psycotica0
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- Comment on Day 763 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 17 hours ago:
Totally fair!
- Comment on Day 763 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
For sure, I think they did a very interesting thing with the game. This organization has a purpose and a daily function. You spend your whole time in a workplace of sorts. But you are not a worker, you’re not even an employee, and you as Jesse only show up after shit has hit the fan. They’re already in the emergency. She’s never been here before, and neither have we. And she doesn’t care how the company operates day-to-day, she doesn’t care how the lights are kept on or the heating functions, she’s showed up in an office that’s turned into a combat zone to do combat and rescue her brother.
And so I kinda like how we aren’t given rundowns on normal operations because this is not normal operation, and Jesse isn’t interested, and so we’re pushed through the emergency. But there are bits of environmental storytelling, and scraps of paper, and notes and tapes, that tell curius players “you know, on a normal day, this place is a different kind of weird. You’ve just shown up on an even weirder day”
- Comment on Day 763 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
Here’s what I’ll say if you’re anything like me: read the pickups. The little scraps of paper you find littered about the offices, the folders, the dossiers, etc. I don’t normally read that crap in most games, but in this game I noticed I started getting intrigued by a few after I’d been in playing for a while, and by the end of the game they were almost my favourite part. The kind of world outside the game’s plot, the mundane day-to-day existence of this organization when it’s not in a crisis, was very interesting to me.
So it might not be to you, people can be very different. But you could try giving reading a try and just see if the oddness hooks you like it did for me.
- Comment on Hypocrisy is their default setting 2 weeks ago:
It’s not hypocracy. They know time off is great. They know medical care is great. They know it’s great to be housed and fed and not worried about a single paycheck being late ruining your entire life. Their philosophy is not that these things are unnecessary.
Their philosophy is that there are people who deserve these nice things, namely them and people like them, and that other people deserve to suffer. And that every nice thing they get that other people don’t, further separates them from the people they don’t like.
Some people who believe these things may actually truly believe that the carrot of a better life ahead if you, and the sticks of poverty behind you, might motivate you to innovate or improve yourself in some way. Some of them might believe that the suffering is important, because without it no one would ever do anything.
But I think a lot of them don’t even think that. They just like having things other people want.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know who the non-psychotic person is he’ll think about from time to time, but I have to assume it’s Violet 😉😛
- Comment on My 98 Oldsmobile 3 weeks ago:
Smoke up, Johnny!
- Comment on Family Pictures 4 weeks ago:
Maybe the couch is the first kid? Sex with your kid is one of the principles of the administration, I believe.
- Comment on \*levitates ur frog\* 4 weeks ago:
Ran outta there like a bandit with a big sack of pixels!
- Comment on \*levitates ur frog\* 5 weeks ago:
We didn’t invent pixels until Steve Jobs single-handedly started cranking out iPhones in 2007.
- Comment on Refer to the chart 5 weeks ago:
As soon as The Muppets and Lucasfilm were both owned by Disney, my friends and I spent a lot of time taking about how a Muppet Star Wars just makes sense.
Now, it’s a bit of a crowded space, with Blue Harvest and Space Balls already doing a lot of parody work in this area, but I think there’s still room. The only problem is that I think the normal formula would have Luke be played by a human and everyone else be Muppets, but Kermit feels like he’d be a great Luke. So you’d need one of the other key roles to be human to balance it out.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know, I haven’t seen the scene or heard the vocal delivery, I’m not sure what kind of anime it is, or what kind of tone it’s trying to strike. If the mood is “she has discovered a dark secret and is scared” then yeah, “I didn’t realize you were a pedophile” would work great.
But if instead she’s found some porn that isn’t necessarily naked children, and it’s played off as deadpan funny or awkward or misunderstanding, then I think “I didn’t realize you were a pedophile” might not come across light heartedly in the way “I didn’t realize you were a creep” or something similar would. Even if it’s an accurate “word for word” translation, it might not sound right in the scene or match the character’s delivery.
But I don’t know this anime or what it’s about, so I don’t know what the tone should be. It just sounds like there’s disagreement with the line as chosen.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 5 weeks ago:
If the term isn’t meant to be so “heavy” in the original usage, and there isn’t an equivalent “light” term here, I wonder if it would’ve been better to just translate it as “I didn’t realize you were a creep” or something else that misses the nuance, but gets the intended feeling and tone across.
- Comment on It's always a conversation starter at the beach 1 month ago:
Oh those are just inverted toes! They’re more common than people think, but if you stimulate them they might pop right out.
But if your toes are not inverted normally, and then one day they suddenly are inverted, you should talk to a doctor because that can be a sign of foot cancer.
- Comment on No more CUM until 19 July 1 month ago:
*Doo doo doo doo doo… *
- Comment on Doing it now 1 month ago:
Something about this reminds me if the I Spy books of my youth:
- Comment on Fixing those dynamics 1 month ago:
Alright, hear me out: You’re washing your strap-on in the kitchen sink, and it’s prominently drying on the counter when you get stuck trying to get something out of the dishwasher!
It’d be madness if no one took advantage of this opportunity!
- Comment on Fixing those dynamics 1 month ago:
Poopin’ that D!
- Comment on Remember this famous quote from an early Arnold movie? 1 month ago:
It is imperative that the tree not be harmed.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Great comment! Just wanted to pop in as a straight guy and second that it’s very helpful when a partner has things they know they like and can communicate what’s working, what’s not, and what could be better.
