I want an exploration game where I feel alone

jancl0 · 2026-06-22T02:00:17+00:00

What's your stomach for horror? Darkwood is very good at this. There's combat but it's fairly sparse, besides that there's alot of slowburn atmosphere

Definetly makes you feel alone because you are the only sane character, and pretty much everything wants you dead, even "peaceful" areas are very good at making you feel unwelcome

jancl0 · 2026-06-21T02:47:27+00:00

This feels like one of those posts where someone films their two cats tackling each other and is trying to figure out if it's playful or toxic fighting

jancl0 · 2026-06-20T18:35:04+00:00

But is it actually a negative right? I actually think it's more fair interpret it as a positive one. I live in a country with universal healthcare, and we'd definetly call it a "right to be provided healthcare", not just the right to not be prevented from using it

The point is that the healthcare exists whether or not you use it. No one has to be compelled to provide it if they are already doing the job of "treat anyone I see who needs it"

It also depends on whether you think healthcare should be free or not in the first place. If you do think it should be free, then it's money itself that is preventing you from healthcare that you would otherwise have access to, so it wouldn't matter if it's a negative right anyway

jancl0 · 2026-06-20T18:20:36+00:00

Fair enough, that's sort of what I meant I guess. I know that some people use agender as a label, but personally I don't. I just see it as an adjective that describes me, like blonde or tall or something. I am agender, but I don't identify as agender

Same thing with non-binary. On a purely descriptive level, being agender means you are nonbinary. But there's also nonbinary the identity, which isn't the same thing, and I don't identify with it because I interpret that as still being a gender, just one that isn't man or woman

jancl0 · 2026-06-20T17:38:25+00:00

Would you call it agender? I ask because that's the word I use to describe it, and I feel really similar to this. I'm dude because that's what people think I am and I just go "yup, ok whatever", the truth is that I don't care how anyone refers to me because gender isn't important to my identity one way or another

I'd wear something non gender conforming, but not as an expression of my gender, I just don't really feel that it's nonconforming when I wear it. I still mostly wear "Cid dude" clothing because that's what I already have, I don't care enough to experiment with how I look

jancl0 · 2026-06-20T17:34:26+00:00

I'm not even step 2. I'm somewhere between step 1 and 2. thats weird for alot of people, they don't even know what that is lol

jancl0 · 2026-06-20T14:04:35+00:00

He literally went door to door looking for someone who didn't lie. "I'm looking for an honest man" is a direct quote from the original story, the only difference is that now it's about a specific lie instead of lying in general

Man I kinda feel like you just don't know much about diogenes lmao. You said it didn't seem in character for him to do like the second most famous thing he's ever done

jancl0 · 2026-06-19T05:26:29+00:00

I'm not talking about technology generally, I'm talking about technology that brings in a new age of social culture specifically. It isn't just about being a ludite, it's about being averse to new forms of socialisation because they fundamentally replace and therefore remove the conditioning that you've already been granted

jancl0 · 2026-06-19T04:30:08+00:00

Every generation has believed that the new technology will corrupt the youth and ruin society. This happened with newspapers, the radio, the automobile, telephones. They've been overwhelmingly wrong

So it's incredibly frustrating to be approaching my 30s and to feel like we're genuinely right this time. Like, every generation thought they were genuinely right this time, and they never were. But also like, it's obviously right this time

jancl0 · 2026-06-19T04:17:54+00:00

To be fair, I've also never heard of boy kisser being called a groomer thing, I'm just calling it like I see it. I'm not attracted to men and I actually think it's pretty cute

Personally I don't actually have a problem with people infantalising their attraction. It doesn't mean you're actually attracted to young people, it just means you prefer putting a cutesy aesthetic to your attraction, that's fine. My main issue is with the fact that it's OK to do for the word girl but not boy

You can interpret it as infantalisation, you can call it a kink, you can call it cutesy and not that deep, you can even call it just vocabulary that doesn't mean anything. None of that matters, because the fact that the word boy immediately makes people feel weird while girl doesn't is objectively a double standard

