than what it should? Just so they can squeeze more money out of you

rapid marsh
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Oh for sure, always does.
Certificate 3 for hospitality (chefs apprenticeships) was 4 years.

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For printing, the class only has 4-5 students right now 😆

grand falcon
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Let's say for example, you just finished middle school and you decide to go to a trade school

You can get your GED, and every certification you need for whatever trade you want

All within a year(trade schools go by your pace, so if you work hard you'll be able to graduate sooner, or if you slack off and waste time, it'll take longer)

grand falcon
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What job, can you get with a diploma in "printing"

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If you say "writer" or something

Then I'll slap you, because you don't need to go to college to be a professional writer

full mountain
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i don't mind college too much, i think it was worth it

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HOWEVER, a massive preface to that is that i got a full ride scholarship so my debt is almost non-existent

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but idk, i got a decent lil job so i feel like cool-egg was worth it to me

sand garden
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Are you a clinic?

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or doctor?

full mountain
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no

sand garden
full mountain
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i got a degree in arts. i work at an art museum

sand garden
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Artist?

full mountain
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as in i make the art, for the museum

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and they lie to people and say my art is from 1664

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its a gud gig

sand garden
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lol

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So, your job is counterfeiting art.

full mountain
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yes.

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🗿

sand garden
# full mountain yes.

Alright. As long as not everyone is aware of what you do and it doesn't do harm to the public, no comment.

sand garden
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Ohh

full mountain
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but really we make all da profit

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ye

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one of our dudes got hunted down by the IRS

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he was out Fall guy, except he didn't go to jail

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they just blasted em...
with like, a silenced pistol

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9mm too

sand garden
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o_o

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Do you punch the clock at work?

full mountain
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ye

sand garden
full mountain
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i earn 5 pounds and a freddo

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:3

sand garden
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pfffffft

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You're not gonna make 5 quads and a chocolate bar per day by yourself.

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But who am I to judge?

full mountain
full mountain
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dats it

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i like computers

sand garden
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nods

full mountain
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college is good just don't have a skill issue

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nerd, lawl

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/j

sand garden
full mountain
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its dat easy

sand garden
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Just look at the job description that most of them don't require "College degree" on job offers websites.

full mountain
sand garden
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xP

full mountain
full mountain
sand garden
full mountain
sand garden
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The answer should be obvious than "I suck at college".

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"SKILL ISSUE me"

sand garden
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I'll call this college topic a day. The convo has been kinda fun.

full mountain
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i personally found i wanted college to further my career so i did it and it worked out, but i also def had some oppurtunities that made college easier on the pocket

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not everyone needs college, you're right

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however i think it's a bit much to call a "scam", however i do agree higher education should be free 100%

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but that spirals out quick so yeee, best to cap the convo for today

sand garden
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I don't deny the ppl from USA saying "college is a scam". But that's another time.

Mhm. Nice talking to you, Carby.

full mountain
tough comet
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🎂mono_nooooo

indigo kite
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Good morning everyone, hope you all have a good morning/afternoon or sleep when you turn in 💖🥰

rapid marsh
tough comet
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stoney hog

tranquil obsidian
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pocketpair making wholesome shorts

they're up to something

teal iron
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Maybe they realized being edgy and psychotic is cringe...

tranquil obsidian
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nah, round two they're harvesting the plasma from captured humans

teal iron
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I'll allow that

undone osprey
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Why not both if i may so myself

tranquil obsidian
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"that's the last time i donate blood; all they did was scream and demand to know whose it was"

undone osprey
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"i thought donating more are the better, then they start questioning me when i bring gallons"

sick flame
queen vale
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It's so warm still. m e l t

nimble spire
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Attempt 102 of trying to login to official server 2005

teal iron
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I think 2007 was better I think that's when I got a Nintendo DS Lite of my own

winged oar
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Guys is There a why tu make a lunar is wint hability of celestial Emperor?

teal iron
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I think you can pass it down with breeding?

winged oar
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Whis on?

teal iron
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I don't know how to use the breeding chart site

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But something something take Paladius and chain the passive down to Lunaris

winged oar
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Ok thanks

mint spruce
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bruh, Helldivers 2 has 15k players on a weekend and it's a live service game, and then there is Palworld which is a play anytime game and it has 55k right now

teal iron
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The effect of being owned by Sony Entertainment...

icy yoke
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I love all of the wholesome clips from the plasma donation stream

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I demand more wholesome pals!! Being mean is cringe!!

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Pretty much all the content from them lately is wholesome

teal iron
queen vale
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Or perhaps they have always been both depending what the situation is, and know that different marketing paths attract a different audience

teal iron
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I don't think the "haha I love murdering pals" audience is really loyal to palworld they're just loyal to chopping up innocent digital creatures for fun and as soon as Undertale Purple Or Something's Genocide Route drops they're as good as gone
But appealing to the cute cuddly audience is going to pay off way more in the long term

small berry
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but...but...chicken go splat

teal iron
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I mean look at pokemon
Their fans are performing some of the most advanced mental gymnastics since the 1970 olympics to defend their "beloved" franchise

small berry
teal iron
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That was cool and then they said...well....THAT word

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we were on the verge of greatness
We were THIS close

sick flame
queen vale
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There's a lot of these words these days, gonna need a clue

teal iron
small berry
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I think he means Holocaust

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I mean, its a word in the dictionary

teal iron
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Not really fond of comparing the worst genocide in human history to the silly funny rocket launcher barrage dragon shooting silly funny chickens

small berry
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Comedy doesnt land for many

teal iron
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I think it's in poor taste

small berry
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that's the average response

teal iron
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also
*she

queen vale
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There's not really any other word that'd apply really that's not going to cause offence. Genocide, Slaughter..

