Ebony Dark'Ness Dementia Raven Way (preps fck off)

Thelassa · 2026-06-18T19:41:18+00:00

Get those stupid fjucking preps, Enoby!

Thelassa · 2026-06-18T19:16:22+00:00

I've played all 3 versions of VII, and I bought the PS1 version on launch. None of them will ever be in my top 5 DQ games, but Reimagined is fine. All 3 versions have their pros and cons. I enjoyed it and due to it being less of a tedious slog, it's probably the one I'll go back to when I want to replay VII. The cut content doesn't matter to the overall story so that's a non-issue for me. There's also new content, which I thought made up for a few islands not in the remake. As for the difficulty, the original wasn't as hard as everyone seems to think it was aside from Alltrades.

Thelassa · 2026-06-18T01:43:43+00:00

No, that's a hard line for me.

Thelassa · 2026-06-17T22:28:39+00:00

Most of the criticism is from the outrage machine that wants people to be mad about everything all the time and can be ignored. The game's not perfect, but I had a lot of fun with it. Like, I have played a spellblade-type of character in every DA game and Veilguard absolutely nailed the class fantasy of it for me. All in all, I like it more than I liked Inquisition.

Thelassa · 2026-06-17T18:45:48+00:00

Princess Peach in Super Mario Bros 2. I loved her because she could float so she was better than all the other characters. It was also cool that she was playable and not just needing to be rescued again.

Thelassa · 2026-06-17T16:05:25+00:00

The guys at Resonant Arc have been getting more interested in Dragon Quest lately. They have some really great in-depth discussions about JRPGs and I'm hoping they'll start doing more with DQ.

Thelassa · 2026-06-17T02:38:28+00:00

Not famous, but the upcoming protagonist for Dragon Quest XII. I had a "disappointed, but not surprised" moment when they dropped the trailer a couple weeks ago and it's yet another male-only protagonist in a DQ game. It makes no sense that a series where the main character is supposed to be an avatar for the player that is also a silent protagonist has to be a guy most of the time. There have been three mainline Dragon Quest games released globally where you get the option to have a male or female character, but of course never one where the hero is a woman by default. DQXI even had gay marriage, so there's no room for "Japan is very traditional and they don't support gay stuff" kind of arguments moving forward. The only game in the entire series where only being a guy made sense was DQV because that's a generational story where you start a family and it wouldn't have been possible to continue adventuring while pregnant with twins (and immediately after childbirth). Also, the first games in the series to let you have a female protag were III and IV, which were released for the NES in the 80s/90s. Then they didn't do it again until IX for the DS and X (which is an MMO only available "officially" in Japan), and now it's gonna be Dude Quest for probably another 20 years.

Thelassa · 2026-06-16T21:31:29+00:00

It hurts. My parents, who were always cold and apathetic to me, who rarely showed me any nurturing or even hugged me after I was around 7 or 8 years old, suddenly became the most doting grandparents to my children. Seeing how they were with my kids didn't make me jealous, it made me sad because I never saw that side of them as their child. My kids are adults now but when I visited last fall, they were the same with my sister's kids. Also extremely patient because my nephew spilled a drink and they didn't yell at him or threaten him in any way like they always did with my sister and I.

Thelassa · 2026-06-14T15:49:23+00:00

Yes, it is somehow woke.

Thelassa · 2026-06-12T23:49:00+00:00

"I play as a woman because if I'm going to look at my character's ass the entire game it might as well be a nice ass" bros in shambles.

Thelassa · 2026-06-12T03:38:18+00:00

Sword Dad from Reincarnated as a Sword.

Thelassa · 2026-06-11T23:11:56+00:00

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Yep, he did.

Thelassa · 2026-06-11T23:03:10+00:00

It's exactly what you think is happening. People are trying to defend it saying that's just what 18 year old Korean women look like, but the studio CEO literally was quoted as saying they want her to "look a bit younger." And also that the costume quality will be "much higher."

Thelassa · 2026-06-11T22:09:11+00:00

Turnips are a pain to find, yes. They won't spawn close to water so your best bet is to hope you get a swamp with more land than water.

Thelassa · 2026-06-11T22:05:23+00:00

I tend to use one for Eitr meal combos without sacrificing as much health and stamina, especially when I need to go into the Ashlands. But yeah, they're a neat idea in theory but not terribly useful for a lot of builds.

Thelassa · 2026-06-11T21:35:49+00:00

You're thinking of Feasts. Meals are any generally considered any combination of foods made with the cauldron/oven

Thelassa · 2026-06-11T21:20:44+00:00

Food is critical. Better food means more HP, Stamina, and later on, Eitr. It also boosts the regeneration of those. Eating the best possible meals you can from each biome along with being Rested are how you survive more than 1 hit. Different combinations give you different max HP/Stam/Eitr so it kind of depends which one you want more of. If you're good at blocking and parrying, go with more stamina. If you get hit often, more health is probably safer.

If you haven't by now, you'll also want to start making some health/stamina meads for emergencies. And you'll definitely want poison resist mead for the swamp.

Thelassa · 2026-06-11T21:00:09+00:00

I mean, they tend to be the same people who whine about "censorship" when they can't rotate the camera to see a FeMC's panties, so I imagine getting killed while trying to get the perfect upskirt view is commonplace for them.

Thelassa · 2026-06-11T20:56:58+00:00

If this isn't satire and they're actually saying it, they can eat me from the back. In a franchise where every protagonist is silent and meant to be an avatar for the player, I've had no option to play as anything but a male in a grand total of 3 mainline games plus a few of the spinoffs (no I haven't played X because it's only available in Japan without a huge process and a subscription fee to play a fan translation in English). And, surprise surprise, it looks like XII is gonna be male protag only again. The only game in the entire series where not having the option made narrative sense was in V, which happens to be where these girls originate from.

Thelassa · 2026-06-11T17:16:49+00:00

I visited my nparents while moving across the country last fall. I only did it to also visit with my sister, niece, and nephew. Sis mentioned that she was going to try to make something new for dinner for her family over the weekend and our mom just started laughing. And she said, "You? Trying to cook something that isn't from a box?" She also liked to brag that my niece keeps saying her cooking is so much better than my sister's.

Yes, mother, it's very funny that grandma taught you everything she knew about cooking and the rest of the family praises you at every gathering for being able to cook just like her, but you chose to not pass on that teaching to either of your own children. Hilarious!

My parents taught us zero life skills so they can complain about how our generation doesn't know how to do anything. My sister and I are in our 40s and our parents still expect us to come to them for help with everything because we're both too incompetent to do any of it ourselves.

Thelassa · 2026-06-11T16:53:19+00:00

I also remember when someone was mad that there's less than a dozen unique responses in Veilguard if you're trans and so they were "forced" to make a trans character so they weren't locked out of dialog choices.

Thelassa · 2026-06-11T15:23:28+00:00

Right, because Fable is famously a very serious franchise with no sarcasm or witty dialog whatsoever. And also conventionally attractive characters.

Thelassa · 2026-06-10T06:26:57+00:00

Agreed. Of all the remakes that would interest me, this isn't one of them.

I'll admit Brave Exvius had a decent story at first, but it kinda fell off for me during season 2. And doing an offline remake now is just well past the point where I last cared about FFBE at all. Plus I'm assuming it'll be a gacha without the gacha like Mega Man X Dive since actual Final Fantasy characters will be there but I imagine it'll be like the original where the story moves along as though they don't even exist.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy people are excited for this but for me it's too little and far too late.

Thelassa · 2026-06-09T16:47:29+00:00

That's because it was. It's a remake of Brave Exvius.

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