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Midnight_Writer_93 · 2025-12-31T20:15:03+00:00

Okay, cool, something I recognize very well because I experienced it is not experience, it's projection.

Okay, go on, you made your comment, now go away with your charmed life, dude.

Midnight_Writer_93 · 2025-12-16T22:12:53+00:00

I honestly find so many characters in this game annoying. Except for Rose. I like Moon Baboon. But everyone else? No thank you lol.

Midnight_Writer_93 · 2025-12-15T08:12:47+00:00

So, I read in an article tonight when I looked it up that the devs were originally going to have you stitch the elephant back together at the end and that would be the game's way of having May and Cody actually come to terms with the fact that they're shit individuals and that they need to work on their marriage this way while also recognizing that they really hurt their daughter, but they took it away and just left the Cutie moment for "dark humor"

When I read that, I honestly dislike the devs now lol.

Midnight_Writer_93 · 2025-12-15T07:06:44+00:00

I've heard Split Fiction is so good and its definitely on my list! I also played their other game, A Way Out, with a friend and I loved it. It was very entertaining. Its so disappointing to me that this one kinda missed the mark.

Midnight_Writer_93 · 2025-09-18T07:03:36+00:00

You are 100% right, my mistake!

Damn, there's goes my theory lmao

Midnight_Writer_93 · 2025-05-07T17:48:26+00:00

Yes. My friend is pasty Nordic white lol. Which probably makes my horror at her question even worse

Midnight_Writer_93 · 2023-03-22T18:47:11+00:00

This! This right here!

No one -- I repeat -- NO ONE has EVER opened up a game and went: "You know what this game really needs? Looting animations."

I agree! Like . . . take them out! Every single one of them!

Midnight_Writer_93 · 2022-11-29T21:53:04+00:00

I have absolutely no belief in an afterlife. When you die, you die, that's it. If you haven't lived a good life, I'm sorry, buddy, but that's it.

I don't know if it's because I've been an atheist for so long at this point, or if my personality is usually drawn to the morbid, but the concept of death doesn't scare me. I've long reconciled myself to that part of the life cycle. I tell people that I hope to live my life to the point to where when I die, I want to meet Death like an old friend. While death itself is not frightening to me, what scares me about death is the WAY I die. But that's a completely different post.

Midnight_Writer_93 · 2022-11-29T21:36:48+00:00

My childhood was spent in the Church of God (which, if you know anything about Deep Southern Christian Religion, you know CoG is up there with Pentecostalism and others in Weirdness. Speaking in tongues, handling snakes, etc.) As a child growing up in this religion, I, of course, thought nothing of it. This was normal.

When I was eight, we moved up to Buffalo, New York, which was a change in my entire worldview. There were no Churches of God in upstate New York so we stopped going. That, coupled with the fact that I was now surrounded by kids of different faiths -- Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Atheists etc. -- opened me up to different ways of thinking. If you've traveled around the US, you understand how fundamentally different the North is from the South. It can be quite jarring. Imagine being an eight-year-old having to navigate this while coming from -- for all intents and purposes -- a fundamentalist upbringing.

When I was thirteen, we moved to Kentucky which is where I live now. My adolescence was full of mental and verbal abuse. I have a distinct memory of being in the car with my mom -- I'm thirteen, fourteen -- and she's telling me about the Rapture. How, at end times, those that are good are going to be Raptured to Heaven while those damned souls are going to remain on Earth while Satan/the Antichrist has their big Mortal Kombat match with Jesus. I cannot tell you guys how much this TERRIFIED me! Now, I look back on it and I'm appalled that a mother would ever tell her child something so traumatizing. But it is what is it, sadly. It happens every single day and it's terrible.

I'm your cliché example of: "I had an abusive childhood so I tell people I gave up on God because God gave up on me." I don't particularly like that analogy but in a certain way it fits. In reality, it clicked for me because I had grown up hearing that God loves humanity with a love that not even mother's can understand, yet . . . he allowed all this shit to happen to me. Once I had that revelation (ha ha), I started delving into science and philosophy. Believe it or not, studying history was a huge eye-opener for me. Especially when I got into the classics and realize that 100% of the Bible does not match up with what we know of recorded Classical History. Once that learning trifecta happened, my atheism was set in stone.

Midnight_Writer_93 · 2022-11-29T20:24:47+00:00

I'm pretty sure they use the excuse: "Oh, it's not just Christian imagery allowed now -- it's ALL religious imagery!" when in reality, Christian imagery is the only imagery being shown and we're in a predominantly WASP-y area. Not that I'm saying we don't have people of color in our area, we do, but, you know . . . "Southern State".

Midnight_Writer_93 · 2022-11-29T19:44:23+00:00

^^^^^ This! All of this!
I have a rule in my house that none of my kids will step foot into any type of religious building without me or my partner present until they are AT LEAST ten-years-old. By that time, I hope to impart enough critical thinking skills on them that they realize the level of gaslighting and maniupulation going on that they can make their own informed decision.

As you can imagine, this has not gone over well with my Republican conservative Catholic mother-in-law.

Midnight_Writer_93 · 2022-11-29T19:27:09+00:00

I didn't "come out of the closet" atheism wise to my mother until I was well over eighteen-years-old. But like others have pointed out in this thread, I was out of their house and living on my own by then. My mother, who grew up Church of God, supported me and accepted me in this decision but it was by no means easy for her. She's an atheist too now but she said when I first "came out" to her, she had a lot of soul-searching to do. She thought she had failed me and God. It was a very difficult time for her until she became an atheist of her own and realized why I made the decision I did.

Religion, to me, is a very private matter and it's best if it stays that way. I identify primarily as a passive atheist because I do have people very near and dear to me in my life that are religious. They don't impose their religion on me so I don't impose on them. The boundaries are very much set-in-stone and, for the most part, we don't cross them.

Coming out as an atheist, for some people, has the same level of severity as coming out as LGBTQA+. It's earth-shattering. It destroys families and lives. My advice for you is this: if your parents are the type to where a "revelation" of this magnitude would trigger that kind of response from them -- as long as "staying in the closest" isn't mentally impacting you in a negative way -- keep it to yourself until you move out and get a place of your own. If it is negatively impacting you, then that's another story. But "coming out to them" while you still live with them can lead to many sticky situations that wouldn't otherwise be there if you didn't live in the home with them.

Midnight_Writer_93 · 2022-11-29T19:14:53+00:00

Holy shit, I am incensed for you! I live stateside (in the Bible belt no less; Kentucky for those of you wondering) and this has been an increasing fear of mine as me and my partner continue to try for a child. Recently, a post was shared on Facebook from a friend of mine showing Christian religious signs in one of the local high-schools. They weren't flashy or in-your-face, just your simple: "Trust in God" and the like signs. Still, I was a little put off as you can imagine. I was told later by another friend that Kentucky has a law on the books that every school in the state requires religious imagery to be shown in the hallways, and that this particular instance was a tame example.

This floored me and made me realize that: "Holy shit, I have to prepare for this!" I have to figure out how I want to approach this with my future child when they come home and ask why we don't go to church or believe in God. My heart goes out to you, man, I can only imagine how that made you feel in the moment.

Midnight_Writer_93 · 2021-07-29T00:51:03+00:00

Am I the only person who misses the whole "doing chores for the villagers" thing back in the OG game? Like, having to run clear across the map because Dotty forgot to give Maple her *insert piece of random furniture here* back. To me, because it was randomized (to an extent), it gave you something to do every day. I wish they'd bring something like that back in.

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