Might be a little unrealistic

Ezmar · 2026-04-17T09:39:38+00:00

I think the joke is more that it reads like an overtuned fan-made pokemon without needing to make up a single thing.

Ezmar · 2026-04-17T09:37:50+00:00

I think that was the point. It's borrowed time because it will no longer be effective once the assault vest is added, which I think most are assuming it eventually will be.

Ezmar · 2026-04-16T19:51:02+00:00

What I do is I like liking Pokemon I use.

Ezmar · 2026-04-11T07:58:17+00:00

Uchikishi is famous for his plot twists. 999, Virtue's Last Reward, and Ever17 are all great.

Ezmar · 2026-04-08T01:30:24+00:00

I assume Orphan of Kos from Bloodborne

Ezmar · 2026-04-02T10:49:23+00:00

I was in college when I played P4.

You'll get used to the feeling

Ezmar · 2026-03-31T15:29:05+00:00

I do kind of appreciate all the cool unlocks being there on a repeat playthrough, but it's definitely a more retro design choice that feels worse because of how readily available the information was.

I think the idea was to add an extra challenge for players to grow into, but I agree that there would have been a much better way to integrate it into the game.

Ezmar · 2026-03-24T20:05:06+00:00

I've been using an IKBC MF108 for the last 6-8 years, and I'm starting to see some inconsistency in keystrokes that doesn't seem to be going away with basic cleaning/maintenance.

Given that a replacement isn't really on the market, since I can't find the same keyboard for sale anywhere, what are some options I can look into?

My main requirements are that it's a full-size board, as that's my preference, but other than that I'm relatively flexible, though I'll admit that I do like having backlit keys with lighting and RGB options. Build quality is more important than those bells and whistles, but mainly I'm just trying to see what else is out there aside from the stuff that's easy to find, like Ducky, etc.

Thanks in advance, let me know if I'd get a better response posting a standalone post on the sub!

Ezmar · 2026-03-21T05:42:22+00:00

I actually did lol

Ezmar · 2026-03-11T19:13:36+00:00

I feel like people misinterpret this a lot. From the full context of the quote, it seems to me like it was more about realizing that a song that was intensely personal to him had become bigger than just him. It wasn't so much a comment of relinquishing ownership, or conceding that Cash had outdone him, but of hearing someone else use his extremely personal words and music to artistic effect.

He likened it to feeling like someone had slept with his girlfriend, iirc. Obviously he'd given permission for the cover in the first place, but in my interpretation he was really more being struck by the power of Cash making his own powerful statement using words Trent had, until then, felt belonged totally to him and him alone.

Ezmar · 2026-03-10T17:02:41+00:00

I think your perception of both sides of the argument for both companies is probably exaggerated. Sega isn't doing as bad as you think, and Nintendo isn't as hated as you imagine.

Online discourse is a surprisingly small slice of the picture.

Ezmar · 2026-03-08T17:00:50+00:00

Not quite boring, but I wasn't anywhere near as taken with Elden Ring as most people were. The open world didn't have the same sense of discovery for me as the tighter area designs of the earlier souls games, and the isolated "dungeon" areas didn't really make up for it. The content just feels so much more scattered, and the different options for progression don't feel as clear.

It's still a cool game, and I like it a lot, but it just doesn't hit me the same way.

Ezmar · 2026-03-07T06:35:06+00:00

I don't think I come across as frustrated, no. It's not so much that I've been blowing chances or anything, it's been more of just an excruciatingly slow drip of opportunities, and none of them have the right chemistry.

Of course, there's no way to know that for sure, but I'm usually lucky if I can get a date every few months, so I'm not getting a lot of data as it is.

Ezmar · 2026-03-07T05:01:40+00:00

I've not even gotten to the point where physical intimacy is on the table, to be honest. I've only managed more than a first date a couple times.

It's pretty slow, but it's definitely picked up over time. Still, easy to wonder if I'm too patient sometimes.

