u/Quibilash

So, a shooting happens in which 3 innocent people die, and all he can say is 'hey look at me guys it's like what happens in my game!'

I know my 'no posts about the shooting' ... but at this point it's more about SBN3 being a hog for attention. Absolutely pathetic waste of skin

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There are some posts going around about the 2 perpetrators of the recent San Diego shooting, which killed 5 people, including the perpetrators, coincidentally having Class of 09 played in their steam library, among other games.

Any posts talking about this will be removed, given the nature and severity of the situation, I do not think it is a good idea to hijack discussions about the shooting into instead looking at the perpetrators playing a specific kind of video game, as it detracts from the suffering of the victims.

If anyone does post about the shooters and Class of 09, please report the post so it may be removed

That is all

/uj I came to this sub to hornypost and shitpost, that recent post wasn't either, it's stupid ragebait designed to dichotomise and strawman when it's kind of clear it's made to shit on the series and the people participating in it.

The game and series appeals to both Trainer x Uma ships and Uma x Uma ships, like many have pointed out, there's an Uma for everything.

For the former, how many soft moments are there between the Trainers and Umas? Like Oguri literally stopping herself from having dinner and preferring a walk with her Trainer, or the bathhouse scenes and the 'irreplaceable bond' that's formed from it, Super Creek's existence, etc.
Likewise for the latter, how many times have we seen Vodka and Scarlet finding it difficult to express their feelings in like 3 separate trackblazer events, the Oguri x Rudolf ice skate kiss scene literally in the first PV for the series, Hishi Amazon x presumably King Kamehameha in that same PV, Daitaku Helios literally professing her love towards and trying to ask Daiichi Ruby out on a date multiple times?

Both exist, both coexist.

I will admit I'm more of a yuri shipper and don't particularly care for Trainer x Uma, but that doesn't mean I'll hate on it for existing, I understand why it exists, and I can even enjoy some fanworks that ARE Trainer x Uma. Is it that difficult to do visa versa and not resort to overgeneralising and calling people 'yuritards', or the lost art of simply disengaging from something you might not like?

And another thing, the Umamusume community in general has a 'larp' problem, not the larpers themselves, but the community's almost incessant need to differentiate themselves from the 'larpers', and thus acting all high and mighty about their own knowledge and beliefs that ... just makes us look arrogant and hostile rather than actual fans. The Discord mod situation was stupid, but why do we care so much about a subset of a community that ... we don't have a connection to? Why are we throwing around the term 'larper' not to call out 'posers' who don't actually care for the franchise and just want likes/karma, but trying to use it as a 'gotcha' that most of the time just comes off as meaningless or essentially laughing at someone for being 'wrong' or not knowing an aspect about a decade old multimedia franchise spanning manga, anime and a 5-year old constantly updated game?

I was hoping this place be a bit more relaxed, different to some of the uptight behaviour I've seen in the community at large, but I keep seeing the same things that really give the global community it's bad reputation.

Buddies, what are we here to do? Are we really going the way of the 'circlejerk' and falling for and creating ragebait? To hate on members of a community that all have a shared interest of all different knowledge and skill levels? That isn't what I came here for, and I hope it isn't yours.

Rant over, time to /rj

Who has the worst athlete's foot?

So, my first exposure to the idea of the 'Sin' faction was in Anomaly, and honestly I thought they were just meant to be an edgy knock-off of Monolith because in Anomaly's story, Monolith forces are basically eradicated during the storyline, so Sin was brought in as a replacement as the antagonists for the Mortal Sin chapter.

Looking further into them recently however, and it seems like they've existed since the early builds of STALKER, being a concept that didn't make the cut for whatever reason.

There's certain aspects of the faction which seem to be common descriptions, but I'm not sure how contradictory or not they are:

- An independent faction which worships the Zone as a whole, rather than the Monolith who worships the ... Monolith, and are under control of the C-Consciousness

- A faction of mutated/experimented or zombified STALKERS during early experiments before the timeframe of the games, set on pillaging scientist laboratories and killing ecologists

- A satanist-adjacent faction with human sacrifice, face-wearing, and cannibalism

Is there anything I'm missing? And are there mods with different takes on the faction?

