Citizen Sleeper - From the same publisher as The Pale Beyond, it's another one of those story games that borders on visual novels. It's a game about precarity and personhood set on an anarchic, decaying space station. Gorgeous art, fantastic soundtrack and it's uniquely hopeful. Might be favourite game of the last few years.
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Star Trek: Resurgence. The short version is I really liked it. It's one of those Telltale/Life is Strange style games that is basically a visual novel. Not perfect by any means, but this could have been a banger season of a peak Trek show. I want more.
take anti-depressants and you'll stop being attracted to anyone ๐
Yes, and while the risk is not comparable, it's not just men. I had a woman pull a knife on me while screaming I was too ugly/worthless/etc to reject her, how I couldn't do better and I should be begging to be with her. Plenty of people are unhinged.
Most people could cheap out on tools and they'd still last. The average person just doesn't use the ones they own very often or work them particularly hard. Really, you're going to know if your usage will require higher quality tools and it's not the average techbro posting on /r/buyitforlife.
Backpacks are similar. If you're just using one lightly loaded for an urban commute there is nothing wrong with cheaping out. Spending more is really for people who are wearing them hard and filling them to capacity.
Unless Pokemon counts, I don't think I have ever enjoyed a JRPG. I have zero idea what people see in these except weebs getting horny over anime girls.
I didn't even like Doom (2016). It was ugly, dull and I hated the finisher system. Really disappointed because I'm old enough to have played the other Doom games as a kid and I mostly enjoyed the new wave of boomer shooters. Great soundtrack though.
I don't think anything could be as bad as that run from 2015 to 2020, and at least we don't have the primary drama to deal with unless one of them kicks the bucket.
Yeah, I listened to the podcast for awhile. Until the pandemic, Americans made it their mission to inflict their shitty electoral politics on you no matter how unrelated the space. You know how many times I got accused of voting one way or another when all I wanted to do was talk about books and TV shows?
Perversely, being tortured by it made me interested in what was going on. The podcast was sort of my way of working out what the fuck their problem was. It was easily the least insufferable American politics show I came across, and had the added benefit of making the same people screaming at me very mad.
It fell off by the second election. They started seeming less counter-cultural and more genuinely invested in the election. Fortunately, after the election Americans finally stopped screaming at me about their politics and I eventually dropped it.
I was bullied a little, but frankly kids are not nearly as horrible as people say. The adults were far worse.
When I hit high school I may has well have sent up a flare to all the pathetic little fascists who became a teacher not to teach, but because it was the only meager bit of power they could grab. I came from a different city, my uniform was all off-brand, I didn't have any money, my fees weren't being paid on time, I didn't have all the books, I spoke differently, and my commute was long and prone to delays. I was an easy target, and it would only get worse as the clothes began to wear and my stationary began to dwindle without replacements.
I'd get pulled out of class randomly, not by my teacher but by someone else on staff who had taken on some admin work. They'd look me over trying to find something to punish me for. I got done once because the hem of my shirt wasn't thick enough. No, that wasn't specified in the dress code.
I once spent months being locked alone in a detention room and not allowed to attend classes.
The longer this went on for the more things there were to find. My grades obviously went down, as did my attendance. I had been an A student in gifted classes at the beginning.
I knew about a dozen people who were constantly being harassed this way. More than half of them dropped out of school.
Also one of my regular harassers was fired a few years after I left for being a pedophile.
If only Star Trek had aged so well during the same period. ๐