UrsineApathy [any, comrade/them]

You’re asking a lot of questions that are already answered by their T-shirt.

I have previously been heavily involved in sports betting. That world was very good to me. The times were good, as were the profits. It was a skill game, and a form of positive-sum entertainment, and I was happy to participate and help ensure the sophisticated customer got a high quality product.

Fuck yeah! Congrats friend! Just passed a year myself and weed and seltzer(non-thc laden) has been a great way to kill cravings as they come.

Can’t have bad games anymore because of woke 😔

I haven’t played Diddy Kong Racing in like 15 years and will still randomly get the track music stuck in my head sometimes. That game had no right to be as good as it was.

I honestly didn’t even register how strange it was at forst until I saw your question. I had to zoom in to see because it blends in with the scenery so well.

It a streetlight bulb. The pole for it kind of blends in with the trunk of the tree on its right side.

This is such a powerful piece. Thanks for sending me down a Wyeth rabbit hole.

You’re already hitting your Trapezius muscles when you do shrugs and most of the more minor muscles worked as well with the rest of what you’re doing(as long as you’re not skipping leg day). High pulls are a more explosive and dynamic version of a shrug basically so you don’t need to if you don’t want to.

Explosive exercises in general are less about creating muscle growth and more about developing raw responsive power in your muscles and they serve slightly different purposes. If you’re a competitive athlete it might be worth incorporating into your workout routine, but if you’re just working out for aesthetics or general health and fitness then shrugs are probably better. You can always keep it in your toolkit to mix up your workouts though.

“this UI and overall art style looks cool as fuck” and then hearing good music

The level of polish on the games is really what makes it shine. For me, I have a tough time finishing jrpg’s in general because they get pretty tedious after pkaying a while, but the music alone made me want to continue to play. It’s just so good.

If you really like P5R and want to try the others, a remake of 3 was recently released, called Persona 3 Reloaded, and another one for 4 is coming out in the next year or two. That helps make it not feel like you’re missing out on quality of life improvements if you want to go backwards in the series. Except for common themes, all the games have distinct story’s so you don’t need to worry about missing out on plot on anything.

Hope you like it!

If you already know you like the jrpg genre you’ll almost assuredly like the games. They’re wildly popular for a reason. The aesthetics and mechanics are pretty satisfying and well fleshed out, respectively. All the games are structured in a way that’s split between downtime and dungeon diving. During your downtime you build relationships(kind of a friendship simulator) with the story characters that affects your combat and gives you bonuses. The player has full agency to determine who they want to build relationships with. And if you didn’t know, the games are long and you can easily hit a 100+ hour playthrough.

The story and themes can be a little cringey, idealistic, and juvenile, but all the games do have high schoolers as their main protagonists so take it as you will. They touch on some adult themes(sexual assault, suicide, general societal assholishness, etc.) but don’t usually portray it in a satisfying way or explore them in a way beyond ‘this happened and I’m mad/sad about it’. It’s still good story for a major studio release, but some people do take issue with the way it’s done. If you want more overall adult themes you can look into the mainline SMT series which is where the Persona games are a spinoff of and are very similar in quality and gameplay.

In terms of where to start: The Persona series as everyone knows it starts with #3. There’s like a decade between each games release so there are massive quality of life and graphics improvements between them. I’d say start with 4 or 5 personally, but they’re all good in their own way and have a remaster/remake at this point. If you only plan to ever play one of them, go with Persona 5: Royal.

As a side note, Atlus always releases an updated version of each game a year or two after its initial release that features an expanded story, easier gameplay, and updated qol. Persona 5: Royal is the updated release version.

It’s cool if you just want to complain, the game’s frustrating, but don’t make a post titled ‘help’ if you don’t actually want help.

By the time the endgame approaches, I tend to have my base divided into walled off compartments

This is the proper way to do things, if the map allows for it. Granted I never did, but that’s just because I suck at eco management and my resources were always scarce.

There’s a technique you can do called a “scratching post” by the community. It helps to deal with the “single zombie ruining everything” situations.

