/ot/ - off-topic

Consumers are lazy. Ideally people would put more effort into seeking and supporting projects that align with their interests, but that doesn't happen.

>>2515696
She is right even if she is a christian homophobe. You especially see this when coomers go out of their way to buy and support games that purposefully pander to their ideology like Stellar Blade or games that they championed as part of their ideology like NieR Automata. They are an extremely political and annoying as fuck.

>>2515462
I can't tell if your problem is that you're stupid and projecting that on people who are too smart to fall for the excuse you've fallen for, or if you're simply the most gullible person alive kek. If someone with a fetish for rape and abuse is constantly masturbating to rape and abuse fanfic and fanart, they aren't "drawing or writing it to feel like a retaking of control" as a "cathartic release," it's just that they know that saying "oh I masturbate to this… to cope" is more socially acceptable than "I have a rape fetish" and it's really funny that you buy that for some reason.

>>2516857
nta but unclench. it’s true that some people do lie about their reasons as an excuse but it’s also true that actual victims do develop unhealthy coping mechanisms like this.

>>2516857
Fun fact, the mark of an intelligent person is the willingness to listen to and attempt to understand viewpoints that exist beyond one's own personal range. Trauma changes your brain, it's why we have things like PTSD, attachment styles and personality disorders. How do you think masochism comes about? You don't think people are just born fucked do you? There is actual, legitimate, academic psychological research on this. There IS a link. Women with low self esteem are more likely to be abused and end up in dysfunctional relationships they trick themselves into thinking is okay, and a part of that is the brain rewiring itself into getting a sort of pleasure high from the emotional highs and lows. It's literally brain science.

I genuinely don’t understand the people pearl clutching about there being research to find if there is an autism gene. The argument I see the most is that it’s eugenics because if a gene is found and it can be detected on a pregnancy screening then autistic people will be aborted but like is that not a huge pro life stance? How can it be eugenics if it’s against someone who isn’t even born? I can understand it being closer to eugenics if it was something like the government mandating pregnant-women to get autism gene detection and then forcing abortions and sterilizing the women so no future autists can spawn but ??? It’s such a convoluted argument kek

>>2517599
You're misunderstanding. The normies pearl-clutch over the autism gene because they know once we find it, it will be over for them. As soon as we can reliably determine which fetus will be good and which fetus will be normie, there will be no more normies. We will enter a golden age, and the normies are terrified.

>>2517599
Finding the cause of and solution to autism should be an absolute priority tbh. Most genetic conditions can be detected before a child is born, whether that's through carrier screening, amniocentesis, embryo testing, etc. Parents should have as much advance warning as possible so they can make an educated decision. Autism cant be diagnosed for several years after birth and it's a scary possibility.

The irony of the pearl clutching from autists themselves is that if they have the ability to comment on political issues, they are pretty high functioning. Low functioning artists are legit disabled and will need care their entire life. Nobody would care this much if the only risk was having a nerdy kid, as opposed to a screaming retard in diapers.

Does anyone feel like they have issues with breath control when they talk? It's not to obvious i think, but it's like sometimes words feel very uncomfortable coming out of my mouth. For the record, i had speech delays as a child. I also cannot stand the fact that i cannot reply rapidly enough to people to have proper conversations, especially if they are strangers. I always have to pause for a very long time to think and it leads me to provide a default answer that i didn't wish to give.

