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What? That sucks. Making fun of @Chris-'s egregious whiteness every time he posts a picture but it's just a cover for how much I actually wish I had his life is what keeps me going.

Good to see Helen Keller still has a job, though

Every time I make frozen pizza at home I don't even cut it, I just pick the whole thing up and eat it like a cookie

Looks like you have to eat that with a fork. I'm a 3-topping max person. Any more than that and you might as well get a calzone

Thank God, I was worried for a minute. Also didn't know Motion City Soundtrack was still playing shows.

Thank jeebus someone did it

I just bought Sword of Vermilion because apparently I'm a masochist. I do want to give it an honest shot, though.

!!!!!!

I could probably keep my bar job on weekends, too. It's not like I have a social life.

I'll take donations, I don't discriminate based on species.

Dude, weird.

I'd rather take a guaranteed $15/hour than "spin the roulette wheel on whether you're going to get $40/hour or nothing", which is pretty much what I do now

I basically have been in this trap for the last year+ where it's like I both can't afford to keep my job and also can't afford to leave it without at least some assurances.

Solid strategy

I'm kind of stuck. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to have enough money for bills this month. When my money is great, it's great, and when it's not, it's not. I don't see how just moving to a different bar would be better, I basically have one of the best bar jobs you can have without staying in one place for 15 years or working in Vegas. I'm barely scraping by. Then today they told me they're probably getting rid of one my shifts. I just like, don't know where to go from here? It feels like everything is just a lateral move and I'll be dealing with the same shit in 2 months. I thought about something like data entry, since I'm quite handy with spreadsheets, but like... I don't even know where to start. I've basically only worked in bars since I was 17. And it's not just a moving to New Orleans thing. It was already happening in Portland before I left. Trying to be financially comfortable without balancing 3 jobs was impossible. Trying to juggle that kind of work load took a massive toll on my mental health, to the point of actual insomnia - hallucinations and everything. I just kind of feel like I don't know where to go.

I've been watching a YouTube channel called Cinema Therapy for a couple years now, and they kind of hit on this idea that movies and TV allow you to process emotions in a way that can cut through the shield that you put up around yourself. Because the story isn't about *you,* it's not an attack on you. You don't get defensive. There's a degree of separation that allows you to feel things that you brain would normally shut out. There aren't that many popular stories about introverted Muslim girls in America, and what they go through every day. Just having that one outlet where people who see themselves in this story can go "OMG YES!!!" is such a powerful thing. And I have yet to discover an argument of how expanding the role of super heroes to a more diverse group of people is bad that isn't simply closeted racism. "It's cool that she's a brown girl, but I wish she would just shut up about it and get on with the show." I'm fucking sick of that attitude. The action genre in film has been 99% the property of white male power fantasies for... well, basically forever. Expanding that to include others is in no way a bad thing. It's why I don't begrudge Jordan Peele, when asked if he said he'd ever make a movie with a white protagonist, he basically said "no, that story has been told a million times, I have no interest in it." I love that you don't see color, tell that to people of color. They have to.

I've never been able to get into Xenoblade games. I've tried with every single one. The combat is just weird and unsatisfying to me. I WANT to like them, and they try to lure me in with big anime titties that make me feel like playing the game is a risk if someone else walks in the room so I have to say 'wait, no, I can explain,' but it's not enough.

Stories about empowerment can only ever be about white males. This is the way. If it's not about a white male, it's pandering to the woke agenda. Unless the main character, who is either a woman or a POC or both, never once mentions how like maaaaaybe being those things affect their life. Because in real life those things don't affect your life at all, it's just whining. We don't like our characters to whine unless it's about dead relatives. This is EMPOWERMENT, goddammit, not therapy hour. Therapy is for pussies. Do I think the show leans into it a little too hard? Yeah. But I also like that Disney is basically saying "hey, you bearded white cucks, it turns out bearded white men are an insignificant portion of the world audience, so we don't really care what you think."

People should just learn to shut up and deal with it if you want to live in a city. If you're trying to work, put fucking headphones on, it's not rocket surgery. Sometimes I don't get home from work until 6am and they start mowing the lawn across the street at 8:30. I also live across the street from a school. You don't see me bitching at them to keep it down. Like, if noise bothers you so much, maybe YOU should be the one to move out into the suburbs. That being said, soundproofing absolutely should be required in building codes. I know of brand new buildings back in Portland that cost $3k/month and you can hear *everything*.

Steiner's story arc is probably my favorite in the game. I won't go into it too much for @Bacon's sake, but (only thematic "spoilers" not actual plot spoilers)

So season 3 just came out. I watched the recap and I was like "I have zero idea what the hell is going on," so I decided I should watch season 2 again. I don't remember a damn thing.

Me thinks they're probably a few months too late on this one.

Just after classing up in FF1 Steam Community :: Screenshot STEAMCOMMUNITY.COM Steam Community: FINAL FANTASY. I have to say, with the QoL improvements in the Pixel Remaster, FFI is definitely more playable than it's ever been. The story is still basically nonexistent if that's what you're playing for, and there's still a lot of "blindly just explore things until you find something that seems important but you have no idea why, rinse and repeat" that is prevalent among basically every JRPG of the time. But with things like better maps, expanded inventory space, being able to walk diagonally, FFI is not nearly as much of a chore to play as I thought it would be. It's actually kind of fun. What's also more impressive is the sheer scope of the game. I can see why Final Fantasy took off the way it did. Phantasy Star may have had better graphics and similar gameplay, but Final Fantasy's world feels massive in comparison. Which is saying a lot, since Phantasy Star has 3 worlds. One of the worlds is basically one massive dungeon, though. Both games kick the dick off of the first Dragon Quest game, it should be noted. I'm kind of excited to get into Dragon Quest II to see how they changed things (or didn't) in response to Final Fantasy and Phantasy Star. Oh yeah and I also just knocked out Ys I & II in the span of a couple days. More on that later. But before I get into Dragon Quest, I'm going to try my hand at Sword of Vermillion. I don't know how that's going to work out. It was very well reviewed when it came out, but pretty much everyone over the last 20 years that I'm aware of says that the game is complete trash by our standards. So that should be fun.

Gross.

It takes some getting used to, for sure. It's nothing like the combat in the rest of the series, though, other than in pace. The other games have, like... attack buttons and dodges, lol. That's why I usually don't recommend Ys I & II until you've played a few of them. I still found them fun, but had I not played 3 or 4 other Ys games beforehand, I probably would have noped out pretty fast.