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erik [he/him]

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Resident normie on this site.

  • Are your bosses / managers acting more aggressive lately?

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  • I'm doing well at work and it's happening with me too, which feels super weird. I'm getting compliments about my last big win in completely unrelated email chains, getting nice spot bonuses and invited to thank you lunches. But at the same time, I'm being asked to do a lot more paper work that's mostly just copy-paste and other general busy work that feels like huge wastes of time related to like new SOPs and task tracking.

  • Knocked Loose ft. Denzel Curry - Hive Mind

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  • They are incapable of putting out a bad track.

  • I think it's because the author is an asshole

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  • Yeah, this comes from a weird place that like all franchises just deserve to live on forever or something. How many people are still talking about MASH, one of the most watched television shows of its time? Or more recently Twilight, which at one time redefined an entire literary genre and had the biggest films in the world, much like Harry Potter? Obviously, I don't discount at all Rowling's everything she's done to harm her brand thing here, but why is the baseline assumption that Harry Potter should live on forever? Media franchises come and go all the time.

  • Patreon and the Chapos (maybe?) are shutting down r\Blackwolffeed

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  • Yeah, I can see wanting to call the bluff. The timing on this, with Chris suddenly getting them proper social media accounts elsewhere, strikes me more as Chapo wanting control of the biggest fan presence on Reddit (maybe on the internet?) than anything the Patreon overlords had to say.

    But I get as just some unpaid reddit mod not wanting to tempt fate with legal actions directed toward you and just saying "fuck you I quit."

  • at least Mecha Hitler said it is sorry!!

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  • 2025 Was The Gaming Year: What Did You Play This Year Thread

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  • Minish Cap gets ignored too often when talking Zelda. Really, a lot of those installments on portable systems were quite charming.

  • 2025 Was The Gaming Year: What Did You Play This Year Thread

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  • DA2 is definitely a bit underrated both because of what you mentioned, the cultural bullshit was heating up and it landed right in it, but also the love affair gamers were having at the time with open worlds. Like you said, it's a little limited and repetitive in the level design, but the story is tight, it's cool to see choices and their effects years later and the characters are very well done. The ending, unfortunately, suffers from typical BioWare downfall where no matter what you do, you basically have to fight every boss because they'll all turn on you no matter who you ally yourself with. I definitely prefer it to Inquisition, which like you say, feels like an empty MMO, and Veilguard, which feels like it was written by Wattpad authors.

  • 2025 Was The Gaming Year: What Did You Play This Year Thread

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  • I really like the Paragon-Renegade in ME1 because it doesn't feel like good-evil like so many dialogue systems did in that time. You could definitely be a renegade and be more of a "we get the job done because the alternative is extinction" type of hero rather than just cartoonishly evil like you ended up in KoTOR for example. Sadly, the sequels basically took the easy way out and made Renegade kind of sadist and evil.

    For me, this year I played a few games:

    • Metaphor: ReFantazio - It was fine. I was hoping with the team behind Persona being free of Persona's focus on high school students, they could do something more mature and interesting. But no, even in a completely made up secondary world, we still are kids saving the universe or whatever. It's fine, but it really didn't feel that that much of a step forward. And the requirement to keep the Persona-like visual novel gameplay with epic fantasy's much bigger scope meant having to invent reasons your character can teleport and other things like that. It just really felt like a mess of different things crammed together. Only recommended for the biggest of Persona fans.
    • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - This game ruled. Everyone that hyped this was correct. From the absolute gut punch of an opening, to the great, Mario RPG-like battle system to the character work (actual adults with actual adult feelings!), it just worked. Rare game that everyone talks about and they were right.
    • Last Defense Academy - Guilty pleasure. Definitely nice to have Kodaka back in full sicko mode making a visual novel where nothing is sacred. The gameplay is fine, if you like tactics RPG battle systems, you'll find enough to enjoy here. What I found best about this was that almost every gameplay mechanic had in game lore and story attached to it. There's a tendency for mechanics and story to be a little separated (why doesn't Cloud just use a Phoenix Down?) in games, and this game is whip smart about how it makes the two meet. Seeing choices actually matter and all the branching paths to lead to all 100 endings was also well executed.

