paypal doesn't want me to use my unchipped debit card so they send me a chipped one paypal sends this new chipped card to my old address paypal deactivates my old card after sending the new one to my old address i call them and use the automated system to request one to my new address automated system says "Okay, you're all set! It'll arrive in 7-10 days" after 14 days it hasnt arrived, so i call again and the system does the same thing, but sends me an email this time saying it's sent out a replacement for the secondary card, not my card, which the secondary card is for my mom to use if theres an emergency i call to speak to an agent and no card had been sent out at all even though the automated system said it was, because my address was not confirmed they ask me to confirm my address by reading back a code they texted to my phone (???)
ive been without my card for over two weeks and this has really been distressing and paypal is fucking around
why would we all be dead in 20 years if we will be what's the point of trying to do this stupid ML global revolution which will probably take 20 years to actually make a stable governing system like come on and how can we even do that if we burn ourselves out????
Alice
>>603189 i can't grasp if he's being ironic or not. but he has "scrooch mc grooch" as username so i guess he doesn't - he ...
>>603191 ML doesn't really care about anything else besides being in power, it's quite sad i've been reading gramsci and even he's authoritarian as fuck.
the beginning of a very long day I should probably rake the leaves it's impossible to feel comfortable when the sounds of a hammer are coming right from upstairs
It's been a long time since I've used my brain to math.
FormerRei@mobile
Oh yeah And z = in Im[z] == 0
Where i is the square root of -1 and n is an integer. Returns true for even n and false for odd n.
FormerRei@mobile
I fucking tell sam every damn time this happens "Use tags for superscript instead" But he never listens Or "at least allow escapes" But nooooooooo And I don't know JavaScript so I can't do it for him.
FUCK YOU died 2 times just because I couldn't hit the last head and fell to the ocean floor
Anno
We'll be having orange chicken for dinner tonight so I'm saving sating my foodmood until then.
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
some level design
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
>6k souls not worth it
Kannagi
>>603234 You can just stand at blind spot and it can't hit you.
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
I know but his last head just always attacked out of range so I just had to stand in a corner for 2-3 mins to wait for him to pop up to a spot where I can hit him
Anno
does anybody have anything to ask the shadow people while I am still in communion with the realm beyond
huh >hit enemy 3 times >it does death animation >then it hits me and kills me since I was fighting multiple foes maybe there were 4 plant guys and not 3 in that stack
>reward for killing hydra >moar cancer forest well that killed my motivation to play more
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
also why doesn't magic work on ghosts or does the chaos fireball just have REAL SHITTY hitbox
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
it has good dmg, but it is kinda crap >short range >doesn't hit anything half the time >even if you "hit" something it might not hit their hitbox
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
also das hitboxes are gay
ToN
>>603247 ghosts are invincible unless you are actually cursed or use a transient curse item
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
I KNOW THAT
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
I was killing them a stack of 3 ghosts was flying at me in a narrow corridor I throw a fireball itexplodes in the stack's face >didn't give a fuck >triple long range attack that I can't dodge without falling off >die
ToN
also iilling the hydra lets you bypass the 20k key gate, and sadly youll beed to go there eventually
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
options are Big giant gate ghost chechnyans forest chechnyans
forest can wait, ghosts you will hit a wall you cant progress past after some point, and big gate is immediate plot
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
is there a bonfire there somewhere in the vicinity?
ToN
>>603256 just the one near the drake elevator theres a fake wall by the 20k gate however with a bonfire
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
yeah I know that but that doesn't help me
I was asking in the ghost city
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
hmm can I rekindle the starting point bonfire?
