#they're still like $250 but it would be worth it if i could really take myself to therapy

[briar--rising]

Did you know??? They make??? Adult tricycles??????????

Like. Holy shit. I've tried several times throughout my life to learn to ride a bike, to no avail. My balance is too poor. But I desperately want to be able to ride a bike, I could do so many things that way (like get to therapy on my own, for example). And now I have discovered that they make super expensive accessible bikes for people with balance issues, which I can't afford. But they also make much less expensive adult tricycles which might be stable enough for me to use!!!!!!! I have to do more research but I think I know what I want for my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!

[the-firebird69]

Her son and daughter are saying to make a kit it looks like this it's the Pontiac fiero GT it's like a super sport everything why would we do that and I noticed something it looks really cool couple things you can change and you really should make the front of the door match the back is the inlet the rear end needs to be fixed as a stupid bumper the front has his air intake system and we should leave it and the chassis has the performance package and you can sort of do it. So he's saying as like a conversion. Now this used to be mid-engine and it was pretty fast but the motor was 130 horsepower top speed was about 250 and people loved it and it disappeared and people can't figure out why and the reason is is it was way too fast and they were getting away with stuff and John remillard is a chicken s*** not only that he's very stupid and he thinks that he has a robot computer and he thinks she runs everything and it's disgusting it is so disgusting I can't stand him living there he's such a f****** moron pig is a mental patient our son is surrounded by mental patients who don't want to do anythingthere's a new nothing to suck at it they went and looked at stuff can't figure it out I think it's a lie don't care and who cares her all running to these cities thinking it's fake and we actually need to take the cities over and they mostly suck they can fix a lot of it but we can fix a lot of it this is an idea this car is a high performance vehicle there's a couple of chassis that would fit on and they're Asian and boy what a surprise that would be was a fiero showing up as like a hypercar and you can't really do it with panels you could but it wouldn't be really worthwhile and we would modify it a little so he's saying how can we do this people aren't going to go oh great a fiero. And we do have chassis and it would bring back the fiero so he's saying we get together because we want to start up Pontiac and the bunker buddies they want us to do it and we know that and we come up with a redesign that is still somewhat realistic and for a kit car at this time it was your mind of doing it at Pontiac and you'd have to move the engine but it's not worth it it really is not it wouldn't get up and go that would but and it's not much room to do it and it was not four wheel independent it had a special transmission so really you can't do too much with it you can do it kit and leave the engine in the front on a subcompact sedan would be for Pontiac fanatics and it would be a test he says and she's taking it too of the code. Pontiac is a symbol for an arrow so that's one thing I also have the G6 that's another car that's pretty nice and he's saying that we probably have these chassis everywhere and yeah they're about 220 horsepower and there's a monstrous pile of them and they're different brands mostly Chevy and Ford and it'll be too nice cars you can make cheap and pump them out with production in mind and both of them Pontiac and we like the idea it's kind of a weird thing that he likes doing strange things like this Pontiac is known as a fast car as a matter of fact the Pontiac is the horse size that white beauty was and yes she's white at the time she can change black and she likes it she's just a horse at the time of the rickshaw which is the VW golf and boy where the hell and people just to do a car was supposed to go through it because they made it to a nightmare for our son and bear with it is such horseshit but that's what they do we're going to go ahead and start this up

Thor Freya

Olympus

I might do some assembly and BJ wants to and what you're saying is the panels for the time being might be fiberglass and it will be faster and you're going to try and show us the frame and it's kind of complicated to move the engine back and it takes money and price so you don't have to go real fast they say the fiero will go about 2:35 and with the engine in the exhaust 255 and the G6 will go about 225 and 2:45 for the engine is exhaust and it's the shape and you can still fit four people in the G6 the other one you'd have storage and it'll be a fake man engine mid engine fake but really if you're transporting pets stuff you can give them fresh air it's kind of stupid but you can cut that out and put a fan and put a no fan it's a screen and a safety screen and really it works nice and they are nice and safe in there

Trump

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#5

The reason Akechi's death is thematically satisfying is because of his role as Akira's antithesis. Akira is actively fighting against a fate that will lead to his death throughout Persona 5, and he only defies that fate through forging his bonds with his friends and remaining true to his sense of justice.

