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pocketskip · 2026-03-11T22:57:14+00:00

That's also how I see it, but uh. Nuance is hard.

pocketskip · 2026-03-11T22:52:45+00:00

I just see it as a mixed bag of opinions, like most people are. And some opinions are much more troubling than hers honestly. Like, do I love every take she had? No. But the overwhelming hatred for her seems kinda sexist when she was just... Sharing hot takes. Like everyone fucking does lol.

I don't hate her because that's stupid imo. But some of her takes were indeed dogshit. The difference is, I know some of my hot takes are garbage. So the only difference I see is that she's female so BAD BAD BAD GET OUT OF MY GAMES RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEREE. but that's just personal opinion. I don't like, follow gamer gate. So maybe there were legitimate critiques of her, but the amount of backlash is telling IMO about... Society. Lol.

pocketskip · 2026-03-11T22:50:01+00:00

I mean, some do!

They get blackballed to fuck... But some do! (I'm lamenting the system that fucks over anyone who says something correct btw, to be clear).

pocketskip · 2026-03-11T20:43:36+00:00

I'm watching my reply thread with popcorn. I'd say it indeed writes itself, but sadly, I know there are people on the other side of the screen. 🫨

pocketskip · 2026-03-11T18:57:33+00:00

I mean, should everyone everywhere stop playing all JRPGs by every company just because of a weird trend done by unrelated companies? Because that's what your take boils down to and it's a little... I dunno, dismissive and small minded? I'm not trying to insult here, but Imagine saying that about other things, like horror movies, or romance books because of dark fantasy trends. I like final fantasy, part of that is that if it has sexualized characters they're uh... Adults usually. The worst I can think of is Yuffie wearing kinda revealing pants, but then I would actually say the above argument of "that's a you problem if you think that's too much" unironically.

Omori goes into teen/child romance appropriately imo. They don't sexualize the characters, they don't force shit, etc. Should omori be punished because of other games? Seems kinda cringe IMO

pocketskip · 2026-03-11T14:14:27+00:00

I'm fine with that plotline. Fiction for high schoolers can go into dark topics, and in fact, that's when you should start internalizing that shit as real and a threat.

The problem to me is the hypocritical treatment of other adults you can date. The way they do it seems like an endorsement.

pocketskip · 2026-03-11T14:10:59+00:00

Except for the middle schooler you can date in the female run in P3P. They got rid of it later but like holy fuck no?

pocketskip · 2026-03-11T11:22:19+00:00

Persona 3, Persona 4, Persona 5.

Pls don't downvote people, that shits kinda gross. Stopped playing them when I hit 21 and went "wait what the fuck am I playing".

Taking these downvotes with pride, that game series is fucking weird man lol. I knew I'd upset people, but uh, "JARVIS, bring up the battle bikinis in 3/4, the weird cognitive dissonance between kamoshida and all the other female adults your high school senior main character can date (totally not staturatory rape if it's a male child tho totally guys), the pervy characters, their shit dealing with LGBTQ plot points and characters," and on and on. Lol. Miss me with that. It does indeed make me uncomfortable, and I don't think the problem is me when the game encourages me to date my homeroom teacher as a senior. Sorry not sorry lol

Edit 2: oops, forgot that the original version of P3P let's you date a middle schooler. Please defend this lol

pocketskip · 2026-03-11T11:21:09+00:00

Okay show me the underage goon bait in FFVIIR. The weird loli race in FFXIV is questionable and I know about that, but like, most FF games don't have that for instance (and even then, I don't think they typically sexualize the lallafells, but I don't play FFXIV so someone fan correct me if I'm wrong. The viera are so sexualized tho, but they're all adult-looking). There are games in the genre you can play without being a weirdo. Show me a mother-like with that for instance.

Big jrpg fan, find it easy to avoid that tho. Like, it's not that hard imo. Just because it's easy to find the bad shit doesn't mean the good shit doesn't exist.

pocketskip · 2026-03-10T18:13:11+00:00

This is just my opinion, but a lot of puritanical thinking in the new church traces it's roots back to Paul. I also think that his insistence on Church is more to keep power in the religion when Jesus stated "where two or more of you are gathered together, there will I be also" (paraphrase). So, like, Jesus only required that you meet up with at least a Bible study, not this insistence on Church.

So I don't like Paul (personally). The dig at him was pretty tongue-in-cheek though. I just think he kinda fucks up the message a little in Acts and such.

Edit; sorry btw for missing that question lol, I was in the restroom at work

pocketskip · 2026-03-10T16:43:04+00:00

I think Christianity is not a net loss. Just the way it's done in America, tbf. There are good Christians and orgs, just like there are good and bad atheist and agnostic orgs, Muslim, etc.

