LoamImprovement @ LoamImprovement @beehaw.org

Oh god, please don't make me talk about myself.

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Not sure of which drug you're referring to?

"Oh Lisa, that's a load of Evard's Black Tentacles."

Yeah, cause wine bottles have necks that wide and metal squeezes so well into glass. Who tf do they think they're fooling? And follow-up question, what in the ever-loving fuck?

I think they're referring to the South Park episode that featured a particularly negative portrayal of the homeless as a zombie plague, which they 'solved' by bussing homeless to California.

I think possibly the only positive portrayal I've heard of in recent years has been the Sesame Street muppet who was introduced as part of the homelessness episode, and while it's good to teach children that homeless people are, in fact, people, it's some real orphan crushing machine shit that we're having to inform kids, who may themselves be homeless, that homelessness isn't an intrinsic property or something to be ashamed of.

It's a nice fantasy, but the reality is the people who have the resources to make the AI are wiring it to further concentrate wealth and power in their own hands, and anything that develops from that will almost inevitably have that at its core. I will believe a paperclips scenario or skynet far more readily than an AI that achieves hypersentience and somehow comes to the conclusion that the most fruitful course of action is to make the greedy violent hairless apes, the ones that fucked up the planet for every other living creature, as happy and comfortable as possible.

If you can afford it. And those that can don't want to because they like how things are now, with everyone else's necks under their heels.

I think it's a fair criticism, not necessarily one I agree with, but the quantity of content available for the asking price certainly isn't proportional to the base game, although it is quality content, bugs notwithstanding. I think maybe the only game that would come close to it on those terms would be Fallout: New Vegas.

I would hazard a guess that a large part of the pricetag probably isn't just for the DLC though - It's been three years since release and ostensibly the CP2077 dev team has been hard at work fixing the colossal fuckup the game was on launch day, and then some. There's a lot of work that's been put in to the systems overhaul in order to make the base game more functional and enjoyable, and I believe a lot closer to the original vision the team had before the marketing and hype (and death threats) nudged them to push out a rushed product, and all that's getting packed in as a free update for a game that was probably underpriced at the typical $60 anchor point on release in 2020.

The Tribe of Nova music festival in Israel was attacked by Hamas militants. There are at least 260 dead, and hostages have been taken. OP's joke is in poor taste, considering.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-music-festival-6a55aae2375944f10ecc4c52d05f2ffe

Counterpoint - PCs are special and unique by necessity. The vast majority of creatures in whatever world your DM runs do not engage in the adventuring lifestyle. Many are happy to live quiet lives settled in relative comfort and peace. When you create a character, one of the things you need to think about is the impetus that sets them apart from those other people that don't delve into musty old tombs and dank caves looking for trouble - otherwise, as soon as the PC gets their hands on a sizable sum of gold, they don't really have a reason not to split and live like a king with the fortune they've amassed. Additionally, characters with class levels are de facto exemplary, and the intro blurb on each class description that everyone skips over to get to the meat of character creation includes questions that probe why your character is interested in sticking their neck out.

That's not to say that you, personally, can't play Johnny Hayseed, the Human Fighter 1 who signed up to be in the army with all his buddies and has no distinguishing features, traits, or characteristics that set him apart from the average person, but as a good player who facilitates the story the rest of the group is trying to tell, you will need a reason to travel with these weirdos who are all strange and different, and that's going to be the thing that sets your character apart.

But where is SLC Punk!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcFm96WxAZY

I mean, it really doesn't have anything to do with V's gender, it's literally just that they start every sentence like, for example, "...Thought" or "...Look like" instead of "I thought" or "You look like," even when the VO is enunciating in a way that sounds much more emphatic than the dropped pronouns would imply? It makes the dialogue feel kind of disjointed at times.

Granted, I'm using the female V voice, I have no idea if the male VO runs into the same problems, but I imagine they're reading off of the same script, so it seems likely.

I'm talking more about the dialogue between V and other characters where they just adamantly refuse to begin sentences with the words I/me/my/etc. It begins to wear after a while.

I definitely thought they were talking about Amazon the company and not The Amazon.

Yeah, I definitely had a knee-jerk reaction to that headline but the follow-up thought was "Well, if NASA is commissioning them it's probably with more justification than a fashion statement."

'Again' implies I stopped the first time.

The only thing I don't like about Cyberpunk's writing is that everyone seems to be deathly allergic to pronouns, even when it would clearly make the dialogue flow better.

https://img.ifunny.co/images/cd364138aec8bccbfcb8dec51694811206dab1b1a6bdd66f59b25e2b7703171a_1.webp

In 3D

God, we really are in the dumbest timeline