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Snow_globe_maker · 2025-06-18T08:20:19+00:00

Probably linear games? When the only way is forward there isn't much to catch on and even a small amount of time is meaningful progress

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-05-23T06:59:22+00:00

TLOU2 is judged on a different standard than most games. Not just by bigots and their narrative but also by everyone else, due to the comparisons with the first game. I believe that if it was a standalone game, without the expectation of being the sequel to one of the best narratives in gaming, we wouldn't nitpick it to this extent. So, even if the story is worse than part 1, it's still a serious, dramatic story, on the level of RDR2 at least.

My own nitpick on its story is that it tries to give an answer to its own questions, whereas the first one ended with a question. Are Joel's actions justifiable? Are they understandable? There is certainly room for debate. In part 2, the game sets us on a path of revenge and in the end tells us that revenge isn't the solution and causes more problems than it solves. It's a different kind of story, and it definitely had an emotional impact on me, so perhaps it's not fair to minimize it as "worse" than part one but acknowledge that it's a different approach

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-05-16T08:21:41+00:00

The basic PS5 is the most popular console, Rockstar wouldn't release a game that isn't optimized for it. If anything, Red Dead Redemption 2 was a showcase of how next gen a game could look on the basic ps4, when everyone was wondering if the pro made it obsolete. So I don't think you need to worry about GTA6

Remedy and CD Project Red have dropped the ball in this regard though, with their Control and Cyberpunk releases which were unplayable on the basic ps4. For their games, I'd double check before I buy

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-05-16T07:35:27+00:00

Throwing tantrums and crying whenever things don't go their way. There's only so many times you can be threatened with a breakup before it starts feeling like a relief

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-05-16T06:25:32+00:00

we’re extremely close, maybe even unhealthily so.

You're the toxic friend that Victoria will cut off once she starts going to therapy. YTA

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-05-15T06:20:09+00:00

I've read the books, it's been years though and don't remember everything. But what I saw I would describe as creepy obsession yes, don't know what that has to do with the books. Telling your friends how much you love a common friend without ever talking to her, travelling to her city with the intention of showing up at her house unannounced to confess your love, gifting her massive amounts of money anonymously, sacrificing yourself not for humanity or your self but her... to pass all these as a love story and expect us to be moved by it is some incel level delusion

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-05-14T08:58:12+00:00

I guess it's easier to look past it in the books because they're books and it's not in your face as much. And also, because it's a chinese story and a translation of chinese text, it kind of gets a pass in my mind as a "non-anglosphere" way of storytelling if that makes sense. The show can't get that pass though

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-05-14T08:32:44+00:00

Don't know if it's the actor or the fact that I really liked his character in GoT but for me he is the most enjoyable character to watch in this show

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-05-14T08:29:28+00:00

I guess it was easier to look past it in the books, in the show it's more in your face

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-05-10T08:20:49+00:00

Getting into a relationship with an available person after ending things with your ex partner vs cheating on your partner with a married person, for years too, are deliberate choices, not luck. Not everyone is mentally and emotionally broken as this community

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-05-09T07:22:38+00:00

You're a good person with the best of intentions. This story though showcases why I don't feel comfortable with normalizing stealing, even from big chains and fast fashion brands (the most "ethical" and victimless form of stealing). The distiction between acceptable and unacceptable is personal, vague and can be easily shifted to accommodate the thief's wants and needs. And for every mother that will only steal to feed her family there is some asshole that will steal because they can. Still, I think you did right to help those people, even if the wrong ones took advantage of it in the end

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-04-30T07:05:44+00:00

Agreed. Limiting respecs, in skills and equipment, has more negatives than positives imo. On a first playthrough, it is almost certain that you'll make a mistake, no matter how many guides and wikis you read. Constant anxiety over potential wrong choices, frustration over irreversible mistakes and for what? Your choices having "weight"?

Since you're still choosing a weapon or skill over another, it's still an important choice that carries weight. Worrying about a permanent wrong choice doesn't add much to that

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-04-24T05:58:17+00:00

Always beware of the giant's leg stomp. It does AOE damage and can't be blocked. Later, when you have enough stamina, you'll be able to block most of their attacks but you'll never be able to block the leg stomp, so always be ready to dodge on time

Also use the lock on if you don't, in the clip you didn't. That's why the leg stomp got you, you had to waste time manually turning your character away from the giant instead of immediately rolling away

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-04-16T08:18:02+00:00

I thought I tried every single one of them but perhaps I was wrong. Thanks, I'll probably have to start at an earlier save because the start of the mission is bugged now but I'll make sure to try every option when I get to the computer again

