zealot-class

[frozen kernel]

Eat ur soup

Enjoy it

Don’t slurp into the mic while AFK in spawn

[copper hawk]

If you're implying Im asking people to sweat I'm not

That's an entirely different statement

[frozen kernel]

Then when you’re done put one hand on the KB and one hand on the mouse, and let’s get this dub

[hearty nebula]

i seen this in my other pal who's ex-military

its v common to see

[frozen kernel]

Oh no, I’m not trying to come at you at all

I’m just stating my mindset for my teammates

I just want them to be there with me

[copper hawk]

I thought this was another red herring argument moment

[frozen kernel]

No no, my bad if I said something off putting

[copper hawk]

Yah like if it's casual like an auric mael idc

If it's quickplay idc

But if we're in a hav or a civi and ur just doing fuck all im gonna be irritated

[clever swan]

"why did you queue for this hard of a mission if you don't know how to play the game"

I said to the Playstation player who had died like 3 times by then

[copper hawk]

Ainz said this I think? But it was excellently put

That darktide is a coop singleplayer game

People seem to take that to heart more than others

[hearty nebula]

I mean like.. u still shouldnt be a deadweight tho

[frozen kernel]

I really really wish we had VT2 bots that used our loadouts for other classes

[copper hawk]

It's what I think fundamentally makes the game feel different from VT2

VT2 is 100% a multiplayer game

[drowsy steppe]

Im more inclined to agree with Hedge now that Ive been around for long

[hearty nebula]

VT2 its like a death sentence to not be next to teammates

[copper hawk]

Only like 1 or 2 careers can do exceptionally sweepy levels

Like vet voc levels of carrying

But it needs everyone to function to make it through a mission

[hearty nebula]

yeah, grail knight & warrior priest are just mega strong

[copper hawk]

Sticking together and being vulnerable alone is baked into the gameplay

[drowsy steppe]

HM more fun 😤

[high zodiac]

wtf is the point of LFG if no one ever joins

[copper hawk]

HM is broken

Yaaaawn

[hearty nebula]

because we already have quickplay

[sullen forge]

Quickplay

party finder for havocs

[copper hawk]

Valid statement

[sterile stone]

Never seen anyone actually use PF for anything other than havocs

[copper hawk]

Ur aint built for this hive world lil blud..

[sterile stone]

Seems a bit wasteful ngl

[sullen forge]

Correct!

[drowsy steppe]

Id say balanced

[clever swan]

bro had 5700 damage taken by the end. I felt bad for saying it though, he didn't even reply

[copper hawk]

She's totally busted

[heady rapids]

me too (i always have the havoc filter on)

[drowsy steppe]

since the idea is around tanking around dodging

[copper hawk]

She's unhittable

And had absurd stagger

With tons of long distance dodges

[drowsy steppe]

yes but shes also a 100HP career

[copper hawk]

And super high damage

[frozen kernel]

I think assholes will always find a way to lord something over other players, but removing it entirely so that people are unable to see “oh wow I’ve not gotten top anything in like 7 games maybe putting +2 stamina on my dclaw wasn’t a great idea”

Isn’t great either

[copper hawk]

Im talking about shield and spear btw

She's absurd

[frozen kernel]

However I will say

[drowsy steppe]

120 HP ig

I know

[frozen kernel]

I understand that uh

Asking people for any kind of self reflection is asking a lot

[copper hawk]

She has one of the most banger talent lineups too

[drowsy steppe]

But its not like she has actually good DPS on spear and shield

[copper hawk]

She has very good dps wtf

[sterile stone]

Wow someone with rational thinking on this subject matter

[drowsy steppe]

on sword and dagger sure

[sterile stone]

I'm glad I'm not alone on this

[copper hawk]

Use enemy spawner and see what ahe does to pack rats

She*

And then on sv hordes

[frozen kernel]

Asking people to look at their character and go “Did I build this well or does it just work well enough” because the vast majority of people will settle for good enough

[copper hawk]

Then on chaos warriors

[heady rapids]

she also has access to javelin so also a lot of boss dps

[copper hawk]

Her damage is nuts

Javelin yes as well

She has everything

[heady rapids]

and then 20s cd invis

with dash through mobs

and you cd ults with dmg.........

[frozen kernel]

There’s also people like my second vet buddy

[copper hawk]

She's the most safe and busted class in the game

[frozen kernel]

Vet Buddy 2 runs wounds on his veteran

[tidal berry]

I had like one or two PF experiences and they were mostly fine but I also had the weirdest fkin people join too

[copper hawk]

Mostly from the safety

[drowsy steppe]

its not about the self reflection part. Since as proven multiple times here, most scoreboard posters only does it to shit on the bad players

[drowsy steppe]

yea I agree on this

[copper hawk]

There's next to no risk to playing her

[frozen kernel]

He runs wounds specifically because he knows he’s going down

[sterile stone]

I've seen people clear content with fucking meme builds....it all comes down to just, "Do you know the game's mechanics enough to do well"

[frozen kernel]

He just doesn’t want to die die

[drowsy steppe]

unless youre super into Darktide

[heady rapids]

hm is THE yeah i kinda dont wanna play the game today character

[drowsy steppe]

the average player just wants to experience the game

[frozen kernel]

So with several wounds he can go down 4-6 times in a match and survive

And be like

[drowsy steppe]

and listen to the party banter and be powerful

[frozen kernel]

“This is a good build. I did not die”

[drowsy steppe]

they have their own lives to live a

[sterile stone]

You really haven't lived til you've had some weirdo try to communicate to you in meows while they and the rest of your team are dying....

[drowsy steppe]

understand that the regulars here, some of them live and breathe Darktide

[frozen kernel]

Meanwhile he spent the entire 25 minutes licking the floor and we did most all of the killing

[tidal berry]

Ofc I know that weirdo, thats me.

[clever swan]

sounds like something the gamers here would do

exactly

[frozen kernel]

But at the end of the day I’m happy to have him along so like

[sterile stone]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-nope-run-save-gif-12667514

[frozen kernel]

I’m not gonna come at my buddy for being shit

I just wish he’d get better naturally

[heady rapids]

gamers think they're always entitled to play the highest difficulty.........

[copper hawk]

The exception to the rule; also confirmation bias. It's impossible to measure how useful it is to those who look at it and move on cuz they never post about it. You'll notice that the only kind of post about scoreboards is people using it to gloat, because it would be embarrassing to post a bad scoreboard. To those who gloat, it's working exactly as intended.

They are embarrassed by poor gameplay and it's shown to them. They don't post it.

[sterile stone]

I wouldn't say this, but I live by the saying. Your playstyle should match your skill level

[copper hawk]

When was the last time you've seen someone post a bad scoreboard?

Today? Past three days? Past week?

The exception proves the rule

[sterile stone]

I don't wanna see some goober trying to mimic tryhard#345563 and constantly eating shit in the process

Then getting mad at us because we are propping them up like a pair of crutches

[drowsy steppe]

theres hardly self reflective scoreboard posting here

[copper hawk]

People post only their best scoreboards because they are shown their bad scoreboards, and are embarrassed

Eg, they saw they did poorly

[heady rapids]

well too bad cause everyone and their mother queues an auric mael as soon as they hit 30

[drowsy steppe]

I dont believe its an exception to the rule, more like the rule of conduct when posting scoreboard shit here lmao

[copper hawk]

And whatever they do with that info is up to them

[sterile stone]

I

[copper hawk]

Improve, is what I'd do

[sterile stone]

Have

[tidal berry]

knife zealot loner shroud death speedrun, ping spam followed by ragequit .d

[sterile stone]

Realized

[hearty nebula]

i mean its hard to have bad scoreboards in my case bc i mostly just play heresy/damn pubs

[copper hawk]

Exactly

That's what I'm saying

It's a confirmation bias

[sullen forge]

Not even auric pshhh….

