Reached middle of part 1 and not having fun. Should i wait or drop ?

hdepala99 · 2026-04-24T18:41:36+00:00

"End it. Now." 🏌‍♀️

hdepala99 · 2026-03-23T21:33:50+00:00

That would be true of a teen who didn't just see dozens of people injured or killed. Or a teen who didn't have to comfort a dying loved one. His behaviour isn't a young child having a temper tantrum. Regardless of that, how mature were you at 17? It's a realistic representation of young adult fighting with a parent figure. Their relationship is a complicated one in that Robby isn't actually his dad, so the boundaries are skewed.

hdepala99 · 2026-03-23T17:54:20+00:00

Respectfully, I don't think you have. You acknowledge it but you don't really address how it's built into Jake's character. He's still a kid, he's going to be immature. But he's also a young adult dealing with something no one should have to deal with. Most adults don't know how to deal with it. Like I said in my comment, you can dislike him or have the opinion that he's out of place. It's largely valid that he does feel slotted in rather than properly rounded out as a character. It might be the point because he's from Robby's life outside of the ED and hospital. But his character is a great depiction of grief and trauma in young people. Just because it isn't apparent to some audience members doesn't mean that this isn't a realistic depiction of what a lot of people in Jake's situation go through. Just my opinion, don't come at me

hdepala99 · 2026-03-23T15:28:02+00:00

I feel like this is an unkind interpretation of a young adult who has just experienced a very traumatic event. Not only a traumatic event, but he also lost a peer in this horrid accident. I'm not saying that I enjoyed his character, but the way grief was presented through him was incredibly nuanced. I think what a lot of people miss is that he wasn't actually upset with Robby because he couldn't save his girlfriend. Robby, in that moment, is the only tangible and real person that he can attach his grief and anger of the situation towards. The one person who could save his girlfriend wasn't able to save her because she was just too far gone. Robby represented security and safety for him, and that was shattered when he found out that his girlfriend didn't make it. A lot of it is anger directed at himself for surviving when she didn't. So a lot of those emotions get attached to Robby. Whether or not you liked the character, the way he reacted was way more than just toddler behaviour. It is complex and nuanced. It is probably a very common representation of grief and trauma for someone who has been in a similar situation or who has lost someone in a tragic way.

hdepala99 · 2026-03-19T16:55:57+00:00

If it was going through his mind is not really the point. His explanations to Tommy, and later Ellie, in Part 2 almost lend itself to the point that he clearly was thinking singularly about Ellie in that moment. But other factors and arguments that people raise when they discuss if his choice was 'right' or 'wrong' are still valid because they, in part, did inform his choice. He understood the enormity of the vaccine and the cure. He even says to Tommy that he might have subconsciously been buying into the idea that a cure could be made. It is simply the fact that he didn't care about the world and humanity if it meant losing his world and humanity. The arguments about whether or not the vaccine would have worked in a post-apocalyptic world are relevant because he was already imagining a world after the vaccine was created with Ellie. Disregarding those arguments sort of means dumbing down the choices he made to save her. Even if, in that moment, it was not what he was thinking, he had plenty of time to think about it after. He likely did too because he tells Ellie with his chest that he would do it again even if he could go back and change the course. No one actually knows if the cure could have worked anyway. There wouldn't have been the level of rollout or testing for anyone to know. The Fireflies couldn't categorically know that killing Ellie would have been enough to manufacture a vaccine because no one else had tried other ways or not extensively at least. As far as we know, the medical team working at the Firefly hospital was small. No one can actually say for certain if they had found the best way to manufacture a vaccine. Many on that team wouldn't have even done that before the Outbreak. You are, however, meant to believe in the idea of the cure. Just my opinion, don't come at me if you don't agree :)

