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Sort of had a similar experience this april. First time I was into someone in a good 3 years. I delayed my rejection by a month and a half due to being too afraid to talk to her again (rejection is a very strong word, she just wasn’t interested, and she was almost too kind with how she said it). I really want to be over it, but I have way too hard of a time letting go of things (in general) and now I just feel like complete shit. Just needed a place to say all this, I’ve got no real friends left and no idea how to make more. The more time goes on the harder it is to interact in general, talking to someone I was crushing on took what felt like a herculean amount of bravery and the literal perfect coditions to happen. This is the only place where I feel like I can speak to people without being terrifed (due to feelings, growing introversion or general anxiety, and the fact that I am likely autistic and am completely unable to guess what people are going to think and say). Doubting my own asexuality is just another thing I do not want right now. For now I think a way to get back on track with everything is to start reading theory again, and maybe doing something else fulfilling. Sorry for the overly long infodump, I just need anyone to see this, I have learned that in abscence of help simply being heard helps me deal with everything. One thing for certain is that lemmygrad gives me a little hope. The same kind of hope I felt when I first became a marxist not too long ago.
I’m not going anywhere comrades, and as for relationships, don’t lose hope comrade, you’ll find someone sooner or later. o7
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Nevermind, looks like nearly the same situation. Digital hugs sent back as symbol of solidarity comrade o7
Rejection sucks but if you keep at it you can build a tolerance.
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CW short religious cult trauma rant
Aight I gotta see if God accepts lawyers. I got baptized as a fucking pre-teen. Why the hell must I lose contact with my family because of a decision that I made as a literal child?!
That decision can’t be legally binding. I’m an atheist now but I can’t believe this racket is accepted. I never got a birthday party ever due to this.
Pays to be unbaptized, I can tell you that.
I imagine it does lmao.
Over here in Belgium the government has stopped some restrictions on so called flexi job which are jobs in which you can work for some time without having to pay taxes on your wages. They are used by people who want to work in places like bars and cafes next to their regular job to make some extra money. The rules were adjusted so that it would be easier to get such jobs and that you can work more hours. Lots of people were critical of this because this also means less income from taxes and we already have a heavy deficit. But it just had to be done! The ‘market’ asks for more flexibility.
The government is now saying something needs to be done against all the flexijobs as it is costing them tax money. Like liberals are so incredibly stupid it is not funny anymore.
Have another great week, everyone! I know I’m on less frequently than I used to be, but I have been much better for limiting social media use. The quality of engagement goes up that way. Consider something similar if you’ve felt too much brain fog lately!
As always, communism will win.
Have peoplr noticed the spelling mistakes I make while typing? I have typed out all but of my posts on my phone, and I find typing on phone to be quite difficult, and typing quickly doesn’t make it any easier.
!Yes it was intentional now if you’re asking.!<
Are you typing with a keyboard that supports gliding? It’s basically impossible to make a typo when your keyboard only prints out proper words.
Nope, I’ve used glide typing but I never really liked the way it felt, could never get the right words.
Fair enough. It’s good enough for me in English but in Spanish I have to manually correct every other word. I’ve never found a keyboard that’s any good at predicting all the subtle conjugations.
Spelling mistakes don’t affect reading that much. For example, you might have not noticed the the second “the” in this sentence.
i did notice it tho
I read that our eyes tend to gloss over this sort of thing. Well, if it didn’t affect comprehension then it’s still fine. Also, it probably wasn’t a good example since it wasn’t a spelling mistake.
Portland Timbers fans had a communist flag waving at their match against Seattle today
Honestly looking at the elder scrolls games, I can’t feel like the designers went backwards. Or, what I mean is that the original designers of arena, daggerfall, and morrowind had massive ambitions for their games that couldn’t be met by either their budget, time or technology. Then when Todd Howard and Co took the reigns, especially after oblivion and fallout 3, they had the time, tech, and budget but lacked a lot of ambition or risk taking
I never played the earlier elder scrolls games, but my main criticism of Skyrim is that it’s an earlier attempt (in the live service gold rush) to be a “forever game” but it does this in a way that makes the game feel more hollow and empty. Mods help, but are mainly kicking the can down the road, not fundamentally giving the game more depth or meaning. There’s a lot to do in Skyrim and some of it is pretty detailed quest lines, but it’s hard to feel like any of it actually matters. You can do the main quest line all the way to completion or simply ignore it and it won’t really matter. You can do the civil war quest line or ignore it and… you get the idea. And the exploratory aspect of it, which could in theory compensate for how optional the main questing is, is too repetitive and meaningless; go to location, kill enemies there, get loot and XP.
AC Odyssey, a later game, has a similar design going on (but with no mod community to help it). Fairly open-ended in theory, but little of it matters. Though Odyssey at least has a decently told story, if you can get past how long the game will drag on doing all the side quests. Skyrim I think I played it to completion once and I barely remember what the plot was. Most of the fun of Skyrim for me is the power fantasy of it, but once you get to a certain power level, it tapers off and you can laugh at the most powerful enemies. This is a problem RPGs often have, but I notice it more in Skyrim because there isn’t really a set end to the game and because the story elements are so forgettable to me.
