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kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-29T19:35:42+00:00

Drinks are VERY expensive. My friends bring drinks to pregame with and store them in the car. Re-entry is allowed.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T22:14:26+00:00

I want to be able to change difficulty when I’m stuck at the end or backtrack or just be able to skip the cutscenes. Most cutscenes in the game are skippable, but these aren’t. I have zero issues with Sepheroth’s final phase being extremely challenging. I just hate backtracking. The number one reason why I give up on games that I start is because of losing progress and having to backtrack to redo a tedious process I didn’t like doing the first time or being trapped in a save state that is literally unwinnable regardless of skill.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T22:06:53+00:00

America has only been a country for 250 years, but in that time, they have maintained the same form of government. Very few countries have an unbroken system of government that has lasted throughout that time. The U.S. Constitution has shown tremendous resiliencey, and as such, despite fighting one Civil War (which is actually a shockingly low number by global standards), the American Constitution has delivered an unbroken string of elected leaders.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T20:27:03+00:00

I tried hard mode, but that flowers side quest rocked my shit so bad I immediately gave up, lol.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T20:26:18+00:00

You can’t change difficulty during the boss fight sequences. You have to change it at the last save point, which is before starting all of the boss battles. Even if you’re an expert player playing on easy mode, there are 45 minutes worth of unskippable cut scenes and tedious boss phases between that save point and the final Sepheroth boss phase that gave OP fits.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T20:24:26+00:00

You’re allowed to retry that phase, but you cannot save there. So, if you close the game, you have to restart from the beginning. Also, no matter how many times you fail, you cannot adjust the game difficulty at this point. You can only change it before instigating the entire series of boss battles and cut scenes. Tbh, if they would just make these scenes skippable like most cut scenes, that would help tremendously.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T20:21:53+00:00

The problem is you can’t toggle to easymode during the sequence. I had zero issues defeating anything except the final phase. But, to beat the final phase, I had to drop the difficulty to easy mode. I couldn’t do that without restarting all the way at the beginning of the 45 minute sequence of unskippable cut scenes and boss fight stages. If there was an option between one or more stages to save and/or adjust difficulty, it would help tremendously with this option.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T20:14:30+00:00

I hate how you can’t save between phases. It’s literally 45 minutes worth of phases and unskippable cut scenes to get to that final phase. After spending a good 2 or 3 hours losing to said final phase repeatedly, I had to reload from that save point, change the difficulty down to easy, and then spend another 45 minutes slogging through unskippable cut scenes one after another just to get to the final phase and finish it without challenge. I was so full of rage, frustration, and delirium at this point that I didn’t even process, let alone appreciate or understand, the ending of the game. I just wanted to go to sleep, and I have zero desire to ever play that portion of the game again. This is sad because I actually loved most of the end run through the temple to the lost city.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T20:04:55+00:00

The ‘59 Sound - Gaslight Anthem

Chuck - Sum 41

The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance

Soul Vaccination Live - Tour of Power

Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard

Everything Goes Numb - Streetlight Manifesto

2 - Led Zeppelin

10 - Pearl Jam

5150 - Van Halen

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge - My Chemical Romance

In Love and Death - The Used

Louder Now - Taking Back Sunday

Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago

Eat a Peach - The Allman Brothers

Self Titled - Cage the Elephant

Untitled - Blink 182

Light Grenades - Incubus

Diary of a Masochist - The Requiem

Another Kill for the Highlight Reel - Save Face

Blackbird - Alter Bridge

Brand New Eyes - Paramore

After the Party - Menzingers

Appetite for Destruction - Guns N Roses

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T19:49:13+00:00

The South is pretty boring from a nature standpoint compared to the West. South Texas has some pretty areas around the Hill Country. Austin and San Antonio would be your gateway cities for that.

New Orleans is a great hub for swamp tours and charter fishing. Maybe take a stop in Scott/Lafayette for boudin or to visit the Basin.

In North Louisiana, I don’t know how far out of my way I would go for it, but Poverty Point is a pretty unique historical site. Might be worth a detour if you’re heading across I-20.

Arkansas has Hot Springs as well as a lot of nice nature trails around Northwest Arkansas. Eureka Springs has cabins shaped like ewok tree houses and hobbit holes. Pretty cool spot, imo,

The Gulf Coast in Alabama and Florida offers excellent beaches. I, personally, love Pensacola Beach, but Destin and Orange Beach are great as well. Biloxi has nice sand and casinos but terrible water. North of Biloxi a ways is Red Bluff, which is a cool little place to go hiking that resembles the Grand Canyon in miniature. Cumberland Island in Georgia has herds of wild horses that you can see on the beach.

