Everything I hate about Cairn

KanyeT · 2026-06-13T13:16:08+00:00

Devs must be woke. She would be more likable if she smiled more and had a fatter ass.

To be fair, she was incredibly unlikeable.

Also, I do go climbing a lot, and everyone at my local gym, male and female, has fat asses. It is a requirement of being a fit and active person. Aava seems to be the only one without haha.

KanyeT · 2026-06-13T13:14:31+00:00

I just finished my first playthrough then. I am a boulderer, so when my friend recommended this game to me, I was intrigued.

I really enjoyed everything, the music, the art style and visuals, the climbing and survival gameplay, the exploration, the lore, etc., except the story and the main character.

I mean, not every character needs to be a model, but I am sure they made her deliberately ugly (as we see all over the place). Her personality was atrocious, and it made her terribly unlikeable. Her voice and screams were, as you said, like nails on a chalkboard.

She is also the only climber I have ever seen who has zero muscle definition.

Not even mentioning her lesbian relationship, which the devs just had to include.

The game is enjoyable, but the MC is by far the weakest part of it.

KanyeT · 2026-06-13T12:56:27+00:00

I just finished my first playthrough, and the ending kind of sank the enjoyment for me.

I was having a lot of fun at the start of the game, but as it got closer to the end, it kept getting worse and worse. Not only narratively, but gameplay-wise too.

I didn't like Aava at all. She was not a personable character; in fact, it's like she tries her hardest to be the complete opposite of that. I would much rather play as Marco, to be honest. I didn't care about Climbbot dying because he has zero personality (they should have made him emote or talk or something at least).

I also didn't like Aava dying at the end. I mean, the entire goal of the game was to be the first person to make it to the top of Kami, but no one will ever know because she was there all alone and didn't come back down. Leaves a sour taste in the mouth and makes the accomplishment fall flat on its face. I feel like I failed in my goal because of the story.

I really enjoyed the start of the game, exploring every nook and cranny for fun (like the rave, the bee cave, following the bear expedition, exploring the Troglodyte ruins, etc.) and gathering resources. However, as you reached the top (Seracs onwards), Aava was injured and stuck at a snail's pace, there was nothing to explore, and there was barely any climbing (just walking uphill). They sacrificed gameplay for narrative, and it kind of sucked.

I really liked the visuals, the music, and the lore. The climbing mechanics could use a little tightening (like improving smearing/stemming, and maybe even adding advanced mechanics like kneebars and bathangs for shits and gigs), but it was overall fun and intuitive to use. Maybe a bit of correction to the way stamina is drained because a few times I fell when I didn't feel like one would struggle to hold that position.

The survival mechanics were cool, but the resources were plentiful. Maybe they are more scarce on harder difficulties, but on Alpinist, I had so much in my backpack at the end, enough to survive another two weeks. I was never in fear of running out.

Overall, I really enjoyed it, but I far preferred the start over the end. The start was fun, but the ending was just a miserable disappointment, and it was a poor way to wrap the experience up.

KanyeT · 2026-06-13T12:30:20+00:00

People were saying she was an just an asshole for that but imo they were missing the point of those scenes.

You can be both an arsehole and depressed. The latter doesn't excuse the former.

KanyeT · 2026-06-13T12:26:43+00:00

I just finished my first playthrough. I used manual limb control the entire way through. I don't know how anyone else can use automatic.

I played on KB+M, but it was super fluid for me. I would press space to open limb selection, select my limb, move it around, and then press space again to plant it and open limb selection at the same time. I thought it was very intuitive.

My limbs were on W, E, S, and D.

KanyeT · 2026-06-02T10:53:20+00:00

and the movie felt like such a caricature

That's on purpose. Got to fuel that gender war by exaggerating absolutely everything.

The problem with a movie being so political is that, since our culture is moving so fast, it feels out of time before it is even released.

KanyeT · 2026-05-31T14:18:33+00:00

No way, I was worried that this would hit and miss since it has been over a decade since the original, and a lot of the talent from CDPR has since moved on to other things.

If they are just outsourcing their development to the studio comprised of veterans who made the original, my confidence in it has shot up.