ToN
ghost city sucks ass there are no bonfires once you lower the water level however you can hop down to a super quick path to the boss at least
ToN
>>603259 did you visit the fire keeper’s cage toget the eye orb if so you can use it when it reacts to try to win her soul back dont eat it if you want that bonfire
oh well it cost me waht 1-2 points in attunement and it can be useful
Anno
you might as well have gotten a couple attunement slots anyways yeah i always get one or two at least >>603272 pyromancy hit boxes are really unreliable in pretty much all the games i think >>603275 it only gets stronger if you upgrade the flame glove and caps at like 450 Raw damage but lots of enemies have some fire resistance
>>603280 it was useful against ud dragon though had to really time it to get the dmg+dps
Anno
>>603278 it's useful against papa neato the original skeleton
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
eventually I just had to kill it with my sword learnt actually its attack pattern
ToN
oh tn when you feel up to it and strong you can go back to the asylum if you try
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
starting place? how do that
ToN
>>603283 the elevator to the church, if you hop off before t hits bottom theres a lesge with a careful roll or jump you can hit one of the pieces of ceiling to get onto the structure, and work your way up to the bird nest. them interact with it
however theres a key for the asylum on a roof near that too
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
what even is at the asylum
Anno
>>603285 the fat bastard that you saw at the begining of the game in the basement and a ring that makes blighttown a lot less annoying
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
oh yeah there are two of them
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
I already cleared blighttwon
Anno
it's a very situational ring
Anno
i think it only helps in sens fortress and blighttown now that i think about it it allows you to move at normal speed in water
oh well I am trying to clear all areas anyhow before finishing the game so the ring will be gotten
Kannagi
Darn it I got invaded
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
and that is why I don't go unhollow
Anno
is it some microdicked giantdad with the well what is it spam
Anno
>>603292 did you find the bonus area in the blighttown swamp? that's somewhat easy to miss but it's super cool >>603297 you probably would know if you did it's behind a couple illusory walls
It is a fucking stupid mechanic an everyone who uses it without having some kind of clue to their location is gay >>603299 due to whatever reasons half the time I don't get any messages or be able to write or rate em
Anno
the illusory walls that are actually real always have something that looks weird about them compared to normal walls but there's no way to be sure that they are or aren't until you hit it because a lot of things and textures look out of place without being illusions and only a handful are illusory
But you know what is even more stupid "secret hiding mechanic" hiding them JUST out of camera view in the open in places you wouldn't think the camera can pan >>603305 >die >alt+f4 >next time you load it resumes on you dying
what was that game.. remember me yeah that game had some LAZY secret hiding it was just fucking stupid many times there were secrets in moments when you were "IN A HURRY" in terms of plot but then you are expected to go out of your way to look into some corner and find a new route to a hidden collectible >oh sorry my friend I would asve you, but I need to find this little info box it just breaks immersion so much >>603307 yeah I know
Anno
>>603304 if you force quit when you die then you still lost your shit and resume at the bonfire and the game calls you out for not saving properly
Kannagi
>>603307 Yeah I know. I'll have to watch my death when I go back in
Not a lot gives me a rush nowadays. I enjoy some story games. A lot that gives a rush of fun are bad for me. my endorphins are broken >>603316 I get nervous about playing with people I don't know. I don't really have a lot of people to play games with to be honest.
Not only is it stupid but it's vaguely threatening in a 1984 way. Like reducing everything into tweet friendly words in the kinda way that dumbs the population down. That's what it feels like.
it would really help me out it's one of the places i would have liked to move to if i could have afforded to, but relocation is expensive it's been really hard because every time i move somewhere new i have to dump all of my savings to do it (which is very little saving to begin with) so im always in a bad position after moving to a new city, and that doesnt open up any opportunities for me, and in fact im further behind but not moving wasn't an option either or i'd be homeless again, or living in psychologically harmful conditions i'd get to actually integrate with the city and be part of it instead of just spending every waking moment trying to afford to survive the next day
im pretty sure, even if they by chance selected me, part of the proof of income would have to be a tax receipt and i havent paid taxes in years that'd probably disqualify me immediately
Yeah! I won't get to see the dress until tomorrow, though, probably. I have to go to bed pretty soon. I weaseled my way into a tour of a large prison complex for tomorrow morning.
