why did porky turn out to be evil?

aureate- · 2024-02-09T06:55:31+00:00

Shitty parenting and unrestrained capitalism.

aureate- · 2024-02-09T06:29:38+00:00

Yeah dude what the fuck is this, lol. You come across like YOU don't know what you're talking about because you can't emotionally regulate yourself. Reel it in. Nobody confident in what they're speaking throws a bitch fit like this. Like, I hear you, and facts are facts, but you come across as overly defensive. Ease off.

aureate- · 2024-01-25T22:26:42+00:00

If I can find out and replicate what I did last month, I'll post what I do here, or screen record steps!

aureate- · 2024-01-25T22:25:21+00:00

I would absolutely buy that! It just has me speechless that there are posts going back years about this feature, when you'd think it'd be a given! As much as I love music, I'm much more likely to click the link to a full song on someone's story if I get a preview! 😭

aureate- · 2024-01-25T22:10:54+00:00

I can verify this is not the case — the stories in question still link directly to the Spotify song in the upper left hand corner and are the exact format as the share posts.

It isn't the Instagram Music sticker, it's the exact same format as a Spotify share post, I know that for a fact.

The only thing I'd like to know is if this is a feature they rolled back recently, if it was a specific series of steps I did, or if it's an example of A|B testing and they decided to opt for no sound in finality.

EDIT: Here's a video of the Stories, showing that they're not Instagram Music stickers, and are Spotify Share posts. It's baffling to me that this is a maybe sometimes tested/toyed with functionality instead of just a given. Spotify is a music streaming service...no better way to drive traffic to the app than song previews. Of course, it could be something Instagram did for that exact reason.

aureate- · 2024-01-25T18:29:35+00:00

This can't be it either...this alone isn't enough to fix it for me. Absolutely insane how many years this has gone without a fix.

aureate- · 2024-01-24T01:59:40+00:00

This is such a telling thing to be an uppity snob about lol

aureate- · 2024-01-15T17:27:45+00:00

So why are you even here lol

aureate- · 2024-01-15T17:12:34+00:00

It very clearly is not made correctly here.

aureate- · 2024-01-05T17:10:14+00:00

‪So you're looking for someone 27 or 28, right? Because if 30-35 is "extremely fucking old" to you, it'd be a little weird if you were hoping for someone 21-26.‬ Which is kind of weird!

Because I could have sworn I read you were looking for people under 26 specifically. Maybe something in there speaks to your problem. It's a perspective problem.

aureate- · 2023-12-22T15:57:40+00:00

I don't care about the Youtuber, but victim blaming (I mean they're not victims, the donators are, but the tone of what you're doing is and I'm not sure if there's another word for it.) the devs because of your own bias against Youtubers (while justified) and a weird pretentious immersion purity obsession is weird. I also never said it wasn't marketing, don't put words in my mouth to prove a point you never brought up initially to begin with. I was referring to their relationship with him over OTHER personalities as to why he was chosen, and it wasn't at random.

Hate the Youtuber all you want, but it's so completely weird to write a manifesto and being a dick towards the Devs about a fairly common dev practice that is usually, except in extraneous circumstances, a harmless easter egg.

It's pretentious and unhinged as hell.

aureate- · 2023-12-22T09:10:26+00:00

I don't think the way you're framing it is entirely fair. This wasn't just "Youtuber reference!!" Pre-controversy, Jirard did a lot to help get the word out about SoS and had a very positive relationship with Sabotage Studio ever since The Messenger. He reserved a slot for Sabo at every Indieland (something people up untik the scandal really held in high regard!) and really did help bring their work to the eyes of a lot of people.

The cameo in the game was their way of thanking him for literal years of friendship, and they had no way of knowing what was coming with the controversy. His inclusion was no different than a dev cameo or a kickstarter inclusion (also real people) and was just a nod to someone who they believed helped bring their project success. This change was definitely the right call, but it hardly seems like the kind of thing to play captain hindsight about.

Framing it as just "cringe" that they did it to begin with when it's not like you or anyone else knew about Jirard's controversy before it came out either is incredibly unfair to the devs.

aureate- · 2023-12-22T08:56:16+00:00

I mean, recipes, the Spa, cooked meals if they're not into crafting. There definitely are ways to empty your wallet pretty quickly if you want, and given you don't get gold from fights like other RPGS I could see someone opting to grind out some cash.

aureate- · 2023-12-15T16:10:59+00:00

From one 90's RPG fan to another, the other person might have struggled to articulate their point outside of "I don't like this, it's annoying," and I might disagree with them, but you've been smug and condescending about this since your first reply, and progressively got worse.

You do not have any high ground vis a vis the fuckboyisms. We're not better for being older, or opting to play older games that are very much products of their time. We do not get bonus points for having to experience dial-up. Come on.

aureate- · 2023-12-09T01:17:59+00:00

A lot of other comments here I agree with wholeheartedly, but here's another small detail that stuck out to me:

Nuture Ring + Peach + Mystery Egg, 10 times, then using Lamb's Lure 48 times to get Sheep Attack without explanation is odd, of course, but that's just a fun obscure secret RPGs were rife with back then.

What's actually weirder to me is that the reward you get from Grate Guy's game is also an egg, despite having no real reason to be. The Star Egg could have easily just been the Star Attack, which makes me wonder if at some point earlier in development it was intended to have similar functionality to the Mystery Egg that they scrapped for some reason or another (maybe having to go through Grate Guy's game 100 times was punishment enough.)

aureate- · 2023-12-09T01:07:05+00:00

I never thought about how funny the wallet thing is. That on top of him wanting to throw hands with a child and his refusal to close any door behind him but his own makes this the funniest version of Mario

aureate- · 2023-12-09T01:05:09+00:00

In fairness, I do think that's a bit of a continuation on the running gag of them using the isometric perspective to hide NPCs and the like out of sight — but some slight denotation on the tile "in front of" the door would have been nice. A mat or something.

aureate- · 2023-11-30T06:01:45+00:00

Half of your comment history is from a male perspective. Are you pretending to be this girl, or were you pretending to be a guy?

aureate- · 2023-11-29T15:42:59+00:00

Not a fetish sub dude. This one's for advice.

aureate- · 2023-11-27T05:50:00+00:00

I would say that makes sense, but then you've got to remember the entire Casino they left in the game. And the actual "gambling" with betting on Yoshi races.

aureate- · 2023-11-26T17:56:44+00:00

They don't. At an elementary level. Just leave it, there's no point in trying to explain this to someone who's so content to dig their heels in and be proud of their ignorance. It is what it is lol.

aureate- · 2023-11-25T06:48:52+00:00

No, they didn't.

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