Akechi dies because he and Akira share the same fate--death--as Yaldabaoth's pawns, and he is unable to escape that fate because he did not create bonds with others or remain true to his sense of justice, which has become utterly divided (as seen with his personas, which are diametrically opposed to one another).

Akechi represents what would have and could have happened to Akira had he been friendless and alone, abandoned by society and twisted to lose all sense of justice and truth. Akechi is the fate that Akira only barely escaped himself. The themes of the game are strengthened with Akechi's death, tragic it may be, because it shows us the antithesis to Akira's thesis, the other side of the coin. What could have happened to our hero if things had been different.

However--Akechi did forge one bond. One bond, with his antithesis, forged a little too late, yet still strong. And that bond is the reason Akechi can survive in Royal. That bond reminded Akechi of his true sense of justice. It showed him a different path, a better path, one that is not walked alone.

Akechi isn't ready to walk that path--yet. But maybe, someday, he will be.

250 notes - Posted October 16, 2022

#4

Persona 5 Strikers really said the Phantom Thieves empathize with morally gray villains because of shared experiences and want them to be redeemed and atone because no one is ever too far gone and then proceeded to never mention Akechi Goro once in its entire 50 hours of gameplay.

445 notes - Posted May 3, 2022

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497 notes - Posted May 5, 2022

#2

I've seen different takes on Akechi and his attitude toward his fame in fic I've read but I think a lot of them oversimplify things. Usually he's portrayed as being disillusioned or annoyed by his fans, and while I think that is true to an extent, it's also a lot more complicated than that.

Goro gets his self worth from other people. His success, his skills, his perception, are all how he values his worth as a human being. So when he first achieves fame, becomes Tokyo's new sweetheart, of course that's all going to go straight to his head. People love him. They're obsessed with him! He's going to revel in that, in the feeling of being liked and adored for the first time in his whole life.

And I think that there's always an underlying fear and bitterness, because that love is for a fake version of himself. People love the Detective Prince. They don't love Goro, and they never would, not if they knew the real him.

But all that doesn't really hit him until the public turns against him. The superficial and fickle nature of their love is abundantly clear once they all turn on him. I think it's then that Goro really starts to sour on the public and fame in general.

But of course, he still gets his self worth from what others think of him. No matter how much he wishes he didn't care what ignorant strangers think about him, on a deep level he can't quite control, he does. They hate him even as the Detective Prince. Even when he's the ideal person, even when he's erased every bit of his unlikable traits, he's still not good enough, and that hurts.

By the third semester, he's probably relieved to not have the public's eye on him any longer. He no longer has to perform the image of a perfect Detective Prince. But I think part of him probably misses it too. Misses being known and adored by strangers, misses being loved, even if it was by people who could never understand him. Which makes him hate his fame all the more, because he shouldn't miss any part of it. He shouldn't want the approval of others, he shouldn't care what anyone thinks. But of course he still does. He can't stop caring, not when he's cared for so long, when that's the only basis on which he's measured his self worth for as long as he can remember.

But he's done performing. He's done acting the perfect role of the lovable hero. Akechi is free to finally be himself. So Akechi stops trying to be liked, stops trying to be loved, and starts pushing everyone away instead. Because if he's not able to be loved, what's the point of even trying?

Goro thinks his true self is inherently unlovable. He's a failure and a murderer and there's no possible way anyone could overlook that. He thinks the only reason anyone ever liked him at all is because of his perfect fake public persona. And that's what makes Akira so incomprehensible to him. Because even when Goro drops that persona, even when he becomes the person he thinks he is--the asshole who no one could ever love--Akira still loves him. Akira sees the real Goro, and he likes him. Goro can't use his true self to push everyone away. It might work on the Phantom Thieves, but it just makes Akira love him even more.

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[gamesception]

So, coming off of Metroid Dread, I was inspired to go back to revisit the series roots. I never actually beat the original Metroid before. I played it a bunch when I was little, but I was too young for it, never really got anywhere or did much. Didn't help that I've always had a terrible head for directions, and the original game doesn't have an in game map. Going back to it now, the only area I had trouble navigating was Norfair, which is a bit of a maze. Coming back as an adult I was actually able to appreciate how kindly Brinstar eases you into the game, with it's relatively few columns and rows, each conveniently color coded.

