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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Having kids makes you think differently. It makes you think about longer term plans, and immediate plans. It makes you yearn for stability. It makes you more succeptible to scare tactics. It makes you less likely to rock the boat.

    It made me personally accept shittier situations personally (work) for the percieved benefit of ensuring stability for my baby. You can imagine how that extrapolates across an authoritarian society.

    Even knowing it would probably be fine to advocate for myself, to push for what I deserved; knowing that it was purely biology pushing me to make the choice, I still picked percieved stability. I just couldn’t bring myself risk being fired.

    Counter-intuitevely, we think of parents as being primed to defend their children from any and all attacks and threats. That works monkey to monkey, but at scale, it breaks down. Being parents makes both men and women more vulnerable.

    As for immediate effect: I’d be a lot easier to coerce if you had access to my family.

    Edit: It also makes you busy as fuck. Ain’t nobody got time for nothin’ when they have a kid. Certainly not for uncertain outcomes, like resistance groups or political disident work







  • The only soulslike that’s reasonably flashy yet simple enough that comes to mind is Code Vein

    It’s slightly more cartoony than black desert, but has a high degree of character customization.

    Story’s fine, but not required.

    Combat was cool. I found it fine even on a bluetooth controller. Didn’t get massively frustrated with input lag.

    Character builds can vary quite a lot, and are mostly viable. I played a glass cannon and my friend played a tank. They worked just fine alone or together. On that note, the coop is serviceable.

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/678960/CODE_VEIN/

    Probably wait for a discount.