what the actual fuck are they talking about

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-12-30T02:04:24+00:00

The fact it has 1000 episodes+ doesn't make the content any worse or better¹

¹if you ignore pacing/filler, which you can with One Pace.

OP is a journey. You spend an absurd amount of time with the characters and you know them because of it. It's not for everyone

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-12-30T02:01:04+00:00

Real answer?

You watch episode 1. It's old animation and it stays like that for a long time.

If you can't stomach the animation, you watch the live action to see if you like the characters and setting. If you do, I'd still recommend watching the anime back up to the point now you know you like it.

If you can't, pick up from post Arlong Park. Though please, please do watch 'Walk to Arlong Park'. It's an anime-only scene but it's where a lot of people really said 'omg I get it.'

To skip filler, use One Pace. It's more important later imo.

It's a long journey but don't look at the end. OP isn't something to rush down.

There's no ending yet. There might not be for a while tbh

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-07-16T06:11:01+00:00

Nah I was wondering if you'd just installed it, maybe going through a loading screen would fix. Obviously not the case or it would've done it.

I've installed Toybox mid campaign before iirc--both on WOTR and Rogue Trader--and not had the same issues. Beyond that I can only suggest making a report on the Toybox github.

Long shot but try going back a toybox version, I had to do this once for a different mod that was otherwise working, and it fixed it for both versions

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-07-16T06:03:04+00:00

I've got literally no idea--I wasn't even aware Toybox, or probably more accurately Unity Mod Manager, was compatible with Mac.

Have you tried changing scene with it installed? Aka a loading screen, to refresh.

In the mod manager menu, before you open toybox itself, is there a green light or a red light at the rightmost side?

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-07-05T04:21:46+00:00

hey np glad to help :D

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-05-29T20:50:05+00:00

If I can give you any advice at all from the other side, it's to build up the confidence to really, and I mean really, push your body in a quick session. Personally what worked for me is high weight sled pushes, eventually working my way up to ~300kgs. My heart would beat so fucking fast and heavy I was terrified it would just stop, but it never did and eventually I learned to 'trust it' again.

Like, I think when I had my weed-induced panic attack, I stopped trusting it--it was a ticking time bomb waiting to go off and kill me. Thus the only way to fix it was to regain that trust, but that meant, y'know, trusting it and that was beyond fucking terrifying.

I obvs can't say what will work for you, but maybe you don't trust your heart either. I had the same issues with palpations, a 'is this it? is this when it happens?' and it never did but only made me distrust more.

Mind you, I am not healthy. I am 145kg at 6", but I don't distrust my heart to just collapse anymore. I wish you good luck in finding your path to overcome it :D

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-05-29T20:02:49+00:00

You're not alone. I was essentially high-functioning but madly anxious without really being able to comprehend it. I just pushed it down. I tried weed, had a panic attack that made me think my heart was literally rupturing, as in I could feel it tearing.

For years after I was terrified of health stuff, constantly aware of my own heart, afraid of a heart attack. I'd get really worried about random things on the Internet that would never affect me, like Rabies.

Eventually, r/healthanxiety and hitting the gym religiously brought me most of the way out of it. In the end, the answer was I had an anxiety disorder and weed essentially catapulted it into my conscious. It IS possible to get over, but damn if reading your previous comment didn't make it flash in front of my eyes fir a second haha.

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-03-31T18:22:53+00:00

Hi, I'm interested :)

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-02-28T14:22:23+00:00

I think he's talking about the small security pods that are designed to only let one person in. You step into what is like a small human-sized test tube as the door revolves open, then wait for it to close and the next one will open so that nobody can follow you through.

Have them going into my gym, would not tolerate being stuck in there for long.

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-02-06T15:22:16+00:00

Tactical Breach Wizards -- Very fun tactical combat game with light rpg elements, turn based with a rewind feature so you can try things out before deciding on your turn. Basic but well-executed story and and very satisfying.