Kannagi
I'm about to nod off, so I'll probably sleeping pretty soon too. I haven't brought any new clothes in a while. I might get something nice when my next student loan comes in. A prison tour sounds interesting though! I have never been in a prison but I've seen the huge walls and towers of the prison nearby. It does make curious about the internals - like a castle almost with the big stone walls here.
Anno
My university's philosophy department is hosting a philosophy career night for undergrads tomorrow. I've been pretty comfortable in the philosophy classes I've been taking, so I'm gonna check it out and see what sort of options are available. If it seems appealing, my university does offer an English major and Philosophy minor program, so maybe I'll transfer into something like that. Plus there'll be food.
Kannagi
>>603406 Hope it goes well! sounds good and a good source of food!
I've been trying to have fun at uni, there are a few people that come up to talk to me which is nice although one of them is a staunch capitalist and tried to explain to me why trickle down economics works and is a good system. I'm not very used to people with strong opinions. I'm usually middle ground when talking with people until I know them better. or rather I'm too anxiety so it's interesting seeing people who start off with strong opinions and I'm kinda realising how small my world is. I've had people explain why capital punishment is a good thing like they hold it a dearly held belief. >>603412 They just sit next to me. One of them is a flat earther. at university I feel like I can't tell if things are ironic or real anymore. >>603411 I've never really interacted with someone comfortable enough (if thats the right word) to just straight off start with what I would usually consider a contentious opinion. I don't think or didn't think most people had strong allegiances to capitalism when they are poor students in a poor area of the country. and they are young too.
their world is small too they have strong opinions and lead with them because that's all they really know, and to them that seems like the normalest thing to talk about you could imagine some nerd who leans over and is like "hey, hey, do you like magic the gathering? i do wanna hear about this match i played last night?" and goes on about a bunch of nerd stuff some people might think that's weird but it's teh // the same narrow world as everyone else pretty much everyone feels anxiety so they just talk about what's comfortable to them until they figure things out
Anno
I know this is almost certainly not what the situation is Kannagi but the way you describe it makes it seem like this person just saunters up to you every now and then and goes "excuse me my good lady may I entreat you to the wonders of capitalism and trickle-down economics?"
Koi, the Dragon
got to have a nice conversation with the person who has been selling random appliances and stuff while using my address as the meet up location apparently he goes to the church across the street and has been telling them to meet there but they come to my house instead.
>>603410 i mean, if you're young and you grew up only really talking to your family, family's friends, and people at your church it's probably not going to seem liek // like a contentious opinion if it's been the go-to thing to talk about forever
FormerRei@mobile
>>603415 Japanese? WTF Ask him how far fom the edge Japan is. Or like Where do the planes go if the pacific ocean doesn't exist?
Kannagi
>>603416 Her father is banker and apparently explained trickle down economics to her. but that still feels odd. my interactions have been fairly limited. >>603417 She is a very excitable person, is a way of describing her. I didn't really directly talk with her. I feel like she uses the flat earther thing as a social ice breaker or something like that.
FormerRei@mobile
>>603418 Flat earthers piss me off so much. They're so wilfully ignorant.
Kannagi
I had a really nice guy randomly come and talk with me today, which was suprising given how quickly I leave lectures. Uni students really have no problem talking to strangers randomly. I have to actually pay attention now - I'm usually in my own head. so I don't hear people talking to me.
What is moe upto today? I sleepily dragged myself out of bed and turned the heating on.
