Belly_Beanis [he/him]

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  • It’s the same graphics engine they used for Octopath Traveler. I think some other JRPGs got similar remasters.

    But yeah. Dragon Quest 3 is a blast to play. It’s amazing the NES could handle it. I think it was 5? That also released at the end of the SNES’s lifespan. Those two didn’t see much distribution in North America because they came so late. It’s nice the series has gotten re-releases over the years. The first Monsters game is coming out (or is already out), which sucked up a significant portion of my childhood. I played it more than Pokémon.



  • I think playing the first three Dragon Quest games in order is the way to go because of how the mechanics play out. In DQ1, you control a single character and often fight enemies 1v1. In 2, you have a caster, warrior, and a hybrid who fight multiple enemies. In 3, you get to build your party from a multitude of classes and characters.

    There’s some other tropes and things introduced across the first three games gradually as well. Stuff like cursed items, metal slimes, and so on. It’s been a long ass time since I played 1 & 2. Been thinking about picking up the DQ3 Remaster (which is like the second or third time it’s been remastered lol).



  • In addition to this, the US does all of Europe’s dirt elsewhere in the world. For example, oil gets stolen from Syria and sent to Europe. This means European capitalists don’t have to compete with American capitalists, who source their oil from Canada and Latin America. They agree to divvy up resources so Europe and the US don’t come into conflict later.

    The war in Ukraine is an example of the opposite happening. NATO capitalists are in conflict with capitalists in former Soviet nations. They both want to extract resources from Ukraine, but NATO capitalists want Russian capitalists to be subservient.

    As said above, the Marshall Plan made Europe militarily dependent on the US. In exchange, the US does the actual armed conflict. Europe gets to benefit from imperialism, yet sits below American capital.


  • Only one joker to go on Balatro to get every joker on Gold Stake. Then two challenges to complete every achievement.

    Been playing 9 Kings. The devs have been listening to a lot of feedback and making updates. The latest change to skill trees has been kinda “meh” compared to the old system. There’s also a lot of units that could use rebalancing. Some are auto-picks, others are a waste of space.

    Next week I’m going to the game club to show people how to paint and convert models. Not sure what projects of my own I want to bring. I’ve been stripping the paint off a bunch of stuff (mostly Mage Knight models and some unlucky person’s 40k stuff they left in the lost and found for like 6 months years ago when I was in uni).





  • These are always so stupid because you can just point to Hollywood, which chuds are constantly seething over as being too liberal. Taylor Swift was their darling until she vaguely hinted at not liking Trump. Hell, a lot of Fox News staff are there because they couldn’t make it in any other kind of showbiz (like Ben Shapiro).

    You can fill up both sides of that chart pretty easily because surprise surprise, attractive people exist all over the political spectrum and we shouldn’t use that as a litmus for intelligence.








  • They use similar terms when talking about the Soviet Union and CPC. It’s a thought terminating cliché. “Mao killed 100 million people! It was a genocide against his own people!”

    These same people then can’t explain how Mao killed 100 million people. Like we know how the Nazis carried out the Holocaust. They primarily used gas chambers and then ovens to cremate the bodies. Others were worked to death. A lot of people were just tortured, shot, hanged, or stabbed.

    But when talking about the Four Pests Campaign, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Chinese Civil War, the Warlord Era in general, the Gang of Four, and the Deng reforms? Silence. They don’t even know what these words are. Somehow, 100 million people just did that. Mao looked at the grain and it spontaneously combusted, then the army I guess shot anyone who didn’t clap for this amazing magic trick.

    Then, if you bring any of this up, they look at you with a blank expression before accusing you of Holocaust denial because you say “Yeah, maybe those 100 million landlords, Japanese collaborators, and fascists following Chiang Kai-shek deserved it.”


  • I had to watch this show with my mom. It was okay, but I really hate procedurals and “monster of the week” stories. The practical effects were great, especially for TV shows which have smaller budgets than films. There were too many different storylines going on creating serious implications for the world building.

    It’s definitely a Boomer show, written by Boomers for Boomers. The technobable was the worst part of it. So many episodes seemed like something the writers saw on r*ddit and decided to make an episode about it. They mentioned they had people who comb social media for plot ideas. They did not consult actual experts in these subjects, however. The lucid dreaming and “China Bad!” plots are prime examples.

    And then it just kind of ends. So I guess none of these stories mattered because Katya moves her kids to Rome, divorces her husband, and continues to have a weird relationship with Michael the priest because Allah forbid we make stories without romance subplots.