My Sources:

https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Sin

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/17xjzhm/sin_a_complete_description_of_the_cut_faction_of/

I've been ruminating on this for a bit and thought I'd see what people think.

I feel like Paimon is somehow linked to the Traveler's space ship, either as a product or part of it.

Like, why does she decide to tag along and help us guide through Teyvat almost on a whim? How does she know so much about the world despite nobody really knowing who SHE is? How is she able to teach the Traveler Teyvat's language despite the fact the Traveler didn't know anything about the language until Paimon taught them, assumedly knowing the Traveler's language to be able to teach them? (Although basic word association is not out of the question for the language thing)

I've also heard of a line by a Melusine, which calls Paimon 'A balloon' who's string extends to above the sky, quite a few people connect this to Celestia, but could it be something ... further up?

My thought is that she's unknowingly an aspect of the Traveler's spaceship, possibly part of its AI that it apparently has, that passed through Teyvat all that time before even the Abyss Sibling's arrival in Khaenri'ah, during the first time the spaceship passed over Teyvat: (Welkin Moon's Homecoming)

>(‍Traveler‍): I always assumed that this was my first time in Teyvat... I thought that (‍Lumine‍/‍Aether‍) and I must have been hibernating in space for centuries on end...
(‍Traveler): But the logs show that our spaceship flew over the skies of Teyvat once before. A long, long time ago.
(‍Traveler‍): After that, it continued traveling through space for a long time. Some of the data is corrupted, but I suspect that it kept flying for thousands of years.

It's implied that it's connected to the Abyss Sibling and that they may have lived in Teyvat even longer than first thought:

>'(Could this mean that (‍she‍/‍he‍) left the ship long before I did? Maybe even... during our first pass over Teyvat?)'.

But I feel like this isn't the answer and meant to be a red herring, which Genshin sometimes does like with Focalors' execution when everyone in the story thought it would be Furina. It would seem odd for the Abyss Sibling to arrive in Teyvat before the Cataclysm, then leave for hundreds or thousands of years, then come back to be back in time for the prophecy and summoning by Khaenri'ah.

I feel like Paimon being part of the ship's AI which was left in Teyvat to discover its potential as a new home for the Twins, or to act as an information gatherer about Teyvat until she could act like as a guide for the Twins, makes some sense as to what the pit stop was, if we take the fandom wiki's interpretation and the Traveler's alternative outfit descriptions into account:
'they embarked on the spaceship alongside their sibling on a journey through the sea of stars in hopes of finding a new world with "potential" upon which they could rebuild their civilization. ' https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Aether_and_Lumine%27s_Spaceship

Of course, there's some connections to the Heavenly Principles which I simply do not know much about and others have pointed out there's connections like the upside-down triquetra on Paimon's clothes. while the right-side up version is seen on Ronova, one of the Shades, but if the symbolism draws from the same source but don't share any connection, or whether they're directly connected, I think remains to be seen.
I do remember hearing some people say that Paimon might be a 'Luonnatar' of Asmoday, which I don't think we have very strong hints for right now but might be interesting to explore when that gets expanded upon.

Let me know if I'm missing something that can debunk or support this theory.

source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRsIrXqESCh/

audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNGyqAMAVLE

So, I've wanted to extend the end date of Victoria 3, possibly by another 20 more years or so, to extend game time before the save 'ends', in case I run out of time for a playthrough goal.

From what I remember in Victoria 2 however, doing so would cause issues such as apparently causing political parties to become defunct and I believe other things which would cause the game to behave strangely. Does modifying the end date in Victoria 3 do something similar or no?

Also, is changing the 'end date' value the only thing I need to do if I only want to extend the game's end date?