i'm sick and sleep deprived didn't sleep at all at the monastery the rooms they were supposed to have didn't exist so we were supposed to sleep in the zendo 24 people sharing a room, coed three men including me and the rest women and the men other than me snored so impossibly loud that i could hear them through my earplugs sounded like a damn jet they also couldn't turn all the lights off so it was still lit up a bit i think not sleeping is why i got sick
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That's pretty dumb. They shouldn't claim rooms they don't have. The first night I spent at our new cottage I realized having my bedroom near everyone else's is a horrible idea because a lot of my family snores like chainsaws hah hah All that snoring makes it real hard to sleep for me too.
Kirara π
the monastery was also a tourist attraction and there were tourists there during the sesshin lol
also isn't >>791230 this kinda killing the point of it bering a monastery for relaxation atleast have the parts be separated atleast the ones in use etc or have the tourist hours be open when it isn't in use, it isn't like churches or monasteries or temples need to always be open to the greater public
we don't do that atleast.
Kirara π
yeah apparently the whole thing is paid for by the Vietnamese government too
the grounds were beautiful but still
also some of the women left their fuckin phones on and they kept ringing throughout the night
there were too many probably 5 or 6 snorers although the men were the worst offenders i wore earplugs and buried my head and it still wasn't enough to help me sleep
if you know you snore and you're sleeping in a common sleeping area, bring a fucking CPAP or something god damn
Anno
Or go do some weight loss. Obviously doesn't apply to everyone but people with extra pounds usually end up being more awful snorers.
FormerRei@mobile
>>791237 >bring a fucking cpap Yeah, nah Fuck buying one of those without insurance.
these are fucken cool giant bats carrying undead pirates with guns >>791237 >>791239' there are cheaper anti-snore stuff too not to mention just some prep work you can do to avoid it
almost everyone there has insurance anyway one of the snorers is a wealthy engineer who invented train safety tech and the other is a wealthy carpenter who works for some firm
FormerRei@mobile
>>791241 Yeah but don't you need to be diagnosed with sleep apnea to get it? I snore and don't have sleep apnea.
FormerRei@mobile
>>791240 No one has ever complained to me about my snoring. My dad is the worst snorer in my family though.
wait what the fuck no man's sky is arounda nd it keeps getting patched?
Anno
Yeah, the devs have really gone a long way with the game. I think if the basic concept of explore, resource gather, and base-build doesn't appeal to you the game still won't be something you're interested in. But as far as depth in those departments, they've been pretty aggressively expanding on them. I'm still wishy-washy on it but every time it goes on a deep sale I'm always tempted to give it a spin.
hmm there's a 5km run tomorrow at 8am and I have to work at 9am it's tempting to give it a go
Anno
Do you run habitually?
Anno
no I think I'll just take a look at the course and see how many people turn up it took me about 45mins on my last run so it doesn't give me a lot of time to spare anyway I can just run 5kms by myself too also
not a good time to have no ac in the car >>791371 I like a good cry too bad I can't do it on demand or I'd do it all the time >>791394 something about YOUR legs seems weird something about YOUR thighs seems weird
Maria
>>791389 I can gift games to people in other regions but only specific ones And it doesn't say which ones so you have to keep trying diferent games until one FINALLY goes through
>>791397 It's been that way for a few years For me at least
Anno
It has to do with how they're moving countries to purchasing games in their own currency. Since games aren't consistently priced from region to region it's pretty easy to pay off someone in another country to get you a game on the cheap. It was different when everyone just paid US dollars for the games converted by their bank to their regional currency.
>>791406 A complex strategy game like FGO requires you to be dynamic. Therefore, there are different Fates that I would Grand Order in different situations.
FormerRei@mobile
>>791407 Huh, she looks older than I expected given your tastes.
>>791420 oh she has a mature voice and i thought would be tall but then >147 cm she combines like two different sides of things i like and itβs the most bizarre thing
also Ange is an alchemist and not a bird
FormerRei@mobile
>>791421 Animorphs definitely created a lot of furries.
FormerRei@mobile
>>791422 Are you implying that birds can't be alchemists?
>>791433 do you think the Japanese have a similar meme to this but instead of your vs you're it's γ― vs γ
FormerRei@mobile
I wish people would also mix up yore with your and you're. It would really shake things up.
FormerRei@mobile
Oh yeah The guy who performed some of the schoolhouse rock stuff died earlier this week. F
FormerRei@mobile
Hrrm, since its Oceania hours now you guys probably haven't heard of it. But so schoolhouse rock was an educational cartoon series that started in the mid seventies. The original concept was developed by an ad executive when he realized that his son that was having trouble in school had memorized the lyrics to a bnch of rock and pop songs. So the show consisted of songs and accompanying cartoons that explained various subjects such a conjugation *such as Or how bills become laws in the US. These were shown a lot to children in schools through the mid 2000s.
>>791555 considering the buffs she got from that no EAT POISON DRAGONS
!C0.PerkELE
>>791556 >>791553 >don't do it I shall >they are figures of authority even sexier >who ban homosexual love FORBIDDEN LOVE2 >two religious figures forbidden love3 >real people EVEN BETTER
I've got it to watch but I'm holding off on watching everything since I'll be spending a lot of time on flights next week.
Anno
Oh that's a good call, yeah. Whenever I try to do stuff on planes like read or play games I almost inevitably end up dozing off. Whatever it is that makes people too worried to relax on airplanes I just don't get, so the gentle motions of the plane adjusting in the air kind of rocks me to sleep.
