I’ve said plenty of ugly things here that I’m ashamed of and have even apologized for.

Well, it's not just whatever racist comments you've made in the past—and if they were jokes, then there's not much reason to care about them, as far as I'm concerned—but you've also spewed a lot of horrible un-joking shit about transpeople, too, which you've never openly expressed any remorse over.

Even if you still find yourself stuck in your ways about that topic, the garbage opinions and misinformation you've spread about trans issues would go on to fuel the flames stoked by other more toxic and less charitable users than yourself, vindicating their bigotry, and making the forum significantly less comfortable for the high volume of trans users that were present in those times, many of whom were still deeply closeted and figuring themselves out. In your laundry list of users who you've labeled as hateful people, how many of them would like all your posts that expressed conservative gender politics? Probably a lot. Probably all the time.

I'm not trying to pin all this stuff on you, or claim that you're responsible for anyone else's actions. I'm not even asking you to apologize about anything you've said about transpeople, because I know you wouldn't anyway. I'm just asking you to acknowledge that hatred has played a bigger part of your legacy here than you've chosen to own up to.

If you don't, then to me, it proves that you're not exactly the most reformed and morally changed individual that you're trying to paint yourself as here—so enlightened and above it all—when you still perhaps have some work to do in certain areas.

Asking questions and having debates is perfectly okay, but the discussions you've taken part about trans rights have contributed nothing positive to the website whatsoever. By the time you discovered more reasonable ways of engaging with these subjects, it was far too late, and sadly, it had a net negative impact on the community in the long run. Should this matter to you? I don't know, but I think it would be big of you to acknowledge it.

I spent years getting called a sandnigger and a spic by a lot of users on here. Have you? To top it off they’d rarely get banned for it. One of those users (das boot) is actually a good friend of yours, who you have defended vehemently over the years. I can easily find and post screenshots of you defending him on my server claiming it’s all just jokes and his constant pedophile jokes aren’t a cause for concern at all lmao. Who the fuck are you to try and call me out on anything?

Jokes will always be jokes to me, and I don't think it really matters what the current social climate is. It's one of those things I'll probably never budge on.

That said, a big part of my defending of Das does come from a vague sense of loyalty I have towards those who I consider friends/friendly (which you can say is one of my weaknesses), and also from the idea that I don't want to believe he's really like that offline. I don't believe I've ever said his sense of humor wasn't "cause for concern." If I have, then that was foolish of me to say, and I take it back. What I would say instead is that, as someone who's actually spoken with him, I'm in a better position than you to say that he's not actually a complete degenerate, and over the past year or so he's made some noticeable strides to be a lot less edgy about shit. You haven't been around, so you wouldn't know.

He's a pervert, but the reason I like him in spite of that is because he's honest about it, and he's never really made much of an effort to defend himself. His humor, while gross, is often very self-depreciative and unpretentious in a way that makes it very clear to me that he's not asking you to like him, which I find inherently respectable. He also doesn't dislike me, and has never once given me shit about fucking anything, which I cannot say the same for legitimately anyone else here, at all. As a result, I like the guy. Sue me.

That said, I've never encouraged his humor. I don't even like it, and wish he never developed it, because he was a lot more "normal" on Bnet. I just don't think he's ever really crossed the line, or given me any reason to believe that he's a genuinely bad guy. It's okay if you disagree, though. I understand why you feel the way you do, and it's perfectly rational. I just see the guy differently.

What I'm calling you out over is the horrible stuff you've posted that wasn't in jest. I consider that very different.

are you asking to be perma'd too lmao

do you play all the games you collect? or just have them for the sake of having them

yeah, the end goal of this is actually to play/beat every single one so i can make a big-ass youtube video where i rank them all

i've always held that the N64 is the worst nintendo machine as far as games go, so this would be a fun way to test that theory, and it would give me an excuse to praise majora's mask to the high heavens

Verb, would you date someone like yourself?

part of the point of dating is to find someone with whom you share a lot of things in common, right?

so in that sense, absolutely

but if she was almost exactly like me, while i feel like that kind of relationship would be nice and peaceful, it wouldn't necessarily go anywhere—i feel like basically every conversation we'd have would be a boring circlejerk

but we'd be there for each other, and maybe that's what counts. idk

i think it can be advantageous to have the kind of relationship where you fill each other's gaps—the fact that i can't drive means that i would appreciate having someone who can, and in exchange, maybe i'll learn how to cook for her or some shit

This game has a fully functioning guitar which you strum by utilizing the DS4's touchpad. Each string is designated to a specific region of the pad so that they can be played individually to your liking, and you can play thirty unique chords—all of which are named, so that even if you're musically illiterate, you can easily transpose anything you want in order to play basically any song.

