I feel like I have lost my identity after 1year of job-searching and subsequently work. I don’t understand how things came to this point, I feel like all of my personality has crushed by the 9-5. Does everyone feel this hollow or am I that unable to exist

I think it counts the countries with NATO bases as occupied which I think is fair, there is no way those countries can do whatever they want with yankee boots on their soil

Is there any way to reverse this? My girlfriend strongly suspects she has mild brain damage since she was infected with what was probably covid19 sometime before it became known, and it impacts her daily life somewhat. Is there any point in going to a neurologist? Thanks

Void Stranger but I am not sure if the essaybros have found it

I can picture a type of person that would enjoy Elden Ring for its artistic value but suck at games due to reasons outside their control (bad reaction times, poor concentration, sensory processing difficulties etc) or even due to not having enough time to “git gud”. Why shouldn’t they have their easy mode? Other mediums aren’t that inaccessible to people

It’s absolutely ableist. My ADHD makes me worse at games for sure (and also way less able to tolerate punishing design such as the Dark Souls corpse runs), also some things like tapping rapidly I just can’t do at all. The only answer gamer bros have for me is “git gud” or its even worse evolution “skill issue”.

It really triggers the RSD sometimes but what can you do, I just play easier slop now (especially since work has crushed my soul) and have more fun. I would actually love a website that lists the bullshit in each game like infrequent checkpoints, difficulty spikes, lack of quest markers etc so I can know to avoid them.

1. CrossCode (banger jazz fusion+prog OST, zelda-like dungeons, decent story about self-acceptance, great combat and bosses)
2. Katamari Damacy (cozy, banger OST, wacky gameplay)
3. ZeroRanger (GOATed OST, great aesthetic and story-gameplay integration)
4. OFF (disturbing atmosphere and a story that’s up to interpretation, artistically brilliant imo)
5. Xanadu Next (japanese isometric dungeon crawler similar to Diablo but without the random loot and with a different build system, the music and atmosphere is pretty good, I also thought the story was pretty decent, make sure you collect all the records if you play it)
6. Trails in the Sky trilogy (JRPGs with a great positional battle system, banger music and very charming and well written characters. Also, the world building is great. The next game in the series lost the charm imo, but most people like it as much)

7. Ys: The Oath in Felghana (isometric action JRPG with gameplay that is a mixture of hack&slash, bullet hell and platformer, it’s pretty unique. Also yhe music is good)

The issue is sitting on a desk instead of a couch for even more of the day. I already had a low tolerance for such game systems (dunno if it’s the ADHD), so now it’s absolutely demolished and I feel you

First full-time employment, and employment in general.

I would love to, but I work in a huge open office so people could see what I was doing instead of pretending to work after my energy reserves have run out

I started playing WoW again (I was clean for 6 years). Surprisingly the game is still fun even if more soulless than its past iterations. The MoP remix event is also really fun, my Nightborne Warlock is completely overpowered now

Eh I would argue that the Cuba episode and the airplane episodes differ on how the subject matter is presented. In the Cuba ep it is played straight, while in the airplane episode Archer is depicted as a racist and is the butt of the joke

Does this get any better? Season one was a fun comedy but the politics were disgusting

What the fuck is whataboutism about that post. They just meant that some people deserve to die because of the atrocities they commited. Do you honestly believe that a serial child molester can be reformed? Would subjecting them to a lifelong stay at a labor camp be better?

CrossCode ZeroRanger Hades Rabbit & Steel

It’s math. You don’t really use the scientific method

Katamari Damacy is very cute game about a tiny prince that ralls up stuff into a ball and pretty much a stress ball in video game form. The soundtrack is great and there is nothing else like it.

It has ZeroRanger which is a 10/10 videogame for cheaper than the Steam price so try that as well

I just finished Ys VIII and Katana Zero.

Ys was very good, even if they upped the anime cringe compared to 2003-2007 Falcom games, it still had the best gameplay loop in the series. Searching for castaways and seeing your village grow in a deserted island while spamming your flashy animu skills and swapping between characters is just so fun.

The bosses are easy and the game allows you to pause and heal similarly to BOTW but I needed to relax this week so it was fitting. The music is also great as well.

Katana Zero is the most cinematic game I have ever played thanks to the great mechanics and level design, with a ton of action movie-like setpieces the one after the other. Too bad it’s unfinished because I was hooked by the story but it’s still worth it.

X4 is really good. If you play buster only and don’t abuse weapon weaknesses, the bosses are some of the best in 2D platformers if that’s your thing