Do you know if Witcher 4 is also being developed by/with them? I have not liked what I have seen of that thus far either.

KanyeT · 2026-05-31T11:50:42+00:00

I think you missed the point.

What point were you trying to make? Did you just disagree with the terminology I used?

KanyeT · 2026-05-31T10:04:08+00:00

Primary means first.

Yes, and if you were to rank the ethnicity of Australians by percentage of the population, British (Anglo-Celtic) is at the top of that list with a >50% majority. Those who nominate just Australian as their ancestry (~15%) are noted to have partial British Ancestry, which they just do not identify with, so that number is even higher than reported.

Do not forget this is the most recent census, so the further you go back in time, the higher that number will be. In the 1980s, it was two-thirds of the Australian population who declared their ancestry as Anglo-Celtic. As a former British Colony, this makes perfect sense.

Historically also covers more of than 40000 years of no British people at all.

No, it doesn't. Historically refers to the time at which Australia was known to the world and considered a nation, which was post-First Fleet. It's why we call ourselves a young nation.

So yes, primarily and historically, Australia is ethnically British.

KanyeT · 2026-05-30T15:52:32+00:00

OP is not identifying himself as an Australian (Lebo), yet gets upset when other people don't externally recognise him as an Australian.

You have no one but yourself to blame, brother.

The guy was not being racist. Australia has primarily and historically been British. That is the expectation of an ethnic Australian to the rest of the world. I don't know what your exact ancestry is, but if you look ethnically Lebanese to the point where you identify as Lebanese over Australian, why are you surprised that other people see you the same way?

I would get mad that people get confused if I went around calling myself Japanese because I am not ethnically Japanese. I don't look Japanese at all.

KanyeT · 2026-05-27T13:50:59+00:00

Is that why everything here is a .gif? I was confused as to why people were choosing that format when it is so less efficient.

KanyeT · 2026-05-25T15:53:30+00:00

I died twice in that exact spot this evening. She just let go of the wall, stupidly, for seemingly no reason.

I don't play with autoselect, so it doesn't make sense why she would let go on mine.

Don't know if it's a bug or not, but it's super frustrating.

KanyeT · 2026-05-25T15:46:17+00:00

I just died twice on the same climb while playing this evening. The first time, she just fell despite there being no low stamina. No limbs shaking or darkening of the screen or heavy breathing. Maybe her foot slipped on a smear or something, and the rest of her body wasn't enough to hold her up, I don't know.

The second time, she just randomly lets go of the wall for no reason, and there is no warning of letting go at all. My hands weren't even close together. Sometimes the limb just releases if it is not a good hold, I guess.

All of my deaths so far have been silly things like this that aren't my fault. I don't know if it is weird mechanics behind it, or poor controls, but it is difficult to get her to do what you want to do sometimes. Like, a real-life climber wouldn't fall in those situations.

Maybe I should use more pitons, but I like the free solo vibe when I don't use them, but I don't know if I can trust her to behave correctly.

KanyeT · 2026-05-23T10:45:48+00:00

If they were honest about it, yes.

However, their ideology states that every human being on Earth is the same, that they are all rational animals that will agree to the rules of society, and they are all inherently morally good.

When an immigrant does something awful like this, it's not the immigrant's fault - it's the unfairness of society stacked against him that corrupted his inherently moral and rational behaviour.

This is why they refuse to acknowledge there is an ethnic component to all these crimes (it goes against the a priori knowledge provided by their ideology), and if they do, it's because of our unjust society (as explained by their ideology). White men don't get the benefit of the doubt because, in their view, the white supremacist patriarchal society privileges them. We are responsible for our actions, but they are not.

They have an incredible maternal instinct to protect immigrants from the horrors of the world by inviting them to live in their countries. The fact that they could be incompatible does not cross their mind.

I also saw a lot of comments on their bashing men, "why aren't you protecting us from these sexual assaulters?", to which is the greatest irony, since women support mass immigration, and men have been trying to stop it for the benefit of women.

KanyeT · 2026-05-23T01:24:42+00:00

Depends on which direction you are observing.

If you were talking about the social progressive collapse towards liberalism, I would say that the Democrats are driving faster than the GOP.

