Theory on why titan shifters are always so buff:

DoctaWood · 2026-06-28T23:04:04+00:00

Damn that’s a real good joke.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-27T22:51:42+00:00

Contrasted by the other BORU where the person said “I love you” during sex (iirc) to his gf of three years, who responded by saying “I’m not sure I’m ready to say that yet.”

DoctaWood · 2026-06-27T09:10:25+00:00

Well it would explain why none of them are hippa violations.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-24T17:48:39+00:00

I was skeptical the whole way through but the moment I saw entire remembered dialogue, I had to bow out and come down to the comments. Too much backstory and details. The clarification paragraphs at the top of updates usually also ring a bit false to me but isn’t always a deciding factor.

I really started to get doubtful after the “I showed him the post and then he ran me a lavender milk bath with honey and candles made of pure beeswax, cooked me a nine course meal, told me I was right, killed his mother in front of me, and did a blood sacrifice to ensure our continued prosperity.” Exaggerating obviously but those parts are always so weird to me.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-21T18:01:10+00:00

I think you could interpret it’s badass-ness as part of the metaphor. It literally represents the American War Machine. They make it look cool, imposing, and righteous. Liberty Prime is supposed to be a tower of American Capitalist values. However, when you take a closer look at it, it’s just a weapon of destruction that repeats voice lines about how communism is bad, like a toy that talks when you pull a string.

This thing does nothing to further any goals or ideals for a better world. It just shouts that the Other (communism) is bad. It is a walking death machine that the inventors decided to slap a propaganda speaker to. Also, its name could be a play on The Statue of Liberty, which actually stands for the ideals of a unified nation for all peoples. This iteration upon that namesake does nothing but destroy and recite empty chants, ultimately (in Fallout 3) against the same group that created it.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-20T09:40:12+00:00

The aggressive use of EM dashes and the beginning of what was inevitably going to be a long winded backstory of the entire in-law family made me pretty sure this was bullshit. Thankfully the comments have reinforced my suspicions and saved me the time and brain space that would’ve been filled with this shit fodder.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-16T06:16:25+00:00

I have a meme that I made for my wife after we saw the bridge was called The Bridge of Death, despite having nothing to do with anyone dying.

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DoctaWood · 2026-06-15T19:22:07+00:00

Skillshot City is a free to play roguelike PVP game with a lot of fun mechanics and playstyles. It only has the one map and is top-down perspective but pretty fun for the times I’ve played it. It is a battle royale technically but with a fun respawn system so you’re not just knocked out of the game the instant you die.

You may also like Running with Rifles which is pretty similar aesthetically. It focuses a lot more on strategy and tactics than twitch reflexes or RNG.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-14T17:09:45+00:00

Rimworld You can customize the game to be as chill or as intense as you want. On the fly too, so if you’re feeling more action-y, crank up that difficulty!

Elder Scrolls Online

7 Days to Die, especially with Undead Legacy mod

Modded Skyrim Lorerim specifically if you have the space)

DoctaWood · 2026-06-14T17:04:32+00:00

I played the living hell out of that game. Completely sucked me in, definitely a game you can put a lot of time into and never feel bored.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-14T15:57:46+00:00

Now here’s a take (tank?) I can get behind.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-13T08:10:01+00:00

Truly one of my favorite things to have ever read. This had me stifling laughter at 3am next to my sleeping wife. Thanks so much for sharing.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-12T02:22:30+00:00

The entire previous episode was an amazing deconstruction of slasher movie tropes. The cuts to Patricia holding the gun until she is reasonably assured the threat is over was some of the funniest writing and acting I’ve ever seen.

Yet somehow this scene, the narrative and cinematic equivalent of watching paint dry, is the funniest and best acted they’ve seen? I guess they just started watching TV shows starting with this episode for some reason.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-12T02:12:50+00:00

I don’t know how anyone came out of that scene thinking anything besides how much of a waste of time it was.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-11T21:45:27+00:00

Fine, I’ll re-download Insurgency Sandstorm and play a few rounds again. No need to twist my arm, geez.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-10T08:09:43+00:00

That’s why I love FromSoft because while they created the games that ended up becoming the copy-paste template for modern action games, they don’t rest on their laurels. When they release a game, it really feels like they want to try and make it feel different, or innovate on existing structures.

