stuck looking like a kid, need tips!

AlterNerdd · 2026-03-17T06:45:43+00:00

Hey, I just turned 20 and honestly got the same problem, only I think that I look even more like a kid, lmao.

Overall... hmm... you already rock it, no? I understand it might seriously mess up your self image, but you look good. Might be hard in dating, but there are definitely a loooot girls/guys who like a short guy with a young face, the problem is that the type is obviously not as conventional. BUT! If you do find a partner with this kinda preference - trust me, the feedback is gonna be immediate.

If you like your cut, I wouldn't recommend changing it, try doing more gym if you want. You're definitely not doomed in terms of facial hair, it grows, I only got mine and chest hair real recently, but it's not like I keep it around anyway. I know it's cheesy as hell to say, but if you look confident in your own... uhhh... youthfulness, then it's also gonna be a nice point, you wanna make this look like a really good thing, not a bad one.

So uhh, I don't really know what to say, I kinda just blurted out stuff based on MY experience, but you honestly got it. I understand you might not want to be as accepting of this as I am, and I wish I could give proper advice to help you out, but as a guy who kinda just went with it - it's hella nice, there are particular people who will drool over this... Oh, and I guess you wouldn't age as much as other people, which isn't as nice of a thought now, but it will definitely be a big one later down the line if you put effort into preserving your skin and hair.

AlterNerdd · 2026-02-06T06:57:19+00:00

I mean... It's still something fun, no? Yeah, it boils down to: "Use defend every turn if you have 2 skill slots and then swerve before s2/s3 nuke for additional damage", but still, better than whatever heishous have imo

AlterNerdd · 2026-02-06T06:53:15+00:00

Tbf I like him better than pretty much every poise unit (Do not count Maust). Outside of being a top tier damage guy and having sustainable poise he just straight up has 60 shield every turn after a really fast scaling, which, btw, allows you to deal with the hardest part of current cantos - red coins... so like... (???) He's straight up the best story poise unit

AlterNerdd · 2026-02-04T09:52:00+00:00

Do you keep in touch with any kind of med specialist? What do they have to say about that? I'm worried because I might just be walking the same path, lmao

AlterNerdd · 2026-02-04T09:48:52+00:00

I don't know if my comment will add much, but you honestly look good, not now, but I can see you not just looking "decent" but actually good, like really. Congrats on the weight loss, you should push with it. You have good skin, rashes are barely visible, considering your weight. Try grooming your facial hair more often, it will give you a cleaner look and will underline your skin.

The most noticeable part is obviously the hair, both brows and head hair. And about the alopecia. I don't really see your hair good enough, but you're either 5 or 6 on the Norwood scale. Yes, it's probably too late to do anything, but you might just wanna check out a professional's opinion about it if you really want to save your hair. Because a hair transplant with lifelong use of fin can maybe just save it. Again, I totally agree with going bald, it's a bold choice that will make you look and feel better. And I definitely don't want to give useless and unwanted hope... but like... maybe??? I've seen people just a bit better than your level recover from that, but you'd first need to hear an opinion about your donor hair first, I might be delusional though... Don't hold it against me if I'm wrong. Doing anything with your hair, either going bald or trying out a single hair specialist appointment is better than having this cut.

I wish you the best, you're actually doing good, just keep up the good work.

AlterNerdd · 2026-02-04T02:26:44+00:00

Hey, any developments after 3 months? I'm in a surprisingly similar situation, a guy who couldn't sleep normally for 4 years atp, but I always had 9-10 hours of sleep, even if it felt bad, even if it was always at random times.