[frozen kernel]

It was also cute that it was on MLK Jr day

[copper hawk]

Because all you see is gloating doesnt mean it's all gloating

[clever swan]

I didn't post a scoreboard today cuz i noobed it up and took 1700 damage (we still won and I clutched all alone a couple times, at least). so true cica

[frozen kernel]

Because people used to be really nasty to each other in the PS3/360 fanboy days

For no reason

[tidal berry]

I also love how first few days of havoc was bring book/bubble or kick because certain someone made a youtube video and goobers declared them must haves so you must bring piss build to havoc 20

[hearty nebula]

yeah idc about modifiers much

[copper hawk]

The point of the scoreboard is to show how you did

[frozen kernel]

Sent this to my guys not because I absolutely decimated a havoc 3 (fucking malice level) but because it was surreal to me as someone that grew up during the “console wars” that I was just playing a game with both Xbox and PlayStation players

[drowsy steppe]

the last scoreboard I posted was that 1.4 Million H40 game I played and I mostly focus the attention at how much damage I was doing

[copper hawk]

If you're embarrassed cuz u did bad then it's doing its job

[drowsy steppe]

I couldnt give a shit how bad the other players are doing

[copper hawk]

Exactly !!

[sullen forge]

Ah yes ye olden days of try not to call someone the hard R in lobby within a minute challenge

[copper hawk]

And u should be proud of that !!

See !!

[frozen kernel]

Oh sorry my message sent out of sync

[tidal berry]

eh, why be mad about bad players being bad

[copper hawk]

That meant you were doing great

[hearty nebula]

real

[copper hawk]

Your gameplay and build

[frozen kernel]

Darn mobile connection

[tidal berry]

you should be mad if bad players are doing good while being bad

[sullen forge]

Istfg as a kid I could not go a minute without hearing a grown ass adult call me a racial slur

[copper hawk]

Without that scoreboard you wouldve had no idea

[tidal berry]

which they are, with power creep

[copper hawk]

How effective the build u used was

[sterile stone]

See I live and die by, I don't give a fuck how good you did on the scoreboard. Did we make it through pulling equal weight?

[copper hawk]

How well you played

[sterile stone]

If you wanna go off being Rambo

[copper hawk]

How well you paid attention to special spawns

[sterile stone]

You better be good enough to fucking back that playstyle up

[copper hawk]

Without the SB, yoh have nothing

[frozen kernel]

When people go off about “stealing my kills” I think of a troll quote from a friend who used to play MOBAs religiously

He once said

[copper hawk]

Just ur 0s across the board for rewards cuz lul havoc

[frozen kernel]

“KS means kill secured”

[copper hawk]

And the thought in ur head, "did I do well?"

[frozen kernel]

And I’ve run with that forever

[copper hawk]

You need information

Nothing wrong with information

[frozen kernel]

I don’t care who kills the trapper as long as it dies

[copper hawk]

I would never argue against free information

[sterile stone]

Im ngl people being competetive in a pve only game has been always weird as fuck to me...

[tidal berry]

is this about scoreboard

[hearty nebula]

i dont give console players (esp xbox, their version of the game doesnt even run at a stable 30 fps) that much shit cuz they're just gimped with a controller usually

[sullen forge]

@sterile stone I get my dopamine boost through playing debuff Ogryn aka stacking every fucking debuff I physically can on something and then watching someone nuke the boss

[frozen kernel]

I don’t care who kills the charger in Helldivers but a mutual I play with is the biggest backseat gamer and will chime in with shit like “why did you shoot that it was already dead” when I waste a single autocannon shot

[sullen forge]

I rarely top score but it’s incredibly fucking funny

[frozen kernel]

As if ammo is not infinite

As if we can’t CALL MORE

IT’S NOT FOXHOLE

[drowsy steppe]

lmaoo

I honestly dont give much shit about console players sucking either. Because PC players can be terrible too. Its not a platform issue

[frozen kernel]

NOBODY IS PAINSTAKINGLY CRAFTING MY SHELLS

WHILE LISTENING TO LOWFI

[hearty nebula]

id just tell him to stfu

[frozen kernel]

I do

Others laugh and he gets quiet now

[copper hawk]

Yah

[sterile stone]

I'm ngl I do backseat but it's in shit like hunt. Like if I tell you "Hey I saw a guy crouched in that dark corner with a shotgun" and you ignore me and run that way and die

[sullen forge]

CRAFT MY AMMO WAGEY

[sterile stone]

I'm gonna be fucking fuming

[frozen kernel]

I called him a backseat gamer out loud and he got embarrassed once

[misty ravine]

Of all the games in which to complain about ammo efficency

[frozen kernel]

This is why we need bullying peer correction

[hearty nebula]

real

[sterile stone]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-true-kramer-seinfeld-gif-6564373007119861775

[hearty nebula]

Never forget the floorkisser

[misty ravine]

I feel there is an optimum level of bullying and society has overcorrected

[sullen forge]

See If we got more violent with it also furries wouldn’t exist

[frozen kernel]

Because if nobody tells a crybaby to shut the fuck up and the whole room doesn’t laugh, they won’t stop acting like a child

[sullen forge]

Truly a perfect world

[sterile stone]

[hearty nebula]

friendly fire is not allowed

[tidal berry]

the entire console ecosystem is about instant gratification and being in a pond where skill expression is variance that could hurt the experience therefore must be removed

[frozen kernel]

Furries are kind of like spiders. You learn to accept them as you grow older

[sullen forge]

https://tenor.com/view/friendly-fire-friendly-fire-will-not-be-tolerated-throwing-hypocrite-gif-13255289749517161030

[frozen kernel]

There are definitely spiders you don’t want in your house

[drowsy steppe]

this is so funny to me

[frozen kernel]

But most of them are fine

[misty ravine]

Except for the big ones, those still creep me the fuck out

[dry hinge]

Accept? No. Tolerate? Yes. Sure.

[heady rapids]

ye i washed one down the shower drain the other day;...........

[frozen kernel]

Just make sure to check in your boots for furries if you live in the southern hemisphere

[sullen forge]

I’m the giant huntsman spider in your house you have to acknowledge

[drowsy steppe]

I went from freaking out and trying to vehemently getting rid of spiders in my vicinity

[clever swan]

I forcefully relocate all spiders from my home. I wonder how we can apply this...

[drowsy steppe]

to keeping a safe distance from them

[plush estuary]

vehemently?

vermin

[sterile stone]

Ehhhh

[hearty nebula]

spiders are a no-no here

[plush estuary]

vermentide?

[frozen kernel]

That’s @remote lark

[hearty nebula]

because we have brown recluses sometimes

[sterile stone]

Man those things are fucked

[frozen kernel]

Pinging me for havoc is like catching it eating a moth in the night

[sterile stone]

Necrosis of the skin sounds like hell

[sullen forge]

Normal looking spider that can fucking kill you

Truly

Peak

[drowsy steppe]

Giant spiders needs to go though

we can safely get rid of those

[hearty nebula]

No

they're cool

[drowsy steppe]

no

[hearty nebula]

they stay

[drowsy steppe]

theyre too big

[sullen forge]

The bigger they are usually the more chill they are

[frozen kernel]

The giant ones are less likely to fuck with you

Yeah

[sullen forge]

It’s weird

[drowsy steppe]

theyre too big

[hearty nebula]

Just like ur mom

[sterile stone]

Replace spiders with Beak Things

[frozen kernel]

Tarantulas actually being mad chill is a weird thing

[tidal berry]

body horror, quite literally

[frozen kernel]

Brain no like it

But it’s true

[drowsy steppe]

Kenshi is wild

[frozen kernel]

It’s mostly because they’re big enough to know you’re much bigger and they do not want smoke

[sullen forge]

I sure do love having my limbs violently ripped off my body!

