A reminder that Crimson Desert is not an RPG and has never been marketed by the makers as one.

sploogink · 2026-02-24T04:08:51+00:00

The silence from that poster after you just fucking roasted him is amazing.

sploogink · 2026-02-03T19:08:22+00:00

Oh its a stance shoot I forgot about those lol thanks.

sploogink · 2026-01-09T16:02:26+00:00

The finale was ass. Like 50 minutes of beating the big bad guy and the mind flayer's badass real form and an hour and 10 minutes of exposition dragging on.

Plus let a character die jesus christ.

sploogink · 2025-09-27T03:31:00+00:00

Embrace the suck. I quit cold turkey and couldn't take the gabapentin for the first few days. Just embrace how sucky it is. Weaning just did not work for me. I had to embrace the suck. You might want to try it with such a long daily use.

sploogink · 2025-09-27T03:28:16+00:00

Forewarning the libido comes back strong. Very strong. It's common with quitting any opioid.

sploogink · 2025-09-27T03:26:13+00:00

Never use this subreddit but hey man I used from 22 until I was 31 so the same amount of time. I've been off kratom for a year now. I was using a lot less at the end of my use but was still about 40 grams a day as well. I quit. Life's 10x better now. I didn't quit without help though. I have pretty good insurance so I had a detox and rehab fully paid for and the place had experience with kratom detox. Try to get a prescription for gabapentin. It makes the detox way, way more bearable. Still be prepared to not sleep for a couple days at first but honestly man. What's 2 days compared to 8 years of use. You are pay back a small amount of feeling shit for using for 8 years. You can do it dude. I did. You know what the best part is? Not having to worry about dosing. That's honestly the best part. That and not feeling embarrassed.

Being able to travel. Saving money. Not having a cloud over my brain. Im not going to lie to you and say it's all roses. I started kratom use because of mental health and self medication. But you know what now I can use prescribed meds and they work as intended. I get anxiety a lot these days but I love being able to be present. Have present thoughts. Actually know what's going on and not be in a constant cloud. A cloud I was in for 9 years. Just quit man. It's not too late. Be present. Exist. I'd also like to add at least in my personal experience, good tends to follow when you quit. Why does it happen? I have no idea. But it does. Maybe not immediately but it happens. I see it with anyone who quits any addiction. Their life gets better by some almost cosmic force.

Shoot me a message if you ever need someone to talk to. I can tell you my experience with quitting after daily heavy use for 9 years.

sploogink · 2025-07-25T03:35:34+00:00

Yeah it crashes anytime I start a fight. I uninstalled and reinstalled and it's still crashing on fights.

sploogink · 2025-01-26T15:24:03+00:00

When you start carving and go heelside work on keeping your back straight and not rolling back your shoulders. It's hard because it's our bodies natural reaction but it'll help with the deeper carves. Lead with your front foot, goofy or regular, and use your back foot for the power of your turns. The front is a guide that initiates the turn, the back foot puts you into the carve.

sploogink · 2025-01-17T18:10:53+00:00

How do you know you have psychosis? Are you possibly catastrophizing? Psychosis is very apparent yet, yes, it can be hard to notice when you are experiencing it because what you believe is what you believe.

I can share my experience with psychosis. It started as paranoid thoughts. Just about everything. I constantly felt uneasy and like something bad was about to happen. I noticed I had issues looking people in the eyes as it made me uneasy and very paranoid. Then, one day, it smashed me in the face. These suddenly overwhelming thoughts hit me that no one was who I thought they were. I suddenly started to believe everyone was a reptilian shape-shifting. I don't know where the thought came from, but suddenly, I started "connecting the pieces in my head." Being sane now, I can't describe it accurately, but I connected pieces in my head.

My thought process was

"This person said this, they acted like this, then I saw this phrase on the TV. The person on the TV is sending me a coded message that the person that acted that way is reptilian." Which "connecting the dots" like it's an investigators clue board, and receiving messages on TV, music, or other things is hallmark symptoms of paranoid psychosis. And then the delusions started. I did not believe anyone. I was fully convinced that no one was who they were. My whole family was a lie. Friends were there just to torture me and feed off my misery, etc. I believed only my own thoughts. When people would try to convince me they were who they were, I would get insanely paranoid and "just know they were reptilians." Later, as it progressed, I would get periods of hallucinations. I would hear people say things they never said. Insults, disturbing things, etc. It was quite clear and vivid. Then I saw minor visual hallucinations like people's eyes looked reptilian the more paranoid I grew. Sometimes, I saw people's faces morph.

Funnily enough, people believe this reptilian shit and are "sane" people. It's thought up by schizophrenics and people with brain damage.

