northwest-cryptid

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when i say “that reminds me” & theres zero connection you just have to take my word for it theres no time to explain

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I feel like this would appeal to a few people on here

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This is who is leading the NYC mayoral democratic primary rn

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I will never understand why people think being drunk is cool/impressive like my dude I literally do not care that you are under the influence of alcohol.

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I only jerk it to ai images I feel guilty about jacking to art someone drew cause I can feel their souls

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Being the only bi cis guy amongst almost exclusively trans friends and peers is wild because in theory its like im living in a horny manga where all of a dudes friends turn into hot babes, but in reality they are hunting me like the last bison on the prairie. 5 years ago I mentioned bionicle and one of them asked when I was starting estrogen.

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I used to reassure myself with 'no matter how bad things get, at least I'll have salmon run' but then nintendo had fuck up even that huh

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u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me

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Okay, so I'm actually going to treat the "Disco Elysium but it's a young witch in the alps" tweet as if a friend was saying this to me over a casual chat about video games

I don't know if a game could do that, Rosa. By narrative system, I'm assuming you mean the stat system where the main character's skills talk to them and give them feedback on the world, each expressed through colorful dialogue that reflects the player character's internal machinations. But that system isn't just mechanics — it's a part of the diegetic storytelling of the game itself. You can't make multiple personalities talking to the player character as compelling as Disco Elysium if, say, it wasn't a reflection of the player character's mental illness(es), their background as a divorced detective trained in police brutality and intimidation, and their deep and conflicting bonds with a war-torn, racist, colonized country.

If the PC wasn't immersed in any of those and you replaced him with a well-adjusted witch with no historical or social background living in a generic pastoral setting, the stat system feedback wouldn't be any different from a regular, albeit maybe a bit quirky, video game narrator.

You'd have to make the witch and that village in the alps all sorts of complex and tangled up for the "narrative system" to manifest similarly to Disco Elysium. And judging from the image you showed me, that girl doesn't look like she has even one personality rattling in her head.

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I love Stardew Valley, it's such a comfortable game to play, but the plot feels a little light at times. I bet it would be more compelling if the farmer had amnesia, crippling substance dependence and was suffering so much mental degradation that he thought his clothes were speaking to him.

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I do appreciate that people are trying to give advice but I fear people didn't get that I didn't know what you're talking about, I do not know what a core is in this context. This is all I was looking for

I figured people might have suggestions for what I should have on my team and maybe why, but my inbox is full of:

- various technical advice I wouldn't know how to use because a lot of them use terminology I've literally never heard (I'm not looking to necessarily be educated on that right now)

- random hate for the newer games (I like those games, and I admit a big reason I've not cared for Black and White is because every time people talk about it they just go off about how bad all the new games are instead of telling me why B/W is good)

- lots of people telling me typing but not which specific Pokemon to get

So I'm pretty sure in my sleep deprived state where I really thought "eh only my friends and maybe a few mutuals will see this" I may not have communicated something clearly enough.

Alright fellas I'm pretty bad at Pokemon (as in I beat the entirety of Hoenn with one Blaziken using double kick the entire game) and I'm playing black and white for the first time, someone who's good at Pokemon tell me what I should have on my team but, and I don't mean condescendingly; if you're going to explain why you gotta do it like I've literally never played the game before and don't know what the hell you're talking about.

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Pokemon fans hate them, local blogger considers X and Y, Sword and Shield, Legends Arceus, and Alpha sapphire and Omega ruby, to be favorites in the series. Hell I even enjoyed Scarlet and Violet for as weird and low fps as they were.

I love Megas, I love post game content, I love silly innovative ideas like throwing balls in real time and riding around while you do it, I genuinely love a lot of the 3D graphics.

They're good games in my opinion, I think I understand fans of Dark Souls 2 better now.

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My communication skills must really suck or something...

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when exactly is uptown funk gon give it to me?