TheFriar
@TheFriar@lemm.ee
- Comment on Bro 😭😭 1 day ago:
Calling into question the things he liked? lol I dunno I was more really just hijacking the first comment I saw sorry
- Comment on Bro 😭😭 1 day ago:
Well wasn’t he dating Alanis Morisette when he was 30 and she was 17
- Comment on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl | Review Thread 1 day ago:
Goddamnit I’ve been looking forward to this game and I thought it was coming out on PS5. One of the most significant bummers of the year.
- Comment on For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value. 3 days ago:
Ah, see, I love the game. I’ve been replaying it, actually. I think the endings, yeah, they’re all pretty sad. Even the one ending where
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You actually get the cure, it’s a massive, massive bummer. Life moves on without V, and they are stuck. They try to go back to their life, and they realized it’s all gone when they got what they were trying for the whole time. Every ending but one is genuinely sad.
And that’s super duper rare, it feels like. I truly appreciate that everything was a gut punch. I really like my V, and when I’ve replayed it I make them the same way (looks-wise, I have made different builds). The male voice actor was not for me. I think he sounded like a douchebag and I couldn’t root for my own character. And that first play through I was honestly a little disappointed with the game. But when I found “my” V, I was much more invested.
I love the difficult choices they saddle you with. It was a big part of the game for me because they really made you feel like there were no right options, or two right options, and you weren’t just choosing black or white, you were choosing moral grayness or moral grayness. And you had to sit with those choices and, as OP pointed out, watch the consequences unfold for the—I feel, very well-written and acted—NPCs.
I really love the game. It and RDR2 are my favorites. I was never a gamer growing up. In my thirties I started playing games, but I am a huge story person—books, movies, tv shows—and I think the stories and the characters made it. So when I found games that let me really get a sense of these characters, even if there is a lot of dialogue, it’s like I’m playing a really long movie. That’s ideal for me. I could see how some people who game heavily wouldn’t like it though. But I fuckin love that game and its spiritual twin (IMO), RDR2. Both maybe “limited” for true gamers, but for some filthy cazh like me, fuckin excellent and highly enjoyable.
- Comment on It was rigged? 4 days ago:
Well I think it’s pretty fair to say a lot of people were tuning in to see him get his ass beat. He’s made a career out of being a piece of shit that people want to see get knocked out. So he wins by us all hating him because if we’re hating him we’re paying attention to him.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 days ago:
The second half if most important. It doesn’t produce enough electricity. Renewables are getting cheaper and cheaper and are taking up the mantle to take over majority of power production in some nations. But it is harder to monetize and can be democratized and made pretty easily. It’s like weed. It can be taken away from bigger producers and therefore there is significant push back/lobbying against it.
- Comment on RIP 6 days ago:
I hope every time you go to drink water it’s surprisingly a up of orange juice and every time you go to drink Orange juice you have gum in your mouth.
- Comment on Git good, son 1 week ago:
I dunno man, most women in my experience have all really appreciated (and as much said out loud) that there was communication.
- Comment on ‘Urge residents not to taste it’ but WHY NOT??? WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?? 1 week ago:
Nah I’m good
- Comment on somebody has to do it! 1 week ago:
See, sometimes the best scientist needs to ask the simplest questions no one thought to ask.
Here is your Nobel Prize
- Comment on I feel this way about cinnamon. 1 week ago:
I can’t tell if you’re joking.
If you’re not, do you mean like baking chocolate, ultra dark chocolate? Or like dark Ghirardelli chocolate chips
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 1 week ago:
A lot of fruit/veg is grown in places they can get away with slave wages and then shipped here because that’s how little labor costs. Less than our already super low paid fruit/veg pickers that are primarily the people who escaped the countries and situations that put them in those even lower slave wage places.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 2 weeks ago:
Hah please do!
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 2 weeks ago:
Think of voting this way:
Signing your name to a candidate/psrty and what they’ve done/signaled they will do.
A lot of people can’t stomach a candidate who has been courting the neocons and softening their previous mildly progressive stances from the last time dems had a primary and the progressives were showing up in numbers. Everyone got in line and the debates were about M4A, erasing federally held student debt, raising the minimum wage, etc. Sanders single handedly dragged the party to the center (technically more “left” than they were) in 2016/2020 and the dems responded by po’mouthing like they cared about those issues, but then circled the wagons and kicked those voters to the curb.
The party has shown over and over again that they don’t give a shit about working class people, those of us that want real change. They want to maintain the status quo. Which is progressively more hostile capitalism.
Signing your name to that constant move rightward is unthinkable for some. And understandably so.
And that’s before we even discuss the ongoing genocide in Gaza funded and armed by the US. While this administrations representatives in the UN and in any official capacity constantly run defense for the genocide.
Plenty of people could not fathom putting their name on that tragedy.
