i type way too much about video games and sometimes music

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Cake day: September 18th, 2023

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  • To try and answer the question, I think this is really about cultural history and fashion. The real question is “how did the male trucker look come about, historically?”

    Then, “what parts of this fashion look represent traditional masculinity, did the look come to symbolize it, or did parts of the look already come derived from traditional masculinity?”

    Then you can make an assumption that F to M trans that like this look find it to reflect the parts of their inner masculinity, because of the historical symbolism of masculinity held within the look. I’m not gonna do all the historical research, though.







  • I think it’s clear you guys disagree on a lot of major life philosophies, and that broadly it would’ve been difficult to get along with his current views. I don’t think this is anywhere near “I’m meant to be single” territory.

    You just need enough time to meet someone who more aligns with where you’re at in life currently, and that just wasn’t him.



  • Usually smoke weed and play a game, or play bass guitar. Weed does well to prevent me from dwelling on things because it shortens my attention span. Games allow me to escape, and not much keeps me in the moment as much as playing music does, to do it right you must live in the moment, so it helps.

    That being said, this is all escapism, which makes me feel better, but never solves any of the things I might be anxious about.





  • Me too. I know it’s a bit of work to set up an alternate mode and method to get to different planets and missions, and I’m sure teams are run really tightly on what gets worked on or not due to paying for whole teams to work, but I do wish they did what they could to future proof it.

    A lot of always online games are awesome, have artistic merit, and can be looked back upon later as gaming history, and if they don’t preserve these “art pieces” then a huge chunk of gaming history will likely disappear into the ether in 10 or 20 years. It seems a little silly to me that we can go back and play Mario 64, or even Helldivers 1 and see what that was like, but Helldivers 2 will become an inaccessible splash screen, it’s a waste of all of the time and work, and even the money that went into making this happen in the first place.


  • Did the first one really have offline? I played the shit out of it, but I was always connected. Sure, they should implement something similar here, too, but it is genuine work they need to put in to get it there, I’m sure they had to invest that for the first game especially since it was on the Vita.

    It isn’t arbitrary, though, go on any of the communities that care about the meta war and you’ll see people really do keep up with it and enjoy it, they work with each other to focus on the major orders and do a bit of roleplaying at the same time.

    I know that you’re very anti always online, and I understand and agree that it should be optional, but to say that nothing comes out of it would also be disingenuous.