u/BlondieDollGaby

so i keep seeing people talk about outfits and whimstars but nobody's really talking about why exploring in this game feels so different from other open world stuff, and i think it comes down to the fact that there's basically no punishment for wandering off.

like in most open world games you get pulled off the main path by combat encounters or resource grinding. here it's almost always just "ooh what's that shiny thing" or "i wonder what's up that ledge" and then you're 40 minutes deep into a completely unrelated part of the map with 6 new outfit pieces and no memory of what you were originally doing lol

makes a lot more sense once you remember the dev lead used to work on zelda. it's giving very "just put something interesting on every hill" energy, except instead of korok seeds it's fabric and instead of shrines it's a fit check

curious if anyone else feels like this is the actual secret sauce of the game and not the gacha/outfit stuff people usually talk about. like would this game still work if it wasn't a dress up game, just with this exploration loop? genuinely not sure

Something Ive been thinking about: Goku has probably had one of the strangest relationships with death in the entire series.

Early on, death was treated as a huge deal. Then after Dragon Ball introduced the afterlife and the Dragon Balls became more important, Goku basically started treating death like an inconvenience

He dies, trains in the afterlife, comes back, visits King Kai, talks about people who have been dead for years, etc. Meanwhile, other characters still react to someone's death like its the most devastating thing imaginable.

I know part of this is just how the series evolved, but in-universe, do you think Goku genuinely became desensitized to death?

Or does he just have a completely different understanding of it because he knows there's an afterlife and resurrection is possible?

It also makes me wonder how differently Goku would view death if he had never met Bulma and never learned about the Dragon Balls.

My friend recently started dating someone new and asked me to tell people that they met through me.

The actual story is completely harmless, but apparently she thinks it sounds embarrassing. She met him through a dating app, and I happened to recognize him because we went to the same college.

She says its not a big lie and nobody needs to know every detail of their relationship. I told her Im not comfortable being part of a story that isnt true, especially if someone directly asks me.

Now shes saying Im making a tiny thing way more serious than it needs to be and that Im being a bad friend over something that doesn't matter.

I honestly don't think lying about something this pointless is worth it, but maybe I'm being overly rigid about it.

Am I wrong for refusing to cover for her?