#doomerposting

[is0pod64]

MY PORRIDGE MY PORRIFDGE ASAAAAAA MEAT MAEAT MEAT (┬┬﹏┬┬)

[sburbian-sage]

I don't think I want to escape the game anymore.

I have my roles, and I fill them. At this point I can practically autopilot through most sessions.

I have no idea what I would do, if I could actually live in a universe I created. The game teaches you some stuff about governance and economy and whatnot sometimes, to prepare you, but it doesn't feel like enough.

Actually setting up a civilization, ruling over it as a god- hell, even just participating in it as a normal citizen- just sounds somehow both overwhelming and boring at the same time now.

What do I do, if the door ever does work?

"I don't think I even WANT to escape the game at this point" threads happen seemingly every other week. However, this template vent post is a bit more unique, because it actually does raise a question a lot of people wonder about. "Once I create a new universe, what do I do with it".

First of all, I can tell you what NOT to do.

Get your hopes up lmao. If the Door does start working it's not happening anytime soon.

But if it ever does happen, post shit like this. Don't do it if the Door works for everyone, because you will immediately identify yourself as a contrarian, a half-dead wanderer in the desert who finally found an oasis and has the gall to complain about it. DEFINITELY don't do it if the Door works for you alone. I want you to imagine, thousands of people suffering in Purgatory forever, sometimes falling into Hell and never returning. When ONE guy makes it into Heaven and starts bellyaching about how the grass was greener. Sometimes we can keep our thoughts to ourselves. Someone is already yelling at you for posting this, and they don't even have a face to direct their fury towards.

If you decide to roll up your sleeves and learn how to build a civilization, look at online guides. Yes, they exist. Yes, they are 100% speculative, seeing as how nobody's ever done it yet. And yes, it's mostly people with extremely fringe and untested politics writing wankfics about how once they plant the seeds for new humanity, Merito-Monarchy with Maoist characteristics will be their guiding polestar. SBURB is also a bad teacher in this regard, because you're basically doing middle-school projects and dealing with Consorts, but SBURB is bad in the way a bleeding wound is bad, as opposed to "the bone's exposed, dump it into raw meat ASAP".

Carry the SBURB discs you used to play THIS Session to immediately start a new one. I don't even know if that'll work, considering the discs are basically magic, but that's the worst possible idea and your Coplayers should communally kick you around for even considering this idea, that I implanted in your head.

But as for what you should be doing... It's a bit difficult to talk about, because I actually have no idea what the state of this hypothetical "universe we step out into" would look like. A lot of people on the "here's how I build a new society" threads assume they'll step out into a flat, featureless grassy plain which they'll need to terraform and popular through ectobiology, and "unpopulated but randomly generated terrain, like Minecraft" is the second most common assumption. But in the same way we keep New Game +'ing into a pre-existing world with millennia of history, who's to say that won't happen on a successful Session, but it's a world that knows what you did and is expecting your arrival gratefully? Who's to say that there will even be *anything* in there, and that you'll have to initiate a Big Bang-esque event as your first act upon entry? Is there a SBURBan post-game we don't know about, featuring new tools in the Phernalia Registry that allow you to reshape reality like a painter with an inkbrush?

But I get ahead of myself. I don't even want to do the "lmao it'll never happen lmao don't worry about it lmao" thing because I myself enjoy being contrarian and want to start making you imagine a world where you enter a new universe which you now have to *live* in. Because you're being a bit of a whiner right now and I want you to suffer, because life is suffering. And I mean that positively. I've suffered in the course of running my blog, suffered attempting to 100% video games (even the ones I like), suffered producing art. But the only one who's never suffered from making art, is someone who's never made art. Desire leads to suffering, but a life lived without desire is a life lived without direction or purpose. Most self-help posts end with "develop a hobby" but really you should develop a hobby. Avoid "auto-pilot", not only because that's a particular flavor of pride before the fall (and the falls tend to be pretty lethal), but because if you ever end up getting killed, it'd suck to realize you died before you were killed.

That will get the juices flowing in your brain enough to find the prospect of building a society from the ground up a lot more feasible. A challenge worthy of taking on. I guess I did never end up actually answering the question of "what do if I end up creating a new universe for real this time", but considering how much is unknown, I would have to establish multiple courses of action depending on which assumption is true. Which would be a lot to just dump on someone, and all for the purposes of being another piece of non-actionable speculation on the pre-existing mountain of the same. It might make for an interesting post in the future, however.

[dogcyder]

Coming home is terribly lonely...

Jealous girl! + shitpost 2 feel better

Everything's on Instagram too, per usual!

[gooblegorp]

[cabbage-loaf]

please?

SHITS GONNA BE FINE. *kisses your forehead*

[inceldier88]

[em0cring3]

How does one create when we live in a society?

