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It is 2:00 AM EST in Virginia where I live.
I am have those dark thought-loop spirals or whatever, this time involving catastrophism.
Seems that rage, fury, anger, or annoyance is the trigger for these dark thought spirals.
Hmmmmm
Honestly, I wonder if I have anger management issues.
I don’t often snap at people or yell at them.
But I have gotten angry and then tried to suppress that anger because I had no recourse. It was either that or do something stupid and act on impulse.
Emotional suppression is bad for memory and other things or so they say (need to look that up sometime).
People in my immediate family snap at me or chastize me and I just wear a mask.
Anyway, took Vyvanse a while ago because it helps call me down and think clearly (but also in a very soothing way).
I visited the Manchester Art Gallery today and they had these large rooms in which they acknowledged colonialism and capitalism and whatnot, which I thought was good. But they also happened to have a room on Dutch art and they described us as a brave nation becoming wealthy by finding sea routes to trade on.
Like how does that work lmao. We robbed half the world to get rich. No critical thought whatsoever in the Dutch room.
Dutch version of “Then they ate corn :)”
Cuba will win this shit.
Portland Timbers fans had a communist flag waving at their match against Seattle today
Is there any good news from latin America? Seems like almost every country has been taken over by pro-USian zionist fascist governments
i guess we have been building trains in mexico
Well, Brazil is gonna have elections this year, and Argentina is probably gonna end up at the finals in World Cup.
Also, Bolsonaro is 100% agonizing at a hospital right now. I haven’t even seen the news about him but that’s always a good guess.
I was undecided for who I’ll root in the final, but decided to go with Argentina. But would love a Spanish victory as well.
Ayatollah Abubaker Abed (hes not an really an ayatollah just a Palestinian Journalist and refugee) says world cup is Haram and against BDS.
Tell that to the Palestinians watching the world cup
Honestly looking at the elder scrolls games, I can’t feel like the designers went backwards. Or, what I mean is that the original designers of arena, daggerfall, and morrowind had massive ambitions for their games that couldn’t be met by either their budget, time or technology. Then when Todd Howard and Co took the reigns, especially after oblivion and fallout 3, they had the time, tech, and budget but lacked a lot of ambition or risk taking
I never played the earlier elder scrolls games, but my main criticism of Skyrim is that it’s an earlier attempt (in the live service gold rush) to be a “forever game” but it does this in a way that makes the game feel more hollow and empty. Mods help, but are mainly kicking the can down the road, not fundamentally giving the game more depth or meaning. There’s a lot to do in Skyrim and some of it is pretty detailed quest lines, but it’s hard to feel like any of it actually matters. You can do the main quest line all the way to completion or simply ignore it and it won’t really matter. You can do the civil war quest line or ignore it and… you get the idea. And the exploratory aspect of it, which could in theory compensate for how optional the main questing is, is too repetitive and meaningless; go to location, kill enemies there, get loot and XP.
AC Odyssey, a later game, has a similar design going on (but with no mod community to help it). Fairly open-ended in theory, but little of it matters. Though Odyssey at least has a decently told story, if you can get past how long the game will drag on doing all the side quests. Skyrim I think I played it to completion once and I barely remember what the plot was. Most of the fun of Skyrim for me is the power fantasy of it, but once you get to a certain power level, it tapers off and you can laugh at the most powerful enemies. This is a problem RPGs often have, but I notice it more in Skyrim because there isn’t really a set end to the game and because the story elements are so forgettable to me.
Bethesda has been a disaster for Fallout & Elder Scrolls.
Todd Howard is a coward and swindler; Emil Pagliarulo is a hack who couldn’t write a parking ticket.
The two of them + all their collaborators & enablers have been a disaster for CRPGs. I’m glad Microsoft took Fallout away from them. Hope it stays that way.
Where did you get the steeliness to say stuff like that :O I’d feel way too bad giving anyone the slightest insult
I used to be a similar way.
But there comes a point when you have to recognize people who are clearly selfish, egotistical, and who behave maliciously and call out both their behavior and them as people.
One of the things that vexes me is that Skyrim had a time jump of 200 years. Which is honestly just wierd. I get that it makes some sense since one of the most important characters for 4 games [Uriel Septim] died, but they haven’t made a new elder scrolls game in nearly two decades. The point of a time jump is to essentially reset back to the exposition portion to then make more stories. Even ESO is a prequel bringing back Manimarcho from II and IV.
Todd talked about Starfeild being his baby, and I get that and can definitely see that, but the elder scrolls is basically a Bethesda kid only. It’s not something like fallout that can be handed off [note: from what I’ve heard apparently they are making fallout 5 still, and doing new vegas and 3 remasters, just that obsidian is making a separate fallout project.]
And then there’s the continued dumbing down of mechanics. I get not having like, daggerfall level mechanics, or even hit chance [hit chance is its own thing i might make a post about, basically my opinion is that it falls into the same pitfalls deus ex HR did with removing the weapon skills the original deus ex did]. But removing spell crafting? And an entire school of magic? [Todd is a barbarian main, of course]
Role play is also something Bethesda struggles with, despite the fact they make rpgs. Morrowind and Daggerfall are probably my two favorite for role play because your first priority is basically to get a job, and beyond that you’re a blank slate. You also have to balance factions, and in morrowind you have to pick sides in fights between stuff like the mages guild and house telvani or the fighters guild and theives guild. In skyrim and oblivion you don’t get that. For some reason they dropped that entire concept in oblivion and only brought it back for dawnguard [and i guess technically shivering isles but that’s a massive technicality].
