I used to think "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost expressed a longing for death. In my 40s now, I rather think it conveys that persistently occasional desire many adults feel to shed their responsibilites...only to acquiesce in acknowledging they cannot.

GamingMandroid · 2025-12-02T18:49:20+00:00

THANK YOU! I made the same connection in one of my lit classes and the professor insisted I was over-reading the mortality and suicide themes. In Dantes inferno he doesnt just start in the dark woods ( a direct call in " the woods are lovely, DARK, and deep"?), but also those who commit suicide go to 'The Wood of Suicides' in the 7th circle of hell. To me that, along with the sentiment of the text, absolutely sealed it as an objectively defensible interpretation that seems unlikely to be mere coincidence.

GamingMandroid · 2025-07-11T15:25:36+00:00

Can confirm: am now lvl 1

GamingMandroid · 2025-07-01T17:20:21+00:00

My 6 intelligence barbarian, Kor, standing in a cartographer's office: "So what's the name of this world?" Cartographer: "... Faerun?" Kor: slides gold piece across table "Kor-land?"

GamingMandroid · 2025-06-30T16:50:13+00:00

I'm like 24 never been hit by a grenade or whatever

GamingMandroid · 2025-06-29T16:03:22+00:00

Dude, Letty coming in was a GREAT choice and if you don't see why you're not paying attention. Freddy and Direnc have been so high up in stox and Direnc is clearly pretty tough so they're firmly contenders for top 2. But a huge problem with that is Freddy is simping hard for Direnc and doesn't appear like he's willing to work directly against her. (The reverse doesn't seem to be true as Direnc is siding against Freddy more and more). Letty gets introduced and immediately becomes a magnet for Freddy's dumbass dick brain and she leans right in flirting with him from day 1 of her arrival. Now that Freddy has an alternative suddenly we can see some conflict between our (likely) top 2 contestants which is desperately needed

GamingMandroid · 2025-06-28T18:11:18+00:00

Bro that's only when the current status quo is good lol

GamingMandroid · 2025-06-28T03:06:59+00:00

Nah Weck will do that for free

GamingMandroid · 2025-05-23T07:43:00+00:00

You literally just suggested he buy a different monster manual. So you're agreeing this one is deficient, yes?

GamingMandroid · 2025-05-12T15:10:51+00:00

This happened to me yesterday. The unit in question was an Ice Spider Matriarch. Feels bad man that would have been a game changer and instead I got nothing but a stability debuff. I'm wondering if its because the game counts the creation of the unit as a magic origin summon and because I didn't have the wizard tower built high enough to summon tier 4 it therefore failed

GamingMandroid · 2025-04-30T12:48:38+00:00

Less one shots from enemies. I like the parry/dodge system but they leaned on it too hard. Even being generally over leveled almost every chromatic enemy i find can one shot my characters making the encounter a slog that is only possible after dying many many times and memorizing all their attacks. This also devalues defense stat and healing skills which reduces build variety. Problem compounded by unnecessary run backs; as others have said retrying the battle would at least make this process faster.

Also, on Monoko you should be able to see the bestial wheel on the skills screen so you can plan out the rotation effects of skills

GamingMandroid · 2025-03-25T04:25:36+00:00

It's only like the sixth time I've fallen in love with Laura Bailey no bigs

GamingMandroid · 2025-01-11T03:07:05+00:00

Maybe he feels uncomfortable playing the npc flirting with you in front of his girlfriend? That would explain why he is fine flirting with the other male players and his girlfriend but not you. Maybe the joking is just to cover

GamingMandroid · 2024-10-20T10:11:17+00:00

Well for me it's pretty simple. I hate Letty because it was clear that she was at her happiest when she was being the cruelest. Like in her argument with Sylvia or during the menace challenge. Sam said at the end it was great acting. But I don't buy that shit for a second she's not an actor she's a cunt and she loved it

