[–] 2 points 1 week ago*

X-COM. CRPGs. Pathfinder, BG. Have Ledgerbound and the new FF on the line. The last turn based was Zero Company.

Turn based, visual novels or some light hack and slash games are my usual poison.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    I can’t conceive of how they would hope to retain control or, perhaps rather, how their usual manipulation strategies wouldn’t have blown up in their faces.

    They thought their usual mechanisms of control will work, for he was biologically a male and they perfected their art of manipulating and pulling the right strings and offering incentives through their existence.

    They thought to have the ideal template, someone that will cover what they can't do but still be servant to the order, he would act as their agent on the highest order in the establishment. In this scenario he is of a sort an idolization and want of every noble house, provided his ascension is clean and legitimate.

    By choosing to attack directly to revolt against something that started long time ago... he shatters their future, it feels less about bringing a future, as much as the denial of a specific one.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago*

    I have a sweet tooth and after work/blue day, they're one of those small coping mechanisms. I rather like those red-white strawberries, but for some reason they're sold only in party packs.

    Cola is fine, especially if you take a sip of mineral water afterwards as it dilutes the flavor and kills the extreme want to munch on another. Frogs are nice sweet sour taste but it depends on the state they're shipped. Sometimes you can get almost oily feel and texture, pure vitamin supplements for sure.

    Realistically you can replace them with any alternative gummy bears, Haribo party packs and frogs are a bit brand unique. Luckily I'm not yet in a position where I'd need to save on the expanse of gummy bears.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    After almost 5 years, friends still haven't forgiven me for that board game of Battle Star Galactica where I played as Apollo, was a Cylon and held the titles of CAG, Admiral and President. No one knew I was a Cylon until the end.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago

    Modern people in my experience work under the idea of "everyone's dirty so it's fine if I'm doing amoral acts", if you're doing the opposite you are showing them that there's a way, integrity, goodness or whatever you wish to call it. They will hate you for it, but that's not a fault of your own, it's just their psyche trying to defend themself, not quite extensional threat but to their eyes it's an eye sore.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    Propaganda and suppression of the left was successful and certain crumbs had to be given in the past decades, currently there's still enough comfort that many will defend their current status. A comfortable person isn't going to start asking or rocking the boat, it's in their interest that the boat is on the steady ride.

    Deflection, gaslight and disciplining of those who find themselves in the "have not" becomes a way of comforting yourself that the ride was always within your capability and not dependent on the exterior mechanisms or just plain luck to be born in the lineage of "haves".

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Franco's Spain existed at the same time as USSR, and fascist state was deemed a vacation spot while the USSR was a existential threat. That was the moment when my mind went... wait, what.

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