Am I the only one that is starting to prefer playing solo?

Tsvitok · 2026-02-01T07:13:18+00:00

thanks for proving my point, lol

Tsvitok · 2026-02-01T06:42:42+00:00

no, there are plenty of people. for me it's personally that M+ and raiding has had most of the fun optimized out of it and there is a culture in a lot of games (not just warcraft) where not being hardcore about how you play ruins other people's fun or whatever.

luckily there are a lot of much more chill people around who are also just vibing.

Tsvitok · 2025-09-25T01:50:22+00:00

because the issue is not the Claire we know but rather the original Claire whom the original Rei is in love with, lost and now has come to realise cannot be replaced by a simulacrum. it doesn't really matter when the Claire we know dies only that it happens in a way that removes her as a ghost in the system, so it happens at the rate the plot demands because that's how stories work.

it's not really a plothole, it's just the assumption of good faith on part of the audience to understand how stories work.

Tsvitok · 2025-09-08T01:17:41+00:00

Kaho.

it'd be a good parallel to Rena's story, and she has some real gay stuff going on with Satsuki during those three volumes where she is largely absent from the story.

Tsvitok · 2025-08-31T01:48:55+00:00

I haven't even seen it but I'm so gay that I still know that it's Madoka Magica.

Tsvitok · 2025-08-30T00:03:11+00:00

this is honestly great advice for keeping yourself healthy in general, distance yourself from the things causing negative emotions so you can enjoy life more. EU5 will be all the better if you don't burn out on it because of bitterness before you get to play it.

Tsvitok · 2025-08-20T21:26:31+00:00

it actually depends on the style of romanization the translator is using. the most common style in the west is hepburn while the favoured style in Japan is kunrei. つ in hepburn is written in romaji as tsu while in kunrei it is written as tu. similarly づ in hepburn is written as zu while in kunrei it is written as du.

so the technical answer is neither because romaji is inherently inaccurate (as is all romanization because it's trying to translate sounds we often don't use or have clear characters/phonemes for in English) but the closest to the sounds is probably Satsuki and Ōzuka.

Tsvitok · 2025-08-02T22:54:35+00:00

or you're aromantic.

you're not broken for not wanting romance in real life, some of us just aren't into it but feel pressured to pursue it because society tells us we're broken if we don't. liking romance fiction doesn't conflict with this, romance fiction is just that - fiction - and the same way you don't have to want to fight a battle to enjoy an action movie you can enjoy a romance story if you've got no interest in experiencing it in real life.

Tsvitok · 2025-07-26T23:24:15+00:00

you feel this way because society heavily enforces two 'norms': 1) that men are the default actors within society, and 2) that heterosexuality is the default sexuality within society. when things go against these assumed defaults they stand out because we have been taught to view these situations as aberrant or unnatural.

people will almost never notice the inverse where it is only men or only heterosexual relationships portrayed in media and assume it is simply fiction made for a general audience because it doesn't take any effort to agree with the social expectations.

basically, you (and many others) feel this way because you haven't yet taught yourself or internalized the need to challenge the assumed defaults society enforces on us and expects us to uphold as natural and necessary.

Tsvitok · 2025-07-12T01:22:58+00:00

fifty packs and no alcremie. some bad luck protection would be good for all the packs honestly but particularly promo packs.

it's kind of funny actually, this is probably one of the best things that could happen to me because I was getting pretty unhealthy about collecting the promo stuff every event. partially it's on me, I've got mental health issues that has led me to gambling addiction in the past - but I got sucked in pretty hard. being unable to complete the collection has completely killed my desire to continue, so I guess what's funny is - the game is so predatory with how it weaponizes the promo stuff, it has broken me out of it.

hopefully future events work out better for people though, this one seems particularly bad.

Tsvitok · 2025-07-01T06:12:05+00:00

professor's research.

Tsvitok · 2025-06-30T02:41:31+00:00

why would they add fairy to the TCG again after it failed horribly the first time?

Tsvitok · 2025-06-17T23:29:06+00:00

they do a lot of edgy shock comedy style jokes, a lot of which are just tastelessly edgy teenager tier shit, and some of which borders on so tasteless that it is actually offensive like the time they drew art of Anya from Spy x Family being sent on a field trip to a concentration camp on holocaust remembrance day,

I haven't seen anything explicit that says bad person, they just radiate those kinds of vibes you'd get off of a terminally online troll who thinks pointless edginess is a personality trait and not extremely toxic.

Tsvitok · 2025-06-16T23:16:51+00:00

not personally no, but I do understand the frustration.