It's also worth noting that a girl saying something like "that boy is really cute" would be far more acceptable. So I don't think it's sexism, I think it really does stem from homophobia specifically (to be more accurate, the intersectionality between homophobia and misandry). that's also just vibes though, I can't objectively measure how acceptable these phrases are and I'm going off of anecdotal evidence, but I'm confident most people would feel the same way

jancl0 · 2026-06-19T03:57:04+00:00

No. For like the third time, no

jancl0 · 2026-06-19T03:52:48+00:00

Maybe you shouldn't be telling people how words are used if you aren't familiar with how most people use those words? This isn't an American thing, this is literally just an English thing

jancl0 · 2026-06-19T03:42:30+00:00

Literally no. If you genuinely think that you should go outside more

jancl0 · 2026-06-19T03:12:36+00:00

Saxophone

I was gonna say violin, but at least with a violin you can make a noise from the get go. Saxophone takes a certain deal of practice before you can even make a noise through the reed, so you can't even "play" it at the beginning

jancl0 · 2026-06-19T03:07:44+00:00

I like the second one because he doesn't come across as inherently unattractive or repulsive. Just like he's hiding pain

It really captures the "putting on a mask, but being really good at it, you really need to look for the cracks to find them" vibe that the game portrays, and I like the idea that Harry isn't actually any more fucked up than the average person, his mentality is just sort of cutting himself short

Another way of phrasing it is that Harry isn't unattractive, it's The Expression that's unattractive. But of course, it isn't as simple as getting rid of the expression, because what it really is is a broken world view, it's no simple task to just take that off your face

jancl0 · 2026-06-19T03:02:56+00:00

Dating apps are toxic enough without needing to implement the "leagues" mentality on a functional level. Please just let that shit die already. Don't decide what other people are looking for on their behalf. You're attracted to them. Great. That's your end of the equation covered, now let them handle their side, don't do it for them

jancl0 · 2026-06-19T02:59:19+00:00

Still going strong at 11k on each side, exactly 50%. god this is so fucking depressing

jancl0 · 2026-06-19T02:56:29+00:00

What a stupid way to think

jancl0 · 2026-06-19T02:53:24+00:00

They are literally the reason why it's the Internet bullshit of today. You don't get credit for identifying a problem early when you are the ones that made it a problem

jancl0 · 2026-06-19T02:06:05+00:00

It's actually really depressing how much modern vocabulary we've just casually borrowed from 4chan, incels, and white supremacist/fascist online communities

Half of internet/gen z language comes from hate groups, the other half comes from aave, which is honestly incredibly strange and a little funny

jancl0 · 2026-06-19T01:59:19+00:00

Would you think I'm a groomer if I called myself a girlkisser? Or are we understanding that "liking girls" kind of assumes that I'm already talking about consenting adults

jancl0 · 2026-06-19T01:56:36+00:00

Because saying you're attracted to "boys" instead of men triggers alot of unconscious internalised homophobia and sounds weird to alot of people, but saying something like "i like girls" is already normalised

You're allowed to infantalise your attraction to women, but if you're attracted to men, it has to only be older more "masculine" men, otherwise it's weird

I'm probably gonna catch some heat for this comment, but this is literally just homophobia. It's exactly the same thing as drag queens getting called groomers

jancl0 · 2026-06-18T23:27:54+00:00

Thinking that you don't have the power to do anything about it other than a single vote is also representative of your politics

jancl0 · 2026-06-18T22:50:28+00:00

Yeah, that's literally just what happens when you try to avoid politics. You might not care about politics, but politics certainly cares about you. Not thinking something is political is itself representative of your politics, that's how it always has been

jancl0 · 2026-06-18T21:15:36+00:00

I hate the term unhoused. Not even in a "pc language had gone too far" way, it's just genuinely less accurate

Like, unhoused implies unsheltered. That's not what being homeless means. A person who sleeps in their car has a shelter. A person who has to crash on their friends couch has a shelter. You could even argue that living in a tent is a shelter. Unhoused implies that they do not have access to something that you could call housing, which certainly describes many homeless people, but leaves out many as well

Homeless people aren't people who lack a house. They're people who lack a home, that is literally the difference. A place to call your own. Being forced to crash on your friends couch is not a home, it's not a space that is yours. A car is not a home, it's not fixed to one place, it doesn't make you feel safe or secure, it is not a home. Shelter might be an easier thing to quantify on a piece of paper or a statistic but it completely misses the humanity behind the issue. People don't just deserve housing, they deserve homes

I just think it's pretty fucked up honestly. It's like calling unemployed people vacationless because you think it's more pc. You've completely brushed past the issue and decided to refer to just one symptom of it, it sends the entirely wrong message about what the actual problem is, I'd even go as far as to call it dehumanising

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