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Clucking them up

teal iron
small berry
queen vale
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Maybe

queen vale
teal iron
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None that are specific

queen vale
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Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely not defending the word or it's association, however the usage isn't just linked to the one historical (as tragic as it is) setting

teal iron
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I mean genocide doesn't really fit either but more as just
Is it REALLY genocide

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it's not offensive just unfitting
But holocaust is really in bad taste all around

mint spruce
teal iron
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Plus I think rhyming the line "cost" with dinosaur and then repeating that twice would've worked better but I don't study music theory maybe I'm crazy

mint spruce
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HD 2 has progressively kept making the game less and less fun over the months

teal iron
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AA AA instead of AB AB

teal iron
small berry
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Words are words, dont let words make you feel a certain way, specially when there's no intent for it

small berry
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its a meme song

teal iron
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There's a LOT wrong with that mentality but I don't think I have time to go over that

mint spruce
teal iron
mint spruce
teal iron
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Last week

small berry
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Some people dont like some things but you can only do so much to satisfy everyone

mint spruce
# teal iron Last week

right, well, to me it feels like absolute ass now, same with most of the people that bought it, Arrowhead messed it up and now they are paying the price for it

teal iron
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Ok drama queen

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I'm sorry they nerfed your cheese meta shotgun strat or whatever

mint spruce
queen vale
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I partly agree along the lines of Words being words, and we shouldn't let them have power over us, but unfortunately the reality is some words and terms do have weight in certain groups and societies because of what's behind the word and usage, which means whether we like it or not they end up having power to a degree.

I think words shouldn't have, but do have power and we need to be mindful to a degree.

Not to the extent that we're re-writing language in Newspeak levels of bullshit, but being mindful that calling someone "Ugly" for example can hurt

small berry
mint spruce
teal iron
queen vale
mint spruce
teal iron
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Like I think you are projecting something onto this game because fundamentally it did not change at all

mint spruce
small berry
teal iron
mint spruce
teal iron
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That's why I'm not playing helldivers right now, I'm waiting for the Illuminate or something

small berry
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Honestly if I have to relearn a game every few months cause they're Balancing things, they can take a hike

mint spruce
teal iron
queen vale
mint spruce
queen vale
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Oof

small berry
teal iron
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It is absolutely not that bad

small berry
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what a mouth

mint spruce
teal iron
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They've been steadily working on the issues most prevelant to the gameplay such as the SPEAR's lock-on which actually works now mind you

small berry
mint spruce
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I cannot get used to weapons if they keep fucking changing how they work

teal iron
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I don't know what weird meta you're trying to play that you have to "relearn" how they work

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I've been using the PLAS-1 since I unlocked it and while it's gotten better at its job i think maybe I haven't had to redo my understanding of the game

mint spruce
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the only gun they haven't messed up is the scorcher so far, but even that began to be less effective when the walkers started getting the explosion resistance bullshitery

teal iron
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I think you're confusing "learning the game has more nuance than pick the "best" gun and go" with "they keep ruining the game"

queen vale
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I can imagine if you get used to and use specific weapon quirks and they nerf / remoe them it gets aggravating as fuck to be fair

teal iron
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you're projecting meta players fighting over which weapon is best and why as "they keep changing the game"

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They do keep changing the game but if you're actually playing it on the ground it doesn't really feel like they're screwing you over unless you were using a really unbalanced cheese strat like that one shotgun they nerfed

mint spruce
teal iron
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By my observation most weapons have only gotten better

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The spear, for example, can actually lock onto enemies consistently now

teal iron
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The idea of the game is that in higher difficulties you have to coordinate a well-balanced loadout with your team, and for bots that means you need anti-tank

mint spruce
teal iron
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you don't have to specifically carry anti-tank weapons, you can if it makes you feel more comfortable, but it's not required so long as you're with someone who IS carrying anti-tank

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Personally for me it's still completely random
Sometimes I kill them with 1 shot, other times i swear I empty the entire D-Battery into the walker and he doesn't even care

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I need to work on team coordination with my friends so I don't have to gamble that and can rely on flanking shots

teal iron
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maybe it's like the railgun where they "nerfed" it before I was able to unlock it

mint spruce
queen vale
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Sounds like they're balancing against the edge case meta players and not realising the pain it's causing the general playerbase

teal iron
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Me when I fight the organized army sporting heavy use of combined-arms warfare and I need to carry anti-tank weaponry

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idk if you realize this but helldivers is specifically designed for you to eat sh-t and die

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dark souls but with tanks and lasers

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Being able to go from mission start to mission end without dying or at least almost dying means either you cheated or are playing difficulty way below your skill level

small berry
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Helldivers is Dark souls with tanks and lasers?

