1600 hours here: yup, avoid it, especially the killer role. It will chew you up and stress you to the point that it ruins your day. Solo queue survivor is pretty awful as well.
The game is safest to play with friends, but even then, bad survivors, tunneling and proxy camping killers and bugs can make the game pretty painful.
I stopped playing after the AOT skins got released, but I still peek in whenever a new killer is added. I also still enjoy content from people like Noob3. Sometimes, I hear the siren call to return...
Yeah... I tell people Berserk is truly amazing in story, characters, art, etc... All you need to do is be able to stomach things like.. Troll rape caves....
I tell that it's not about gore, violence or fucked up shit. It's a very tragic and dramatic story and the will of a tormented guy to go on no matter what. For me that's the beauty of the work
I still find "adult attack" to be the worst moment in the story. Not only for the violence explicitly in frame, and the implied sexual nature of it, but also the violence off frame (the wings were destroyed already and it was trying to fly away the whole time), and on top of that the implied nature of their lives in the village that it would be common enough that the kids would identify and name it.It's horrible in both a fantastical way, and a very real and grounded way.
There's a woman who does book reviews whose review of Berserk i really enjoyed. She quit reading pretty soon after the Golden Age arc because of its depiction of women and sexual violence.
She made the observation that when an act of sexual violence against a woman happened she just couldn't help but notice that the woman was drawn and positioned in a way to draw attention to her figure, breasts etc. she gave a few examples and.. yeah.
I'm sure Miura's intent was far from making sexual violence "sexy" but I understand that from the perspective of a woman this can be incredibly jarring.
But yeah, I really enjoy Berserk and think it has many redeemable qualities, but itās quite clear Muira had blind spots. He is an equal-opportunist when it comes to suffering, just slightly different depictions.
I wouldnāt recommend it lightly to people either. In fact, a lot of my favorite art is like that (Eva, David Lynch, metal music).
I wish I could read Berserk purely because of how beautiful the art is. But I know only a handful of the times there is rape in it and that's already way too much rape.
If you like Evangelion, I canāt recommend Madoka Magica enough - I just watched it for the first time last week, and man, itās such a great, well-written series. Donāt take its cutesy artstyle at face value - itās definitely a psychological horror show in the same vein as Eva. Itās the Eva equivalent for the Magical Girl genre of anime, like how Eva was a dark subversion of the mecha genre up to that point.
I canāt stop thinking about it, itās so good and explores similar themes of hope and despair that Eva does. Itās also one of those series that gets better on rewatch due to time shenanigans.
The first 5 seasons is genuinely some of the best TV I've ever watched and the 5th season's finale was supposed to be the series finale, but it just kept going. Watch those and it won't feel like as much of a commitment, and then continue with the rest of the seasons as something to pass the time.
Same! The last few seasons arenāt great but I just love the show so much. I get so attached to the characters every time I watch it (currently on a rewatch and Iām on season 12 lol)
I really dislike how nerfed the angels got to the point where they struggled vs basic demons lol. The mythos was so much more fleshed out in the first 4 to 6 seasons.
If you want to watch legitimately good tv, watch up until season 5. If you want to watch something enjoyable that isnāt trash, watch up to season 9 to 10 (maybe).
I respect Jensen, Jared and the rest of the team for the time they put into it. I respect the show for how long it went on. This was my first favourite show and is still ranked amongst my current favourites
But seasons 10-15 is when it went deep into creative bankruptcy lmao. To the point that now that I have watched it once all the way through, I canāt bother to do it again.
I just pick at specific episodes that I like here and now. Like the Groundhog Day episode, the tv show episode with Gabriel, the second ghost facers episode, and the TDKSLAMMER episode.
You may of noticed that 3/4 of the episodes listed took place in season 5 or before. That aināt no coincidence lol.
