u/Terramoin

I watched Thundercats in the 80s at times but dont remember much of it, but i want to get back in but not sure where.

The old cartoon, i don't think it holds up for an adult who doesn't have the nostalgia with it? As all shows back then were very episodic and no long actual story and just 'villian of the week' and all shows back then got cancelled with no payoff in the end.
I know there is another cartoon from the 2000's but appearently it also has no ending as that got cancelled too, and i don't want to watch a show that has no ending and just abruptly ends.

I'm a huge comic reader and that is mostly where my interests lie. I see Thundercats the 80s comic has 2 volumes with all of its 24 issues, i can buy it for a pretty cheap price, is this worth it? Does it have an actual ending to the story?

I read some issues of the 2024 comic and while i did enjoy it, people said the characters were out of character/had a different personality, and... well, eventhough i enjoyed it i'm very strict with staying true to the original idea because i feel if i focus on this as the first jumping on point i don't get the REAL characters if that makes sense.

So that leaves me wondering... where do i start? And am i wrong with the 2024 comic?

I'm VERY new to He-Man, i watched a few episodes in the 90s as a kid and watched the 80's movie as a kid but thats it and i forgot most of it. I've been searching all over on where to start reading He-Man, and everywhere i looked everyone said to start with the DC comics He-Man 2012 comic omnibus or volume 1 from the 2012 comic, even websites say this with reading orders. Appearently its a great start for a new fan.

However, i seem to enjoy the comic less and less, not because i think its bad but because i feel the comic requires prior knowlegde of the He-Man universe to fully enjoy this.

My problems with the comic:
- Many characters are thrown into the comic and i keep getting lost on who is who, there's too many of them in a way too short amount of issues and no introduction on who any of them are. They come in the comic and act as if the reader already followed these character for 40 issues.

- Way too much talks about the past i never witnessed in the comic so i feel i miss something, and areas of the world are constantly talked about that i never even seen even with 15 issues in and having read the crossovers.

- There are name drops of characters i've never seen, even 15 issues in, still no idea who some of the characters are that are also not even in the comic apart by name only.

- Ekro (i think thats his name, the big red evil wizard god) is appearently a friend or was a friend of He-Man... okay... nice, why didn't i see him before he turned evil then? I rather see this character BECOME evil instead of seeing him evil already and never getting to know his real character. I missed out on what i feel like is an important character in the story.

- The kingdom of Eternia is already destroyed in i think #8... i barely witnessed this kingdom at all, i never saw the citizens, never saw the kingdom itself (only indoors) and... well, its gone before i get the chance to see it. Again i feel i miss something to get to know this city as its already gone before it gotten a chance to show itself.

- Castle Grayskull, same story... its already destroyed before #10! I barely saw it and i know Grayskull is very important to the story but yeah its gone already and its secrets already told in #9 or something, no buildup at all to the mystery.

- Crossovers with other universes before i could even explode HALF of Eternia. I dont want crossovers that i have to read before i even get a chance to understand Eternia itself.

- Skeletor... dude did nothing and then got his ass kicked easily, came back and doesn't even look like Skeletor anymore. Again i feel like i don't know Skeletor since he is barely in the comic and when he is he got his ass kicked and then changed into something else. I want to see Skeletor, who he is... not whatever he is now and just constantly getting his hiney whooped, this guy is pathetic.

- He-Man already got a major power-up in #8, i barely knew him or his power and he is already a super saiyan.

This comic to me is a huge mess, it feels insanely rushed by destroying important parts of the lore (the kingdom, Grayskull, the mage Ekro character) and going to crossovers waaayyy too soon.
It feels as when i am done with this comic i'm no smarter of the story than before the comic, it feels as if once im done reading i barely even can call myself a He-man fan because... fan of what? I still dont know much of Grayskull, the kingdom or the Ekro mage at all or any of the other characters like Fisto who had just 2 pages of nothing and randomly forgotten about.

Did i do something wrong? I feel i'm missing a whole run =/

I've done like 20 Pvp matches and i still don't know what is going on.

Sometimes that my team kills instantly revive with 50% hp with even if they have no ally near them to revive them.
Sometimes enemy player HP bars become dark and they don't take damage for what feels like 10 whole seconds.
Sometimes i get 5 shotted, meanwhile i can sometimes fight enemies for longer than 15 seconds (and still die).

I had a few moments where i fought someone for a while but they kept getting healed an insane amount, i use 5 abilities and they still go from 95% to 99% in a second each time.

The crowd control is insane, i love this game but the CC is probably the worst i've seen in any game ever. I sometimes get spam-CC'd for more than 9 seconds (i started to count), once its over i can walk again only to get spam CC'd all over again and then die... making me wonder why i even play pvp.

All games are losses, and i'm probably the reason which is also insanely demotivating to even try.

I'm trying to do everything this game has to offer because i love this game and have been playing it for a month now non-stop. I do like pvp in games and i do it for the Wizard Vault currency, but man this is just getting annoying in a game that is overall super relaxing.

Can anyone help me out? I'm trying to enjoy pvp so i can get the vault currency without getting annoyed.

I'm always interested in these creepy things in games (specially online ones) that aren't horror, it makes it scarier.