Anno
just got home from work might take a bath or something
Kannagi
Baths are nice. I always feel sleepy in a nice bath. I just don't have the patience to wait for the bath to fill and also managing the temperature can be a pain.
somw l some loser spent the last 18 hours (literally) arguing in my Twitter mentions with some of my friends that mental illness only exists in the west and that self-care is privilege and that if you ever get burned out, you're privileged and that therapists are bourgeoisie but him, who owns a small business, is a real communist and he wants to make us "hard" so we can fight nazis
he got so into it that he doxed himself and my buddy who worked at the ACLU started warning him that cops do no knock warrent searches and kill people who are posting aggressive things about the state with pictures of guns and he just doubled down on it
>>603628 It is really odd atleast to me that people form opinions like that and become intractable. Aggressive defense of an opinion can come out of nowhere.
he says stuff like everyone should be miserable because some people are and people with PTSD need to suck it up and learn work ethic he's a conservative pretending to be a communist lol
yeah china was at least pretending to be communist when mao was out there causing famine but now china is a capitalist country with an oligarchy they're imperialist and evil just like russia, just like the US
Kannagi
I had a classmate try to explain to me why capitalism is super great and communism is evil. she absolutely believed in trickle down economics. and also does not believe anyone is starving in western developed nation.
Most people I've interacted with don't really speak in absolutes and if they do its often as a joke. it is interesting seeing people just eliminate any middle ground and define certain things absolutely in a discussion.
It is also weird in history class where someone was defending the honor of an archaeologist who did questionable shit, like we are talking about the techniques and why what he did was bad not attacking the guy's character. You've barely learnt about the person and start interrupting the teacher to say he wasn't being malicious and had good intentions. That not the point of the lesson.
lmaooo that's funny i love that shit i took an urban development class once and when we talked about how the US segregated blacks using zoning and stuff, people were like "that's not true!"
Anno
>>>/watch?v=5-SHlfGOphA these soul calibur custom characters are so advanced makes me want to play the game
well it's probably good for them they wouldn't want someone like me taking pictures
ToN
yeah cause youll phblicize their poor working conditions my brain isnt working olease stop me
Kannagi
Those are such strange instructions. It even makes me nervous thinking about what "into" means. like do they mean - we are visiting the prison, you aren't going to prison. or do they mean you don't actually get to tour the prison and just hang out outside it. Or that you even enter the prison area at all. thats so vague when you put quotes around something like that
need cute girls to carry on running out of powerrrrrr
Kannagi
>>603691 Become the cute girl and gain infinite power
Anno
There's been some anti-abortion protestors that have set up in one of my university's main thoroughfares. The kind that have those posterboards with aborted fetuses and all. It's rather repugnant.
Kannagi
Anti-abortion debate is odd to me when you have predominantly older men as the main protestors to abortion. How do they feel like their voice is the important one in something that happens to women and specifical female bodies.
>>603705 Definately feel like there would have been prior warnings. especially if he doesn't find her company relaxing even when hes playing his game. >worked so hard and needed a break. I wouldn't really think you'd need a break from your partner too?
Anno
>>603702 Mine does too. The event I'm going to later tonight is being catered though so I want to save money on getting something in the meanwhile.
Anno
Oh Surviving Mars is free to play over the weekend starting tonight. Guess I can finally take advantage of one of these.
Anno
Aaaand it's snowing outside
First proper snowfall of the year. Guess winter's officially begun.
Anno
The elevators for my university's learning complex have these bright lights in primary colours lighting up their insides, and the one with red lights, man. It makes for a pretty ominous look.
Noooo idea. Probably bite-sized sandwich entrées and similar stuff. I grabbed an afternoon coffee just now as an incase the pickings are really unappealing. I probably won't get much to eat elsewise until I get home this evening.
Because why remove one mechanic they added but keep the other?
More importantly, one of the megas they showcased was Mega Kangaskhan. Mega Kangaskhan is DEFINED by its ability, Parental Bond. That's the entire thing that makes it what it is.
Anno
>>603722 Nothing about removing one mechanic implies a necessity to remove another though. For Mega Kangaskhan I would imagine they'd maintain her unique functionality through other means.
Then what about Mega Gyarados that they also advertised Mold Breaker is its ability, and the entire point of it is that it nullifies other abilities. It's less defining than Kangaskhan's at least.
Why would you make an exception like Mega Kangaskhan, assuming they have, in a system where you made the rule it needs to be excepted from in the first place.
