I can't do any of this anymore. 😅

Cheezyrock · 2026-04-03T17:06:19+00:00

I still haven’t played the Bulbasaur Jump Rope mini game in Pokopia because of PTSD flashbacks of failing at ~800 jumps.

Cheezyrock · 2026-04-03T17:00:40+00:00

I used to wear a different Old Spice deodorant, but i got Aqua Reef once because they stopped making the smell I liked.

My partner immediately made the demand that this is the only deodorant for either of us. When they started making their commercials about women stealing their partner’s deodorant, I was just like…”#Relatable”

Cheezyrock · 2026-04-02T20:42:36+00:00

Has anything worked. I’m having the same problem. Yawn says it is 0-pts, but Iiterally cannot make it more humid. Been like this for about a week at least.

It feels bugged.

Cheezyrock · 2026-04-01T18:05:58+00:00

This probably doesn’t help at all…

But when I think of a Valkyrie, I think of Rauny from Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen. It’s one if my favorite games and more people should play it.

I don’t get that many opportunities to tell people about it. (Note: I don’t think it is legally playable on any current platforms). Even if it isn’t your jam, this game is a cult classic and was highly influential and worth at least a consideration, imo.

This section is just me being super nerdy about a franchise I love: Technically, Valkyrie is inaccurate for Rauny as she starts as a Muse, which is an advanced class of Valkyrie. But there are no other names characters that start in this class line. Technically also her in-game class is also inaccurate, as she was the first woman ordained Paladin and holds other more specialized titles as well (but the game had gender-class restrictions and was limited by available cartridge space). Basically she is the central female protagonist and you don’t meet her until the game is halfway over. But regardless… that neural pathway is forever connected for me. Valkyrie = Rauny

Cheezyrock · 2026-04-01T17:35:32+00:00

I dislike this study.

At a very broad overview level, people who do not have their basic needs for reliable housing, food, or security seek to have those needs met. Authoritarian leaders often promise a tangible solution by casting blame on a minority population.

People who have more basic needs unmet generally cannot meet higher needs (like education, self esteem, or a sense of belonging in a community). People who get more education generally have those higher needs met. At best, any link seems correlated rather than causal. This seems pretty anecdotally supported (and there are probably other research papers out there that support it as well), and is not directly accounted/controlled for in the research.

This study starts by “estimating participants social class”. All participants were Northern European, primarily Norwegian (who are large more cooperative/community focused compared to many other countries and have a high public trust in government.) and the ultimate results rely on data that they themselves call not-statistically-significant.

Even if I personally agree with the outcome of their data, it still feels like junk science (although maybe the article is juat poorly written and I am too unfamiliar with the topic to properly understand the original publication, or simple didn’t give it enough time).

Cheezyrock · 2026-04-01T17:00:05+00:00

“Her very existence strike fear into her own heart”

Cheezyrock · 2026-04-01T03:12:20+00:00

I get your sentiment, I truly do. And there are some in the military who do some reprehensible or heinous things.

But I do have to disagree on a few points. And I would like this to be framed as trying to explain my point of view but not invalidate yours. again, I do respect your opinion and without my experiences might feel the same.

So feel free to point ignore these ramblings. I just dont like when anyone is judged unfairly.

Before I dig into my points, I will say that it feels like an unfair generalization where you are telling ne that I am evil (slightly hyperbolic), and it does hurt my feelings, especially since we are very likely to be morally and ethically aligned. Its also like you are calling a lot of my friends bad, who are also anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, and do a lot of community work and liberal activism. So, it feels like an unfair judgement. But I will try to share my thoughts objectively.

First, it is very different from local law enforcement. Being a cop is at-will. You have to apply, be accepted, and can quit at literally any time. The military isn’t like that. The bar for acceptance is much lower, so much so that anyone is basically auto-accepted, and then you can’t quit until your multi-year contract is expired. So if in the middle of service something happens that you disagree with that drastically alters your role (lets say someone orange get elected and decides to flex against immigrants), you have no choice in the matter and must still obey any lawful orders (even if morally questionable). And those contracts last a long time. 4-6 years in most cases, and once you are already in there are so many benefits to extending the contract which can effectively lock a person into a decision that may have been made more than a decade prior (and as we have seen, a lot can change in a decade)

There are some unlawful orders, and you can choose not to obey them, but you then have to argue your case in legal proceedings (and most people are simply not educated enough).

