Eris235

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[–] Eris235@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

Lol yeah... I'm allergic to grapes, so I can't eat at like any french restaurant

though frankly, I have enough allergies I generally don't feel safe eating at any restaurant

I do like the bastardized french cooking I make for myself at home though, using rice wine, coconut cream, and vegan butter

[–] Eris235@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I wish I had ever felt that. Its only ever given me anxiety and headaches.

[–] Eris235@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Are... dating sims, widely played? I know they're 'popular', but I assumed popular among fair minority of the populace.

[–] Eris235@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Annoying "um, actually" headline. 'Real' answer buried in the first sentence. Yeah, its journalism time.

I am once again asking people not to use botanical terms in culinary settings, and vice versa. Its fine the the food definition of vegetable is vague. Its fine that tomato is a vegetable, when talking about food, or a fruit if talking about plant science.

[–] Eris235@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor was the first band I really liked when I was a young teen decades ago. And they're still based as hell. I love, for their recent tour, this being their amp:

[–] Eris235@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I generally agree. I'm condensing a lot of policy into a sentence. Its also complicated, due to the interplay of capital in the mix; all of us are generally selling our bodies for money one way or the other. Not that all work is equally harmful obviously, or equally 'work'. There's a lot of 'job' that are 95%+ bullshit, and sexwork is one of those; it doesn't need to be done, its only because of demand in the form of $ that it 'needs' to exist.

So there's the question of, 'what should be done right now, and what should be done in an ideal scenario. Because ideally, demand for a thing shouldn't make that thing exist. Powerful men A) shouldn't exist, and B) shouldn't be able to just 'demand' sex via throwing dollars at the problem.

But also, until this system is dismantled, there will be powerful men throwing money around to get sex, and there will be women who want that money badly enough to accept it. I don't think there's any policy that can make that not happen, so decriminalizing it to make it safe, to help the women, is the obvious short term play.

[–] Eris235@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You right, 'mock' is much more what I meant.

But regardless, I think the vast majority of games with sexy horny are doing it just for sales. I feel like there's only rarely merit to it beyond titillation, and it just feels like empty glitter. Does that mean these games have nothing besides sex to offer? No, there's games I've liked where I've had to roll my eyes at much of the visuals. But that's not going to stop me from dunking on the visuals. Because Yoko Taro is unabashedly horny on main, and while I don't think the design of 2b is good, I think his design work on Kainé is far worse. From what I've heard, her story is 'good', but the outfit, Yoko's comments about her penis, and the 'achievement' you get for trying to look up her skirt are all deeply disgusting to me.

[–] Eris235@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I mean, I'm more or less like that.

In short, I think both should be legal. In regards to sexwork and porn, its mostly because it will happen regardless, might as well make it as safe as possible for the people at risk.

But like, I'd still generally condemn someone for regularly purchasing sex, just as I would to someone who only plays coombrained games (not that those two things are 'equivalently bad' mind).

People should be allowed to make, and consume, bad media, and also people should be allowed to dunk on them for liking bad media.

[–] Eris235@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, I don't get how Yoko's coombrained games get such praise from leftist. They're held up as some amazing experience, but imo everything about them (maybe aside from the music) was pretty mid.

[–] Eris235@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I enjoyed Sanderson. When I was a young adult. Then there was just kind a point where I finished one of his books and was like, huh, that kinda sucked. Still read the next one before dropping him, being like, huh, yeah, this kinda sucks.

Its not bad, if anything they're tightly written. But its just like, slop, even aside from the mormon brainworms in there.

[–] Eris235@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, but its beside the point. With Jesus being jewish, its jews who 'tricked' people into worshipping the demiurge. Its that classic "jews are tricksters, christains are just people who got tricked" bullshit. And, just overall, a lot of their teachings are just, inherently 'twisting' a lot of jewish era mysticism around, which is of course funny in a way, considering how much they also steal from jewish mysticism.

Regardless, all of that is more or less history; I don't think people calling themselves gnostic today are generally specifically anti-semetic. And its not like Christianity of the era was particularly accepting of jews.

[–] Eris235@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

~~He's mean and orange and says cringe things on twitter~~

Realistically, being healthier and more competent would have made Hitler worse I guess

 

Rant spoiler-ed below, because its mostly just complaining, but it feels like a lot of games lately have added 'gamified xp' to their systems, and I don't understand the appeal at all. The most positive any player I've talked to has felt about the systems are 'meh, I could take it or leave it', with most slightly disliking them.

So, mostly, I'm looking for people that like these kinds of mechanics (I have to assume they're out there if so many games feel like they're adding them), and what you is it you like about them.

But I feel like Milestone XP just makes the most sense for any traditional coop party RPG.

rantI like trying out a bunch of different systems, and there's a lot to like, especially with a lot of the smaller games out there. I do like there 'narrative' approach ttrpgs feel like they've been taking recently, but between Chronicles of Darkness, ICON, Forged in the Dark, Apocalypse world, etc., and all there spinoff systems all having XP be earned for specific actions in game, its just a pain in the ass, that takes me out of the action.

I mostly GM, but I strongly prefer milestone XP. For some of the above games, its easy enough to gut their bespoke XP systems out of it, and just have players advance over time, but in several of them, it fucks with the overall balance, since several actions are 'bad', but made worthwhile because they earn XP.

But I don't like the feeling of interrupting game to award point, and adjudicate character advancement. And I hate systems that have players advance unevenly. There's always going to be a certain degree on uneven-ness in player attention, of rules mastery, and of spotlighting. As GM, its important to manage those so that everyone gets a chance to shine. But it just feels like increasing that workload for the GM, to need to additionally pay attention to the XP, and try to drag or XP share the players that don't find those systems engaging to not mechanically fall behind.

And as a player, I tend to have higher system mastery and attention than the others I play with, and tbh it feels bad to end up with more XP because of that. But also, it feels bad to knowingly pass up free XP by purposefully not engaging with those systems.

Really, only Call of Cthulhu and Paranoia feel like their gamified XP fits, and that's largely because the games are supposed to feel hopeless and unfair, and in the case of Paranoia, gamified and playing favorites.

 

Made of 10 awg copper wire and 18 awg silver plated wire. Copper work hardened more than I thought, wish I went with 12g instead, but it does make the final result sturdier.

 

(he was sad because I took a shower, and was gone for a whole 15 minutes)

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