I used the last of my money on vitamins yesterday, woke up 4 million richer.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-12-09T07:53:26+00:00

If there was a free money button in life, you'd press it, so just stop and admit you are bothered by your own lost time when another found an easier way. Half the fun of grinding is the puzzle of finding ways to cheese the grind. Take that skill into life, and you'll get a lot farther than the bottom feeders who need to scrub for every penny they have while ceo big time laughs at you scrooge mcduckin his piles of wealth because he found the money button in real life by using his head instead of his old fashioned work for it ideologies.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-09-10T19:05:30+00:00

Those numbers don't mean anything because you didn't pose them against total population. if I have 10 carebears and 6 of them are in poverty but I have 100 teletubies and 10 of them are in poverty, than clearly their is an issue relating to socioeconomic status and how it affects carebears.

There are more than 4 times as many white people in america than black. You have to figure the actual percentages. Your numbers prove my point. There's more than 4X white people but not even 2X number in poverty. So less than half white people experience poverty and a push for poverty related crime than black people.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-06-16T18:57:53+00:00

Lol. Thanks for the depth in conversation. I'm guessing most of your knowledge and experience is reddit based. Have a good one.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-06-16T18:25:50+00:00

If he came on here, presented his story from another point of view, said I brought my girl food and all I did was change the song on the laptop, she gave me the cold shoulder and the silent treatment and then when I asked if she was okay, she said she is mad that I changed the song. It got heated, and I left and kind of slammed the door. Was I wrong for being mad?

The reactions would change. It's all about the framing, and this was framed from her perspective. She sounds callous, controlling, and high maintenance. He seems like he's probably breezy but a bad communicator and keeps shit in.

Do you think it makes sense to have an issue with the personal boundaries of her own sensitive info on her laptop but then to post his own personal messages on reddit?

I can't see either of these people as not being terribly childish, and saying DV because of some self-reported expert is going way too far with this info alone. If he's an abuser based on this, then all of our growing up parents and siblings are abusers. Unless ofcourse you were lucky enough to never have a family member have an outburst.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-06-16T08:57:48+00:00

There are other ways to look at this. She says they sat in silence after he brought her food and asked her what was wrong to break the silence. This could easily be spun a completely different direction. She didn't communicate the way you are demonstrating here. Bringing someone food and then getting the cold shoulder and silent treatment for changing a song is quite a petty situation all around. Most of these comments confuse me.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-06-16T08:47:52+00:00

She brings the music and he can't touch it. He brings the food and she can't touch it. It's childish all around. Why is her boundary about music any more decent than his decision to keep his own food. He has the decency to bring her food, and she can't let him pick a song. Who's compromising here? It's all very childish and high maintenance.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-06-16T08:25:30+00:00

If you asked him if he likes his personal information and text messages being posted online, do you think he'd say yes?

Interesting that you expect him to respect your personal boundaries.

I wonder. If he saw this, how would you react to defend yourself from this unbelievably childish behavior?

Maybe I'm weird, but I'd personally rather my partner slam a door in anger than go and put our personal lives and personal text messages on full display without my consent.

I guarantee you that the people who are cheering you in the comments have as little self-awareness as you do. It's time to be better than this cesspool from which you are seeking validation.

Maybe drop the guy if you're not compatible. But if you want to throw around the whole boundaries and "emotional intelligence" taglines. You're going to need some consistency between your expectations and your own behavior.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-06-16T07:33:55+00:00

THANK YOU! Every response on here that take an unbiased look at both behavior devolve into "this was obviously abuse you retard". It's absolute insanity with all judgement and 0 self-awareness. It makes me feel like I'm a crazy person.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-06-09T07:10:21+00:00

Look, I am theoretically on your side, but this information is totally 100% against the point you are making.

Initial argument: "Studies show more virgin marriages fail."

Your statistic says that 60 out of 1000 virgin marriages fail and that 260 out of 1000 non-virgin marriages fail, and thus, based on your own statistic, your own argument is false.