[sterile stone]

Buuuut it's fun as hell

[drowsy steppe]

buddy

I aint playing fallout but taken up to 1000%

[frozen kernel]

A lot of spiders are just tiny cunts that feel the need to front

[drowsy steppe]

and dying over and over and calling it

[sterile stone]

These things circle the entire Nomad settlement I spawned in

[frozen kernel]

And you introduce them to bigger boot

[drowsy steppe]

IMMERSIVE GAMEPLAY EXPERIENCE

[sterile stone]

It keeps the bandits away

[frozen kernel]

Or if you’re merciful a cup and the outside

[sterile stone]

It's like a natural barrier of defense

[sullen forge]

Yeah but how are you going to get out

That’s the fun part

[drowsy steppe]

the tiny ones are chill

[sterile stone]

I cranked up global squads and their numbers

So my main goal

[drowsy steppe]

but they spawn around me too often

[sterile stone]

Is to lead the beak things into the slavers down the road

And run to the Holy Nation

IN THEORY

[frozen kernel]

Remember back in the Source 1 days when you’d spend an entire match pushing the payload just to get autobalanced onto RED at the last second?

[sterile stone]

It should work

Otherwise

[frozen kernel]

It never ruined TF2

[sterile stone]

I'm being eaten alive

Or enslaved

[frozen kernel]

You just went “ahhhh bullshit haha” and moved on

[sterile stone]

But it's a gamble I gotta take

[frozen kernel]

Got to kill your friends a bit

[tidal berry]

I think I was mad at this exactly once because it interrupted my 1v1 with a sniper on 2fort, lmao

[sullen forge]

Ah yes the tried and true tactic of Kenshi gameplay

[tidal berry]

I was like, maybe 11

[sullen forge]

Run and pray to god you live

[tidal berry]

TF2 was kinda sorta p2w back then

[sterile stone]

In all fairness

[tidal berry]

with some of the hats giving you set bonuses?

it was wild

[sterile stone]

I did grind out my martial arts aswell

[drowsy steppe]

lol yea

[frozen kernel]

Instant “wtf” in chat as your name is blu. Walk out and hi five him before oppressing every scout that jumps at the bridge

[drowsy steppe]

I remember the days when wearing a 'set' of items gives bonuses

[sterile stone]

I'm not entirely scuffed if I get jumped

Hopefully

[tidal berry]

Steam was real nice back then too

[sterile stone]

I just need to avoid getting hit

[drowsy steppe]

I remember that one set that prevents 1 hit kill damage from headshots

I thing that was the crocodile sniper set

[tidal berry]

my cousin got scammed out of all his TF2 items and steam just restored everything for him

they stopped doing that because ppl abused it

[frozen kernel]

I’d considered TF2 pay to win because I played Scout and scattergun has always been the best primary. Although the milkman shit was kinda nuts looking back

Way more egregious for sniper just saying no to headshots

[drowsy steppe]

nah the dumbest thing

[frozen kernel]

I got a server to ban every scout primary once when I was a youth

[drowsy steppe]

was the Fez spy set

THE ONE THAT MUTES THE DEAD RINGERS DECLOAK SOUND

FUCK THAT SHIT

[tidal berry]

If I could take an item away from TF2 it would probably be vaccinator rn

[frozen kernel]

I don’t like how 2 vacc medics just turn any pub into a bloodbath

[tidal berry]

would instantenously improve the experience for EVERYONE involved except the vacc duo

[frozen kernel]

I don’t like how powerful medic was in TF2 period

[vague depot]

Uberchain

[frozen kernel]

One medic will sway a game

[sterile stone]

I still don't understand the mechanics behind face stabs

[frozen kernel]

Even a bad one

[vague depot]

Backstab hitbox wonky so you make them turn slightly in one direction and you can backstab lmao

[tidal berry]

netcode fuckery

[vague depot]

At least that was how I remembered it

[frozen kernel]

I miss puff n sting pyro

[sullen forge]

That’s just how the class was meant to be

Medic

[tidal berry]

also for a similar reason backburner is unreliable

[sterile stone]

The escape commences

[tidal berry]

which makes me very sad as a pyro main

[fleet zealot]

yea it's a mix of jank and

[sullen forge]

It’s unfortunate that obviously if the enemy has one you have to immediately have good Engineer constantly moving his dispenser

Or

A medic

[tidal berry]

ppl be malding so hard on phlog pyro and like, how else am I supposed to play ambush pyro lmao

[fleet zealot]

mechanics

melee mechanics in tf2 were scuffed

[tidal berry]

you want me to lit you up and axtinguish? Might aswell market garden at that point, a lot less effort

[fleet zealot]

made demoknighting vs good players really hard cause even with the ranged boost on "demoknight weapons" you can still get outranged cause valuve

[median steeple]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1136292421211258932/1329674552615243867/GIF_20250116_224942_870.gif

[sullen forge]

MY GRAND SCHEME

[fleet zealot]

tbf axtingquisher used to just be OP but now it's lowkey trash so lmao gj volvo

[tidal berry]

very

but then

everything about TF2 is

[frozen kernel]

She finally made it

[fleet zealot]

like say you were chasing someone has demoknight

[tidal berry]

its a very old game

[fleet zealot]

they can hit you with normal melee as they are backpedaling

but you cna't hit them

cause reasons

even tho you have more range

[frozen kernel]

TF2 melee being a short range hitscan projectile vs a whole ass hitbox moving through space is surreal going back to

[tidal berry]

see here is the issue though

TF2 deserves a fresh netcode

[frozen kernel]

Because until the muscle memory comes back you whiff so many swings

[clever swan]

cuz hitboxes are a bit further in the direction of movement than the model is

[tidal berry]

but doing that literally kills the game

[fleet zealot]

i wish tf2 fans weren't so damn annoying

save tf2 was cute but

it's a multi decade old game lol

[frozen kernel]

I wish TF2 fans werent bronies

[sullen forge]

It’s never happening

[tidal berry]

is the subreddit still toxic positivity hellhole

[fleet zealot]

it's built on so much old code no one wants to work on it

[sullen forge]

Or furries 🚬

[frozen kernel]

It’s all furries and bronies left

[fleet zealot]

and even if they did work on it

[frozen kernel]

And not the tolerable ones

[clever swan]

tf2 furries are all that exist

[drowsy steppe]

yo

[fleet zealot]

like LET it go

[drowsy steppe]

I remember regularly visiting this brony server a decade ago

[tidal berry]

ok, I'm gonna practice unexistence now

[sullen forge]

I really only played it for like custom servers

[fleet zealot]

let tf2 die peacefully

[sullen forge]

And that’s about it

[drowsy steppe]

little old me was fascinated as to why grown men likes Ponies

[frozen kernel]

No no, release unusual misc items!

[fleet zealot]

don't have them running out the corpse like they did with the last prince

[frozen kernel]

Add a new prefix for weapons!

[clever swan]

even cs1.6 exists still, tf2 will live forever

[frozen kernel]

The market will boom!

[copper hawk]

Troo !