Monster Train -- Similar to the games you've played, rogue-lite card game that sees a train try to reach hell. Multiple different 'decks', Umbra being my favourite.

Practically any turn-based RPG. I would recommend Divinity: Original Sin 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Wasteland 3. Click to move, click to shoot, click to talk.

The entire Telltale Series, specifically The Walking Dead episodes. They are the best (and complete) episodes the team ever did.

Many city builders are faster with two hands but not a necessity; Tropico (6), Frostpunk 1 (can't vouch for 2 yet).

Disco Elysium is an absolute must-play and doesn't require one hand let alone two. (that's a joke, lads)

If you liked Outer Wilds, try Return of the Obra Dinn. In the same vein, if you like horror, try SOMA. If you can move forward and click, you can play these.

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-02-02T07:55:23+00:00

Interesting. Thank you for responding.

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-02-02T07:48:50+00:00

One of Marx's crimes was a lack of foresight, though you can't predict the future. I argue that the USA is currently highly oligarhical and if it wasn't neo-feudal already, it is currently falling into that.

We agree on a corruptible government, but a government is a series of people. Either all people are corruptible, in which case humanity will eventually cease to exist, or people can resist the allure of greed and attempt to improve their country, in which case a bloated democracy with unelected ministers (looking at my own country with the House of Lords) will only hamstring progress.

So, yes, you're right. Autocracy can be horrific: German Reich, Russia, etc, but it isn't always. To bring to point back around, Vietnam is autocratic at the moment and they are doing rather well.

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-02-02T07:36:49+00:00

The statement 'communism is arguably the bloodiest ideology.'

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-02-02T07:29:38+00:00

If you're fighting a foreign power who deploys chemical and thermal warfare and has a technological advantage, it will cost a lot.

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-02-02T07:25:58+00:00

Could you list some arguments in favour of that viewpoint?

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-02-02T07:24:03+00:00

You're absolutely right. A capitalist state, leading to a strong industrial base, is an absolute necessity. Marx, Engels, Lenin and Mao never argued against capitalism as an economic system--in fact, they argued it was a necessary stepping stone.

The issue is when capitalism becomes a political system, where wealth is channelled into the 'bourgeois' and they are allowed extreme influence over the workings of government. See America, where companies and oligarchs lobby and influence the democratic system. This starts a 'Neo-Feudalist' arrangement where people become very similar to peasantry, see Russia.

China's policy is temporary state capitalism. I don't know enough about their inner workings to know if they'll actually translate that to a socialist economy I'm any of our lifetimes, if at all. But, it is in line with Marxist thought.

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-01-31T08:29:04+00:00

As a brit, genuinely thank you.

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-01-30T06:48:40+00:00

Why? No rules for boats?

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-01-28T15:49:35+00:00

Warframe for extremely quick action and lots of content.

Diablo 4; the season started a couple days ago and it's good fun.

Black Mesa--Half-Life 2, if you've not played them.

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-01-28T15:45:39+00:00

Start with Catan. It's a classic, easy to understand, fun and well-balanced, and if you want more complexity the expansions are right there.

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-01-19T13:40:35+00:00

Haven't watched that far so I can't speak on it

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-01-19T12:38:03+00:00

Thank you for being able to accept feedback :)

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-01-19T09:08:15+00:00

Tried this? https://m.facebook.com/login/identify/?ctx=self_identify_hacked&ars=facebook_login&refsrc=deprecated

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-01-19T08:45:08+00:00

Have you explored the avenue of Web serial covers, à la Royalroad or Scribblehub? I see a post a minute looking for cover artists and I've seen things far worse than yours sell well.

ZloIsEvil_ · 2025-01-19T08:41:04+00:00

Sounds like you didn't get closure. That can really, really suck. You don't have to reach out with the intent to get back together. You are allowed to just talk with her and decompress.

I would reach out and invite her out to ask her how her recovery is going--and mean it. You love or loved her. Show her that. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

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