I've only fallen asleep once on a plane. It was a midnight flight that landed at like 6am in Orlando, and I was high as shit on lean. Although that was the only time I've tried to sleep. I only doze off when extremely sleep deprived or when I want to sleep.
I usually read on flights and I'll probably do some of that, too.
I'm pretty particular about being comfortable on flights. But I feel somewhat safe on them because flights are pretty uncommon as targets for things because most people don't want to die.
I usually try to be inconspicuous, though. If there are people sitting next to me who seem nosy, I usually won't watch or play anything.
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
>>791555 >not eating dragons and gaining their strength to make yourself more like a dragon
Outside of Japan, anime is only released on Netflix as full cours, unfortunately.
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Yeah but the completed shows they've picked up the localization rights are probably up there. And the advantage here to them being shows only Netflix has the localization rights to means there isn't some other company blocking them from putting them on certain regions' Netflix.
!C0.PerkELE
fuck region blocks I should get a discount for each show that is not availabel in my region, but that is in netflix ... list?
>>791578 I bet if there are blocks in finland, they are some EU level blockades by france or germany those do a lot of anime, dubbed ofc So netflix most likely treats whole eurozone as one zone to simplify their end Not a bad decision, anyhow, but annoying one, since finland has barely any anime licensed here and even the few, say Eva or FMA/B are still on flix anyhow, since the tv studios that showed them have long since gave up on the broadcasting rights.
And broadcast streaming most likely would require some other paper work et al, so they most liekly just do it in USA/NA and then once the show is "over" they make it available to other regions.
Kirara π
They don't do any broadcast streaming in North America.
Anno
>>791580 What I'm saying is any show that is "Produced in association with Netflix" is not going to be blocked. Because that's in part what Neflix is paying for by being associated with it, exclusive rights to air it.
Because Netflix is not responsible for them not running shows on their list in your region. You should be issuing your complaints to the original rights owners of the shows, eg. the broadcast corporations or licensing companies that produced or bought rights to these shows. Netflix turns its best profit when they can run as many shows as possible, they personally have zero reason to block shows unless legally required to.
I wonder if they are seeing how much hype there would be for camping s2 with the heya camp or they had enough time on their hands to do it >>791594 so I guess it is just extra content in the meanwhile
guess it was super poplar in japan too
Anno
They've already greenlit a movie and season two.
Kirara π
Right. They announced the short, movie, and S2 at the same time. So it'll be nice.
Anno
The short series has the benefit of keeping the series in the public consciousness.
I wonder how much manga I would own, if I didn't have to buy it for extortion prices.
Kirara π
Studies in Japanese markets show that reducing the prices of goods doesn't result in a significantly large increase in sales and typically lowers profits
Well same doesn't apply here, though I pay your price +1-5β¬ in β¬ for each volume of manga so say a book is 10 dollars it is 13β¬ for me that would be like 15-17 dollars
Finnish manga is cheap, but it is quite limited to main stream stuff, and the translations are usually very very bad good finnish writing and knowing japanese don't go hand in hand
and for some reason, the big stores kinda stopped dealing in manga I guess it wasn't profitable enough
I used to buy entire series basically from one or the other two big bookstores here but then they just stopped doing basically "order through us from the original publisher" stuff and well, no more affirdable manga >>791609 there havn't been translations since a year ago since it got official is my point last translated chapter is vol 3
>>791618 Nothing too weird but I thought it was funny to see the "I don't pirate manga" part followed by "I'm fine with pirating anime since I can't buy it for a reasonable price"
Kirara π
If I were buying manga, I sure wouldn't buy it digitally. Well, I do buy manga, and never buy it digitally.
>>791622 I don't either It's a scam I bought one manga ebook once for a comic I really wanted to read and didn't want to pay like $20 for shipping from japan.
also at the moment I can buy maybe 50 books and then I need a new bookshelf maybe less and I don't have wallspace really for more bookshelves I think I had 10 boxes of just books and movies and cds at this point Eventually by like retirement ages, I will have one appartment for living and one for my books
I've turned my phone on maybe five times in the past two days because I've been leaving it off, and every single time, I get notifications for like five new emails from work and three texts from people at work, asking me questions as if I'd answer them. None of them know I went home sick. The only people in the world who know I'm not at that monastery are y'all, a delivery guy, and some folks on twitter. Why've they gotta be trying to send me shit when they should know I can't answer? It's shit they want answers for, like, today. Good luck with that.
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Probably an instilled notion of "If I'm connected to my workspace through email and my phone 24/7, everyone else is too". They might know you're not available and if they stopped to think about it, it would make sense to not send off the message. But by this point it's more automatic to send it off than to not.
Also alternatively if they do it immediately they don't have to risk forgetting to send it off once you're back.
>>791631 Someone even texted me, asking if I would cover a group for them. I sent a companywide email telling everyone I wouldn't be answering any emails, calls, or texts from 8th-12th! And I reminded everyone in the work groupchat, too!
Considering your future, if you don't get a work phone you might want to get a work contract and a private contract hell with modern phones you can have two sims in one phone, if you don't want two phones
most of my IT relatives do that, since they have 0% interest in answering their work shit off time
Well, it's a little complicated because my colleagues at work are also friends. So I can't regulate them to a work phone. I do have a work number for clients, though. It's the one that ends with IDOL. 4365
I was worried about how my clients would do without me but they all actually listened to me and haven't tried to reach me! I did a lot of prep work to make sure everything would run smoothly without me - spent extra hours on Tuesday preparing everything I usually do on Friday so that people could easily finish it. But it's my colleagues who can't function without me!