I probably could have managed better if I was a bit older, but by the time I was old enough for it Super Metroid was out, eclipsing the original altogether, as it did with much of the public consciousness since it was one of those SNES sequels that was sort of a soft reboot, just doing the same concept as an NES original only better.

But yeah, I did play the original a lot when I was little, and it left a really strong impression in my mind. It just felt so completely different from everything else. Kraid's lair in particular, especially its theme music, really creeped me out in a way that was somehow also really intriguing. Going back to the game now, with the benefit of save states, I can say that the thing that really held me back as a kid - even more than the lack of a map - is the agonizingly slow process of refilling your energy & missiles when you get low. Every time you die you respawn at the start of the current area, but with 30 health and no missiles. Even after picking up just a couple energy tanks and a few missiles, the process of getting back to healthy if you die, or even if you are brought to low health and survive, can take like 10 solid minutes of farming bugs out of tubes. It's obnoxious.

I only even got through the game now by abusing save states so I only had to do that a couple times. By the end of the game I had 700 health and 250 missiles, and you can only recharge that 5 health or 2 missiles at a time from enemy drops, and enemies only drop anything at all like half the time. I died like half a dozen times on the way to Mother Brain, and another half dozen against Mother Brain herself, and if I had had to spend like 10 to 15 minutes farming resources instead of just loading a state each time, I absolutely would have quit before beating her.

That aside, though, it really is a neat game worth looking back at. Particularly in terms of that 'experience of exploration' bit I talked about before. Items and upgrades aren't spread out over an expected sequence or carefully doled out as rewards for tricky gameplay puzzles, they're just out there in the world. Hidden items are actually hidden - behind illusionary walls or acid pits, or rooms only accessible through breakable blocks in the floor or ceiling.

When I got the high hump, or the varia suit, it felt like a Discovery. By comparison, Most of the abilities in Metroid Dread (or Zero Mission & Fusion, which I played in the run up to Dread's Release)? Abilities you typically get after defeating a boss on a directed progression path? They don't really feel like discoveries, instead they feel like rewards. Rewards are still fun and feel good to get, so that's not inherently a change for the worse, but while it's a subtle difference, imo it's still a pretty important one.

Metroid IS still clunky as hell, with twice the jank. Movement isn't great, rooms are repeated over and over, and it sorely needed a faster way to refill your health and ammo. But if you can get past all that, yeah, it's worth revisiting. You can really feel the roots of the genre, particularly in how the high jump boots and ice beam open up otherwise inaccessible paths. And as much as the genre has grown, there's also elements that were strong in this initial outing that were subsequently lost along the way, and maybe deserve to be dusted off & given another look.

If you do, and you're not concerned with 'original experience', there are romhacks that address some of the more troublesome aspects, in particular adding a map to the pause screen and a save feature that refills health so you don't have to do farm tube bugs every time you restart or die. Honestly, I don't think this obscures the great parts of the experience, so if you're curious about the original game but are worried about it's off-putting nature, I'd definitely recommend trying something like this: romhacking.net/hacks/1186/

Or maybe this if you want some a bundle of aesthetic updates and some slightly revamped boss fights while you're at it: romhacking.net/hacks/1988/

I haven't personally tried either of those hacks yet, but they both seem to be worth looking at if you're curious about the original metroid but want a somewhat a slightly more refined presentation and some QoL fixes.

Unfortunately the official remake, Zero Mission for the GBA, is essentially a completely different game, much more derived in its design. Zero Mission is a good game and a great introduction to the 2d platform Metroidvania genre and the Metroid series in particular. But in re-imagining the original from the ground up it looses a lot of NES Metroid's distinguishing features, both good and bad, so it's kind of useless if you're specifically trying to examine the origin and early evolution of the franchise.

[fratboykate]

I'm about to show you how the American Healthcare system fucks everyone over. Americans have NO idea how hard they're getting jipped at drug stores each day but I'll give you a glimpse.

