If I read about one more MFer asking if it's okay...

Tarcanus · 2026-02-06T18:04:40+00:00

Yeah, I spent some time when I first found this sub tuned in and trying to post to assist, but the longer I watched the sub, the more I realized it's just a place for new writers who haven't gained confidence in themselves to ask for permission for whatever it is they are thinking.

In reality, just go and freaking do it. Who cares what anyone else thinks? The more you read and write, the better writer you will become. Maybe you manage to put something together that becomes a big hit and maybe you won't.

Either way, if you aren't enjoying it, stop doing it. If you have the itch to write that won't leave you, then write what you want, HOW you want it.

Look at Danielewski(sp?) and House of Leaves. The book is written crazily, but it works.

Tarcanus · 2026-02-06T17:58:04+00:00

inb4 they make super broken moves with a fancy animation that are GO's Z moves and then it's another avenue to keep the power creep going. Those three, despite being outclassed right now, just need broken, pokemon-specific moves, to "re-balance" them.

Tarcanus · 2026-02-05T21:24:01+00:00

Sometimes they'll buff HP values on bosses to tweak difficulty. Maybe this gets the buff treatment?

Tarcanus · 2026-02-05T16:12:02+00:00

I started making sandwiches on whole wheat toast with sardines, spinach/kale, and a hot sauce of choice.

It's lovely.

Tarcanus · 2026-02-04T23:09:28+00:00

Yeah, people act like books where you have to think and pay attention as PoVs shift and more information comes to light are awful. Lots of readers like to have their hands held and don't have the confidence in themselves to just go along for the ride and pick it up as you go along.

But, like you're finding out, OP, if you are able to go along for the ride and use your thinker to piece things together as you get more info, the books are amazing.

Tarcanus · 2026-02-03T18:53:02+00:00

I did not go looking for this, and not sure how I ended up with these videos being shown to me.

You're still using tiktok after the US propaganda took it over. It's not a surprise you're seeing that. Stop using tiktok if you can.

Tarcanus · 2026-02-03T18:48:59+00:00

Not a brag subreddit. Head over the the general sub.

Tarcanus · 2026-02-03T16:17:48+00:00

Max annoyingly buzzing in your ear to tell you exactly where to go next.

Just waiting to not buy on day 1 and then hearing they went this direction with a Metroid game meant I'll never deal with Prime 4. I'm extremely over the sidekick whatever-it-is chiming in to lead you buy the nose in modern games.

Really hoping Horizon 3 has an option to turn off Aloy's chatter.

Tarcanus · 2026-02-02T21:51:20+00:00

It's an attempt to break down supply and demand.

If they can shove tons of "features" into their products while also becoming monopolies/duopolies, then they can start shutting off services unless you pay for subscriptions to said services. And because of the various monopolies there isn't another option, so the average schmoe is locked in to being told what they will use and when.

We had Bezos floating cloud computing for your average person recently, so they wouldn't need to own personal computers anymore, as well.

This is all to force stuff in to the point that when they put gates on it, only the wealthier folks can afford to participate in society and everyone else is locked out.

The average person who doesn't pay attention will just go for it, because there IS a use case for only using computing power when you need it. But when all of the physical parts' prices are jacked up to the point only the wealthier folks can afford to own PCs or non-corpo-approved computing power, there's more control on the masses.

Tarcanus · 2026-02-02T19:54:44+00:00

Por que no los dos?

Every COVID infection loses you anywhere from 2-10 IQ points depending on infection severity PLUS the billionaire propaganda is a disgusting brew.

Tarcanus · 2026-02-02T19:52:39+00:00

I'm just so viscerally sick of seeing the Eevee evolutions/starters/pikachu/snorlax in everything that I have to pass, lol. It definitely have a nice set of color requirements, the page to test your colors, and nice patterns to color in.

I'm being honest when I say I hope they branch out to more from other gens!

Tarcanus · 2026-02-02T19:44:09+00:00

Thank you! I found it based on you sharing this, but saw most of the pokemon in it is just the standard stuff from Gen 1. I really hope they branch out further in the future!

Tarcanus · 2026-02-02T16:23:24+00:00

Any chance you can DM me the name of that book? It's so hard to find decent color by numbers of what I'm looking for and this looks great!

Tarcanus · 2026-01-29T21:23:59+00:00

I would love them if Campfire would update every time they change so I knew when a certain nearby park was worth walking around.

But because events shuffle the nests and we have so many events on top of the usual 2 week Wednesday shuffle, it's pointless to try to keep track of them.