>>2517562
Hooray! Then maybe you'd like Batman: The Telltale series and the much better, amazing, perfect, best adaptation in history Batman: The Enemy Within. The choices matter in bot but especially the latter. The difference between the endings you get is like night and day.
Detention. A game about a girl stuck at school but then things go south real quick. There are 2 different endings, a good one and a bad one. But replaying the game after either is so worth it because it adds so much context. It's a puzzle game if you don't mind.
Alter Ego. A mobile game where you enter a wolrd where you get personality tests with some librarian girl, but it gets weird real quick depending on your answers. There's both good and bad endings. At the end of the good ending, it becomes a real book club where they give you a task to read a real literature book in a set time window and once the time is up theg quiz you about the book you read. If you're into books, you might love this.
Dinner with an owl. I didn't play this myself but watched it on YouTube, cool puzzle game with a plot twist.
Dreams: Art's Dream. Artsy game, quite literally in the title, about a jazz musician trying to rebuild his career and reconnect with his band, and there are some surreal adventures connecting to his psychology. There are choices but I'm not sure if they actually affect the ending tbh.
Erica. Kinda sucks but it's live action rather than CGI which is why I gave it a shot. It's about some cult or something idk I didn't get it.
I know it's cringe but Life is Straneg is kinda fun if you turn you brain off while playing it.
My Child: Lebensborn. Genuinely upsetting and depressing game because of the heavy subject matter and that it was based on real people's lives and accounts. Takes place in Norway after the world war where you play as a single parent who adopted one of those kids Hitler forced attractive men and women to have for the Aryan race, and you raise this child and see the things they go through and can't really help or do anything and they get depressed. There's a happy ending ofcourse but either ending made me cry like a baby. It's a nurturing mobile game though. It has implications of CSA so trade carefully.
The Path. Didn't play it but watched a video on it. It's a game about Red Riding Hood being a group of sisters and each of them symbolizes an aspectPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2517573
Thank you so much nona this is exactly the kind of list I was hoping for. Detention and Dreams sound exactly like my vibe. I’ve played the My Child Lebensborn one and it made me sob lol honestly one of my favorite games even tho it was an ipad app kek I’ll be sure to check out the rest of the list as well!! Have you ever played life is strange? Was it enjoyable or cringe?

>>2517576
I couldn't afford it so I watched it on YouTube. The overall story has some potential and is intriguing. It's a murder mystery with superpowers and teenage angst. The problem was the writing of the characters and dialog rather than the world building, power system or mystery itself. But I watched all of it and the DLCs shamelessly when I was in my angsty era because I just connected with the cringe broken characters lol. It can be a bit emotional if you're in that specific mindset while playing it. Also it's French so maybe that's where the cringe is from, kek. Vidrel is dreams spoilers for the ending scene but the game is worth playing for this scene alone and this amazing cover. Such a shame it's unreleased though.

Does the concept of “chosen family” apply equally to estranged parents looking for someone they can act as a mother/father figure for?

>>2517473
>I read a stat once where in the 90s a lesbian community were interviewed and only 1% were found to be truly lesbian despite all claiming to be lesbian
I bet it’s like that even now

>>2517287
I wish Canadians would be locked out of the internet. It would be like utopia here.

>>2517105
source?

Nonnies, today I had my blood drawn for genetic testing & I will get to find out the gender of my baby within ~2 weeks time. I am very pleased and starting to actually get excited.
Another mundane recent event, seeing that we were talking about makeup/eyeliner… L’oréal Telescopic mascara made a chunk of my eyelashes fall out. I will now be switching back to my $3.29 mascara and never trying another.

Thinking this will finally be a "power nap". I won't sleep through the alarm or forget to set it

I ate a chalupa from taco bell from the first time in like 10 years. Where I live we only had one and that's like 3 cities over. I am sad. Why was it so small. It tasted the same but it was tiny. Also is the hot sauce meant to be hot? I felt no kick from that. Maybe it's because I'm not in burgerland but that was lame. Happy I got a baja blast though

>>2516786
>I purposely get people to bully me online just to feel something
…huh?

>>2517044
kek, where's this from?