>>791645 I like to think so. I work really hard for them if I see they're working hard.
>>791653 yea dill pickles and a kosher pickle this is from a few days ago we also ordered latkes overall it was a delicious mistake and we had to leave half behind
>>791652 make sure you are well enough or drugged enough for the flight tho it prolly isn't that long a flight anyhow
it always makes me think a moment about US domestic flights since they can be as long as flying from here to say portugal or just barely lift off before landing
today was a white day all the rain from earlier got frozen overnight for the day due to dip into -10 and it looked like someone hadu sed some ice magic skill on the land but it started raining already
we went from like -10 to +10 by tomorrow
this is a weird winter but atleast it isn't slippery as fuck, so I am not annoyed that much and it isn't muddy, it is too cold for mud to form, so that is a bonus too
but I WANNA GO SKII-ING OR ICE SKATING OR DOWN HILL SKII-ING
>>791674 oh yeah ton still prolly has some meds going on
but god everyone should have blinds or curtains to make their sleeping area completely dark either total black out curtains on the window or blinds/curtains surrounding their bed
I don't really mind sunlight that much, but LIGHT POLLUTION is a bitch at times
especially since I have a light post right outside my window
but in general I sleep a lot better because I have such a good mattress now I slept a week or so on my old bed, and noticed a clear downspike in my sleep quality
>>791685 due to ice sea and scandinavian range, finland is basically 2 weather fronts, so shit can get weird here I think great lake region has some similiar shit there
Anno
>>791685 Yeah been pretty warm here too. Got a bit of snow dumped on us earlier in the week but it's all melted now.
Anno
I really like the picture of average January or so temperatures across North America, and as you would expect there's a pretty consistent gradiation as you move northwards from the equator with temperatures getting colder and colder. But then there's this huge BLOB around the Great Lakes of noticeably warmer temperatures.
But I have noticed, when I sometimes have myhead full of shit easiest way to sleep is open up some long video game thing strategy game usually with some guy who treats them as a kind of half podcast too, so minimal editing or memes etc
and then just have that on your phone and start watching eventually your brain just passivates and you drone out to sleep just have to at some point get a proper sleeping position or you can wake up with painfully blood derived arm or cranky neck a few hours later
which is why I do consider, if weather is clear enough and there isn't insane wind the cape near me, porkkalanniemi, as a good winter camp site since it never gets colder than the sea, unless the sea is fully frozen
>>791694 Eh, you'll be fine. Like maybe since you're skinny/lean you might find your legs'll get a bit cool but jeans are more than enough for that kind of weather. Just the act of walking from place to place is good for keeping legs warm.
>>791695 my go to is either lowko's starctaft casts or arch warhammers whatever strat game both have a voice that even if they get mad or excited never kinda alarms you
>>791704 if you want to be comfy put on long underwear but make sure they are the type that doesn't get nasty in-doors
I would recommend having bit too much on always than too little
I put on long pants quite oft when it gets 0 just because I find them comfty but like >>791707, I can do like -10 to 20 with just boxers and jeans/linen/whatever straight pants if I want to but I do always dress for the weather, if I know I am going to spend or possibly spend more than few moments outside
even a +/-0 with just boxers and jeans, can become damn annoyingly cold when it is windy
and if you are in motion and your socks aren't long enough, it will actually let the breeze get into your calves and ankles through the ... sleev? hem? of the pants
also socks are important
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I go around in like -10C weather with fairly thin linen pants and I don't notice I'm cold until I'm standing still. Cold isn't really all that cold as long as you're dry and in motion.
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Though to be fair flying from Florida to that weather might throw you off a bit.
>>791709 when lindy here says the army part he is right we had nothing cotton save for t-shirts in the army gear and the tovels towels the anti-dry towels the towels with 0% sucking ability, but once they somehow got wet they never dried
I have wool socks that are pretty comfy. They're noticeably thicker than my usual socks but I've never struggled with them. They're the socks I hiked in when I was in Utah with Jan.
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>>791719 Why would I buy proper hiking socks when I've never had any problems with the generic socks I own?
Merino wool is relatively uncommon and again, generic socks have served me fine. When I talk about wool for clothes fabrics I'm pretty obviously talking about sheep's wool, since that's the standard source of the wool.
But yeah I do have finnish bias our stuff is geared towards us, and we like wool
hell 85% of our male population has been trained in winter hiking survival and taking military outside of it, we have like 40% of population as "beeni in scouts for several years or is still in scouts"
I don't always realise how much our militaristic society influences my thinking
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I mean I come from a family big on country hiking and did five or six years of our pre-Scouts organization. Don't have patience for the military culture part of it but I'm more than familiar with how to not immediately die in the winter environment.
!C0.PerkELE
>>791721 should serve you fine but if you ever do start to feel chill in your toes and can notice by wiggling them around that they are sweaty and/or the socks are wet try to get into warm immediately
you might not notice it, but that will start to chill you damn much, tho risk of any actual frost bite etc is nill but just chilly toes can lead into a flu, atleast in my experience, if you don't then properly get warmed up later
!C0.PerkELE
>>791726 well to be fair, regular stuff does work have used it myself in the past a lot too
but as I started getting older and bought my own shit, I started to listen to my father, who is a hiking expert - fucker actually became a "licensed hiking guide" or something during one summer - and my military leaders, and have noticed that wool is indeed best foot wear ofc if your feet don't agree with wool, then they don't agree with wool, and then you can try the synthetic stuff, silk and so on
I generally don't recommend cotton I oneday will want to remove all cotton from my clothing. It just gets wet from even tiniest amount of sweat
Everything I know about hiking and survival, I had to learn on my own. But I think I'm pretty good at survival overall.
