off-topic

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Witch of Izalith

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I read the ruin kingdom manga

it's actually good

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I sadly don't know how to read...

Tell me about it lol

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spoiler: ||the real enemy is pink hair girl but from future, when adonis dead||

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I just read it

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I figured. The story is very easily predictable lol

That pink haired girl is evil somehow

She's too good at first

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she's not evil btw

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Isn't she the lady who was all "Imma kill this king now"

The other witch with love powers?

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yes

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Yeah see I knew it lol IT WAS VERY TELLING lol

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she's from future

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She is terminator

Sent by Skynet

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nope, she just wants to prevent the same timeline from repeating itself.

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I get it

But still lol

MC is gonna have to fight her

So EVIL

But

MC is evil

Technically

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actually we still have pink hair girl (past)

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Nah she's dead lol

Ignore her resurrection

Dies

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not dead

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Can she be dead? lol

She sucks as a character haha

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no

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Especially past her

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she will actually get a character developer and become less naive.

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All I want to know is if Elsa comes back and SLLAAAAAPS MC in the face for being such an edge lord jerk

lol

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time to sleep

gn

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Lol

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apparently a ton of fake wuthering waves ads are going out directing people towards the scam site that was up earlier which steals details
kuropage is the fake site so dont go to it and maybe check your history to see if your details were stolen

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interesting to know

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That's cool

I sure hope the pre-register on the play store was real

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uh why wouldnt it be

i mean the counter isnt but

getting the play store link pre register faked would be removed before it was an issue if such a thing was even possible

not like you need to put in details for it

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60fGEU7-ECg

afaik I just played the demo

but he got a point, why its declared as single player game, this would actually piss me out if I cant even play offline

its outdated news but I just discovered it in my libary after closing acu

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I dunno. Sim city was the exact same way. The thing people don't seem to understand about this is...it's Ubisofts game. Lol They can do w.e they want with it. If the game primarily revolves around needing a network connection then pulling it from online stores makes sense if they're pulling the plug on the servers.

It's like imagine making your OWN game. You put it out there but it needs online connection. Can totally play it by yourself buuuut it needs online connection.

You decided to pull the game servers after a few years. Got tired of maintaining it and it's too expensive for no profits..only to have some random nerd yell at you on Youtube saying "NOO!!! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!!"

I DEMAND YOU TO KEEP PUTTING YOUR MONEY INTO A GAME I PAID FOR ONCE DESPITE NOT EVEN PLAYING IT FOR MONTHS AT A TIME!!!

NO!!! >:C!!!!

I'd be pissed.

These folks are acting like Ubisoft is going to send in a SWAT team on everyone who owns a physical copy of The Crew

People still realize physical copies exist, right? Maybe not for EVERY game but for triple A titles they very much still do.

Sooo...why are people crying like children about the digital version being pulled from online markets? . - .

Are companies not allowed to control their OWN stuff to ensure a profit?

Or do gamers think video game companies make games out of altruism? Lol Out of the kindness of their hearts

NO it's to make MONEY lol it's always been to make money

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I remember how i was shocked a few years (~2019) ago that piracy was so trendy, even though nowadays (I know it sounds stupid) ppl buy or subscribe to every piece of crap anyway.
...but over the years I realised why they do it and it's actually bigger now. Before that I'd only heard of "priatebay", but after the years I discovered all the huge network behind this

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PFFFT Piracy has always been a huge issue

Limewire was a big one back in the day for music

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yea and not only those ppl do piracy, own publisher too

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But the main gripe I have is that morons youtube title and complaints. No one is being scammed. A company is just doing what companies do to ensure profits as maintaining a dead games servers makes no sense. If the game needs online connection to work (Aka needing to connec to the servers which are now disconnected) then it wouldn't make sense to allow people to continue buying it

Or even access it as it would just lead to nothing as well

What also gets me too is that...it's just the servers lol The files are still on your computer. Theortically ANYONE can open up a server and start hosting it. There would be a lot of technical bs...along with legal but still. It's possible

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u need an online connection nowdays for most game if u go the legal way, many games nowdays dont even start even its full single player - thats why gog launcher was so fame for giving u the "priviledge" to play offline

its not like early days anymore

some games wont even start and its not like just go into game folder and clicking the right exe

its hardcoded compiled

sometimes its ez by using a mod, sometimes u need someone to cracked it

good example is how gta v changed this over the years or maybe it was never different. You can play it offline but u need to verify it over rockstar to get the game start (normal way) after that u can let it run offline but I think they restricted it by having the launcher open (steam, epic games) at least

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that's the problem

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but yeah, for the crew's case I agree that it's kinda your own "responsibility" if you pay for it back then - I remember them or some forum post mentioning the game as fully connected online service somewhere... so I don't understand why some ppl paid for the physical copy but the small hope to make the game playable offline before the service was shut down was there

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the only thing that stopped ubisoft from making the crew offline is pure greed

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Legit

I really cannot see why I can't just race by myself. I barely notice other players in the 70% of the map that isn't a city

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same as online connection for games, it's not cuz it's better for you, it is to prevent you from pirating it

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And to make matters worse, if they kill the servers one day, they kill the game

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and to put shop inside

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Like if the game still worked offline, I couldn't give a toss. I have never interacted with another player on any of the The Crew titles, ever

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https://www.reddit.com/r/TowerofFantasy/comments/1c4x2lw/2023_perfect_world_investor_report_and_tower_of/ well you dont need to worry about tof in that regard atm

it's selling a ton

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Annnnnd that's a bad thing beeecaauuusee? lol

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Where's our chips?

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what's you favorite game?

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I poop talk literally EVERYTHING

So I dunno if I have a fav anything

Aside from color

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Pink

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👏 it doesn't exist rn, and there's no way to play it anymore

that's why it's bad

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anyways, my ship is here arrrrrr, hopping to the next game

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Lmfao No. It's not that it doesn't exist anymore. It just no longer has a working server in a game that needs a dedicated server

Not that it suddenly doesn't exist

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then show me how u start it

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Can you imagine if this online only bs started decades earlier

Imagine KOTOR, a perfectly offline, single player game, requiring an online connection

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Like I said there is NOTHING stopping someone from taking the files, doing some computer software magic and having it run on their own dedicated server.

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Ubisoft isn't busting down your door for your copy of The Crew lol

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good luck with that

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Whelp, people who are complaining so much should have a good luck with it as I don't even play the crew lol

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yeah, why do that if they just can delete game from existence on their side

it seems you don't know what are you talking about

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Lmfao it's not being deleted from existence! Lol The game is still on your computer

Ubisoft has no power to force your computer to uninstall it

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not gonna bother arguing with you anymore

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You're arguing that it's suddenly disappeared from existence when it didn't lol

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yeah, for now, sony already can do that on ps5

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play it then

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You just can run it on ubisofts servers thats all lol So when you do try to run it...it doesn't go anywhere

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go play it

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Why? Lmfao Why should I?