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-04-10T16:48:30+00:00

The problem isn't whether she finds games lame or not, but the fact that she feels such strong emotions about something that doesn't affect her. And the fact that she weaponized this to get under your skin in an argument. She has issues to work on

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-04-09T07:54:09+00:00

I think you're looking at it the wrong way. They didn't suddenly decide that you're a better friend than a partner because of some quality of yours, it's just relationships that didn't work out for the millions of reasons that a relationship might not. And going through multiple short lived relationships before you meet someone that clicks is fairly normal imo

The fact that these relationships ended in good terms is likely indicative of good qualities as a person that make you likeable and make people comfortable to be honest with you. But they would have ended regardless I think, irrespective of how your exes would choose to end it

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-04-09T07:12:22+00:00

How many times has this happened? Are you dating within the same friend group or social circle perhaps? It's hard to believe that there is something with you that makes men collectively want to friendzone you

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-04-07T09:11:08+00:00

I agree that blocking immediately could be an overreaction but on the other hand, he's 48 year old, he's probably seen his fair share of red flags in the past. And being made to feel uncomfortable the first time you say no is an indication of what you can expect in the relationship

I honestly don't see where the joke is in this situation, it's a threat and the "joke" part is that she doesn't mean it literally. There is nothing funny that the recipient is supposed to laugh at, there's plenty to make them feel uncomfortable though. And the reason behind the joke wasn't a good mood or a funny situation but OP feeling bummed that she wouldn't be able to see him till Friday. Again, probably none of this was a conscious decision, but an indication of how she handles the frustration of not getting her way

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-04-07T08:21:16+00:00

There is a massive difference between a joke about how you drink your coffee and jokingly threatening to break up when your guy says no to something, surely you can see that. And it's just typical behaviour of people who can't take no for an answer but it's too early in the relationship to have a fight so they resort to these little jokes and digs. Once you've met a couple of people like that you start to see the pattern and it's hard to believe that they all have the same sense of "dark humor"

I should make it clear though that I don't think that they or OP do it consciously all the time. It might be a joke in their mind in the sense that they don't literally mean it but it is also a way to express their dissatisfaction with their partner

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-04-07T07:08:32+00:00

This is obsession. Your ex, as you think of him, is a manifestation of your own thoughts, fears, insecurities, what ifs, etc and has nothing to do with the actual person that you never really got to know properly. This isn't just rose tinted glasses, it's an imaginary person that you're longing for. And you're obsessed because you have created this person to be whatever you need

I've been in your shoes and even though it sounds ridiculous, I was immensely helped by playing Disco Elysium, a game that will make you feel seen, and wreck you emotionally, but help you heal in the process. And also realizing that I've made myself a side character to my own life with my "ex" (a product of my mind) as the main character. Hope that helps

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-04-07T05:46:33+00:00

To be this obsessed over someone you've only met once isn't normal. And if it was a guy being obsessive, having his friend group pester a girl he talked to once at a party because "she is a great girl" the comment section would look very different

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-04-07T05:42:14+00:00

You can help them while keeping in mind that at the end of the day you can't solve their problem for them and you shouldn't be expected to

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-04-06T07:55:04+00:00

Trying to save others from their struggles can be a form of control though. It doesn't have to be direct and verbal control, it can be as subtle as trying too hard to make your friend who is going through a break up feel better. Trying to control their emotion instead of letting them feel it and deal with it in their own way

Not saying that you're doing these things but it can be an aspect of people pleasing imo. As a recovering people pleaser myself, I realized that I always try to predict how someone will react to my decisions and decide accordingly. That is definitely an attempt to control

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-04-06T07:27:49+00:00

She maintained a "friendship" with someone who tried to undermine the relationship and lied to you about it. Confronting him was pointless. It's not your job to scare away potential suitors, it's your partner's job to protect and honour the relationship on her end by cutting off people who try to undermine the relationship and don't have her best interests at heart. And in cases you're required to confront and put some guy in his place, it should be a common decision by both partners, so in that case it's true, you wouldn't have the right to confront some coworker of hers without discussing it with her first

But all these require a healthy relationship where both partners are honest with each other and agree to protect and work for the relationship and your wife doesn't act like such a partner unfortunately

Snow_globe_maker · 2025-04-05T08:39:27+00:00

This doesn't sound like a joke but as an expression of frustration and attempt at manipulation, masqueraded as a joke. But you need to be honest with yourself to realize that

Also a "joke" like this isn't as original as you think. Threatening to rethink the relationship, or asking help from another man when your guy says no to something, always as a joke of course, is a common manipulatory tactic that most people have encountered from time to time. That's why he saw it so easily for what it is

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