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@japananon i don't know anything about the current state of japanese politics but i hope whatever happens it turns out good.

@rlier23 not sure how scammy it is tbh but voting is fun anyway

golden joysticks game awards voting is up now: https://www.gamesradar.com/goldenjoystickawards/

@binkle sorry, couldn't see the reply because it didn't federate right

in other news, watched shoujo ramune 6.
it's basically 5 but better and with tenka instead of chii at the end.
not bad for a quick watch.

@rlier23 i was pretty surprised when i went on gelbooru to look at pictures of jill from ffxvi and basically all of them were just her and clive being all cute with each other. these picks are just from one page and there were plenty of others on there. surprisingly wholesome, but a welcome surprise.

art: zenyu/tksnim/bbly ff/big mogong

@noyoushutthefuckupdad just celebrate the day your account was created or somethin

@coolboymew happy birthday brotha

okay very obviously i'm not seeing eye to eye with literally anybody here about silent hill f and there's no way i'll have a conversation about the actual plot of the game that isn't poisoned by some dude who has never played it thinking it is woke, so i'll proceed to shut up about it now. spending way too much time and energy on this shit.

@ChristiJunior @Immahnoob I understand what you're saying, but I think it is a whole lot of performative mental gymnastics just so that you can be mad about something tbh.

@All_bonesJones @Goalkeeper @Owl you only use the polearm in the spirit realm, which is either an actual spirit realm or a hallucinogenic representation of one. you aren't allowed to take it back with you.

this is a spoiler but none of you are actually going to play the game so i assume you won't care. when you're in the spirit realm in the latter half of the game, you literally get a BEAST ARM attached to you and are able to go beast mode and melt walls and shit.

you're talking about the game as you understand from some clips and maybe a review you've seen about a dude malding over it, i've actually played this game.

it is NOT a silent hill game. but trying to act like it is super woke because a woman (she's not 14 lmao) can push off a monster for a moment and use a polearm in a different reality in a VIDEO GAME is fucking insane.

@ChristiJunior @Immahnoob the problem here is that you don't have to take the game as propaganda if you don't want to, but a lot of people seem to want to take it as feminist propaganda and get mad about it for being that. EVEN IF the intent was for the story to be subversive and actually get you to like modern day feminism or some shit, even if it is the same arguments that modern day feminists use, you can still absolutely 100% view the story outside of that and take it for what it is instead of doing some mental gymnastics to take it as what you think it was supposed to be. i have no idea what ryukishi07's political beliefs are, and i don't really care for the majority of creators as long as what they create turns out being good.

and i know you understand this because you understand there is a difference between the in-universe explanations making sense and the way the the "media literate" types read it.

it's not just those mental midgets latching on to the story though, it is the anti-woke crowd too because they perceive it to be made for the mental midgets and that makes them angry. does that make sense?

@pettanko @koimata i downloaded winutil and explorer patcher and bada bing bada boom, everything i need right there.

windows 11 by default does suck booty cheeks for sure. but for a community so focused on being able to tweak their OS however they want, a lot of linux users seem EXTREMELY averse to even believing that the same thing can be done on Windows. i routinely forget windows 11 is even a thing until i look at someone else's computer who is running it lol.

@Immahnoob "oh he is wealthy and handsome and kind and has everything she could ever want!"

like put yourself in her shoes for a second. there's a girl who is wealthy and beautiful and kind and appears to have everything you would ever want, but you barely know her outside of her professions of love for you. it is an extremely unwise choice to just immediately marry them because they are infatuated with you.

"she gets all that she'd want if she weren't a girlboss"

what she wants is to not jump into a marriage that could end up like her parents' because she doesn't even fuckin know the guy. what she wants is to still be able to be friends with everyone she knows back home unlike her sister and other women who get married and then are barely heard from again. she doesn't just want a dude who is rich and handsome, she wants a man who understands and loves her and lets her continue to be herself. and that isn't being a slut riding on cocks or some shit, she has dreams and aspirations and views marriage as a possible harm to those things, so she's gotta make sure that the guy she's getting married to isn't going to take that away from her. as a guy, you should make sure that the woman you are going to marry will respect your wishes as well. this is healthy relationship 101.

it is starting to seem to me that the people calling this game woke are pretty extreme in their views on relationships, marriage, and women and i just fundamentally disagree with them. the type of people who think women shouldn't have rights and shit.

like, if you're the type of person who thinks that women are only going to be able to build a relationship with men in an arranged marriage and should be completely subservient to their husband at all times i just wholeheartedly disagree. this seems like more of a personal problem if your reading of this game's story is "oh it's woke."

@All_bonesJones @Goalkeeper @Owl oh okay you're talking about this: https://youtu.be/iyi-ncOXRzo?t=193

there's no button prompt, it's just an animation that plays out. he's not being shoved across the room either lol it's just a "get off me" move. heather in sh3 does similar stuff too i'm pretty sure.

and if you don't have enough health to survive the attack, she gets her head pummeled in to a pulp.

the polearm is a special weapon you get in the spirit realm, then there is also a katana and a lightsaber you can get in ng+, typical silent hill stuff, but every other weapon is just a mundane thing like a pipe or whatever. james can drag around and attack with the giant knife in sh2 somehow too lmao, these are video games, concessions will be made sometimes.

@TrueMasterCole dead or alive is sick actually, i like the way it feels to play way more than tekken.

@koimata oh i don't care about branching out lol i don't think i'm really the one that needs to do the branching xD

the only real issue i have with mastodon is how convoluted it is to do mod stuff. i also have a stylus theme to make it look a little bit more pleasing, which is going in the opposite direction of what pleroma looks like to me xD what i don't like about pleroma is that you can't click on a post to expand it to the discussion view, it is a little icon you have to click instead and it doesn't open to a separate page. just a matter of preference but i wish it had that functionality too. i do like how you can add your own backgrounds and stuff though that's pretty cool. what i really would like is a front end that makes it so you can have a song play on your profile lol, like the old myspace days.

i'm running windows 11 and it is almost exactly the same thing as my windows 10 experience after doing a few tweaks. i've had nothing but trouble with linux, unfortunately. i do still like linux from what i've used of it, but for every day use and stability windows is still amazing.

as far as nintendo goes, i fucking hate their legal stuff and they make some really wack choices with things like pricing and what they are producing, but they make great games that are free from bullshit so i'll keep buying them.