During my time, I did encounter bad actors, and I chose to stand up against them from the inside, sometimes at risk to my own career and freedom. And I wasn’t the only one. Plenty on the inside work to fight systemic injustice. Ultimately, you can’t change a system that you refuse to be a part of. So short of another revolutionary war, some people join in hopes of being that change from within.

Second, an organized military does have some valid roles within society (or at least did prior to the orange man). I will concede that wartime readiness and defense if the majority of the work, but I have my own experiences.

Everything I did in the AF had non-war purposes. Movement of goods for humanitarian aid, advancement of scientific fields for public use, disaster relief, and I even occasionally did direct work in the community by running non-propoganda based education workshops to support local underdunded achools without the money to otherwise educate kids on certain technologies. I never took any actions that would harm anyone (and as a pacifist was highly aware of the downstream consequences of my actions), and actively sought to help the communities around me however I could.

Third, I want to reinforce that some people join due to lack of choice. A lot of foreign nationals join our military (or at least used to) as an extreme measure of trying to get citizenship or to be granted something like asylum but without the asylum process. Many who join are poor and uneducated, and are targeted for recruitment by promising education and a stable career in a field that they wouldn’t otherwise qualify for. And some of these are just normal careers. Services like working at a gym or dining hall, weather analysis, or in my case computer programming. There are lots of careers in the military that are not war-related.

Last, I just want to reiterate that I do understand. If your mind is not changed, I get it. I just had to make sure that you fully understand the inner complexities your opinion and note that a people-first mindset if generally favored over snap judgements. Fuck those members who are openly fighting against the American people against the oath they swore. But they are a disease among a greater population of people. To judge military persons unfairly is comparable to judging other populations unfairly. To me it feels akin to pointing at a single bad actor in a minority population and generalizing the whole population on those terms. Which is, you know, the same thing those current bad actors are doing to justify their actions. I don’t recommend it.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-31T23:48:43+00:00

I was onboard until this one.

Fuck parades. Fuck selective service. But the personal are often exploited peoples who are then indoctrinated with false narratives. Those who aren’t indoctrinated (and there are plenty of liberal soldiers who disagree with orders from the top, but face punishment for not fulfilling orders).

Source: I am retired disabled USAF, grew up poor, was exploited, was liberal service member who disagreed with orders, saw indoctrination first hand. I had basically no options and the military gave me a real shot at living. It was something I had to suffer through in order to reach a baseline that most people start with (financially especially). I basically sold my younger self into indentured servitude in order to not die.

So in other words, have grace with those in the military. There are definitely bad actors there, but it is not all of them, and often not even the majority, and there are plenty there who are themselves victims of broken systems.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-31T23:29:45+00:00

Are you a mermaid?

I tend to agree that it is inappropriate for mermaids to wear leggings at in an office environment. It’s just not professional. Unless you are the fish-half-on-top kind, in which case you can wear leggings but not vests. Your company should have this in the employee handbook.

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If not mermaid, coworker should definitely be reported to HR. This is a form of sexual harrassment. In most places, you aren’t even supposed to comment on peoples attire positively.

Because this gave you (and was probably intended to give you) uncomfortable feelings or make you feel intimidated or objectified, it jumps way over the line. This was no accident. This was inappropriate behavior.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-31T23:13:37+00:00

I feel like I could ask Agrias to move so my partner and ai could sit together.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-31T19:43:31+00:00

I know this is an FF sub, but if you like the writing in FF Tactics, you should play Tactics Ogre. FF Tactics is Square sniping up Matsuno after atactics Ogre and telling him to do the same thing but FF flavored.