So I have really bad asthma, right? My inhaler is my life line. I've been living in the US for ten years this year and I've never, not once, bought an inhaler here. My parents send me a package with them and other meds from about 4,000 miles away every few months or maybe twice a year. You can't just mail medicine internationally but specifically things like inhalers. None of the carriers - not the post office, FedEx, UPS, or any other - will ship them because they're gas or something. I don't remember the specific rule but they just won't let you do it internationally because they're little canisters. Seeing as my parents can't simply mail the inhalers, they have to find someone that is flying from the DR to the US, have one of our doctor friends write that person a prescription for the inhalers, and staple copies of the receipts to the prescription because if Customs stops them at the airport to ask about it they have to show both things. Then the person bringing them to the US has to pack the inhalers, go to the post office, and mail me the package. Most of the people we know live in the East Coast so once it's flown over an ocean and arrived in a different country, my medicine still has to trek all the way to Los Angeles.

Why and how is any of this convenient you ask? I'll break it down. An inhaler lasts me between 15 days and a month depending on how bad my ashtma is at the time. This means I could go through anywhere between 12 to 24 inhalers in a year. At least. Could be more.

I got this package today:

Ten inhalers and hard core pain meds because my migraines don't just go away with Aleve.

This is how much those ELEVEN things were in the DR:

$873.60 Dominican pesos. My parents just sent me AT LEAST somewhere around six months worth of inhalers for $873 pesos. They also sent the same pain meds my mom takes for the extreme pain she suffers on her body as a result of being in a wheelchair so like...hardcore shit. I received enough to last way longer than six months. That is included in the eight hundred but for the sake of simplicity let's pretend it isn't.

Before I tell you how much this is in dollars let me show you how much one of these inhalers cost in the US without insurance (aka the same way my parents bought these in the DR).

With coupons they cost at least $60 and without coupons they can go all the way up to $85. I didn't have insurance for approximately the first 8.5 years I was here. Now that I do have insurance my lowest copay for medicine is $25 and that's for the generic stuff. That's the minimum I pay for every item on each of my prescriptions and only for generics, if I want/need the name brands like these inhalers are it goes way higher. So EVEN WITH MY INSURANCE, every month I'd be spending no less than $25 to $50 on inhalers depending on whether I went through one or two that month.

Now that I've told you that, this is the conversion of Pesos to Dollars.

My parents spent SEVENTEEN DOLLARS AND TWENTY NINE CENTS on ten inhalers and another medication. My parents sent me ten inhalers from half a world away for what I couldn't buy one here even with insurance.

Those ten alone would've cost me no less than $250 with insurance and at least $600 without insurance. That is if I only went through one of them a month and was lucky enough to have coupons.

If I used two a month - twenty total - for ten months I'd spend no less than $500 with insurance or between $1,200-$1,700 without insurance.

My parents would be spending about $35, maybe $40, in the same twenty inhalers.

Same medication, same brand name, same results.

Keep in mind that inhalers require prescriptions. All of this is not including the cost of a doctor here in the US. Before I can even buy my inhaler I have to pay to go see someone so I can get a prescription and that's at least another $50 with my doctor visit copay or like maybe $100-200 for someone who doesn't have insurance.

Americans love to call other countries "Third World Countries" and "sub-developed" but we at least don't have to sell our souls to stay alive. I'll take being Third World but being able to breathe for six months for less than what I spent on dinner last night.

And that...that is how Americans get fucked every single day. Coming from another country, the health system here is mindblowningly gross and idk how people still haven't burned everything down to change it.

[the-firebird69]

This is the look and it's aerodynamic a lot of fairings even on Japanese motorcycles make it slower this will make it a little faster because the way it's designed it's actually designed to go through the air and cut through it even the fender and the exhaust too everything is made together and this is what year Michael look like the Honda 650 or Honda 750 or they make a 350 all of them will go much faster the Honda 350 will go from 135 mph top speed with a full kit which is the way we sell it to 195 miles per hour it's a big leap it's a different class Honda 650 we went over the Honda 750 CBR will go from 185 mph and that's right it doesn't go much faster than the 650 stock when you add the speed kit to make it into a Ducati it will go 320 mph.

Meghan Markle says oh my God

We're going to have a good time with it she says and it's going to be a nice crotch rocket

And as a reason that it's because he's excited about it and these things are really really fast that is changing a bike a little bit to get a lot out of it the original Ducati the 750 top speed is 300 mph and that's really pushing it it's actually about 292 mph so yes you would be faster they don't cost as much as they used to it's not really true the dealer has prices but you can't get them at all you can't get one of those things if someone paid you our son could buy one but nobody else. And he doesn't have the money for it but still it is a very sought after bike and they can't produce enough they don't have enough out there matter of fact they're not making enough to provide enough for Italy.

