I am one of those weirdos, I guess. 3 has better tone and also I get to go John Brown on slavers

I’d like to thank the Academy

https://hexbear.net/post/469880

Shining Force! A TTRPG from 1992. The music and character design are really about a decade ahead of everything else that was available then. If you level one of your characters up to lv 10, you can “evolve” them into a different sprite that lets them wield better gear. This was my comfort game growing up, and was remastered for GBA in 2004. If you like it, don’t play the prequel, only the sequel.

I’ve always argued that it also depended on your economic upbringing. I’m right on the cusp of millennial, but my parents couldn’t afford internet until my junior year of high school. Yeah, the internet existed but it might as well not have, outside of someone bringing halo to school on a usb I missed most of it.

I NOMINATE THE GRINCH!

For getting an emoji.

Set sexuality is my initial preference. Games that handle this topic like Skyrim and Baldur’s Gate 3 don’t really have a lot to say about specific sexualities queer experiences, because they don’t want to alienate/make the player feel left out. One of the tweets mentions dragon age which is where I felt seen and heard for the first time. Another comment mentions it but in a game with well defined characters who have queer identities I can understand and want there to be restrictions. To say otherwise would be inauthentic to the story you’re trying to tell.

Obv spoilers ahead, but the last log in particular lays it out. https://lethal-company.fandom.com/wiki/Sigurd%27s_entries

Also I know, fandom gross, but I couldn’t find a better source while at work.

Minor spoilers ahead:

It’s not actually the scrap that’s valuable to them. Through logs in game you find out it’s actually your collective suffering, which is used to placate the entity and the monsters on nearby moons.

My apologies! I did not mean to dictate how others should feel about their own lived experience and realize that’s fucked up. I’m leaving it for posterity, and also including the full comment made by OP that I was in part replying to:

https://hexbear.net/comment/3856957

"If you can take a designer handbag and resell it for 30% off online ... the consumer has to be a little concerned about that," Johnston said.

OH NO!!!!!! Won’t somebody think of the designer handbag companies?????? How am I supposed to show I’m not poor if my handbag is 30% cheaper elsewhere????

Nah, I was really lazy when picking my name the first time I tried to learn mandarin, but I did keep it despite everything. Happy coincidence I’ve been Dong on most sites for a while now.

My only regret is that I wasn’t here sooner! I missed the CTH discord but now I’m glad to be back in the same boat