Beat me to it. A friend of mine started watching it last year. I warned her about it being a path not worth taking. I warned her about the queer baiting. I warned her about the tetanus nail and the shit finale. She didn't listen
Gritty dark horror show on the cw where ppl can't say fuck, half the fandom decided the show has only 5 seasons, they fight god, insane meta plots, one of the worst endings of a show ever, the show hates parts of its fanbase and makes fun of it in the actual show, parts of the writers room seemingly hate each other and do their best to overwrite stuff established by another writer, a significant part of the fandom thinks the actors are secretly fucking but cant decide WHICH actors are fucking, every showrunner and writer seems to have a very unique take on the characters and they dont bother to find common ground at all, crazy behind the scenes rumours and conspiracies, 'lets make a grimdark manly man horrorshow about manpain and cast two male models as the leads. Wait why is our fanbase like 80% chicks? Ewwww', a fandom so divided ppl might as well be watching entirely different shows, the creator having an obsession with one of the actors that carries over to other projects, literally they drop the characters onto the real life set at one point and the whole cadt and crew gets killed, last minute gay confession that half the fandom flat out denies happened, immediate fridging of said gay character, a genuinely embarrassing treatment female characters, multiple failed backdoor pilots and abandoned storylines, next level memes and oneliners, they used lube instead of water, i could go on.
One of my favourite shows, literally nobody should watch this.
Warframe, every time Iāve tried to get someone into this game Iāve failed. I probably had the wrong approach but still. It has to come naturally, if you donāt like the game enough to play on your own then you probably just donāt like the game.
I keep returning to Warframe every year or few months, do a couple missions and uninstall it.
I really like the combat and movement and all that jazz but I genuinely just don't understand the missions and progression. It also feels like everyone is so much better than me. Whenever I start a mission and need to kill x amount of something I end the mission and realize I have like 3 kills because everyone else's has fuckin aimbot or something and insta kill anything within their point of view.
Hahaha, this is me but I come back to play like twice a week because I want to finish the story quests and farm Styanax prime and join events like that Tau event that's letting us travel to a new solar system soon.
I've grown to just accept people play the game for me on a lot of missions, but I definitely wish they toned down the power we get, I feel so useless with my Caliban lol.
I actually used to play this game religiously YEARS ago, like when raids were still a thing, before we even had operatorsand drifters, but recently getting back on with a new account to get a fresh experience, I think I'm just getting old and can't keep up, I can't even keep up with how fast people move even with bullet jumping.
To be honest, there's just too much content, it's really overwhelming. I've played in for like half a year on start and tried twice to come back and it's really just too much.
Tbh a lot of the content is repetitive by the time you get to steel path the game basically plays itself only bit of challenge is eda or eta and even then with properly invested frame they also become easy, at a certain point you just start fashion framing for something to do
Has to constantly pump out new content to keep the players interested/engaged but any new player would be overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content they get hit to the face with
Warframe was odd beast for me. I played when it was new and ended when first freeroam lobby area was on place. And restarted this summer. Played story that was not in place several years ago. 50 h later I felt like still in tutorial learning things I learned long time ago by trial and error. Sametime there was two types of instances. I steamroll on story or got annihilated outside of story.
I describe it as āItās like chess, but there are 200+ pieces and you can only pick 6. Also thereās a percentage chance shit doesnāt work the way itās supposed to.ā
I sometimes get the feeling that I want to play Champions again, do a few matches, and get my teeth kicked in by the most bs rng possible. Sometimes its by burns and crits depending on whichever is more inconvenient at the moment, or my pokemon hitting itself in confusion twice due to a Hurricane, only to miss the hydro pump the moment they break out of it
I stopped playing exactly because of this, it doesn't matter how much you outplay your opponent sometimes, if lady luck isn't on your side you can go and fuck yourself.
Why does he look like he's about to turn into the Chakravartin, Wheel-Turning King, Red Eyed Heir, Pankrator, The God Eater, Bearer of the Word Blade, and Destroyer of the Seven-Part World?
I truly hate how much I love that game. I really hate that I have to force myself to keep the game uninstalled, or else I will lose another 3 months of my life feeling like dog shit.
It's my favorite game that actively makes my life worse every time I log in. I think I need to sell my account.
So I found that if I stay away for 1+ years I fall so behind in knowing the new heroes and mechanics that I just get overwhelmed thinking about going back, it's a good deterrent for me.
League or Warcraft. I had some great times on both but dear lord are they bad for you. Either turning you into a being of pure salt or a permanent online troll, it never ends well
It's sad because its not the game but the community around it. I refuse to play the game on my own but with a few friends there are few games that can compete with it.