This is going to be a number one seller and come Monday we're going to have our kit ready and our fairings are sturdy okay that's how you can tell and it will cost that much the kid won't cost that much and there's a few other pointers we will have a complete kit all the trim and any wires and so forth that you need to change lots leave stuff out.

Thor Freya

Wow this is a great idea I'm going to start making my kid today as for my people use Honda CB models are everywhere and he says he might dip into the 70s and make it as like a '80s Ducati for that particular year they look different we will probably do that too those things are still around but there's tons of them from the 90s and they all look like the new one and it's going to be an easy conversion and yeah if you don't make the fairing solid it doesn't mean anything it's not worth trying but the shape makes it faster this is going to be awesome I once took a Ducati fairing and I tried to put it on a CB 650 and it actually fit which is really stupid cuz you can buy them aftermarket and it's going to be millions of kids but people want the thing so you just put it together and you don't have to modify it and I had to modify it to get it to work so they probably will take it in and modify it and sell the kit and boy is that easy it's already made and it's pretty sturdy you have to check

Brad

The speed difference is remarkable and I would have to check that and from memory I believe it's true

Trump

And yeah I've made these before and a lot of them and it works very well it made like 10,000 of them and from the 750 is that fast it's a superbike and those are extremely fast out there everybody that kind of speed is fast and accelerations fast and the way to do it these days they'll probably make the new one faster than what they said probably about 350 cuz it's got better motors and gearing you put the new exhaust on it freeze it up I'll tell you we're going to sell a ton of these too and there's companies that make the fairings people are calling them now

Terry c

Usually they make them in house only if that's how it goes and there's tons of them we're going to do it for ourselves it's a great idea

Thor Freya

Good now get ready for today it's an awesome idea and I thank you for it

Hera the Templar conversion to Enduro kit we're going to start on Monday too selling it and it's a 250 and a 125 and the kit is about $300 is more expensive ones that you change the fairings tomorrow Street look but really it's tires and a few other things and then it's got it's a DOT approved it's more than 300 because of the exhaust it's around $1,200 and we don't mess with the top end you don't have to it's not true you have to change the manifold in the carburetor and so liquid cooled too but it's worth it on this bike so we're going to start selling those kits and he says it probably won't sell in that format but there's a famous that's like a street racer and it is a Ducati and we can make it for these Chinese dirt bikes that are 250s cuz now they have 17 18 horsepower and we do have someone who did it and they go to the Ducati street racer and it makes it faster because of who put his speed kit when you first get the bike they go about 90 miles an hour and the Templar goes 110 even with the nobbies and you change it out and the regular Chinese dirt bikes or Enduro really know it's the dirt bike the enduros are slower and you don't want the EFI to convert but if you take the Chinese one the base model it goes after you put the street racer kit how about 210 mph , but the expo Templar has more power and when you convert it it goes from the 110 mph with 130 lb person to 280 mph and it looks like a street bike but these kids are going to be around $6,000 but you're buying a bike that's $1,500 in either case and you're ending up with a Ducati label on the tank which is factory applied and a Ducati emblem on the cases and the Ducati look and speed and it'll be about the same as Ducati street racer speed 280 the other one is a little bit slower yeah but it's really the speed of the Kawasaki Ninja 650 just saying 550 which is probably true but so what is it 250 and it's liquid cool with the kit. Now these are bikes that are already out there and you're going to see that this sells a lot and more than the CBR even though that will make a super bike every time the Templar x pro will make a superbike just not over 300 and It will still have off-road ability

Hera

Zues

I've done this as well and you have people are excited about this and I've done it with the new Chinese dirt bike not the Enduro. I got about 220 miles per hour and they're not lying it is damn fast and I did it with the ex-pro Templar and people don't believe it but I had to do it because I did it with the other ones I got about 290 mph and I weighed 150 lb this thing flies that's superbike speed and top of the line and I'll tell you what it's a Chinese 250 so watch out okay and these things are light and their motives work very well and I did make it liquid cool and they fly this is a great idea we're going to start making these

Terry c

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