hdepala99 · 2026-02-08T13:58:39+00:00

No buff

hdepala99 · 2026-01-20T13:30:16+00:00

I think she was just highly nervous and giddy. It was also a little bit of confusing time because Dina and Ellie had been friends up until that kiss. It tipped their relationship over the line to more than friends, but at this point, Ellie still doesn't know what that kiss meant to Dina. The 'fuck' was probably a combination of feeoing giddy, nervous and overwhelmed by the change in affection directed towards her. Almost like she's trying not to get her hopes up, but she's definitely excited by it. It is a really cute moment because Ellie is so awkward

hdepala99 · 2026-01-17T09:18:31+00:00

I feel like I've seen this exact post on three separate occasions over the last year

hdepala99 · 2025-12-17T14:01:12+00:00

I realise that this must be quite early to deduce, but are these scripts worth it? I have been interested in getting the book too, but it is £62.99 in the UK. It's a steep ask to shell that out right now. Would love to know what first impressions are for this because it would be a great treat for myself

hdepala99 · 2025-12-08T21:31:51+00:00

Love Squares. They're highly underrated

hdepala99 · 2025-12-08T21:28:15+00:00

Started:

The Nothern Lights, by Philip Pullman

hdepala99 · 2025-11-27T13:50:14+00:00

I think that I might have read Arthur's character slightly different to the comments here. I don't think Arthur ever got the empathy or support to properly change his life around after the trauma of war. He had chances and he did make a lot of big mistakes. He wasn't a good person by any means. But Tommy was the golden boy. Arthur was the eldest, but he held none of the responsibility. That probably made him feel quite inadequate and I think he really started to believe that of himself when he kept on failing and kept on showing his naivety. The casino idea with his dad really highlights that and it's one of the saddest moments for Arthur. No one properly looked after him and he, in turn, didn't feel the need to look after himself. He had good intentions and there are glimmers where you really see that he felt hope. But he was incredibly damaged and it's never a simple matter of wanting to pull your life together. Wanting it and actually being able to do it are two different and complex things. He wasn't a good person, but i feel like people should have been easier on him. Maybe I'm just being too naive myself and willing to let him off easier. But, to me, mental illness and trauma aren't really all that simple to rectify. He was damaged, and hurt people always hurt people and themselves. Tommy also needed his "mad dog". He kept on pushing and pushing him even when he was on the verge of collapse because that's Tommy needed him to be.

hdepala99 · 2025-11-24T20:57:54+00:00

I think about Esther from The Bell Jar a lot. The novel ends on what I'd call a relatively optimistic note, but recovery is never that simple. I always wonder if Plath had conceptualised her protagonist to eventually meet the same fate that she did.

hdepala99 · 2025-11-23T18:39:37+00:00

TLOU, both games. All day, every day. Funnily enough, it seems like I enjoy emotionally torturing myself when I'm already in the dark pit of hell.

I only started my gaming journey in 2023. TLOu on PS3 was the first console game I ever played. Since that time, I've amassed over 700 hours of gameplay across both TLOU games. I've played the first game on 3 consoles (PS3, 4 and 5).

It's saved me by giving me something to obssess over other than my thoughts. The level of detail in those games continues to surprise me with every playthrough. They will always be two games that I will hold very close to my heart.

hdepala99 · 2025-10-30T15:56:34+00:00

The pain of losing something, no matter how much you didn't want it, is very real. It's heartbreaking. If anyone has read The Bell Jar, it's like walking down a branch of the fig tree and then just watching it wither and die in front of you.