It's just bizarre.
Anno
If no abilities exist, then there's no reason for Mold Breaker. Gyrados still has its other Mega-Evolution quirks maintained.
>>603724 I would imagine there would be a exception for Kangaskhan because of the uniqueness of her Mega. There's no reason her uniqueness needs to be linked to abilites besides "that's just how it was done before", which is a really shitty reason in the first place. As long as the functionality is maintained, it's fine.
It's just disappointing to see a remake I was looking forward to be changed in so many ways that make me uninterested in it. >>603727 yeah Wester's able to play it due to being in Australia's timezone.
>>603731 Yes, and? Some Pokémon have weird uniqueness that are wholly specific to them. >>603734 Let me finish my argument before you cut in please. >>603734 There are Pokémon with wholly unique features that existed before abilities were even introduced. They may have not been as elaborate as something like Mega Kangaskhan, but elaborateness isn't the metric here, uniqueness is.
Also no held items is a step backwards but that's kind of whatever. >>603733 Well yeah that's what abilities are for why remove them
Kirara, the Cat
please be respectful
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
okay this quiz show in blaine's gym is pretty cool
FormerRei@mobile
Wait What do you mean by abilities?
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
>>603737 pokemon's mechanic abilities. >>603739 you're talking about signature moves. You can't Kangaskhan Mega with a single move.
Anno
Ditto, for example, is a very unique Pokémon. So is the dog with a tailbrush.
>>603738 Again, the elaborateness isn't the argument here. My argument is that wholly unique Pokémon exist outside of abilities. These unique features require >>603745 You're still not letting me finish my argument before cutting in.
why remove a mechanic that makes pokemon more unique if you're going to let another pokemon supposedly keep what makes it unique why it's just dumb >>603744 THE PASSIVE EFFECTS THAT POKEMON HAVE HAD SINCE GEN # 3
Because the new game removed a mechanic for seemingly no reason, giving a semblance of returning to roots since it's a remake of the original game, but kept a mechanic that was added much later that invalidates that idea.
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
It's turning off me, a veteran, to a game from a series I like. You can argue "oh but it's for newcomers"
but making a game in a series this longoing and trying to appeal strictly to newcomers is not a great idea
Anno
But the Switch has a lot of newcomers to portable gaming. Or people that have taken a long break from it. Appealing to newcomers with an experimental off-mainline title like this is a pretty good idea.
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
WAIT THEY REMOVED HOLD ITEMS BUT KEPT MEGA EVOLUTION WHICH WAS BALANCED BY UTILIZIN THE HOLD ITEM SLOT
holy shit this ratio ive never seen anything like it
Kannagi
I have an Ethnographic review I need to do for the 22nd. 20% of the module marks and I'm finding hard to figure out the main themes of the ethnography.
prison's pretty fucked up i'm gonna write something up about it later so i'll save most of it for then but i met a bald guy with a blonde beard and blue eyes and he was super white and his name was rommel lol captain rommel he was head of the confinement stuff so he's in charge of putting people into small boxes for years even inside the small box that is prison
it's not the awful kind of fucked up but i still fucked up and now I feel like I'm gonna miss out
Tomorrow is AnimeNYC. There is a concert happening and I wasn't really too interested when I glanced at the names. But now I'm actually going through what they did and what bands the names are from. I didn't know Kageyama by name so now I'm going to miss out on JAM PROJECT
>Konomi Suzuki was born in Osaka, Japan. At 15, she won the all Japan Anisong Grand Prix and made her debut with the song “Choir Jail” with lyrics produced by Aki Hata. She has performed a number of anime theme songs including the opening theme “This Game” from No Game No Life, the theme “There is a Reason” for the film No Game No Life Zero, and the opening theme “Redo” for Re:ZERO – Starting Life in Another World. I'M UPSET
The tickets cost more now and I'm seeing that it's also in the middle of the con. I want to go but I don't want to miss out on other things. this is such a conflict why couldn't the concert be at a different time? I'd throw down so fucking fast
Hmm, I can go to the Friday one actually The Saturday one is a bit earlier than Friday but Friday is kinda towards the end ... BUT MOST OF THE PEOPLE I WANT TO SEE ARE ON SATURDAY AAAAAA
Kannagi
That sucks! I hope you can enjoy both. Music with people is fun. I've never really gone to a concert or public music thing. but I've enjoyed r/a/dio a lot.
