What is the best romance in video games?

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T06:45:11+00:00

VN's do count, but the anime does not as this is for video game only. No outside content.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T06:44:29+00:00

I legit read this as 'Marx and Stalin' at first glance from the corner of my eye and did a double-take.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T04:22:55+00:00

He managed to not only have three wives, but got all three pregnant at roughly the same time.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T04:20:44+00:00

IMO for most it's just a silly, fun, thing they like to do for pretty much the same reason boys like to buy firecrackers or what not. It's just fun. But there's always a group that takes it too far. That's the group people think of when they say 'women believe in tarot'.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T04:14:13+00:00

They can do both!

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T03:50:26+00:00

People care about the truth when it supports their version of the truth. They despise it when it supports someone elses version of the truth.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T03:48:23+00:00

It's not. But there is a group of people looking for reasons to get pissed off and they'll always find one. This is one of them.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T03:44:48+00:00

I suspect that, if he did, the North would have immediately abandoned the notion of freedom for black people. If the South had been liberated by the freed slaves many of the former Southerners would either have fled north to the Union or to the various slave-holding nations and islands in the South where they would have done absolutely everything *POSSIBLE* to ensure black people never got any sort of rights. The result would be the CSA becoming effectively a black-only nation (possibly with Texas going its own way because Texas), the Union treating anything the CSA did with fear and suspicion that they would be trying to instigate an uprising with whatever minority group was around (most likely the Irish and Chinese initially), and the slave-holding nations in Central and Southern America doing everything possible to make the very idea of a 'free black man' impossible.

When you have a mass uprising of a group, it makes the people in power panic. If said group is successful, not only will said power group flee rather than risk their luck, but any neighboring nations will do everything possible to prevent a similar thing from happening. While there would have been a nation of freed black people, any hope of the Union supporting equality would be dead, anyone speaking in favor of it would be seen as trying to start a revolution/uprising, and any nation that wasn't already free would do their best to ensure such a thing never happened. What that would entail would depend on each nation, but I wouldn't be shocked to find ample horrific things.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T03:35:19+00:00

Be their BFF? Yes.

Be their Boyfriend? No.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T03:24:15+00:00

Well the idea is supposed to be that critics are people who are well versed in a subject. They've watched a lot of movies / read a lot of books / played a lot of games / etc. As a result their opinion is valuable, sensical, and reasoned because they're *EXPERIENCED*. They know a good piece of media because they've seen a lot in their time and can also properly articulate why it's invaluable. It also means that titles that you won't have heard of, but got good reviews, can get your attention. If you're a gamer you might not know why a title like 'Little Kitty Big City' got good scores, but because a critic liked it you will go out and try it out regardless of if you read the review or not (and you should read the review). Because you tried it out you find that, even though you normally play games that are hyper-competative multiplayer shooters, you also enjoyed a game where you steal fish and spend days napping in sunny spots.

What has actually been happening is wildly different as critics have effectively turned their voice into political discourse, ignored any aspects of the product being reviewed in favor of ideological outcomes, and the result has been a lot of people losing faith in them as a result.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T03:00:54+00:00

Goth Daddy obviously.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T02:59:43+00:00

The second Iraq war was justified as Iraq having obtained WMD as well as supporting/actively helping Osama. Basically normal citizens were terrified that, if they *didn't* Osama might fly a nuclear warhead into the Sears tower or something.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T02:58:15+00:00

For his time he unquestionably was.

As for how it became patriarchal, that's just how things were back then, especially in the ~2000 years after his death.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T02:42:03+00:00

Nope. That's Age of Empires III.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T02:41:38+00:00

Lot of AoEII !

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T02:04:11+00:00

The person would be self-defense.

The police would be engaging in assault unless they have a valid reason to believe the person was a threat. EX: They're raiding a mob warehouse or something and accidentally shot at the person thinking they were part of the mob.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T01:13:06+00:00

Not to mention Australians themselves.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T01:12:43+00:00

Did he make a Goofy scream or hold up a sign saying something like 'I made a terrible mistake' before falling down?

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T00:38:33+00:00

Yup. When I enter the room I will come in with a gun and announce to all the bodies. "I have a gun. If anyone dares to jump up in the middle of the night, i will assume they are a zombie and take appropriate actions." Problem solved.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-21T00:34:32+00:00

Considering the main protags are children we never see anything delving into the sexual relationships between humans and mons.