None of this means that republicans aren’t fuckin neofascist shits. But…how many times have the voters left of the dems been told to eat shit and vote blue because the other guy is worse? WHILE CONSTANTLY COURTING THE RIGHTWING VOTERS WHO MAY HAVE FINALLY GOTTEN SICK OF IT?! Kamala literally said she would be different from Biden by having a Republican in her cabinet. WHAT.
With everything going on, this party said, “yeah, fuck all that. Let’s see if we can grab anyone to the right of us.”
I got sidetracked, but this is the thing. It’s not binary, because geopolitics isn’t binary. The worlds issues aren’t binary. But a binary choice is all we’re given to make.
Just…what. And neither of those two choices was actually going to solve the problems. One was maintaining the problems while one was the problems plus more problems. That’s not an attractive choice.
We all get that trump is much worse. But everyone else needs to understand how sickening that shitty choice was for anyone with a conscience about what’s going on in Gaza, what’s going on with their neighbors. Signing on for more of the same was completely unthinkable for some. That has to be understandable if we are ever going to change things.
We’ve been on the road we’re being forced down now as long as I’ve been around. And the road just keeps going forward. The dems’ proposal is “maintain the course.” The republicans’ was “mash the gas.”
Some people couldn’t stomach going any further down this road. That’s not making a choice to mash the gas. Because the world is not binary.
But you and everyone else posing similar questions is saying “how could you vote for mashing the gas by not wanting to continue down this road?? :(“
- Comment on How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?! 2 weeks ago:
Because, like I said, it suddenly became “the most important issue” and she was courting the “centrist swing voter” that doesn’t exist anymore. And we all saw, republicans voted almost exactly the same way they did in 2020, but a bunch of dems stayed home. She sold out anyone left of Bush Jr. and then surprise pikachu’d when no one fuckin voted for her.
- Comment on Haters will say it’s fake 2 weeks ago:
I was just pointing out that you said they did Bernie dirty in 2016 and then said in 2020 Biden knew he could beat Bernie on name rec alone. I was just clarifying what I think was the bigger betrayal.
- Comment on Haters will say it’s fake 2 weeks ago:
Everyone says they did Bernie dirty in 2016, but no one ever brings up how in 2020, the establishment dems all dropped out of the race in exchange for cabinet positions to rally around the elder statesman Biden—when Bernie was winning the primaries.
That, in my opinion, is far dirtier and a much bigger “fuck you” to leftists/progressives/humanists than 2016.
- Comment on How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?! 2 weeks ago:
Why? Because the right was harping on it. So the news covers it. And then “people are talking about it.” And in 2024, that means everyone has to have an opinion it. The right has perfected the weaponization of communication. Fascists are good at that, historically.
- Comment on AI Elections 2 weeks ago:
Well I voted the Wicconana party. That’s like putting the women from The Craft in office, right?
- Comment on Tencent collaborated with Snoop Dogg for Fortnite, officially adding the 'C-Walk' as a dance, a notorious gang sign for the Crips. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the crip walk and then the “blood” sign with their hands. Both.
- Comment on Tencent collaborated with Snoop Dogg for Fortnite, officially adding the 'C-Walk' as a dance, a notorious gang sign for the Crips. 2 weeks ago:
Are you all too young to remember this already being a thing middle class white kids were already doing a couple decades ago?
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #41 - Road Redemption 2 weeks ago:
Are you my brother? I had the same experience
- Comment on Remedy Has Recouped 'Most' of the Development and Marketing Expenses for Alan Wake 2 2 weeks ago:
I thought it won game of the year as well as a bunch of other awards?
- Comment on Day 105 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 weeks ago:
I’m very excited for you
- Comment on Day 105 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 weeks ago:
Oh man. If you haven’t played the DLC and if you haven’t played since the big update, you def need to.
- Comment on Day 105 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 weeks ago:
Dude AW2 is fuckin excellent. I will admit to getting stuck on (what I imagine is) the final stand for Agent (can’t remember her name) by the lake. I went back to playing cyberpunk again because I’ve been playing it way too much.
- Comment on Anon gives up dating apps 3 weeks ago:
The true key is…counterintuitive as this sounds, not looking.
Try enjoying yourself, meeting people, doing things you like. People can sense desperation or dishonesty in you when you’re feigning interest or trying to get in their pants. Just…be a decent person, and you can find people who you get along with. It happens more naturally that way and you’re more likely to find…yknow, people you like and who like you.
- Comment on Anon gives up dating apps 3 weeks ago:
Woah that story took a turn I Did not expect
- Comment on Day 98 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 weeks ago:
I say they stop at 99, skip day 100 and start on the 101st day as day 1 pt.II”
- Comment on Day 95 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, the game was made in 2010. That kind of detail wasn’t really possible. It has been remastered, but—and I’m not a person who would know—I don’t think that involves redesigning the world as much as scaling up the graphics