[churchofthenuns]

I'm a puppet without strings, only a memory that lives within you even if i am still right next to you

Prop designed to make you greater and better which ultimate fate is to be discarded

I only exist as a transition between the worse stages of your life and the better ones

I hope you remember me when you are the top, maybe you could revisit the place you once called home

I won't despise you even i was made to be left alone

I'm glad that i was able to made you happy even if it was a just a fleeting moment that we both shared

You may never hear my tears and how much i miss you, how happy you made me or how much i need you

But worry not, someone else will use me, in time

Farewell from the toy you once loved

[here-there-were-dragons]

there’s something deeply wrong with the fact that if i just simply decided to walk around everywhere on all fours all day, and did absolutely nothing else differently, i would be guaranteed to have the cops called on me and be put back in a psych ward with at least 5 new diagnosis by the end of the day.

walking around on all fours isn’t even something i do or would want to do. it would destroy my arthritic-ass spine. but there’s something deeply, rage-inducingly fucked up about the fact that even something that small is enough for this society to deem it morally acceptable and necessary to dissapear you into fucking conversion therapy torture jail indefinitely and saddle you with life-ruining legal tags forever “for your and everyone’s safety”!

just commenting on this as being fucked up could very easily be enough to get me the same treatment if someone decided they wanted to! it’s not like anyone’s going to stop some psych person from deciding that this is totally real undeniable freudian slip 100% true we promise you guys evidence that i’m some kind of feral mentally degenerate personimal mindlessly beholden to some illogical instinct to crawl around and bite good normal god-fearing real people because CLEARLY you’d have to be crazy yourself and/or want to DO the thing yourself to defend this UNCOMFORTABLE THING, right? nobody could just think it’s fucked up how we treat doing (abnormal thing) without being a Secret Monster themselves, REAL people obviously know unquestioningly why it’s bad, you just want to be allowed to give in to your corrupted malformed wrong EVIL base instincts that you definitely have (INSTEAD of a conscious mind with any valid logical thoughts or worthwhile human experiences in it) because i said so and i’m The Expert so everything i say is true and right!

i can’t even figure out where to fit in the bit about how fucked it is that if you did anything “abnormal” like that literally everyone automatically assumes you’re going to be dangerous and violent about it. that if someone decides to go around on all fours then CLEARLY they’re going to randomly bite GOOD HEALTHY NORMAL REAL people for no reason. it’s like people can’t comprehend the idea of any even slightly deviant behavior that isn’t violence and just assume if anything even slightly weird’s going on it’s moving in the direction of mindless bloodshed-of good normal people’s blood, especially, personally, obviously. human-shaped things come in “actual person” and “mindless rabid horrordemon that desires only real human’s blood and pain” and as far as they’re concerned everything that even slightly inhabits, leans towards, or vaguely reminds them of the second category is functionally identical and will inevitably attack real humans the same way-for literally no reason beyond a cosmic ontological sort of Wrongness and Emptiness Of Real Thought And Soul-if allowed to exist in their field of view longer than thirty seconds.

[triviallytrue]

on one hand, a lot of the ideas leftists posit for how to help Palestine don't really seem like they have any chance of working. on the other hand, i don't see any ideas of how to help Palestine that seem like they will work, so it's not like they're misdirecting their energy.

[bobacupcake]

i advocate for tech art a lot when people ask about it since i do think as big a learning curve it can have there's ways of making it approachable but i do feel like it would be irresponsible to not mention that the videogame industry right now is kind of uh, Not Having A Great Time. there have been a lot of layoffs with no sign of stopping, so theres a lot of people looking for work and not a ton of open positions. and publishers are being a lottt more stingy about giving money to indiegames right now too. it is Rough Out There, and hopefully, it will get better over time, but, just setting the tone for how things are rn

[nochangeintheplan]

cannot believe we were robbed of kiwami 3 because of a cash grab majima game:(

however it does mean that kiwami 3 is confirmed to be the game after this basically

While I would like a Kiwami 3 (graphical update and rebalancing combat a little) I didn't believe it was happening and still kind of am not sure where I stand on it, since I'm concerned about what they'd do exactly and if they'll end up recoloring Mine or changing things up strangely to fit this new Richardson lives timeline or whatnot.

Idk just Majima game feels draining because one, mascotizatized Majima vibes, and two, lately I've just been missing the earnestness of the drama. I liked Yakuza for how seriously it took its own deranged plots, while at the same time being silly, but it feels like things have been banking on the silly-meme-game more as of late.

Gameplay looks fun at least but not for 65 dollars oof. I hope the Majima stans and people with whimsy in their hearts can enjoy this and have fun with it at the least kgckx /gen

[gynandromorph]

i think about pox parties sometimes and i'm just like. so we were always this stupid and there's not ever going to be enough information to unstupid us. as a species. i see.

[shivapvoid]

you are a fool and a moron. KEEP FIGHTING COWARD

[iron-sides]

having a nice cold cup of water. everyone brace because i scheduled all my liveblogs to post over the course of an hour and i was really fucking sad for a lot of it up until hannah got her 20th heart its like the its so over/were so back graph so just heads up yk doomerposting incoming

[nenekobasu]

the focus of two-gun (fitting with isagi's personal values) is on how "nobody could see it coming"; even analysis of two-gun focuses on how the gk "can't predict" the shot. as usual he's about surprise and doing what the opponent doesn't expect

on a meta-level this works as a contrast too? as a reader, two-gun as a "new isagi weapon" wasn't explicitly foreshadowed so it came as a surprise but "kaiser scores with a spin shot" isn't much of a shock, in fact it's kind of expected— isagi relies on the element of surprise, kaiser rests on predictability. within blue lock isagi and kaiser are pitted against each other to represent two opposing ideas on how to be successful