[frozen kernel]

And it does

://

[clever swan]

shiiiiit even ricochet still exists

[copper hawk]

MY HSBF

[drowsy steppe]

ricochet sucks

[copper hawk]

R FROZEN

MY LEG

FROZEN

FEET FROZEN IT'S FUCKING COLD

AND 2 WIMDY

[clever swan]

frozen ouppy

[drowsy steppe]

crazy that theres still people playing 1.6

and source

[sterile stone]

I still remember I joined a custom match and I saw someone spray a furry's ass on the wall when I went to climb a tower. And on that day I learned animated sprays were a thing.

[copper hawk]

ASHRJFHRHJEIF8IGIEJ

[drowsy steppe]

like you just can hear

[copper hawk]

SBA ENME

[frozen kernel]

Fascinated and naive thinking that they were able to find interest in the show vs “oh…I get it now”

💀

[drowsy steppe]

how bad the innate microphone quality that those 2 games have

[sullen forge]

Me struggling to open my apartment door for 20 minute to the point the key actually made my fingers bleed from how cold it was

[drowsy steppe]

even on a modern microphone

[sullen forge]

That was enjoyable

[fleet zealot]

yea but i don't hear a lot out of the cs1.6/cs source communities

[frozen kernel]

Source still goes strong

[fleet zealot]

"OMG VOLVO SAVE CS 1.6!!!"

[clever swan]

they're probably quite mature and bully furries

[frozen kernel]

I play every few weeks

[clever swan]

so they're safe from the tf2-itis

[copper hawk]

I play w yo MAMA every few weeks

[frozen kernel]

But I prefer to play gungame and shit

I hate actual CS

[drowsy steppe]

the fucking

[tidal berry]

1.6 plays nice

[clever swan]

zombie escape is so fun

[frozen kernel]

Round by round “reee my eco” CS is for weenies

[drowsy steppe]

Amnesia x MLP shit

[sterile stone]

I need to see them earnings reports that valve makes off skin cases and sticker cases off CS

[drowsy steppe]

is something I did not expect to exist and watch as a kid

[sterile stone]

I know that shit alone is keeping Valve up and running

[drowsy steppe]

that was horrifying

[frozen kernel]

Jailbreak, Surf, BHop Maps, and Orange maps with whatever whack ass mode were peak

[fleet zealot]

dota 2 and cs2 cases

[frozen kernel]

Orange maps fuck

Aaaaaa

[sterile stone]

CS players are the most hardcore gambling addicts I've ever witnessed.

[drowsy steppe]

dude

[copper hawk]

I love tf2

[fleet zealot]

prob still some people buying tf2 shit too lol

[drowsy steppe]

Zombie Escape servers on old CSGO was the shit

[tidal berry]

I guess I'm just built different (wrong)

[frozen kernel]

I miss early CSGO

[sullen forge]

Vs Saxton, Dodgeball, Slender to name some others

[frozen kernel]

CS2 is so different

[tidal berry]

but its kinda true a big chunk of ''playerbase'' just gamba addicts

[clever swan]

I made some cool friends from the serious ze server that used to exist. good times.

[copper hawk]

FreakFortress

I loved freakfortress

[frozen kernel]

I thought achievement servers were fucking adorable

[tidal berry]

I miss CSGO

[sullen forge]

Played a shit ton of slender

[tidal berry]

the air of ranked games completely got fucked with CS2

[frozen kernel]

People just like “damn this cheevo is a pain in the ass and I wanna try the sofa pooper”

[clever swan]

there's really nothing else like making friends on a server like zombie escape or TTT. yall just vibing, playing a game, bonding in the middle of all your challenges, talking random shit in between killing each other.

[copper hawk]

Who up freakin they fortress

[frozen kernel]

DarkRP before Garrysmod went to shit

PERP

[sullen forge]

In defense of them, I see it as useful for the unobtainable ones

Only

[sterile stone]

Console CS was a hell of a trip

[sullen forge]

The unob ones

[copper hawk]

I did achievement server when i was a kid

[tidal berry]

it was on consoles?

[frozen kernel]

I’ll die on the hill that HL2RP was for closeted tops and bottoms

[sterile stone]

Yeeep

[sullen forge]

Yup

[frozen kernel]

You’re either the CP’s bitch or a CP

[tidal berry]

lol

[sterile stone]

Paid $13 for that shit

[tidal berry]

lmao

[frozen kernel]

Who willingly logs on to get bullied/bully someone as a cop lmao

[clever swan]

this is why I never played it i guess:)

[sterile stone]

Xbox 360\

[sullen forge]

I played it on 360

[fleet zealot]

never liked RP

i always played TTT

[frozen kernel]

I loved it on other servers

RERP (resident evil), Metro, etc

Because it was just like

[clever swan]

I kinda like the vague idea of darkrp, like hiding in a place making your money and then fucking around with guns you buy. but beyond that idk what else can be done

[fleet zealot]

TTT and uhh

movie theater

[frozen kernel]

Walking dead

Before walking dead

[sullen forge]

I will never understand why my first introduction to things usually involves joining a server with rather undesirable people

[sterile stone]

DayZ stalker RP looks hella fun, that clip where the guy stole some dude's kidney's fucking sent me

[drowsy steppe]

meanwhile me being open

[frozen kernel]

Gotta get the bad experience out of the way early so it doesn’t tarnish all the fun you’ve had so far

[sullen forge]

Like I very vividly recall joining a Gmod RP server out of boredom

[tidal berry]

lmao

[sullen forge]

To hear a Slavic man yelling slurs and racial slurs at someone

[drowsy steppe]

community servers in a nutshell

[sterile stone]

Intro to facepunch servers in rust

[frozen kernel]

“Aww dude I’ve had so much fun on this server. WAIT WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE HEAD ADMIN HAS A DONATOR SKIN OF A NAZI”

[clever swan]

the 1942 rp servers :)

[heady rapids]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1316858593479233626/1328476970459332700/ezgif-2-510f83a657.gif?=

[sullen forge]

Darktide straight up is the only game I’ve yet really good experiences with when I was new

[frozen kernel]

I was really thankful I came in at beta + launch

[drowsy steppe]

finding out Gmod 1940s Germany RP is a thing is certainly a knowledge to know about

[frozen kernel]

Everyone else was also bad and damnation was actually nightmarish so I knew it wasn’t a me problem

[copper hawk]

Tip of the iceberg

Mal is baby

[sullen forge]

Oh I used to troll people on there

[copper hawk]

Tiny baby

[clever swan]

they got like, cracked down on. they had to get rid of the swastikas

tragic really

[sullen forge]

That shit was fucking hilarious how serious they were

[sterile stone]

Remember endless hordes

[drowsy steppe]

ofc they have to get rid of the swastikas

[clever swan]

it isn't ofc :( gaming was free once

[tidal berry]

Someone should make a 2 hour long gmod iceberg vidya that I can eep to

[drowsy steppe]

the video of the guy joining one server to RP and making a synagogue was the funniest thing

[sullen forge]

I mean there is

There’s like

Multiple

[drowsy steppe]

look Im not around the source game circle anymore xd

[clever swan]

there are some great rp trolling videos out there for gmod. parkerrr and bubz specifically

[frozen kernel]

Now having played a good bit of Havoc, I feel confident to know I’m a decent player. It just comes down to whether or not I can pick up the slack for the others in regular aurics and how kind the director is being

[drowsy steppe]

that shit stays between 2011-2015

when I was heavy into tf2 and shit

[tidal berry]

perfect, exactly what I need to kill my brain cells

[sullen forge]

I think one of the funniest things I did was straight up Re-enact inglorious bastards with a few other guys I met

[fleet zealot]

after my brain injury i can't roleplay outside of tabletop anymore

idk

but then agian

[sullen forge]

Yes we killed Hitler

[fleet zealot]

my rp was prob different from what this server is tlaking about

[copper hawk]

I never was

[frozen kernel]

Sometimes in a CIVI/JIIIV you’re just like “I don’t want to carry this” and you just let it end, rather than kiting everything out for 7 minutes just to revive everyone (who will promptly die and put you as the sole survivor again)

[clever swan]

[copper hawk]

I just watch yt videos of ppl exposing communities on gmod

And vr chat

[copper hawk]

Stinky ferret..

