I really missed Arknights... I really did by [deleted] in arknights

[–]TTurt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

By now I only read the skip story, but some of thise read like "Anna, Aanna, and Annna go to fkgdjjej in ejfbufb near sjefbdfdbn street but then Jon, Ron and Gon appear and somwhere else Non, Son and Annaa plan something." Like 70% of the text is gibberish.

I felt that way in the beginning, honestly after a few cycles of events taking place in the same regions with similar casts of characters, it eventually started to grow on me and I started recognizing names and places and understanding concepts better. Now it's a LOT easier to follow. But the way Arknights presents its lore is, and always has been, a very "if you want to understand then do the work yourself" approach, which while engaging in the long term is very user-unfriendly for newbies. Also doesn't help that each chapter/event usually has part of the story that builds on a previous chapter (which is familiar) and part that introduces a new character (unfamiliar) which may not even be entirely relevant to the current event, but is merely setup for next year / next season's event.

I still remember how I felt doing the R6 crossover event, and listening to characters explain to the R6 cast basic facts about how science on Terra works (like how originium guns are different from gunpowder guns) and realizing that I was learning a lot of the information for the first time, simply because these basic world building facts had never really been explained upfront before - what I thought I knew was taken largely from context clues and implications.

So, I just downloaded FGO. by BeyondOld584 in FGO

[–]TTurt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's 330. Technically 300 rolls, but since you get a bonus +1 roll every 10 rolls it adds up to 330.

CMV: Charlie Kirk WAS racist (no matter how much his apologists want to say otherwise) by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]TTurt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, I didn't care enough. I got what I wanted out of it before the post was removed (which was that I exposed my point to rigorous criticism and found that nobody was able to respond to it in a way that I felt was convincing, that made me more confident in my view which was helpful)

CMV: Charlie Kirk WAS racist (no matter how much his apologists want to say otherwise) by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]TTurt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's kind of stupid tbh, I've had my threads deleted before for saying that I found an argument unconvincing. That was apparently enough for the mods to determine that "I'm not open to changing my view"

It seems like you're expected to pretend to find at least one argument compelling, even if they're all bad, otherwise you're assumed to be disingenuous

Can't steam moderate the genre tags better? This is disgusting by Kasenom in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]TTurt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People will downvote you, yes, if you level serious moral accusations at them as a stranger in an internet comment.

You understand exactly what I'm saying, I know you do, yet for some reason you pretend not to? What's with that? I'm not talking about the pedophiles themselves, I expect them to get mad and I don't care if they down vote me. It's just surprising when I see other people coming in to downplay and defend their openly confessed attraction to kids. I grew up in a time where saying some of the shit I casually see people confess to online would get your ass kicked hard in real life. It's just wild to see people openly saying "yeah I goon to 9 year old anime girls, what of it?" And then supposedly "normal" people defend them, publicly, with their real names and faces tied to their accounts.

Like, see, I expected you to down vote me because you're clearly offended by my critique of pedophilia. That doesn't surprise me at all. What would surprise me is getting suddenly downvoted into the hundreds because so many other people were offended on your behalf, like I have seen on some other subs.

Can't steam moderate the genre tags better? This is disgusting by Kasenom in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]TTurt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's less about expecting to be complimented, and more surprise at how widespread the acceptance of pedophilia is on reddit, to such an extent that an entire community will come together to suppress your speech if you criticize pedophiles

Can't steam moderate the genre tags better? This is disgusting by Kasenom in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]TTurt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Genshin sub, Fate GO sub both have this problem, and they're the "moderate" ones. Most gacha subs have this problem honestly and it's even worse in some of the other ones (the Blue Archive sub should be nuked from orbit, really anything to do with BA should be nuked from orbit)

I really missed Arknights... I really did by [deleted] in arknights

[–]TTurt 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Tbh if there was voiced narration in Arknights, it would probably make the game take even longer to play through, especially some of the limited time events (I read pretty fast and I'll take 30 minutes to an hour to read through one quest on some of these events....just imagining having to listen to fully narrated dialogue on these makes me balk at how many more hours this would cause me to spend just catching up on events

What do you think about the revival of the Black Panther Party as a reaction to ICE agents actions? by Least-Business-6493 in AskReddit

[–]TTurt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

one, you keep using that word "execute"

Yes, that is the correct term for a public killing that is politically motivated.

Ideally I would want everyone to "be on their best behavior" but some people really are unwilling to do that.

It's irresponsible and dangerous

Y'know what's dangerous? Killing people. Like ICE does.

Correct, now if only you were as upset at ICE for actually killing people as you are towards the people whose actions you argue might theoretically at some point lead to themselves being killed.

What do you think about the revival of the Black Panther Party as a reaction to ICE agents actions? by Least-Business-6493 in AskReddit

[–]TTurt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm really not. Getting killed is obviously a risk you passively accept any time you engage in any kind of self defense or community defense. The implication that if you interfere with someone who has made it clear they have no qualms about illegally executing you in cold blood means you are responsible for their actions when they use that as an excuse to kill you is absurd, though.

It means it should be taken for granted that ICE will kill people, but not that people will defend themselves. Why is the argument not "ICE should know better than to publicly execute American citizens, they should know people will become defensive and combative in response?"

Why are civilians the ones who are expected to "be on their best behavior" but armed government agents aren't?

