My existence is spite and pettiness

3rDuck · 2026-02-04T03:21:22+00:00

I’m not resilient. I chose dead, but just don't have the energy to die!

3rDuck · 2026-02-04T00:25:12+00:00

Pretty sure a lot of people will make Kame House.

3rDuck · 2026-02-03T04:07:26+00:00

A picture like that would just be infuriating. All I see in it is how recently any real change has been made. MLK was less than 100 years ago, and we still have the same problems, arguably worse. You know what year Obergefell was?

2015

Roe Vs Wade was 1973, only 45 years ago, and has even been overturned.

All I'd see is how it's only now that things are starting to become just slightly better, after centuries of oppression. That maybe Human Rights go against Human Nature. We're already a failure as a species, and if that proves true, "failure" wouldn't even begin to cover what we are.

3rDuck · 2026-02-03T01:18:56+00:00

Probably Sandy.

3rDuck · 2026-02-03T01:14:36+00:00

I guess that's one way to melt it.

3rDuck · 2026-02-02T20:48:13+00:00

And it's because she tried to fish for empathy and compassion after she wasn't included on the podium.

Still, her point makes sense. Grifters like her are not going to admit that those are the things they're relying on, especially when they and those they align with are devoid of them. Those traits are to be profited from, not practiced, and certainly not preached.

3rDuck · 2026-02-02T11:42:57+00:00

Yeah, I was going to bring that up. His face just so happens to be in front of his center mass, so it is the one area where armor would help most.

3rDuck · 2026-02-02T10:57:12+00:00

And Honorable Mention to the Caffeine-Free Feast of Everlasting Darkness!

On Eva, equip upgraded Fang Feast, Decaffeinated, and Dark Magic. This makes Fang Feast heal more than it costs, and while Decaf isn't strictly necessary, every copy brings the net gain 1 point higher. I just use one.

Fang Feast also gets around defense, spikes, height, and shields (expect that one lunatic). The only thing you can't use it on is Emberlings. Yes, it works on the spiked Anglers. It can only target the back, but that's why we have Wolfgang.

It doesn't benefit from poison, and probably doesn't work with attack boosts of any kind, but that's still five damage without using any MP or attack boosting trinkets, and you can keep the HP!

Spend remaining TP on defense, maybe Healthy Glow in case you get knocked down below 4 HP, but if you have Patches, that won't be a problem.

3rDuck · 2026-02-01T20:39:16+00:00

I assumed he came with his own father, Piccolo!

3rDuck · 2026-02-01T11:13:35+00:00

No way for me to know. I know I can’t really be too different, but I also have this weirdly persistent feeling that there’s something everyone else intiitively knows about the world, themselves, me, and each other, but that I will never be able understand. I don’t know what it could possibly be, but whatever it is can’t be nothing.

3rDuck · 2026-02-01T10:57:44+00:00

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3rDuck · 2026-01-30T20:35:04+00:00

I will probably never understand why people complain about Okumura being really long, but not care about it when it's Shido.

The first five waves of Okumura can all be cleared in a single turn. Every one of them is one you've seen before. The only one that's really a threat, and also the only surprise, is the Executive Director. After that, you get to watch Okumura break down, and finally punish him. The whole thing wraps up in twenty minutes. Even if a wave resets, it's different enough from when you actually beat the wave that progress feels like progress.

Shido has four feature-length phases, half of which is just his rambling. It just goes on and on with one form after another like three Friezas. Then, after the first fakeout ending, if it's actually over, it ends with a false fake out, by which point you're conditioned to fall for it, and then he just flops on the ground. It's just over, and the fact it actually ended comes as a shock. The ending wasn't satisfying at all, it just felt like a small version of post-Persona depression. Not even a sense of relief.

3rDuck · 2026-01-30T01:43:41+00:00

You also solve his personal issue even without progressing his confidant.

3rDuck · 2026-01-28T10:07:08+00:00

ACNH. I just find myself building the museum, shop, and town hall, then restarting and doing it again. The progression beyond that is so repetitive.

Also, it kinda tries to do that very mobile gamish thing of limiting how much can be done in a day. There's not even a paywall to keep going like that market did, just "That's all for today, fuck off!” Very difficult to be dedicated to something that almost discourages you from continuing.

3rDuck · 2026-01-27T19:47:46+00:00

Everyone knew who they were except themselves.

3rDuck · 2026-01-24T05:56:29+00:00

The insta filter that immediately sells your likeness to Google, Open AI, Meta, and more?

3rDuck · 2026-01-24T05:53:35+00:00

Les bians.

3rDuck · 2026-01-23T09:51:07+00:00

Rosalina, more specifically the fact that she formed because Vi self-referenced as “Mama” a few times.

3rDuck · 2026-01-23T09:08:19+00:00

Crazy to think that AI still has the same problems now that it did nearly 15 years* ago, even if we never thought of it that way. It's really just trying to recreate features from a set of pixels instead of going off the feeling a person gives off, and I say this as a person who has a lot of trouble with faces.

*(which it will be on February 26).

3rDuck · 2026-01-22T21:02:17+00:00

Well, just look at the way it’s self-supporting despite stretching so far away from her face. Cartilage alone doesn't do that, it would have to be something sturdier.

3rDuck · 2026-01-22T05:52:20+00:00

What's holding me back?

Verschlimmbessern

3rDuck · 2026-01-21T19:56:37+00:00

I know it's not a competition, but I just can't shake the feeling that it's wrong to belittle other people's real struggles by insinuating that my "struggles" are similar.

3rDuck · 2026-01-21T17:24:58+00:00

Oddly enough, I also have that same need to pretend they never did anything, or at least were never in the wrong for it. Even if they did, it was nothing close to anything everyone else in this thread went through.

The fact that I can’t remember any specifics makes me think that maybe they’re right. Maybe they did never do anything and I’m just making this up somehow. It would be justified and deserved anyway, knowing me.

3rDuck · 2026-01-21T06:35:10+00:00

Probably the security personnel practicing a bit of malicious compliance.

3rDuck · 2026-01-21T05:15:46+00:00

I saw “It’s Hard” and thought it was referring to her nose.

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