For a game that wasn't even good in the first place? lol

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you can't

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I remember it getting mediocre ratings

I don't care Lol

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then why arguing about topic you don't care

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I think u dont get the point, its not like I have it installed and can start it - the game wont work

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@magic wharf any chance you could explain DRM to me? I'm still fairly new to PC stuff but I keep hearing it's to do with anti-pirating and stuff but also something one would rather avoid

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I'm arguing about it because ubisoft isn't scamming ANYONE. The anger behind it is entirely unjustified

And it really shows the lack of maturity from the gaming community.

Heck the lack of blatant common sense.

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that's why i'm telling you that you know nothing about this topic

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Business want money. Services cost money. Cut service that isn't making money...to keep more money.

Simple logic

You may not like it but hey it's not just video game companies lol

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your arguing rn is the same as farting in the water

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You wanna buy Sierra mist?

GUESS WHAT YOU CAN'T

Lol it's gone!

Better enjoy whatever that new soda is Starry

Did people care? Lol No. It's gone because it didn't make money so you cannot get it anymore

It's SIMPLE BUSINESS

Video games are not holy relics that absolutely MUST come with a forever shelf life

Lol

Blackbard, You either be respectful or I get a mod involved lol

I'm not getting another strike arguing with a child

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imagine you bought tv, and after 3 years people just show up to your door and take it avay cuz company decided they don't wanna support those tv's anymore

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Your logic makes NO SENSE SINCE UBISOFT ISN'T DOING THAT

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every publisher dream of heaving all customer thinking like this

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just give it to them, you already watched enough tv shows on it

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they DO

literally

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Really? Ubisoft is going door to door of crew owners at gun points and saying you better hand the game over

I'm done with you

Blocked

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yes

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Mods. I blocked him

Can you please tell him to not contact me anymore

Please and thank you

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dude don't understand what tf he's talking about smh

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also what the fuck is this about

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just disengage

no sense in continuing

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https://tenor.com/view/kitten-icecream-kitty-hungry-nomnomnom-gif-12308086292400893738

cmon nguyen let’s go get ice cream

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it's just funny, and scary at the same time

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AYO IT'S RAE RAE

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tobyyyyyyy

what is ur pfp

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oh, btw

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A Chocobo from Final Fantasy, wearing a McDonald's hat

My pride and joy

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LMAO ITS CUTE I LOVE IT

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can I get some ice cream

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https://tenor.com/view/ffvii-ff7-final-fantasy-final-fantasy-vii-cloud-strife-gif-5639844340220619425

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September 2023 was a wild time for me. Went all in on this random meme of Chocobos working at McDonald's

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never played 14 but I love it

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whatever this is i want one

new car

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u can rent it, hat cost extra and u can only ride it if u buy the license

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I'll throw in a bouncer too

There was also this

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i love it LMAO SO CHONKY

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First it was an obsession with the Blåhaj, that cute plush shark from Ikea

Then it was Chocobos

Then anyone wearing an Australian cork hat

Then Zamasu

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Why is it when Netflix takes on popular animes...I don't wanna watch those animes anymore

Seeing popular animes on Netflix just reminds me of when older folks try to be hip like the young kids lol

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toby, so u hate my reactions...

blocking all the cute emotes

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Don't people eat Chocobos?

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well even idc about netflix they add more anime since a lot of there subscriber are watching animes xD

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Dunno about the older games but given how utterly dark FFXVI was, yes. Chocobos aren't just eaten, but literally hunted

The ones in the wild are vicious as hell

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but since many nowdays have there own streaming service, u will see a lot of cut-offs because of license

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There was a recipe in one of the outposts in XVI for ||some kind of tomato soup with Chocobo brains||

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DEATH BURB

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either the guy blocked me or has setup no reactions

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???

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I'm reeling from the fact the napkins are literally a toilet roll

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That's called EFFIENCY

No

I dunno words

SOMEONE HALP

The part that does get me are the feathers lol

Like geez. The bucket was enough lol Had to include the feathers for a bit of extra guilt?

"You see this delicious bucket right here? Yeah it was once a cute intelligent caring animal. You monster..."

And it was a CHILD CHOCOBO

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https://tenor.com/view/salty-salt-bae-gif-7529894

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Seeing as those wings are mighty small for fully grown chocobo

Or drumsticks

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Small, but strong. Limited flight capabilities, and even gliding in the later games

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Off topic on off topic that's actually why I refuse to eat veal . - .

Let the fckin` animal at least live a little before you kill it.

NO NO

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all this food talk is making me hungry

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its my time of using my stalker abilities

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Oh okauy

I thought I did something wrong lol

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i want chimikin

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get me chimikin

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As someone doing intermittent fasting, I am literally dying from this. Especially searching Chocobo Drumstick

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I swear...isn't there an actual resturant thats called chimikin? or something close?

Uhhh...I dunno about chimikin but I gots gator

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brother…. we are suffering

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You like gator? c:

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and yes gator is very tasty

i love it fried and spicy

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can make u some fried rice

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Come down to Australia. We have Kangaroo steaks

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Does that mean like no sodie pop either?

Could you eat like candy? o:

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A NGUYEN FRIED THIS RICE?!2!1!

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Literally water the whole day, with a very small meal once a day at 4:30pm

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nooo kangaroo too cute i cannot

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FCK OFF TOPIC AS HECK but I saw some youtuber by Friendlyjordies got firebombed by some ex politician? . - .

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But is it cheating if you drink soda? lol

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I've always wanted to try Kangaroo meat but my mum is the one that cooks in the house, and she refuses to go near anything that isn't chicken, lamb, fish, or veggies

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Would the those up high know? Just like...be sneaky lmao

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But isn't kangaroo fairly commonly eaten there?

I mean the things are literally everywhere

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https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8e/8b/3c/8e8b3c0b0ae4c784dad3ff96091459d7.gif

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i don’t have the details but violence like this is a bit heavy to mention so let’s avoid bringing smth like this up juuust in case

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Ketosis means you need to stay off anything high in calories. A can of soda probably has between 186kj-300 based on what's in it. Which is about an hour or more of running

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Gotcha gotcha

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lambbbb so good

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this should be me

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Oh, this isn't a religious thing? o: Just a personal diet choice?