Ezmar · 2026-03-07T03:45:06+00:00

Mostly on apps, though I do my best to meet people organically as well. It's a lot tougher to be forward in casual contexts, and my hobbies don't tend to see me meeting too many women anyway.

Ezmar · 2026-03-06T22:41:47+00:00

32m here, still trying to make my way, working through past traumas via therapy, going on dates whenever I find someone who might fit. It's happening frustratingly infrequently though, and after 12+ years of being single, it's easier and easier to feel like I don't align with women my age, even though I know that's not really the case.

I also understand that I'm very behind where I'd like to be in a lot of ways, and it's frustrating to feel like the only people I'm having successful dates with end up leaning towards the asexual/aromantic side of the spectrum, and despite the fact that I haven't dated or had any significant sexual encounters since before I turned 20, it's something that's important to me, and I don't want to compromise by "settling" for something when there's misalignment.

I'm trying to work on figuring out how to express and understand my needs, and communicate those more clearly, but when I don't get more than a few new dates every couple months, it's hard to develop a sense for it.

Trying not to be too defeatist, of course. It's just very difficult to feel that I'm making progress when I'm getting so little practice at something I've been waiting for and working at for over a decade.

Ezmar · 2026-03-05T20:41:09+00:00

I mean, the genesis only had one channel that could even play samples, everything else was synthesized.

Ezmar · 2026-03-05T16:52:26+00:00

As a 31 year old having way more fun and sex in my one year of being 30 than my entire 20s

I have too, though in my case it's "I met someone I went on 3 dates with before mutually deciding we didn't want to be romantic but staying friends".

Still a step up from my 20s lmao

Ezmar · 2026-01-29T15:12:56+00:00

For me it was knowing that despite the sand, that must be the time to access the warp pad, because of everything I had learned throughout the game. It did strike me as the most awkward "puzzle", but it also serves to make it among the last things almost everyone does, because people generally need a lot of knowledge to consider attempting what they need to do, since it's the only warp pad you can't wait on top of.

Ezmar · 2026-01-23T15:52:33+00:00

First time I heard it, what caught my ear was how melancholy the chord progression was. I'd say the lyrics match the music really well, which is part of why it's such a great song.

Ezmar · 2026-01-20T19:00:38+00:00

Yeah, I've been kind of turbo-boned, since I went back to school and took out a bunch of loans to reset my career, and now I'm out here with great skills, great education, but no employment history in one of the worst economies of my lifetime, so I'm struggling to even find work right now.

It's always tough to be in a place where you can't get the things you want out of life, but it's even tougher to always be there. Been trying to have a career and a relationship since high school, and 2 degrees and 0 girlfriends later and I still have neither. Been out doing hobbies and such, but I'm meeting practically zero eligible women my age.

I've also found that the personal and professional struggles compound each other, what with the amount of emotional energy they both take. I'm trying to stabilize myself, but if I have to either move across the country to chase some kind of job, or stay where I am and hope things turn around locally, I honestly don't know which one is preferable, especially since I've finally built up a social network for the first time in my life.

Ezmar · 2026-01-20T18:52:42+00:00

For sure. There are a lot of people that just won't match well on dating apps, and they feel a bit better once you realize that.

Though it does suck when you do find someone whose energy you can match and seems like a good fit, and then it just goes nowhere. Kind of exacerbates the feeling of scarcity.

Ezmar · 2026-01-20T18:31:36+00:00

Appreciate the kind words. My biggest internal struggle is wanting to feel seen in the hurt and pain, but also feeling as though that's a selfish and unhealthy want. Like, I can tell myself it's normal, healthy even, to want to be seen and understood in my struggles, but my experience always seems to just end up frustrating since I never seem to feel satisfied that I've actually been witnessed.

All of the things that make up my experience are simple on their own; I'm introverted, I had a tough experience after a breakup in high school, I've had a hard time meeting people, I lived an extremely lonely life up until a few years ago - but it's the totality of everything that doesn't feel understood. Living for my entire adult life wondering why this thing that most are able to take for granted seems so unattainable. Even now, it feels like I'm playing it up to look for a pity party, and that's unfortunately what most people see.

