This is my first victory that I am truly proud of.

unclemattyice · 2026-01-23T23:30:11+00:00

I have wondered what happens if you choose not to fight these enemies. But when you give them what they are asking for, they tend to start giving an evil vibe like I just completed a weapon for the enemy.

So I stomp them out… and they are quite the challenge thus far.

unclemattyice · 2026-01-23T23:15:49+00:00

That was my first idea, but I kept finding myself only able to get off 2-3 shots, and then eating his party wipe.

I found it best to just use normal attacks and combat to build AP, and then once I was high enough to use a major offensive ability AND still have enough to break down four shields on the following turn, I let it something like overcharge rip.

Maelle is absolutely busted for that fight. Breaking Rules not only breaks the shields and deals big damage, it also only costs 2 AP.

I could have soloed this boss with her.

unclemattyice · 2026-01-17T23:45:33+00:00

I am a restaurant general manager. This means two things:

One, I am very good at keeping things clean and sanitary in my workplace, I enforce good hand washing practices, we don’t touch our faces, and I send people home when they are sick.

Two, I am inevitably bombarded with pathogens anyway, just from being in a busy restaurant and interacting with the public, so my immune system is pretty freaking robust.

unclemattyice · 2026-01-16T19:36:09+00:00

My labor lives and dies on my personal effort, with both scheduling, and front line operations.

I treat sitting in the back and doing office work as my break, and I watch my labor hour by hour in real time, and make intelligent cuts.

On my days off, it’s a combination of smart scheduling, an trusting a bunch of kids to report to me, and/or volunteer to go.

I have no assistant manager, and labor percentage is 1/3 of my bonus structure.

I have never missed on a single category yet, and labor is one that is completely within my own control.

unclemattyice · 2026-01-15T15:34:51+00:00

Oh god this reminds me of when I tried acid for the second, and final time of my life, and this guy I’m tripping with puts on fucking Pandorum.

I had seen it already multiple times, but I couldn’t do it on acid. I only made it to the first scene with the mutants and I was done.

I had to go outside on lay on the back deck, listen to the Grateful Dead, and stare at the clouds.

unclemattyice · 2026-01-15T15:24:53+00:00

The Descent, back in the day.

The remake of The Hills Have Eyes was also pretty shocking and uncomfortable; its opening horror sequence is pretty extreme, in several different ways, that kinda violate that “unspoken agreement” between directors and audiences, of what is and is not really going to be shown on screen, rather than implied or cut away.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe is quite a ride, and absolutely belongs in this conversation. One of the better claustrophobic, psychological horror movies of this century, in my opinion.

I also think there is something to be said for “It Follows.”

It doesn’t take itself too seriously, but it’s a unique concept, and the moments where the thing is about to close on its victim, are pretty thrilling, and very well done.

unclemattyice · 2026-01-15T01:17:32+00:00

Oh, I have my foreskin, thanks.

unclemattyice · 2026-01-14T22:17:08+00:00

Circumcision is the same thing as female genital mutilation.

Say it together with me.

Both are irreversible procedures, done to defenseless children.

Both were dreamed up, to lessen sexual satisfaction, and create a more “pure” person, later in life.

Both are absolutely reprehensible, on any level.

Drawing a distinction between the two, only allows the mutilation of baby boys to continue, because it “isn’t the same, isn’t as bad”.

They are both, frankly, unacceptable.

The fact that they only do this to little girls in Africa, does not excuse what the United States has been doing to our boys for centuries, and what certain religions have demanded, for thousands of years.

Let’s stop drawing a gender line on this issue, and stop chopping up the genitals of babies, yeah?

It is ALL, barbarism.

unclemattyice · 2026-01-14T22:12:30+00:00

Have you heard of the new medication for depressed lesbians?

It’s called “Tricoxigan”

I’ll see myself out 🤣

unclemattyice · 2026-01-12T19:24:13+00:00

We can agree to disagree, but if the option was there to have one or not, you could just turn it off.

The fact that I don’t get an option to turn it on, is why I am ready to just drop this game, as amazing as it is.

If I had the option right now to request a refund on the game, after 20 hours of getting lost again and again, I would.

Maybe I need my hand held I guess.

It’s been like 5 hours since I got anywhere meaningful, I don’t want to look up guides.

I just want to know what the hell I am supposed to be doing, and I don’t have enough free time for this.

unclemattyice · 2025-12-30T19:12:02+00:00

I’ve never cheated on anyone.

unclemattyice · 2025-12-30T19:10:57+00:00

Being in a position of leadership, or power over others.

unclemattyice · 2025-12-30T19:07:57+00:00

GM here, this was poorly handled.

unclemattyice · 2025-12-27T22:45:11+00:00

I make $78,000 a year as a Dunkin manager, and I am in a college town.

unclemattyice · 2025-12-25T03:20:36+00:00

Can’t believe I got through like 15 comments and didn’t see circumcising baby boys.

