Exactly my thoughts!

I loved DW3 as a kid. When I returned to it when I was a little older, I realised I loved it because I had a lot of time as a child. The game is fun and nostalgic for me, and has the makings of a great Digimon experience, but it’s a huuuuuge grind fest. It simply does not respect your time at all. Large portions of the game are traversing a dungeon with random battles literally every 2 steps to find an NPC, only to retrace your steps to talk to another NPC, ONLY TO THEN BE TOLD TO RETURN TO THE FIRST. And there’s literally no fast travel. I know it sounds on paper like standard 90’s JRPG fare but even Pokémon had Fly… and Repels. You just waste so much time on unavoidable random battles, and they’re slow because it’s PS1 era stuff.

So yeah, I love it… in theory. The Digivolution mechanics are cool - every Digimon can evolve into every other Digimon, I literally printed out spreadsheets as a kid of digivolution conditions, but this aspect is also absurdly grindy. I don’t think I could ever actually properly play it again with everything that entails as an adult.

Comrade, for the sake of your health, you have to step away, you have to put a barrier between yourself and these people. They’re evil, we know they are, what they’re cheering is a populated residential neighborhood being flattened to kill one man. They are devils walking the Earth. We can’t expect any better from them, so don’t let them into your mind, don’t allow them in. It’s nothing but poison. I’ve been there, and I feel the exact same emotions as you’ve voiced, every single thing you’ve said is something I’ve felt from the news and events alone, but you cannot allow the scum’s reaction to push you over the edge.

Read the Gaza Q&A thread instead. If you’ve already read it, re-read it. Let the humanity wash over you instead, sorrow for them instead, and take to your heart their true belief in martyrdom instead.

Chaaaaaaange into digital champions, toooooooo save the digital WORLD

I wanna tell you to do it at night, wear gloves, don’t get caught, it’ll be a thrill and well deserved, but every house has a fucking Ring thing now, right?

Holy shit, this crept up on me, it is out in 2 weeks isn’t it?! Can’t wait

I don’t want to give away too much specific info but I’m finally hitting my breaking point with how I’m treated at work. I’m looking for a new job, but in the meantime, anyone have any suggestions for retaliating against my boss and other employees who treat me badly, in ways that won’t get me fired immediately?

Or, the chocolate flavour, Lopmon

And Beelzemon is badass (on a motorbike or with wings)

It’s clever because someone else in the media said it was. Remember, these people can only speak when the media narrative’s hand is up their ass moving them.

Have to agree, I also can’t remember anything about the first two apart from that Eleven is in one of them. I have no desire to rewatch to remember either, but I’d rewatch Shin Godzilla and Minus One in a heartbeat (even though I also have my issues with the way Minus One’s allegories are handled).

Apart from the political and economic reasons, sometimes I really think that white people make up these horrible lies because they know deep down they are the irredeemable monsters and they feel a desperate need to project.

Exactly. People are delusional to compare knives to guns. The number of fatalities would be significantly reduced if people only had access to knives.

I’d say great, it makes the losers deny themselves treats everyone else is playing for literally no good reason which must result in some gamer suffering at least, but you just know none of them actually have the principles to do that. They just wanna cry about woke and make little databases about it, but none of them will actually put down Baldur’s Gate 3. Makes it doubly pathetic.

56% wanting to be astronauts in China vs. only 11% in the US is pretty different, but I think his point is that when you look at those who aspire to be YouTubers it’s 30% in the US vs. 18% in China, which is not the grand cultural difference OP is making it out to be.

The etymology of dumb is rooted in ableism, yeah. I’m not sure about stupid. Those are two I struggle with to this day, because in my mind they’re so detached from the ableist definitions. I’ve never in my life associated dumb with a mute person, for example, even though that’s the definition.

To be completely real, I’m not sold on ‘stupid’ being ableist but I’ll try to avoid the language if it has the possibility to be harmful, e.g. I edited one of my recent comments from stupid to silly. Ignorant is another good alternative.

EDIT: Okay, yeah, the etymology of ‘stupid’ is also rooted in ableism.

If you believe broadly that people should be given dignity regardless of gender, sexuality, race, disability, appearance, etc. etc. etc., it should be clear that using a descriptor of those things to mean something generally negative deprives them of that dignity. You’re saying they’re lesser, inferior, below you, purely because they don’t fit into the status quo.

For real, same. I think about how much I can fall into despair now even with this place, I can only imagine what it would be like without it.

Oh, I’m so so sorry about your ex… Yeah, I didn’t mean to downplay how much those online spaces can mean to us. It’s really awful that it was taken from you for not towing the mainstream line. I have a Palestinian flag pin that I put on my backpack but I take it off when I go into the office because no one at work would sympathise and I worry about retaliation for it, so I understand. Fucked up world we live in.

Hi friend. I know it seems hard right now but try to put yourself out there as much as you can, you’ll thank yourself for it later. Do whatever you can to push through the anxiety and muster up the strength to talk to people and be social, in whatever way is available. You aren’t annoying, you aren’t desperate, you’re just new and how you’re feeling is completely understandable. The decent people know and understand that and there are loads of them. Good luck.