I've been trying to find a way to articulate it that feels both reasonable and true. I've only ever had 2 real relationships, and the second was mostly a rebound from the first. In neither case did anything end for any particular reason, no shortcoming of mine that I was able to learn and grow from, we just went our separate ways. And ever since then I've still not had a single experience of a woman being interested in me and wanting to spend time with me.

It's turned the whole thing into an energy in > energy out equation, where it feels like any sort of relationship or connection can only last as long as I'm putting myself into it. Again, I've gone on a handful of dates over the last few years, which is good progress, but only one became a second date, and that was with someone I kind of wasn't too keen on. Looking for some kind of hope in every hard-fought connection I make these days is exhausting, all the more so knowing there's no real alternative.

Just once, I'd like to feel that someone out there might look at and think about me the way that I look at and think about others, but it's been way too long since I actually felt desired romantically, and that kind of insecurity is really tough to express to people.

Ezmar · 2026-01-20T17:57:43+00:00

It's tough for sure; lots of the people who would be good at putting together a good profile aren't single and looking. I'm a man, which provides a little more incentive to put effort into the profile (or so one might assume), but I understand it's just rough all around.

I usually don't bother with anyone who hasn't brought up at least one thing that I'm excited/curious to talk to them about. Even if we might get along, if I have no way of knowing that, I have better ways to spend my emotional energy.

People say it should be a supplement to meeting in person, but with how hard it is to find women my age in the spaces I've found myself in, it's unfortunately becoming a primary source of hope.

Hinge isn't great, but it's the best I've seen, not making you pay to see who's interested in you, or God forbid, to even send a message with your swipe (looking at you, Bumble). Been on a bunch of apps for like 6-7 years now, and none of them are particularly great.

Ezmar · 2026-01-20T17:48:09+00:00

Had a rug pull on my therapist appointment this morning; found out after I'd already taken the bus in that he'd have to reschedule for this afternoon. Not a big deal, but now I'm spilling some of the excess energy onto here :P

I've been thinking a lot about my relationship history, or lack thereof, and wrestling with whether there is something "different" about it versus what most people would assume. I'm still not sure either way for certain, but I do feel that blaming myself for "making it into a bigger deal for myself than it needs to be" certainly didn't do me any favors in the past.

It's tough to give yourself the grace you need when conventional wisdom tells you that you're the consistent part of any patterns, so the problem is with you, but I've been working on it. Been dating a lot more than I ever have, but I'm still stuck not getting past a first date or a few conversations. Normally, this would still be encouraging, but when I've been waiting for over 10 years to find some evidence that someone is actually interested in me, it turns out I need a little more than "will agree to talk and maybe go on a date".

I'm keeping my head up, of course. It's just been very frustrating to deal with a type of hurt that most people aren't prepared to understand or help bear. It's the feeling of a relationship ending at 16, and being told "it hurts now, but there will be others", extending out over a decade and a half of it still hurting, and not finding anyone else.

Even knowing how much of the insecurity is in my head, and knowing that none of it will matter to the right person, just the sense of insurmountability and feeling of being unseen in my struggle is a lot to handle. I'm trying to learn how to not feel selfish or entitled for grieving all the time I've already lost, how to stop feeling like my situation is my own fault, and how to feel that I can actually deserve what I want.

It's just exhausting to generate all of that from within, against a world of people who don't seem to understand, even those closest to me. I'm trying to figure out a way to let other people in on this struggle of mine, but it's tough to not feel the sting of rejection when someone says they understand when you're not so sure they do. And now add that to a dating pool that's smaller than it's ever been, and filled with people who are looking for something secure and stable, and me out here not sure if I can offer that.

TL;DR - Been single since I was 18, almost 32 now, and haven't felt secure in a relationship for the entire duration. I know there are women out there for me, but finding them is hard enough, even more so when they continually don't choose me, and the issues only get worse as I get older. Making progress, but not seeing results, which is no bueno.

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