This is so funny because it seems like most recent strikes have only lasted like a single day before the company folds. Which is great. But it shows why they try so hard to prevent the strike in the first place and try to portray strikers negatively because once the strike is called, the company has already lost.
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I saw you or another poster mention this in the last thread and I bought it because I'm a fan of bullet heaven games. I've beat all the main levels on max Agony and I think I'm the only person on Steam with some of the achievements (261/500) because they say 0.0% of other players have them lol. Played for like 11 hrs.
You're right that certain abilities are better on specific characters, but also that some abilities are just straight up better than others. I think it's called Glacial Storm and it charges up ice as you move and launches them when you stop but on max Agony you basically never want to stop moving so it kind of sucks.
So far, the worst characters for me are the ones with slow movement speed when you start adding modifiers. If you can't run faster then the enemies, they just get on your ass and never leave. Certain fast mini-bosses are just automatic death.
Posting one page of Lenin every day until the empire collapses
I saw them relatively recently but it was an all ages show and I think I was one of the oldest people in the venue. They showed up like an hour late. It was a lot like younger fans who got into them as part of the "weird meme/internet music" pack of Death Grips, 100 Gecs, etc. Tons of cellphones in the air playing Subway Surfer. Some people were definitely high, but it was all before the show.
Nothing wrong with any of it, but it was not at all the vibe I was expecting and I had to pull a drunk friend away from a girl he didn't realize was wearing the Under 21 wristband. We saw two people cosplaying the Money Store cover after though, so that was sick.
10/10 show, would recommend, but stick to 21+ shows if possible.
Neopets has been screwing up for years by not turning the whole site into a F2P mobile app on the Apple and Google stores. Someone has to take the crown.
Psychology Today is another good jumping off point if you use their filters to get rid of people doing "Christian therapy" and whatever. Sometimes info is vague but its enough to be able to then look at individual websites for more detail. And I always see handfuls of people who specialize in working with LGBTQ people and other specific backgrounds or diagnoses.
Linear Call of Duty type shooters are my comfort slop. This looks sick. I'm excited to be around for the start of the Chinese AAA gaming industry with stuff like Wu Kong and this. Miss me with gacha games like Genshin.
I'd love to see their take on Western-centric genres like CRPGs. Stuff like Baldur's Gate and Wasteland. Russia has been in that space for a long time, with tons of Fallout mods and such, but they're sometimes difficult to play and never get translated.
Give me Arcanum but instead of talking to Marx analogs, you're talking to Sun Yat-Sen.
It seems like the last 5 - 6 years theres been a lot more games, movies, and TV shows being produced in other countries that break into the English media sphere.
This isn't necessarily related to the feminism part of your question, but I've read some about modern day Daoist divination practices in China that are essentially like tarot cards. One book (The Souls of China by Ian Johnson) had an interesting perspective because some of the priests said there wasn't any magic involved and they weren't literally predicting the future. At least in that context, people have specific questions they want answered, and they have answers that they want. The divination only provides yes/no answers.
Someone asking if they're going to be successful some day isn't helped in any way by saying "nah sorry you'll be poor forever" nor are they helped by saying "yea you'll be a hollywood star" and having their ego inflated, but what they're looking for is some sort of comfort that their life won't always be miserable or meaningless.
So the priest guides them through their questions like a conversation and tries to give them the comfort they're looking for in the least harmful way possible. The yarrow root (or tarot cards, or whatever) are just the vehicle to have that conversation. You can say maybe that person should just go to a therapist, and maybe they should, but essentially the priest is trying to help people work through whatever issue it is they're having so they can come to some sort of resolution. And that's a role that existed before the contemporary therapist.
The idea is then that the 'prediction' part is just that person resolving to act in a way that would make it true. So if they ask if they'll be successful, the priest guides them to some sort of action they can do to work toward that goal.
I can see people wanting to use stuff like new age astrology and tarot and all that kind of stuff in a similar way, but the difference is that unfortunately, the person conducting those ceremonies may not have those good intentions in mind or any sort of philosophical, cultural, or ethical training to guide people to beneficial actions. They're not a community figure invested in the lives of the people talking to them, but a fortune teller with a building in the middle of town just advertising their services to random people for profit.
EDIT: As to how I feel about it, I obviously don't believe in it but I try not to bash it too much unless that person uses it as an excuse to be discriminatory or justify their bad decisions. Especially in more ingrained cultural contexts like the above, but even for the 'fairies and tarot' folks.
I was checking that out since it started becoming popular when people were moving away from Nova for management reasons. I can never tell if the player count numbers include merchants, which is something tiny servers do to mask how dead they really are. RO has always had a fracturing problem where there's 200 servers with 15 players each all doing their own little thing. I am a fan of their selectable rates though, so you can go low, mid, or high. And I think RO has always been that way since the game doesn't tell you how literally anything works so you always had to look everything up on wikis, build calculators, etc. Private servers for sure make that worse though if they mess with drops.
Its not necessarily nostalgia, but like rolling back to a pre-nerffed bosses version of Elden Ring. The old content still existed but it was fundamentally not the same experience and was significantly less challenging with the way the game had changed. I can definitely see the case for it, but I also think stuff like Season of Discovery and Vanilla+ were what people were really after, like with Old School Runescape. Which private servers like Turtle WoW do better, but still. I don't think its weird except in a bizarre "people hate our changes so much they want to pay us to undo them" way.