Dear gods, yes. Ask me how many characters I've had to reroll because the rest of the pasty plays mechanically and nobody else wants to Face or even knows what a Face is.
But then the table acts like I'm holding up the game when I do Face things to advance the game. It's a role playing game, lads and lasses. What did you think this was, a dice game out back of the pub?
Of course it's just more performative MAGA nonsense, cutting off the nose to spite the face and calling it "owning the libs."
These people wouldn't know Marxist ideology if it slapped them across the face, it's just another buzzword in the same vein as "socialist" and "leftist" and "communist" (read: "anything I don't like").
The constant aggressive anti-intellectualism is exhausting.
I didn't discover Rouroni Kenshin until much later, as it never officially aired in the UK (and if it did, I missed it completely).
It was probably late 00s when I first got to the States that I saw it for the first time based on recommendation.
That being said, after DBZ I went into all the 90s / early 00s classics: Elfen Lied, GitS, Trigun, Bebop, Outlaw Star, Akira, etc.
They honestly don't make anime like they used to. I can't point to anything modern that even comes close except maybe the Blame OVA from a few years ago. Maybe Chainsaw Man but the tropes are so modern it's hard for me to compare it to anything from back then.
Robotech Macross as a kid, but I wasn't really aware of it the first time I saw it.
But then 10-year-old me discovered DBZ when it aired in the UK for the first time and after that I was hooked.
Macross holds up, imo, even if it gets a little weird to watch in certain places as an adult. I honestly outgrew DBZ in my adulthood, the power fantasy was cool when I was a kid but as a person grown and a parent now I find most of the characters insufferable.
Probably an odd one, but Yanni—Live at the Acropolis. It is damn near the perfect live recording if you can listen to it on an old school CD player or on a media player that supports gapless listening (no breaks / pauses between tracks). It's a series of full orchestra arrangements and medleys of his solo piano work that really doesn't have any flaws.
It's my understanding that we already decided not to federate with them?
That being said, I'm ethically opposed to supporting the corporate invasion of both FOSS and anti-corporate spaces.
With Meta, specifically, their MO with literally every tech space they've ever entered has been to EEE, and I think the "wait and see" approach to give them the benefit of the doubt that they won't do the same thing here is naivete at best and willful ignorance at worst.
I joined Beehaw. We don't even have the option. The ethos is to at least attempt to give the OP the benefit of the doubt when we find problematic content (unless it's just blatantly trolling or in bad faith) and try to educate ignorance.
This reads like dialogue written for the "pretentious writer" friend character trope who is always shitting on other peoples' work but hasn't ever had any success with his own in every B-list Hollywood meta comedy: smug, confident, completely wrong, and utterly without purpose or substance.
Whether or not you're ace is only something you can determine. I can only tell you that my own sexuality is..weird.
I personally have issues connecting emotionally with other people. I can feel just fine, but there seems to be an invisible wall between what I feel and how I process my emotions and other human beings. I can show compassion and sympathy and empathy, but it's purely performative: I don't feel these things for others.
No amount of therapy has ever been able to fix this. That part of my brain just...doesn't work that way.
But I still experience attraction. I still want someone to share my life with, romantically. I still like sex, a lot.
Romance, for me, is just finding out what behaviors my partner recognizes as me caring for them and then modeling those behaviors. It can sometimes be a strange cognitive dissonance to have someone who says how loved I make them feel and yet my attachment to them, such as it is, is pure intellectual and sexual, no emotional component at all.
Anyway, sorry for the word vomit, I guess all that was just to say that there's nothing wrong with not fitting any of the existing labels 100%. Labels are just descriptors, and their only value is in communicating a shared experience to others. If they fit, they fit. If they don't, no worries. You're you, and that's okay.
I agree with this whole-heartedly, there's simply no way any reasonable person would consider skipping story content as buying power in the context of how FFXIV works as an MMO.
It lets players jump right into the new content without worrying about dozens or hundreds of hours of prior story they may or may not want to play through to get to the latest content at the same level as everyone else starting out, that's all.
No, the usage in the meme is correct. It's saying "have to be" not "in addition to".