[clever swan]

half life 1 and 2 were basically the most important games of my life. I'm kinda cringe like that

[drowsy steppe]

the only ever serious RP I did was ERP with this girl a year ago

[clever swan]

least the half lifes have so many mods that there's lots to do, many to meet

[copper hawk]

Chrono Trigger most important game..,

[sullen forge]

Furry is predator on vrchat #35445

[drowsy steppe]

and Im not elaborating further 🙂

[sullen forge]

The sky is blue

[clever swan]

holy based

[copper hawk]

But not our furry.. surely not..

Monitor them at all timez . Every last one

[heady rapids]

reminded me of a gmod admin trolling people in tf2 with sprays that have things i probably cant mention on thi sserver........

[sullen forge]

Racial slurs

[frozen kernel]

Most fun RP I had was on a resident evil RP server that used CEDA from L4D as a peacekeeping force. Some dude fucked off and made his own militia and we had a whole event for the shootout with “shoot to miss” as a goal for everyone.

Tons of ammo was handed out and we had a fun shootout where we held a gas station against an attack from the main camp

[sullen forge]

Gore perhaps

[clever swan]

hentai sprays

[heady rapids]

worse....

[clever swan]

based hentai sprays

[drowsy steppe]

nah

I was exposed to HL1 and HL2 a lot when I was little

[frozen kernel]

P much everyone was like “yeah this is gonna be lit” instead of one weirdo being like “BUT I WANT THE SPOTLIGHT TO EXECUTE SOMEONE IN FRONT OF THE SERVER”

[drowsy steppe]

and I dont even understand English well yet by that time 😛

[frozen kernel]

You know, like theater

Good folk

[sterile stone]

[frozen kernel]

I’ve had a Finnish friend for about ~12 years that I met on Skype when I was like 13

[heady rapids]

https://youtu.be/v27SvooowYo

[frozen kernel]

One time I asked

[sterile stone]

The youtube archives of furries behaving strangly on VR Chat

[frozen kernel]

“Do you actually speak English or is Skype just auto translating to English”

Because Id never heard him in VOIP at that point 💀

That was when I learned some Europeans take like 9 years of English

[copper hawk]

Gloria Britannia

[frozen kernel]

And I felt very embarrassed that our school system is like “hey pick up menu French/spanish” for the ass end of high school

[clever swan]

gaming is probably such a good way to learn a language as a kid. don't really gotta know what's being said but that sort of exposure and repetition can get you comprehension eventually

[copper hawk]

Britannia rules the waves..

[sullen forge]

Something just never clicks to me why they don’t realize that it’s not like they can’t be traced on there

There’s always a paper trail

[drowsy steppe]

I got HL2 Deathmatch for free one time

[clever swan]

we cheeseburgerians are quite deprived compared to other nations

[sterile stone]

Every now and then a doc on Sapho pops back into feed

[drowsy steppe]

and deadass just joined a random server with a couple of dudes

[sullen forge]

Guys remember this creep?

[drowsy steppe]

and my limited English knowledge ass is surprisingly able to have some conversation

[sullen forge]

Literally all it is

[sterile stone]

Sapho literally keeps popping up and making new accounts

[frozen kernel]

Back during COVID I’d try to find other “observers” in VRC to eavesdrop on people with

[sterile stone]

And people just track the name and voice

[frozen kernel]

Had a group of like 5 people once having our own convo about the tea being spilled 8ft away

“So lil homie’s egirl replaced him, and he’s working through that right now”

[frozen kernel]

passes a martini glass

[sullen forge]

I swear that shit is an addiction to them

[frozen kernel]

“It’s okay. Everyone has that first bad breakup, but at least he’s got a squad to be there for him”

[drowsy steppe]

[heady rapids]

ppl in vrchat claiming they have PHANTOM SENSE is the funniest shit

[frozen kernel]

Meanwhile they’re right there like

“Can you guys go somewhere else”

[drowsy steppe]

you know if they at least met IRL issan understandable crashout

[frozen kernel]

And we’d just go “no lol”

[heady rapids]

unreachable friendship standards

[frozen kernel]

I like to think it helped with the healing in a way right

[sullen forge]

I seriously think it’s something to do with like preferring to be the sona they made instead of just using it as an online personality like normal people should

[drowsy steppe]

first breakups can fuck you up bad

[frozen kernel]

Because look, if you’re getting goofed on for it

It’s prolly not that bad

[sullen forge]

Like they want to be their sonas quite literally

That’s just me

Me thinks

[heady rapids]

knew a guy who clowned on his friend for offing himself after a breakup

[frozen kernel]

If your worst problem in your life is your VRC gf finding another dude with a more expensive skin

Congrats

Damn idk

[heady rapids]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/710505734282018889/1305603431540461579/2024-11-11_214100427.gif

[frozen kernel]

Want to hold the goose prop?

[heady rapids]

not the goose prop.....

[drowsy steppe]

privileged white dude problems fr

[frozen kernel]

[A 6ft cardboard cutout of Shaq hands you a lawn ornament]

[sullen forge]

Ngl I’ve just become numb to a lot of shit I’ve just seen way too fucking much

[frozen kernel]

“Feel better, big dawg”

[sterile stone]

Isn't this a medical condition or something, people adopting other personalities

[high zodiac]

https://tenor.com/view/senator-armstrong-metal-gear-rising-funny-saucy-jack-gif-25152904

avast sinners!

[frozen kernel]

It’s an escape at least

[drowsy steppe]

I dont think its DID related xd

[sullen forge]

It’s an escapism

[frozen kernel]

They just get stuck in it

[sullen forge]

Though technically

[drowsy steppe]

but yes escapism is the better word

[sullen forge]

Everyone has one

[frozen kernel]

It’s why I refuse to learn how to lucid dream

[sullen forge]

It just levels on severity

[frozen kernel]

I don’t want to become more comfortable laying in bed than being alive

[clever swan]

already me

[frozen kernel]

Bed is already cozy and safe enough without infinite dreamland

[clever swan]

good dreams are actually the most severe nightmares imo

you wake up and realize it'll never be

https://tenor.com/view/when-mpreg-monday-mpreg-monday-question-gif-15388904019582979957

[frozen kernel]

If I could willingly just have people back and explore the world from the confines of my bed, I would rot

[high zodiac]

why is this chat so wierd

[sullen forge]

Speaking of nightmares

[frozen kernel]

It’s kinda like knowing that hard drugs make you feel good but also knowing that crack is whack

[drowsy steppe]

normal zealot chat

[sullen forge]

You guys ever had those nightmares that like

Loop into itself

[heady rapids]

i had that once

[sullen forge]

Multiple times

[heady rapids]

fucking awful

[sullen forge]

Then actually wake up

[frozen kernel]

You ever have a part 2 to a dream years later?

