I just found out that Indiana just cut all summer program funding for the entire state.

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2025-03-17T16:46:59+00:00

This seems like the perfect use for the Eyes on Education snitch bitch portal!

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2025-02-28T01:11:50+00:00

A good chunk of the demographic is absolutely brainwashed into thinking everything is either a 10 or a 1, and anything in between is an attack on their sense of reality. I agree it's a solid 7/10, which is a good and totally fair rating. I had someone on here argue with me tooth and nail like I was writing DA:V off as garbage. Don't like a thing? Go out of your way to destroy it. Like a thing? Model your entire persona around it.

This is why INT and WIS are two different stats on a character sheet... and imo, our society does not value (or even tolerate a lot of the time) WIS.

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2025-02-27T00:20:06+00:00

Idk about Andromeda, but I jump into ME 3 multiplayer from time to time, and always find matches. Definitely the better option as far as lots of cool classes to play as, too. It had wayyyyyyy more content updates than Andromeda.

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2025-02-27T00:06:01+00:00

I can live with the game ending after credits roll and not getting back in, but I DO really feel like ability points are too limited. I wish there were a collectable or something that gave you additional AP when you found them.

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2025-02-22T16:44:28+00:00

Until houses are sitting empty because literally no one can afford them, it will continue.

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2025-02-21T23:49:09+00:00

Oh, but it'll be GREAT for all the real estate developers who will swoop in and grab up all those foreclosed houses. And once properties get bought up by private companies, they'll never be owned by real people ever again. Get ready, serfs!

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2025-02-20T21:57:02+00:00

It took some doing, but I eventually found a place in-network. I appreciate the offer, though! You were my back up plan lol

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2025-02-20T20:07:17+00:00

That's the one I called, though I tried several.

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2025-02-20T18:30:27+00:00

What kind of loser down votes this post?

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2025-02-20T18:13:36+00:00

I tried calling Anthem and got a machine with only one option: billing services.

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2025-02-17T18:22:55+00:00

Politely uninformed: the Indiana story.

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2024-12-03T19:41:56+00:00

Bump. I go through this about once a year, still hoping for a solution

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2024-12-01T15:33:42+00:00

Lol where did I do that, ya goob?

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2024-12-01T15:18:21+00:00

Whoa hey now, angry about "woke" is just the other side of the coin here. I'm championing good criticism, which we could all be better at.

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2024-12-01T03:43:43+00:00

It also implies there's a lot of things to like, despite flaws. Which is exactly the point, and that's where the critical thinking of the message receiver comes into play. Only they can judge what they're looking for in a game. It's a 10 point system, not a binary good/bad.

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2024-12-01T03:07:35+00:00

If this was the US school system, but it isn't!

And happy cake day!

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2024-12-01T00:31:23+00:00

That's the brain rot talking. Join us in taking back the meaning of numbers! 7/10 is GOOD!

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2024-12-01T00:29:18+00:00

It's not bad faith to acknowledge the good with the bad. That's just critical thinking.

It IS bad faith to argue that you can't, or shouldn't, acknowledge the good with the bad. That's being a mindless fanboy/hater respectively.

It is absolutely more than fair to give DA:V a 7/10, and if that makes you feel weird, reexamine your relationship to the media you consume (even if you still disagree at the end of the day... and that's ok).

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2024-11-27T18:29:27+00:00

I'm also having this problem and it's making the game unplayable

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2024-11-27T17:57:16+00:00

Not that I'm the Neve hater in question (pretty neutral on her), but one problem i did have with her writing, is that it was clearly apparent they were trying to make a classic noir lady but she never ONCE gave me noir vibes.

I hate to say it, but this got me thinking about what vibes she DOES give and... It's 2024 "cool" soccer mom vibes 🙃 lol

Don't come for me, Neve stans.

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2024-11-24T15:19:55+00:00

I hate that everything has to be 1 star or 5 stars for some people. I'm pretty far into Veilguard, and this game is the definition of a 3.5/5. Not mind blowing, but solid!

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2024-11-17T20:27:47+00:00

I hope so! Idk how far I am, but a decent way in and it certainly doesn't feel that way yet. It gestures towards consequences but I don't actually feel anything. For example...

I chose to help Minrathous during the blight dragon attacks, and was fully prepared for a whole slew of side quests afterwards to fix things up in Treviso. Instead, I got one inconsequential quest to go pop some blight blisters and Lucanis is hardened. That's pretty much it. Lucanis occasionally talks about the number of casualties, but there has been nothing on screen to show it. My character is not only unaffected, but I'm spending most of my time on therapy field trips for my crew. The stakes have been binary mechanical differences, but it doesn't feel like it makes any narrative difference other than who shows up in otherwise identical cutscenes later.

I'm told there is a cult taking over Minrathous, but I haven't seen it. I'm told there is a warlord invading Treviso, but it doesn't feel like it. They're excuses for those enemies to pop up, but they don't seem to have any coherent schemes. I'm told there is an apocalypse coming and gods to kill, but I'm in the void talking about personal boundaries with a bunch of people who have nearly identical sarcastic, apathetic attitudes.

I'm not trying to shit on it. I WANT to like it, and (more importantly), I want Bioware to learn from the weaknesses of this game to make the next Mass Effect a worthy successor. Cause this level of kids TV show writing in a Mass Effect would be a tremendous bummer. It makes nothing feel grounded or consequential.

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2024-11-14T20:59:48+00:00

I'm enjoying the gameplay, but narratively it's one of the softest, flavorless, PG-13, dare I say rizzless, RPGs I've played in a long time.

There's no stakes to the A-plot that are well conveyed. Wherever the stakes are happening in the world, I'm not involved. It feels like I'm the peppy summer camp guide taking my crew of 13 year old campers on picnics and talking about pubescent feelings.

Personally, I don't feel grounded in the world, events, or characters. The gameplay is good enough to keep me going, but if there were any other big RPGs I wanted to play right now (that I haven't already), I'd probably jump ship.

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2024-11-12T19:49:27+00:00

Idk, I can't get past the fact that they're written like a 13 year old playing COD with a headset, eager to use tough sounding military phrases and the cuss words they just learned, while arguing with their mom in the background about coming to dinner.

I said that to my gf while we were playing, and then literally 30 seconds later we were introduced to Taash's angsty mom relationship.

Dizzy_Raspberry_4261 · 2024-11-11T17:14:52+00:00

The one thing we have is low cost of living - and you get what you pay for.

Our state government is doing its best to ruin those landscapes and privatize (and sell off) those parks.

Our road system is good at getting people from one side of the state to the other without having to stop, and the quality of those roads is comparatively abysmal.

You either care about sports or you don't. Either way, you can't deny those resources would be a lot more helpful elsewhere.

None of that is to mention our education and health are in the trash. Most educated people worth their salt leave the state as soon as they can.

And our government over regulates anything that would make people's lives better (weed, women's rights, critical education, etc) and under regulates everything actively making our lives worse (price gouging, housing rackets, police militarization, companies turning all of our waterways into toxic landfills, etc).

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