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The funny thing about thicker socks in general for me though, is that I actually wear through them faster. Since I've got a habit of grinding my heel into the sole of whatever I'm wearing. Something about the material of thicker socks wears through much faster than cotton.
>>791729 not gonna be arrogant here, since I am a general noob level, but don't go trying arctic survival before learning about it, tho frostbites aren't fun
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It's okay Kirara's played The Long Dark he's pretty much an expert.
>>791731 Oh, I'm not going to do anything crazy. I'm probably not even going to do hiking. I'm just going to do some minor exploring and try to get a feel for moving around in snow and how snow affects me. When I do some snow hiking or camping, I won't do it alone for the first time. I'll take someone experienced with me.
!C0.PerkELE
that game actually does teach you a lot
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It does but it also makes very clear as it's loading that it's NOT EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL hah hah I'm just being silly. Conceptually it has some good survival lessons though, yeah.
since they are most likely more than 5 year old socks if not more
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>>791733 Have you done any tobogganing ever? That's a fun part of winter to experience a few times even as an adult. Especially if you've never done it before.
>>791739 Nope! This will be my first time in a snowy landscape other than Pike's Peak which is on the tip top of a mountain and that was only for an hour or two.
or then when you found a giant carton billboard and then use it to slide down a hill with 10 people >>791745 THEIR RAMMING CAPACITY IS LIKE 10 TIMES BETTER THAN THE SLEDS OR CARPETS
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Eh you try them like two or three times and then you go back to the plastic sleds or carpets.
and then someone started bleeding and we all escorted them back to home and that was the end of that sledding
good ol days
finnish kids are weird
!C0.PerkELE
sledding is damn good exercise tho you go down in like well say it is a 100 metre hill, 30 seconds odd less but you then climb it up 2-5 mins and then you repeat that like 20-50 times
no wonder child obesity levels here were like 0, atleast during my youth
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Well it's the same with alpine snowboarding. I guess alpine skiing too but skiing is a workout regardless. But you go down the hill with your snowboard and then you have to buckle out a boot and sorta limp your way around the base of the ski hill to get to the lift again. I swear I got more of a workout doing that than any winter activity I've done before or after.
Honestly one of the lesser reasons I wanna do it again.
also, i ain't saying there weren't fat kids, just that here weren't obese kids
>>791749 god I can't wait for the muscle pains on the parts of my legs I havn't used in a year if I get to do it this year Ugh... rich dad, pls arrange a week long trip to some northern site for once
I don't think we will get any of the southern centres open this winter they are all going 100% panic mode, since all of them are bleeding red due to 0 open hours so far
>>791751 I hate sports in general, but I love winter sports >>791754 then you lack skill you clearly need to get and keep momentum all the way to the lift and then do a stop
I never liked idea of snowboarding
and whenever I have to see a snowboarder do the weird shuffle to the lift, I am like "hahaa I have sticks to skii with"
alpine skiis aren't the best to regular skii with, but they do work
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>>791752 >sorta limp your way around the base of the ski hill >to get to the lift again >the lift again >the lift
PANrela
exploration bestploration
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>>791753 I've never liked the idea of skiing so it's fair.
If I always follow the ski trails to the lifts it severely limits the choice of trails I can pick from. Hills branch out trails pretty extensively here and I can end up hitting the base of the hill quite far from the lift I started from. Some times I'll try to chain from lift to lift but again, that limits the choice of trails I can pick from, and some times I also just want to impulsively turn down a trail I see come up halfway down the hill and see where it goes.
The shuffle's not so bad anyway, plus it's fun to build up a bit of speed and coast.
I was basically born with skiis on my mother took us cross country skii-ing when I was like 2 or 3 and it was a damn good family activity she got exercise while keeping an eye on the kids
I still love cross country skii-ing the most but ofc alpine is damn more exciting
>>791756 I used to do custom routes younger, but few bad runs later - I am damn stupid at times and doesn't help when you combine it with an equally stupid, but more reckless aniki alongside, and the end result was pain - so I don't do them nowadays
I do still do stupid shit like trying to imitate olympic alpine skii-ers on a slope that is too steep to do that kinda shit, and is 100% frozen over due to sun melting it and then it freezing over again, so there is no friction or grip to slow yourself down and WEEEEEEEEEEEEE I go rolling down
atleast I am good at falling
only have gotten injured once, and it was a thumb for some reason
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>>791751 I think even with alpine skiing and snowboarding, it can be a pretty fun explorative activity than a sporty one. Like there's the big, wide trails to go down which are more sport-oriented. But ski hills will have a lot of smaller, snakier trails that weave through the forests on the mountainside, or will outright be glade skiing, barely a detectable trail, just a lot of narrow, person-wide spaces between the trees that you have to curve agily through. One of the coolest experiences I had was a lift that took me pretty much to the mountain's peak and then a trail that went through a sparse forest that had been absolutely blasted with ice and snow so all the trees were these white pillars with spines. Despite the nuisance of getting up there I did that route like three or four times because of how cool it was.