when the songs you really know come on, shit gets so intense I didn't know too much Spyair but when SAMURAI HEART started and the Samurai Flamenco OP it was the best
you just gotta either a) be surrounded by people you know or b) get in a spot with a lot of movement space so you can jump around and not knock into a fucking table or something wwwwww but it was wonderful come to a con with me we'll go see a anison concert and live it up
a side effect of hearing a song in public is that the energy sticks Like the music just feels better. I guess it's like... when you hear a song on r/a/dio without seeing the anime first. But then you watch the anime and now the song has an emotion to it.
LIKE WITH ZANKOKU NO TERROR. TOTALLY WORTH WATCHING. MADE THE OST BETTER
i woke up so late today and was stressed out about doing my work late and ive not even been up 8 hours but i'm already crunched because i gotta do 12 hours tomorrow meaning i gotta be up at 5 it's 10 and i've just woken up how do people even live in this world
think there's something funny going on with my volume buttons the volume will occasionally creep up and it got caught in a boot loop hmm...
Samu 🔥 !KW2DbpWwls
>>603824 oh man i should go to friday and Work From Con
Samu 🔥 !KW2DbpWwls
apparently saturday tix are available but only for sale at anime shops??
Anno
I thought there was pasta sauce in the fridge but I was DECEIVED. It was just one of the two jars of salsa we had in there. My pasta now goes sauceless.
FormerRei@mobile
Night /moe/
Anno
salsa pasta might be alright probably not a risk worth taking though
Neither Fish nor I have been shot. I dunno if anyone was hurt or not. It's cold and rainy outside and there are cops everywhere, so I'm not going to go find out. Can't really sleep now, though.
Anno
Yeah, don't want you to trouble yourself to find out for my curiousity. Just wishing well.
our eevee is riding around on top of our head it's really cute
Anno
I hope they consider doing some stuff like that for the next mainline game. I'm probably not gonna get Let's Go but I've certainly got eyes out for when news about the Gen 8 game starts coming in.
also it lets you pet your pokeman and feed it and all that jazz i think fish is having some fun even though she's playing it in the closet
Maria
>>603895 Did they do the thing where pokemon follow you around for any game other than yellow?
Anno
HeartGold and SoulSilver.
Anno
HeartGold/SoulSilver let you. Yeah. Though theirs was much more simplistic than Let's Go. Pokemon games from Black/White (maybe B/W2?) have had petting and attention minigames too, and in more recent incarnations that's even come with single-player benefits. It's always been distinct minigames though and maybe not as immersive as Let's Go, though I don't know how Let's Go does it, honestly.
Kirara, the Cat
lass joana jumped out of the grass and asked us if we had a big pikachu
Samu !KW2DbpWwls
i am decently tempted to get Let’s Go i havent played a pokemon in forever
Anno
>>603906 Well? Were you able to satisfy her curiousity?
you know it's really rude to shoot yourself when people are trying to sleep
Anno
Man this first snowfall of the winter is really going all out. Started maybe some time around 15:00-16:00 in the afternoon and now it's almost 02:00. Like ten hours of straight snow. At least it's not coming down that heavily.
>>603955 we got our first cold front tonight it's 10c tonight
Anno
It's actually not that cold right now, at 1C. But I guess it's cold enough up in the skies for the snow to be sticking around. If it starts to rain though things will be -really- horrible tomorrow.
Anno
>>603965 it got all the way down to -3c the other day here in our first cold front but today it went back up to around 15c
