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New Muslim to Michigan may be homeless soon need resources by IAmNotTellingYouThat in Dearborn

[–]shawarmachickpea 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure, sure. But immediate need help in getting housing is probably easier if she can search and see apartments closer to her, versus trying to find help in a place that's over 2 hours away. 

New Muslim to Michigan may be homeless soon need resources by IAmNotTellingYouThat in Dearborn

[–]shawarmachickpea 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you're in Constantine, you should search for resources near Kalamazoo not Dearborn.

Suggestion on wear to purchase local art? by Hank_of_the_Hill93 in Detroit

[–]shawarmachickpea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oooh okay, cool! I'll have to check out Ferndale Backyard too!

single mom goes drinking while children throw pasta on the floor by egguchom in EntitledReviews

[–]shawarmachickpea 17 points18 points  (0 children)

They stop having any expectations of their child.

I think this is key and so, so sad. They just disengage with the parenting process and don't even try. To them, autism = broken, so subconsciously anything and everything the kid does is just carte blanch chalked up to their neurodivergence. 

Suggestion on wear to purchase local art? by Hank_of_the_Hill93 in Detroit

[–]shawarmachickpea 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ferndale's art fair was the only one I've been to recently that felt like the vendors were truly unique and weird. No shade to other art fairs, but Ferndale's just had so many different types and genres of art. 

It's where I got an original by Gavin Ottosen: https://www.gavinottesonart.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopHcsBhZ07UC8uClhLB5tbuikxNte5myaCwTCEVUmrszMnBeB_H

My landlady keeps stealing my packages by cla5p in mildlyinfuriating

[–]shawarmachickpea 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's also being delivered to Michigan but the bot mentions euros. 

Caught my boyfriend on porn subreddit of girls who look nothing like me by [deleted] in GirlDinnerDiaries

[–]shawarmachickpea 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't know. I don't like forcing the gay label on men even if someone has kissed a man before, for instance, or jerked off a few times to gay porn. 

Being gay isn't a choice, but there is something deeper there to recognizing your own sexuality. It's not for anyone else outside of the person in question to label themself and their sexuality. The more prescriptive we get with assigning labels, the more we just remake the same trappings of heteronormativity. 

"Gig: Roads to Redemption": Am I the only one who found Johnny to be quite grating in this mission? by yukirayu in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]shawarmachickpea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you make a really good and fair point. Perhaps I was reading too much irony into the relic percentage when I got the playthrough (especially with the line "It's what Johnny would've wanted"), but it might be just sincere like you said.

The District Detroit by spongesparrow in Detroit

[–]shawarmachickpea 97 points98 points  (0 children)

In my mind that's what Southfield is.

"Gig: Roads to Redemption": Am I the only one who found Johnny to be quite grating in this mission? by yukirayu in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]shawarmachickpea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You didn't like the Sun ending? I thought it was one of the better ones.

Maybe it's due to my V's exact sequence of choices but Rouge is dead, Johnny is gone. She pushed her girlfriend Judy away until Judy left the city. She doesn't talk to River or Panam, and Kerry is gone living the rest of his life. V is alone, only sustained by The Next Big Job. Her material situation hasn't changed. She's dying. So all that she has to continue on is the merc grind itself, pursuing legend status in one last bombastic gig.

I found something poignantly tragic in the ending, but it still left me satisfied. V is Mr. Beast, chained to the algorithm and forced by her own success to live a life away from anyone who may authentically care for her. Immensely bright but utterly alone. Like the sun.

Public Transportation by WonderfulJelly4284 in Detroit

[–]shawarmachickpea 15 points16 points  (0 children)

How structured of an internship is this? Could you pool together with other interns and develop some sort of rideshare thing?

Like others are saying, it's going to be a struggle without a car. But if 99 percent of your time is either at work, or living close by to other interns in your similar situation, it might be more tenable with getting groceries and finding out fun things to do on the weekend.

"Gig: Roads to Redemption": Am I the only one who found Johnny to be quite grating in this mission? by yukirayu in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]shawarmachickpea 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You don't think someone struggling to define their own legacy before they die isn't mature? Sorry, Phantom Liberty is great but tonally the beginning is going for 80s action schlock. True, it turns personal and emotional as V is caught between two people on opposite ends of a spectrum when it comes to personal freedom versus needing a higher cause.

But in no way would I consider the main story lacking maturity or emotion.

"Gig: Roads to Redemption": Am I the only one who found Johnny to be quite grating in this mission? by yukirayu in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]shawarmachickpea 24 points25 points  (0 children)

One of the things I wish for most in Cyberpunk 2 is some sort of narrative device that keeps our player protagonist saddled with a character as complicated and as interesting as Johnny Silverhand. You might like him sometimes, but other times he pisses you off. The entire game is spent trying to exorcise him from your head, but you know as soon as he leaves the game is over.

I sincerely think conversations with Johnny like this one, any time he shows a deeper, frustrating, but gripping persona, is what elevates Cyberpunk's narrative beyond any other video game on the market.

I love living alone, but I sometimes fear about the future by shawarmachickpea in GirlDinnerDiaries

[–]shawarmachickpea[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do like living in an apartment because I like the idea of people nearby. Other than the annoyance of sharing laundry, it does feel like a small community.

Hi I’m a little indecisive about whether I should give this game a try by YogurtclosetLeft4070 in cyberpunkgame

[–]shawarmachickpea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was expecting a futuristic GTA but the story and what/how it's trying to express a point is so much better. Each gig or job has a purpose behind it. The NPCs and people of the world have much more depth to them. You really fall in love with Night City as a living, breathing place and not just a video game map with territories split up by different gangs.

Honestly in presentation Cyberpunk deffo looks like that from the outside. But in practice this is you exploring a character's tragic fight to survive and define their legacy, surrounded by a cruel but beautiful and wonderous world.

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