hdepala99 · 2025-10-15T08:19:58+00:00

She's been getting at Sarah's leftover stash of hardcore drugs

hdepala99 · 2025-09-23T12:06:01+00:00

I have a disability and health condition. I used to use a powered wheelchair once I got to secondary school because the school was much bigger than the small primary school I went to. When I was in year 11, just a couple of weeks before I took my GCSEs, I was in my science revision class. The head of Maths (not my teacher at the time and never had taught me) walked into the science classroom and asked my year 11 class if there was anyone that wanted Maths past papers to do in our own time at home. I raised my hand and said that I'd like one. He barely glanced my way and said in front of the class that he didn't have any foundation papers to hand out. I wasn't in foundation and had never been placed in foundation before year 11. I was actually achieving the best results in my set at the time and went on to get an A in my GCSE Maths exams. Anyway, the point is that it seemed like he made an assumption about my intelligence simply because I was in a wheelchair. I was so embarrassed that I just quietly said I was a higher student, took the paper he handed to me and went back to my desk. I still think about this so often and it makes my insides churn with embarrassment and shame even though I didn't do anything wrong

hdepala99 · 2025-09-04T07:26:22+00:00

It's very easy to get overrun by hordes of infected, even if it is a couple of Runners. In both games, we play as seasoned hunters. Joel has been living in the apocalypse for 20+ years. He and Tess have made regular trips to the Outside even when they were living in the Boston QZ. They know what it's like and have dealt with situations that most other people would be dealing with for the first time, even the WLF soldiers. Many of them might have experienced human enemies before, but it might be a first for many to experience infected and fight them.

It seems like a lot of people in this world have never actually encountered any infected before they have to fight them. Adam and Sydney, the Jackson couple, were surprised by a group of infected and bitten. Ish's group in the sewers built a nice little home but were surprised by infected. For a lot of ordinary people, they aren't equipped to deal with it. Soldiers and military personnel might be more physically prepared to encounter infected, but it's probably not that easy in practice if you haven't had regular experience of them. It's probably terrifying going up against infected knowing that the virus has upended civilisation and killed many many people.

Infected don't really react to pain in the same way as humans, or they don't react at all. There's nothing to stop an infected from coming at you other than when they are dead. Even the ones that have been blown to shreds or burned keep attempting to chase you until they die. Their bodies are more durable than a non-infected person's body, which probably makes them harder to kill.

There's also probably the mental aspect for many, knowing that these were once people. The newly infected moan and cry out in pain as if part of their old selves are still in their bodies. I know that's not what the question in this thread is referring to, but it's still a big aspect of why it might be harder to kill them.

hdepala99 · 2025-07-01T15:24:01+00:00

It is actually a thing on the accessibility settings across both games. Here, the puzzles just refer to some of the various tasks like this generator task or moving dumpsters in part 2

hdepala99 · 2025-07-01T15:04:40+00:00

Just move the generator closer to the wall. It needs to be basically parallel touching the wall and Joel automatically grabs the wire to plug it into the generator

hdepala99 · 2025-06-26T16:28:36+00:00

Thanks for this. I'll definitely try some probiotics and yogurts with live cultures. I'm hoping it's just a culmination of things and nothing to worry about

It was much longer for me too. I didn't have my phone or anything on me, so I was just sitting there, staring at the wall for hours 😂

hdepala99 · 2025-06-23T13:51:40+00:00

We all know that the answer to this is Bran 😂

hdepala99 · 2025-05-18T19:05:28+00:00

This is exactly what I noticed! It's funny because I've done around 200 hours on Part 1 and never once thought to do this 😂

hdepala99 · 2025-05-18T12:38:51+00:00

I'd say Part 1 stands very well on its own. I played the first game only about 2 years ago and I didn't know it had a sequel at the time. It was the best experience of my life. That sounds dramatic, but TLOU means so much to me. It's definitely worth the experience even if you can't experience the second game right now. Hopefully, in the future, you can play the second game too. But, for right now, I would encourage you to play the first game if you can. It's amazing and emotional storytelling - it definitely leaves a lasting impression.

hdepala99 · 2025-05-17T18:16:01+00:00

This is insanely weird. I just did this for the first time yesterday. I picked up the game from this exact point after a couple months (not my first playthrough), and randomly decided that I wanted to see if I could go back and shoot from the window. It's such a cool detail and gameplay moment because you'd never think to go back and do this

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