u/of_kilter

im playing the witcher 3 and im seeing just how trusting and naive of a geralt im roleplaying as. i do want him to be mostly heroic and not an asshole but through multiple storyline i just go along with what is being told to me and until i realize that the game expected me to be somewhat suspicious. most sob stories get me but im trying to be a bit less lenient on my pay (i feel bad haggling with fictional characters and looting from them)

every other main universe jojo is very clearly a main character and center of the story, they either choose this path like giorno or are chosen for it like joseph. Josuke is a highschooler and that’s all he ever is, he isn’t ever part of some megalomaniacs grand plan and his greatest ambitions include ripping off rohan. This was all necessary to fit the slice of life narrative but jojo is still a battle manga and in morioh araki found the perfect way to mesh these two conflicting ideas

so why does josuke get into all these fights and conflicts with RHCP or Kira, consistently running head first into danger at any chance he can despite not being able to heal others? the answer is that there isn’t really a reason, he’s just that cool of a guy. this can be seen very well during the bites the dust arc. Hayato is cornered and aware that he might be about to kill his last hope of defeating kira. kira would have easily won here if it weren’t for my man josuke higashitaka, not by some powerup or with clever tactic, all he did was see a clearly distressed child and tried to comfort him, making in clear he’s someone that can be trusted and relied on. this is exactly what defeated kira, a passionate belief in doing the right thing and helping others out. (thinking too much about this scene can make my cry)

people that say josuke was supposed to go back in time to save himself are missing the point of that scene. there is no great mystery and there is nothing deeper. josuke saw a stranger help him out and saw how big of an impact a simple kind act can be. and this goes further into the larger cast, most villains in part 4 get redeemed because they find the community of stand users to be an accepting and forgiving place. Hazamada may have ended up a rapist if it weren’t for josuke and the gang welcoming him back.

this of course leads into how cool of a stand crazy diamond is and how perfect of an ability it is for josuke. there is a reason healers aren’t usually main line fighters, they tend to get rushed and killed. this is exactly what kira figured out in his conflict with josuke, taking him out was more vital than killing jotaro. josuke on the other hand doesn’t give a shit about getting hurt if he has an ass to kick and a person to save. infact i believe he actively risked himself for every main character. he went into the nijimura household for koichi, he stepped out into the rat’s visibility to save jotaro, he ran into highway star’s room to save rohan and ran through the explosive bubble for okuyasu (there’s probably more examples)

that’s it, josuke appreciation post done

we know dio spent a long time researching stand abilities, experimenting with the arrow, and finding stand users like Pucci. so if someone like Kars or Diavolo had the arrow and the intention of figuring out how to alter a stand ability in the same way could they have just given themselves any stand they wanted given enough experimentation?

We saw Echoes, Bites The Dust, Chariot Requiem and GER grow new stands or abilities but this was primarily done through use of the arrow and high stress situations requiring some from of growth. and notably unlike the heaven plan none of these 4 knew what their abilities would now be

If i wanted to give myself a stand that nuked the entire planet could i just do that? would fate force someone who’s name kinda sounds like jojo to whoop my ass if i tried?

In my years of attempting to actually get through my skyrim journey, there is one playthrough that sticks out to me as something i really played and enjoyed. I almost exclusively installed mods that related to Solsthiem and spent the entire playthrough there.

Skyrim modding can be quite possibly the largest and most expansive video game ever made, but that isn’t necessarily a good thing as it creates choice paralysis and you may always feel like you can improve your pack. By narrowing down on what you are actually going to interact with i found it far more fulfilling as i actually saw most of the mods in game and never felt lost on where to go. this is a very similar concept to Joov’s region locked challenges

I was wondering if anyone else had tips or experiences with what they’ve done to stop endlessly adding mods and actually play something for a change

first off this is not a defense of bear in any way, it is simply an analysis of the interesting moral conundrum shown in the film and how one should act if they weren’t an incel and actually cared about nikki. we’ll assume the wish is still made in the same way and the first week or so goes the same until bear fully realizes nikki is not herself and the wish actually worked. We are also going to assume we can’t rely on getting someone else to reverse the wish as we saw how that can backfire. Finally we are treating the new nikki as her own seperate entity meaning she has her own right to life that should be respected if possible but not over bear or nikki

Option 1: Choose to not be with nikki. Believe it or not this is easily the worst option in the film. This would result in nikki killing atleast one person out of jealousy over bear and would likely result in either life in jail or she pleads insanity and not being allowed to return to society. This leaves both new nikki in perpetual agony as she can never be with bear and old nikki perpetually trapped in her own body while bear lives on freely.

Option 2: Be with nikki. More or less what bear tried to go with and does mean raping the original nikki. This does keep new nikki happy and if done properly could result in no one dying (nikki might have been driven to murder no matter what but bear couldn’t know that until it properly happens). Again awful choice but if you don’t want anyone to die it might be the best option.