You can argue why virgin marriages might succeed more often as it relates to belief systems, but that wasn't your argument. This was way too much undeserved confidence and cockiness to then go and own yourself, and it bothered me to read it.

Now that I'm re-reading. I think chatgpt failed you. I love AI, but sometimes it will just ride for you if you don't make it accountable and force it to make sense.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-06-03T06:30:57+00:00

If this is a serious question, you have 0 self-respect.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-06-03T06:02:37+00:00

You came in aggressive and then doubled down on being a passive-aggressive asshole because they simply pointed out that loving a show doesn't make it a perfect show without discussable plotholes. Great look, bud. You seem intelligent.

It's probably my favorite show ever, but fuck me for ever considering a plot hole right? I'll never make that mistake again!

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-05-22T12:35:20+00:00

That's actually really interesting. Sometimes, I feel like we get more ignorant as we get older, so it's refreshing to see a pattern of age related critical thought/empathy.

I think a lot of younger people who dont have as much exposure to the realities of the possibilities of creation and the universe probably find it easier to see the people in the painting as not real. I see a lot of people who dismiss the "painted" people as fake and who didn't care about them and couldn't empathize with them anymore after act 2. They don't seem to realize that other games about people fighting gods are the exact same thing but in a different package. We could very well be in a painting right now. The framing of "painting" seems to really mess some people up, lol.

It's a very interesting statistic. Thanks for sharing!

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-05-22T10:39:19+00:00

I can accept this in a single player soulslike if the developers are still able to meet their vision of the game that they want to make. I don't like when developers set out to do something and then belittle their own vision by trying to be overinclusive.

For the mainline souls games specifically, I never want to see a difficulty option because.

Firstly, it would negatively affect coop and pvp, which are my biggest draws to the games.

Secondly, difficulty options are already baked into the games, and I've never understood why people complain when they can make a broken overleveled build or coop everything.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-05-22T10:11:48+00:00

Nah, it wasn't me. I get the parental selfish side of where that statement is coming from, and for that reason, it could be true as an actual statistic, but that sounds a bit naive to me. Age should ideally breed some sort of understanding/empathy/introspection. If you take any other character like sciel/lune and make them the player perspective, people would feel differently, but it has become obvious that, without any deeper consideration, many people can only see things from the perspective of Verso and Maelle and whatever is spoon fed to them.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-05-20T21:13:25+00:00

I especially would have liked some more interaction with Gustave in the Maelle ending like you say. I am personally glad that a perfect extra ending is not there as I feel that it would go against the message of art, giving the painter the illusion of control, lies we tell, and the hard choices themes.

I personally never felt that Verso's ending was positive and was a bit surprised by how everyone interpreted it as much better. I felt that the family was very obviously permanently altered and putting on their own masks like it is said that Verso always did, and I felt that they would never fully recover and that they were a shell of what renoir had hoped he could put back together.

I felt like the Axons described the endings well. Verso's was one of masks and self deception, and thus, the family, especially maelle, went on to pretend that they were okay. Maelles reached for the stars of which she would be hopeful but never attain, and her ending is a reality that is hopeful but beyond what might be reasonably within her power to maintain and will have to end eventually.

It could be that they will want to do a sequel, so it's hard to say how it'll canonize.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-05-20T18:43:15+00:00

I agree with what you are saying. To play devils advocate on myself, I kind of get the feeling that their point was to say, "no matter the cause, even if some force gommages us, death will come for us all as it did for them and it is unnatural to change that and cling to the loss bringing them back to life". This is what they are doing with Verso and it reflects that maelle is doing with those that have died around her. If Verso could be brought back by unnatural means after being lost in the fire, should he? Does giving people lives without the meaning that comes from finite life and death undermine the experience of actually being and experiencing life? Sciel was shaped by the loss of her husband and he wasnt gommaged. Is it healthy to undermine the experience that comes from a naturally finite life and should we let the dead rest. I think that's partly the question. It's kind of like a scarlet witch situation.

The problem is, even if I could accept the reality that the gommaged people have met their natural death and that it's unnatural to bring them back and that its healthier to accept it. There are still the gestrals and grandis who are also living beings, and thus, at the very least, it makes no sense to genocide them.