0/10 game because Chad dies, though.

http://sep7agon.net/the-flood/just-saw-the-first-episode-of-breaking-bad/msg787955/#msg787955

it was okay

if anything currently posted on this website is enough to make you go insane, then you have a very fragile mind (and vien is the last person you should be imploring to leave for that reason, since he's already one of the most certifiably insane people on the website and has been since b.old)

Quote from: Verbatim on July 02, 2020, 08:17:34 PM

Quote from: alphy on July 02, 2020, 07:52:07 PM

just 100%'ed the game

did you use a guide

the only "guide" i used was how to farm the game's currency

besides that, i thought all the collectables were straightforward in obtaining

atta boy

just 100%'ed the game

did you use a guide

Earlier last year, and against my better judgment, I decided I was gonna try to make an effort to play more modern games. If only for this year alone, I wanted to pick up at least one new game for every month of 2020—but then, of course, a world-stopping monkey wrench known as COVID-19 was thrown into every industry known to man, with video games being no exception. There have been a great deal of delays and push-backs aplenty over the past six months, and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight, leaving a relative dearth of overhyped and overproduced bullshit for us to consume. Whether that's ultimately good or bad is up to you, but that's just kinda the state of things right now.

Nonetheless, I still wanted to follow through with my plan, even if it meant buying some bum-ass indie game on Steam, because nothing else came out that month. So, here's everything that's been on my radar:

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January

☐ Journey to the Savage Planet
☐ Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Japan only)
☐ Hypercharge: Unboxed
☐ Puzzle & Dragons Gold
☐ Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV
☐ The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners
☐ Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
☐ Kandagawa Jet Girls (Japan only)
☐ AO Tennis 2

Basically nothing came out this month, which, for January, isn't out of the ordinary. I was initially somewhat interested in the new Yakuza, but it won't be coming stateside until later this year, and I haven't even played any of the others anyway. On top of that, I guess it's going to be an RPG, which seems to be a major departure from the rest of the series—so I'll have to pass on it, unfortunately.

That doesn't really leave very much, though. The only thing here that has me mildly interested (at best) is Journey to the Savage Planet, which looks kinda decent, but it also just looks like a bootleg Ratchet & Clank game to me, so I'm hesitant to drop $29.99 on it. I'll see if I can't get it on sale, or something.

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February

☑ Dreams
☐ Granblue Fantasy Versus
☐ Vitamin Connection
☐ Boris and the Dark Survival
☐ Katana Kami: A Way of the Samurai Story
☐ Persona 5 Scramble (Japan only)
☐ Death end re;Quest 2 (Japan only)
☐ Zombie Army 4: Dead War
☐ Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix
☐ Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash!
☐ Dota Underlords
☐ One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows
☐ The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics
☐ Monster Energy Supercross 3

To think that if Dreams never came out, I'd be stuck playing some weebshit fighting game instead. Long story short—Media Molecule did it again this year, having dropped what is almost assuredly going to end up being my GotY, although it's certainly debatable as to whether such a release should even count. Nonetheless, playing Dreams is the most consistently mind-blowing virtual experience I've had in the past ten years.

Dreams isn't just a sandbox game, or a simple creative tool—it's a straight-up game engine, but streamlined to be as welcoming and as user-friendly as possible. You can make anything with it; the degree of creative freedom that you're granted is seriously un-fucking-paralleled, and truly something to behold. As much I'd love to prattle off a list of things that I've seen created in Dreams, it would be futile, because the list of things that I haven't seen would be significantly shorter. The possibilities truly are endless with this one, and to top it all off, it's only $39.99. How can you beat that? An absolute and emphatic must-have for any PlayStation owner.

