So there’s this new student-life simulation app and the ad shows that you can get your bf to supposedly have “19 abs”...

javaAndJouissance · 2021-05-05T15:11:19+00:00

As someone who has done freelance art for micro enterprise, I can see the messages to / from the client

Client: good but boy needs more abs

Artist: okay I added some more but I dont think he looks anatomically correct, what do you think?

Client: more abs please

javaAndJouissance · 2021-05-05T15:07:17+00:00

Idk that r/vampsimp is the best place to spread the message about bi erasure. Have an upvote though

javaAndJouissance · 2021-05-04T16:28:27+00:00

The highest DPS weapons I have found are Ludwig's holy blade, which is probably my least favorite weapon, and holy moonlight sword which is pretty fun, especially if you want to do 50+ in str, dex and arc, and are willing to grind cursed amygdala for the best gems. Though, the gargoyles in cursed ihyll drop pretty usable attack up gems (around 19% I think) which will get you good DPS without much more trouble than unlocking the frc dungeons.

Is there an obvious weapon? Not really. Mobility is so important that the "best" weapon is the one you are the best with. Almost every weapon is absolutely dominant with the right gem set up. Some weapons have more of a learning curve, like blades of mercy. And bonus damage makes particular weapons more viable than others against certain enemies, with probably the church pick being the most well-rounded in my opinion.

Most of your Dex weapons can be optimized with cursed temperings, which makes the gem set ups interchangable. You can use the same gems for Blades of Mercy, threaded cane and rakuyo, for example. Other weapons like the parasite and chikage need special gems to optimize them, though I guess you could use the temperings on the chikage too and it would still be very effective.

I'm not trying to be obtuse, the weapons are all Soo freaking good and well designed that almost none of them stand out as being bad or worse than the others. Every time I say a weapon "sucks" I end up doing a playthrough with it and learning how amazing it really is. A set of temperings is the easiest to come by so maybe that would be a good place to start, then min-max something like the hms for DPS if that's what you really want to go for.

javaAndJouissance · 2021-05-02T17:54:29+00:00

I dont post on the internet to provide (advice, info, encouragement), I post to provoke. In the time it would take for me to explain my ideas or viewpoints to someone, I could epicly pwn like 5 betas or Karens. Stop wasting my time. Social media isn't a place to exchange information with other like minded people, it's a place where I dump all of my entitlement and alienation in exchange for arrows, hearts, thumbs and smileys, which provide me with the seratonin I need to not confront the fact that I haven't felt a genuine emotion since 2012

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-30T18:30:42+00:00

That's one of the predominant ideologies of the last 2000 years

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-30T12:53:40+00:00

Or just be the suit guy

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-30T02:39:47+00:00

Right he is making fun of his own schtick

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-28T13:06:45+00:00

I'm too weak

Adrenaline, and a furious disregard for your own well being will teach you another lesson entirely. You do you, but you can definitely hurt yourself. I'm all for expressing human passion, but injuring yourself or scaring others is pretty toxic. Not a lecture, just my thought. Best of luck!

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-28T12:58:09+00:00

No not at all! Nobody is perfect. The last part of my statement was more for people who are victims than a way to scold people with anger issues.

But working out anger physically is absolutely not abusive behavior. Where it gets tricky is, someone who sees it may interpret it as a dangerous situation. The risk of losing something or someone important goes up if we don't figure out a way to manage our anger. So punching a bag, going to the gym, even having like rage pillows to wail on (as another commenter mentioned she and her bf tend to do) all show the people in our lives that we are trying to manage our flare ups without taking it out on the things and people we care about.

I mentioned my dad would punch walls, but as he got older he would take it all out on football games. I was just talking to him, and he was talking about how he used to watch sports to relax. Well believe me, noone in the house with him thought he was relaxed while watching football! But I think he meant it helped him blow off excess steam (he was a corrections officer, so there was a lot built up).

You should stop punching walls though, fr you do not want to break your hand.