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20 more min before my groceries deliver then food time

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Best not to discuss this in depth

Context is he literally ruined an Australian politician's career by exposing abusing of power. Now the politician is doing everything he can to ruin Jordie's life

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Best meat I've ever had honestly

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Weight loss

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Lamb...is alright x w x My dad loves it

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let me check on nguyen-network if there is someone near ur house

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boooo hopefully things work out ok in that regard. ty for da info

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MEEEEH....MEEEH lol

Weight uhh...other words that rhyme with weight

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But yeah. Intermittent Fasting helped me drop 20 whole kilos in 2023. I gained a few back after losing the momentum, but I'm back on it

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gotta call it nguyenwork

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I can never understand how people can gain and lose weight drastically . - .

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sheeessshhh that’s admirable wow. did u have a fav thing to eat when breaking ur fast?

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NOT TO BRAG~ But I'm one of those folks with a very fast metabolism

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well some ppl say its just our moms calling other friends but its huge

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2 Avocados, mashed. A can of tuna, and a whole heap of sliced Jalapenos

Absolute comfort food, and it's what I'm eating nowadays as well

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What I eat should have me extremely over weight. I drink soda all day every day. Mixing monster with mountain dew is something I do very often lol

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Can never go wrong

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I get told by the doctor I need to eat MORE

Lmfao That the calories I get in are not enough.

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ooo interesting. i wanna try smth like this then if i get back on intermittent fasting

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I was placed on a 3k caloric diet as when I was a young buck since I just burned it off quickly

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I would highly recommend not doing that often. Gout is very real, I've had it, and there's way too many risk foods to mention

And that's just focusing on gout, let alone the health implications

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Water diet the whole day, with that avocado and tuna meal once a day

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Trust...I got a near full body check up once

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Stay on it for six months and you'll shred kilos, atleast in my experience

Caveat is that everyone is different. What worked for me may not work for you etc, but experimenting is good, as long as it's controlled

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Nothing wrong other than I was an alcoholic at the time

WHICH ISN'T GOOD

But I mean everything else was fine haha

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Red Wine. Worst possible offender for gout in particular

Then is seafood, especially fish that thrive in cold water (tuna, shellfish etc)

Then red meat

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Red wine. Cute lol

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i’ll give it a try starting next week then :D i think im allergic to avocados tho so ill find a substitute when the time comes LMAO

ty for the suggestion :>

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I was downing 2 pints of Rum...a day

Lol I WISH it was a few glasses of wine

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Just listing what I know based on what my GP said. People in general know very little about gout, and that's what terrifies me, coz I was there

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a day

sheeeesshhh

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A DAY. Yeah A DAY

Sometimes more sometimes less

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very scary

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But generally around that range

Yeah for a while...

Into X amount of years (let me keep some self respect x - x)

Yeah YEARS > x >

When I did stop it was usually because I was low key dying

Not hahaha we all gonna die some day ;D

No. Like I would have died if I had not been looked after.

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Oh damn. But yeah, go for it! Pair it with light exercises (nothing too heavy. Calorie deficit means you'll lose a lot of the energy you'd usually have)

Experiment with what works for you in terms of food, but always try to be on a calorie deficit, i.e. under the average daily adult intake. That deficit is what the main kicker is. How deep that deficit is, is how efficiently you'll lose weight

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Multiple times. > x >

Multiple relapses with mulitple withdrawl phases

It REALLY sucks

Probably one of the most scariest things you can do to yourself.

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iirc back when I was calorie counting, I did between 980-1100kcal per day or something and that was from my avocado diet alone

All I know was I was on a SEVERE deficit

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Tobacco is bad yeah but when you stop smoking you don't risk the chance of dying due to STOPPING. You don't have nightmares at night and hallucinations

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I liek potatoes c:

Is there a potato diet I can get down with?

Meat and potatoes ❤️

And Rice..

And corn...

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There was even a week, a whole week, where I lost 5 kilos altogether. Though granted that I didn't eat anything for three straight days coz of depression

That's another thing to keep note of. Never let your mood get the better of you. Grief and sadness tends to deepen the sentiment to not eat anything, which can be very dangerous

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Meat meaning just....flesh of any kind lol Seafood, red meat, white meat, shark (which is cartilage)

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Too much carbs in potatoes. Carbs are your main offender for weight gain if you don't work it off

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I liek MEAAAAT

I would often cook meat at night just to have a snack

I NEED WEIGHT GAIN Bruh!

Carbs do not exist in my body lmfao

The amount of carb heavy foods I eat yet nothing happens is INSANE

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i'd suggest you to talk about it with nutritionist first, cuz diet is not as simple as it seems, and it can harm you if done wrong

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Maybe it goes to my hair?

I dunno

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Then you can either clean bulk or dirty bulk

Clean means gradual, controlled weight gain. Better for your metabolism and overall health

Dirty bulk means pigging out but getting off that lifestyle is a bitch and a half, believe me

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....But I've been pigging out my entire life > w >

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THIS ACTUALLY

Main thing I forgot to mention in my disclaimer

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The other day I had 5 pieces of cheese cake...

For Breakfast...

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With mountain dew....Peanut butter and cheese toast...kielbasa

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I didn't consult one but I had my parents to monitor me. In my experience, going commando on it worked perfectly fine because the conditions I did it under were heavily controlled

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More dewwy goodness

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If you don't have a deeply trusted safety factor like that, highly recommend a dietician's advice

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I...don't think you're taking the discussion seriously

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I am! x - x

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But yeah, to each their own I suppose

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That's literally my diet!

I'm not kidding!

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I have several empty 2 liter bottles of dew right next to me since I drink probably one per day?

x - x

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ye for sure don’t wanna pass away tyty ♡

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Is my diet that unbelievable you think I'm trolling? Lol

I feel slightly judged lmfao x w x

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https://tenor.com/view/what-the-hell-right-big-eyes-smile-gif-15484911

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AND...I'm underweight lol

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WE NEED OUR RAE RAE

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rae rae here

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Clinically I'm classified as under weight for my body

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don’t worry…

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Or BDI something like that

Body something index?

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BMI

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Body Mass index

Yee

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Unlike IQ, BMI is a good measurement index. Compares your height with your weight to class you within a health range. It's very confronting, being labelled Overweight or Obese, but the truth hurts

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So...I don't mention this often but yeah I was in the military and even there they put my on extra calories during basic training since I was underweight and didn't gain weight easily

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And that's one of the reasons I wanna get rid of the kilos. Don't wanna die like this, bruh, I got too much to live for. Like bashing ToF

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I'd get STRONG but in terms of weight gain it was marginal. Most I weighed ever was 160?