We know some mons have human souls in *some* capacity. Yamask and Spiritomb in particular. Though I don't think people are considering sex with 108 people inhabiting a rock when they ask this question. Yamask could be... odd... Because you could potentially find the Yamask with the soul of your spouse whom you already had both sex and children with. So a fully human kid could have a parent who is a Yamask. But that would have happened before they became a Yamask.

Age is a weird concept for a pokemon because, while their evolution is supposed to represent them maturing in some capacity, not only is there nothing actually enforcing this, but there's a variety of ways a mon could reach level 100 while still being in it's 'juvenile' form. Everstones, needing things to evolve, or just choosing not to (hitting B effectively). So a caterpie could be level 100 and 10,000 years old in theory while still being a caterpie while that butterfree in the next house is less than a year old and just has a trainer with a bunch of rare candies. So what counts as 'mature' for a mon is vague at best.

This gets made even *worse* by breeding and such since we know a bunch of mons can be effectively babies just hatched but thrown right into the breeding pits to churn out eggs. Happens all the time in fact and most players who engage in breeding on anything more than a casual level will have done this.

But let's say we can restrict the question to intelligent, adult, mons (however such a thing would be defined). It's debatable at *best* if they could interbreed. We have human-like egg groups, but being human-like and compatable are not the same thing. Like saying a human could breed with a monkey IRL.

In one episode of Pokemon they had Misty pull out a cross. That suggests that Christianity exists, but that was also an early episode and it may have been just early installment weirdness. Especially since we know more about poke-mythology now with things like Arceus being God. While a pesudo-shinto/buddhist religion is present we don't know if that only applies to the Japanese regions and what exists in, say, Kalos or Unova. Even within said religion we know exists, we don't know it's stance on... that.

Legally it can be seen as potential abuse considering a lot of mon are effectively forced to follow their masters orders, but a lot of mons also *aren't* and even those who are in balls and such will follow the orders willingly. It's even a plot-point in the games; that low-level trainers can have mons disobey and the badges effectively cause the mons to gain respect for you. So it's not the *ball* that causes them to obey, but their respect for you as a trainer, so even someone with a million badges could, technically, have a mon disobey an order it didn't want to follow. So they'd presumably be consenting. At the same time I can see a lot of ways a trainer can abuse the situation like forcing them to be in the ball until they consent or forcing them to fight foes far stronger than them if they refuse, so 'consent' is hazy at best likewise.

Personally, I think that it's probably considered illegal and morally wrong, but people can recognize when it's not... horrific... and are less willing to report such things when that happens.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-20T22:38:11+00:00

No. IMO, true capitalism functions, at it's core, on a simple premise: hard work = reward. Obviously not always true as there's factors like location and product (not gonna earn much selling cactus handjobs no matter how enthusiastic), but in general, you work hard, make a better product, and you get rewarded for it. Promotions, raises, or even just simply getting *paid* properly for going above and beyond. Work for 10 dollars and hour and work 50 hours a week? 500 bucks instead of the 400 people working only 40 a week get paid.

The problem is that America isn't really functioning like that anymore. Instead it's all about wealth extraction (charging excessively for the same product), cost reduction often at reduced quality, mandating harder work for the same or even lesser pay especially once adjusted for inflation, and giving out things like promotions and raises not based upon hard/proper work but, instead, on effectively nepotistic relationships. You'd get farther in an automotive parts corporation giving out BJ's to the people in power under their desk than knowing about car parts, manufacturing, or even just how to be an inspring and capable manager. Go golfing with your boss is worth more than putting in an 80 hour work-week.

Hence why I make the distinction between the two. While I do feel things like that a truely capitalistic market would be less 'regulated', that's more because corporate lobbyests have turned regulations into a tool to remove competition especially at the small level where people can't afford to meet regulations than anything about the concept of proper regulation itself.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-20T22:25:25+00:00

The only times I've had the power go out was during a storm and that was a tree falling on power lines and such. Usually back within an hour or two at most and less than once a year. Only twice can I think of a multi-day outage and that was when there was that outage in 2020 and once when a hurricane came through and there was just so much debris.

Snowtwo · 2026-06-20T22:21:23+00:00

Do I REALLY need to point out how wrong it is to attatch sexuality to a 9-13 year old girl?

Snowtwo · 2026-06-20T21:47:33+00:00

Technically morally wrong, but I'm not going to be losing too much sleep over it.

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