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that's honestly a gigantic niche opinion

teal iron
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the difference between high skill and low skill is that high skill players do not eat sh-t and die every single time the commissar fires a flare at the slightest provocation

mint spruce
teal iron
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they die when a series of tactical mistakes and bad luck compound to end with 2 factory striders and 4 hulks chasing down the players who have nowhere to run and just spent their last magazines of ammo

mint spruce
teal iron
mint spruce
queen vale
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It sounds like they might have shifted it a bit too far on the other way

teal iron
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idk man I think you're just not cut out for difficulty 9

mint spruce
teal iron
mint spruce
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I do not mind for a second if it's hard, what I do mind is them constantly moving the goal post

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and evidently, hundreds of thousands also didn't like them constantly moving the goal post, it is an Early Access game, they just don't say it is

teal iron
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I think most players are just bored

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And other games exist

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I can't imagine I'm alone in the "I'll play this game again when it does something huge" boat

small berry
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mint spruce
# teal iron I think most players are just bored

then why do all them fellas still play Siege in massively increased numbers than HD 2 right now, HD 2 had almost half a million concurrent players on steam alone and the usual way live service games go, they should have AT LEAST 100k playing the game right now, but there aren't

teal iron
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silence

queen vale
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They play because they're sadists and like to hurt themselves 😄

mint spruce
teal iron
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Helldivers doesn't have TIMED FOMO BATTLE PASS

queen vale
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Wait, no that's Masochists

mint spruce
teal iron
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So their numbers aren't getting INFLATED like most live service games

small berry
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inflated...by people...playing...

teal iron
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The truth is, a lot of people on FOMO battle pass games are just there to complete their challenges, they aren't actually interested in the game

small berry
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That's Crystal ball take

mint spruce
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I have loads of things I could unlock in HD 2 right now, yet I am not inclined to do any of it cause the game is no longer fun for me and they will just keep making it less fun down the line

teal iron
small berry
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what data did you use to form that argument btw

mint spruce
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if the game was like it was before, I wouldn't hesitate to play it cause it was FUN, ie: the goal of a game

small berry
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Crystal ball data?

teal iron
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BUt I think most people lean closer to my view, that there's nothing more to do in the game so they only play it when their friends decide "hey let's play helldivers 2!"

mint spruce
teal iron
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Do you know the empirical truth???

small berry
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The Empirical truth is that Helldivers is dying, right?

teal iron
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Cuz it sounds like you're just using the player data to justify your own negative feelings

mint spruce
mint spruce
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you are just part of the loud minority that thinks everything is fine and that people really love the game and they are just burned out a bit

teal iron
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I think you're part of the louder minority that is butthurt about their favorite strats getting nerfed and is using anything and everything as proof they're right

humble parrot
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Good morning

queen vale
small berry
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Don't forget to read the entire patchnotes to know which things we've broken and will allow you to have fun with!

mint spruce
teal iron
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and maybe the player change is a sign that the playerbase hates where the game is going
But it's still a whiny take that the "game is ruined now" and "it's changed too much"

humble parrot
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Leak classified Super Earth docs to show the devs the weapon is not performing realistically, like warthunder players

teal iron
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If the helldivers 2 community has decided the game sucks now then the helldivers 2 community is a bunch of crybabies in my opinion

teal iron
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and I won't miss them one bit

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I don't want "wahh my shotgun isn't broken anymore >:C" in my lobby please and thank you

small berry
mint spruce
queen vale
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Let's keep things civil

teal iron
small berry
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I've always found counter productive to diminish people that I either don't understand their reasoning or don't agree with it, I'd rather truly and well understand why they think like they do and do my best to in a reasonable fashion keep everyone happy

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calling it counter productive is really being kind on my part

teal iron
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it's always the same underlying reason for hating game balance changes

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nerf ANYTHING = BAD
buff something obscure = 🥱

icy yoke
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What stupid argument is happening this time

teal iron
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Broken item that creates an oppressive meta because no one will respect you unless you run that meta strat?
Can't touch it, or you ruin the game

humble parrot
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Hell Divers balancing argument

teal iron
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mostly useless gun that nobody likes?
Yeah you can make it better but nobody cares because remember that time you nerfed a meta weapon?

mint spruce
icy yoke
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Why is everyone so mad all the time just be happy!! Smh

small berry
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The thing is, changing things at a certain pace will turn down people that don't like to stay up to date with every single thing that goes on in the game

Nerfing buffing things is something that mostly benefits the top 1% of your game and keeps things interesting for them, while the other 99% is scrambling to understand the changes and why they happened

mint spruce
teal iron
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🙄 helldivers 2 is definitely a comically buggy game that probably should be early access but you know that's not the problem, the problem is that my cheese shotgun railgun strat no longer answers every possible situation that could occur on the hardest difficulty which is designed to be nightmarishly hard

humble parrot
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🍿 Chillet_hee

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Just sit back and enjoy, B00ts.