I think if anything, I’d really just like someone to remaster Morrowind and Daggerfall. Mods get close, but a proper remaster/remake that keeps 90% of the core things (INCLUDING HIT CHANCE), modernize them for both the lore and modern quest design, and it’d be pretty banger.
One last thing. Something i don’t understand is why Todd half asses radiant quests. Or at least doesn’t understand what made them okay in daggerfall. The thing about daggerfall is that it’s much more journey than destination, as cheesy as that is. Someone gives you a radiant quest, but that quest can be cities over which you have to manage travel time for, along with doing other quests. In skyrim its…go bonk a guy down the road. The closest this gets to innovative is the theives guilds quests for restoring the guild at the end. I actually really like those. I don’t understand why other quests didn’t do that
Have peoplr noticed the spelling mistakes I make while typing? I have typed out all but of my posts on my phone, and I find typing on phone to be quite difficult, and typing quickly doesn’t make it any easier.
!Yes it was intentional now if you’re asking.!<
Are you typing with a keyboard that supports gliding? It’s basically impossible to make a typo when your keyboard only prints out proper words.
Nope, I’ve used glide typing but I never really liked the way it felt, could never get the right words.
Fair enough. It’s good enough for me in English but in Spanish I have to manually correct every other word. I’ve never found a keyboard that’s any good at predicting all the subtle conjugations.
Spelling mistakes don’t affect reading that much. For example, you might have not noticed the the second “the” in this sentence.
i did notice it tho
I read that our eyes tend to gloss over this sort of thing. Well, if it didn’t affect comprehension then it’s still fine. Also, it probably wasn’t a good example since it wasn’t a spelling mistake.
Well that address was a waste of 30 minutes
Something that’s probably not a priority but grinds my gears is I wish Trump would be consistent on how he feels about things. Like Russia for instance. One minute he’ll be all “Me and Putin, great friends, really great, he knows how to run a country. We don’t agree on everything but he knew how to handle the, corrupt, negligent Joseph R Biden” and then 5 minutes later will be like “russia is conspiring to defraud the elections to get the radical left in power along with the CCP and North Korea.” Like pick a lane for a minute at least
Edit: I guess I’ll have to wait an see until the documents can be sifted through. $10 says they are also nothingburgers or just fraudulent in some way
omg I was just on r/neoliberal for some reason and there were comments (with upvotes) stating that USA does not coerce its allies, and I’m struggling to think of how someone could think that?
btw does this sound too rude? I’ve noticed a tendency among some people (I’m not sure who) to assume intent behind a question, and/or assume that the asker already knows the answer? I don’t want people to think that tho
The rudeness is completely acceptable because you are talking about redditors. Making comments about frog marching redditors over the edge of a coal mine shaft is an acceptable level of rudeness.
The question did seem to suggest that it had an obvious answer. “Ignorance, liberalism, foolishness, or because they are cia sponsored bots”
Do the CIA really sponsor Reddit bots :O ? Bots didn’t even come to mind
The CIA doesn’t just sponsor them, they run them.
Well, your original comment didn’t come across like it was even a question, and likely didn’t need the question mark. So I didn’t think it came off as rude at all. If it was supposed to be a question, what were you asking?
How do people think USA doesn’t coerce its allies? I’m really confused because this exact scenario has happened multiple times in the news in the last year.
How do people believe what the media and educational institutions tell them? That is the function of propaganda and indoctrination.
There is this american-chinese influencer doing a series flying random people into China and he got a random american from Texas into Yun’nan 😂 he met him while trespassing his ranch, turns out the guy is surprisingly open minded agreed to go to China and managed to get him dressed as a PLA soldier 😂
We have reached the second highest alarm phase regarding drought and ground water levels here in Belgium. We are just three weeks into summer and there is no serious rain in sight. I am legit contemplating stocking water right now.
Just heard about this book: Politically Unconscious: The Psychic Aftermath of the Sudanese Revolution — Mohamed Khougali There is a free PDF on Iskra Books
Clavicular eventually getting hijacked by Mossad and Israel is wild
they’re desperate for anything at this point. i found it funny that the handler they assigned to him immediately gave away that she had access to the IDF official social media account lmao, surely his followers can connect the dots right?
Who?
Wtf? When did this happen? Not that I’m surprised. The worst elements of society eventually find a common ground
I am not too invested in Clavicular but apparently he found either some Israeli friends or a partner or something and went to Israel. Might just be honest friendship/love if he didn’t happen to stumble upon a literal IDF social media manager three seconds into his trip.
CW short religious cult trauma rant
Aight I gotta see if God accepts lawyers. I got baptized as a fucking pre-teen. Why the hell must I lose contact with my family because of a decision that I made as a literal child?!
That decision can’t be legally binding. I’m an atheist now but I can’t believe this racket is accepted. I never got a birthday party ever due to this.
Pays to be unbaptized, I can tell you that.
I imagine it does lmao.
