Finally finished A joyful life

This thing took much longer than expected to finish it. It's just so emotionally intense and gut wrenching that I couldn't go through it quickly, I just had to take breaks. Both main characters had to go through a lot of trauma processing and also deal with shitty people during the story. Only other story that was this hard hitting the entire time for me is I saw the TV glow. It's not for everyone, but for those that can deal with difficult stories, I recommend giving this one a shot. I don't see it mentioned often and it deserves more love.

Anyway, 10/10, my favorite yuri by far.

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u/cetvrti_magi123 — 9 hours ago

8DX vs World discourse is really stupid

I've seen a bunch of posts of people asking which game is better and there are always so many comments that are like "8DX is definitive Mario Kart, it has 96 tracks" or whatever. There are also people saying World is better, but there seems to be less of those. Either way, I find this way of thinking really stupid and not helpful for people asking these questions. What I'm gonna describe here can be broadened to giving recommendations for any piece of media, but it's really apparent with 8DX and World.

Both 8DX and World are great games, but despige being part of the same series they are very different. Depending on what someone wants from Mario Kart, either one of those can be better. It's like if someone asked if they should play Street Fighter or Super Smash Bros, there is obviously no definitive answer. If you think this comparasion is exaggerated, just hear me out.

8DX provides great classic Mario Kart experience, arguablly best in the series. Controls are great, especially drifting, and track selection is really good despite quite a few bad tracks. There is also the fact of it having most tracks in the series, 96 in total. There are some flashy shortcuts, but majority of tech doesn't look much different than normal driving. I'm not saying tha tech is boring in this game, it's awesome, it just doesn't look flashy which is important for some people.

World on the other hand is quite a stand out in the series. Rails, walls and new trick system add so much tech, shortcuts and paths to the game. Recently I played 8DX after only playing World for a month and lack of these things was very aparent. There are less tracks (not counting intermissions here), but on avarage they have more to them than 8DX with multiple paths and online viable strats. If you want to get into competitive, having 30 tracks instead of 96 makes it easier to start because there are much less tracks you need to know and there is a higher chance of tracks you practiced actually showing up in one of 12 races. I tried to get into competitive 8DX and having 96 tracks is so overwhelming, 30 is far more managable number. Rewind is also amazing for practicing things. There is also open world which is important factor for some people, I myself didn't care about it going in, but now I enjoy playing it from time to time.

What I'm trying to say here is that both of these games have their stregths and weaknesses depending on what you want. Somone wants bunch of different tracks to play on. Someone wants to do shortcuts with rails and walls. Someone wants 8DX drifting. Someone wants to chill out in open world. Also, one thing like number of tracks can be good or bad depending on what you want. It's ok if you have preferences and like either of these games more, I don't care. However, don't just blindly say to other people that game is better because they may not want same things as you. I do like World more, but I'm not gonna say to people "just get World, it's definitive Mario Kart". I also don't try to compare these games to see which one is better in the same way I don't try to compare Street Fighter 6 and Smash Ultimate, these games are just different in ways that makes the comparasion dependant on personal bias more than quality.

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u/cetvrti_magi123 — 3 days ago
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New Spiderman movie made me cry (spilers)

I've seen some posts about this movie being trans coded, but haven't read any of them to avoid spoilers. Well, I wached it with friends earlier and it hit much harder than expected. For most of the movie I thought that Peter and later Jean are relateable, but it wasn't outstanding to me. And then came the scene where Jean is inside of Peter's head. No movie before this made me cry and I didn't expect this from freaking Marvel (not a fan of most of their stuff because I'm not really into action). It is such a positivine message of being beautiful for who you are and others loving you for that despite the evil people wanting you harm. It's such a simple message and I'm well aware of all that, but hearing it from outside and it being condenced in a short scene made my emotions burst all at once. As a closeted trans girl with barely any support, I really needed this. It took me quite a bit to calm down and movie was already over by then.

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u/cetvrti_magi123 — 9 days ago

I need help with first shortcut on Wario's Galleon

From the gameplay I've seen, this isn't how it's supposed to look. Turn should be taken much sharper, but I just cam't figure out how to do it. I tried using heavier combo and still didn't work. What am I doing wrong?

u/cetvrti_magi123 — 16 days ago

Psihološka podrška u organizaciji Da se zna

Pre 3 dana sam kontaktirala organizaciju Da se zna jer sam videla da pružaju psihološku podršku i još nisam dobila odgovor. Je li normalno da im treba ovoliko vremena da odgovore? Ima li smisla opet slati mejl?