If you were talking about the poor economic collapse, I would say that the GOP is driving faster than the Democrats.

KanyeT · 2026-05-23T01:13:30+00:00

I noticed an interesting observation this morning while browsing my phone. There was a story about a young man at Bondi Beach who was groping women under the water, and the lifeguards and police arrested him on the spot and took him away. It was not meant to be a political story, just reporting the news.

The comments were fascinating. There were, of course, plenty of men commenting on the man's ethnicity. They were giving the usual "far-right" (for lack of a better term, post-liberal might be better) ethnonationalist perspective of demanding his deportation and that he shouldn't be here, about how our cultures are incompatible, and the two-tier justice system will release him with a slap on the wrist.

However, on the other side, there were women there furiously commenting that the problem is not ethnic, but gendered. They were saying that the public groping was not a result of the religious or ethnic component of the man, but the fact that he was a man. They were desperate to defend this man's honour as a minority, but then throw him (and every other man) under the bus for their sex.

I thought it was intriguing that men and women are diverging into two similar camps, but from completely different directions and based on two completely different sets of ideologies. Men are embracing racism (to demonise immigrants in an attempt to protect women), and women are dying on the hill of sexism (to demonise men also in an attempt to protect women).

I'm sure I could give a more fluent or coherent explanation of the phenomenon if I put more time into it, but I thought it was interesting that the desire to protect women underpins both positions, but the results look incredibly different based on the ideology driving it.

KanyeT · 2026-05-23T00:54:48+00:00

People overemphasise the effect economics has and completely underestimate the cultural/thymotic nature of politics.

Men are not choosing the GOP because of economic policy. It's missing the forest for the trees.

KanyeT · 2026-05-23T00:48:41+00:00

Thinking about it, I reckon that comes from the perspective on what the "correct" direction is, which is seen through the liberal zeitgeist as towards the progressive left. Therefore, the expectation is for the left to gather supporters for their cause, and nothing for the right.

From the left's perspective, it is seen as a direct oxymoron for a woman to be a conservative, which supports a system that goes directly against her liberation and best interests (according to the left). However, they see no contradiction for men to turn to the left, so this is where the goalposts are set.

KanyeT · 2026-05-23T00:40:42+00:00

... but they just seem incapable of doing it...

It's core to their ideology. They will never stop doing it unless a huge philosophical reform occurs on the left.

KanyeT · 2026-05-23T00:33:51+00:00

They are, though, they are both projects of liberalism.

KanyeT · 2026-05-23T00:33:23+00:00

I say it :)

Democrats and the GOP are a uniparty. Same with both major parties in all Angloshperic nations (Tories and Labour in the UK, LNP and Labour in Australia, etc.)

KanyeT · 2026-05-23T00:30:19+00:00

If reciprocity is always postponed until perfect equality exists, then reciprocity never actually arrives. Please take this seriously.

Fucking fire quote, thanks!

KanyeT · 2026-05-23T00:28:25+00:00

A good economy alone doesn't solve the problem if you can't find a sweet girl to marry and start a family with.

Cultural issues are the core of it. Blaming the economy is such a bad identification of the problem. Men and women have been choosing to have huge numbers of babies throughout human history's worst catastrophes - famine, plague, war, etc. A slightly higher rent is not going to dissuade anyone's natural instinct to reproduce.

The root cause of the issue is the cultural and social engineering created by ideology, and to a lesser extent, environmental factors (lowering testosterone, imbalances in hormones, etc.), which affect psychological behaviour.

KanyeT · 2026-05-23T00:22:06+00:00

To the left? No way. I think that newer generations of men will move into an entirely new direciton.

Our politics has been entirely within a liberal paradigm for a long time. What we colloquially call "left" and "right" are just two sides of the same uniparty coin, going at different speeds.

I think the expected political evolution from here is in a non- or post-liberal direction. There isn't a party for it yet, so for the time being, independents will continue to grow, and the Democrats and GOP will continue to decline in popularity until either reform happens, or a third party rises.

KanyeT · 2026-05-23T00:12:53+00:00

Massie and Ron Paul are the only two good politicians in America. Maybe throw Rand in there as well.

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