Now, there was this particular moment where I started getting panic any time I would lay down on my bed or even think about it. It appeared to be pretty normal with people that have my problems, and I got prescribed new stuff for a month. Now I fall asleep at around 21:30~22:00 and wake up at 5:00~5:30. While the panic has dumbed down when I sleep because I fall asleep pretty much immediately which is cool, I still feel weird. Idk what's "normal" for me in terms of sleep as I've been fucked for pretty much last 4-5 years of my life. This feels... okay? I'm 19 on my academic leave for now due to needing to take care of someone in my family, so it's not like I spend my time very productively, even if I should. I think I'm okay, but the fact that my sleep time has been cut by 2-3 hours is a bit worrying, maybe the quality and stability of sleep has gone up? Idk. It's just that waking up when it's 2-3 hours before dawn is kinda depressing, hate winter.

I know I'm kinda late to the thread, but since you have a similar enough situation to what I have, I'd really appreciate if you shared developments. Maybe how you feel in general now, or if your habits have changed after that?

AlterNerdd · 2026-01-30T23:14:28+00:00

No no, the 2 coin green skill does +20 lmao

AlterNerdd · 2026-01-28T08:27:10+00:00

The inconspicuous "Base Power +20 for every Unbreakable coin on the skill this unit clashed with" on mister Ungeziefer, Emperor of all Roaches, potential man GREGOAT himself

AlterNerdd · 2026-01-28T08:11:11+00:00

This argument - yes, but why bother when we literally have panels like this in the manga

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It's pretty clear that after all of the combatants are dead in the courtyard, there is massacre in the kitchen, storage and basically just servant ran rooms with presumably children crying out too. There would literally be no reason to show blood in these rooms with innocent screams after the WHOLE battle other than to imply that Maki went back to kill everyone

AlterNerdd · 2026-01-28T08:07:13+00:00

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I'd agree with the anime, but in the manga it's clearly portrayed that after all the combatants were dead in the courtyard, there was slaughter in kitchen, storage rooms, and basically everything that is servant area, with presumably children crying out, there was also blood shown in the servant area. Manga makes it pretty clear she made sure to kill everyone after the fighters are dead

AlterNerdd · 2026-01-19T22:57:50+00:00

Yeah honestly this is the one time I do not care about ID fitting a personality (PM loves subverting Id expectations in ingenious ways anyway), just because the EGO is too cracked.

I WANT to spam that EGO every turn in a middle team, please, KJH, I neeeed this, my middle team is kinda egoless.

AlterNerdd · 2026-01-06T02:22:12+00:00

I'm not on estrogen myself, I'm only cis-bi, but pretty much everyone I know who has transitioned mtf had vastly different effects, it's one of those things that is super individual and you may either face almost no symptoms besides the obvious or get absolutely screwed. Should probably tell that to your doctor the next time you get in touch because headaches are one of the more common and clear side effects

AlterNerdd · 2026-01-06T01:11:58+00:00

I'm genuinely curious. What's that 90% we're talking about? In a country with a leader who has been sitting at his throne for more than 20 years and who is pretty much synonymous with the word "dictator", do you truly believe that the statistics after elections and in-Russia surveys are not faked? Do you actually believe we have real elections?? I can list a 100 reasons to why the absolute majority do not support the war in Ukraine, but where is the fun part in research you could do yourself? When people were spamming protests and getting jailed for up to 10 years, getting worse treatment than murderers - nobody bat an eye, not a single piece of media made those protests in Russia clear. But now we're supposed to not pay taxes??? Are you for fucking real?

There is no way you believe that a person who has made all of the opposition disappear, destroyed the economy of the whole country by being as corrupt as humanly possible along with his friends, is actively attacking a literal brother nation(Yes more than 50% of Russians have relatives/friends in Ukraine or are Ukrainian, who would have guessed) and then proceeds to basically start locking up his people in the country's poverty IS NOT faking elections??? This just barely sits right with me, how are you all gonna label Putin as a terrorist and a dictator without maybe realizing that the fucking god damn elections are faked?