mint spruce
teal iron
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There's all kinds of things wrong with the game and the balance is probably the one part that functions at least somewhat ok
Yeah it's not the best but at least I am not doomed to explode and die because I didn't buy the premium battle pass

mint spruce
teal iron
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They've been experimenting and I do think I enjoy difficulty 9 more than I did in the early days, though that might be because I'm actually good at the game now and can handle it

mint spruce
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the sony debacle was quite literally nothing to the player counts

teal iron
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Like at least now the SPEAR can lock onto bile titans and hulks reliably

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My friend who mains the thing always complained that it didn't work in the past

tranquil obsidian
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though it came at the cost of the spear not killing reliably

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can take anything from 1-3 hits on a titan

mint spruce
teal iron
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And I still get killed by like
Random irrational nonsense

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One time I was just running through an empty stretch of map and I just blew up
No mines, no explosives, no enemies for miles
Just
💥

mint spruce
teal iron
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Apparently sometimes landmines can spawn under the floor and thus become completely impossible to see?

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But you know
it's the railgun nerf that ruins the game

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🙄

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don't even get me started on how destroyed tanks and dead bile titans are like a radiation death hazard

mint spruce
queen vale
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The thing is, it's a live service, always online, always changing game, so weapon changes and nerfs are inevitable as people will use them in ways the devs never anticipated

teal iron
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Get within 2 feet of 1 and you're liable to just die somehow

small berry
mint spruce
teal iron
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Like how dare the developers make it so my meta gun that I saw on reddit doesn't answer every bot drop with 100% reliability

mint spruce
queen vale
teal iron
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ggrr what's with game developers these days and having a vision of things like "you are not supposed to survive difficulty 9"

small berry
teal iron
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I want to NOT die on difficulty 9 and I want to do so EASILY because I AM CLEARLY GOOD AT VIDEO GAMES

small berry
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If I enjoy the game playing it a certain way and then the game suddenly changes and I can't play the same way, I and anyone that really enjoyed that is now mad

teal iron
#

I don't really think it's fair to make developers bend over on their creative vision because "I like playing this very specific strat and I don't want to adapt ever"

small berry
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Why are things done in a way that then "forces" the dev to change it?

teal iron
#

I mean some cases like Rainbow 6 where they imposed this idea of a slow, clunky game over the fast-paced madness players wanted there's an exception but I don't think Helldivers 2 qualifies as such an exception

small berry
#

If you develop a meta, have it in the game for months and one patch you're like, uuuh...well...we don't like that no more, can't you understand that will anger people

teal iron
#

Difficulties 7 8 and 9 are designed around you dying and you having to adapt on the fly and sometimes not being able to answer every situation with a weapon in your pocket

mint spruce
teal iron
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There is not supposed to be a meta

small berry
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That makes 0 sense bud

teal iron
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period.
No weapon , primary or support, is supposed to answer every situation

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any weapon that, by any means, does answer every situation, is out of line and needs to be nerfed
Any weapon that means to answer a large number of situations is out of line and needs to be buffed

mint spruce
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I consider myself a basic bitch gamer with a bit more skill than the average, and guess what, most people that play games are basic bitch gamers that just wanna have fun, they had that and fucked it, expect no mercy from the player base, and they got none, the game is struggling to even reach 20k on a weekend

teal iron
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More to the point, there should not be any loadout (barring orbitals and airstrikes and such) that can kill every enemy in the game without a catch

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Every support weapon has a list of enemies it basically removes without issue, a few it CAN deal with though it isn't very good at it, and a number of enemies it simply cannot reliably defeat

mint spruce
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warhammer 3 total war? a 4x/rts game has way more regulars than HD 2 and Warhammer 3 had a troubled past itself

teal iron
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For example the railgun just bounces off tanks and has the kill power of a wet noodle against chargers and bile titans but does wonders against almost everything weaker, especially enemies whose armor would otherwise pose a problem

mint spruce
small berry
teal iron
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the recoilless rifle technically works against everything if you're brave but has a long reload time and poor ammo capacity

small berry
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that's why QWER is so attractive, give too many tools, people will struggle to keep up

teal iron
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The Spear excels against distant targets where the recoilless has to start performing trigonometry and range calculations

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The machine gun eradicates entire armies of weaker enemies

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and so on

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you are expected to coordinate with your team of 4 to bring a combination of weapons that gives you a solution to every enemy or combination thereof, and your orbitals and eagles round out your options if those weapons are unavailable or otherwise not viable at a given moment

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This design philosophy has not changed since the game's launched

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they have merely been trying to make sure as few weapons as possible stick out of this and I guess they stepped on some redditors' toes in the process

tranquil obsidian
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the issue in bugs at least is there is no solution to bile titans that isn't a solution to literally anything else

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so all four members end up bringing the same thing

small berry
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Stuff used to be a certain way, no longer is, people that enjoyed how things were before complain, those people deserve to be called "complainers"

mint spruce
tranquil obsidian
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the issue people had was the reason given for the nerf is that the option was "too popular"

tranquil obsidian
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if one option is popular, it doesn't necessarily mean it's overpowered. in the case of hd2 it was very much a case of "everything else is too weak"

mint spruce
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The instant the dominator became good I used the fuck out of it