>>2517084
the josei smut thread on /m/ kek

topkek i just love how this is written

>>2517408
this picture is so fucking funny nona, I'm impressed

>>2517504
its scary how female chests are already sexualized way before they are actually developed, god i hate this earth

>>2517504
I get called a conservitard by pedoscrotes for saying I'm glad my dad covered me up decently when I was a toddler kek

>>2517544
Because I check their profiles? Why are you okay with a stranger telling you to keep children naked around them? We don't have to play stupid, also the whole "you're the one that's weird" is the oldest excuse in the book, literally. It was used to actually get away with child porn including the Brooke shields playboy shoot when she was 12. Sold to pedos everywhere but you can thank people like you for claiming it's actually me who's being weird for pointing out this is being enjoyed by pedos

>>2517585
I wish I experienced the same. I often had adults in my life who'd make me get dressed in front of adult men and it felt so uncomfortable and gross. I also hear that girls that grew up in nudist families are often traumatized from being forced to be nude in front of a bunch of adults. It just makes no sense to me the harm in just having kids cover up even if you find it unnecessary, the benefits outweigh the risks

>>2517429
She's fat but not deathfat, you see

>>2517367
Goddamn you all can be so negative.

i feel bad working for the federal government and having vague left views. i don't think what i do is the most unethical but i don't think it's great either. it was the only good job offer i got. i guess i feel more embarrassed i don't really know or try to live out my own values. i'm kind of disappointed in who i grew up into, someone who doesn't really seem to believe in anything or care about anything anymore.

>>2517468
Valid.

>>2517218
>What podcasts does he watch?
Joe rogan, jordan peterson, he insists that they're reliable information which feels like hell. But whatever, I just need to live with them for one more year.
>Also can you describe the beatings? What would he say that would make her best him?
She'd hit him by punching him, slap him, or pinch him. When my mom was extra angry she'd hit him with a metal broom. It was always something about him trying to not be grateful for what she does for the family. Other times I couldn't tell because they spoke a dialect I didn't understand.

>>2517481
>shining social scene
Ah so this is why their inbred wealthy descendants want to make everything worse. Can't impress the people bc we have showers, indoors plumbing and the internet to make fun of their public appearances now

>>2514751
I would love more cute and/or pretty games that are just pleasant to play and also have nothing to do with LGBTQ+ themes. And it would be great if they aren't necessarily targeted towards 10-year-olds, but for everyone to enjoy.
Came here to also mention this >>2514800 , I'm a big fan of Stardew and I haven't found anything that gives me that same feeling.

>>2517420
Same. Idk what happened, it was fine like a year ago when it would give me new music and videos based on shit i actually liked and watched, now it gives me the exact opposite of what i would watch

I miss when video essays actually had substance, minimal editing and were faceless instead of obnoxious zoomers attempting to make "deep" social commentary on frivolous mind numbing tiktok drama

>>2517510
Agree with the no lgbt themes but I still want same sex options anyway which is probably not what you mean kek

>>2514281
>unlike on lc half of these moids are the same as the lolcows they dox or make threads on
A bunch of anons here are no different from the cows on /snow/

At least he's honest

>>2517540
More proof the 'male loneliness epidemic' is deserved kek.

>>2514281
>kirsche
who the fuck is this? all i get is some animu girl

>>2517540
Meanwhile women are defending and gassing up -7/10s.

>>2517515
Where I’m from though nona been out of covid since like 2021 though, again at least where I live, and I’m not talking about going through the stage where all your peers are getting married and stuff like that. I’m saying like I’ve noticed out in the real world that every single day I seem to see people getting married. I also encounter way more pregnant women than I used to compared to 2012-2019. I don’t know if it’s just because of the location I live in or what, but I’ve just seen a lot more bachelor/bachelorette parties, weddings, baptisms, I see more pregnant ladies and women with babies at the store and at restaurants and just out with younger parents on the street. That’s something else I should’ve added, I’m seeing a lot more younger adults than I used to who are getting married and pregnant. Millennials weren’t really going hard with stuff like this back then, but it looks like a lot of zoomers are jumping into it.

>>2517523
oh that's interesting then. i still think COVID factors in some way, because it shifted the entire culture even if people didn't follow lockdown as much in certain areas and contributed to the current cultural conservative wave. i don't think marriage and parenthood for zoomers are that different overall, are more religious people in your area or moving there, maybe?

>>2517523
Can confirm, 22 y.o zoomer & I’m currently pregnant with my first child.

anxious at the blood ritual did i turn off the stove

>>2517542
Congrats, nona! I hope you and your baby will be happy and healthy