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Yeah and I'm classified as underweight x- x

x - x

Borderline kinda in danger a while ago until I tried eating more

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You should really seek a dietician then because from what I'm understanding, it's a very volatile manner of eating that you've got

But of course, I could be super wrong. Just...look after yourself is all I'll say

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It's not a fun metabolism! < x < Just saying! I'd LOVE to be fluffy

Omg that would be a dreeam

Big belly~ ❤️

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Underweight or not, extreme intake is never good

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like bashing tof

toby saved tof

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See...the doctors tried to do it the way you suggested

Even the military

Controlled diets by a dietician

It just never worked

I'd maintain my weight vs gaining it.

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It's my most favourite passtime since bullying little kids in GTA

Atleast ToF doesn't try and fight back

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Sometimes losing weight

The best meta I found so far was just pig out

Don't care about any of the calories. I still watch things like...salt (No I don't lmfao I'm fcking lying)

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Weight gain supplements exist, but they can severely alter your metabolism because you're gaining weight by eating almost nothing

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EVEN THOUGHS!

I TRIED EM

Still

Nada

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I went through several buckets of whey powder

Not even to work out

Just to gain weight

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That is...pretty alarming then. Well, can't say you didn't try

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I'm not trolling you. I swear. this is just legit how my body is

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Dirty bulking is fine, as you're doing with the soda, but people usually stick to it for sudden, volatile weight gain over a month or so. The longer you do it, the more at risk you are of side effects, or so I know of

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It messes with my self esteem a lot being skinny

Everyone is like omg your so lucky hahaha

But no . - . I'm not.

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Nah nah I believe it. I've just never heard of it being that bad

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You'd think I'd be at risk for diabetes as well, right?

Nope

Nothing

Despite eating nothing but sugary foods some days lol

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Impressions are pretty strange. People never look beyond the surface, sometimes because they can't. It's like how some relatives call me fat and I'm thinking "Yeah. Fat. Hahaha, totally not trynna fight my way out of this mess BOIIIIII"

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The worst thing I put in my body that did damage was alcohol.

Didn't gain weight from it but it ruined my organs and mainly my life

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All things in moderation

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Yeah I get that just not the....in moderation part in practice lol

And I'd never drink with anyone else too. It wasn't like I'd go to bars everyday

It was just in my room. Alone

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are u still monitoring it by urself with gaining weight?

I didnt read whole conversation

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My weight at the moment was around 140-146 something like that?

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I'm feeling it a lot more nowadays but to a scaled down perspective compared to yours

I tell myself "eat in moderation", and I am

But MAAAAAAN sometimes that avocado meal does NOT fill me up (which is supposed to be the point), then I end up snooping around the house for a hidden bag of candy or some honey roasted cashews

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Despite being 5'9

Es no gut

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I'm 110kg at the moment. Used to be 128, went down to 104, bounced back to 117, now down to 110

Target weight is 80-90, ideally 85. Long road to glory, but it must be walked

[open geyser]

tbh before I get depressed of diet plan, I prefer to changed it a bit and do more sport

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I'm trying to leverage dieting and exercise but the lack of energy KILLS

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I wish I knew the math to know how many stones I am lol

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Back when I was eating normally, I could go an hour of mid-to-high intensity stuff at the gym for an hour straight

Now I can barely push out half an hour of mid

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"Oi, During summer break I gained like...2 whole stones!!"

Like that sounds cool lol Sounds mystical~

Sounds basically not what I'm used to aka foreign lmfao

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Goddamnit my dad left Tamarind candies on the kitchen table

MUST. RESTRAIN.

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DO IT

FCKING DESTROY THEM

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It's not much, but that's how it all starts

It's not much, you tell yourself. Just one, you tell yourself

Next thing you know, there's empty packets everywhere

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https://tenor.com/view/messy-agnes-despicable-me-candy-candy-bowl-gif-16707678

He knew what he did wrong

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https://tenor.com/view/no-no-no-not-today-nah-nope-no-way-gif-16392985

Went syke and had 3 glasses of water

WE. ON. DAT. GRIIIIND

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https://tenor.com/view/do-it-what-are-you-waiting-for-determined-angry-gif-5247874

THINK OF THE ICKY STICKY OOEY GOOEY

I know you can taste that brown syrupy goodness already

It's on your mind

Your tongue is playing tricks

You can feel the sugar sticking to your fingers already

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Immune
Immune
Immune

I'm already full as fk from the water

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If it even has time to exist outside the package long enough for your fingers to touch it

Take the candy...put it in the water.

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TECHNICALLY not eating it

But I mean...when you get to the end of the water...Hecko gecko there's a prizo friendo

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Sometimes I get hungry and then I think of people that buy food, chew it, then spit it out

And I feel like vomiting

Deterrence is a helluva drug

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o w o Well I mean

Sugar cane sticks lol

That's how you eat it haha

Or a sugar beet but that's just gross to eat raw haha

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Imagine spending 16 bucks for a meal from McDonald's, eating a burger that would be considered tasty, only to spit it out without swallowing

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Yeah that's gross as heck haha

Kinda reminds me of King trident from Spongebob

https://tenor.com/view/king-neptune-krabby-patty-again-more-gif-27267762

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Yet people do it. I can't really blame them but that's disgusting

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That was so delicious I'll eat it a second time!

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Like maybe they just craved the taste

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See I can't just crave the taste

I don't care what it is. It could be freaking Carne Asada flavored wooden sticks

I'd be happily going to the doctor explaining why I have splinters in my stomach

"Well you see doc...The wood was delicious so I had to eat it."

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For me, it's all about the taste. I may hate celery or okras but if they tasted like lamb, you can bet money on me scarfing it all down at a moment's notice

It just took me too long to realise that

Used to be a time I ate entire cans of Spam as a comfort food

And now adult me is paying the price

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For me it's taste but most importatly

Texture

I CANNOT DO like...tendons

Anything squishy or that fights back when you chew it lol at least if it's meat

I LOVE sour gummy candies. My fav type of candy ever

Sour gummies.

But give me a cut of steak with tendons or ligaments....

I'd be so upset lol

Chewing around the ligaments as I'll gag just feeling that "honka honka" on my teeth haha

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As long as it's not breaking a lamb bone to get to the marrow, I can eat it just fine

Turkey tendons though. Absolutely PAIN

It's been 3 years since I've last had Turkey. Used to be a time we had it every other week

But ever since Covid and supermarket price gouging rackets in Australia, portions of Turkey are priced as much as 3 or 4 portions of chicken, so we trade something exotic for something economic

[woven badge]

See I remember once after cutting a giant hunk of top round into various steaks I took the bites and pieces from the trimmings

Chopped it up with two dull knifes. Mixed it with salt, lemon, and red thai chilies

[magic wharf]

they taste the same anyway

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I'm kinda glad we're talking about food so much. It's helping me build resistance

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My dad ate it like that

Forgot what it's called...

