Since I wanted to start play games such as Persona, I looked up some of their features issues.

Main sub seems to hate Persona, saying Atlus is misogynystic and stuff, but looking more into it, I feel like there might be more than that.

I liked the P6 teaser very much, I love the more horrorific tone and less shonen anime feel to it. Yes, I know the protagonist is a guy.

Even thought many will tell you to boycott, I'm sorry to tell you boycotting is more than often uneffective or detrimental. For example, Pokémon Legends: Z - A sold less than Arceus (12 millions are many, but they wanted much more) and, according to a very reliable leaker, they almost considered quitting Legends after L3. Who tells you Atlus won't start making more cookie cutter games if Persona 6 fails?

Anyway, do you have any actual alternatives? Are there other mashed genre games you deem more girl qnd LGBTQ friendly? If not, just sayin' I don't really like pure fantasy settings or classic JRPG ones, so if there's something more mixed with urban/sci - fi, it's just better

Thanks for reading, waiting for your suggestions.

How would you find a partner who could edit video for you in real life?

Most, if not, all of those I met online were unreliable and interested for different reasons. I should have posted a full video nearly 4 months ago, but my "partner" messed up my work and left.

I'm desperate to find a reliable one and I intend to pay them after they prove to be reliable.

People eho get this kind of help: how did you meet your partner?

If you make long videos, you have to write whole scripts for them, film them and editing them. For many people, time's not enough to do all of this and it becomes unsustainable.

The ideal is having a partner who edits them for you.

People on the internet aren't usually reliable, so where do you meet partners that accept to edit your video and that you have no problem paying? If I were you, I'd pay them last to see their work, as I met many who messed up my raw work or even did nothing and left.

Since there seem to be many people here that aknowledge animal sacrifice while avoiding it, do you use sobstitute objects instead?

For example, I've seen Hellenists talking about offering dog plushies to Hecate instead of real dogs like ancient Hecateans in their main sub.

When addressing the presence of human sacrifice in paganism, I don't mean to offend anyone - it's just aknowledging it might have been a thing. Thought it's often told that it was taboo, human sacrifice seems to have been a part of some cults' practices, like Zeus Lykaios in Arcadia, from which we have archaeological evidence. It appears that boys were sacrificed in his honour. If you happened to worship this deity, would you use a doll as an offering instead?

These kinds of questions are even for Celtic and Nahua pagans. I'm interested in studying religious practices.

Since there seem to be many people here that aknowledge animal sacrifice while avoiding it, do you use sobstitute objects instead?

For example, I've seen people there talking about offering dog plushies to Hecate instead of real dogs like ancient Hecateans.

When addressing the presence of human sacrifice in Hellenic paganism, I don't mean to offend anyone - it's just aknowledging it might have been a thing. Thought it's often told that it was taboo, human sacrifice seems to have been a part of some cults' practices, like Zeus Lykaios in Arcadia, from which we have archaeological evidence. It appears that boys were sacrificed in his honour. If you happened to worship this deity, would you use a doll as an offering instead?

King Lykaion's myth, where the first king of the often mythicized and romanticized region of Arcadia starts sacrificing strangers and his son to Zeus and cooking his meat, who ultimately turning him into a werewolf, is often used to prove Greek religion disdained human sacrifice.

However, according to historians and philosophers of antiquity, Arcadians did sacrifice humans alongside animals during specific festivals, consuming their meat afterwards, and there is actual archaeological evidence for it, as the skeleton of a teen was uncovered near the sanctuary area, buried in an unusual position with a slab over his pelvis, leading to the belief that the practice of sacrificing boys between childhood and modern high school age to Zeus during festivals in his honor did persist until Roman conquest era.

If we look at the myth, what we actually see is:

- violating hospitality duties, sacred to Zeus, by slaughtering strangers;

- A father cooking his own son.

It may seem that these unsanctioned taboo behaviours are being condemned, rather than the ritual as whole. We might think the actual ritual involved:

- selecting and caring for the person;

- slaughtering him in a specific area and only consuming the entrails;

- burying the rest in a certain manner.

So, this tale seemingly condemning this type of ritual while it still happening could have been actually condemning its misuse only, or alternatively, a myth forged by outsiders.

As a girly who loves games, I easily get turned off by s*xist tropes like sexualized female characters, damsels in distress and male characters that can never be vulnerable.

Female characters being sidelined or just serving as Macguffins for male heroes is the worst. That's one of the main reasons why I stopped watching Yu - Gi - Oh!, to give you an example (I'll never forgive how such an excellent character like Aki Izayoi got reduced to a literal benchwarmer in 5D's seasons after the second one. The manga is even worse, because she's not only turned into a "pretty queen" instead of a tormented "witch", but also gets kidnapped by the main antagonists to be sacrificed to awaken a god and Yusei has to save her... Why couldn't we have something similar, maybe with an even competent male character that has to be rescued for once?). However, reading online about characters that were sexually abused being still sexualized or underaged protagonists being able to date teachers, along with grinding and lenght in these games, made me a bit turned off by Persona for a long time. Hell, I usually don't care about characters' gender, but a female protagonist for once wouldn't be bad at all. Maybe, we'll get that with Persona 7 I don't know...

However, I liked Persona 6's teaser very much, and I think the main reason for that is the more horrorific tone and less shonen - like stuff.

If I could start with a Persona before 6, which one would you recommend? For a period in my life I really wanted 3 Reload, because, like for P6's case, P3 is darker and more liminal, but then I learned about Tartarus being the only dungeon and slow middle point, so nkw I still hesitate. Do you think I could still get into this series?