>tfw I could live in a 2-3x bigger appartment for the same or less price at a literal walking distance away from some 500m-1km long slopes if I moved northern maybe I will
>tfw my brain translates "5km to a shop" was walking distance now halp
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now it actually is rebotherting me that I can't remember the exact details of the thumb injury I have so good near crystal clear memory of most of my life, especially when I start thinking about some particular thing but that one is a damn blur
I remember that I was skii-ing and then it is me with a bandage on my right arm, that I wrapped around it myself to keep the thumb in one spot
I don't have any memory of showing it to any doctor or nurse not even school nurse
the legendary difficulty is still so stupid unless you really mod the shit out of it >one spell on you >dead happens way too many times I think the AI also gets some of the stupid master buffs that I have the 200% dmg on next spell cast etc and then addi n the legendary what 200% boost to that and well
what u gonna do?
maybe I should amke some item with 50% + magic resistance
I wish I could autism enchant+alchemy+smith the shit out of the game lik you could in vanilla
and I do mean that I spent 2 real life hours going from alchemy+enchanting+smithing to get like 1% enchanting buff, 1% alchemy buff, 1% smithing buff higher untill it stopped improving like every 10 rotations
and then I had gear that had higher buffs than the devs imagined you could have >>791781 mods man mods
Kirara π
i am surprised people are still playing skyrim the game is like 10+ years old and is not very good
other way around PK Charlotte existed way before I put her in skyrim
PANrela
the only thing i remember about any of my skyrim characters is that no matter how they start they always turn into stealth archer
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There also hasn't really been a new fantasy life game like Skyrim since, well, Skyrim. Sure it's a buggy mess with stiff interfaces, but no other game since it fills that niche of a personalized fantasy world you can live in.
sure you could do that by opening one of the script editors and deleting some double issues etc btu that is like easily several hours worth of work not to metnion knowing which one to remove and which not
and you'd still have the game crash, because it doesn't handle memory that well
mods just make the memory issues more blatant >>791792 waaat with the mods I have rn it makes it damn fun to side step, slow mod dodge and do 0 dmg parries when dualwielding
but yeah, basegame the melee in skyrim and oblivioun too is fucking cancer
Kirara π
Todd is still in charge somehow, right?
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Of Bethesda in general, yeah, I think so. But I doubt they've even broken ground on ESVI since they're working on Starfield. Maybe he'll get chased out for fumbling that.
also doesn't bethesda own/publish some other studios for example Doom16 and coming Doom eternity are going to be big profits for them
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Bethesda as a production company and Bethesda as a development studio aren't quite the same thing. I'm not sure where Todd stands in the production hierarchy, but I think he's the overall lead for the development studio.
With all of Bethesda's recent mediocre releases, I don't think Todd can possibly be gotten rid of or he would have already. He's shown himself more-or-less incapable of running the company.
i got the VR edition but it's a buggy mess at least on my machine
i did try playing the witcher recently and it's like throwing way too many fetch quests and shit at me so i stopped
!C0.PerkELE
I just mean how much of bethesda's image is tied to the single man just like when apple actually became big it was tied to steve jobbs and I mean the phone era
not the..late 80s when they booted jobs
Kirara π
any reasonably company would have ousted him for fallout 76 but they allow him to continue making a mess of it time and time again and allow him to continue failing
I don't know Bethesda games are more gamer culture dipped than say CoD etc
and well of course all the public relation people,. namely the journalists etc, know and make fun of and also sometimes still love good old Deceiver Todd
Well gamer culture maybe isn't the right word? internet culture is more apt maybe
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Todd's done a really good job of protecting his pubb public image. Like despite spearheading some really awful design choices for Bethesda, he always comes across as an affable, kinda doofu guy just making games, always ready with a clean, wordy-but-meaningless statement to give to the press.
Todd isn't bad, but he is there alongside molyneux and what is that Pixels are Life I know actress quantum dream guy? the guy behind Become Human and the other "movie games"
not bad as a head of projects, but at the same time they always just try to do way more than they and their team are capable of and also tell the public their "ambitions" without actually saying those are ambitions and not features.
The No Man's Sky guy fell into this trap, but actually delivered
>>791811 isn't he also quite young like 40? and he clearly is a gamer who became the head of a gaming studio ofc, he is older gen than us, but still that is relatable to the people who follow the studios and their doings
!C0.PerkELE
also the fact that he is "todd" to everyone not Todd Howard or Howard
Maybe the people spending money on Fallout 76 just deserve to get fleeced Like it's a lesson on spending choices
>>791820 I don't think Trudeau is really that popular anymore
>>791821 Can you imagine being a whale for Fallout 76 Like one of those people who not only bought the game at launch, but continue to spend money on it It's one thing to get feleced at the start, but to then continue spending money in spite of everything
>>791823 oh okay I'll take the Canadians word for it
I mean, if you trusted Todd and bought 76, it's not a problem of spending choices, it's a problem of poor judgement. Here's a man who has consistently sold a false bill of goods, and he offers you a gold pocketwatch and you buy it without realizing, once again, it's plastic.
>>791819 Trudeau is still plenty popular, it's just most people aren't voting for him just because he's hot and young anymore. Which is an improvement in my opinion.