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And now they are releasing shitter and shitter weapons

frozen bluff
small berry
frozen bluff
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Morning y'all, hope you guys are doing alright today cat_happy

tranquil obsidian
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they've also had issues where the weapons don't really do what they should; the anti air weapon can't kill gunships or shrieker nests; the two jobs you would expect them to do

mint spruce
small berry
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What I'm trying to say is, if you're trying to argue something, don't call people Karen or Redditors, you're not winning saying that

queen vale
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Anti air.. can't kill air? Niiice

tranquil obsidian
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yep

teal iron
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anti air gun???

tranquil obsidian
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i forget it's name the flak cannon thing

teal iron
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I don't remember a flak cannon

frozen bluff
tranquil obsidian
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airburst that was it

small berry
teal iron
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Yeah that's not an anti-air weapon

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That's an anti-swarm weapon

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Or, in practical uses, an anti-teammate weapon

small berry
tranquil obsidian
#

the airburst an anti air flak cannon should absolutely be anti air lol

frozen bluff
mint spruce
queen vale
#

Mmmm, delicious friendly dire

teal iron
queen vale
#

Fire

mint spruce
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It makes it funny

teal iron
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It's the cluster bomb you drop on the ground to blow up a strip of land but from a shoulder-fired missile launcher instead of being dropped from a fighter plane

humble parrot
#

Morning Cynic

teal iron
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Where did you read "anti-air" in that weapon, like for real

tranquil obsidian
teal iron
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The "anti-air" is sentries, gatling or machine gun sentry for shriekers and rocket or maybe autocannon sentry for gunships

mint spruce
teal iron
frozen bluff
mint spruce
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Airburst fired from the ground should have anarch that goes up and comes back down, otherwise it's an AA weapon

teal iron
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In the case of the airburst cluster bomb, it is a cluster bomb designed to detonate in the air over an enemy formation on the ground, scattering a wide spread of cluster explosives over that formation

teal iron
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fired from your shoulder, it is an extremely effective way to get 3 friendly fire kills including yourself

frozen bluff
teal iron
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Because the cluster bomb scatters mostly downward, it is ineffective against air targets, and the poor armor penetration of the tiny bomblets naturally means nonexistent effect against armored gunships or large shrieker nests

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I think a week or so after it was released they modified it so it tends to detonate later, reducing the odds of wiping your entire squad and increasing the odds of wiping a terminid patrol

mint spruce
teal iron
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As in the past it would explode too early on detection of an enemy, basically detonating in front of the first enemy in a group
Now it tries to explode after the first enemy, which is more likely to be above the enemy group and less likely to be above your own head

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but you know
There's a reason the UN frowns on cluster bombs in modern warfare (the words "cluster bomblets" and "minimize collateral damage" are mutually exclusive)

tranquil obsidian
#

what are the UN going to do about it

teal iron
#

Sanctions and an angry speech

queen vale
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(That and the whole they don't always detonate on time and can persist a long time after, and some landed cluster munitions look too much like a toy and kids get blown up"

teal iron
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but super earth doesn't have a UN so you are free to kill your entire squad as many times as you like before they stop playing with you

frozen bluff
# mint spruce I like friendly fire in HD 2

I believe friendly fire in games should be optional for the people who want to have it and the people who don't, to be honest. I personally like it because it forces you to be more careful and conscientious of your teammates. And also, funi

tranquil obsidian
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tbh friendly fire is kind of important in hd2 otherwise you'd throw nukes without any thought or consequence

teal iron
teal iron
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the javelin is deadly because unlike an airburst it still makes direct contact for armor penetration, AND it hits the weak point on top

queen vale
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Chillet_hee Mmmm armour penetration

teal iron
#

You are supposed to fire the airburst launcher in HD2 at an upward angle, so as to make sure the airburst shell is, you know, ABOVE the enemy
But it's a dumbfire weapon that uses...some kind of magic thermal imaging radar combination to know when it is near a valid target

queen vale
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It uses the channeled power of DEMOCRACY and PLOT to know where it is

teal iron
#

You can just shoot it directly at an enemy and you know that works fine if your mission was to get you and 2 other democratic patriots turned into mush

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You can also I think try to shoot it under a charger and the bomblets will saturate its weak underbelly I think that worked exactly once and every other attempt ended with me exploding

queen vale
#

So 50% success raite

mint spruce
tranquil obsidian
#

or you could just flamethrower a leg

queen vale
#

I hear Teabagging damages the attacker's morale

teal iron
#

Honestly I don't like playing against bugs

tranquil obsidian
#

hd2 ended up with a meta because some weapons and stratagems simply did their job

teal iron
#

Soooooo
My data is limited

sick flame
teal iron
#

Anyway I'm gonna go back to listening to sea-shanty-type music while flying a ship I literally stole in space engineers

small berry
#

I like Trains

undone osprey
queen vale
small berry
frozen bluff
icy yoke
#

I am Incensed

humble parrot
#

🤔

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Like, high on incense?

undone osprey
#

Stop huffing incense 💀

raven totem
#

hi, please tell me, is it possible to play together if a friend has a game pass on a PC, and I have a steam

humble parrot
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No

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There's no crossplay between gamepass and steam

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Only between gamepass and xbox

raven totem
#

Will cross-platform be added in the near future or not?