Tartar

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Taste, yes. Texture though, wildly different

Turkey is much more rough and meaty, but not like mature chicken which is worse than rubber, with very sharp bones

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He ate it with some cheese and crackers like a proper cultured gent lol

As he watches Ancient aliens x w x

[open geyser]

time for a few grasshoppers

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Older chickens are good for soups

But I don't like thinking of that since I have two grandma chickens in my backyard lol

One is still laying eggs though

Two died sadly...

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I'll never understand how my mum can eat mature chicken, or whatever it's called, if it even has a name

The meat is a PAIN to chew off the bone, plus the risk of accidentally running your gums against the bone which is razor sharp. And to top it off, the tough meat stuck between your teeth

For reference, Bengali cuisine (that's mine) is eaten with hands

[open geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/eggs-we-need-eggs-wakey-wakey-need-eggs-chicken-gif-6573832906051459989

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In Latino cultures we call that Gallina

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Interesting

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Or Pollo Maduro

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Mature Chicken. I see

Makes sense

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Mature chicken or "Old chicken" lol

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I don't think we have a name for it in Bangla but it's just known as Buro Murgi or "Old Chicken"

[magic wharf]

https://youtu.be/dvdziWCh86k

[open geyser]

how much for the chicken

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Older chickens are stringy and tougher..more gamey textured

But that's okay for soup

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If only my mum understood that

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But I don't wanna talk about mature chickens being eaten x - x

My babies

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She literally cooks it with rice, and believe me, the rice tastes amazing with the "sauce" the chicken is cooked in, but mark my words I'm never eating that kinda chicken again

[woven badge]

Dah sauce?

What is this...

sauce?

You speak of?

Bangla...

Is that an Australian culture ? o:

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If she cooks regular chicken in what we call Patla Jhōl (literally Light Soup), that's my favourite. Soft meat, usually drumsticks, with rice. Perfect mix between soup and rice

[woven badge]

Or...Bangladesh? haha

I dunno x 3 x

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Yep

We have terms to describe things that are extremely difficult to describe in Western cuisine

So, let's say, Jhōl, is basically the watery, soupy base that you cook chicken in

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The stock o w o

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And by sauce, I mean kind of a light-textured, pastey garnish that's made when cooking chicken in a certain way. A mix of the stock, spices, and stuff

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Yeah, I guess

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Hmmm...I'm not sure what you mean by cooking chicken a certain way but is it just chicken fat?

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I honestly have no clue. My mum does the cooking in our house, refuses to let me anywhere near the kitchen. All I know it's its fkin delicious

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Looool

There is this spice mix I make that I'm told taste good. I'm sure it would work in Bangla...or Bangladeshi? I dunno ANyways in your cultures dishes o:

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See the more soupy parts of the dish? That's Jhōl

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BUUUT I forget some of the spice names lol

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Haha This looks like Pollo guisado

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You pair it with rice, then have it with the chicken and potatoes. Staple for almost every Bangladeshi rice dish

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Saaame

Lol

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Not surprising. Some of these dishes were conceived in antiquity. Wouldn't be surprised if the recipe passed up the Silk Road from the Indus Valley to Spain, then a millennia later, ended up in Latin America

Culinary history is fkin amazing

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Bruh that's Latino cusine right there lol

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Minus the olives, I'd have thought that was a Bengali dish you're showing

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Yeah minus the olives for us as well. That person is a wild card lol

Well also..I mean...chicken stewed with rice isn't very difficult to think of haha

[sly ember]

But yeah, so this is Patla Jhōl. As you can see, the soup/stock/water is lighter compared to other ways of cooking Jhōl

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The spices are most the same but different in certain areas

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This is usually called Kōra Jhōl, meaning "Coarse Soup*

Darker, more flavourful and tons more spicy

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We don't use curry, Ghee, Tumeric or Masala

BUT we do use cumin, cinnamon, coriander, cardamom

[sly ember]

Curries with Ghee are very risky for diets and health but MAAAAAN the taste is to die for

And of course, my all time favourite kind of dish ever

The humble yet classy Biryani

Aaaaaaand my stomach just rumbled

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Ahhh Basmati rice Or jasmin rice

So delicious

Instantly can tell by the long flaky grains

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Very, VERY fragrant rice, with marinated chicken, potatoes, and lots of chillies. Onions are optional but completely revolutionise the taste

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Yeeesss

Onions are delicious

Haha

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Yeah, usually any long grain rice works, but basmati is the staple

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I wanted to try those wild rices

The ones that are various colored with the garm still on

No

Germ

Lol

The germ still attached

THE HUSK

I KNOW SCIENCE OKAY

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I just love rice in general but why tf it gotta be so high in carbs bro GRAAHHHHHHH

[woven badge]

Because carbs = Energy

In fact you can base a nations population size on how many grains they consume

Or have access to

The larger the stockpile or access to grains

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I mean I guess...?

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The larger a community grows

It's been like that since forever lol Indonesia I believe is a really good example.

For such a SMALL ISLAND NATION

It has SO MAAAAAANNNY People

More than Australia

By a LOT

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But yeah. Carbs are fine, like I said, if you can work them off. I for one though have very few opportunities to work out lately, so I'll fight the war using my diet instead of working out

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It's due to their feritle soils able to grow SO MUCH FOOD

Like grains

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If I worked that supermarket job again, I'd switch it to include a stable diet so I had the energy to stay active

As it stands, an office job with days spent at home, not good for staying active

[woven badge]

India and the surrounding nations grew in popuation when they switched to easy to farm wheat / grains

At the cost of a lot of enviromental issues

BUT

It was the reason the population EXPLODED during the early 1950s

Or 60s...

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That's atleast a decade after independence. A lot of factors would have come into play then

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Personally I'd just say adjust your diet to your activity levels

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But I digress. As again, another topic of study for culinary history

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Which I have. I don't move around as much, so I barely eat much to compensate

Start of Covid, when I got my office job for a bank, I spent 8 months straight just working from home without changing my diet

Put on like 20 kilos, which I worked off last year

[woven badge]

That also means...to compensate for eating a lot you should just go absolutely nuts lol

Screw the gym. Just go clubbing~ party that booty off haha

[sly ember]

Which was the case back in high school and uni when I used to work the checkouts at a supermarket, and occasionally help at the loading bay

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You'll burn more calories doing Cotton eyed Joe at a club then on an treadmill haha

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Well, as again, I exercise not so much to burn off the calories, which my diet has covered, but to build muscle, much of which, according to my PT, is already good to go, but hidden under the fat I gotta work off

Even then, won't stop me from building it as much as I can

I know of a few people that worked off the fat, but had to spend years building the muscle

I just like having a head start

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MEEEH Building MUSCLE PFFFFT that's why I've surgically attatched tiger biceps to my arms

Do tigers even have biceps? Lol

[sly ember]

Weak. Get some bread rolls and tape it on

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No I don't think so haha

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Hope they Hawaiian sweet rolls

Fck those things are so good fresh out the oven...