!C0.PerkELE
>>791821 I would say his gold watches were like 85% gold for oblivion 50% gold for skyrim 25% gold for fall out 4 and 0% gold, but atleast still made out of brass/fool's gold
Kirara π
>Several promotional facets of Fallout 76 failed to meet original expectations, further marring the game's reception. As part of the game's premium physical content, the promotional canvas bag and an alcoholic beverage bottle were found to not match the original product descriptions as shipped, with Bethesda having to take post-release steps to resolve the matter,[501][502] while thousands of Fallout-themed helmets were recalled due to containing dangerous levels of mold.[503][504] wait, mold? lmao i didn't hear that one i thought they were just really low quality
Remember there was that glitch with buying Fallout First where other players could steal from your inventory. Paying for a bigger inventory just to have others steal all your items lol.
>>791827 That's even worse Fallout 76 has so many bugs I'm probably mixing two of them up
>>791829 I'd wager it's probably the animators. Some of them don't even meet min wage and they work stupidly long hours.
Kirara π
i thought it was that if you put stuff in the premium storage, it just disappeared completely from the game
between japanimators and video game developers, you have to wonder who has it worst
video game developers atleast have high wages, even if they are underpaid for their actual given hours but that does get them nowhere, when most studios are based in FUCKING EXPENSIVE SILICON VALLEY
>>791829 i don't think most studios are in silicon valley, not game ones it's way too expensive of a job market and not enough talent is available game stydios are in other big cities and like suburbs all over
I don't actually know the finnish game studios are in relatively expensive business parks atleast
but I am too lazy to actually check up, since it would require you to look up their branch offices since their HQ might bei n silicon valley, but that might just be the higher ups
Kirara π
i miss the days when video games were designed in some bucktooth pocketprotector nerd's mom's garage
Anno
Montreal's a popular place to set up development studios.
I've been having weird dreams lately. There's a big metal structure that I'm climbing. It's always the same structure even though the dreams are all different. It's got a lot of, like, grated walkways. And I don't know why I'm climbing it, but it's difficult to climb, I have to do a lot of jumps and puzzle solving to get up.
!C0.PerkELE
>>>/watch?v=o9ZYGJSpx1I I think most amusing would be for someone like this guy voicing inari
Btw most useful skill I have picked up is that indeed being able to just go "nope, wake up and resleep" I can do it at will whenever I feel like nowadays >>791913 well that is good
>>791911 Only because of the climbing. Everyone else I see in the dreams looks normal, and if I fall, I'm usually okay. I only go down one or two floors. Nothing's chasing me. It's not nightmarish at all. I just have to climb, so I climb.
Most of the nightmares I have are either of Cecilia dying or of me being in the house I grew up in and there's something outside trying to get in and I'm trying to get prepared for it.
The bad dreams I have are usually weird in that it seems I've already been through the events that are happening previously and know what's going to happen next.
If I have an uncomfortable dream, I just wake up from it when I start to dislike it not like in the "cold sweat damn that was bad dream" but just "huh, time to go backt o sleep" and then I am instantly back to sleep
I really am thankful that i somehow mastered this skill, has gotten me out of nasty dream situations so many times
JaPAN
>>791928 not yet i am gonna go to the geologist and paleontologist
i went to the westmost part of central and found some spooky jellyfish
Kirara π
>>791931 i wonder if you can make it all the way west before i do next week
>>791933 i wish i could play games like that haha i loved death stranding but i'm so story focused i struggle to do all the optional stuff unless it's really interesting
JaPAN
i can't do anything unless i'm doing everything its impossible
>In the "one-of-a-kind samurai-general-reincarnated-as-a-canine comedy," Nobunaga perishes at Honnouji as in history, and reincarnates in modern-day Japan as a dog named Shinamon. Other Warring States era warlords such as Takeda Shingen eventually join him, also as dogs. >full series, not shorts what
Maria
>>791926 why do you think the latter is is it because you're always prepping ahead of time for disasters
I'm not prepping for disasters, I'm always prepping for everything.
But the dreams are likely related to the fact that when I lived there, I was always basically caged. If I did anything, I had to make sure I didn't leave any traces. I had conceal whatever I was doing or did from my mom. So if she ever came home, I had to rush to get everything ready. Even if it was something like me eating a snack, I had to get rid of it and make it look like I had spent the whole time in my room.
It's not like in stories. She wasn't really outright abusive, usually. She just refused me any freedom whatsoever. Anything I did, she had to know about. She'd interrogate me and wouldn't leave me alone if she felt I had left any detail out.
She's still like that but I can keep her at some distance since I live without her now. She still tries to do everything she can to control me, though.
The other day, I got mad about it and later she's like "oh, you hate me, don't me? you hate me so much" and obviously i had to say "no ofc not" and she asked why i got mad and i said "i need control over my own life and i react poorly to anyone trying to infringe on that" and she said "i'm the same way!" so i clarified "i don't need control over anyone else's business but my own" and she said "me neither. i guess that's why we butt heads sometimes!" and i said "ahaha guess so" and left
My mother is one of those people with really low charisma but high manipulative ability. But she's weak to anyone that knows she's manipulative, so if people catch on to her, she immediately turns on them and does everything she can to get rid of them. She recently destroyed the Orlando chapter of a women's NRA group because its leader failed to show her proper gratitude for something after my mom manipulated her. >>791952 Not quite. She is the leader of another chapter of that group and now she's gaining Orlando's members.
Anno
I guess even in her insanity she can some times do good.