[heady rapids]

you THINK you woke up

then it loops again

[sullen forge]

Highest count I had that happen was 7 times

[sterile stone]

I had a dream I looked at my bank balance and it just showed $0.00 and rent was due the next day

[frozen kernel]

Like you “spawn in” and you’re like “wait holy fuck I’ve been in this dream before”

[drowsy steppe]

the funniest 'nightmare' that ever happened to me was the one time I was dreaming about walking in a dark corridor

[sullen forge]

And then I woke up in the hospital

[drowsy steppe]

but somehow, my mind realized 'wait a minute this is a dream'

[sullen forge]

That shit was miserable

[frozen kernel]

I only started getting the teeth dreams in my 20’s and it sucks

[drowsy steppe]

so I just decided to fuckin noclip myself out the walls and see the interior fuckin map of the entire nightmare

[sterile stone]

My mans unlocked lucid dreaming

[sullen forge]

Nightmare for Adults holy shit lmao

[heady rapids]

mfs realizing they have free will

[frozen kernel]

I did that as a child once

Nightmare was I was on a beach with my grandparents

Huge fuckin tsunami coming

I’m just like “It’s a nightmare. Close your eyes really tight and we’ll wake up”

And I woke up

[sullen forge]

Lock the fuck in

[frozen kernel]

I’ve had quite a few dreams where I felt like I was someone’s NPC

[clever swan]

I try doing like strong anime attacks against my dream enemies but it hardly ever works, I'm too weak for some reason

[frozen kernel]

Had a nightmare I was running through some grimy ass hospital with some woman

She goes to duck into the laundry room to hide in one of the washers

I’m just like “no don’t try it, it never works and then you’re cornered”

We made another loop and then I woke up

[drowsy steppe]

couple months back I had that exact dream. I was curious what it meant and looked up the reasoning as to why it happened. Learnt that its what sometimes a person dreams of when they feel they start to have less control, less agency in their life. And that shit quickly made me fuckin feeling existential dread 💀

[frozen kernel]

Little bullshit thought I like to have is that human consciousness is connected and your dream NPC’s are just other people who you’ve accidentally sync’d up to

Even though science has proved that’s very much not a thing

[sullen forge]

I think the weirdest thing is when I was kid I’d have like very vivid recollections of the creatures I had nightmares of, now? Whenever it rarely happens it’s literally a bait and switch of “oh it’s coming!” And then it never happens cause I wake up before it happens LMAO

[frozen kernel]

Something that’s really weird is that like…it’s a common dream that many different people have when they get stressed. Like why the fuck are we all having the same nightmare of our teeth shattering like glass? Lmao

[fleet zealot]

i have like

2nd life dreams

oh and school dreams

[frozen kernel]

Oh god

2nd Life

Rip

[fleet zealot]

even tho

[clever swan]

A TEST IS TOMORROW AND I HAVENT STUDIED AT ALL

[fleet zealot]

i haven't been in school for almost a decade now

[frozen kernel]

Your dreams are about player run economies and PayPal scandals

[clever swan]

THE FINAL IS TOMORROW AND I HAVENT EVEN BEEN TO THIS CLASS

[fleet zealot]

i've had fully simulated league of legend games

hell i even had a darktide game

[clever swan]

was it havoc 40

[sullen forge]

Or you’re failing the class miserably and the semester ends tomorrow

Truly peak

[fleet zealot]

shit tends to break apart and not work right obviously cause dream brain doesn't have short term memory

[frozen kernel]

I had one dream where I was playing MGSV or something, and suddenly a fucking dead by daylight vault prompt came up

[fleet zealot]

more so social things

[frozen kernel]

I wish I could simulate a Darktide game

If I could lucid dream

I could execute the Psyker

[fleet zealot]

like i'm back at school still doing poor performance and social interactions except now i'm trans which is something that happened well after school

[frozen kernel]

Fuck

[clever swan]

I'm not even joking when I say that nightmares are better than good dreams sometimes. at least with a nightmare when you wake up you realize it isn't real.

[fleet zealot]

nah i take

nightmare meds

that shit cna ruin my day

but i got actual CPTSD

[frozen kernel]

I don’t like the feeling of waking up after a nightmare

Because it’s kind of like that “it’ll never be real” feeling you say for the good dreams but in reverse

If I have a nightmare where I lose my mom, waking up I just go “fuck that’s gonna happen one day”

[sullen forge]

The only borderline lucid dream I had was in the shoes of some poor infantryman in WW1 borderline teetered on nightmare the shit that was happening

[clever swan]

really depends on the nightmare I guess. the nightmares subject could be real enough in your life to still feel bad

[frozen kernel]

Yeah, that’s the kicker

[clever swan]

if it's just some generic thing like being chased by a monster then definitely scary but

[frozen kernel]

Those ones are at least fun to laugh at

Because in most dreams you’re kinda following a script

So you do stupid things

Even if you know they’re stupid. You’ll acknowledge it IN THE MOMENT

But you’re still gonna do it

[fleet zealot]

reliving ptsd nightmares fucking sucks but i've been on the nightmare pill for a while now

[frozen kernel]

“Why am I going into the basement? It’s going to grab my leg through the stairs, I swear to god@

[fleet zealot]

i think the worst fuckin, non nightmare i had

[frozen kernel]

Goes into the basement, you have accidentally manifested the monster grabbing your leg

[fleet zealot]

was league of legends when i was tryharding learning draven botlane

[frozen kernel]

Wake up like “FOK ITS HOT IN MY ROOM RN”

[fleet zealot]

and it was just a nightmare of me walking to lane, being 5 man dove under tower, perfectly executed so none of them died

[frozen kernel]

Nightmare was playing Draven itself

[fleet zealot]

and then my team flaming me despite doing nothing to help me

[frozen kernel]

You were a domestic terrorist

[fleet zealot]

repeat like 5 times

[fleet zealot]

no that's when i went mental

and went teemo apc

plat adcs can't handle the blind

as long as it wasn't cait and/or enchanter i was killing it

[frozen kernel]

I used to have awesome dreams

Almost every other night or so

It stopped hard about a year or so back and I’m a bit sad

[fleet zealot]

league me was insane, this is why you quit league and jump out of the closet

[frozen kernel]

No new meds or anything

[fleet zealot]

i was playing warwick fill

which often meant warwick support

[frozen kernel]

Funny wolfman run at enemy

[fleet zealot]

it's actually similar to what i'd call shaco support, you fuck over engage supports and dive duos

but you suck if the enemy just plays poke+enchanters

[frozen kernel]

See I frequently mess up embarrassingly in dreams. Like I go to shoot someone and I’ve forgotten to cock the hammer on a single action revolver

And then dream Banx does something silly like trying to cock it with the back of my offhand or something instead of just using my thumb

[drowsy steppe]

the weirdest game related dream, which in this case Darktide related

[frozen kernel]

The villains laughing at me

[drowsy steppe]

was for some reason it was just me practicing devil claw moveset combos in the psykh

thats literally all I did in the dream

[frozen kernel]

Whew

In actual VR shooters I’m like a goddamn sleeper agent which is hilarious

[clever swan]

it would be quite interesting if consciousness was somehow connected. our dreams definitely arent like that directly, though, so it'd have to be something more mysterious and unseeable

[frozen kernel]

In real life I gently pull shots from center mass to perfectly nail shoulders. BrainBanx does not want to kill the target like BodyBanx

[mortal edge]

Relic Blade enjoyers what do you guys run on your relic blades? (Perks/Blessings)

[remote lark]

https://tenor.com/view/distressed-red-ball-uncanny-cat-cat-black-and-white-gif-8838887825807615400

[remote lark]

pins

[frozen kernel]