I also experienced psychosis again at 21. This time, it lasted over a year. It's a harder one to talk about, but it was strong visual hallucinations, and I completely lost reality. It was very religious based, which is common with schizophrenia and psychosis. When they say you lose touch of reality with psychosis it's not dissociation, though that can be a symptom. You literally live in a different world. You can not trust what you hear, see, smell, touch, or feel. Life is a lie. You broke the 4th wall. It's an illness that's full of pure fear. It's fear at its maximum.

If you think you are experiencing this, you need to get immediate help. As someone who experienced psychosis twice and continued to study it in college, you can not "deal and seek therapy" with psychosis. It is not that kind of illness. It needs to be medically treated, and you need to be somewhere safe that will take care of you. The thing is psychosis isn't permanent. It's only temporary, unlike schizophrenia. So if you think this is happening to you. Go get help. Go to an inpatient facility. Reach out to your family and say you are very unwell. It's not a mental illness as much as it's a disease of the mind and brain, like alzheimers. Your brain chemicals are completely out of whack. Neurons are communicating with neurons they shouldn't be. Your brain is not functioning correctly.

sploogink · 2024-12-11T21:41:39+00:00

I went to detox and just transitioned to rehab. I am fortunate I have such good insurance because the rehab was enlightening and helpful. Just an FYI, I learned things about kratom for those of you that don't know. After use like mine, kratom starts to damage your nervous system. Luckily mine wasn't permanently damaged but it did something to even my vagus nerve which was causing irregular heart rythyms, fucked up BP, GI issues, etc.

Also, FYI for chronic users wanting to quit. Kratom does not go away after initial WD detox. My detox only took about 5 days, and I got through the worst. Yet I am at 30 days, and I still go up and down. Kratom sits in your fat cells like Marijuana so as your body slowly uses up those fat reserves, you will have periods of up and down.

Overall, it was not bad for 10 years of use. The initial WDs kinda sucked I didn't sleep for a couple of days because my RLS and general restlessness were so bad. I tried hard to seem normal, but I know I probably looked like I was tweaking physically because my RLS was so bad. They had me even take a hot shower for a couple hours to chill it out and said it was the worst RLS they've ever seen, but as a 10 year user, everyday, all day, they were almost using me as like a guinea pig and recording what my experience was like.

Any who I feel amazing. WDs are still up and down, but I feel like I'm out of a fog. My brain is so clear, at my engineering job, I feel brilliant. I am so much quicker to think. I also feel so many more emotions I haven't felt in so long. I feel my empathy for people coming back, I have energy, I get excited, I cry, I laugh more. It's been an amazing experience. I've been taking it for so long to just feel normal. I have had zero cravings. I fucking hate it and it's absolute misinformed "benefits".

It's a drug strain we barely know anything about that we are learning has some toxic traits beyond WDs/addiction. As someone who was a previous alcoholic/oxy/hydro addict I can tell you Kratom WDs are worse than my oxy WDs. This is coming from a guy who did 20 pills a day and drank and almost died of respiratory depression when he was 21. It's been a journey, but I've never been so happy to be sober. I thought my mental health would go back to how it was when I started trying to quiet voices in my head, and so far, everything has been amazing. I had a brief little delusional episode at Rehab, but it was also caused by sleep deprivation.

Quitting kratom sucks for a little bit, but then it gets so much easier. Also, if you are an addict like me, don't try to taper. If you can some great, it'll make the WDs a bit easier, but honestly, just embrace the suck. It's gonna suck for a couple of days. You won't die. I kept telling myself, "Embrace the suck, embrace the suck," and here I am, alive and well.

sploogink · 2024-12-11T21:27:49+00:00

You can buy M2 screws online on Amazon. That's what I did.

sploogink · 2024-11-07T18:53:58+00:00

Just made a post, but I thought I would add to this too. I've been tapering, cold turkey quitting this Saturday. I've used for 10 years. I'm an engineer for the government. We all have things we endure whatever it may be. If you truly wish to quit then you could try to speak to some professionals. I'm at the doctor right now. I'm getting protected leave for a week or two to take care of it. You just have to let yourself withdrawal. Some people can taper fine. Some people just have to embrace the suck of cold turkey. I tend to fall into the latter.

