SERIOUSLY! i read the lore entries in-game and almost every single thing they mentioned about the Hegemony was incredibly based despite being presented as some unspeakable orwellian evil lmao. like way more lines saying stuff like ‘hegemony citizens all get healthcare and food and housing’ than the bad stuff like ‘they are ruled by a class of orphan oligarchs’.

death to all IP lawyers. modern games are all fortnite clone over-the-shoulder battle royale microtransaction games, even single player games have microtransactions and locked over-the-right-shoulder cameras. every time i see a new game i have to temper my excitement until i see gameplay footage to check if it has that godawful fortnite locked-to-the-right-shoulder camera perspective, which they almost always do. all 3rd person games should either have centered cameras or the ability to switch which side the camera is on so i can aim around cover to the left sometimes instead of always moving right or having the disadvantage against those who can.

i hate modern gaming, i’m going to go play Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (the Terran Hegemony did nothing wrong)

arguing that the Imperium are the Good Guys despite the fact they are Space Fascists because The Universe Is Just That Bad

arguing the Imperium are the Good Guys because they have Space Commissars and are therefore Communists doing Galactic War Communism, being literally ruled by Psychic Lenin’s Preserved Corpse after the Horus Revisionism. Space Marines are the True Volcel Vanguard.

their beef with the Tau is like a weird Sino-Soviet Split

i prefer DPS style classses but i will always choose the class with 2 handed swords in fantasy RPGs. i would play mages more often but i generally don’t like the ‘big glowing colorful ground markers with area of effect elemental damage attacks’ genre of magic aesthetic, it comes across as gimmicky/fictitious/unimmersive, magic should be liminal/surreal/terrifying imo. i basically kind of hate the WoW style fantasy/videogame aesthetic and genre of RPG, the only one i really even slightly enjoyed was Guild Wars 2 (because huge playable cat guys with 4 ears and 4 horns and no paid subscription)

i haven’t finished it yet because the controller i use on pc for emulators is broken. i do remember that there are like 2 significantly different campaign playthroughs depending on some dialogue choices in the early missions, there might be other choices as well. i think it determines which of the major political factions you work for in the campaign, and i’m pretty sure one of them features an ally/protagonist/party member that works for the Chinese who recruits you and your friends, who so far has been portrayed as an ok/good guy. front mission games from what i’ve played tend to be fairly pessimistic about any political faction i think, similar to Ace Combat kind of vibes. Left Behind (technically part of the series i believe) is the closest to having a clear-cut badguy faction and i haven’t finished it yet either (the on foot 3rd person stealth is just not very good, not enough robot missions but the robots are super cool when they show up) but i think it was leading up to revealing that the situation is less obvious than it seemed.

lmao navigating the relationship drama of those around me is exhausting. not even anyone’s fault so i can’t find toxic relief through blame lol. on top of all that, best case scenario i will be significantly more alone-er in the near-ish future. it will be a curse and a blessing, i like having (unproblematic) people around to analyze media and stuff with, to compare experiences etc., but i all too often find the expectations of dialogue to be an interruption of some obscure thought i’m trying to process. maybe more space and time and isolation-induced unhinged-ness will make me manic enough to accomplish something. worst case scenario it doesn’t work out for them and they relapse into alcoholism with a risk of self-harm or worse. i’m pretty terrified of the last person i talk to regularly being gone but i obviously want them to be happy. i know i’m going to be less upset than i expect and that will only bother me more, like dead family members or childhood friends that are completely forgotten until you have a weirdly emotional dream about them like once or twice a year that makes you question some of your past choices and priorities but otherwise change nothing about your current life other than a vague sense of existentialist ennui for a few days. i need to sleep now.

someone plz tell me this isn’t a lolicon pedo game because it sure looks like it. is there like a joke i’m not getting or what? is it problematic for ‘frilly 18th century dress design’ and neonatal anime proportions/behaviors (thin limbs, large heads, childish affect) to trigger me? (i am autistic and have relevant PTSD so i might legit be overly sensitive)

Shadow Of The Colossus Without Boss Battles does actually sound pretty cool. as long as it lets me climb stuff sometimes and doesn’t have the always-over-the-right-shoulder-with-no-way-to-switch fortnite camera every game seemingly has to have these days.

