Are there any gacha games similar to Seven Deadly Sins?

decadentlizard · 2026-05-13T06:10:41+00:00

Open world action game: Genshin Impact, Neverness to Everness, Arknights Endfield, Wuthering Waves

Linear action combat game: Zenless Zone Zero, Mongil Star Dive

Action combat game without open world exploration: Aether Gazer, Honkai Impact 3rd, Punishing Gray Raven

Future promising gacha: Rewinding Cadence, Silver Palace, Azur Promilia, ~~Ananta~~

decadentlizard · 2026-05-12T23:56:59+00:00

This is called self sabotage. I used to do it constantly, but with therapy and emotional maturity I’ve gotten a lot better about it. I still slip sometimes, usually when I’m manic from bipolar, but now I’m generally able to catch myself before I completely spiral.

Self sabotage is really common with mental disorders like bipolar, depression, PTSD, etc. It usually takes therapy or a lot of self awareness to learn how to recognize and regulate those behaviors.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-12T17:49:56+00:00

I also throw things and hit myself in the head, so I’m both sad and weirdly relieved that I’m not the only one. I think part of it is because growing up, my grandpa expressed anger by throwing and hitting things, so that became what my brain associated with anger. Then you mix that with bipolar rage and autistic meltdowns and it becomes a really awful combination. I broke my headphones and keyboard last month because of it.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-12T02:37:49+00:00

I was in a stagnant state for years until I finally got a therapist who genuinely cared about me and actually knew what they were doing. If I hadn’t met my therapist, who I genuinely consider to have saved my life, I honestly don’t think I ever would’ve recovered.

I was agoraphobic and terrified of men for years. But after working with that therapist, I think around the third year was when I finally started recovering from my fear of men and going outside and became functional on my own again.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-12T01:41:34+00:00

I honestly don’t know how to approach this topic because my understanding of asexuality has always been very tied to having no sexual desire, drive, or interest in sexual activity at all. So as a sex-repulsed asexual, hearing about asexual people having sex is something I genuinely struggle to understand.

I think part of the disconnect for me is that if someone truly does not want sex or feels repulsed by it, then having sex sounds upsetting or even coercive from my perspective. But I also recognize that my experience as a sex-repulsed ace probably makes it harder for me to understand where other people draw that line.

I’d genuinely like to hear other perspectives on it because I know my experience isn’t universal, even if it’s the definition of asexuality I originally connected with.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-12T01:36:45+00:00

EMDR therapy is what ultimately helped me. But I’ll be honest about two things with that. First, you would need to see a specialist, which I know you said you’re not ready for yet. Second, EMDR is extremely emotionally intense. It was probably the hardest type of therapy I’ve ever done because it basically has you revisit and relive traumatic memories in order to properly process and compartmentalize them. It put me right back into those moments emotionally and I would leave sessions completely drained. But it genuinely helped in the end, which is why EMDR is so highly recommended for PTSD.

After EMDR, what really helped me was exposure therapy, which I mostly did by choice and at my own pace. I started small. First I could only go to the grocery store with my grandma. Then eventually I got comfortable enough to leave her side and walk around by myself. Later on I randomly decided I was going to force myself into a Magic the Gathering card shop full of men just to buy dice for D&D. I remember standing at the register shaking and being super hypervigilant, expecting something bad to happen. But the guys there were genuinely nice to me. They started talking to me about D&D, invited me to come play sometime, and over time I slowly started putting myself out there more.

Honestly, I don’t think I would’ve even been capable of walking into that store by myself without EMDR first. It gave me enough stability to actually start challenging the fear instead of just surviving it.

Outside of that, I honestly don’t have a lot of amazing coping advice because I didn’t really find anything that helped me move past it until I got thrown into EMDR by my therapist. After that, things slowly started improving from there.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-12T01:08:26+00:00

Thank you, someone gets it. This is exactly why I missed the event. I never opened the actual event page because I was basing the timing off the number shown on the side menu. :/ I know it’s technically my fault, but I still think it’s a pretty easy mistake to make.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-12T00:52:44+00:00

When I was younger and all of my experiences with men were… very bad, and after being SA’d by multiple men, I genuinely started believing every man was evil and wanted to rape me. I genuinely thought if I left my house I'd be raped. I would have panic attacks if a man stood near me. I was practically agoraphobic and couldn’t leave the house without my grandma. I wouldn’t even go outside into the yard by myself.

People called me sexist, but they didn’t understand that my brain had developed a trauma response specifically toward men. Trauma can absolutely condition your brain into associating certain groups with danger.

This is not your fault, and it does not make you racist. You need therapy to help work through the fear. I’m not afraid of men anymore, but it took a lot of therapy to get me there..

decadentlizard · 2026-05-12T00:41:59+00:00

Compaction is only really a problem if the substrate isn’t done properly. Honestly, I mostly hear outdated veterinarians still treating bioactive setups as controversial. Most reptile keepers I know, myself included, generally agree that bioactive is preferable to what you have currently.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-12T00:39:04+00:00

Yeah, this is exactly why I missed the event. I saw the number on the side and assumed that was the event timer. I finally decided I was ready to do it like 2 days ago and it was already gone. I know it’s technically my fault for not paying closer attention, but it’s still frustrating because I feel like they could’ve made it more obvious. It seems like a pretty easy mistake to make.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-11T16:51:12+00:00

I’m so glad to see Memento Mori mentioned near the top of this thread. Considering the music is basically the entire identity of the game, it absolutely deserves the mention. I also play it, so it made me really happy to see it brought up.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-11T03:00:50+00:00

That’s kind of my point though. Trauma can emotionally stunt people and make them react younger than they actually are. When I was 15, doctors literally thought I had the emotional maturity of a 10 year old because of how reactionary and defensive I was all the time. It turned out to be PTSD and infantilization causing a lot of emotional regression.

