bonus tip for wannabe badass dipshits: 'legally removing your ass' is not an insult with any bite, it is the peak of redditism and only reveals a complete lack of expertise or experience with violence. its the kind of thing a pre-teen would think of on the spot. the liberal mind cannot even violate the law in their own fantasies. mention a broken bone or gouged eye or something at least, those are real things that can actually happen, except their ~~big boy yoga class~~ mcdojo probably wouldn't ever teach or allow anything that could actually hurt people

everyone knows that the most serious skilled fighters always talk shit and fantasize about their victory, as the famous martial arts paradigm is to 'act with constant and obsessive regard and lust for the result' and definitely not the exact opposite of that

like any good marketing campaign they have content for every target demographic lol

on the 360 playing battlefield bad company i assumed terrain destruction and stuff would be the norm in the future and maps would be a lot bigger with more people, i was too stupid to realize that the most important part of gaming is that the graphics get un-noticeably, incrementally better over time without any fundamental changes to gameplay or possible art styles, everything must be bland and 'photorealistic' or else it must be Fortnite. I used to assume a good game would get a sequel in a year or two and have significance game improvements, now i wait a decade or more to get the exact same game but with higher resolution and frame rate and new microtransactions

it's like they posted about MGS without ever playing it lol

its not so much praised for being full throated communist propaganda as much as for not being full throated imperialist propaganda. its leagues better than a james bond film because in MGS3 they explicitly avoid anti-communist or anti-soviet talking points, the BBEG Volgin is a rogue actor and the USA and international capital (in the form of the Patriots and the Philosophers Legacy fund) ends up being basically responsible for everything that happens. ANY other game in the same setting and themes would take the chance to be super anti-communist and anti-soviet.

MGS2 and 4 and PW are actually super based though.

the alpha dominates, sports players only follow their coach/alpha's orders. the alpha is the guy that owns the team, not the guy playing for it

i hate this pseudoscience ideology and that i understand it

hes fantasy batman crossed with forest gump, a mary sue 'the best ever at fighting' character and master detective who 'tries to stay out of politics' but ends up being involved in every important thing that ever happens anywhere, and gets the opportunity to fuck every woman mage in the land. every person in the setting that isn't also a witcher or a mage rightfully sees him as an inhuman monster, it does the x-men thing where it portrays the superhuman monster-people as 'oppressed minorities', meanwhile accidentally justifying their oppression by making them actually materially physically very dangerous to those around them. early in the 3rd game these 3 human guys will team up on the witcher for making a politically controversial statement, expecting a bit of a scuffle or fist fight brawl, and he decapitates them all with his superhuman sword skills. they were unarmed.

EXACTLY

i've never gotten 'fun' or 'satisfaction' out of beating a difficult videogame, even when i beat MGS3, which is one of my favorite games of all time, on the European Extreme difficulty, i just get that 'thank goodness i don't have to do that anymore' vibe like i got done with a particularly unpleasant chore.

i will never beat a dark souls game. i could, but it would be (and has been so far) a joyless slog of grinding for resources so that i can make any new weapons or armor i find actually worth using. getting new items isn't fun, it only means awkwardly travelling to whatever region has enemies that drop the most titanite shards and spending hours battling enemies in a region you finished hours ago just so that the new item does more than a pittance of damage. plus i really really expected elden ring to have any kind of climbing, even a simple ledge-clamber, after sekiro's ninja-parkour, and instead all we got was a useless crouch button and a less flavorful jumping mechanic. they've essentially been re-releasing the same game with a different map since demon's souls. overrated trash series, from software should have stuck to armored core games imo and i'm only partially saying that because i am obsessed with mechs. i would rather play EVE online and i hate spreadsheets.

1. yes, no specific strains as i use a variety based on the best price-per-THC-content i can get, mostly flower but there were periods where i used vapes instead.
2. i've had COVID twice, roughly a year apart, each time lasted about 1-2 weeks, i had fatigue, mucus overproduction, muscular weakness, fever and sweating, and my mental state seemed more fragile or 'loopy', i had to keep myself distracted and focused on the moment more than usual with constant conscious effort. i haven't noticed any distinct long covid symptoms.