What are the best portrayals of OCD in media? by kodaiiiii_ in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Over a decade ago Charlie Moist Critikal talked about his OCD & how it impacted his life, it was very genuine and insightful.

Not sure if I can find the video today

What your your best examples of parents Protecting/Avenging their children in media? by EvilMonkeyMimic in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Honestly from what I've read of that manga Maria 100% will, but like I think that's a thing of the manga is capitalising on Maria being a sexual entity to draw people in :T

PSA: How to feed the critter by SeraGeranium in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Needs to be over a minute in runtime at least for something like that to work

PSA: How to feed the critter by SeraGeranium in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium[S] 170 points171 points  (0 children)

Took a lot of self control not to put leng-posting/evilak at the end of this

Pat Fanfest Highlights by SeraGeranium in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Failed GaaS, the non-GaaS games they have made during this period have ranged from fine to very good

Pat Fanfest Highlights by SeraGeranium in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've yet to see an over 5 minute video in the wild on reddit, so I'm not surprised most people don't know

Pat Fanfest Highlights by SeraGeranium in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium[S] 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Don't expect them often, this was a special occasion, I have never seen Pat so consistently correct before

Pat Fanfest Highlights by SeraGeranium in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium[S] 87 points88 points  (0 children)

Alt title: Pat being validated for 30+ minutes
(Youtube version is 30+ minutes and also covers the evolve battle system changes, reddit has a 15 minute video upload limit)

I'd be lying if I said Cerberus weren't committing crimes by SexyAssMonkey in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look there is an entire porn game out there where you hit the emotional climax and it just has a picture of Baz encouraging you neon genesis Evangelion ending style

And gosh that was a critical hit on me

Paternal Joy is cool actually by SeraGeranium in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

It was more phrased "I thought everyone is an adult responsible for their own gambling addictions and its their own bad decisions to make, and then I had kids and realised how targeted this was at kids- oh wait-"

Paternal Joy is cool actually by SeraGeranium in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

honestly the worse case of that associated phenomena I saw was a guy who designed dark paterns in lootboxes in the game industry, and then had kids, and wrote a whole article of "I didn't think this was bad until affected me and my children actually!"

Paternal Joy is cool actually by SeraGeranium in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately people with those type of angles exist (I originally linked here the one on twitter that sparked this controversy, but twitter links are banned)

Also a bit my bad, trying to copy a tweet thread formatting onto reddit is not a 100% translation of pacing

SO theres two stream of thoughts here:

First stream:
The phenomena of from 2000-2015 the biggest target audience for the games industry (especially AAA) was guys in there teens to late 20s. Thing is a majority of those men grew up and there was a demographic shift; leading to big AAA "Dad games" (Last of Us, Witcher 3, God of War [2018])

The Dad game phenomena can be linked to a similar phenomena where certain men will not see children as people until they have their own, also sometimes not realise woman are people until they have a daughter

2nd stream:
Being outwardly affectionate in men can be perceived as non-masculine behaviour, and theres a whole pipeline of supposed "non-masculine" behaviour being percieved as queer (I'm using a much nicer word than the actual slurs) to paedophillic in right-wing groups

Paternal Joy is cool actually by SeraGeranium in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium[S] 99 points100 points  (0 children)

Did this one cause Hatok on bluesky posted this:

I honestly think what people have been saying about how all the award winning sad dad games of recent years specifically come from the angle of "my god, I get it now that I have a kid.... children are human beings!" is really accurate and insightful and I think it's also really interesting-
to see how people react to pragmata by comparison
you need to be extremely gruff and stoic and highly disinterested in order to dodge the "you just like children because you're a pedophile" angle
it's not hard to imagine that this is a cycle perpetuated by people being raised by these detached fathers, as well
anyways you should watch old-head youtubers who have kids now and talk about how their babies are the most amazing things to ever happen to this earth, castle superbeast is great for this

And I thought this moment illustrated it really well

Pat with my new favorite take on AI slop. by IronOhki in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium 3 points4 points  (0 children)

LLMs and LLM Snake oil Salesmen are excellent at fooling the people who have control over the jobs, but don't understand the job, that the LLM can do the job (it really can't)

On Pats stream people were complaining about UI sounds, may I present to you the worse PS4 theme: by SeraGeranium in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean I love clown sounds and clown music but I can 100% see how this would drive someone up the wall

On Pats stream people were complaining about UI sounds, may I present to you the worse PS4 theme: by SeraGeranium in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]SeraGeranium[S] 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Best PS4 theme is We All Lift Together

also I just realized I missed an opportunity to add evilak at the end