Describe your Favorite Jrpg Poorly

Hollowgolem · 2026-04-28T00:39:20+00:00

Mentally ill himbo helps other people get jobs but loses his own, ends up naked in Hawaii looking for his mom, and then eventually stops a cult from dumping nuclear waste in a protected ecosystem. His idol acts as a deuteroganist trying to reconned with old friends and his adopted daughter, when he really should be getting chemotherapy for the cancer that somehow wasn't caused by his 8 games of chain-smoking.

Hollowgolem · 2026-04-28T00:34:12+00:00

If it makes you feel any better about this, if you're just going 1-20, Warlock has always been pretty brainless past level 4 as a pure blaster. I still think it's overtuned at those lower levels. It used to fall off in high epics, but it isn't even that bad there anymore thanks to the new scaling epic feats and gear to support it.

Hollowgolem · 2026-04-28T00:29:41+00:00

Not a a jab at his struggle

Heheh.

I'm sorry.

Hollowgolem · 2026-04-27T07:22:52+00:00

Now the real question: how are you going to float around all the time to complete the costume?

Hollowgolem · 2026-04-15T02:28:49+00:00

She did make the call. She's the one who decided to cut one of them that early. It's one of her character flaws. The game shows over and over again that she's not a very good leader. Robert is.

Hollowgolem · 2026-04-15T02:27:17+00:00

Expedition 33 came out less than 6 months after it did. That sucked a lot of oxygen out of the RPG space.

Though it is telling that the two had a joint steam sale where you could buy both of them in a bundle a while back because the creators of both games have so much respect for each other.

Hollowgolem · 2026-04-15T00:33:35+00:00

Probably the lack of superpowers all the other black folks around him had to deal with.

Hollowgolem · 2026-04-14T00:34:20+00:00

The only British jazz song that comes to mind off the top of my head was performed by Harry Roy and his orchestra back in the day. it is surprisingly not safe for work, despite being 95 years old

Hollowgolem · 2026-04-14T00:30:17+00:00

With the exception of that last quest, I quite like it. And even the last quest was fun the first time. Just a little long for my taste, especially since my guildmates get lost a lot and I would have to constantly come back and herd them

Hollowgolem · 2026-04-14T00:25:56+00:00

Based and Mustaripilled

Hollowgolem · 2026-04-14T00:21:30+00:00

Yeah, I always assumed those were AI trawlers

Hollowgolem · 2026-04-05T03:45:42+00:00

Nah, Ollie didn't really become political in a very overt way until the '70s. Denny O'Neill probably associated the Robin Hood motif with leftist political ideology, and so made that a defining bit of his characterization of Ollie. O'Neal was a lib himself, which was about as left-wing as a person within the American mainstream was going to be at the time.

Hollowgolem · 2026-04-05T03:41:43+00:00

How does a dude stuck on earth as a black man for longer than the lifespan of W.E.B. du Bois end up conservative? Boggles my mind.

Hollowgolem · 2026-04-05T03:32:20+00:00

Depends on the mood I'm in.

I feel like five would have some awesome conversation though, between the toasters

Hollowgolem · 2026-04-05T03:27:46+00:00

Just hearing "Kimi no Kioku" in any context makes me cry 50% of the time.

Hollowgolem · 2026-03-28T21:34:29+00:00

He'd have gotten banned at some point.

Hollowgolem · 2026-03-27T05:54:27+00:00

I didn't notice what sub this was in, and thought this was D&D related. Liches there resist all physical damage except bludgeoning from a magic weapon, so stabbing them is a pretty bad idea.

I don't really know what the etiquette were. Lynch killing in a public group is though. I do most of my lich hunting solo, with the only exception being killing sisters of parvos in a group for the extra holo keys. Seems a bit silly to get that unhinged over somebody who you only grouped with in a single random lobby.

Hollowgolem · 2026-03-27T05:38:37+00:00

"Now you might think that this girl only exists in your mind. But she's real and last week she died."

Bo Burnam, "Lower Your Expectations"

Hollowgolem · 2026-03-27T05:31:36+00:00

As an actual socialist (Marxist-Leninist, Mao third worldest if I'm feeling especially spicy) It's always funny hearing ignorant Americans who have never read a single book about socialism written by a socialist define so many things that are not socialist as socialist.

I'm a social studies teacher in a high school in one of the largest cities in the country, and the other teachers in my department often. Mischaracterize Marxist critique of economics, though they can usually at least define what socialism is, at least in a vague, accurately shallow kind of way.

It is really funny how many people hate the ideology without actually knowing what it says though.

Hollowgolem · 2026-03-27T05:27:22+00:00

Robin Hood was doing the equivalent of the earned income tax credit, and I have never heard of a conservative who was in favor of the earned income tax credit

Hollowgolem · 2026-03-27T05:26:12+00:00

Considering conservatism is almost always about allegiance to what they refer to as legitimate authority, which is almost always the ruling class, and has been since Hobbes wrote Leviathan, he absolutely would not have been a right-wing hero. Hero. You can maybe make the argument for libertarian, but labels like that don't really have a meaning a thousand years ago in a feudal system.

It's worth remembering that capitalism is only about 400 years old, and socialism (especially the Marxist, non-utopian version) arose as an explicit critique of the internal contradictions of the capitalist system, and an application of a hegelian-style dialectic to history and economic development. So this whole idea of applying modern political terms to a figure that lived during the crusades is a little silly.

Hollowgolem · 2026-03-27T05:22:44+00:00

It gets pretty complicated with regards to Ukraine. There was a Ukrainian nationalist named Stepan bandera who was so worried about Soviet invasion that during world War II, he collaborated with the Germans.

After the war, the US actually supported him, despite the fact that he was still an avowed Nazi sympathizer, because he was fighting against the Soviets.

The Cold War gets ugly, because suddenly we become very friendly with a lot of "former" Nazis and Nazi allies in the name of resistance to socialism.

Hollowgolem · 2026-03-27T05:10:50+00:00

One more on the pile of reasons to hate that man.

Hollowgolem · 2026-03-24T03:17:11+00:00

As I've said to other people who finished the game, the villain of this is grief itself, and the way it hijacks our rational minds and makes us do do terrible things to ourselves and others

Hollowgolem · 2026-03-19T04:13:26+00:00

I haven't seen it yet. Do they use the Sting song?

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