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Swiss Rolls. You'll look bulky and have temporary tattoos

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BUT BUT BUT

I WILL SAY THIS

Store bought Garlic naan is dope haha

I can only imagine homemade

Eating Naan makes you understand why you'd use your hands

You just wanna -slurps fingers- Mmmm

[sly ember]

Nothing beats stuff baked right before your eyes

Ready to eat one's to microwave at home smell disgusting and are too chewy

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....Yeah well...Microwaved burritos smell funky as well lmfao

Homemade ones, Delicious~

[sly ember]

Best garlic naan I've ever had was from a restaurant owned by an Indian family that just moved to Australia

Soft naan with very fragrant garlic notes, with a serving of chicken curry

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That delicious powerful aroma of freshly exploded bean burrito in a microwave

Mmm

Truly only an Angel can bless us with this gift of heaven

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I don't think I've ever had Mexican or Latino cuisine here. Like the options are there. Mad Mex and Guzman Y Gomez but it's expensive as hell

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See I don't get that. I can make latino cusine very cheap haha

[sly ember]

They'll charge me the same price as a Halal Snack Pack (which, mind you, is a mind boggling box of meat and sauces) for a burrito or two

[woven badge]

I guess the price is mainly the theme and look of the dish

Vs the quality and chefs cooking experience

[sly ember]

The blessed Halal Snack Pack. Literally food from beyond the stars

[woven badge]

Too much sour cream x - x

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Meat, upon meat, upon meat, with fries, and sauce

[sly ember]

It's garlic sauce

Garlic and chilli is the way to go

[proven stag]

my mouth is watering

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Look...I had an experience with a infant vomitting fresh milk onto my plate as a kid once...

[proven stag]

i neededdddd

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I DO not like white sauces in my foods after that lol

[sly ember]

FAM I AM KILLING MYSELF RN COZ OF THE FOOD TALK

I NEED FOOD BUT I CANTTTT

[woven badge]

I'd ask the chef to just throw in some food coloring or something lol

Nope It can't be white lol Please make it any other color

Mix in some dirt or clay from the floor I don't care lol

Just not white sauce lmfao

[sly ember]

Any...particular reason or?

Just curious

[woven badge]

Look...I had an experience with a infant vomitting fresh milk onto my plate as a kid once...

Which I'm copy pasting from what I said earlier haha

[sly ember]

Good lord...

[woven badge]

yeah

No white sauce

It brings back memories...

[magic wharf]

same

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I was in the military and that moment from a child is still one of the most horrifying things to happen to me lol

Next to having a fcking live wasp in my mouth as I tried eating my lollipop

[sly ember]

Yeah food trauma is really hard to work off

Saw a pic in 2022 of ||some kind of cheese and fries thing riddled with flies inside, considered a delicacy to some||

Put me off eating a snack pack for months until I hard-wired myself to forget about it

[woven badge]

Felt the BZZZ BZZZ

Was confused. Took it out. Saw the WASP NOT CUTE HONEY BEE BUT A MURDER FCK YOU AND YOUR STUPID DOG WASP

Yeah freaked me the F out especially seeing as I've never been stung

Still haven't

Due to that I'm still absolutely HORRIFIED of bees and wasps lol

Mainly wasps

[sly ember]

Almost died to a wasp or a hornet or something when I was 2 because I was allergic to their stings. If I wasn't now, or had some kind of insulated armour, I'd stomp any that I find

[woven badge]

As wasps won't stop stinging you lol

They'll sting AND bite you MUTLIPLE times

[sly ember]

Vicious mfs

[woven badge]

I'm telling you if the enemy every figured out my crippling fear of wasps/bees they'd just need to throw a dummy wasp nest at me and I'd dip.

No questions asked

I'd risk metal bees stings vs real bees stings lol

[sly ember]

See, if I see spiders or roaches, my fight or flight triggers and I try to kill the damn thing at all costs

Given how severe my reaction was to that sting as a child tho, if I see wasps, I'm running for the nearest building, no questions asked

[woven badge]

Feeeen~

Rir

Spidies don't scary me MUCH

I give them their space

[open geyser]

sadly wasp are not completely useless to the world

[woven badge]

And I have my space

I keep em around to eat the other buggos

[woven badge]

True

Hence why I don't try to kill em

I leave em alone

BUT if there is a bee colony nearby I'd probably get rid of the wasp nest if it was a large one. Waps like to eat bees

Specifically their juicy larvas

[magic wharf]

wait, isn't wasps completely useless?

like, same as roaches

[open geyser]

yea, Iused to think that wasps were useless creatures like many others do ...but I've come to realize they actually serve a purpose in the world - It's just that this aspect isn't often highlighted since we use bees for comparison

well, this counts for the ppl I know in case of comparing

I just hate the fact that they are smart - I know when I got hunted by some wasps, a great war back then

always do ur research before trying to eradicate a species!

I mean.. what

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Lol Long way to say "Wasps eat other bugs like flies, roaches, anything they can find really"

It keeps the population of other bugs we consider pests down

It's just when the wasps go after US is when it becomes a problem haha

[marsh halo]

today's craving hits hard

[woven badge]

Without wasps or spiders we'd see A LOT MORE roaches haha

[marsh halo]

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o w o

Passive aggressive?

Ah

I can't say dat name

[magic wharf]

[woven badge]

It KINDA looks like him...but not really..but can pass off as a knockoff brand haha

Okay the first name is fine

Lol just not the last

[proven stag]

neither is fine. it’s automodded so it shouldn’t be brought up. we don’t want any unnecessary political discussions to spark up from it ^^

[proven stag]

next time pls don’t bypass the automod

[open geyser]

I thought I wrote something wrong with kids

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I'm not intentially trying to by pass it x - x

[open geyser]

[woven badge]

I was wondering which words are okay and not okay

BUT I mean

I kinda was

[proven stag]

if you see it’s blocked and you say it in another way, alongside acknowledging that it’s blocked then you’re intentionally bypassing it

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Lol But to make my comment make sense x - x Nothing political

But still

I getcha

[proven stag]

no kids allowed ggez

[woven badge]

Even jokes with the name can cause...friction

[open geyser]

the day will come where we get tons of ads on discord and ID check

[woven badge]

The thing that you don't realize is South Park had it right

And the next step to ads are living ads...