But… teen boys kinda suck, and honestly some guys never grow out of it. Remember that they’re nervous and uncertain too, and sometimes that fragile state can receive a suggestion as “telling them what to do”, and can trigger a pride response. It’s not pretty, but it’s not uncommon.
I’m not telling you to lie to them, but sometimes phrasing something as “mmm that’s good. More to the left. Yeah that” can feel more collaborative, like we’re playing on the same team, than simple “do it on the left” or something that sounds more like a cold command. That can sometimes be received as “you suck, you’re fucking this up, just do it right”.
Other potential avenues are “unh that feels so good, ooh let’s try X!” or “hmm… I wonder if X would be good!” to change directions or “okay… wow, you’re going to need to give that a minute” to have them stop something without it necessarily feeling like a stop stop. Obviously if you need a quick stop, you can just say stop.
Or if it fits the mood, even just asking “please go faster”, “please pinch my nipples”, etc can be fun, because it makes it a request he fulfills rather than an order he obeys.
In the end, he probably wants to be good at this, so communicating not just the problem, but emphasizing the success can also be important. “Slower, slower, slower… yes that, oh fuck that, now side to side, oh shit shit shit”
This not only corrects the bad behaviour, but rewards and reinforces the right thing when we get there. And again, it makes them feel like they’re doing well, like they’re giving you something you like, and that we’re aligned and working together on this project.
Oh and also that having been said don’t be too rigid either. You know some things that feel good for you on your own, but some things feel better when someone else does them. And some things take a bit to warm up. And some things are maybe a bit intense at the start, but just right towards the end, whereas some things are good early on and boring later. Hold firm boundaries on the things that are most important, but other than that give him a chance to try some stuff! If it doesn’t work, you can nudge, but it helps him feel like he’s also part of this and not just a sex robot.
Unless he’s into that… 😉
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is a absolutely true but I think it’s important to note given the context that there’s a wide gap between “not orgasming” and the pain OP was describing. 80% of women not orgasming from vaginal penetration alone does not equal 80% of women experience pain from sex instead.
Also, many women enjoy vaginal penetration as a fun and pleasurable experience, even if it’s not an experience that leads to orgasm on its own.
I’m sure the person I’m replying to knows this, but given that this post is about a confused and frustrated person, I don’t want them to see this 80% statistic and think the takeaway is “sex is bad for 80% of women”
- Comment on Fucking pngs, how do they work? 1 month ago:
Fair fair, very important. What’s also important is that we get our prostate checked, and/or get some mammograms done.
- Comment on Femality is stored in the nipples 1 month ago:
Vaguely, because having 2 or 4 models that are static and always look good is actually a lot easier to design and test than a body that can be lots of sizes and shapes. Like, it’s more work to make an outfit 4 times than 1 time, but it’s also kinda easy work. Whereas making an outfit that can be any size and shape and still looks right and natural and doesn’t clip through itself, etc is harder.
But not impossible, so I agree if your game is going to have sliders anyway, and those sliders are going to allow extreme adjustments and not just “length of torso, circumference of boobs”, probably you’re going to have to take a lot of that into account anyway.
Even still, though, having a “bunch” of sliders can sometimes still not be enough to get from one body type to another. Like, the fact that you can’t start with the male body in most of these games and adjust your way to the female one, or vice versa, means there are properties that would need to be made adjustable that currently aren’t, in order to actually get you smoothly from one to the other.
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 1 month ago:
Wow, I had no idea! I just looked through the list of World Cup balls, and they only used that design, like, twice. But what an impact! I assume they had to get fancy afterwards because every ball started to look like that, so now it looked almost boring. Wild!
- Comment on literally 451° 1 month ago:
I’ve always liked them as a set. I think neither of them on their own are as good as the two of them contrasted against each other.
- Comment on UPDATE: I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title appeared on another Steam game as they plan to release before I do. 1 month ago:
Maybe “Ell’s Well Bhat TEnds -Ell”
- Comment on Don’t forget to regularly check your eyes! 2 months ago:
No words, it’s the liney version of loss…
Mother fu…
- Comment on Instead we got a trillion dollar man 2 months ago:
You’re not directly wrong, but the theoretical, philosophical, answer is that the social will that allows ICE to operate, or cops to thug about, is that people feel that there is dangerous lawlessness out there, and the only way to solve it is strong force. And sometimes a few eggs need to get cracked, but it’s okay because they deserved it.
So none of the things listed here prevent ICE, but ICE is powered by fear of “the criminals”, and if we solve the “criminal problem” with real solutions, suddenly it gets a lot harder to motive a brute squad when everyone is fine actually. And I don’t mean “the officers are fine” or “the would-be victims are fine”, I mean the random citizens sitting at home, already feeling secured without the police force in military gear.
And I mean maybe at least some of the shitty dudes are there due to broken homes fractured by substance abuse or financial stresses, or are themselves victims of fetal alcohol syndrome or something, which could possibly be lessened with tighter social circles and safety nets.
As you your other point, unions specifically address wage theft and would impact Bezos for sure. At least assuming “theoretically ideal” unions.
- Comment on Maybe they are drawn towards the confidence this process makes them feel? 2 months ago:
Y’all are killing it! Good work.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The Flying V!
- Comment on How did we get "bike" from "bicycle"? 2 months ago:
I hope I’m not missing a joke, but if you’re curious in my accent (Ontario, Canada) it would basically always be “bi-sickle” and “moter-saikle”
Thank God I never got around to learning the International Phonetic Alphabet, or that might have been too easy and more useful!