Bethesda has been a disaster for Fallout & Elder Scrolls.
Todd Howard is a coward and swindler; Emil Pagliarulo is a hack who couldn’t write a parking ticket.
The two of them + all their collaborators & enablers have been a disaster for CRPGs. I’m glad Microsoft took Fallout away from them. Hope it stays that way.
Where did you get the steeliness to say stuff like that :O I’d feel way too bad giving anyone the slightest insult
One of the things that vexes me is that Skyrim had a time jump of 200 years. Which is honestly just wierd. I get that it makes some sense since one of the most important characters for 4 games [Uriel Septim] died, but they haven’t made a new elder scrolls game in nearly two decades. The point of a time jump is to essentially reset back to the exposition portion to then make more stories. Even ESO is a prequel bringing back Manimarcho from II and IV.
Todd talked about Starfeild being his baby, and I get that and can definitely see that, but the elder scrolls is basically a Bethesda kid only. It’s not something like fallout that can be handed off [note: from what I’ve heard apparently they are making fallout 5 still, and doing new vegas and 3 remasters, just that obsidian is making a separate fallout project.]
And then there’s the continued dumbing down of mechanics. I get not having like, daggerfall level mechanics, or even hit chance [hit chance is its own thing i might make a post about, basically my opinion is that it falls into the same pitfalls deus ex HR did with removing the weapon skills the original deus ex did]. But removing spell crafting? And an entire school of magic? [Todd is a barbarian main, of course]
Role play is also something Bethesda struggles with, despite the fact they make rpgs. Morrowind and Daggerfall are probably my two favorite for role play because your first priority is basically to get a job, and beyond that you’re a blank slate. You also have to balance factions, and in morrowind you have to pick sides in fights between stuff like the mages guild and house telvani or the fighters guild and theives guild. In skyrim and oblivion you don’t get that. For some reason they dropped that entire concept in oblivion and only brought it back for dawnguard [and i guess technically shivering isles but that’s a massive technicality].
I think if anything, I’d really just like someone to remaster Morrowind and Daggerfall. Mods get close, but a proper remaster/remake that keeps 90% of the core things (INCLUDING HIT CHANCE), modernize them for both the lore and modern quest design, and it’d be pretty banger.
One last thing. Something i don’t understand is why Todd half asses radiant quests. Or at least doesn’t understand what made them okay in daggerfall. The thing about daggerfall is that it’s much more journey than destination, as cheesy as that is. Someone gives you a radiant quest, but that quest can be cities over which you have to manage travel time for, along with doing other quests. In skyrim its…go bonk a guy down the road. The closest this gets to innovative is the theives guilds quests for restoring the guild at the end. I actually really like those. I don’t understand why other quests didn’t do that
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
I ALREADY have hope.
Heh. Gottem. 😏
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Well that address was a waste of 30 minutes
Something that’s probably not a priority but grinds my gears is I wish Trump would be consistent on how he feels about things. Like Russia for instance. One minute he’ll be all “Me and Putin, great friends, really great, he knows how to run a country. We don’t agree on everything but he knew how to handle the, corrupt, negligent Joseph R Biden” and then 5 minutes later will be like “russia is conspiring to defraud the elections to get the radical left in power along with the CCP and North Korea.” Like pick a lane for a minute at least
Edit: I guess I’ll have to wait an see until the documents can be sifted through. $10 says they are also nothingburgers or just fraudulent in some way
Please don’t infantilize others by using the word “adulting” at a time where conservatorship is high and people are being forced to live with their parents (either by economic strife or by literally being manipulated by their parents into doing so)
Adults want to live independently.
Besmirching people “this live in their mother’s basement” is honestly classist bullshit when you think about it
Thinking about how many conservatives watch videos of girls in skimpy clothes shooting guns. Super performative. Surely you guys can just go read playboys like the rest of us
Is there any good news from latin America? Seems like almost every country has been taken over by pro-USian zionist fascist governments
Well, Brazil is gonna have elections this year, and Argentina is probably gonna end up at the finals in World Cup.
Also, Bolsonaro is 100% agonizing at a hospital right now. I haven’t even seen the news about him but that’s always a good guess.
i guess we have been building trains in mexico
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idealists think it matters so much what they think and wish and want. that’s why all they can do is whine about freeze peach and “do politics the right way”
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I don’t think they have the proper idea of a “discussion” in their minds in the first place.
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Agreed
Wishing everyone the strength and hope to find a way forward that’s not as damaging.
Yeah
I was undecided for who I’ll root in the final, but decided to go with Argentina. But would love a Spanish victory as well.
Ayatollah Abubaker Abed (hes not an really an ayatollah just a Palestinian Journalist and refugee) says world cup is Haram and against BDS.
Tell that to the Palestinians watching the world cup