It’s remarkable how I cannot hit the head if I try

[mortal edge]

there it is

Thanks Furry Tech Priest

[drowsy steppe]

that would be horrifying

[clever swan]

becomee one with the omni-consciousness

[fleet zealot]

my sleep paralysis demon stopped visiting me once i gave it mcdonalds

been a few years now

hasn't come back

[drowsy steppe]

fr

[hearty nebula]

:3

[drowsy steppe]

strawberry ice cream goat

fuck chocolate or vanilla

[hearty nebula]

i still like chocolate & vanilla

[clever swan]

what the fuck does this even mean

[hearty nebula]

but strawberry my goat

[fleet zealot]

she/it was weird. very much staring at me screaming, except the screaming was the sounds of metal pots and silverware being shaken in a tub, tons of crashing metal noises

[hearty nebula]

shut up

[merry flume]

did u get 40 yet

[hearty nebula]

fake ice cream enjoyer

[fleet zealot]

one day instead of screaming at me from across the room she just started whispering shit in my ear like she was trying to learn about the outside world

[remote lark]

frog didn't wanna do 40 today cause i'm sikc

so maybe another day

[merry flume]

https://tenor.com/view/yare-yare-daze-yare-yare-tomato-dog-dog-tomato-gif-26592360

[fleet zealot]

"what's a mcdonalds... give me a mcdonalds" goes back to screaming

[remote lark]

tomatodog..

[fleet zealot]

so yea, i bought mcdonalds the next day

[clever swan]

that tomato looked so tasty for a simple dog creature

[fleet zealot]

and she hasn't came back

[remote lark]

la creatura

[fleet zealot]

i don't think i remember all the questions but a lot of them were very basic just, what is x, can i have X

[clever swan]

really gotta wonder how these rules work and how it relates to mental strength. does beating the demon by buying it mcdonalds indicate that your subconscious conquered the issue/demon in some physical way or like...hmm

[fleet zealot]

maybe she crossed over and is going on her own adventures now

[clever swan]

maybe buying mcdonalds is just the way american subconsciousnesses resolve issues

[fleet zealot]

idk why i call it her sometimes, it was just more of a shadowy humanoid that stared at me

[frozen kernel]

I used to have recurring nightmares of a black suit of armor creeping around the trees in my backyard

[fleet zealot]

sometimes put shadowing hands on my bed/blanket, lots of screaming

like the first few years i had it

just

take a bucket

fill it with silverware and a pan

and shake it

[frozen kernel]

One time I was strapped into my car seat and was screaming from the car as my mom went to the house while it was tiptoeing in the backyard

Fun times

I did not like the dark as a child

[fleet zealot]

congrats you had my sleep paralysis demon

[clever swan]

dream interpretation time

[frozen kernel]

Then I worked overnights + security for 5 years

Now I am the creepy silhouette in the dark

But I’m like five and a half feet tall

Not very imposing

[fleet zealot]

or maybe it's my new meds

that are inhibiting sleep paralysis and therefor the demon

tho it only stopped cause of the mcdonalds which i'm still, confused at

[frozen kernel]

Well I’d consider that a dub

We don’t claim to understand the otherworldly entities

We just appease them

[fleet zealot]

surely humanity will not suffer because i gave them more understanding about us

[clever swan]

with mcdonalds apparently

[frozen kernel]

The super size me guy died for our sins

He died so that we could use that slop to stem the dark tide

300 year old McDouble

[ornate bone]

holy shit that tide really is dark

[frozen kernel]

Like a century egg

But overprocessed meat substitute

[fleet zealot]

Actually wait

[heady rapids]

the worst thing by far is having dreams about a person you've fumbled the relationship with and will never have the chance to talk to again

[fleet zealot]

I think i did release it

[clever swan]

[heady rapids]

https://tenor.com/view/speed-eye-close-monkey-ishowspeed-monkey-monkey-speed-eyes-closed-gif-4951163084893227386

[fleet zealot]

Cause it was also asking about doors and locks and outside

[fleet zealot]

Huh despite being an expert fumbler

I never have those

And i had some artisan level fumble on my record, but it was my fault and i dont really feel down about it

[frozen kernel]

I have unexplained fumbles that I still don’t have answers for

Thankfully it doesn’t occupy any headspace

[fleet zealot]

Hmm maybe that’s it

[frozen kernel]

The final TF2 comic actually had a really good line from Scout

[fleet zealot]

I came to terms with it cause it was obviously my fault (i was 19, and just made homeless so i ghosted them for multiple brain wormed reasons)

[frozen kernel]

“No convincing, no gun show, just boom. I get it, dummy. You’re the best”

[fleet zealot]

I need to throw this down the throat of every incel

[frozen kernel]

Also being sadboi in your 20’s over a HS relationship is just like

Kinda icky

Like I understand sometimes there’s damage done there but yikes, move on

[fleet zealot]

Yes!! True!!!

[clever swan]

imo it depends on the severity of the loss. sometimes people's lives will never be the same because they think they lost something extremely valuable. sometimes people can be that for you

[sullen forge]

Yeah to be fair Scout reached peak male happiness (Single Father)

[fleet zealot]

You stop hyperfixating about women from your past or fictional online women whether made up, fantasy, or a persona

[frozen kernel]

Scroll down on Spotify and see when your favorite artist is playing near you. Order a ticket

See what’s going on during Halloween and go to some event (we go to Salem, Massachusetts)

There’s ways to meet people if you go outside

[fleet zealot]

There is a moment where you need to move on

Loss of that nature usually comes from death or long term (im talking kids and marriage) cheating

Like it’s mean

[clever swan]

i think it's fine to be devastated by losing someone you love

but i suppose you can always say that you should get over it, to some extent, eventually

for anything, even

[fleet zealot]

For like some teenage short period of time, yea it’s called emotions

[ornate bone]

Rare scout able to formulate more than two sentences moment

[frozen kernel]

Being like “aw man a 15 yo girl cheated on me eleven years ago” is no excuse to carry it going into your 30’s like “well my first girlfriend ruined my ability to trust so that’s why I’m alone”

[clever swan]

i dunno man it's like

[frozen kernel]

Recognize that you were teenagers and teenagers are stupid

[clever swan]

if this was like "my best friend from 15 years ago, i got into a bad argument with them and i lost them forever"

and you regretted that forever

it might be weird

but it wouldnt be framed like this

it'd be understandable i think

[frozen kernel]

I think even a situation like that though

[fleet zealot]

That’s barely a quarter of your life tho lol

[frozen kernel]

You had a heated moment going off to college or some shit

You can prolly hit them up and reconnect unless you burned and broke each others shite

[fleet zealot]

I’d still say get over it

[clever swan]

you can basically say that about anything

[fleet zealot]

Im very much against reactionary, good ole days moping

[clever swan]

it's always good to get over things and not be emotionally distraught

[frozen kernel]

Most spats aren’t worth carrying like luggage

There definitely are some

Don’t get me wrong

Some things are unforgivable

But people overestimate that a lot

People underestimate how much you can accomplish by just talking about how you feel

[fleet zealot]

2nd hand luggage is the worst and what i see most often in incel spaces

[clever swan]

i think it's fine if you're devastated by these losses but the solution isn't really "get over it", it's more like... "make more"

[frozen kernel]

If you’re friends for 15 years, you should be able to handle emotional talks

[fleet zealot]

Like lil bro you are 15

[frozen kernel]

If your friend of 15 years doesn’t respect when you say, “Hey this hurts” then they aren’t a great friend

Plain and simple

[fleet zealot]