  • Fiona & Cake, seasons 2 thoughts

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  • My kid enjoys it. Weird to release the last episode on Christmas when he's busy with gifts and family, but we'll get to it eventually. It seems to make less sense than even most Adventure Time stuff does (which we've watched all of it together because he's a fan of all of it), but it's certainly not bad by any stretch. Just occasionally more interested in some larger story beats and set pieces than it is in the connective tissue between them.

    Some of the specific beats also seem to be done more to reference other works (the second to last episode had a bunch of Nausica of the Valley of the Wind, for example), than to make sense narratively, but there's still good character beats and it's saying some nice things anyway.

    I'd rather have him into something like this than rotting his brain with YouTube or TikTok like some of his classmates definitely are. He's at the age where he's "learning" things from media and so things like Hunter not taking advantage of a tipsy Fionna are good for him to see. He also said out of no where "Huntress Wizard is cool. She's powerful and has cool abilities. I can see why Finn likes her." So, hopefully that means I don't have a manosphere dork on my hands haha

  • What happened to Charlie Kirk was a profound bummer

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  • He is also just one of the dumber people to rise to the position he did. Like, unable to complete basic literacy tests stupid. You realize why he failed to be an influencer quickly when you realize just how incredibly stupid he is even compared to the low bar that is conservative influencer level intelligence.

  • Should I just buy a M4 MacBook Air

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  • Depending on your timeline, you may want to wait for the M5. It's just around the corner according to some recent leaks.

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    My band, Unmaking, communist black / sludge / death metal

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  • OK, I am honestly impressed by how much this rocks. You guys sound great. I'm more of a hardcore guy, but I still stopped listening to The Armed to listen to this whole thing. Putting you in my regular rotation for the time being.

  • Minecraft just became Mein Kraft

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  • God has cursed me with cringe opponents.

  • Google alternatives?

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  • I like Kagi because, at least for now, paying for it means two things:

    1. my data is not their product. My subscription is. So, they don’t keep much data about me (supposedly) and you can do stuff with their token system to further anonymize yourself.
    2. they have no ads. So they’ve no incentive to keep me on their site. The more I use the site, the worse for them. So, they deliver good results at the top and send me on my way rather than trying to trap me and keep serving me ads.

  • Where's Chapo?

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  • [whispering to date while watching Trap House when Chapo first appears on the screen] That's Chapo

  • Gimme some tunes.

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  • December I sort of allow myself to listen to my favorite albums of the year on repeat, so this is a great week to ask me haha

    The Armed - THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED (hardcore punk)

    Wisp - If Not Winter (shoe gaze)

    Stray From the Path - Clockworked (hardcore punk/metalcore) RIP, their last album

    Turnstile - NEVER ENOUGH (hardcore punk)

    deathdotgov - deathdotcom (hardcore punk)

    Dying Wish - Flesh Stays Together (hardcore punk/metalcore)

    Greyhaven - Keep it Quiet (metalcore)

    Rolo Tomassi - In the Echoes of All Dreams (mathcore)

    Mirrorcell - Long Nights in Lovescape (nu-metal)

  • Citizen Sleeper - it was all right

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  • Good shoutout on Duskpunk. Really wish the dev would put it on GOG or someplace with no DRM.

  • Citizen Sleeper - it was all right

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  • I enjoyed it a lot. I wasn't really looking for challenge, I was looking for vibes and it delivers that really well. It's more of a visual novel than an RPG, and that's fine imo.

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs are still “shellshocked” at the game’s success, saying “nobody understands what’s really happening”

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  • I think you put the wrong link in, the article is about Fortnite.

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    Dying Wish - Flesh Stays Together (Hardcore Punk, Full Album, New)

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    Israel: A report reveals 100% of Thai agricultural workers were sexually assaulted

    www.business-humanrights.org /en/latest-news/israel-a-new-report-reveals-100-of-thai-agricultural-workers-were-sexually-assaulted/
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    deathdotgov - deathdotcom (Full album, Hardcore Punk, FFO: seeyouspacecowboy, Every Time I Die)

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    Working Up to a Standing Ab Wheel Rollout

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    One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss

    grist.org /biking/one-mile-on-a-bike-is-a-42-economic-gain-to-society-one-mile-driving-is-a-20-loss/
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    Amtrak's new Twin Cities-Chicago route through Milwaukee turns a profit in first 11 days

    archive.ph /6D5HB
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    Pre-Print of a Meta-Analysis Says That 1-2 Minutes Ideal Rest in Weight Training

    sportrxiv.org /index.php/server/preprint/view/395/819