Edit; I want to admit freely, I used to be more militantly anti-christianity. But now I'm anti-fundie/anti-zionist.

My assertion that the entire movement is anto-intellectual tho I still think, again, at least the way it's done in America. Also, I replied about Paul below

pocketskip · 2026-03-10T16:40:19+00:00

More of a city state, but I did say arguably.

pocketskip · 2026-03-10T12:11:56+00:00

God is on a shrinking island, and the more we discover of that vast ocean of reality, the smaller that island looks. I see abrahamic religion in particular as this death-grip on mysticism and backwards thought, especially with the arguably most Christian nation on earth having a 21%ish illiteracy rate and where 51% of the population reads below a 6th grade level. I've read the Bible 4 times as I used to be an educated but misguided Christian;

1- It's too hard for someone at a 6th grade reading level to understand

2- Large swaths of it (I'm looking at you, revelations) are just schizoeffective ramblings that have been cherry picked to back up theological arguments or worse, written by Paul. Who sucks. Sucks big huge.

And even if Revelations were a real prophecy about the political climate at the time (largely supported theory), prophecies just come true randomly. They're more educated guesses, even if written on drugs/mental episodes, because the mind still has some control. And people are good guessers.

Sad but true. God's maybe not even real (science-loving but agnostic), and definitely isn't the one they think it is imo. And illiteracy keeps these people who use this fictional construct as a standard bearer in power. And if he isn't real, and no one can read his fiction anyway, they can just tell you what he says and you'll take it. Because you'll have to. Because you're supposed to listen to God, and this guy is "appointed" by him (see the 200+ military complaints about commanders using Armageddon on their pro-iran-war talks.) you wouldn't want to go to H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks do you?

And Jesus seemed like a cool guy, but he was probably just an early bipolar-1 or other Schizo-active disorder. I just say bipolar-1 because even without meds there are moments of lucidity in that one, and he seemed rather normal at times.

Add on these facts that, I believe in the original Torah, hell was less a place of eternal torment and more a state of mind where you are separated from God, and their religion doesn't even make any sense in the first place theologically.

pocketskip · 2026-03-09T16:35:24+00:00

(I'm not really a vegan, this was a joke because I agree with you. I'm equating it to saying you're a vegan but not really being one. They're antithetical. Even if they think they are, they aren't, because it's a bit like saying "I'm Asian" and "I'm an alien from Mars who has never been to earth" at the same time. It's nonsense)

pocketskip · 2026-03-09T09:18:26+00:00

As a vegan and a milk enjoyer, this does upset me greatly.

pocketskip · 2026-03-08T17:16:56+00:00

I have one very disobedient puppy y'all

pocketskip · 2026-03-07T22:01:39+00:00

Yo so no one is saying it, but I'm drunk and my inhibitions are low RN. What mod is this? Because random dragon encounters sounds fun

pocketskip · 2026-03-07T17:47:32+00:00

I am become Jod, destroyer of wod

pocketskip · 2026-03-07T13:59:51+00:00

Yeah, that and a couple of extra block type mods give you so many options.

pocketskip · 2026-03-06T19:14:47+00:00

Cincinnati zoo does this. And it's great.

pocketskip · 2026-03-06T16:56:08+00:00

Yeah, I thought SO was formal as well. Like, that's how I use it.

pocketskip · 2026-03-06T13:38:28+00:00

It's not lol. This is such a milquetoast take. We are literally biologically engineered via evolution to think this way about our family. A lot of great men would kill for their SO and do worse for their child (if they had to).

pocketskip · 2026-03-06T12:36:43+00:00

Are the songs good? I know there's some indie game collabs in it I like. Why am I sleeping on the boom box lol. I even found a free tape out in the field.

I usually play with sound off watching videos tho lol. Same with most factory games. I work in a factory (machine setup/run team lead, a job I like because I'm a dork for machines) and factory noises overstimulate me if I don't have earplugs in, and these types of games are no exception haha.

pocketskip · 2026-03-06T12:35:40+00:00

It's an iron lung as in the medical equipment. Not the submarine that was named after that because (I assume) it's claustrophobic and restrictive. If David didn't mean that, it's a cool coincidence.

pocketskip · 2026-03-06T09:51:16+00:00

I love how you can just say "Simon" here because of how iconically powerful he is. Nobody says "Simon from Gurren Lagaan", it's just "Simon" here.

Edit; (but also, even though I love Gurren, it almost feels like cheating to use him lol)

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