A few examples of what i mean: WoW has had these demonic kids play in the day but at night, if you follow them, they start doing a ritual and you hear a demonic whisper (but they removed it...).
And there is a huge scary squid-monster somewhere in the water, and since i have thalassophobia its so scary i can't even watch a video without being stunned by fear lol.
Also in Nagrand (an area) there are babies who are kidnapped, but the quest is scrapped so... the babies, to this day, are still kidnapped lol.

What are some of the scary things in Guild Wars 2? Such as scary zones, weird hidden monsters, creepy things happening in the world, creepypasta's or theories are welcome too.

He is suddenly alive again, killing some of the villians there, but then moves back in the background and no mention of him in this story arc again. Next writer's run, Godspeed wasn't in that run at all, and now the new run so far no Godspeed.
I read a lot of DC and i've never seen Godspeed anymore after his quick cameo in One Minute War.

Did i miss something? Did i forget something?

I played WoW for years (yup another one) since the start to late 2012, i quit because of the grind and the stopwatch style gameplay loop (do dungeons to raid but do it fast before everything becomes unplayable and obsolete once the new update arrives. FOMO style).

I checked out other MMO's to play over the years on Youtube with some info being said about them and none of them were my thing, they all had the same "run around and find quests, then go back to the questgiver to finish it, collect 50 beaks from a monster, oh you killed them before doing the quest and sold the beaks? Well do it again but now for the quest. Do dungeons and get gear, oh it didnt drop? Try again next time because the dungeon is now on cooldown for 15 hours", it made me realize MMO's are far from what i enjoy in gaming.

I started playing FF14 recently, good game, but again its the things i disliked in MMO's and after trying for a week i had to quit because i kept walking around doing quests and going back and forth and back to the other area again because i forgot a quest. Then i had sworn off MMO's for the rest of my life because they're all the same in the end.

Then i saw Guild Wars 3 and thought "Oh another generic grindy stopwatch MMO that is like WoW and FF14..." until i thought "Whatever lets try Guild Wars 2 anyway, there's no sub fee, its f2p so might aswell try" after asking on this Reddit for some info about it, and everything i heard i thought "Huh... thats very different from other MMO's, this does sound promising".

Then i played it, and after the intro quest i thought "I don't understand what to do, where's the quest spamming?" and realized i can do and go where i want, i don't have to read (or click through) 10 paragraphs of text of someone begging me to find their lost shoe that somehow turns into 10 paragraphs of text no one reads.
I play Guild Wars 2 for a week now and man i'm loving this game, this is what an MMO should be to me, just great exploration, no massive walls of text no one even reads or cares about because little Timmy is homesick and wants his teddybear that he lost in the woods thats now possessed by a demon that then blablabla.

After disliking MMO's for years i now see that an MMO can also just be chill, it can actually be fun.

I did use RPG Maker 2000 way back in the early 2000's as a 15 year old, made loads of games but they were ofcourse very... amateurish, and i didn't use half the tools RPG Maker provided.

Now i'm 39, most of the people i know are making videogames as indie devs and i feel a little left behind and want to start something as well. I've used Aseprite for 3 and a half years now, and i see that i can use my own sprites and tilesets with it, which i always wanted to do as a teen but couldn't back then so i used other peoples free to use work.

So how easy or hard is it to make my own game with RPG Maker? Specially someone that is eager to learn but quickly overwhelmed?
And which RPG Maker is the best to start making a decent game? There's so many version and i only know RPG Maker 2000 and 2003.

I used some codes to get a tamagotchi backpack and some bunny ears but i can't find it, its not to decorate the planet, its not an outside toy either, its nowhere to be found.

Can anyone help me with this? I'm also still pretty new to Paradise.
I'm currently level 6.

DQ3 is appearently a prequel, if i'm right? So i start at DQ3, then 2 and then 1?
I'm a little confused about it, so before i buy the wrong one (which i appearently almost did) i want to know for sure.

Also, if i play the HD2D remasters, is it too far from the originals or the Snes remakes storywise? I want to delve into the DQ franchise but not miss out on too much story since i'm a huge story guy.

I'm 39 years old and i've had really bad depression some years ago, very dark place and with it came street phobia and then anxiety and stress over little things that shouldn't even matter.

The pains i have:
- Tight stingy feeling underneat the back of my skull (like a boomerang shape from left to right, kind of like from ear to ear)
- A pressured feeling in the lower center "buldgy" area at the lower part of my skull
- Shoulderblades feel tight
- Arms sometimes hurt a little bit, although rarily, mostly after stretches
- Scalp tightening sometimes

Things i can do without a problem:
- Work in the garden
- Move my head (sometimes its locked though)
- I'm still pretty flexible with my arms

I have physiotherapy that comes to my home for a year now but i still see no difference, infact, i still have flare ups. Physiotherapy helps for a day until it completely resets again the next day making me wonder why i even bother with it.
Two physiotherapists, including my doctor, all told me (after various tests and questions) that my neck is strained from too much stress and nothing deep or serious is going on luckily. They said i need to stretch more and move around more and most important: RELAX! But how can i relax when i feel the world is out to get me? When i feel my body is my biggest enemy? I don't know how to relax.

I'm very desperate and i don't know what else i can do.
Are there ointments i can use? Any videos that actually help? Any tips from proffesionals here?