Ads that walk among us

[magic wharf]

just wait till microsoft buy discord

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https://tenor.com/view/among-us-gif-20239200

[magic wharf]

and it'll be skype'd fast

[open geyser]

discord will do it one day, not because of no money... just because they cant sit there and see other platforms gets more money

[proven stag]

never to be seen again

[woven badge]

Yeeeah...that's generally the way the cookie crumbles

When one company sees success doing something

Everyone follows

[magic wharf]

good old days

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One company saw shorts as a commercial success

Now they are EVERYWHERE

[magic wharf]

no, they will do that because of money, since servers isn't rly free

[woven badge]

That was 2017 Netflix

2017 Netflix is dead and buried somewhere in a random ditch

We have 2024 Netflix

Who vapes and likes to call your mom hoty

Hot*

[peak belfry]

[proven stag]

then discord will be dedge.. new app time

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That's the problem I feel...

[magic wharf]

iirc discord wasn't profitable for a long time, i don't know about now, since we get more things to buy

[woven badge]

We're in this strange era where instead of making something BETTER

We just replace it with something else that does the same thing

Youtube, Netflix, Twitch, Snapchat all had a uniqueness at launch

[open geyser]

no matter which app is coming, since it need a good infrastructure to compete against discord, they have to in touch with all big companies for hosting

[woven badge]

That's what drove people. Now? What drives people are titles like "THE NEXT TWITTER! THE NEXT REDDIT! THE NEXT YOUTUBE!! THE NEXT NETFLIX!"

[magic wharf]

discord is still lacking in some ways tho

[woven badge]

Def. A big reason behind twitchs rise to glory is marketing

They marketed like CRAZY

[open geyser]

thats why we get so many startups here - its the same as a mmo

they all hunting fot the next

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Meh. Mmos sadly have been in a stuck state in terms of uniqueness. It's kinda difficult to make something unique with the MMO feel.

MMOs mainly drive players with the theme, character designs, combat design, or community design. People typically don't continue to play an MMO if they don't like any of those things.

To continue to play a game you know doesn't end and has no real...You WIN gratification you're forced to only enjoy the themes of the game vs the actual gameplay

People like playing ToF because in all honesty is has a really good combat system for F2P game and there are good looking characters

That's what drives a lot of players to stay. The babes and the combat. That's pretty much it lol

Everything else revolves around those two aspects. The cute waifu characters as well as your stats.

No one plays because the fishing mechanic is so unique and fun lol

No one is playing for the racing alone

Not one soul is logging on to just collect nothing but ingredients. Those aspects are entertaining but not the main reason you play ToF. Haha

[peak belfry]

Playing tof for mint picking kekg

[open geyser]

and then there are the ppl who wait months/years for a game, playing it for 1-3 weeks, then get sick of the things they don't like and hunt for the next game... see another future MMO and in the meantime tell the players who still enjoy the old game that it's a waste of time

[peak belfry]

I have never met 1 single person who play tof for mintpicking

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Those are dumb players lol Or easily trickable players

Players who only look at marketing for the quality of the game

Not the bases of the game, which engine it runs, the story, the gameplay mechanics or anything...Just OOOO SCREEN SAY IT GUT I BUYZ PREORDER

What is mint picking? lol

I'm picturing like actual mints haha

[marsh halo]

Why play tof for mint picking when u have the actual mint picking game Genshin

[woven badge]

What is mint?!

Lol

https://tenor.com/view/yenjuner-gif-24716315

Mint?

Wintergreens? lol

[open geyser]

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You and your young people talk! ; ^ ;

[open geyser]

I didnt even know it too xD but google helped me

[zealous narwhal]

[woven badge]

Okay...let me try to figure it out...

Ummm...

Mint picking

Going for Meta characters only?

[open geyser]

mint gave already a bit of meaning

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Mint...

Cool?

o:

Like visually?

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o w o

Wat

WAT

Lol

I just thought that was a gamer haha

Continuing your gaming despite having zero energy left. Falling asleep on your keyboard just endless zzzzzzz

Lol

[magic wharf]

if only Envy didn't react how he did to that, we probably wouldn't hear of this term at all

[tepid owl]

doesn't that perfectly describe him though

[magic wharf]

yes

he had nuclear reaction to that

[tepid owl]

like maybe if there's literally nothing to do.... maybe that means u got time to do something else.... instead he goes around collecting everything pointlessly and probably deleting them too after hitting max inventory

[magic wharf]

well, tbf there's a lot of streamers who did that before

[tepid owl]

gotta farm those views somehow i guess

[magic wharf]

it's just that Envy is f2p, and he is VERY proud of it, i think that's why it hit him so hard

[peak belfry]

And theres a comtract that says how many mandatory hours per day u need to do to be eligible etc etc

[magic wharf]

"just chatting" streams, in other words

[tepid owl]

to be fair even if he wasn't... there's basically nothing to even do anyways after ur done with story so its like react andy shit, pepega pointless account reviews or picking mint

[tepid owl]

tbh at least those ppl are in the correct category at that point

[magic wharf]

that's basically every game

[tepid owl]

yup but like instead of moving on they don't

which is funny

like u don't have to keep doing it just come back later when there's actually shit to do

[magic wharf]

i don't think there is one

they just done it cuz.. resources

i know one streamer who farmed every possible resource to 9999, he literally done it just for the sake of it

imagine having 9999 crystal cores

[woven badge]

My dogs birfday~

; w ; Yaaaay

A year older...he's 12...wooo...closer to a massive depressive era when he's gooone...yaaay...

Why can't we use all of this scientific advancements to help our furry pals live longer? :c

Or scaly pals

Or moist slimy pals. Lol Salamanders and newts need love too

Or feathery pals c:

Forgot about birds for a second haha

[sly ember]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KMOeC-Qqen8

[woven badge]

Chocobos are just cuter Emus/Ostridge's

[sly ember]

I'd rather pet a Chocobo than an Emu

Emus are basically emo peacocks that traded beauty for violence

[woven badge]

Lmfao

That ending

Traded beauty for VIOLENCE

[sly ember]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvk3aT8ncy8

[woven badge]

https://tenor.com/view/dance-ostrich-crazy-moving-gif-16146192

https://tenor.com/view/emu-jump-freakout-gif-5329771

The larger the burb

The more the head movements lol

[sly ember]

I'm now imagining this...thing, just rotating it's body, using its head as a war club

Some fkin Elden Ring shit right there

Spawn 300 of them and have them fight Malenia

[woven badge]

....They actually do do that lol

They kick and peck

[sly ember]

Bastards

[woven badge]

But will try to head butt you lol

[sly ember]

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

I fucking love this track

[woven badge]

https://tenor.com/view/emu-kangaroo-quarrel-gif-6159489

[sly ember]

The most Persona 5-esque track in all of Yakuza

[woven badge]