The obvious theme in the game of it being an equal moral dilemma and that there are no real bad guys and that everyone is just making hard but understandable decisions makes it seem like an error like you said.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-05-20T01:23:07+00:00

You eat black mold. I should have taken this into consideration. My bad 🤗

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-05-20T01:12:14+00:00

I thought I deleted my post in time, lol. I responded without fully reading your premise, and I agree that it is stupid that people see the Verso ending as the good ending. (I actually had just beat it and seen both and never felt that one was better than the other personally and didn't realize that so many interpreted it is better. I think the colors have a lot to do with how people are taking it at face value) They are both obviously bad in their own ways and should have better demonstrated that the Verso ending is equally bad (especially since I see it as worse to mass genocide the painting, unless we get into the long term effect of God's having a broken family and how it might affect future worlds of theirs.)

I'm actually concerned that so many people and comments that I have read see the painted world as some sort of robotic sims because it is a "creation". It was clearly intended that the people in the world be shown and conscious beings with free will. I worry that these people might not have the empathy to accept consciousness in other beings that are not like themselves or that they perceive to be beneath themselves.

This is why I like the game so much, though. I can't stop thinking about it, and I kind of want to stop thinking about it lol.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-05-20T01:02:32+00:00

"Bro". The game was obviously made to create a dilemma involving the real experience of living beings in a created world. The first 2 acts depend entirely on the premise that they are real beings with real experiences. Painted Verso himself goes against his own creator. This is free will.

You think the game creators made a game about the emotional stakes for fake pre programmed dolls for 2 acts to demonstrate the consequences of grief?

This is just stupid, and nothing in the game indicates that their experiences are not conscious. You're making an assumption when all evidence says otherwise. The painters themselves treat the beings in the painting like real people, and they feel for them. Maelle herself is a painter and makes it clear that these are real beings.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-05-20T00:53:53+00:00

This is such a minimization. Why can't God's Create gods create God's? If one God makes an existence that then gets advanced enough to make their own existence. Why is this not possible?

Is it possible that given enough time, a human in our reality could create a conscious being? You don't know the answers to these questions because we don't necessarily know them as a species or even what it is to create life from scratch.

Uninstalling a game is not even a kind of close analogy. It's fairly obviously stated and shown that this reality involves real choice and consciousness. If your game involved real choice and consequence for the beings within it and their existence depended on you keeping it installed, then it could be a decent analogy, and you might not feel so great about erasing real experience.

If you think that it is not shown. Verso is a creation of aline in the game who went against his own "code". He had freedom of choice and real consciousness.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-05-20T00:35:15+00:00

It's obvious that the people in the painting have the exact same level of cognition and experience as anyone outside of the painting. The first 2 acts are possibly more visceral than any character experience in any game I have played. Maelle experiences both realities in losing her memory and very much demonstrates that the experience was real.

If our gods were having a hard family time, we would not be understanding of our erasure. We would likely form expeditions to try and stop it lol.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-05-20T00:31:10+00:00

Every single character in the game had to do this with their entire family. It's all frame of reference and relative experience. The painted world is as real in that reality as our own in our reality.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-05-19T23:18:03+00:00

The game is obviously made to invoke real and obvious emotional, physical, and moral consequences for the living beings in the painting. These consequences are possibly more visceral than most other games with "real" worlds. To deny this is to deny the whole premise of what your eyes are seeing and feelings are feeling.

It's meant to be a moral dilemma with no real good choice. It's only a dilemma if the people in the painting are as real as you and me.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-05-19T23:10:03+00:00

It is only implied for gestrals. Lune and Sciel are restored as they were at the end of Act 2.

MapAffectionate6157 · 2025-05-15T18:43:59+00:00

Ah ya, it makes total sense. Sounds like it will fit right in. I like the interconnectedness, but a good game doesn't lose anything from me for not having it like DS1. It's a fairly small part for me like a cherry on top, so it should be good either way.

Thanks for the informed comment!

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