That is get over it, move on past it

[clever swan]

it can still be hurtful to think about, at least to some extent

[frozen kernel]

If they turn your “please stop doing this thing” into “me me me” it isn’t someone you want to share your time with

[fleet zealot]

You can be stuck in your cycles or step off it

[fleet zealot]

And it’s still a necessity imo

If your homie going through their first breakup

Someone gotta be the mean friend

And tell them the truth

[clever swan]

the thing i believe is that

this attitude is what motivates alienation

if you are not really allowed to be devastated by losing someone you loved in your life without being called a loser

[frozen kernel]

Obviously the first words shouldn’t be “You’ll get over it” but it should enter the conversation at some point after “I’m sorry, homie”

[clever swan]

then we are discouraged from holding onto our love

[fleet zealot]

What motivates alienation is the culture

[clever swan]

the culture is what motivates you to say these things

[fleet zealot]

Duh

[frozen kernel]

Yes I’m agreeing w u

Silly

[fleet zealot]

Yea the culture that has incel culture, that has anti women’s rights culture

[clever swan]

it's like...we all recognize that something is very wrong with society

but it's never our attitudes that have problems

[frozen kernel]

I remember my best buddy crying face down on the couch after his first breakup

We were like 11-12

[ornate bone]

boy was a playa

[clever swan]

there are so many nuanced problems in the world that go beyond that. that's just the tip of the iceberg, almost irrelevant really. the true evil of the world are things like murderers, kidnappers, torturers.

[frozen kernel]

I still had my “girlfriend” from his pool party for 1 more year and change baby

[clever swan]

greed, hoarding, strategic alienation by the rich

[frozen kernel]

She was a grade above us

[ornate bone]

YOOOOO

[frozen kernel]

A whole 6th grader

[fleet zealot]

The issue is society isn’t mean enough where it matters and is needlessly cruel where kindness does matter

[frozen kernel]

Or maybe 7th idk

We never kissed

[ornate bone]

https://tenor.com/view/sunglasses-boss-kid-chubbyboy-serious-gif-12535065

[frozen kernel]

Actually we kissed one time

Only once

Childhood relationships are hilarious

You’ll “get married” to some random girl on a playground at like 5 years old

You gave her a big wood chip

[fleet zealot]

See my fumble was a lesbian couple shortly after i started transitioning

[frozen kernel]

Like a penguin gifting a rock lmao

[fleet zealot]

I forgot which website but I complimented one of their Horde tattoos from world of warcraft

[frozen kernel]

I got a girls email address on a barf bag once on a whale watch

[fleet zealot]

And she lived nearby, in my city and we just talked about gaming, overwatch and wow

[frozen kernel]

ℱ

[fleet zealot]

Honestly idk if i could ever top that fumble

Cause i was the problem lol i had no self esteem and a terrible syndrome with not wanting people to feel obligated to help or support me

Don’t ghost your relationships don’t be like me

[frozen kernel]

I met a kid on Gmod when I was little, who introduced me to his friends

One of these friends turned out to live literally 7 minutes away from me in North [My Town]

We never met. We missed each other at the mall once by like 13 minutes. His family moved to NH

Meanwhile I’ve met one of those other mutuals who lives in Florida

Funny world

In all of the millions of people I was playing Gmod with, I just so happened to stumble on a kid my age from my town

And we never met

[fleet zealot]

Montana just has too low of a pop plus less gamers per capita imo

[frozen kernel]

Yeah that’s fair

Lotta land out there

[fleet zealot]

They had a typing class

[frozen kernel]

Something I’ve found that makes me almost avoidant about talking about games

[fleet zealot]

And the difference was outstanding

[frozen kernel]

Is that random people are no different than pugs

[fleet zealot]

Easy 100% class for me tho

[frozen kernel]

Some of them are actually total ass

Years Ago: “Oh hey man do you play Overwatch”

[fleet zealot]

See i play with total ass friends just to keep me grounded

And often it can just be a genre vs genre thing

Like im friends with a gal

[heady rapids]

easier to dog on them....

[clever swan]

random playstation pubs are literally barely different from any dude you might see on the street

[fleet zealot]

She plays dead by daylight and league a lot

Consistently high rank

[frozen kernel]

We have a friend who’s good at fighting games who gets mad when he’s not as good at other games

[tawdry leaf]

I can play in like 30 min

[fleet zealot]

She played elden ring as her first souls like game

And died hundreds of times on the first major boss

The one that guards the gate to the castle

[frozen kernel]

He also gets sad that nobody wants to play fighting games with him when he made no effort to teach before just stomping tf out of whoever agreed to steam playtogether with him

[fleet zealot]

Yee

[frozen kernel]

He got better about that at least when a couple people played I think it was Soul Calibur with him

[fleet zealot]

I always let new/trash friends pick difficulty and just pump my brakes

[frozen kernel]

Because not teaching your friends about reversal edge in soul calibur is mean af

[fleet zealot]

Staying grounded is important, like telling my friend they need to shove poxbursters if they get too close

[tawdry leaf]

Did Lumii go to sleep or sum

[fleet zealot]

And they just go “why would i touch and bash something that explodes”

and it just clicks

[frozen kernel]

When I introduced my most recent veteran buddy to DT I said “I know I don’t like the way you teach league, but if you want me to give feedback that way I can” because he typically only tells you what went wrong after it happens

Which in league is not helpful

Because dying in top lane once could mean you’ve lost your lane

[fleet zealot]

Probbaly a lot of lower skill lower level players just assume you have to kill burster from s range or else it’s like b4b

You are fucked and going to take damage

[frozen kernel]

I told him “when you teach the game to the guys, you gotta point out bad shit when you see it rather than forcing them to suffer with the mistake for 15+ minutes”

[fleet zealot]

Watched a b4b retrospective and damn

[frozen kernel]

He was like “no please yell at me”

[fleet zealot]

That game really fucking sucks

[frozen kernel]

So basically whenever he messed up I’d just be like “do this instead”

He started side dodging disablers instantly for example

[frozen kernel]

“Muties, Dogs, Trappers. You just need to side dodge or slide”

I think he kept back dodging instinctively

[tawdry leaf]

uwu

[frozen kernel]

I wish my other buddies would be inclined to listen to advice because I really do try not to backseat game (I cannot stand that shit)

But when I recommend things like “Hey psyker friend, you should unequip that wound curio and put on more toughness”

[fleet zealot]

DT actually broke me off from one friend

[frozen kernel]

He just goes “I DONT HAVE ANYTHING ELSE AND I DONT HAVE ANY ORDOS TO BUY ANYTHING ELSE”

[clever swan]

DT ruining friendships out here

[fleet zealot]

Idk what fucking trauma they had and i didn’t know them that long anyways

[remote lark]

@spare talon

dorn said to ping u

[fleet zealot]

Was more of a friend of a friend thing

[remote lark]

h40 time

[frozen kernel]

“Well then let’s play together and we’ll get you some resources”

“I don’t feel like playing that game”

[fleet zealot]

But i was going to go show them books and the noises they make if you are near them

[frozen kernel]

downloads random anime slop from Steam front page

[fleet zealot]

Im just sitting at the book so they know where to go

[frozen kernel]

We got my vet buddy a list of mods and got him sorted. He’s just been enjoying Tarkov lately

I don’t think he hated his time with DT

[fleet zealot]

And they start screaming at the mic not to take it and they will get there

Idk

[frozen kernel]

My OG Vet buddy won’t stop malding over the loss of camouflage and the Cadia top never coming back to the Commodore’s Vestures

“Why can’t I just stand still and shoot everything”