Yeah I was just coming to say as well, the biggest issue with this is mods.

And in games like Stardew Valley, the other issue is the game seed. If you keep using the same save, a lot of the same ‘random’ events will occur.

To be cliche, probably the Bethesda style character creation, just because you can tweak so much. That’s probably the best I’ve got because my current laptop is a potato and Skyrim is about the most intensive that it can (barely) handle.

A huge issue I have with it though, is that after all that tweaking and fine tuning of your character, you can’t save or load templates. So sometimes I’ll spend ages creating a character, start the same and play for a bit, then for whatever reason decide to start again an hour later (regrettable choice, a faulty mod etc.), and now I have to create a character all over again. At that point I just choose basics and hit play.

This is an annoyance to me in all games with character creation though. Even something simpler like Stardew Valley, especially if you’re trying to get the colours just right.

If you’re going to give us the ability to create and fine tune personalized characters, let us save and load them, god damnit.

I think it’s because everyone expects Germans to know better. And it’s pretty sad when it looks like the lesson that was learnt wasn’t “subjugation and genocide of a targeted demographic is bad” but instead “criticism of Israel is bad”.

People expect it from magas and religious nutters but not from Germans in 2025.

Yeah to be completely honest, I would have good intentions but also probably leave this world a burning wreck afterwards. To use the latest movie for an example, I would probably be part Superman and part Hawkgirl. I would be trying to do good but also I’m not an alien trying to get people to accept me and like me, I’m a native that’s sick of this shit. So I would also be dropping certain people from high places.

And I definitely wouldn’t not interfere with world politics. I’ve even thought about it. My first move before introducing myself to the world would be to find where all the nukes are, and hit everywhere as quickly as possible and leave them on the moon or something until I figure out what to do with them. Then I would get all of the ‘strong’ men and nazis and religious despots and traitors of the free world together in front of cameras and make a human centipede out of them without any surgery, and without a mouth or backside so that it’s just an ouroborous of its own shit.

Then I would just stick to crime fighting and ruining Lex Luthor’s day and shit and keep an eye as people chose new leaders. And if leaders that aren’t there to serve the people start taking over again, it’s ouroborous of shit time again. Or something worse.

I dunno, I think she fits in nicely with the rest of the reality TV stars, news readers and podcasters cosplaying as politicians. What were Trump’s actual credentials? Bankrupting casinos and saying “your fired” on the Apprentice?

Sounding more like a Snyderman fan than a Superman fan, to be honest. An elseworld story now and then, or an edgelord deconstruction or two is great but the fantasy is that Superman has all this power but still uses it for good.

Turning into a dictator is weak and easy shit. It’s probably what every fucking manosphere clown would do. While going “don’t blame me, it’s just my biology! Hurr durr! I’m simultaneously logic and rational and superior but also a fucking ape that can’t control myself! Hurr durr.”

What makes Superman special is that he has all of this power but still has actual morals and values and empathy without the only thing holding him back being the law.

Because they picture in their minds of the hivemind known as “women” only wanting tall boyfriends.

Pretty sure it’s this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams_(commentator)

Reading about him, it still seems like one big joke but that’s a hell of a long time and a lot of dedication to the joke. It’s all pretty absurd. The problem with this kind of shit is that it makes us all look like clowns because what should be obvious sarcasm or joking isn’t such a clear thing anymore. Not in the current era of stupid.

Found him.

Yeah this one could be satirical. Although it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference these days. And also, history has taught me that people who spend a lot of time making ‘jokes’ about it, often turn out to be only half joking. Like how online circlejerk communities seem to always turn out to actually just be a bunch of bigots hiding behind the ‘joke’.

There’s definitely another dumb asshole that I see around who also has (alpha male) in his username who I’m sure is quite serious. If I had a stolen screenshot handy, I’d post it.

Yeah exactly. This manosphere ‘alpha’ shit is insecurity and fear packaged as ‘masculinity’ by a bunch of jocks that think it’s gay to wash their asses. It’s an absolute sad joke.