Option 3: you should kill yourself, now. this genuinely may be the best option in the film. Killing either himself or nikki would free them of the curse and we know this is what actual nikki preferred (she likely didn’t know that bear killing himself would also end the curse so she would probably have preferred that when she asked). This only results in 2 deaths (as either one dying also kills the new nikki) and avoids any rape. In the same situation as bear id probably kill myself once i fully understood what had happened.

Bonus, Option 4: It is now that i reveal this post is actually just to dunk on bear even more as he chose truly the worst of all possible worlds. He initially tries option 2 raping the old nikki while also hating the new nikki. He starts to go with option 1 which results in multiple deaths meaning bear finally decides to go with option 3 killing himself. However nikki has already killed two people and is left with 3 dead bodies and millions of unexplainable dollars. Maybe she could get the insanity plea given how she acted at the party but most likely her life is completely ruined by bear being the stupidest man on the planet.

tonio is given any amount of prep time and ingredients, if he had the goal of curing Dio of his vampirism or removing his head from being parasitically attached to Jonathan’s body could he do anything?

So angelo is fused with the rock, makes perfect with josuke’s abilities. but there are two things that confuse me.

Angelo is seemingly immortal now without a need to eat of drink. why would Josuke have the ability to permanently stop someone from dying like that

Angelo appears to lose his stand aqua necklace as the glove attacking the boy falls limp to the ground. Why does this appear to be the only time someone has ever lost their stand outside of Pucci

not diagnosed ocd but i think that’s just because i have been unable to get the words out to describe my state. ill be back in therapy soon

i believe i have pure O and am very high functioning so i don’t think anyone realized just how awful it was in my brain and just how much i was hiding it. every time i would think of saying it to anyone my internal monologue would threaten me and say it was going to kill me so id stop. i justified not telling anyone because it was all just mental and i believed i had to handle the strain it put on me

ive been in therapy more for adhd and depression recently, the wellbutrin is amazing and has had significant cognitive benefits i can just use my mind better and pluck thoughts out easier. im cubing numbers in my brain when i could barely do mental math before, i knew ive always been smart but always felt so stupid. the clonidine is pretty recent and is maybe the greatest thing ever invented, it lowered my anxiety and made me drowsy slowing my brain down. i started to realize i could think thoughts without my internal monologue and practiced turning it off and just thinking through concepts and emotions rather than pure words. eventually i just said how much i despised my internal monologue and had a breakdown as i realized i just said that out loud, that the world wasn’t ending, and i could actually get my thoughts out without that cruel bitch yelling in my ear. the next day i got very drunk and high and had a breakdown where i dumped way too much on my friends, i said so many thought that i had twisted into a knot in my brain and it was so cathartic to get them out and realize just how nonsensical it all was.

when i imagined myself medicated (i was a lil obsessed with it at the time as i thought i was a bit of a monster) it was as someone with completely empty thoughts but i never once imagined that my internal monologue could just be nice to me. i was getting anxious expecting intrusive thoughts but they didn’t come for days and ive been able to recognize them and stop my compulsions from playing out (though i may be too obsessed with stopping them, why everything needs to be a catch 22 in my brain). rn im trying not to think about flowers for algernon and the idea of losing all my medications and my progress

hey, 20nb in downtown portland. im a psu student (neuroscience major) and been wanting to find some irl friends that could meet together consistently for a game (probably monthly or twice a month). So im wanting to run some oneshots first to see if i click with people and if we can get a fun game running.

im very used to dnd but also looking to branch out into VtM (new d20 season got me lol). if you’re interested in joining my first time playing/running the system please let me know. but dnd oneshots will also be run if that is your preference.

requirements for my players:

be invested in the game, the world, and the story we are telling collaboratively. if you don’t care find a different group or communicate with me on what would get you invested. this includes not ghosting, if you aren’t interested anymore a simple text is greatly appreciated.

tell me what you are looking to get out of the game. a fun time with friends, a good story, a chance to play a specific character, etc. if you tell me i can better incorporate it.

no strong age or demographic requirements we’re here to play a game together. but def inform me first if you’re under 18

be kind. im not going to let a bad actor ruin a fun game

understand that im audhd and be accepting of that. if you are neurodivergent or get along with neurodivergent people then we will probably vibe. Also looking for nerdy friends in general my boardgames are not touched often enough for my liking

you don’t buy that sick knife and bring it out in the coolest way possible without having some kind of a plan to sway people’s minds. at what point would it have gotten past what he could’ve hoped/planned for?

i keep remembering days with my ex that i just remembered as a normal day but it’s only now that i realize just how upsetting they were acting and how much i was pushing down those feelings to placate them. ive noticed this happening but i don’t think i realized it could be this bad until now and before i knew it i had let things get so bad that i couldn’t just ignore them anymore.

i feel overly naive and quick to be trusting. even if i disagree something intellectually, morally, socially ect it’s hard for me to disagree with someone when im in the same room as them. i feel like im just setting myself up to be taken advantage of by stamping out my own feelings (i literally mentally enacted one half of my brain being stomped on by the other half, it can get bad when im desperate and dedicated enough to not think about or feel what im going through)