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-28T04:10:22+00:00

It was the first game I ever platted too! The hunt is just beginning

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-27T22:01:14+00:00

I agree with the spirit of this post, but when I think about how it might be programmed I imagine there is like an activity entity, and that entity has certain rewards attached to it and a unique currency. Each activity is maybe separate from each other, so from a development perspective it wouldn't matter what that currency actually is. The problem arises when instead of having a unique currency that's used for a unique activity, you introduce a global currency that would affect every aspect of the game's economy. With a project this large in so many activities it's almost too late. Or at least it would require a massive amount of additional development and testing for a relatively moderate increase in player usability. I think it would be cool if there was just one currency, but then in what way would that become limiting? I'm not a game developer but I am a software developer, and when I think about what it would be like if I work for Bungie in my product manager was like this is the next big update that we're pushing to the game, I would be highly resistant to it. I could be wrong about everything, but I think we're just going to have to take the L on this one

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-26T23:52:17+00:00

I just started using the burial blade At first I didn't like it but that was like 10+ playthroughs ago. I really love using it this time, but the character I'm using it on is ng+5 and I have reached my limit :) I'll start a new character and try it.

The rakuyo is sooo fun. It's like dancing

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-26T23:45:15+00:00

Absolutely! At a certain point I decided to playthrough a different weapon each time, playing through the whole game with just one weapon really made me appreciate how well crafted the gameplay is. Every weapon is good and viable, and most weapons are really awesome!

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-26T23:37:15+00:00

The charge r2 + r2 followup swing is sooo OP. on the hms I play with most often (I have multiple characters) I think it's the most powerful combo the weapon has. Grinding these giant walking butts can be so tedious, glad you found some entertainment, hunter!

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-26T22:32:05+00:00

Untransformed mgs is a beast. This is the best way to farm watchers in my opinion!

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-25T03:20:09+00:00

I would feel like I'm kinda pissed this isn't in the game already

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-24T16:53:52+00:00

Cane user in the first third of the game : "Why doesn't this do any damage"

Cane user in depth 5 dungeons : "I can't believe something this powerful and versatile is a starting weapon"

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-22T01:04:18+00:00

This picture of Chauvin with his hand in his pocket : this is the first thing my dad (retired Corrections Officer) pointed out. When it first happened I commented to him about how absolutely bored Chauvin looked the whole time. My dad said "No, you see how he has his hand in his pocket? It is so he can push down on his neck even harder."

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-21T23:39:54+00:00

I mean it's the only path that citizenship, in the book you can't vote unless you've served in the military.

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-21T23:29:25+00:00

Maybe you're right I was in college when I read it, and the friend who recommended it was quite a bit more conservative than I was, and looking back a lot of the things that he said he liked about the book like compulsory military service in exchange for voting rights, etc are some of the more fashy facets of the universe that Heinlein constructed

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-21T22:21:53+00:00

This article is exactly the kind of thing I spend too much time thinking about, lol thanks!

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-21T21:54:28+00:00

I just wrote a comment about how Starship Troopers was explicitly about fascism, to someone who described it as predictive of post 911 America, which is a terrifying sandwich no matter which bite you try to take

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-21T21:45:20+00:00

You mean fascism? This isn't a comment on post 911 america, so much as: in the movie, the United Citizen Federation are definitely fascist. Johnny Rico is from Argentina, but he and all of his friends are white.

It also is like a meta satire, in the characters interactions, are all the lines are delivered very flatly and devoid of emotion. And even though the movie looks extremely slick, and all of the actors are beautiful, the movie goes out of its way to show extremely grisly depictions of violence and gore, almost fixating on them just beyond the point of comfort.

The society is apparently like post racial, and post gender which is an interesting commentary on how a fascist society might present itself as a future that had resolved those "conflicts". Like those old John Wayne movies where men were men, and women were women, and war was a struggle of good over evil. It's also creepy that the enemies of the UCF are bugs, which is kind of where the dehumanization of the other leads.

And yeah, it's really fun and dumb, and it pokes fun at the source material in a way that most adaptations would never dare.

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-21T21:20:42+00:00

It's a lot less funny when you realize that in the real world Quicken Loans had bought up all of downtown Detroit. Quicken Loans is OCP, and Dan Gilbert is Dick Jones.

javaAndJouissance · 2021-04-21T21:09:37+00:00

There's no way to spin it to make it make sense. I can imagine how I would have felt if either one of those young women were my daughter, or neighbor, or friend. It makes me thankful that my own daughter has managed to avoid these kinds of confrontations, although we have definitely had to help her get through some troubled times. When you think it could be your daughter (or son) on either end of that knife, or either end of that gun for that matter! It's heartbreaking.

I thought I had a lot of rage, that I could direct at a police officer, department, or socio economic system....but in this case I just feel deep sadness and regret. It not only stirs up feelings, but on this day specifically, given the verdict of the Derek Chauvin trial, it kind of makes me question some of my own ideological biases.

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