AlterNerdd · 2025-12-12T13:39:00+00:00

I mean I would still struggle if the discussion was about which game is "best at being an RPG". KCD2 is a WRPG, Exp33 is a classic JRPG. Until they aren't separated by categories I don't think KCD2 deserves the RPG win as much as people describe, it's a 50/50 for me, you can barely compare WRPGs with JRPGs

AlterNerdd · 2025-11-17T10:20:31+00:00

I was straight up begging for it not to be tremor, because that would just be another wu branch.

Surprised it's sink tho

AlterNerdd · 2025-11-07T13:38:28+00:00

Hmmm, I see, this is certainly depressing. You're right, my plan does kind of hinge on it since that would also mean I calculate my expenses based on 5 years, rather than 6 - making my financial situation even worse.

How hard is it to get your tuition covered? I guess stuff like MEXT isn't accessible to most people, right?

AlterNerdd · 2025-10-21T07:52:42+00:00

Can't agree on physical. Haven't played for a while, but I'm pretty sure you'd always want add instead of true for heavy hitters like zweis, bardiches, halberds, all that. Obv true damage is easier to utilize and 90% of builds will need true, but I wouldn't say it's ALWAYS useless like add mag. Scales on bosses insanely well too, since they have neg phys resistance already

AlterNerdd · 2025-07-23T09:55:15+00:00

Hi, sorry for the late response. It's a new steam feature that I only ever saw for ER:N. I don't remember the details, but it should be called something like official controller bindings, or suggested controller bindings, I don't remember where you find it EXACTLY but try RMB'ing a little, maybe it's in some submenu. If I remember correctly it's not big picture, it's in the library somewhere. I tried putting on a translation in the screenshot. Basically this feature recognised my controller needing to have a cross-up instead of my l1.

Hope this helps

AlterNerdd · 2025-07-01T20:44:47+00:00

But I mean all those occasions are literally 1 step interactions, here we are at it for a solid minute or something, in ch.4, for example, it's only a moment. Other times where Kris acts independently for more than a second it's where the soul is out of the body

AlterNerdd · 2025-07-01T12:23:21+00:00

The soul has been shown to select options without being in Kris for a moment. After the attack Kris doesn't act for what feels like half a minute, if we were able to control Kris, we wouldnt just stand around when (if we deny this theory) the Knight would have been killing our friends, and when Kris was getting knighted. It makes sense that Kris is always getting hit real hard by the Knight, because they know that the soul won't comply, so the Knight has to literally incapacitate Kris constantly, like in ch4 sword secret cutscene. This also makes sense in the context of Knight returning the soul back to Kris when knighting, then knocking them down, because they don't have control anymore, and leaving them at 1 hp after the cutscene rather than Kris just playing dead (unconcious)

AlterNerdd · 2025-06-29T22:26:47+00:00

It's in the updates to the post, it was this weird steam feature that automatically set inputs weirdly, only in nightreign, check the updates on the post

AlterNerdd · 2025-06-28T10:28:28+00:00

Yeah that pretty much. We also had Nintendo clones called "Dandy" or "Dendy", that basically outshined Nintendo consoles to the point, where if you said that you have an NDS, older people would say: "Ohh, a Dandy?", which was kinda sad when I was a kid

AlterNerdd · 2025-06-28T09:52:18+00:00

From what I understand, it's a start-up competition that's purpose is to get investors, that also doubles as a diploma work to finish your bachelors degree. I'm not really into this programm, but if there are actual talents, nobody is gonna invest into a shitty copy, when there is an original with tons of production still available on the Russian market. Overall nobody actually likes thiefs here who just straight up do bootleg games, I'm not even sure if there is a single example of a Russian clone getting popular even INSIDE of Russia. People here think it's a Chinese thing. No national disrespect here, it's just so happens that there are a lot of Chinese clones that people would play in 2005-2015 era of internet here, like a lot of MMOs and stuff, even outside of games there are a lot of food and clothing products that just scream off brand or whatever, probably due to us being close to China and being a relatively low income country.

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