Babs

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[–] Babs@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a certified boykisser with a guy I love very much, but all these wlw couples out and about doing cute girl stuff together got me all wistful-like.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Reddit banned RussianWarFootage, UkraineRussiaReport gone private. Pro-ukraine opinions only on Reddit.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spoiler, don't read unless you've beaten the gameYour necktie can become a voiced character if you have sufficient IE when you acquire it, and even become an alternate weapon at the tribunal.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can be a communist with low rhetoric, but most of the communist lines are spoken to you by rhetoric and it's useful for a few key checks, including one of the most beautiful parts of the game during the communism quest.

If you wanna play a communist, just say a lotta communist things and then internalize the Mazovian Socioeconomics thought. And definitely do the communist quest at the end of the game - don't worry, you'll get a prompt when it's time.

Inland Empire is technically your Imagination but does a lot of really neat things. Shivers and Esprit de Corps are a little more explicitly supernatural, but they have some of my favorite lines.

Above all, accept that the protagonist is an absolute mess and not the cool, suave, communism-understander that you are. But he can try to do a little better, day by day.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

So there's no "wrong" build in that it's not quite that kind of game. You can complete it with a satisfying ending regardless of RAC's stats. That said; Shivers, Esprit de Corps, and Inland Empire are the best-written skills imo (and make you a psychic supercop) and Rhetoric is iirc the skill most tied to communism.

Also if you have at least 4(?) Inland Empire at the start of the game you unlock a secret member of your "party" of skills.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Garae-tteok and Shanghai niángāo are both very good rice cakes but once again I think I gotta hand it to the Chinese.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah. The books jump around in time a lot between the present and future, so they're doing all the whole series more chronologically with the book 2/3 protagonists' stories happening concurrently with the first book story.

But also yeah it's moving along very very quickly.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago

Liberals have a seething hatred for his victim and think she's some Russian psyop.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

I don't like the actress they have for Wang Miao and I don't like what they did to my boy Da Shi, but the show has the budget to actually pull off some of the crazy sci-fi fantasy bullshit depicted in the books. The Panama scene was cool. The sophon unfolding was cool. Eventually Netflix is gonna have to spend a squillion dollars trying to depict the dual-vector foil and that's gonna be sick.

I am enjoying the show while nitpicking about all the details. Like all your criticisms ring true to me, but also last night I got to see a much cooler version of that one scene from Ghost Ship and I know the weird sci-fi stuff only gets better.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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