Yeah South Africa is unfortunately generally socially conservative. And susceptible to magaland conspiracies. And I hate to sound like I have one issue but very patriarchal, whether you’re Afrikaner or Zulu. So I’d say knee deep in the manosphere shit too, which goes hand in hand with magaland conspiracies anyway.

One example of the gender divide is currently for the month of November, a group called ‘Women for Change’ are running a social media campaign where people are changing their profile pics purple, and are planning a general strike in about a week, to draw attention to the fact that a woman is buried in South Africa every 2.5 hours, and that rape and femicide are a plague in this country. Seriously, from babies to 99 year old women, none are safe.

And so of course, certain men responded to this by starting their own bullshit where they’re changing their profile pictures green. At first I thought it had maybe something to do with farm murders and men trying to play the victim olympics but it’s even scummier and lower than that. They changed their profile pictures green to cry that they’re “ATMs” for women. I dunno, I just think that’s kinda fucking despicable.

In fairness, there are (usually white) conservative women in magaland too. But I’m not going to beat around the bush when I say that you don’t need a magnifying glass to see how lobsided the demographics are in this regard.

I mean, considering that this is a successful meme on two different platforms and that there are multiple comments giving their own examples, I would assume that it’s a behaviour that a lot of people come across, regardless of your personal experience.

We live in a world where people who believe in jewish space lazers and think they’re going to get 5G from vaccines exist, and you find this hard to believe?

And of course, South Africans are having a field day regurgitating neo nazi talking points.

Imagine thinking you’re being ‘replaced’ by 153 people. Almost as ludicrous as believing they’re putting microchips into vaccines, which South Africans are all over too. It’s honestly embarrassing.

Also, I’m starting to think that a large amount of online trolls that spend their days attacking feminist and queer pages on mainstream social media are god damn fkn white South Africans. I’ve already seen people mention that they are some of the worst of the worst on Twitter.

I took it to be another version of this Homelander reaction. Basically a look of disdain and disgust. Spiked with a bit of superiority complex.

This particular image is just doing the rounds now because it’s from a recent Sweeney Todd interview, or whatever her name is.

The airport segments of traveling long distance are the worst. Especially if you also have a connecting flight somewhere along the way.

If I was taking my own stuff to watch, my go to would probably be comic book shit lol. Watchmen is a pretty good one that’s a relatively short one season show. Although pretty intense.

Not too sure of many other short and sweet series though. Apart from maybe new(ish) stuff that I’m gonna assume you’ve watched, like Fallout or Wednesday or whatever. What about Arcane? Haven’t played the game is based on but I thought it was good, and also not 5 seasons long so far.

Movies are always an option too. These days they seem to be averaging at 2 hours or more. Good time filler without needing further investment.

Pretty sure it’s homophobia. Or just general conformist bigotry because it’s not like heterosexual couples couldn’t use the word too if they wanted.

In my experience, bigots are basically NEVER just bigots about one thing, they’re more like conformist supremacists. I highly doubt there is a single terf that isn’t also racist or homophobic or one of these people that generally criticize and have something mean to say about everyone they see, particularly people that don’t conform to whatever their culture or religion is.

Yeah, Bruce Wayne is an eccentric rich guy in a city full of eccentric rich people up to their own shenanigans. And depending on the timeline or continuity, he doesn’t even run his own company most of the time, so wouldn’t necessarily be in the public eye all the time.

For Clark Kent, I’ve always loved the idea of certain key figures in the Daily Planet figuring it out themselves but keeping it to themselves. In the new movie, I very much got the impression that Perry White and Jimmy Olsen know. And IMO, ever since Lois figured it out herself in My Adventures with Superman, that’s the way it always should be from now and the versions where Superman keeps the secret for years and years aren’t the same now.

For me, the ones where it gets difficult to justify their secret identities remaining intact for long are characters like Static or Spider-Man that still go to school and live with their parents / guardians, and regularly slip away during trouble to regularly rescue their friends and family as their superhero selves.