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u/cetvrti_magi123 — 2 months ago

Posting videos in comments is now enabled

Starting today, you can post videos in comments. This feature has been added to Reddit recently, we wanted to wait a bit before allowing it.

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u/cetvrti_magi123 — 2 months ago

How to beat Gigantamax raids with bots?

I beat Raihan and went to catch a Gigantamax Hatterene. After spending some time to get it in the den, I tried to beat it like 10 times already and lost every single time. All bots go down in 1 hit, 2 only if they have focus sash, so I lose because of them even though my pokemon is doing fine. But even when they stay alive, only thing they are able to do is break the barrier because their attacks do almost no damage or they use useless moves (like lowering Hatterene's attack).

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u/cetvrti_magi123 — 2 months ago

Posting images and gifs in comments is now enabled

Starting from today, you can post images and gifs in comments. We will see how this affects the community, mainly regarding bots, so it might be changed back later.

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u/cetvrti_magi123 — 3 months ago

Ready to get roasted for USUM and HGSS

Few clarifications:

B2W2 and Platinum could also be in 2nd favorite, these games are really close in my opinion and I'm not sure if BW is definitive answer here.

Reason why HGSS are in overrated is because they have some pretty big issues that people don't talk about often, but they are also in best remake because despite those flaws I like tham more than FRLG and especially ORAS.

XY are my least favorite Pokemon games so far (haven't played any of the Switch ones), but I think they would be solid with changes remake could provide.

u/cetvrti_magi123 — 3 months ago

Mom might be noticing that things aren't quite right, what should I do?

I'm 20 year old trans woman, still living with transphobic parents and finacially dependant on them. I came out to my mom 2 years ago and to dad months later. To make it short, things didn't go well and my depression peaked last year thanks to them. Last summer mom asked me to try to think of myself as a man (so basically "just don't be trans"), I saw that as a chance to go back to closet and said I'll do that. Conversations with them about my gender became so bad for me mentally that I had to stop the whole thing at all cost. Since then, we haven't talked about it at all.

With that I had only one option left: survive until I can get a job and become financially independant and start transitioning. Problem is, dysphoria and depression make thing really difficult. My parents often talk about certain things I should do which I'd agree with if I was in a mental state that allowed me to. I don't have willpower for things like going to the gym with all the things I'm dealing with. Mom already asked me multiple times if everything is alright, I lie and say "no", and then she asks me if I would tell her if things weren't alright and again I lie and say "yes". Today though, she asked me one more thing: have any of my views changed recently. At first she didn't specify any time period, but quickly after she said she means since last year. I couldn't bring myself to mention anything about gender because I don't want to talk with her about topics like that at any cost so I just tried to end the whole conversation as quickly as possible. Now, I'm not sure what to do. I still have around 2 years untill finishing university which is a long time of hiding, but I've also been a total wreck mentally for over a year so it's really difficult to hide.

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u/cetvrti_magi123 — 3 months ago

Recently I found out tht local board game caffe hosts BoTC games and I went few days ago for the first time. I had alot of fun, but I can't figure out what to do when I get a role that's good target for a demon kill. I tried to not claim anything during public discussion when I was Empath and Monk and got executed both times. Second time was because Undertaker wanted to confirm me though. But first time I tried to be careful, I told player who claimed chef and sat next to me (got 0 day 1) that I'm Empath and she talked with other players who were good, but I still didn't know if I could trust them. Ended up being executed after evil traveler nominated, reason was that I was too secretive. What should I do with roles like this? I don't want to become easy target for demon, but I also don't want to seem suspicious and get executed early.

Which roles are good bluffs in these situations? Ravenkeeper seems like obvious one, but when I claimed Ravenkeeper as Mayor, demon immediately tried to kill me.

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u/cetvrti_magi123 — 4 months ago

Added nsfw tag because of mention of genitals.

Today I saw a post on Reddit by someone from my country who moved to Thailand. As you may expect, there are transphobic "jokes" in the comments, every single one is about sex or genitals. This isn't anything new, most transphobia I've seen by people from my country, usually men, involves those things. It's disgusting, transphobia and objectification at the same time, not to mention mockery of men having sex with someone who has a penis. It's so weird, why would they even try to imagine something like that if they hate it so much?

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u/cetvrti_magi123 — 4 months ago