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March

☑ Animal Crossing: New Horizons
☐ Ori and the Will of the Wisps
☐ Half-Life: Alyx
☐ Nioh 2
☐ Doom Eternal
☐ Good Job!
☐ Biped
☐ Murder by Numbers
☐ Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Adventure
☐ Bleeding Edge
☐ Cooking Mama: Cookstar
☐ Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX
☐ Panzer Dragoon: Remake
☐ Black Mesa
☐ My Hero: One's Justice 2
☐ One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4
☐ MLB The Show 20
☐ R.B.I. Baseball 20

Probably the strongest month of the year in terms of options. I'm definitely interested in the new Ori game, but I still need to play Blind Forest. I love Half-Life, but I don't have a VR device (nor a PC powerful enough) to handle Alyx, so I'll keep my fingers crossed for a PSVR release. I also haven't played Nioh, so I'd rather hold off on the sequel, and I've never really given a shit about Doom, so Eternal was kind of off the table for me.

That pretty much leaves Animal Crossing: New Horizons—which is just as well, because as several others have pointed out, this game could not have come out at a better time. After putting up with the ongoing turmoil in the outside world, day in and day out, some of us really needed a relaxing game where all you do is hang out in a cute little village with your cute little animal friends. It's not a game for everybody—and indeed, it's yet another one of those games that challenges the definition of "game" itself—but regardless, with 13 million units sold in six weeks, it seems plain enough that AC was exactly what a lot of people needed in their lives.

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April

☑ Telling Lies
☐ XCOM: Chimera Squad
☐ Streets of Rage 4
☐ Moving Out
☐ Legends of Runeterra
☐ Predator: Hunting Grounds
☐ Final Fantasy VII Remake
☐ Resident Evil 3
☐ Trials of Mana
☐ SnowRunner
☐ Gears Tactics
☐ Picross S4
☐ Bokuhime Project (Japan only)
☐ MotoGP 20

If you're anything like me, and you don't really give a shit about remakes, then this month was even weaker than January for you, especially if you don't care about XCOM. Streets of Rage is a classic series, and all, but I don't necessarily need a fourth one. That leaves Telling Lies—a live action game where you try to solve a mystery by listening in on Skype calls between four people, and piece together whatever bits of information you can scrounge up, which is an admittedly neat concept, but I'm not sure how much I'd be willing to spend on that.

If you do care about remakes, then this was a pretty good year. Final Fantasy VII Remake dropped, which is kind of a big deal, as well as Resident Evil 3—both of which seem to have been very well-received. I'm interested in picking up the former, but only after I play the original Final Fantasy VII—which, in turn, I will only play once I've beaten I-VI, because I want to be the first American to ever play the Final Fantasy games in sequential order. That's gonna take a very long time, though... so, maybe I'll have to settle for Telling Lies.

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May

☑ Wildfire
☐ Crucible
☐ The Persistence
☐ Maneater
☐ Minecraft Dungeons
☐ Deep Rock Galactic
☐ Cannibal Cuisine
☐ Synaptic Drive
☐ Umihara Kawase BaZooKa!! (Japan only)
☐ The Elder Scrolls: Blades
☐ Golf With Your Friends
☐ Super Mega Baseball 3

Slim pickings this month once again. Both my initial pick and my back-up pick—The Last of Us Part II and Ninjala—were pushed back from this month, which pretty much left nothing else to look forward to. Maneater looks kinda funny, I guess, but not something I'd spend real money on. Crucible is appealing strictly on the basis that it's free to play, but beyond that, it looks like a generic piece of shit. The Persistence is mildly interesting, but also not really.

So, the game I'm currently waiting to go on sale for is Wildfire. $14.99 seems a bit steep for a game like this, but it does look like the best option available.