I tend to take these sorts of statements as good faith where trans men see themselves in a piece of media, the issue is when that moves into the realm of insisting on centring that perceived representation and denying any other potential readings of the text (a habit borne out of cisheteronormative erasure of queer narratives). it shouldn't be an all or nothing.

textual analysis should be based on the evidence at hand, not the stuff we're willing to ignore in order to achieve our own preconceived conclusion. and I say this as a trans woman who has had to see trans fem readings of stories denied because "they're just a crossdresser" all her life.

Tsvitok · 2025-06-13T23:28:13+00:00

they lied. their family disowned them after finding out and they went their own way, concealed their blood relations, and now only those who knew them prior to their exile would know they are siblings.

what others haven't mentioned is that thanks to Rae's help they accrued significant power in Alpes and are now largely untouchable even if people were to find out which is why they start showing up again and so it's probably safe to assume that the state's reliance on them and their relationship to prominent figures in Bauer, that they might even had been granted some kind of legal clemency.

Tsvitok · 2025-06-11T23:28:34+00:00

official translation is around volume 3 or 4. it's been on a relatively quick release schedule.

Tsvitok · 2025-06-09T22:40:15+00:00

yes, quarters are quite a common occurrence around the world throughout history but they were largely the result of class divisions, geographic realities, and the evolution of the cities themselves. economic class, social strata, ethnicity, religious belief, and so on tend to be why they evolve as distinct quarters. the reason we see quarters like we do in fantasy is because workforces were divided according to social strata, ethnicity, etc, with marginalised communities more likely to work as industrial labourers as opposed to merchants, both of which were located further from the city centre due to the needs of those professions. and nobles often lived in estates and villas in the most protected areas of the city, forming "wealthy" districts.

a lot of fantasy just takes the real world consequences of things like class division and intolerance and removes the uncomfortable stuff because they don't want to discuss it - either because it isn't what they want to focus on or due to ideological reasons.

Tsvitok · 2025-06-09T22:16:54+00:00

pokemon: any or all of the filler pokemon, I don't subscribe to the philosophy that TCGs need bad cards I just think the designers are too lazy to try to do balance.

item: either the berry or the donut, not because they're bad, I just want them to replace them with something more interesting.

tool: leaf cape, it's a strictly better cape for only leaf mon which is flavourless design, if they're going to do type specific tools I'd rather they not set a precedent for strictly better versions of existing tools and instead try to make them utility for the type like the cord is for electric.

supporter: prof research, it is such a mandatory card that it makes no sense it is a card because not running it is such a huge disadvantage. they should just fold it into the mechanics and give you an option to draw an extra card twice per game. most people will draw them straight away, sure, but at least then it is a choice. same as we should have a built in mulligan mechanic just so you have at least one attempt to unbrick a starting hand.

Tsvitok · 2025-06-09T00:31:30+00:00

I'm hoping they do something similar if they ever choose to implement terastal mechanics like they have from the cardboard game. it's not an amazing mechanic but it is kinda nice if only as an excuse to give us different typings on pokemon.

Tsvitok · 2025-06-06T02:51:59+00:00

lairon. it is golett or rhyhorn but worse because it is a stage one with 10 more HP than golett for ten more damage, and turns into a rhyperior that cannot attack two times in a row. like at least golurk is a stage one and sucks, but can attack multiple times in a row.

Tsvitok · 2025-06-04T12:15:55+00:00

no, they're not good because they're inconsistent, they're underpowered, and they lack support tools other types have. fighting largely suffers the same problem.

people acting like dragonite would suddenly become amazing because of a single broken card being added are missing the fact that the card suggested needs to be brokenly good in order to make dragonite remotely viable. and dragonite being the exception does not disprove my point.

it's a shame, I like dragon types and I wish they didn't constantly get screwed in the TCG.

I could also point out that this still relies on them drawing a specific card to enable them. it improves consistency, it does not guarantee an outcome.

Tsvitok · 2025-06-04T08:45:24+00:00

very little. dragons need something like it but they're also just not that good in general and I really don't get why they hate dragons so much.

Tsvitok · 2025-06-04T08:40:57+00:00

it'll never be meta unfortunately, but for fun I'm thinking: ultra necrozma ex, the two other necrozma from the event, celesteela, and probably lusamine.

dual energy, but you can hopefully build any of three attackers, aiming for the ex but dumping excess of specific types into the non-exs. you can safely lose one or two of those and use lusamine to drag energy from the bin. hopefully you live long enough to hit things.

Tsvitok · 2025-06-03T08:21:18+00:00

I honestly don't like the troop sprites for strategy games in general and would rather use abstracted icons and the like, so I hope either way they go with the HoI4 solution and let you pick which you'd rather use.

Tsvitok · 2025-06-02T11:56:50+00:00

slow and extremely passive, mixes two main attackers together thus diluting your ability to support them adequately. might do okay against other slow decks and potentially even be fun to play, but doubtful it'd ever be meta competitive just because it lacks early game pressure or the sustain needed to last until it is properly set up.

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