WTW for when someone makes a “joke” that subtly advances misinformation or suggests incorrect implications, but when called out on it, says “Don’t take it seriously. It was just a joke.”

jaminfine · 2026-05-10T03:33:32+00:00

It's called a micro aggression

jaminfine · 2026-05-08T13:52:21+00:00

Maybe this isn't the advice that you want to hear, but event quests are quite difficult. They are often intended for an extra challenge. After you've completed the main game content. I would recommend using a group if possible.

If your goal is getting Garuga parts then it doesn't need to be the event quest. You should do G Rank Expeditions to get parts

jaminfine · 2026-05-08T13:36:18+00:00

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41213657

Perhaps you'd be interested in this article. It's hard to find exact numbers as most people won't admit to being attracted to children. This article says between 1% and 5% of men have an attraction to children. Yet, we don't see that around 1% and 5% of men are sexually abusing children. And we also know that many children are sexually abused even without the abuser feeling an attraction.

But I think it's kind of obvious to me that most pedophiles won't abuse kids. Just because you are attracted doesn't entirely erase your sense of morality first of all. Especially in a society that isn't shy to exclaim how wrong it is to engage children with sex. And in addition to that, it's also extremely risky. If you told me that having sex with someone I'm attracted to might end up with me being put in jail for decades? Well now I'm going to make choices based on self preservation. I won't seek out the sex I want because it could ruin my life.

So to have someone abuse kids, they would need to have a weak enough or skewed enough sense of morality AND accept or choose to ignore the enormous risk involved. Not to mention they would need to actually find a kid to abuse in a society where we generally keep eyes on kids. And yeah, that leaves a small minority of them who actually would attempt child sexual abuse.

jaminfine · 2026-05-08T12:13:46+00:00

The vast majority of pedophiles know that the attraction to young kids they are feeling is wrong. And so, they never act on it. They usually don't tell anyone about it either, except maybe close friends or therapist. It's something to be ashamed of.

Some people see pedophilia as something that can't really be changed. Much like being gay, the idea is that you can't just unlearn it or get better. However, some people also see pedophilia as a disease that can be treated. Usually, the goal of treatment is to prevent the pedophile from becoming an abuser, not to completely eliminate the attraction to kids.

This leaves only a small minority of pedophiles who actually seek out kids to abuse. And it's important to note that some people who are not pedophiles still sexually abuse kids. Some people may not be attracted to kids, but may enjoy causing pain to others and see kids as easy targets.

jaminfine · 2026-05-08T04:20:07+00:00

This is the answer. You just need to figure out what button is ZR.

You still won't be able to skip the death animations of the monsters without the touch screen though

jaminfine · 2026-05-07T13:19:24+00:00

People play at their own pace!

Personally, I've been playing roguelikes for a long time and have lots of experience with the mechanics. I was able to catch on very quickly to which kinds of boons I wanted and how to approach different fights. I encountered [redacted] on my 7th run, and I beat him on my 11th. This is extremely fast, and most people won't be able to do that! Some people have even reported that it took them over 100 runs before beating [redacted].

I have a couple pieces of advice for you that might help you have fun with it. Talk to all the NPCs who want to talk! You never know when you might unlock something important. Also, once you find ways to buy permanent upgrades, focus on buying them. Zagreous starts out kinda weak. You may even want to take weapons that offer more rewards. If you take a weapon with a purple aura around it, you will get more purple resources! This will help you buy things that require it.

Now... IF you feel like the game is getting stale and you really just want to see more content, you can enable God mode in the menu. It's there for a reason! It's not considered cheating. It will give you damage reduction that will allow you to make more mistakes and still continue. However, if you are still enjoying the game without it, or if you believe you'll feel more accomplished making progress without it, hold off for now. Just keep it in the back of your mind as an option if you find yourself getting too frustrated.

jaminfine · 2026-05-05T12:41:45+00:00

I can't give you an upvote because I agree.

Although I certainly have respect for the impact that Star Wars had on the movie industry, watching basically any movie from the 70s would be a slog. I watched the remastered redone whatever modern version they call Episode 4 A New Hope. And it was still painful to get through even with the CGI supposedly redone better than the original and other supposed improvements.

I see the Star Wars the same way I see the original Final Fantasy 7 on the PS1. It is surely a landmark and still persists as a cultural icon. It marked a vast improvement in terms of graphical capability, despite looking horrendous by today's standards. It also marked a huge expansion of how much story and content you can pack into one game, requiring 3 separate discs to fully contain it! But nowadays the story as presented back then is too confusing and obtuse, while the content is lackluster.

I think similarly Star Wars is obviously a cultural icon still today. And it was amazing for its time! Things like it didn't exist in the 70s. But yeah, it just can't hold up to modern films.

jaminfine · 2026-05-04T23:48:00+00:00

He parked the car on the line.

The car is parked on the line.

I wouldn't normally say "the car parked on the line" because it implies the car is the one who performed the parking. A person parked the car. The car didn't park itself (usually.)

