I legitimately think “AGP” is just finally having confidence and loving yourself. And some weirdos feel the urge to pathologize that because they’ve never been happy.

Not left, not right, fartward

I think @Wmill@hexbear.net might have you beat with Shadow

Ooh, good point on playing in little chunks. Unlike FF games where you can spend literally 30 minutes in one cutscene/dialogue vortex, DQ games move you along pretty quickly.

Dragon Quest games are cozy for me because I remember playing DQ1 on the NES as a kid not knowing what the fuck to do and just walking around fighting. Same thing in FF1, just made a party and fucked around because I didn’t get the concept of the game. Eventually I played Pokemon and was like, “Oh, this is like DQ and FF, I should replay those” and got into JRPGs properly. DQ is like Star Trek TOS: it’s flawed but revolutionary and still enjoyable if you understand it as a product of its time. Where FF changes everything up in every game, DQ presents itself as familiar and reliable. You always know what you’re getting and if you like one DQ, you’ll pretty much like them all. That said, the first 2 games are really rough from a modern perspective and are only recommended if you’re some kind of series completionist. As for the themes, yeah, that’s just how it is. It’s really old school style fantasy so that’s what you end up with. I would recommend trying DQ5 (the PS2 version with translation patch or DS version), it’s a high point for the series and not too long. It introduced the ability to catch monsters and use them in battle (copied later by Pokemon) and the story follows the protagonist through different periods of their life, which is somewhat unique. In the end, though, DQ fandom is nearly entirely vibes-based. Other JRPGs have more interesting stories, battle systems, music, etc. For me, it’s a combination of nostalgia and the particular quirks of DQ games that make me feel at home in the slop.

It’s so real. For me it’s that I’m constantly worried that they liked the mask I was wearing but maybe they won’t like the real me.

Look at what Claudia Sheinbaum ran on and what she’s doing now that she won in Mexico. A taste: one million houses to be built by the government and offered at cost with interest free mortgages. No developers or other middlemen jacking the price up. The kind of infrastructure project that neoliberals would never dare to even whisper because they would be assassinated by the real estate lobby.

Imagining UlyssesT laughing himself to death at this news.

I wish they would give up and let people who actually want to win get a chance. So sick of neoliberal “WE NEED YOUR MONEY OR TRUMP WILL EAT YOUR CHILDREN” bullshit. Give me an actual platform that doesn’t include genocide or throw queer/disabled/minorities under the bus and maybe you’ll actually have a chance? It’s so telling how they never address the eligible voters that refrain from doing so. There will always be non-voters because people are lazy but there’s millions that would if YOU ACTUALLY OFFERED THEM FUCKING ANYTHING.

Death to America

I work a manual labor job where there are slow times and heavy times. Whenever it’s slow I am the first to volunteer to leave. When the company shuffled around management and we got all new supervisors I told every one individually that I will take any day off any time no matter what. I have never volunteered for overtime. I think I averaged 1 extra day off per week over the last year, some weeks 2 days, some weeks none. I refuse to put myself in the position of most of my coworkers that have massive trucks and huge McMansions who live paycheck to paycheck and that allows me to work less and live more.

Wonderwall is objectively the Sweet Caroline of the 90s

This would have helped me to start transitioning sooner. Instead, I waited until the dysphoria was unbearable. Feeling “fine”, at best, isn’t a great way to live.

Run English through 6 different google translates into other languages, then cypher the result.

Down with cis

Touch with grass

kuri to risu ♥️

clitoris ♥️

I’m envisioning them releasing a smoke stack attachment that’s just a glorified smoke machine for the current cybercuck

I wish there was a society that encouraged kids to fuck around with different presentations and figure themselves out before puberty.

I would recommend trying at least one pair of 13s from them. I think they fit large for 13s in length as well as width. You can always return them if they don’t fit.

The Ubuntu release philosophy just never worked for me as someone that’s used to using up-to-date software. I don’t mind the little (sometimes big) issues that crop up. Then there’s the snap debacle, especially how they surreptitiously install snap versions of apps even when you use apt-install. I can’t trust software that lies to me. I use Arch but always recommend Fedora as that seems to be the best balance of stability and keeping current on drivers and software.