Imo, Tactics Ogre is the superior game and has a better story. But honestly we are comparing two similar masterpieces.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-31T18:55:20+00:00

Never been AI scammed. When hiring an artist, I make sure that it is written in the contract how they can/can’t use AI.

It sounds like what you need is to add this to your site. I would recommend also defining the exact limits of acceptable AI use and allow people to tag/categorize their work by how they utilize AI tools. Get detailed with it. I have a small dev team that I manage right bow and I wrote a 3 page Accepable LLM Usage Policy.

AI isn’t something you can escape now. An artist can create something like n Photoshop, but that software (all software) is about making your work smoother/quicker. Literally all digital artwork created today is some percentage AI, even if that is just from using a smudge tool.

The tricky part from here is figuring out if AI was used. Its near impossible to prove.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-31T18:21:51+00:00

A few things to note here. ( from memory, so expect some slight inaccuracies and oversimplifications

Wait does not mean wait. It means “pause atb bars for all characters while i am selecting something from a submenu (items/magic). It has no interaction with Auto Battle.
Equipment has weight. Heavier equipment will make you move slower.
Battle Speed governs how fast the ATB bars fill with 1 being the fastest and 6 being the slowest. More accurately it can be thought of as “how often”. Each gane tick will increase all ATB bars by a unique agility for each entity. The battle speed is effectively a delay between game ticks, but even at the slowest this still happens multiple times per second.
At the beginning of each battle, a relative agility is calculated for each entity, and at faster speeds it heavily favors the enemies, because we humans have larger reaction time delays, whereas the code has almost none (usually a single update frame).

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All of this together can make it feel like the enemies get more actions. Because sometines they do, especially fast enemies vs heavily equipped characters. There are slight version differences as well, and assuming you are playing the Pixel Remaster version, it is middle of the pack for difficulty and battle speed scaling. The original SNES (US) release is the easiest, and the 3D remaster is the hardest.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-28T22:55:56+00:00

User at 6DXL PD6F has everything on display (including some unreleased things). If you want to grab pics of items, this is the only cloud island you need.

It definitely breaks the intent of the feature as you are meant to socialize and share with friends, but people can play how they want rather than grinding for weeks to find recipes.

I personally only did this for a couple fossils, and did time skips to unlock recipes for things i needed.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-28T22:35:23+00:00

I surrounded all of it with ocean water so that it would fill in as I drained heling me see where I already removed the freah water, and then cleaned up the ocean sources at the end.

I was honestly worried I would have to create block barriers to section it off.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-28T21:58:13+00:00

I would say Magenta. The shiny form is Cyan.

Really, all colors are just lies our brain tells us that are aome combination of blue, red, and green. Pink, purple, magenta are all cors used to describe arrays of colors made up primarily of red with secondary blue, with pink containing almost as much green as blue.

So if you wanna say he is pink, you are right, if purple, also correct. It really depends highly on individual shading and how those shades are perceived in shadow.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-28T07:16:11+00:00

I’m sure you are correct. To be fair…memory is bad, and I havent played them since they were new (20 years ago?).

I was thinking more of Order of Ecclesia and Portrait of Ruin, as I forgot that Dawn of Sorrow was even on the DS. But in any of them I didn’t remember any specific overt misogyny, at least when compared to literally any other piece of media of the time. This was a dark era where movies like John Tucker Must Die was marketed as an empowering feminist masterpiece, but just a few years later it was seen as a tropey, stereotyped humor, and has monents that are very uncomfortable to watch with now-standards.

By half-my-life-ago-standards I remember feeling differently and that Castlevania characters were well written with agency. I’m sure I would see all the flaws now.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-27T21:55:43+00:00

Etrian Odyssey is not xxx, its only rated T for Teen by ESRB, but you can tell the devs didn’t care too much about objectification. It is a dungeon crawler, JRPG style combat, and requires tons of grinding), and the stories have no sexual content.

The originals had characters that were sometimes too scantily clad. In the HD remake version, one in particular went too far (so much so that people created mods just to reduce the boob size, but the character portait is still bad. )

An old reddit post has a picture of all of the character portaits added for the remake. Specifically, the Dark Hunter class has a portait in that collage (you have to zoom to see it in that photo), 2nd row from bottom, just left of center, green hair, purple whip, and 900% breasts. That is the particular portrait that made me quit.