On the flipside there have been many a night where we all swore just 1 more and all been late to work the next day.
No it's not only the community it's also the snowballung gameplay that early mistakes are very professional wishing, and there are a lot of matchups that are are horrible to play. I swore off the game like 11 years ago and this year started again with friends. Don't be me.
One Piece - as an avid lover of One Piece, if the audience in this context is not a major anime fan already and not willing to commit, I absolutely won't recommend the 1000+ episodes (not including movies, manga chapters media etc.)
I almost never read a manga before one piece but itās world just seemed so interesting I had to check it out. I started 6 months ago and am almost caught up with it now.
My boyfriend has been slowly force feeding me One Piece. Honestly? Would recommend. Found family go brr
EDIT: For newbies Iād highly recommend watching the live action and then starting up where that ends. Thatās what I did and I think I had a better time than others have.
Warhammer 40,000 Love it a ton, but it's hard to recommend when you can't even play the tabletop that everything is based on without dumping literal hundreds of dollars just to have a viable tournament army. Sure, there is Combat Patrol, but that's still $100+ for a single player to have a start, and you still need the modeling supplies like glue and sprue clippers. The costs stack up fast. The only way I could recommend entry to the tabletop of the hobby is Kill Team, a different game from 40k, and I still feel like it's unnecessarily over-complicated and over priced.
I used to work at my LGS, and I gotta say Nurgle favors Friday Night Magic, I didnāt know sweat could carry the scent of Big Macs until I had to work one. We hired a guy specifically to host them because we all loathed the smell so much.
Yet another reason why Slaanesh is the best choice for worship.
I used to play lots of 40k and WFB back in the day, and they'll always have a place in my heart. But the best thing I ever did in terms my love of the hobby was to start playing other games by companies other than GW.
These days I playing mostly Bolt Action, Star/Frostgrave, King's of War, Pilliage and K47.
The downside is your pool of opponents is far smaller and the games aren't for evreyone, but I wouldn't go back to GW games now. The player base is also far less toxic.
I think you underestimate how much tabletop simulator makes getting into the hobby so easy
Sure you're only getting the gameplay part but you get to dip your feet in the waters in an infinitely more accessible manner and it also lets you test out multiple factions
Repo! The Genetic Opera. I sincerely love everything about it, even the flaws, but unless someone hears me talk about how much I love it and insists on seeing it to understand me better, I'm not recommending that corny, aged mess to anybody.
Fr, itās so good! My high school bestie and I and my sister watched it so many times, the dvd stopped working, and we still talk about it 17 years later. One of my current besties was also obsessed when she was a teenager and still keeps a copy in her limited dvd collection. Maybe it takes a certain person to love it, it was the GOAT for us alt girls back in the late 2000s. I still listen to the soundtrack.
It's my favourite animated series and i take allot of inspirations from it, but i can totally see the content is NOT for anyone, thats for damn sure š
MIA is for sure my guilty pleasure anime. Like, it has such cool worldbuilding and characters. But WHY DOES THE CREATOR WANNA DO WEIRD STUFF WITH KIDS?!
I loved this series too, but I feel that it didn't age well after so many years. Not that I hate it now, but I definitely feel my friends will get tired of the "friendship is magic powers me up!" shtick like most shonen series goes.
i rage quit as a teen after the tartaros arc finished in the anime bc i was so sick of "power of friendship"
inhaled the first series manga in like a month and a half recently. there is whimsy and joy and my heart now, idc if fairy tail is corny af. i read and watch other depressing stuff, so i can get in my quota of fictional pain and suffering and misery
Yuujou (the power of friendship) is actually a pillar of Shonen Jump; it is essentially written into the guidelines that it should be included in your story if you are to write with them.
A notable exception is Death Note, which warped the power of friendship.
The only thing I know about this show is that my ex friend and her boyfriend would roleplay as the blonde boobie girl and the red headed guy, and pretend to not be strict Catholics, so they could have premarital sex.
I could recommend the first 5 seasons. After that you're there because you're either emotionally attached to the characters or it's become a guilty pleasure.