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June

☑ The Last of Us Part II
☐ Death Come True
☐ Liberated
☑ Ninjala
☐ Valorant
☐ Disintigration
☐ Desperados III
☐ Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia
☐ Pokémon Café Mix
☑ Jump Rope Challenge
☐ Kingdom Hearts: Dark Road
☐ SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated

I've had my sights set to three games in June—The Last of Us Part II for obvious reasons, but also two lesser-known games: Death Come True and Liberated. The former is another live action game, this one being Japanese and created by some of the people behind Danganronpa and Zero Escape. It's a choose-your-own adventure where you wake up with a dead body in your apartment, but with no memory of how it got there. The police arrive shortly thereafter, leaving you to think fast and Heavy Rain your way out of the situation. It looks pretty cool, if you ask me.

Liberated, on the other hand, is an action game with graphics made to look exactly like you're reading a comic book. I'm a sucker for cool gimmicks like this, so I'll probably pick this one up down the line. The Last of Us Part II took precedence, though, of course. Despite the controversy surrounding it, I've been thoroughly enjoying myself so far, and I guess you could say I'm still waiting to understand why people are so upset about it.

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That's pretty much it, I think. July's not looking spectacular right now, but I'll probably end up choosing Ghost of Tsushima if nothing else.

Just for fun, I made a tier list for sorting out all the games you're interested in playing, and I included everything that isn't a port, remaster, update, expansion, collection, or anything that's not a new and original title, or a full-fledged remake. I couldn't be bothered to add sports games like MLB: The Show 20, so I apologize that those are missing, and Battle for Bikini Bottom: Rehydrated is included because it was advertised as a full remake, even though it turned out to just be more of a remaster.


So, what have you been playing?

N64 pick-ups:

Blast Corps (finally)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Dark Rift
War Gods
Shadow Man
Razor Freestyle Scooter (the antepenultimate game released for the system)
Micro Machines 64 Turbo
WinBack: Covert Operations

They also had AeroGauge, Mickey's Speedway USA, Mike Piazza's Strike Zone, MRC: Multi-Racing Championship, Off Road Challenge, Ridge Racer 64, Rugrats: Scavenger Hunt, and Wheel of Fortune, but I had to pass these up for now, since I was going over-budget and didn't wanna starve today. Had I caved in, though, I'd officially have over 50% of the N64 library.

If I get Mickey's Speedway USA next time around, the only Rare game that I'll be missing for the system is Banjo-Tooie.

I also got Devil May Cry 3 for like $5, so I own the PS2 trilogy now. Not sure when I'll actually play them, but at least I have the ability to.

“Hola Principal Snickers” dice El Bart
“Bart vas a estar en una gran problema si seguís llamándome eso” dice El Principal Skinner
“Principal Snick-“ dice El Bart
“HIJO DE LA GRAN PUTA” dice Skinner dandole una bofetada al Bart

i recently learned the joke behind sneed's feed and feed (formerly chuck's) the other day

You're implying that all of them have sexual intent in mind. What about the ones that don't? What about the ones in environmental situations such as sparse populations? What about ones who can't seem to fill the intelligence gap? Or the ones who lost the genetic lookie loo lottery?

all of these people have better things to worry about than relationships, and because of this, even if they do feel lonely every once in a while, they're essentially incapable of being pathetic about it, because their situation has forced them to have priorities

I'm not defending the behavior nor the pity parties of the thirsties

well, they're the only people i'm talking about obviously

you say you're not trying to defend them, but i've personally never seen anyone try to defend whining about petty shit this hard—where i come from, it is universally reviled behavior

But I'm not constantly bitching about not having a gf

You made too many assumptions coming in here
It's almost like you're projecting

i don't have to project—i am lonely

the difference is that i'm okay with that, and would never post a thread like this about it, because it's cringe

Why can't a person think it'd be nice to have a gf instead of being a rock who doesn't need anybody or a sad puppy who can't survive without a partner

you can, i just don't think that person posts threads like this

Quote from: Verbatim on June 28, 2020, 04:20:38 PM

i never said there was anything wrong with it

i've just always thought of this "tfw no gf" meme as the most pathetic, whiny, and obnoxious shit ever, because it just so happens that the only people who post things like this are the ones who place too much stock on relationships in general

What about "tfw lonely af" instead?

what about being an interesting person instead

then you wouldn't have to be so lonely

or if you still are, you can try to embrace it, and come to the realization that you don't really need people all that much to be in a contented state of mind