Metaphor Refantazio continues to deliver me a cute little guy saying silly knight shit with fantastic menus and music. I've learned the rhythm and order of operations for the game's various features and I'm excited to see where it goes next.

I'm considering making a thread for a hexbear game of Dominions 6. Would anyone be interested in that? I'm imagining a game that's pretty casual and geared toward teaching people to play multiplayer. Maybe even being open with our builds and what we're doing? Let me know if that is something you're interested in.

There's still some interesting UIs being made.

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Metaphor Refantazio has me feeling like about JRPGs. Like I kind of always liked them but this game is slotting into my brain in a way that makes me appreciate the elements of the genre acting in concert in a way that I hadn't before. The menus, the music, the bizarre mix of heavy subject matter and the super direct storytelling, the fashion, the pastiche of european early modern and medieval aesthetics filtered through japanese understanding. It's just all hitting so well. I'll have to wait to see if it actually has anything interesting to say, but the politics don't suck ass at least.

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I got a special fucking bone to pick with Cities Skylines 2. I've never had a game look like such vaseline-smeared ass while making my computer sound like it's about to take off. It's a shame because it's definitely come a long way as a game and has some really nice buildings now, but to play it I start to get nervous after like half an hour and have to let my computer cool down, fuck that shit.

Someone uploaded the image and it broke the site. That might have also been what made the image look like that.

Hits a little different after listening to that QAA about Niantic's connections to the CIA and how robust a tool Pokemon Go is for surveillance and creating a "large Geo-spatial model".

Hexbear pop culture enemies - for instance superhero movies are often semi-seriously marked with a "capeshit" warning

We should actually stop doing this. The function of Content Warnings is to help people avoid upsetting material, not to signal that something is disapproved of. Using them ironically or "semi-seriously" makes them less effective in their actual function.

Important update, thanks.

I feel pretty parasocial about this, but I have talked to this guy at least twice and that makes it hit different. I know there are criticisms to be had of his show, but I've kind of looked up to the guy. I mean he's an honest to God communist construction worker who really broadened my understanding of the theory and he just seems like a good egg. I don't think it's that weird for me to be moved a little. Also this means that both hosts of the Low Culture Boil podcast have husbands who suffered a stroke. That's just some awful trivia. Also that's a really good show if you just want to listen to a couple women hang out and talk about rugrats or whatever.

So apparently Sean KB from the antifada had a stroke. He seems to be doing pretty well though.

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Just gonna PSA that breathplay is not safe. That said, the safest way to do it is to push UP under the jaw, which should still induce the sensation without constricting blood vessels. But also there are a lot of other ways to achieve that kind of arousal that aren't dangerous. NEVER press longer than a couple seconds. Also just like don't do breathplay. Use the sides of the neck or the face and ears for intensity.

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There are a surprising number of us here. Idk if your're into multiplayer, but I have a bunch of discord servers for that if you want. It would be sick to set up a hexbear rp game, maybe I should make that happen.

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the best borderlands game actually

Dominions 6 got updated so I have dipped my toe back into that absolute mess. Gonna try and take it real easy and not get into half a dozen games at once this time only to burn the fuck out.

Also been doing some Metaphor Refantazio, which is definitely an Atlus game. It's not like it's bad, and I am definitely having fun with it, but it's also just so fucking stupid and anime. I kind of love that though. I do have to say that the 3d environments fucking suck and it's sad to see that there was a lot of work put into them only for it to look like crap. Otherwise I have been enjoying how sexy all the menus are and the super fucking good battle theme with the guy chanting all crazy.

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