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When it comes to trade, I stick to my ABCs

Always Buy Advanced Components

Always Buy Barrels

Always Buy Components

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I always wondered how the Carian Queens and Princesses "encountered" their moon. Moons are usually quite easy to find, aren't they?

Or were there no visible moons before the Carians?

Did they remain hidden until they were discovered and unveiled by a powerful astrologer?

From the perspective of a commoner, did a glorious moon just appear in the night sky?

And when young Ranni encountered her dark moon

Were the commoners worried? Or were they amazed by the sight?

But I really wonder what would have happened if Radagon and Rennala had more children. What would have happened to the night sky?

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"Cozy games" is a bad name for the genre.

What feels cozy to one person doesn't necessarily feel cozy to another.

For example, Dark Souls 1 is a cozy game for me. I know all the enemy placements and movesets so I can just turn my brain off, relax, and go through the motions. Listening to the clanking of my armor, footsteps and the ambient sounds gives me a feeling of Zen. No think, just do.

Stardew Valley on the other hand is kind of stressful for me. I just can't go with the flow, I HAVE TO get the best grandpa rating and complete the mines and skull caverns by year 3. I enjoy that playstyle, but it isn't cozy for me.

But even though I see the problem with the genre name, I still know what to expect when someone tells me about a new "cozy game" that's being released. I can distinguish between the name of the genre and my personal taste.

A rename of the genre to something less subjective would solve these kinds of problems, but genres are named by the hivemind, so I guess we have to live with that until enough people use a different term.

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My broke ass while everyone is enjoying the remaster

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Why was everyone always so excited about the Animus stone. I know it is a very rare item. Even though I played this game for hundreds of hours, I saw it like 3 times as a quest reward and the quests were never worth it.

But recently it was a reward for a surprisingly doable quest, so I did it. And I was excited! A meditation alternative that doesn't require my colonists to spend like half a day traveling to this fucking tree on the other side of the map?!

I knew very little about that item, just that it was basically a portable Anima tree.

I was so fucking disappointed when I got it and tried to place it. It has the same fucking absurd "no buildings allowed in this zone" rule as the Anima Tree. But it is still an item so it isn't even safe from raiders. So basically it is a worse version of the Anima tree, because at least I don't need to build an absurdly large wall around it to keep it safe.

Why would anyone want that? Am I missing something? I feel scammed

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Life was once better but now it is shit again but at least I found some surprise Benzos rant post

It feels so bad being poor again after a glimpse of moderate success. About a year before covid I got a really good job. It was a very small business, only my boss and a few coworkers, most of them were studends, doing this as a part-time job. Since only me and another colleague were full-time, I was quickly trained to be a project manager, overseeing and coordinating the students. My boss was amazing, she offered good pay, allowed work from home with a monthly in person meeting and a dinner at a restaurant every 3 months (dinner was payed for and the hours we were at the restaurant counted as working hours). Covid was horrible for us. All clients either paused their projects or stopped them immediately and my boss had to close the business because there was no money coming in and there was no end in sight since covid was unpredictable.

I had to desperately look for a new job in a horrible job marked, the one I found turned out to be uber-horrible and now I am back to project/team-assistant jobs with shitty pay and shitty treatment, constantly looking for a less shitty new job.

Now I am back at where I began, budgeting food so I don't go hungry at the end of the month, no heating during the winter months and only short warm showers no money to save, saved money dried up and I am looking at my dead Steamdeck, knowing I can't afford to replace it. Looking at the steampage for oblivion, knowing I can't afford it. Buying only the cheapest food possible because I need to save up for nightreign because I NEED to be there at the start and learn together with everyone else.

And I remember this short time of luxury, where I could just buy myself a console, meet up with friends at cafés, restaurants and bars and still have a little extra money at the end for savings.

Sorry for the rant. I know compered to many others I am still living a good life. I have a roof over my head, food in my fridge and people I can rely on in emergencies.

Plus I found a bottle of Benzos in an old Jacket and I just took triple the dosage and feel amazing for the first time in forever.

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I think whether you create a normal looking character that fits the games setting, or you try to create the most hideous looking thing imaginable says a lot about you as a person/gamer.

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The world has become so bizarre, I sometimes wonder if I'm having a stroke while reading the news. I often have to re-read sentences multiple times to parse what the fuck is even happening

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I hate when your wifi goes down and you check your ISPs website to see whats wrong and they tell you everything is fine.

What do you mean?! It literally isn't! I can see it not working with my own eyes.

And then you check an unaffiliated website where users can report problems and there is a massive spike in complaints in your area right now

WHAT DO YOU MEAN EVERYTHING IS FINE?! STOP LYING!

And then you decide that you are fed up with your ISPs bullshit and look up some competitors but whatever company name you type in, google autocomplete has "down" or something similar as one of the first suggestions and you know you are fucked no matter what you do

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Why did they release the Oblivion remake so fast, I'm not even done saving money for Nightreign

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Medicine shortages are wild. Your doctor tells you for years hoe important it is to never forget to take your daily meds and how the dosage has to be lowered or increased very slowly so your body can acclimate and then there is a shortage and you ask what you should do and all you get is a: I dunno, get fucked I guess. Call an ambulance or visit a doctor if you experience severe withdrawal symptoms. GLHF

Okay cool I guess.

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That's an amazing idea, I never thought about putting them back in for training reasons!

Very inspiring post!

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Does anyone else really hate Keke for no reason?

Just seeing him annoys me.

His mere existence makes my life worse.

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Is there a term for the limbo state when you are not able to drift into sleep but unable to open your eyes and fully wake up again and you feel the irrationality of dreaming but you don't hallucinate anything and are somehow fully aware of the situation?

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I know it doesn't fit the theme of the series at all, but I think it would have been very funny if VLR was actually some kind of social experiment, where the person who escapes alone in the Game Over endings would walk right into a TV studio, where they would have to explain why they would rather risk 8 people (or however many are still alive) including a sick child dying in a locked bunker, instead of waiting at worst a couple of hours until everyone is able to escape together.

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Imagine being some wealthy guy in the distant past, taking some hard drugs because you have a light cough, writing down your drug-induced theories to publish them later, your sources: your ass, and everyone is like: sounds legit, great philosopher, and centuries later some poor college students have to read your shit to cite you as one of their 200 sources for their meta-analysis of whatever the fuck

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Did you turn your wi-fi back on or are you still using mobile data?