I believe the head movement thing is to like...throw their opponent off

Like a Ooo look over here lookie here only to come out of no where with that kick lol

[woven badge]

Very disappointed this wasn't some parody to "Like a virgin" lol

That's what I immediately thought haha

[wise laurel]

anyways

d2 has a better power fantasy

[woven badge]

Have you heard of the game Icey on the switch? o:

[wise laurel]

thats why is so loved as much as its hated

[woven badge]

Fun indie game especially if you like 4th wall breaks

[magic wharf]

@wise laurel not by a lot

and warframe has A LOT more to offer

[wise laurel]

i think that 30k could be considered alot

[magic wharf]

and it also free

[wise laurel]

so is d2

kinda

[magic wharf]

and it doesn't have DLC's

[wise laurel]

yeah but most of d2s dlcs are good

i personally like lightfall, but nimbus exist, so my overall opinion doesnt coralate with the overall opinion of everyone else who has lightfall

strand is def awesome

i feel like spiderman

[magic wharf]

most warframe updates have more content than destiny 2 paid dlc's

osiris flashbacks

[wise laurel]

yeah but theres a reason why warframe hasnt killed off d2

[magic wharf]

yes, there is

[wise laurel]

anyways

i guess at the end of the day it comes down to prefrence

i still prefer d2

[magic wharf]

warframe has very high entry threshold

like, there's too much stuff to do

[wise laurel]

cool

still prefer d2

[magic wharf]

literally the game that became better only after you played 100 hours in it

there's so much shit to do in warframe now, that average player can't just get over it

[wise laurel]

i think that would be the only time a paywall is good

maybe

[magic wharf]

even after they reworked a lot of stuff, new player experience is still shit

[wise laurel]

sounds like a worser version of d2s new light experience

people are usually nice and helpful

until you join a raid fireteam lmao

ive still never done a complete raid

and im like 5 months in

[magic wharf]

i think i only done 1-2 raids in destiny 2

[wise laurel]

which ones

[magic wharf]

i avoid raiding as fire usually

i don't remember names, it was years ago

[wise laurel]

crotas end?

[magic wharf]

nah, even before that, i think it was leviathan

[sly ember]

WARFRAME LOVE. WE NEED MORE

[wise laurel]

the final shape looks super good though

even more potential builds

i wonder how the aspects are gonna work

[magic wharf]

[sly ember]

I think the seasonal bullshit of D2 and a streak of very toxic raids is what finally killed the game for my buddies and me

I don't appreciate the amount of effort needed to tackle endgame content every bloody season, or the fact that seasonal stories are gone forever, or this abounding elitism some LFG fireteams have

Like all I want is a good game. And Season of the Haunted this time last year was good for that but holy hell, Lightfall's seasons SUCKED

[magic wharf]

if only not the price you have to pay every time

[wise laurel]

i mean

i dont think the aspects have a choice BUT to work

thats the whole shtick

[wise laurel]

thats why its called endgame

endgame usually requires skillz and good gunz

[magic wharf]

idk, dlc model AND lack of guns is what killed it for me

[sly ember]

Both of which I have, it's just reaching the damn light level for it is a pain, especially considering you only get so many prime/pinnacle engrams per week

Until you burn out of course

[sly ember]

The gun variety is nice until they stick to a weird theme like the pirate guns and fantasy bs of the Mara Sov season that kicked off Lightfall last year

The Seraph weapons were fkin awesome

[wise laurel]

light lvl doesnt matter after like 1810

because theres a soft nerf

when doing gms and raids

[woven badge]

Random but...do y'all think Nintendo would every do an MMO Animal Crossing?

[wise laurel]

sets everyone to a certain light lvl

[woven badge]

Ever*

[wise laurel]

whats that

[woven badge]

Nintendo game haha very casual

[magic wharf]

nothing in destiny 2 can get even remotely close to warframe guns tho

[wise laurel]

fr?

[magic wharf]

yes

[wise laurel]

yall really hyping this game up

i might try it

[woven badge]

https://tenor.com/view/smg4-tom-nook-enough-stop-thats-enough-gif-22426527

[zealous narwhal]

still waiting my new earphone

[wise laurel]

how much gb it take

[woven badge]

Long story short it's a game about being in forever debt to this fcking raccoon lol

[sly ember]

Lenz. Zarr. Acceltra. Felarx/all Zariman Incarnons

And of course the melee

Warframe is a godsend

[wise laurel]

sounds like a student loan debt simulator

[sly ember]

Literal power fantasy

[sly ember]

Get nooked

[woven badge]

But beyond that joke haha (But not really...)

It's a casual life simulator sorta except with fun animals for neighbors

[wise laurel]

welp, i still like d2 more rn

[woven badge]

You have a house. You furnish it based on what you like, buy, or get.

[wise laurel]

cayde is my favorite character

[woven badge]

You talk to your neighbors and do stuff.

[wise laurel]

so happy they bringing him back i think?

not sure how thats gonan work

[woven badge]

Fish if you want...Dig stuff up if you want

[wise laurel]

*gonna

[woven badge]

Be a literal town nightmare if you want lol

[sly ember]

Ngl tho, Destiny's raid design is second to none. Absolutely fucking LOVE Destiny raids when the team is good

King's Fall, DSC, and Vow are my absolute favourites

I just love the pretense of Vow. You killed a god because he got complacent

[wise laurel]

agreed

except i have the memory of a goldfish

im still learning the mechanics of crotas end

[woven badge]

Goldfishes actually have decent memories lol This is a myth that they have bad memories

[wise laurel]

i have the memory of someone with a bad memory then

[sly ember]

Just the turn of phrase. Not like we actually mean it

[wise laurel]

oh no i mean it

[woven badge]

I know but poor goldishes lol

[sly ember]

Ik ik I just meant against Goldfishes

Surely you wouldn't mock them...

[wise laurel]

my memory sucks

[woven badge]

Being used in a phrase for bad memory when they remember this shade you be giving em lol

[wise laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/you-don't-know-me-bass-reeves-lawmen-bass-reeves-you're-confused-you-don't-know-who-i-am-gif-17769591227147844981

[woven badge]

https://tenor.com/view/dave-chappelle-rick-james-cold-gif-7801456

[sly ember]

When the Carp Empire dominates Earth, they'll classify humans as having shit memory, on the grounds that we forgot to clean their tank back when we were in power

[woven badge]

Fcking carps lol

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-magikarp-splash-gif-4418533

One day they'll rule the world

https://tenor.com/view/shiny-pokemon-red-gyarados-pokemon-water-type-pokemon-flying-type-pokemon-gif-27296932

Garadose gonna be all "Ay so about that bad memory diss back then"