>>791954 Yeah. She's deeply dangerous and political. She's like an animal that can only desperately pursue what it wants or needs, but she's smart enough that she doesn't see it in herself and can use manipulation to get it. She's able to manipulate so easily because she believes all the lies she makes up to justify her behavior towards others.
Probably the reason I'm so good at influencing people is because I had to learn to manipulate so I could out-manipulate her or avoid being manipulated at least.
>>791953 Right? She completely refused to see the pointed comments I made.
I don't think anyone can get along with her for an extended period of time. She doesn't realize what she's doing even though she's doing it intentionally. Even if you can respect her ability to manipulate, she'd immediately start trying to manipulate you.
Besides, nobody who knows me well can ever be allowed to meet her without tons of prep work. I have to brief people on what facts my mom knows about me, the half-truths she knows, and the lies she believes about me. It's a lot of trouble but it's too dangerous to risk her learning anything substantial about me.
JaPAN
mr finnish man i would like you to explain hobby horse competition to me
Yeah I mean it is weird if they hear your stories and then go "you are a shitter for not liking your mom"
!C0.PerkELE
but I wouldn't say it is a "normie" thing per se, but more likely a lack of experience they just havn't met people who have complicated and more so relations with their family
see it was too high quality, but shit quality enough to be a jap drama
Maria
>>791976 but yeah there's this weird idea that you owe your parents on the basis of them being your parents Like you should love someone who never loved you just because
Kirara π
people think the family you're born into matters like i had a fuckin choice
Anno
Well it definitely matters. Just not always in a good way.
Kirara π
i mean it has consequences but it doesn't actually matter
>>791992 well to generalise again usually, atleast here the family sticks together and helps eachother so it is similiar to a group of thight friends, but tied by rng and blood and you are aware that you might not be the "bestest of friends" but that you are related and might in the end be the only ones that can help eachother when shit really hits the fan
Not too long ago, I realized that all my life, the reason I never felt connected to people was because I wasn't open to it. I'd had so much struggle with others that the first time I actually opened up was with Teacup and /moe/. And after she died, I closed off again and couldn't connect to anyone anymore. I always felt there was something wrong with me and I just couldn't connect, but in the past month or two, I've started opening up to connections with people and it's been really great.
Ironically, my zen practice opened me up and I ended up with more attachments than when I started zen.
>>792012 No, next week is important for my future. You need to wait until a more convienient time to die in a natural disaster so I can fall apart properly.
>>792017 Yeah, that would be best. Something like that ought to be scheduled at least three weeks in advance. Doing it spontaneously is just too inconvient. inconvenient
>>792016 I only included you so you wouldn't feel left out, so don't get the wrong idea or anything, baka.
JaPAN
>>792019 You're right, tornadoes are very busy usually though so it may not be until Q2 or Q3 when we can arrange a badass natural disaster death again, I'll keep you in the memo though
!C0.PerkELE
yea think of all the people he excluded he knew those wouldn't mind
>>792020 If the plan is tornado, then ideally you need to be somewhere like a mall, I think. So you can step out of the building and see the tornado bearing down on you.
> In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels.
> You turn on the game and watch Kirara's side-B. It shows her being attacked by orcs. She tries to fight them off, but fails miserably due to her youth and inexperience.
> You turn on the game and watch Kirara's side-B. It shows her being attacked by orcs. She tries to fight them off, but fails miserably due to her youth and inexperience.
> You turn on the game and watch Kirara's side-B. It shows her running through the forest. You see elves hiding behind trees, but they seem to be oblivious to your presence.
>>792070 i yelled at it "DON'T KILL" and now somehow i went home with one of the women and she's my girlfriend and i'm making her dinner what the fuck is this post apocalypse
i have somehow ended up killing a girl's husband, getting stalked by her, calling the cops, telling the cops that he deserved it and then they were like ok sounds fair and arrested the woman who is now a widow
then the wife wanted to invite the cops to dinner for some reason and this is all like a fever dream
>>792123 Yuasa has a new anime out this season. It's about girls that want to make anime. Has a really nice combination of his ability to GET people and some absolutely gorgeous animation and environmental design. 10/10 first episode would recommend
>>792138 i got possessed trying to restore it through a ritual a girl in black named lilith gave me the run down and told me trying to resist would get me possessed for sure so i didnt i got possessed anyway but i managed to free myself and awaken she was then in the real world standing over me and offered to return my humanity foolishly i accepted her offer she turned me INTO A FUCKING VAMPIRE
nvm that was easy i ignited her with the ritual candles and stabbed her in the chest but now a voice in my head speaks to me how tf did this happen this adventure started with a quest to kill a dragon and i DID
JaPAN
>>792140 i did a dark souls prompt and there were fucking vampires everywhere but then i found a normal undead knight and he helped me kill them and we found the forbidden woods gwyn was sitting on the top of a tree there and he was like well done my son and then i tried to kill him but he burned me alive with a wall of fire it went straight through my great magic barrier
then he picked me up and TOOK ME TO FUCKING UNDEAD ASYLUM THANKS DAD
Anno
The thingiest thing about the AI dungeon is how much of a story it writes from such little prompt from the player. Like who needs authors when you can just auto-gen yourself a whole narrative.
JaPAN
Now I got out of undead asylum and found some coffins with skeletons inside which had red eyes i got in a coffin and heard rattling then a young girls' voice then a tall man woke me up! i found papa nito!