I actually really enjoyed it all up to season 10. But anything after that is kinda bad lol. But Iām on a rewatch and Iām on season 12 and Iām literally only watching because Iām attached haha
As a big JRPG and fantasy fan, the escalation to gods and stuff didn't really bother me. Definitely a guilty pleasure show though, it's corny as hell and I love it. Similar to The Magicians actually.
I really like the coffin of Andy and Leyley. A complex story about the intricacies of symbiotic toxic relationships were both parties are simultaneously the victims and the perpetrators. Raunchy, dark and comedic. It's great I'm a big fan.
I think I played it a few years ago when chapter 2 was released, and I really do agree. I love how discomfort just permeates through the game. It blends taboo and erotic and gore and psychological thriller and mystery, and you're just playing through with this odd tension in your shoulders the entire time. The dark humour sorta punctuates all that in such a nice way.
Yeah. Sandman was absolutely formative to my childhood in a lot of ways. I always checked them out from the library, but for years I had wanted to buy the whole anthology in one set. Now I'll never give that man a single cent of my money. Maybe I'll buy it if I can find it secondhand, but chances are slim.
There's nothing else like it. It's got some hype to it and a lot of stupid, much of the stupid being incredibly stupid by design and much of it not. I'm glad I read it. But this isn't a recommendation.
Having reread it more recently it's also very much a time capsule of the 2010s, like I wouldn't say it "aged poorly" for the most part but it comes off as an unintentional period piece for being a teen in that time that might not resonate with all audiences.
I read your description, and got curious enough to look them up. I have just listened to āFlat Earthā, and I'll admit I feel like asking "What the fÕ½ck did I just hear?"
Say hello to my little friend! I'm on mobile so pretend the picture is right before this sentence. This game hates you. Edmund McMillan Hates you. Your computer hates you. You'll keep coming back though
Oh man yes I love this game (series?)! It is so incredible and fun and each run is so radically different. But man there are some BS rooms. Like floor 1 cellar with champion face-spiders in a micro-room with spider spawners.
Its also one of the few games from its era that still goes strong, mainly because it went legit and got a steam release when many didn't or didn't until much later (like the Sonny series)
I was gonna suggest this too. Trying to get dead god. Itās probably my favourite game, but I wouldnāt recommend anyone to it, the hatred it makes me feel at timesš
It's dark, really dark in places and that definitely makes it not suitable for everyone. It really annoys me when other fans try and force it onto people who just want something cosy like Moomins or Ponyo, just because it's their favourite thing ever.
Berserk is probably my favorite piece of fiction, but the Fandom makes it impossible to recommend. 80% of kids just see the edgy stuff, and think that that's what it's about, instead of really paying attention.
Itās also an intolerable fandom to interact with as a woman, in my experience. I love Berserk, I have criticisms of it, but I love it. And the fandom is extremely toxic to any woman who says they donāt love the hyper-sexualized rape.
As someone who willingly avoids it because I cannot stomach extremely dark topics and visuals -- yeah, thank you, I know it's an amazing piece or fiction, I respect the beautiful art and compelling story, but it's just not for me. Enjoy it!
Oh, I thought Murder Drones was widely liked. I watched, like, an episode so I have no idea but Iāve never seen hate of it outside of people calling it cringe bc itās an indie YouTube series
I watched the whole series and honestly am very confused about what the actual story was. It doesnāt feel like the episodes have any kind of continuity. That said I wouldnāt say I disliked it. It was just an unusual viewing experience.
i think i watched episodes 1-3 and maybe 4, but thatās about it the only Glitch series that really grabbed me was Meta Runner S1, and that was long before they were even Glitch
Honestly, they feel like the sort of games where if you're at all the sort of person who would enjoy them, you've certainly at least heard of them before.
150 hours in Stellaris and just got back into it this week after like a year of not playing it. And I'm just sitting here wondering why tf my stability is so low and where all my consumer goods went.
My friend who has 1500 hours and every DLC watched my stream and even he was dumbfounded.
Then I play CK3 which I have 400+ hours in and I still get pissed at religion/culture causing so much unhappiness
Trying to get into it now but the entry barrier is quite high. I play a lot of strategy games (virtual and tabletop) but this is something else. Every youtube guide that is "for beginners" fails to explain what the goal even is or what we are trying to do
A game where 1k hours is considered the tutorial. It's serious video game addiction bait. If it isn't the most fun, dopamine milking nonsense to take Gellibolu one last damn time though.
