SteposVenzny

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The argument against cars also holds that people should live in places where cars aren’t necessary to avoid hermitude in the first place. You don’t need cars to socialize if you can walk to where people are, you don’t need cars for supplies if you can walk to where stuff is.

Long distance travel can have non-car solutions but also it shouldn’t be the default distance to be away from society.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I keep my head down. No legal consequences isn’t the same thing as no consequences.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

A lie about having a girlfriend that spiraled so far out of control that it made the world a better place.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There is something about my hatred for the Enterprise intro which compels me to endure it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Spoilers for the newest game.

spoilerThe frame story of Returns, where Guybrush is telling an account of his life story to his son, is that a filter we're now supposed to retroactively apply to the whole series? The end of this game, another "it's all just Disneyland" ending like Revenge had, felt very pointedly like a cover-up.

The whole story is low-key building up this theme of Guybrush actually being a terrible person and his quest being both personally unhealthy and harmful to those around him, with little things like the game silently marking off the checklist of horrible things he did on the how-to-be-evil pamphlet he got from LeChuck and big things like Elaine confronting him with his actions while they travel together, so when the ending turns into such an anti-climactic non-sequitur it reads like he can't bring himself to tell his son the truth of what happened and you hope it's because he actually gave up the quest and knows that isn't the story kids want to be told but fear it's because shit got real in a different sense and he doesn't want Boybrush to view him in that light.

With that in mind, now I can't stop wondering if that's what the Carnival of the Damned always was: an act of self-censorship by the hypothetical storyteller.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Other people writing it for you and the openness with which I heard many other students discussing that they weren’t writing their own stuff.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I am entirely certain that it’s the same amount of cheating as it always was and the only thing that changed is that AI is how they’re doing it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I’m down for anthology series by default.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Make sure to get a pair that actually fit your head. They shouldn't squeeze your temples, the ear bends should actually be on your ears, they shouldn't slide around on your nose.

I wore glasses for like twenty years before I finally realized the source of every single problem I had with them was actually me picking the wrong frames and not inherent issues to glasses. Now that I'm aware of it I notice other people wearing ill-fitting glasses all the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Radiant Historia

The enemies are placed on a grid and your characters have abilities that can move them around or place traps on certain squares, plus as part of the game’s time travel theme you can reorganize the upcoming turn order. Use those together and you can arrange the absolute sickest combos, knocking everyone into a big cluster and then wailing the shit out of that cluster.

Just be sure to play the original DS version and not the enhanced 3DS version with new art, voice acting, and story additions that ruin the tone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I went to look for examples and didn't find as many as I expected. It's not unheard of but you're right, it's notably uncommon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

New peripherals coming out late in a system’s life isn’t unusual.

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