i want to Disagree With the president of the united states

‘disagree with lgbt’ lmfao no one is making you be gay you lawful-nazi lawyer weeb, by ‘disagree with’ we all know you mean ‘seeks the extermination of’, pathetically trying to hide behind ‘civil rational discourse’ jargon as a paper thin coating for nazi ideology. people like @MangaLawyer should be ‘disagreed with’ into a deep mine shaft . i wish his entire ideological cohort had been ‘disagreed with’ more thoroughly in World Disagreement 2. really out here using ‘disagree with’ the same way liberals think we use ‘deeply unserious’ but without the conviction to drop the facade of civil discourse lmfao

much like the original 1984 it was always, always projection

in addition to all the horrific shit happening wrt geopolitics and the various wars and hexbear doomers insisting that resistance is futile, i also somehow managed to piss off my roommate because i took their noodles out of an inactive microwave to microwave my own stuff. they say their noodles need to ‘cook’ after the microwave is off, but obviously the water will still be hot outside of the microwave, it doesnt stay hot after it turns off, definitely not hot enough to cook noodles. i just put them next to the microwave, but they scold me first thing when i wake up anyway. they even performatively put their noodles in for an entire second microwaving, like their noodles were already microwaved fully and were just cooling off, i did not interrupt that for enough time to warrant a second microwaving. of course if i were to point any of this out it would only cause strife drama and misunderstanding so im venting to internet strangers and feds on hexbear. i already woke up to horrific news from lebanon, already feeling suicidally depressed and wondering if fascism has simply won the physical plane of existence, already suffering the psychic damage from that idiot doomer in the news mega insisting that iran must cause nuclear armageddon or else they are cringe or something and the resistance has already lost and every single hezbollah commander is dead because the zionazis say so, and then this silly noodle shit happens. i hate existing. i cannot process these two kinds of existential horror, of fascisms seeming/alleged/apparent dominance of material reality and of my personal inability to coexist socially in a non-alienated/alienating way with the people around me, at the same time. i can’t really even process them individually, all there is left to do is bear the suffering eternally.

pretty much, the first 2 lost planet games had some immaculate arcadey 3rd person gameplay, i was super hyped for 3 until i actually played it lol. i think they gave it to a completely different dev team for 3?

it has some pretty cool first person mecha gameplay, but afaik (i could never stick with it enough to finish) there are no mecha guns, only melee with drills and claws and grappling hook hands. on foot gameplay disappointed me especially compared to the first 2 lost planet games, its basically a worse gears of war style cover shooter imo, whereas lost planet 1 and 2 had almost monster-hunter-esque gameplay with those classic dodge animations and invulnerability frames and the option to have centered camera.

the weird pseudo-office background art in those programs was a vibe tho. i don’t remember literally anything else about it except the empty vaporwave mall aesthetic

i wish there were ‘monster battler’ games for generic faceless power armor goons, i guess xcom etc. kinda approaches that but those badguy soldiers in ff13 have some exquisite looking gear and neato vehicles, western devs rarely put the same thought into their sci fi designs imo

yea there’s official lore saying she is 18 but she very much looks underage to me, idk maybe i’m overly sensitive.

half the time in final fantasy games i’d rather play as some of the generic monsters/goons rather than the overly be-buckled generic JRPG protagonists. i like almost everything about final fantasy except for the protagonist outfits/character designs. lemme play as the magitek armor mecha from FF15, idc about the generic k-pop boy band with exactly 1 personality trait each (i am even less interested in the problematic age gap relationship with the trenchcoat beanie guy and pink hair protagonists little sister in ff13). i wish more kinds of games had level editors and custom game modes.

on a tangentially related note i thought Scarlet Nexus had great monster designs, but i never finished that game because it let you ‘date’ a character who is ‘trapped in a child’s body since they stop aging after getting super powers’ (plus it was kind of a generic hack n’ slash, even if it did have cool setting visuals and political intrigue etc.)

i know space marines don’t use cover so its a moot point but i still wish you could switch which side of the character the camera is on while aiming ranged weapons. idk maybe you can but i haven’t seen it in any gameplay footage so far.

Lost Planet was amazing, lost planet 2 as well. 3 had cool first person robot gameplay but the on foot gameplay was just worse gears of war, it lost that arcade-y jump and dodgeroll gameplay with plenty of invulnerability frames that made the first 2 special.