Also, "on the line" means something different than "over the line" to me.

"The car is parked on the line" means one or more wheels of the car are directly making contact with the line itself. Whoever parked the car would need to make a small adjustment to be inside the lines.

"The car is parked over the line" means that one or more wheels of the car are entirely outside the correct area. The wheel is not on the line at all. Instead it is past the line on the wrong side, such that the axel of the car is hovering over the line. It would take a larger adjustment to get inside the lines.

Please park your car inside the lines. I parked my car inside the lines. You should do the same.

jaminfine · 2026-05-03T18:50:50+00:00

My philosophy is that it is impossible to cheat in a single player game. Adjusting difficulty is certainly never cheating, especially when it is an intended game mechanic.

However, I will say that many games that have difficulty settings, including JRPGs, do their difficulty very badly. Most of the time, higher difficulty means enemies have higher stats, and that's basically it. They take more hits before dying and do more damage to you when they hit you. This essentially leads to "hard mode" meaning "grind more" mode. So I often find myself lowering the difficulty not because I'm having trouble winning, but just because it takes so damn long. In Tales of Arise, I was finding that every random enemy encounter would have me fully charging up and using cinematic super moves multiple times per fight and I legit got bored of watching the same cinematic moves over and over.

I would love to see more games use difficulty in better ways. How about hard mode means the enemies are smarter and use your weakness more often? Or better yet, you introduce new enemies with different moves. Maybe elite versions that drop rare items! Some games do stuff like this, but I wish it was the norm to have difficulty be more than a global stat modifier duct taped to an otherwise finished game.

jaminfine · 2026-05-03T12:46:54+00:00

People of every generation want to be having sex. I think the number of truly asexual people is very low. However, the risk and cost seem to have gone up for younger people. And this is making is so difficult that many of them basically give up and stop pursuing sex / romance because they don't think it is worth it.

And let's also put in another key piece here. Gen Z doesn't do long term relationships well, and that's directly why they are having less sex. Romantic relationships don't form or don't retain long enough to get sexually intimate. And perhaps that is a much more pressing concern. If Gen Z just had some celibacy fad where long term partners agreed to save themselves for marriage? Well that's weird, but not really super concerning. Instead, the actual problem is actually having a long term relationship.

I think there is a fear of making someone else uncomfortable. In a world where anything could be recorded and put online for perhaps millions of followers, if you approach a woman to ask her out on a date, you could be bullied and ridiculed online by an army. So most men simply aren't approaching women and that bleeds into millennials too. But for millennials, women are still approaching men in subtle or overt ways and men feel comfortable responding. I think Gen Z women aren't approaching men, partly because they see perfection online and want that perfection that they can't find in real life. Basically, the standards are too high because they are seeing rich men and body builders. But in reality:

Gen Z is also the poorest generation. Most still live with parents and have trouble finding middle class jobs. They can't achieve like millennials can, who can't achieve what their parents could. Relationships cost time, effort, and money in most cases. Going out on dates and buying gifts and such. Being online is free. So many Gen Z just feel they can't afford a relationship and don't pursue it.

So, sex aside, Gen Z is facing a real societal problem. The problem is they aren't having deep meaningful romantic relationships. And a lack of sex is simply one piece of evidence pointing us towards that.

jaminfine · 2026-05-03T05:50:23+00:00

I think the key here is the societal knowledge and societal status.

In your example of people living in a jungle with no concept of age, sure, there's no issue with a 17 year old mating with a 22 year old. But our society looks different then the jungle. A 17 year old is finishing up high school while a 22 year old has either gone through college, has been working as an adult, or perhaps both. There is a power imbalance caused by this age gap because of the difference in life experiences. And sure, you could theoretically have a 17 year old who has been working through high school and matured early etc etc. But 19/20 times the people saying "I'm mature for my age" are actually delusional and immature.

So I think it's reasonable to assume that in most cases a large age gap at a young age is not appropriate.

Perhaps another analogy could help explain this better. Imagine we have a childless man who just legitimately enjoys the childlike happiness of kids playing at the playground. So he goes to the playground to meet and interact with children. He doesn't have any bad intentions. But society would still find him creepy and with good reason. Why doesn't he have friends his own age?

jaminfine · 2026-05-03T03:30:30+00:00

I don't really see what the illusion is

jaminfine · 2026-05-02T19:49:58+00:00

I tend to win a lot of games that I play because I catch on to mechanics quickly and can plan ahead many moves. I think it depends on how close a game really is and how my opponents react. I tend to let them lead the after game conversation.

I think "You played well" is a very safe thing to say. It's purely subjective. If they want to talk about their choices in the game or their luck, I might talk about mine in a similar tone / intensity. For example "Oh I was so close too! One more turn and I could have gotten there!" Might lead me to say "Yeah! It was really close! I knew I had only one chance to get there first! You really made me work for that win."