RWBY 100%. I absolutely adore it. I love the show so much. But, I can admit, it's an indie show for most of its duration, and it suffers from issues that come with being one
Well, being an indie show is one thing. Then there's the part of the "fandom" that blatantly hates on the show, especially those who say "Monty didn't want this". Which is why whenever I recommend RWBY I tell them to stay away from the fandom.
This was genuinely my experience getting into the show. Before I got into it, I was surrounded by this discourse about how awful it was and how it betrayed Montyās vision etc; it was during the Adam/Bumbleby controversy to, so it was a pretty ugly time.
I went into it thinking it was going to be hot garbage and became hooked for the rest of the year. Not only this, but I find out that Montyās own family told people to stop using him to attack the showā¦only for those same āfansā to attack them
It also has some quality issues after Volume 3. How much that affects your enjoyment depends on the person, which is why the fandom is so divided and so active.
When you got a show like this that has a lot of unrealised potential it gets the creative juices flowing
Honestly for me RWBY was something I loved but even separated from the larger community until I stopped watching it I could tell it wasn't doing so hot.
Genuinely trying to watch it after Vol 3 was slowly becoming a pain in the ass. At first it was that members of the Rooster Teeth site could watch a week before YouTube and people who aren't paying.
Next it was paid members get to watch it a week earlier than free members, who got to watch it a week earlier than YouTube.
A couple seasons later and YouTube stopped getting episodes - Meaning the only way you could watch it was a god awful site that loaded the videos terribly.
And then it wasn't free anymore. You had to find a pirate site or pay either Rooster Teeth or Crunchyroll to watch it.
And then of course the quality of the fight scenes fell so the Rule of Cool that the series was born with wasn't doing enough to carry the story that was becoming more prominent, which was in turn failing to refer to tropes that are important to a story. One of the most common thing that fails to happen is 'Show don't tell', and we end up getting an animatic after Vol 9 basically saying 'Yeah Vale was attacked again off screen and it fell for real this time.'
I really liked RWBY, too. I don't think I missed a single weekly release for the entire time Rooster Teeth had the show on their website. Season 8 is where I lost my love for the show. That season finale made me so upset that when Season 9 was on a different platform, I didn't bother looking for it.
Itās at 41 seasons across 3 series plus the movie, the audio dramas, the books, the comics, the 5 or 6 spinoffs, etc.. Itās a lot. I donāt actually think you should stop at series 10 I just think itās a good hopping off point if someoneās looking for one. I do recommend starting with the 2005 series 1!
I watched the David Tenant run and couldnāt really be bothered to watch anything else about the series. That run was pretty good but the whole thing is an insane rabbit hole of lore that goes all the way back to black and white TV
My brother and I were having this very conversation this weekend, as both ex LoL players, pretty hardcore. I love the game, to this day. It's just the other people that play it that made me quit.
I've got limited hours of the day for entertainment. Having an overentitled 17 year old having a tantrum ruining it isn't in the schedule anymore.
You don't need to be scared of mobas. Especially with League you somehow only hear stories of addicts who rage at everything but I've been playing mobas for a long time (not lol tho) and I just play a game every so often, I don't think I've ever raged.
Bojack Horseman. Helped me work through a lot of my own personal problems + helped me to understand how weird my family dynamics actually were but I cannot recommend this to anyone who values their mental health
I adore Hazbin Hotel and the hatedom's intensity is borderline creepy, but it is very much a "love it or hate it" show, and I still don't know what qualities or tastes a person could have that would predict which one they'd be.
House of Leaves is one of my favorite books, a truly wonderful work of ergodic literature.
But it is so incredibly layered, confusing, and constantly changing what you understand to be real or believeable that it can deal psychic damage to the reader. You may feel as mentally unwell as some of the characters in it.
Space engineers, starting from 1 ship and eventually being able to move among the stars without having to worry about resources is incredible. But also, oh look you put the wheels on your over on upside down and now the entire thing is gonna explode for no reason.
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