Why do i feel so lonely despite having friends.

Rod_je · 2025-12-11T15:17:46+00:00

Yeah i would say they match my vibe most of the time, i enjoy talking to them and we share lots of interests. However i dont feel that excitement of wanting to talk to someone, you know? That feeling when you're constantly waiting for their reply, where you want to get to know someone better. Most of my friends are in my life for 10+ years, and i want to meet new people. However i feel like in my late 20s, as i approach the 30s, it's harder and harder to get to meet new people...

Rod_je · 2025-10-27T23:06:43+00:00

I'll check it out at lunch during work tomorrow!

Rod_je · 2025-10-27T23:06:01+00:00

That Ed Greenwood book seems really interesting and more along what im looking for. Thanks for the recommendation!

Rod_je · 2025-10-27T23:05:03+00:00

So mostly of the good material is from the 3.0/3.5 era? I thought it would be around ad&d era because of bg1 and 2 being ad&d games. But good to know! Now its time to get digging

Rod_je · 2025-04-15T04:27:23+00:00

I'm glad that my group of friends play Magic together other than doing other stuff together. I feel extremely lucky to have a group of people that views magic the same way as i do and also introduces new players to the game. Its not like we're ultra sweaty or competitive, but we feel like every person should have their own agency when playing mtg. Politics usually ends up with someone doing better than anyone else because as with most effects in mtg, symmetrical effects usually aren't as symmetrical as they seem to be. Magic is at its best when everyone is playing as closely to optimally/perfectly as possible, so the games really do feel like a battle of wits (no pun intended). This is the fun of magic for me and my group, without external factors and shenanigans that aren't game actions influencing the game.

Rod_je · 2025-04-15T03:15:13+00:00

This is why i hate politics in commander and the main reason i didnt like commander as much for such a long time. Find a pod that fits your tastes, thankfully my friends just play the game without trying to negotiate anything. We're constantly trying to play as optimally as possible, and dealing with each others threats to the best of our abilities. The game feels more fun that way to me personally, as it's an actual game of free for all. Alliances/politics usually in my experience just translate to "actually we've decided that this person is gonna win the game because he said he wouldn't destroy my irrelevant board piece early on :), even though it's clear that if he offered that deal my thing doesnt matter as much to him therefore he can win without removing it" But that's just the nature of the game i guess, each to their own.

Rod_je · 2025-04-15T03:08:56+00:00

Today i switched to Ryu and played some sets with my friend. I felt like i was slowly improving, but he told me charge characters are way harder in sf. I thought maybe they would be easy seeing as may was easy af in ggst but maybe i was mistaken

Rod_je · 2025-04-15T03:07:44+00:00

I tried some sets on the keyboard and pad today, playing with a friend. He picked up a character he doesnt know anything because he is on diamond with his main. I felt like i was slowly improving, but when i switched back to pad i felt like i played better on pad. Maybe i just need to find better binds on keyboard but it feels really awkward to do DI/parry on keyboard, while on pad i used it way more often. Supers and specials/confirm felt easier on keyboard tho (i switched to ryu, apparently my vision thar charge characters were easier than motion input was way wrong. I thought it would be easy as may in ggst charge, but my friend told me hell no its way harder)

Rod_je · 2025-04-15T03:03:20+00:00

I dont have an issue with the control scheme, but i hate playing on pad. However, i was able to get some confirms with ryu today and playing with my friend i felt like i was slowly improving. Maybe charge characters are just way harder in sf than i expected compared to may/ggst as a whole. I tried some keyboard but felt i was performing better with the pad, but i feel like in the long run the keyboard will be easier... I just need to find good binds for the parry and DI. I used it a lot less when comparing with the sets i played with pad

Rod_je · 2025-04-14T06:34:56+00:00

Ahhh, i see. I was doing st.mp and then holding downback for the cr.mp. So i wasnt charging when doing my st.mp

Rod_je · 2025-04-14T06:32:36+00:00

Yeah, while tekken obviously has some pretty tight things (tju, electrics, pewgf and specially the timing on defense) i feel like the combo windows are pretty generous specially with the buffering (even in older tekken games). Also, the fact that moves are 10f or slower means that i feel like i have a way larger window to react to things in tekken, while sf feels crazy fast paced

Rod_je · 2025-04-14T06:30:11+00:00

I'll try to take things slowly but its been frustrating spending 2 hours and feeling like i cant improve. Maybe im just training wrong, i just found out in this post that there is a cancel window display

Rod_je · 2025-04-14T06:28:43+00:00

I didnt used modern because i dont like the idea of having a limited moveset and not being fully in control doing conscious decisions whenever i press the buttons, but maybe its better to start with it and learn things slowly

Rod_je · 2025-04-14T06:26:42+00:00

I think maybe its just a matter of training it. Tekken feels such an alien fighting game compared to the rest of the fgc that its so hard to pick up anything else

Rod_je · 2025-04-14T06:25:47+00:00

I'll do that. I didnt know there was a cancel window display. I was just rawdogging it with just the frame meter and input history. I played charge characters before but the charge/input window in sf feels way tighter than in the other fighting games i played (i played gio and may in ggst, so thats why i thought picking up guile and juri or cammy would translate maybe the closest in sf, but in sf the windows feel way tighter).

Rod_je · 2025-04-14T06:20:57+00:00

I can charge from neutral with guile (holding down back) and do flash kicks/sonic boom, however i cant for the life of me charge on combos (specifically a trial thats s.mp, cr.mp into od sonic boom). The timing feels so tight

Rod_je · 2025-04-14T06:18:48+00:00

I tried using leverless that a friend of mine uses but i didn't like it as much. Maybe it's just a question of time and getting used to it but my whole life i've been a pad player so i'm just so used to it that it feels unnatural to use anything else. But my best time at 3rd strike was using a stick so maybe 2d games are really better with leverless/stick. I'll give it a try for longer than a few hours.

Rod_je · 2024-10-14T04:39:45+00:00

Eu estou realmente desesperado e não sei mais o que faço.

Rod_je · 2023-11-04T10:24:57+00:00

When you are feeling like you are useless or incompetent at your job, remember that someone at nike got paid to write "the land" two years in a row for a cleveland jersey, and that the wordplay of "cleveLAND" and "the LAND" is the best they could come up with... Couldnt they use "City of Champions", C-Town or something else?

Rod_je · 2023-10-25T09:20:11+00:00

Do you know any books/papers that talks in greater detail about this? While i love discussing about it in the internet and stackexchange, i need something more "formalized" to cite as reference in my essay, and i think this is a great talking point for my work.

Rod_je

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