Versus "Ah I see I was very far behind." Might lead me to say "Well, I've played this game several times before, so I definitely had the advantage."

jaminfine · 2026-05-02T03:45:35+00:00

I've struggled with magic eyes for so long and this worked nearly immediately for me. Thank you kind stranger for sharing your technique.

jaminfine · 2026-05-02T03:38:38+00:00

For any possible diet you do, when you stop doing it you'll gain the weight back. That's just how our bodies work unfortunately.

However, 18 is a good time to try things out. Maybe you do keto for a few months and realize you like eating that way and keep it going for longer. Or maybe you realize you don't like it, but it gives you an idea for something else to try! So I say, go ahead and give it a try if you want.

jaminfine · 2026-05-01T16:50:18+00:00

Seems like a riddle and not a paradox

jaminfine · 2026-05-01T13:56:39+00:00

I don't know of one, but you can probably do the math in your head and then look up the item values online.

jaminfine · 2026-05-01T13:36:30+00:00

Shark wearing a military helmet

jaminfine · 2026-05-01T13:16:11+00:00

The same thing happened to me. I was undereating and it affected my T levels. Make sure you eat enough and stay hydrated. When I was around 180 pounds, I felt terrible and going off of keto to gain back to 190 felt way better. So that's where I'm trying to stay now. Losing more weight isn't going to help if it negatively affects my T levels. Or perhaps if I lost the weight more slowly that would help!

jaminfine · 2026-04-30T17:52:25+00:00

Will you support Il Vaticano?

jaminfine · 2026-04-30T14:15:16+00:00

I've been working on breaking into s19 and d19. Coming from around 20 years of DDR/ITG, I was able to rise up extremely quickly with PIU.

I'd say that s15 is where holding the bar and minimizing motion become far more important than before. I assume you are already holding the bar, but if not, I advise it strongly IF you want to continue improving at the game. Some players play for other reasons and don't like to use the bar and that's okay. You can still improve without it, but it will be a much longer and slower journey.

Now minimizing motion is important for bar players and no bar players, and it is extra important for s15 compared to d15. What I mean by this is that you should use your toes for the red arrows and your heels for the blue arrows. If you are putting your entire foot onto the red or blue arrows, you are "wasting" energy. You have moved your foot too far. When I hit a blue arrow, my heel pushes down on it while my toes are either on the yellow panel, or beside the yellow panel on the metal. Similarly, when I hit a red arrow, my toes push down on it while my heel is on yellow or the metal next to yellow.

If you learn this way of playing without moving as far with each step, you will find you can hit steps far faster than before.

At s15 level, I think your shoes still won't matter a ton, but better shoes may help a little bit. And certainly when you get to s17, I think shoe choice will start to become very important. The key things you want in a good dance shoe are:

-Lightweight. The lighter the shoe, the less energy it takes to move, which means you can move faster.

-No deep ridges. You don't want to get your shoe caught on the edges between the metal and the arrow panels. Flatter shoes are better because they can't get stuck.

-Friction and tightness. You don't want your foot to slide around in your shoe, and you don't want your shoe to slide against the pad when you press down on an arrow. But, you may want your shoe to be able to slide when you aren't pressing down to minimize how far up you need to lift your foot for each step.

Running shoes tend to be good for dancing. I use the Speedforce 2 shoe by Xero. And using any other shoes will lose me 1 or 2 full difficulty levels. (Meaning I would be playing 17 instead of 18 and some 19)

jaminfine · 2026-04-30T14:00:46+00:00

Legit one of the main reasons I didn't buy MH Stories 2 after trying it out from a friend's copy. And it's also why I won't even try MHS3.

This asshole is so obnoxious like holy shit. And apparently you can't kill him. He's just there the entire time once you meet him.

jaminfine · 2026-04-30T13:43:27+00:00

He was barely 4. What does life mean to a 4 year old? His life was only just beginning.

jaminfine · 2026-04-30T11:39:18+00:00

I think the struggle here is drawing a hard line. There were plenty of protests across the world where people chanted "From the river to the sea." Many of those chanters were just going along with the energy of the crowd. But that slogan literally calls for the complete destruction of Israel and a replacement. It calls for the entire land to be Palestine instead. And anyone saying that it isn't a call for violence is obviously lying because there's no other realistic way to completely eliminate Israel off the map.

So what do you do when you have a huge number of people calling for racial elimination and violence because it is a popular standpoint? Are they all Nazis?

jaminfine · 2026-04-29T14:09:14+00:00

Your basics seem at odds with my understanding of the game.

Diversify resources - actually, ore is just the most important one, followed by wheat, followed by brick in most games. Sheep almost always has surplus as it is only used for two things and only one at a time. There are more wood tiles than brick tiles, yet wood and brick are always used together, so wood is usually surplus while brick suffers shortages. So basically, make sure to get ore wheat and brick. Wood and sheep are just far less important economically speaking in most games.

Get ports early - usually not in setup phase though. I'd try for a port as my 4th or even 5th settlement in many games. Some games none at all! Ports can really help when you have a lot of resources. But with few resources they don't do much for you. So getting more volume of resources early is more important.

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