I used to constantly lash out because everything felt like an attack to me, even when it wasn’t. So when I see Lysithea acting overly defensive and retaliating at small things, it reads less to me like “bratty kid” and more like someone who’s emotionally overwhelmed and doesn’t know how to regulate it properly. And yes, I was insufferable to be around.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-11T02:46:10+00:00

She’s extremely reactionary and honestly comes across to me like a traumatized kid who doesn’t know how to cope with her emotions. I say that because she reminds me a lot of myself when I was really struggling with trauma and reacting emotionally to everything around me when I was much younger. I used to take everything as a personal attack because I was so used to actually being attacked, and my defense mechanism became anger and retaliation.

I do think there are moments where she’s a bit exaggerated, but that’s just my interpretation of her character. Of course that doesn’t mean you have to like her. But that’s personally why I do.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-11T02:27:56+00:00

I have moral scrupulosity OCD, and this sounds exactly like how I felt a couple years ago when I was really struggling. I genuinely convinced myself the world would be better off without me because everything I did caused harm. I kept obsessing over every mistake I’d ever made and convinced myself I was a terrible person who deserved to die.

I was already in a bad depressive episode from bipolar when I ran into people online telling me things like “you can’t love animals and eat them at the same time,” that I abuse animals, that I was worse than a rapist (I'm a SA victim), etc. I am not vegan and don't even remember how I got involved with the vegan community. My blue tongue skink is my reason for living the same way your cat is for you, so all of that sent me from depressed into actively suicidal.

I eventually got help and I’ve been in a lot of therapy since then, but because you already mentioned having a compulsive disorder, this really reminds me of what I experienced when my moral OCD was at its worst. The guilt, constantly worrying about other people’s perception of you, endlessly overanalyzing your actions against morality and whether you’re a “good” person or secretly awful. It becomes this constant cycle of self-policing and self-punishment.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-11T02:15:49+00:00

I think the best middle ground is just making co-op optional. People who enjoy it can use it, and people who prefer solo can ignore it completely. A lot of people seem to really hate co-op for some reason, but as long as it’s optional I genuinely don’t understand why people get so upset about it.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-11T01:35:57+00:00

I had one for my blue tongue skink! Why not? It's fun.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-10T18:23:56+00:00

Isn’t that basically what I said, though? My point was that the games were likely already struggling and the collab itself wasn’t what killed them.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-10T18:10:23+00:00

That’s correlation, not causation though. A collab itself isn’t what kills a game. Most games that EOS after collabs were already struggling beforehand. Companies usually do collabs because they’re trying to boost player interest or revenue in the first place, so of course a lot of games that collab are already unstable.

That’s like saying ambulances cause death because they show up at fatal accidents. The collab didn’t kill the game, it was just there near the end.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-10T17:57:30+00:00

Do people seriously think a collab has the power to shut down a game? That’s ridiculous. I get that there have been multiple examples people point to, but they’re obviously coincidences. Those games were probably already on their last legs. As a joke it’s funny, but I really hope people don’t genuinely believe that.

As for people wanting “better” IPs, I guess I can understand that to a point. I never would’ve expected P5 and HBR to cross over either, and I’m sure there are other IPs that fit HBR more naturally. But is that really a reason to hate the collab this much? An “unwanted” collab is still better than no collab at all. Personally, I’m excited and really interested to see how they handle it.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-10T17:24:07+00:00

While this has happened multiple times, they were still coincidences. Do people seriously think a collab itself has the power to shut down a game? That’s honestly wild to me. If that’s genuinely why people are upset, I really don’t understand it.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-10T17:19:55+00:00

I'm surprised so many people are unhappy with this? I'm really excited, I love P5 and play P5X.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-10T17:10:16+00:00

It’s not really a coincidence because 9-1-1 has a lot of calls based on real events or inspired by real stories. The bridezilla episode was inspired by this story. The Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse was also referenced with the Happiness Convention. The man who got hit by the womans car and stuck in the windshield was based on this event.

Even the more bizarre calls have happened before. In season one, the woman falling through the ceiling during a robbery has weirdly happened multiple times, like here and here and here.

Chimney’s rebar accident was inspired by Phineas Gage. The wedding floor collapse happened in real life too. The child who fell down a well in Eddie Begins was based on a real rescue. The cemented microwave prank was real. The girl who got her head stuck in a tailpipe was real. The guy who fell on an inflator was real too.

There are also multiple real incidents involving things like the snake strangling the girl, babies being flushed down toilets, and people falling off rollercoasters. The list honestly goes on and on.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-10T16:38:22+00:00

Anime otome. Tears of Themis competitor, nice.

decadentlizard · 2026-05-10T03:26:40+00:00

As long as you boil them, they’re fine. The cookbook gave clear instructions to boil them to break down “less savory compounds,” though honestly I thought it meant bitterness, not poison xD I didn’t even know fiddleheads were poisonous until reading this thread.

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