humble parrot
#

It is in the roadmap

small berry
#

I know it's some type of watermark, still lands perfectly

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The Chief Nerd watermark sorta looks like it's the title of the speaker

queen vale
#

No clue who the person is so was wondering if I missed context there

small berry
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nah, just that, random coincidences

fleet scarab
queen vale
small berry
queen vale
#

Of course they are

small berry
#

we showed weakness, now they will scheme

queen vale
#

Honestly I suspect the "Calling from Microsoft" indian scam callcentres are doing overtime right now

small berry
#

imo tho, it probably scared some countries so much they also have experts working on it 24/7

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some countries can see food shortages if these things happen often

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not something one can just ignore

queen vale
#

Oh absolutely, the impact of this is going to be felt for weeks at least

small berry
teal iron
#

omg I just had a brilliant idea

night plume
peak folio
#

But yeah depends which suppliers/partners had falcon sensor on windows with their back end

teal iron
#

ok i posted my idea

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pocketpair should hire me, it's so perfect

frozen bluff
#

What's everybody up to this fine day?

night plume
#

Deconstructed my fish tank. Just took the after pics of putting it back together.

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Decided to remove the ramshorn snails. There are so many eggs left x.x gonna be a battle from here.

frozen bluff
night plume
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Small Fry seems happy with all the swimming space. The shrimp is exploring all the new areas instead of hiding.

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My worry is lack of beneficial bacteria. This deconstruct was due to a filter malfunction. Tank had a lot less water in it than it should have o.o
Granted, I kept all theplants, rocks, filter media intact, so that will reintroduce the bacteria, it was just a lot of new water in a short amount of time x.x

frozen bluff
night plume
frozen bluff
sage cypress
#

@frozen bluff How certified is Cynic 👀

plush marsh
sage cypress
#

It’s beautiful

plush marsh
sage cypress
#

Great actually

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Been getting a decent community

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Lot off giveaways

frozen bluff
frozen bluff
sage cypress
#

Lol

frozen bluff
sage cypress
#

Palworld tcg

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I’ll be back in like 30

frozen bluff
night plume
frozen bluff
small berry
#

What do you guys know about the whole fan made merchandise/event non profit shenanigans? Any experience?

peak robin
#

hallow, im new to the game. any tips for begining?

plush marsh
peak robin
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i have no access to it ;;

plush marsh
frozen bluff
# peak robin hallow, im new to the game. any tips for begining?

Hey there and welcome. cat_happy Hmm, I'd say a few tips follow as such:

  • when selecting a base location, try to establish your first one near wood, stone nodes, and iron nodes
  • Capture lots of pals and level up; I recommend dumping points into health
  • Have fun and explore - always keep a decent amount of food on you as well, for yourself and your pals
  • Direhowl is a good beginner mount.
  • Make sure you pay close attention to pal work suitability - will help you a lot with base work.

Any other more detailed and specific tips would be getting into spoiler territory. You can always summon the survival guide to learn more about the game and its mechanics as well. Have fun! cat_happy

peak robin
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and wha skills should i upgrade?

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Make sure you pay close attention to pal work suitability - will help you a lot with base work.
i dont get this part Q.Q

frozen bluff
peak robin
#

oh did i mentioned i play craftopia not palworld? XD

queen vale
peak robin
#

😆 so sorry it send me here from a game suggestion of discord nd i just noticed its for both hah

peak folio
#

I keep forgetting this channel is shared, lol

queen vale
#

Yeah pretty much none of the Palworld info is applicable to Craftopia

peak robin
#

yup, so sorry for trouble > . <

peak folio
#

But yeah most of the discord is Palworld players since that one exploded so the craftopia channels will be what you want.

queen vale
#

No need to apologise

peak robin
#

i would want to play palworld tho but its expensive T_T

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one day ill be back here hah

quartz magnet
peak folio
#

This is the off topic channel anyway

queen vale
#

Just wait until it's on sale, and you can just chat here without it being game specific, that's why it's Off Topic

frozen bluff
peak robin
queen vale
#

Maybe they will announce in the channels when the game goes on sale

peak robin
frozen bluff
fair flicker
#

EU Server 2003

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just died

queen vale
fathom briar
#

just heard the news
RIP danny devito

queen vale
#

Gonna need a citation on that one

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Not even going to google to check before you provide one

#

To the Shame bin with you.
Shame!

deft python
queen vale
#

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpe3zgznwjno
Big Ooof in the CrowdStrike Outage numbers

Microsoft says it estimates that 8.5m computers around the world were disabled by the global IT outage.
...
Microsoft, which is helping customers recover said in a blog post: "we currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices."

