It’s the easiest cope for the chud brain: the same logic that allows my father to believe that a drunk driver getting into an accident causing someone to have a heart attack and die is innocent of murder. It completely ignores the context to tackle a question that nobody was really asking.

Hopelessly addicted to playing Escape from Tarkov with a couple friends. Starting to burn out though now that everyone and their dog is rocking heavy armour and suppressors. I just wanna kill scavs and have a good time and these player assholes just keep ruining my vibes.

Otherwise I bought the Assassins Creed Black Flag/Rogue combo on Switch, been playing Rogue since I stopped playing AC after BF, and it is weird having references and events timelocked back in 2015. Besides that its pretty good fun, more pirate adventures, and it takes place around a horribly mocked up version of my home Province, sometimes, which is neat.

Oh shit judging by the size of the explosion is that guy fucked?

Always thought it was a cool idea to shift the time period to around the revolution and such, AC3 was a hugely squandered opportunity that I’m glad they salvaged all the fun sailing parts out of. Now it looks like they got the homestead sidestory adapted into the new game for your viking village so that should be cool, it was my 2nd favorite part of AC3, building up a little community that actually gives you in-game benefits and missons and such. It created an itch I’ve longed to scratch for ages.

Here’s hoping they’re alright, looked like a shockwave ripped up like a mile around the explosion

Fuck I relate to this. Guess I didn’t communicate early or well enough, though, so now I think I ruined our friendship too. Feels bad man, as much as I want to still be friends I respect her wish to move on and deserve that chance myself, so part of me hopes she sticks to her guns and never speaks to me again. Knowledge of our own personal history tells me to expect otherwise.

Just finished Lindsay Ellis’ debut sci-fi novel Axiom’s End and I thought it was pretty good. It’s kinda like Arrival mixed with E.T. and a little bit of other things too, the basic gist of it is there’s a secret alien incursion in 2007 and one young woman gets caught up in it and the government conspiracy to keep first contact under wraps. I guess the best recommend I can say about it is after it ended I wanted it to keep going.

Anyone remember Tooth and Tail? That looked a lot more fun as a similar concept

It got really bad like a year ago when all the big names got disillusioned with the ‘Breadtube community’ and the label, and distanced themselves from it, resulting in any content creator and their mum to start a youtube channel where they stare into the camera and talk about… whatever, and join the breadtube conglomerate. Like when even twitch brodudes like Xanderhal is calling himself a breatuber then you have to realise what a grift it’s become.

I’ll always defend how good MGSV is, even in comparison to the others which were mostly great, with way better storytelling. But there’s this consistent meme I keep seeing that ‘we were promised to be shown how Big Boss goes evil, but we never got it we got Venom instead!’ and I just gotta shake my head. Venom’s existence as another clone of Big Boss, created by Big Boss himself is the crux of his villainy. To post a comment I made on reddit ages ago:

People be sleeping on the events of MGSV being the symbolic step for BigBoss towards being a villain: he quits the Patriots after learning about Les Enfants Terrible, thinking clones of himself to be abhorrent and horrible, basically stealing lives from real people to try and recreate the perfect soldier. Meanwhile, after BB almost dies in Ground Zeroes he has a heel turn and decides “two of me would be good, actually, my project is too important to fail” and thus Venom is born. Yet another clone of boss created by the boss himself, stealing that mans very identity from him to be replaced with Big Boss. The whole game has an unfortunately poorly explored theme of identity formation, what with skullface and his philosophies on language.

I really wish we got an actual ending for that game. The retail release has way too much dangling to be called finished, and the work in progress cutscenes of the true ending are only okay.