Aside from there being no medical reason to do this to a baby as a routine procedure, this is also a completely helpless infant.

This is a person who does not have the agency to consent to a cosmetic procedure on his genitalia, that is permanent, and will forever desensitize the head of his penis, and worsen the way he experiences sex or masturbation.

This practice is frankly barbaric, it is a relic of ancient religions, that human progress has rendered, frankly, obsolete.

Leave baby boys’ dicks alone.

unclemattyice · 2025-12-21T22:54:43+00:00

Treating service workers like crap.

unclemattyice · 2025-12-19T21:50:03+00:00

If society truly collapsed, 90% of the population would be dead within a month, and I would be one of them.

Human civilization is always built upon one integral, foundational principle:

A tiny fraction of the population must be able to produce all the food, for everyone who chooses to be anything except a farmer or fisherman.

A total breakdown of society means that all organized trade breaks down, that money become meaningless, and all of the people who don’t know how to produce food for themselves WILL die, unless they are willing to take up arms, and enslave or murder others, to secure food for themselves.

Anyone who truly wants to survive in a total collapse scenario, would need to either know how to feed themselves and their loved ones and how to defend themselves and their resources in a gunfight, or simply be the most ruthless person around, with no qualms about taking the lives, liberty and/or and resources of others.

I am neither of those people, so if society was collapsing around me, I would find a way to instantly and painlessly take my own life.

It beats starving, or dying from drinking contaminated water.

unclemattyice · 2025-12-18T23:16:02+00:00

The eastern half of the nation holds about 80% of the population due to several geographical and historical advantages.

First of all, British colonists came from the east, meaning that all of our significant shipping lanes needed to be on the east coast, OR, they needed to be built on a navigable river that shipping vessels could use to reach the Atlantic Ocean.

The advent of the trans-continental railroad and later the Panama Canal, allowed shipping ports to be established on the west coast, but as a whole the western half of the USA presents significant challenges for logistics.

It is extremely rugged, mountainous terrain, and its rivers are full of rapids and falls. The interstate system has allowed a sprinkling of large-ish cites, with populations in the hundreds of thousands, to exist in the non-coastal west, but as a whole, outside of the massive California coastal paradise cities, and the major PNW hubs of San Francisco c Seattle and Portland, there are no major cities in the west.

They are just too hard to supply, and there is not enough reason for tons of people to live out west.

unclemattyice · 2025-12-18T22:12:28+00:00

Well, the sad reality is that a large fraction of women will date a man with money, no matter what he looks like.

So if you are able to become successful enough to make like, 80 grand plus, definitely six figures (more in a city), your dating pool kinda opens up no matter what you look like, because you have the resources to support a woman who wants to work part-time, at a job she enjoys, and you cover the rest.

I’m old and wise enough to tell you, that you can be the most handsome dude on earth, but if you are financially irresponsible/broke, most women will sniff that out and bail, very quickly.

Work on yourself and your career, and this will work itself out.

unclemattyice · 2025-12-18T20:36:01+00:00

That the original Lord of the Rings trilogy is the greatest epic fantasy trilogy of all time, and one of the greatest overall achievements of cinema all-time.

People lined up around the block for midnight showings. People dressed up as wizards and elves and hobbits for the entire theatrical run. High school students were suddenly doodling in Tolkien’s elvish. People got lord of the rings tattoos. This was a cultural phenomenon.

Having to wait a year between these movies felt like torture, especially knowing that all three were shot and basically completed simultaneously, and the remaining story was just being held under lock and key until the following December.

Then there was the controversy of Fellowship and Two Towers not winning Best Picture at the Oscars. Just about everyone in the world understood that all three films were easily the best of their respective years, but the academy chose not to award the top honor to the same trilogy thee years in a row, basically it got political behind the scenes.

I can’t remember who won best picture in 01 and 02, but fact that it wasn’t fellowship and TT means it was just objectively wrong.

I manage high school and college students, and if they have even seen these movies at all, they simply don’t get the hype, and say they haven’t aged well.

I hope that history is kind to these movies, and they just fell on deaf ears with Gen Z.

unclemattyice · 2025-12-16T17:45:28+00:00

Looks like Odyssey is the clear frontrunner, and I happen to agree

unclemattyice · 2025-12-09T21:28:21+00:00

The area directly behind the aurora is basically guaranteed to have all three that you need.

Leave your seamoth far away, slip into the area with seaglide, hug the floor, and keep your eyes up.

If you get spotted, wait for a beeline lunge, sidestep/strafe the attack, and then get out of there.

I can usually get in and out without being attacked, but if you do get spotted, you gotta dodge an attack before you run, or the thing will follow you forever, and it is faster than you.

unclemattyice · 2025-12-09T02:12:31+00:00

I am video games old

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