The post by David Weston, vice-president, enterprise and OS at the firm, says this number is less than 1% of all Windows machines worldwide, but that "the broad economic and societal impacts reflect the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises that run many critical services".

indigo kite
#

Goodnight everyone, I hope you all have a good day, afternoon or good rest ❤️

sage cypress
#

Hi lols

stoic lodge
#

Wsg

hexed tusk
#

Yooo.

rustic basin
#

my birthday had made me upset for some reason

rare osprey
indigo kite
#

Good morning everyone, hope you all have a good morning/afternoon or sleep when you turn in 💖🥰

teal iron
#

pumps shotgun I wouldn't advise that

humble parrot
#

Timberhammer

#

Warborn

#

Also, good morning everyone

cyan acorn
#

Tried to play Palworld but needs Microsoft Visual C++. This is something that Linux OS does not have that software nor the Steam Deck. Input would be greatly appreciated.

cyan acorn
#

I personally prefer winter and the cold

sick flame
#

@peak folio

teal iron
#

Doesn't that just install automatically

cyan acorn
teal iron
#

Weird...

cyan acorn
cyan acorn
teal iron
#

Ok Linux user

humble parrot
#

B00ts plays it on the Steam Deck, not sure what you're talking about

teal iron
#

yeah there's evidently a way to get it to run

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something about "protontricks" according to google

peak folio
undone osprey
#

Aw man... Reboot the galaxy please

frozen bluff
humble parrot
#

Hi Cynic

frozen bluff
#

How's it going?

humble parrot
#

I'm ok, a bit tired

#

You?

frozen bluff
frozen bluff
#

It may be the weekend but I still have stuff I'm doing 😂

icy pecan
#

Helicopter

peak folio
#

para koffer

wild mountain
#

Keep the politics out.

#

Don't care if it's world news. You agreed to follow server rules on join.

queen vale
quartz magnet
#

me

queen vale
wild mountain
frozen bluff
#

Oh, Rip Nerzul

wild mountain
#

Hmm, if I were to eat cereal I'd pour the milk first. Don't trust cereal going first if you get bars like that...

queen vale
tough comet
#

im not a regular.... im a special event.

icy pecan
rare osprey
#

Im a side quest!

rustic basin
#

i am a horable person

small berry
#

orale

deft python
queen vale
deft python
#

I haven't used my Nintendo switch in a while but I used it last night to play Minecraft and it was killing me how the frames were choppy even though I was playing Minecraft

#

Like bro how hard could it possibly be

tough comet
#

lmao

deft python
sick flame
#

Palword desing on Switch 😆
People: Where can buy Switch with Palworld design?

tough comet
#

no

queen vale
#

The angle of that made me think the poor fucker was being choked for a minute

small berry
#

No Mans sky still releasing updates

indigo kite
#

Goodnight everyone, I hope you all have a good day, afternoon or good rest ❤️

tough comet
olive seal
#

How likely can I make it for lightning to hit me in a storm?

queen vale
icy pecan
olive seal
queen vale
#

The only thing it'll give you is interesting scarring

olive seal
#

But if it hits me, the chances of another one hitting me again in my life are like zero because it already hit me.

blissful pendant
#

Hello iam from Germany i want to stard a new Game in palworld and will stard IT Not allon will anyon stard IT with me

queen vale
#

Poor fucker got hit like 7 times

olive seal
#

Would it be like restarting my brain? lol

queen vale
#

You don't really feel much to my understanding at the moment of the strike, it's mostly light, noise, and the burns and injuries of muscles and nerves being wrecked

rapid marsh
blissful pendant
#

I cant Go to this server

rapid marsh
olive seal
#

The amount of stupid things is try, makes me think that a lightning strike is safer 😭

#

I’d i

rapid marsh
#

I have a rather large family on the dad’s side.

queen vale
blissful pendant
#

Thanks

olive seal
rapid marsh
#

I wish I had 500k tbh, be nice to throw that into a small house or apartment.

#

Keep 30-40K aside for a Harley Davidson, always wanted ones

olive seal
#

In la California that can get you 12 months of rent of a nice studio apartment

#

With the bills if you lucky

rapid marsh
#

It’s fun when investors buy up existing properties and no new properties are being built up.

olive seal
#

Do I need to disconnect stuff when lightning storms are happening??? And yeah la has a housing crisis rn , but i still wouldn’t move to another state.

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Maybe another country tho

queen vale
#

Unless you are concerned about your house being hit or the local grid being spiked, you should be fine

olive seal
queen vale
#

Of course that means you have no power, so your fridge and freezer will start to defrost and so on

olive seal
#

Im just gonna disconnect the Xbox and hope for the best then. Thanks 💙

#

Even though the tv is worth like 2 Xbox 😭

#

Okay also the tv ig

night plume
#

If I ever came into a lot of money, it goes into an investment account until the following tax season. THEN I'll spend from it XD

olive seal
#

G@ya a fat bird is staring , I feel I’m being judged 😭

olive seal
#

Exactly like that one, but it’s also moving its head to the sides, as if it’s asking itself questions about life while staring directly at me.

#

If I shower rn will a lighting hit me through my roof?