My favorite is that everytime it introduces an animal, the animal instantly starts talking
JaPAN
>Do you want to join the Gravelords? no that would be wrong >Then why did you bring me here? ok i'll think about it >He smiles at you and walks back into his coffin [x] hug papa nito
JaPAN
>You embrace him tightly and kiss him on the cheek. He looks at you for a moment then turns to leave. >As he leaves, you suddenly feel very sad. I miss papa nito
>not only was vortex still downloading mods to my main smaller drive, but there were just 12 gigs of maps for my gps hanging out on there too fuck off programs that don't prompt you first holy shit ask me where I want shit to be
JaPAN
I have successfully killed every human on the planet with my army of gravelords and Papa Nito is very very happy
JaPAN
Everyone is undead now and nobody can die
Anno
What's the value in ruling over a dead plane-oh right they're just zombies
JaPAN
>>792157 We are all glorious skellingtons and/or Gravelords God Bless
Anno
This ends up being a long brick joke "And then John was a zombie"
JaPAN
>In the end, you've won. The world is safe once more. Revel in my victory >You revel in victory. You take your greatsword and slice open the sky. The sun rises up from the ground, and you celebrate your victory over mankind.
I'm going to call this an absolute win
Anno
But why was the sun in the ground?
JaPAN
That's a good question
they never mentioned it was in the fucking ground
JaPAN
Papa Nito asked me if I was happy and I said yes he said okay then that's good enough for me
Then I went and killed Gwyn easily this time Put the First Flame out and became the Dark Lord ruling over a barren planet for centuries happy ending
Anno
Happy in a sense, I guess. I'd rather a vibrant and lively planet than a barren one.
The new-age MonHun games still need a few years to catch up to the classic versions in terms of broadness and aesthetical quality. World kinda sucks in the weapons department, they all look kind of the same.
>>792175 i don't get mad at video game i get very excitable and shout sometimes though >>792176 world sucks in terms of amount of content and weapon/armor design but the gameplay feels really tight
the hitboxes for some few monsters need some work though >>792177 uhhhh do you mean world or like, in total i have 800 hours in ps4 world and like 100 on pc world
!C0.PerkELE
>>792178 I get mad when I get hit by something that is miles away from me
I was trying to play Monster Hunter world again just yesterday I really want to like it.
idk I just can't get into it.
Anno
It's probably too active a grind for your Runescape dulled mind.
Anno
>>792178 Not counting all the hours pumped into previous games hah hah
Yeah World has a great foundation they just need the time to expand in content and tweak their design aesthetic to be a little more fanciful. I don't knock them for it, the classic games have like fifteen years of time to model and release monsters.
>>792181 Nep Rebirth 1,2 and 3 are grindy as fuck and I'm having a blast with those ones.
!C0.PerkELE
>>792184 that doesn't matter since your souls games numbers
would be the same
!C0.PerkELE
I mean you most likely have 100+ hours on sekiro
JaPAN
lol
JaPAN
you underestimate my sweatiness
!C0.PerkELE
200
JaPAN
330
!C0.PerkELE
how many runs?
JaPAN
up to NG+4 on one and one NG run with the bell demon active
Anno
I still need to do a run where I unlock the True Owl fight. Sekiro is a game that deserves what's as close to a 100% run and I can't do that in my original run because I missed the chance.
All I need is The Form The Truth and the Regret of the game
and then I can complete it
Anno
Now that I've got a Switch Pro controller I wanna go back to the games I've slept on or was stuck playing mouse/keyboard with. MonHun, Sekiro, Dark Souls, Bloodstained. Even playing through Hollow Knight with a controller has been a fun and kinda less handpain-inducing experience.
Though I still think Sekiro is more than playable with a mouse/keyboard and MonHun on PC -can- benefit from it if you're playing a ranged class. But melee weapons are still probably much more bearable on a controller.
JaPAN
I can't stand playing sekiro with M/KB but MonHun works good on PC with it I think Still don't want to play it cause if I get an attack jewel on PC before I get even one single drop on PS4 I'm going to Super Amped Charge Slash my fucking wrists
Anno
I did a lot of finnegaling with the controls for Sekiro which helped me a lot. It was kind of weird at times since a lot of it involved me mapping things to buttons on my mouse, like even using the scroll wheel's actual button for something, though I don't remember what. But I had the grappling hook mapped to one of my thumb buttons and that was actually really satisfying for timing the slinging around the map. I'm definitely mapping more maneuvering tools to that button in future games.
I usually gravitate toward controller mode in most games that aren't shooters though honestly so my opinion should be taken with a grain of salt I even play FFXIV with a controller on PC despite a lot of people thinking I'm a little retarded for it
there's a guy on my friends list in death stranding who's completed 424 unique deliveries on hard with an s rank that's almost or rather like 80% of every mission in the game fucking mad lad >>792217 you got a friend in me
and it's okay, i appreciate you asking, thanks i haven't really gotten to talk about it ive got a stable living arrangement now, but i might change it in a few months i spent most of december struggling though and it's still left me pretty distressed
im working three jobs at the moment ive been really isolated and haven't had time to do anything
very exhausted there's a lot going on lack of sleep yes and a lot of stuff i'll tell you about it when im more rested up though sorry i can't stay and keep you company tonight
!C0.PerkELE
lack of sleep?
!C0.PerkELE
you are homeless and unrested
ζ
i am homed right now things are going better but im depleted of all my mental faculties >>792293 thanks good luck summoning blue
!C0.PerkELE
yeah just sleep whatever you can' I can't help you