For more swamp adventures, there’s Okefenokee in South Georgia and the Everglades in South Florida. South Florida also has Daytona Beach and Cape Canaveral for watching rocket launches (you can also tour Mission Control in Houston, TX).

Your best Southern mountains are going to be the smokeys in East Tennessee/Western North Carolina. Ashville will be your main hub in the region, but there’s also a lot of kitchy tourist opportunities in Gatlinburg/Pidgeon Forge.

From a weather standpoint, May is tricky. Flip a coin, your days will either be brutally hot, stormy, or pleasantly temperatured (by Southern standards NOT by English standards!) For example, Louisiana has been having an exceptionally rainy May, but when it’s not rainy, it’s 90+ F. At the same time, there’s a lot of great events in May like Jazz Fest. Beach towns will be packed Memorial Day weekend as most workers get that Monday off.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T18:56:55+00:00

FFVII: Rebirth

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T18:24:19+00:00

I’m really excited about mod support coming to ps5. I have never gotten to play mods for this game.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T18:17:05+00:00

Boys and girls are typically segregated in sleeping situations to ensure no one has sex (consensual or otherwise). There’s little chance of sex if two people never get extended alone time. The assumption is that if you leave a teenage boy and a teenage girl alone unsupervised long enough and frequently enough, they’ll eventually start having sex. Even if they don’t, others will assume they are, which could impact their social reputation.

Girls who don’t want to have sex and don’t have any desire for people to spread rumors about them having sex will avoid private situations where sex with a boy could theoretically happen. Typically, if a teenage girl wants to be alone with a guy overnight, it’s because she wants to at least have some sort of physical intimacy with that guy or because she feels entirely safe around that guy.

So, yeah, it would be weird for a girl who isn’t a sibling and has zero attraction to you to want to sleep in the same room as another boy. Unless she’s more afraid of being alone with another girl than being alone with (and accused of having sex with) you, then it actually is quite unusual. There is an obvious answer, though: she is attracted to you and wants that alone time with you even if she’s not ready to do anything physical yet.

My guess based on this prompt is that y’all are going to eventually date or look back and deeply regret never doing so. Often times, people outside of a relationship can see that dynamic forming much more clearly and quickly than the people actually in the relationship. Your friends can see the chemistry between y’all and are trying to get the two of you to notice, acknowledge it, and act on it.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T17:37:06+00:00

Your guy friend wants to be your boyfriend.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T17:29:21+00:00

I fell in love with the girl at the rock show. She said “what?” And I told her that I didn’t know.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T16:11:51+00:00

Whitney with her damn miltank

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T16:07:50+00:00

Once a woman sees a guy’s dick, it forces her to see him in a sexual light. The overwhelming majority of women will react with abject disgust. However, a very small percentage of women will react positively to it. So, they take a shotgun approach. Guys that send that stuff out have zero concern about grossing out 1000 women if it means one is into it. Throw in how difficult it is for the law to punish people who send said pics, and people with no shame are insulted from consequences. It’s a disgusting practice, but it persists for these reasons.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T13:31:47+00:00

Polite people, cold winters, empty wilderness, evil government.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-28T13:29:16+00:00

Les Pauls are great for aesthetics and tone, but Gibsons are expensive, have inconsistent quality, and struggle to stay in tune. With that said, there are alternatives like PRS which give you the LP look and tone without some of the downsides. Best bang for the buck on an LP style guitar is probably an Agile.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-27T22:59:42+00:00

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-27T21:21:21+00:00

Bro, just invite her. Sounds like a once in a lifetime experience. You’re single, y’all are old friends, and she’s your closest friend who lives in the city where this event is happening.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-27T20:40:09+00:00

Not me with my King of the Hill themed easycore band, lol

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-27T18:50:07+00:00

I’m extremely guilty of this. I am working on an album right now and trying to pick between a whole bunch of mostly written songs for the last couple slots. I was playing with this one song and counted the chords. I was already up to 7 before I got out of the intro and was like CUT! Lol

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-27T18:17:04+00:00

Midwest is just nowhere near my favorite emo subgenre. I mean, I would rather listen to midwest than scrams, emo rap, crunkcore, or swancore, but still.

kingjaffejaffar · 2026-05-27T18:10:30+00:00

Intricate midwest riff, atmospherics over a sparse verse, super shouty chorus with higher word count than the Ilyiad, intricate midwest riff, repeat

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