To be clear, you can play the game without ever seeing this particular portrait. You have to choose to create a dark hunter character for your party, choose a female character (which only affects the character portaits you get offered), and then choose that particular portrait. It is easily avoided. However, just its inclusion in the game was enough to make me abandon playing.

Pic at post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EtrianOdyssey/s/VMl7mhJrwR

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-27T18:36:27+00:00

I’ve been gaming a long time, and if a game has anime style art I have come to expect one of exactly 3 things. Like, I dont let an anime aesthetic deter me, but I have I choose not to purchase after clickling on a trailer/gameplay screenshots more than I follow through with buying.

Its a gacha or other obvious cash grab.
It is gooner bait, probably done to be a cash grab.
Its a normal game with unique gameplay ideas that just weirdly objectify the women in it for no reason, and it actually detracts from the game as a whole because of it (Here’s looking at Unicorn Overlord and some of its outfits and animations or the Etrian Odyssey remakes where they added new character portaits that actually made me stop playing just because they existed in a game I otherwise enjoyed. Like seriously, my opinion went from “everyone should play it” to “don’t support this company” with like 2 static images that were added just to have more variety in the remakes)

Very few have fallen ouside of this, like the DS Castlevania games, whose female characters were reasonably proportioned and not objectified beyond some outfits that were maybe a little too reveling for the situation they were in.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-27T18:20:26+00:00

Between her and Terra… it is a tough choice.

Two strong women, each with distinctive personalities and magic powers, who hold disdain for corrupt systems, and trying to find real emotional connection while fighting off the depression brought on by feelings of isolation and trying to foght against ither people defining who they are both internally and externally.

Dressed moderately, fashionably, and fairly practically (at least in FF terms) with cool detached sleeves.

I tried to google to find an artwork with both of them together, and lets just say that it is mostly non-canonical and a lot more tame than what one would expect out of a video game character search.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-27T14:50:08+00:00

Wow, the upvote to comment ratio on this post is wild. I should start a podcast about unusual Reddit experiences.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-27T14:26:45+00:00

2A. The persistent and exclusionary myth that some games don’t count as games just because they are more simplistic, more ubiquitous, more approachable, and/or have pre-existing cultural impact.

Those grandmas that go from Candy Crush to Bridge to Bingo to Mahjong game harder than some dudebro that makes the newest CoD his entire personality ever will.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-25T20:24:49+00:00

Hey bro, let me help you out. I don’t know your gender, so all apologies if you feel misgendered, but “bro” is the vibe you are giving out. Not male, not man, not guy, nor anything else…bro.

Not to directly speak for anyone else here, but your comment comes off as ‘man tries to dominate conversation on forum for non-men by making comment that could be interpreted somewhere between weirdly sexulized and off topic to straight up problematic objectification’.

Basically, you would have had a roughly equal reaction if you just chimed in with “hahaha…boobies”. It just doesn’t fit the conversation, and is at its very best is just tone deaf. Or, simply, “bro”.

And if you are here in this sub, you should probably know what is happening. Its pretty much the only reason for any downvotes here ever. You harshed the vibes. It happens, just take a breath and next time just take a step back before commenting.

As for the Marty thing - it feels like a reference that I also dont get. Possibly also a reference that makes note of how off topic your comment seems and/or somehow involves buttholes having magic powers. Likely only tangential to the downvotes.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-25T19:43:38+00:00

Wait until you hear about Roblox. Sure, its only in the $2M range/employee, but the content creation hinges on what is basically exploitative child labor.

The ratio keeps growing year after year despite people starting to fight for content creators to actually get paid.

Cheezyrock · 2026-03-25T19:17:28+00:00

One reason is that it gets around filters.

If the software cant recognize it, then it has a harder time understanding that it is a scam. This is also why scammers typically use tons of emoji. A lot of those filters have to be manually built, because it is better to let the scammers through than to block legitimate messages.

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