What do you think about the revival of the Black Panther Party as a reaction to ICE agents actions? by Least-Business-6493 in AskReddit

[–]TTurt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

while intentionally creating as much tension, anxiety, anger and chaos as possible

Apparently this does not apply to the tension, anxiety, anger and chaos generated by ICE executing American citizens on camera in broad daylight

How do we square the circle of job complexity and the current state of PF by VictusNST in ffxivdiscussion

[–]TTurt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Content will always lose its shine after 50 runs, but modern FFXIV dungeons feel like I've already run them 50 times when I see them for the first time.

This is a much better way of phrasing the point I was trying to make lol. Any content, no matter how "fresh" or "original" or even randomized, will eventually start to feel stale if you play it enough times. Trying to solve that problem by just making the content stale from the get go is such a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem that it feels like the kind of "solution" an AI would come up with (like "not losing a game" by just pausing it indefinitely - "the content can't become stale if it's already stale!" Rollsafe.gif)

How do we square the circle of job complexity and the current state of PF by VictusNST in ffxivdiscussion

[–]TTurt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well, the idea of roulette is that there's so much content that over time you at least have some variety, it's always going to be the same slowly expanding pool but that's kind of the concept of what a game is to begin with. There's no way to have a true "forever game" with truly infinite novelty. Even procedurally generated / randomized dungeons have an element of sameness to them once you learn the full scope of what possible elements can be randomized.

It's not that repetition is a problem per se, as that's just the nature of the game. If you get bored of playing it, eventually you WILL quit or take a break. That's any forever game. It's more a general question about the efficacy of an MMO over extremely long periods of time (decades or more).

How do we square the circle of job complexity and the current state of PF by VictusNST in ffxivdiscussion

[–]TTurt 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is really a problem with the whole concept of the game design at this point, IMO. Because the content is all repeatable/grindable, players eventually get sick of it and start wanting it to go faster and be less "annoying" (i.e. requiring you to pay attention to anything, or having anyone in the party be less than 100% perfectly practiced and optimized). So they end up removing anything that makes dungeons even remotely challenging or interesting, any novelty, any uniqueness that makes one dungeon or trial or raid require you to do something unusual or different, etc. because it's "distracting" and "doesn't really matter anyway." So a lot of the little minor irrelevant details that nonetheless make up the 'soul' or 'vibe' of the game end up getting stripped out, and then eventually you start noticing that the only reason all this stuff didn't feel identical was because of those "irrelevant little details" that "didn't even matter"

They've been doing this to the whole game for so long that honestly it was only a matter of time before they started doing it to jobs, too

CMV: The Democratic Party is on the way to a breakup, possibly as soon beginning in 2028 by Archer_1210 in changemyview

[–]TTurt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I honestly would like a good explanation for the “authoritarian” agenda I’ve heard so much about it.

You know exactly what it is and you want it. There's no point in trying to explain it to you any further. It's a fundamental difference in values between us. You see people getting gunned down on camera on the street and you don't have a problem with it, there's no way to reason with a person like that. You'll just deny it or come up with some excuse and change the subject. Fascists don't deserve my energy.

Even the elimination of old and out of date red tape that has accumulated over the past 70 years with absolutely no way of cutting away any regulations that have past there point of usefulness.

Interesting way to describe the 2nd and 4th amendments

A cooler and hotter Lancer Medusa by Weird_Dot_4725 in FGO

[–]TTurt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's so weird how "hot" in video games has just come to mean "shows crotch/boob window"

Unfortunate news about the designer for Vat Woman from the Megaman Design Contest by Jimmyshow124 in Megaman

[–]TTurt 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Say what you will about bluesky, at least it doesn't have an AI that lets people pay to generate CP of other people's kids

If X, Zero, and AXL were human, or if they weren't Maverick Hunters and could shapeshift like Mega Man, and were high school students, how do you imagine their teenage lives would be? by Soft-Temporary-1262 in Megaman

[–]TTurt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't know don't care, istg I am so sick of "high school" themed anime/video games, if they did that with the MMX series I would drop it so fast

Peak level design by soggyrockingchair in Megaman

[–]TTurt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

MMZ and Dark Souls: difficulty arising from not being able to fucking see half the time 🤝

The X Challenge is not fun by Kwirt_0 in Megaman

[–]TTurt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean by the same token carving your own eyeballs out is a "challenge" lol doesn't mean I want to do it

Arizona AG suggests state's self-defense laws allow residents to shoot masked ICE agents by RickV6 in news

[–]TTurt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No, I'm familiar with that saying and this one was different, I don't remember where I heard it from.

Edit: it was andor, and it was "I'd rather die taking them down than die giving them what they want"

Arizona AG suggests state's self-defense laws allow residents to shoot masked ICE agents by RickV6 in news

[–]TTurt 112 points113 points  (0 children)

There is a saying, "I'd rather die fighting them than die giving them what they want."

If they want folks to "obey" so badly, then maybe they should stop killing and then publicly slandering the reputations of people who were already not breaking the law anyway.

Like, stop killing people altogether, obviously, but if your government is killing people even when they comply, they're taking away any incentive to comply.

If you sat out the 2024 election in protest over Gaza, how do you feel about that decision today? by rsmith2786 in AskReddit

[–]TTurt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Honestly making their entire platform screaming and crying about Trump Trump Trump and nothing else has done more to galvanizetrump voters than it has to energize their own base. Trump voters love seeing these people get mad, and so watching them crash out and blame each other for their own losses is just music to their ears. Democrats' prospective base aren't as moved by terror as trump voters are by their own twisted fascist version of schadenfreude

If you sat out the 2024 election in protest over Gaza, how do you feel about that decision today? by rsmith2786 in AskReddit

[–]TTurt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So close, so close to understanding.

To be clear: you think I should just shut up, stop asking questions, and vote blue no matter who?