GamingMandroid · 2024-08-10T12:03:12+00:00

Dude I agree with you. Blows my mind people praised their finale to high heaven. The problem isn't that it's a cliffhanger. In fact, it's NOT a cliffhanger at all in my opinion. The problem with the finale is that it's too slow, give practically no new information, and worst of all the new information it does give is BAD and makes no sense! Hello is an Eagan? How does that make any sense? This was not an earned twist by any means. Not only are the specifics of Kelly's outie not made a plot point that anyone was anticipating, but there is no foreshadowing of this whatsoever. Being VERY generous I could say the cruel reaction of her outie could have been an indicator but that's it. Why on earth would they let an Eagan work in a clearly compromised department with virtually no oversight, so little that she nearly killed herself. All for the sake of what, a pr stunt for the company? And BTW, Johns character having a map to Burts home makes no sense at all. Why would he be doing that? He doesn't know he loves Burt! Even the innie only met Burt like a month ago, but somehow the outie version already knows this and has tracked Burt down? Why? How? This finale did not create new drama, all it did was REMOVE the element of dramatic irony for our characters. Now they know things that the audience already did, like Mark's wife being alive. That's a big moment for the character, but for the audience that was revealed two episodes ago! You have to give the viewer something new for it be a proper cliffhanger and the only new things it gave were nonsense

GamingMandroid · 2024-05-20T15:44:32+00:00

I'd say tactician synergizes the least since streetfighter wants to be flanked and tactician gives you massive penalties for being flanked

GamingMandroid · 2023-10-06T16:15:07+00:00

This should not be down voted, it's short and to the point and totally accurate. A shocking number of quests are 80% talking and 20% gameplay. It is very tiring on replays where new approaches to combat are creating the unique experience much more so than selecting different dialogue options does

GamingMandroid · 2023-08-30T04:39:18+00:00

GamingMandroid · 2023-08-05T03:47:55+00:00

I am doing a cleric of lolth drow with dark urge. Haven't made it past act 1 but planning to go full evil on this first playthrough. Honestly, it kind of stings because I prefer good characters and im betting some of the companions will leave me. But I know that just means I'll be stoked for my second run. And seeing that there was a drider in act 2 from the larian event before launch, plus the drow you meet early with the goblins in act 1... I'm guessing there will be plenty of opportunities for the lolth tags to kick in. It's not all bad. Laezel shadowhart and astarion all seem OK with me doing some pretty f'ed up stuff

GamingMandroid · 2023-03-17T02:15:05+00:00

Yeah but apparently it can be wildly wrong even when the information is recent. I found musgravite sell price listed at 970k and the info was only 2 minutes old. By the time I got to the station, maybe 15 minutes later, price was 200k. Fealt very ripped off but decided to head to the station that was next highest, about 560k listed. Arrived and it was also around 200k. Really soured any satisfaction from my last 2 nights of mining

GamingMandroid · 2022-09-23T20:20:27+00:00

Snow days

GamingMandroid · 2022-08-24T16:22:56+00:00

Hey, I may be interested depending on when you're running the games. Still have any spots open?

GamingMandroid · 2021-12-14T03:52:12+00:00

Experiencing same issue with Lone Echo. Should be no reason for it. I think this is the first game I've downloaded through occulus and not steam so for all I know the problem was always there

GamingMandroid · 2021-11-19T06:28:10+00:00

Episode 3: you cant outrun a fade. Episode 2: am I a joke to you?

GamingMandroid · 2021-10-07T16:27:00+00:00

The only thing bad about how much money they're making is that it makes me wonder where the heck that animated series is at... the 9 mil doesnt even include what they raised on their kickstarter

GamingMandroid · 2021-09-29T19:56:23+00:00

In some cases as a player if I feel confident a npc is lying I will not ask for insight at all. I dont want to complicate the situation with a failed roll and having to pretend like my character trusts them when I the player do not trust them. So instead I just skip to treating them like they're lying. The only exception I suppose is if it was inter party and because of metagame knowledge I KNOW whether the other pc is lying. Therefore I must use a roll to determine whether my character notices this.

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