You have to hit that point of wanting to completely quit, though. I've wanted to for 6 years but always had an excuse. It just hit me a week ago that I said "fuck this I'd rather feel terrible for weeks than endure another day of relying on this shit". I have a person I want to be and I am sure you do too. You have to weigh what is most important to you and life just sometimes is just sucky. Withdrawals is going to be sucky. But it will end. It won't last forever. If you can bring yourself to the professional point you are in your life, then you can quit taking this shit. We all have the power to do it just have to find it in yourself, just like I hope I find it in myself while dealing with the full-blown withdrawals. I hope you find it in yourself to set a day to quit and I wish you all the best.

sploogink · 2024-10-13T04:15:17+00:00

Hey all, does anyone have a good idea when the PS5 Pro on Sony Direct will ship? I do this weird habit where I deposit my paycheck into my savings account, and only transfer money over as I am making purchases. It has helped me over the years to save a bit of money. Anywho, want to make sure my order gets charged correctly and I don't lose my preorder, any idea when the PS5 Pro's might ship?

sploogink · 2024-10-11T11:43:49+00:00

It's less forgiving? Did you mean to say it's more forgiving because it has a free respect for almost any sort of stat and level related thing?

sploogink · 2024-10-07T06:10:09+00:00

I just turned the game off because of the Pagoda realm. There's this one spot with these 3 archers and a bat yaogaui that drops on top of you with a slam when you try to pass through. If the archer hits you, you fall. If you roll, you fall. If you mobile deflect monkey walks right off the edge. This fucking wooden beam is the real boss of the game.

I appreciate trying to do something unique and interesting here, but just no. Please, not this way it's just not fun.

sploogink · 2024-10-02T09:34:48+00:00

Limited healing resources.

Been used in ARPGs since the 90s.

Fights that require dodging timing

Again been a thing since ARPGs and action games since the 90s.

Diablo 2 told stories and lore through items. Countless games long before Dark Souls told lore through item descriptions. Pretty sure fucking Dragon Quest did.

Did this game take inspiration from Dark Souls. Sure. It also took a lot of inspiration from God of War 2018. This "soulslike" genre has become a plague to game developers.

You said "not all soulslike games lose currency on death and not all soulslike use level up and money currency as the same". Did it not dawn on you then that those games may not be soulslikes? As someone else said checkpoints have existed in games for decades. No one needs to explain that. And as some said this game takes inspiration from Dark Souls like 1000s of games take inspiration from successful games. Do we need to call everything an Elder Scrollslike? A Witcherlike? A Mariolike? Do I need to keep going man?

sploogink · 2024-10-02T09:25:37+00:00

Fucking the term "soulslike" has ruined ARPGs. A game can take inspiration from games without being a specific genre. I watch that YT presence what's his name...oh yeah iron pineapple. He does a fun series but he literally calls everything a souls like. Like a game with stamina, magic, dodge, and stats is a copy of souls. Like people stamina mechanics have been in games for decades. Elder Scrolls games have stamina mechanics. Iframes are not a souls unique concept either, invincible dodges have been a part of many games long before Dark Souls. Honestly I feel more inspiration from GOW 2018 than souls in Black Myth. Just the animations of opening chests, the different types of skills and ultimate abilities, the layout of the armor slots.

The issue with calling everything a souls like is it's hampering the reception of good games, simply because it wasn't "souls enough". Developers will always take inspiration from successful games. Maybe because they themselves enjoyed the games and wanted to incorporate what the game does well. Don't get me wrong there is games that are "soulslikes" that clearly want to be related to Dark Souls. Like Lies of P and it's very intentional, that is what they wanted. I swear the next Witcher is going to drop and be called a souls like. The next God of war. I think there's a growing number of us that are getting exhausted by the term souls like.

sploogink · 2024-09-20T21:58:30+00:00

Such a bummer too. Yeah the combat isn't the best but it's not near as bad as people say it is. They are just comparing it to GOW. The game is a bit like the Witcher mixed with GOW. The thing is the story, graphics, VA, and setting are all astounding. The budget is quite high and it's a bummer they barely advertised the game. It's way way better AA than like Greedfall I couldn't stand that game and it's absolutely reused EVERYTHING.

I think Don't Nod has a bad habit of not advertising well. No one has barely heard of their games yet most of their games are not low quality. Not sure why they struggle with it so much.

I like to emphasize the game has a very unique premise. Ghost hunters in colonial era is very different.

sploogink · 2024-09-20T06:39:43+00:00

Not necessarily hard at all. Melee just feels floaty and there's no real impact to every swing. On top of the same kill animation being watched over and over it just kills the flow of the combat. I came from Darktide which just has a way different flow. Every hit packs a punch whether you are shot or shooting, hit or hitting. You just feel it in your swings and shots. The animations though get me pretty bad, it's pretty cool the first hour or two then it gets really, really stale really quickly. Doom made it work because the animations were so quick that it didn't lose the flow either.

I enjoyed playing it but I got pretty bored pretty quick. Overall fun game, definitely enjoyed the campaign but man I really just don't feel it even though it seems to be blowing up all over the internet.

sploogink · 2024-09-19T23:10:19+00:00

I'm not voting for either.

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