#

Sorry im Californian it rarely rains there.

queen vale
#

Extremely unlikely, but I wouldn't in case you do have a power outage

#

I've never had the urge to shower in a storm however so.. I'd personally avoid it

#

I don't know about USA but in the UK all the water pipes are grounded so it's less of a concern to us here

wild mountain
olive seal
#

Also if I order food, they will deliver it even if storm strong? I want pizza 🍕

wild mountain
#

Yes. Pizza sounds good.

queen vale
olive seal
queen vale
#

Them though, and tip them

olive seal
#

I always tip 10% although ig it should be 15% rn.

wild mountain
queen vale
#

Go eat a thing or go get a thing to eat!

wild mountain
#

Brother messaged me he cooked food this morning. I get off work in an hour. I'll be back to normal soon™️

olive seal
#

We need a mod to mod you in case your aggressiveness gets out of hand 🥺

night plume
wild mountain
olive seal
olive seal
wild mountain
#

Order then sleep. Tell them to wait outside in extra instructions equal to time spent napping. No tip after.

olive seal
#

Only heartless monsters would do that

#

I like it tho, will try

mint spruce
peak folio
#

We’re all heartless monsters here.

teal iron
#

Speak for yourself murderer

night plume
#

I am creating character sheets for a Call of Cthulhu game just so I can watch them destroy themselves🤔 I may resemble the remark

olive seal
#

I had a dream where moderated name was abusing his powers and Malamud was defending me or something

#

Also in sad to report that no lightning hit me 😭

#

Will have to continue living ugh 😒

lofty wind
#

youre telling me you managed to not get hit by lightning

#

skill issue, i do it every 17 seconds

olive seal
#

That sounds like a super power but people here assured me that, it is not possible to get superpowers that way 🥺

wild mountain
wild mountain
night plume
wild mountain
#

you can attach images to pdfs though.

olive seal
wild mountain
#

no 🍕? 😭

olive seal
#

See? Even you want the lightning strike uwu

wild mountain
#

but i installed my update! and im satiated now. how could this happen to me... i've made my-

wild mountain
peak folio
olive seal
#

You know, my psychologist told me that depression could be cured by becoming a palworld discord mod. Idk if you down to give it a try and make me a mod 😇

#

For my mental health and stuff

teal iron
#

💀

wild mountain
grand falcon
wild mountain
grand falcon
#

Lmao

wild mountain
#

i got lazy with the response... 😂

grand falcon
#

By any chance, is there any "coin experts" in the server?

grand falcon
olive seal
#

You do live in your mom’s basement tho, right?

wild mountain
#

baby steps though. working on my weight.

olive seal
wild mountain
olive seal
grand falcon
#

Bro was like "im tired of being tall, I'ma make myself a midget"

#

It's genuinely impressive

olive seal
#

Real question though, should I pay 5 more dollars for sweet rolls?

#

Im not fat just depressed

rapid marsh
wild mountain
rapid marsh
#

Poor things had to be put down.

wild mountain
#

sorry, but palworld was nothing compared to the drama that came about because of craftopia xbox release.

rapid marsh
frozen bluff
#

Good evening y'all, hope you guys are having a good day today cat_happy

rapid marsh
wild mountain
#

👀

#

fights over craftopia were vastly different. teh game attacted a large variety of people with particular things in common. 😭

just going to leave it at that.

frozen bluff
#

I still haven't played Craftopia - been slackin

#

I'll use irl events as my excuse

lofty wind
#

been a lot of those recently

frozen bluff
rapid marsh
frozen bluff
lofty wind
hearty sonnet
rapid marsh
#

Mornin Shell

hearty sonnet
#

Hello

frozen bluff
wild mountain
frozen bluff
#

Good evening Shell

hearty sonnet
rapid marsh
hearty sonnet
#

Am I a prophecy that came true?

wild mountain
#

thgink llehs, thgink llehs, thgink llehs?

frozen bluff
lofty wind
#

craftopia knight or smth idk

hearty sonnet
frozen bluff
#

Like spider-man

wild mountain
#

¿thgink llehs 'thgink llehs 'sɥǝll ʞuᴉƃɥʇ

frozen bluff
#

Go for maintenance 🛠️

rapid marsh
#

iori broke, we need a new replacement now.

lofty wind
#

the moderated one has exploded

rapid marsh
frozen bluff
# lofty wind the moderated one has exploded

Well the source of the explosion was probably a faulty battery, which will promptly be replaced along with the battery compartment and central processing unit which was affected. Fortunately the internals were protected by a sturdy frame and insulation in case of such a happening. Those two parts replaced and wired back up and a fresh coat of paint and our lovable AI companion will be back on their feet in no time. That'll be $200

rapid marsh
#

Could go for some deep fried chickens

astral sparrow
#

Best Pal ever Syndicate Crusher

peak folio
rapid marsh
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@stone harbor Grenade dude still top dps for humans bud?

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God I can't wait to get the ||[REDACTED]|| so I can be a lore accurate ||[CONTENTS PURGED]||

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lofty wind
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i leave with this great quote:

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"If you want cheese you will have to learn to accept death and destruction"

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humble parrot
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🤔

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it is time to go unconscious

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lofty wind
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usually takes a few millenia, help would be appreciated

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real, i am gone

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quartz magnet
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Ugh I don't want to work tomorrow

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But at the same time - munneee

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Hopefully things will take a turn when I get moved out

olive seal
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Okay okay okay no mod for me but I want my green name , it’s taking awhile for it to arrive

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God damn just saw a big fat rat

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Outside thankfully

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But its New York size for sure

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That thing is half the size of a normal cat

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I bet it eats cats for dinner

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Have they added the 4th base ? Or not yet?

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rapid marsh
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Got a 5th base that’s funding the whole thing 😆

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But like what do you put inside???

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