If you have an isolated building, like a sawmill or cottage, or a space at the edge of a patrol where zombies can still get through if the timing is right you can place a single wood wall down just between the structure and the horde. Zombies will always prioritize attacking nearby walls over other structures so it will give you an extra moment to get some troops to the area before things get out of hand. Just keep in mind that zombies slapping on a wall will make noise that attracts more zombies over, but it it will buy you an extra moment to react.

I got clammed up on a run when I got to the level where the ‘zombie’ chainsaw mechs are the only enemy the spawns

It’s been a few years since I did my playthrough so don’t remember a lot of the later campaign missions, but mutants(the big chainsaw guys) are where the game really starts to punish you for the noise mechanics it never explained in the first place.

Oh you decided to make a miniscule amount of noise halfway across the map from a mutant? Shame. Now he’s already stomping his way to your base and bringing every single zombie on the map in his path with him. This game is such a cool and unique experience but boy does it punish you for things it just never bothered to teach you about.

I abandoned my first campaign and restarted when got to Coast of Bones. I had prioritized efficiency and soldier upgrades and I had no farms and no towers and it was just absolutely brutal.

Same, friend. I severely underestimated how tight you had to keep your patrols in the beginning. One stray zombie turns into a hundred instantly.

I legitimately needed to put the game down for a month or two in the beginning because the learning curve was so frustrating for me.

If it’s your first time running through the campaign, don’t do the tech tree blind. I’m not an amazing rts player and I genuinely needed to abandon my first two campaigns because I just prioritized the wrong techs and made the missions unwinnable.

You will be severely punished on quite a few missions if you don’t have the Ballista and Tesla towers unless you have god gamer status micro abilities and apm or know what to expect in the mission. Both towers have aoe attacks that can single handedly hold waves back if they’re placed strategically. Also, the train resource techs are insanely powerful because it’s just a free resource drop every in-game day and you can get things like iron to make soldiers without needing to secure a resource node. Later in the game, snipers are better than soldiers in every way. Get a deathball of them and win.

Besides standard eco/expansion rts advice, one thing the game doesn’t necessarily tell you is that there is a hidden “noise” value of actions that attracts zombies. Rangers make very little noise and soldiers make a lot. Noise accumulates on a per-tile basis so a military unit that is standing still will slowly accumulate noise(even if they aren’t firing), but if you set them to patrol a few tiles there will be little to no noise accumulation. Besides that, just make sure you wall up and maybe have a few fallback points you can defend at because this is a game where if a single zombie manages to get through your patrols you lose the entire mission. It’s really rewarding to play, but also super frustrating (and time consuming) to learn.

I know absolutely nothing about knitting. What I do know though is that that looks really freaking cool! The pattern and color gradient are super aesthetically pleasing.

Yeah, that’s not a valid notation I’ve come across in my music journey. I’d agree with you that it could be a placeholder symbol in that context, but I don’t know why they wouldn’t just restrict the pages instead. It could also be a unicode or file type issue like slatun mentions too, but overwhelmingly, unless you’re working in a specific music softwares ecosystem and expect to be able to edit it, sheet music is just given as a pdf or image file and it shouldn’t matter.

The first couple of days of sobriety were always so strange for me. I’d try to go to sleep (or more accurately stare at a fucking wall or tv for hours until I eventually succumbed to it) with an unfocused but overwhelming feeling of dread and anxiety, but the first few days waking up without being hungover were so awesome and energizing. I’d be tired as everloving shit because of the miserable sleep and chemical changes, but somehow still feel better and more capable than I did in years. That’s all to say, I’m sorry I missed the boat to help you last night, but I hope you have an awesome fucking morning because you’ve earned it.

There will be good days and bad days and the nature of the beast changes as the days turn to weeks turn to months but every day gets a little bit easier. I started drinking for somewhat similar reasons to you, but I don’t want to assume I know your struggles so I won’t say anything more. Even so, it might be hard to see when times get tough, but life is still better in every way without the drink. Stay strong friend.

anyone who finds it difficult probably has trouble eating and shitting

Maybe don’t put down and call someone genuinely asking for help a moron???

I’m glad it’s a skill that’s come easy to you. Not everyone has had your experiences though and not everyone was taught the basics. Fuck off with that attitude when someone is just trying to better themself.