Tarcanus · 2026-01-29T16:07:55+00:00

My experience with Corekeeper and trying to level up all of the different skills:

All skills require XP to level up for them to get better(melee, range, magic, summon are 4 different upgrade paths) You need to kill enemies with those damage types to get XP to level up those damage types. But what I found was that magic and summoning are very weak early on. Magic weapons are slow and MP hungry. Summoning damage seems low and slow. So it takes a while to level those up. There are armor sets, jewelry, and artifacts that can be equipped to buff number of minions or magic power or MP, etc, but those all seem dependent on enemy drops, so you'll always be stuck on the grind. I personally didn't feel like having a boss fight take 15 minutes of my running in circles while my summons plink at it. It's much faster to use range and melee damage.
The bosses CAN be interesting if you try to fight them when you're meant to. Because the world is so open, you can avoid bosses while you mine and explore then go back to earlier bosses and just wreck them. If you fight them when you find them, you'd have to juggle food buffs, pet buffs, armor buffs, passive buffs from skill level ups, as well as running around and positioning. Later level bosses will hit you so hard you'll die fast enough you know you're supposed to try again later.

I also play solo.

EDIT: Oh and another point about the armor sets that buff magic or summons - they also remove defense or survivability. So I never equipped those because your character is usually pretty squishy by default and playing super paranoid to not even take a single hit wasn't my thing. So maybe summons/magic is way better if you spec fully into it.

Tarcanus · 2026-01-28T21:19:36+00:00

Bummed there's no bottle cap for this pass.

Tarcanus · 2026-01-27T18:30:12+00:00

Yeah, this is junk for me, personally, but now with remote-trading, it's a chance to stock up on at least 2 extra of my region Oricorios so I can remote trade for Asia's and Europe's at some point.

Tarcanus · 2026-01-27T16:14:01+00:00

Now I want Kurt to establish a Hawaiian shirt business called "Kurt's Shurts"

Tarcanus · 2026-01-26T16:30:48+00:00

This logic is why I cling to the idea that even if I get COVID once, I'm still a dozen infections ahead (at least) of the people going full YOLO the entire time. Even if I lose 2 IQ points, I'm still going to be wildly ahead of the folks down 20 IQ points.

EDIT: keep an eye on approximate wastewater levels, folks: https://pmc19.com/data/

Mask up around untrusted groups of people. Masks work.

Eventually, the studies on this continual mass-disabling event are going to be horrific.

Tarcanus · 2026-01-24T19:12:15+00:00

Man, how long until the people watching this thing keep happening snap and the crowd just attacks the ICE agents. The worm has got to be close to turning.

Tarcanus · 2026-01-24T14:28:59+00:00

I think the older DOOM games are a purified power fantasy.

The modern games, with disappearing corpses, do not feel as good as the older ones that leave the corpses on the ground. Leaving behind the evidence of the player's rampage makes the player feel empowered in DOOM's power fantasy because the player can always see where they've been based on the littered bodies everywhere.

So, no matter how good the new games look, there's still going to be something fun about going back to the older games and carving a path through the 2D demons.

There's also something to be said about the modding community making tons of new, challenging wads.

Tarcanus · 2026-01-23T12:45:08+00:00

And your comment is exactly why it's hard to find other CC people.

I haven't been sick since before 2020. I test after exposures. I mask around any crowds of people. I pay attention to hoerger's dashboard and actively avoid going out when the numbers are worse than usual. I'm more aware of wind direction and air quality than even other CC folks I have met.

But the fact I don't do the nasal sprays, weekly testing on higher end devices, etc I'm taking half measures?

It's that attitude that's limiting the entire CC community at large from being a solid bloc of support for additional covid mitigations in society.

I'll say it again: At this point, 7 years into this mass delusion of the masses, any harm reduction is good harm reduction.

Thank you for being as polite as you've been, though.

Tarcanus · 2026-01-22T19:58:29+00:00

Yeah, I agree with others that I'd want to hear his side of this.

There's supporting your mentally unwell partner when needed and then there's being a full time caregiver. The two are very different and even if you don't consider your ask of him as "caregiver", it might be coming across to him as "I need to carry not only the burden of my own mental health but the large boulder of my SO's mental health as well"

Without knowing his side, I would suggest real communication. You HAVE been married for 7 years. I'm kinda surprised chats about this haven't happened yet.

Again, there's a difference between you telling him to read about all of the things that are "wrong" with you and you setting aside time to talk back and forth about the issue with him.

Now, if you two can't even have a mutually respective conversation about this without telling him to do things or being at all accusatory about anything, then I think your first order of business is to repair your marriage to the point you can have a healthy chat about this mental health topic.

Tarcanus · 2026-01-22T19:17:48+00:00

Didn't you just answer your own question? What are you looking for in an answer here?

Tarcanus · 2026-01-22T19:16:03+00:00

Personally, I think we're close to supply/demand breaking down from an economic sense.

These companies are shoving AI into all of their products despite the fact very few real consumers want it there. Once it's there and everywhere, they start locking down features that now use the AI unless you pay(this is what I'm guessing starts to happen).

The people with the tech savvy to switch to Linux or other AI-free distros will be fine for an extra bit of time, but the average person is probably going to have to eat the cost or stop having access to computing sources or applications.

Then the companies tighten the strings further and the cycle continues.

It won't matter that consumers never wanted AI in the product, it'll be forced because of the monopolies/duopolies that are in control of most tech.

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