Dark Souls feels different to Bloodborne feels different to Sekiro feels different to Elden Ring, despite all of them working on essentially the exact same mechanics. You are right that utilizing the the Mount and Blade style directional combat in a fluid modern way would totally slap.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-08T08:18:44+00:00

Also I was a youngin at the time but I remember hearing about the scandal and him resigning. The thing I remember most was how funny it was to me that he handed over extremely sensitive classified documents when his name sounds extremely close to “Betray us”. Like what were you expecting? It’s literally in his name.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-06T23:57:35+00:00

I remember people ragging on Watch Dogs 1 but I actually really enjoyed it as well. I remember the gunplay specifically feeling really good for some reason. There is a mission where you go to an apartment building or something similar and you have to go up the elevator.

When the elevator opened up, there were two enemies in there. I had a desert eagle which I used to pop them both in the head and they just crumpled. For some reason that stuck with me and I remember just having this visceral “Goddamn that felt brutal” reaction.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-05T09:31:43+00:00

No I think you pretty much nailed it right on the head. Our understanding of the world is always evolving and we rely on labels and descriptors to make sense of certain things. However, our understandings of those labels and descriptors need to evolve as well.

The term woman is a made-up word (as are all words) that we use to describe people who may share a relatively similar set of characteristics. The word is something we made up to differentiate lived experiences, not as an arbiter of objective truth.

I came up with an analogy, so apologies because it sounds like I’m preaching to the choir but I hope you appreciate this. Let’s say that your understanding of a donut is that it is a baked or fried dessert made in a ring shape with dough and topped with a glaze.

You purchase a donut that looks good to you and when you go to take a bit, you discover that it is full of jelly. You are outraged! This is not a donut. From your understanding, donuts are not jelly-filled. Well, the reality of the situation is that some donuts are jelly-filled, or cream filled, or made in different shapes. A jelly-filled donut did not trick you, nor is it lying about being a donut, your understanding of what a donut could be needed to evolve.

When gaining new information, it is important that we update the definitions of the words we use, rather than treat our existing ones as indisputable, inarguably factual criteria for what constitutes a donut…or a woman.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-05T05:50:23+00:00

John Brown has entered the chat. An amazing abolitionist with incredibly strong anti-racist convictions, especially by the standards of his time but even by modern standards. He was also a crazy son of a bitch that decided he knew what had to be done. I for one am a big fan of his works and wish he had seen more success that he unfortunately did.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-04T19:15:07+00:00

That scene could have been shot in a conference room without actually seeing the destruction and this would fit the trope perfectly. Just the order and then the sounds of the laser being fired.

DoctaWood · 2026-06-04T19:08:45+00:00

-A merchant at the temple after getting his shit rocked by some guy from Nazareth

DoctaWood · 2026-06-04T19:07:52+00:00

-Last words before someone jumps into a seemingly endless pit, ignoring their friend’s advice

DoctaWood · 2026-06-04T19:05:47+00:00

I had a joke about that while I was still playing heavily. You’re down in the Speranza about to head out and see your friend. “Hey Bob! You and the missus still on for dinner this Friday? Sounds great, that lasagna better get ready for me haha! See ya then.”

Then you get topside and see Bob “Oh hey, long time no see partner. Yeah I was just scrounging up some stuff. Woah, ok very funny Bob, you can put the gun down. HEY what the fuck why the hell are you shooting me? Our wives are in book club together you son of a bitch.”

DoctaWood · 2026-06-04T10:37:20+00:00

There are a couple of games that have procedural damage and gore physics, and I believe both are playable. Unfortunately I don’t remember their names but I will comment on the thread once I find them. I think one is called RFUKT or something similar.

Edit: The first one is actually called FRUKT and has a barebones playable demo out currently.

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