my response to this one would be too " n s f w"

i would appreciate it, given the last monster

well, i would be terrified at least. kind of a fucked up thing to even have to consider

🔫take the fucking estrogen

(i am joking and do not actually think we should start people on estrogen at birth)

HEY NOW :(

They have Skeletor in this game :D

I can level up? Sweet, I'm a sucker for numbers going up, I just hope I don't have to grind. Please don't secretly be a JRPG

A lot of the retro games happily don the constraints from eras where developers were constantly straining to be free from them. Undertale is pretty fantastic for how it wears these constraints, and takes them off selectively for impact.

But SotN? Even in these first five minutes, they pull out all the stops.

The parallax 3D clocktower in the background as you scale those steps, voice acting, the sprite backgrounds melting away to a 3D noise-textured vortex, and watching Dracula's healthbar melt away as he dies? Fantastic, my mouth was wide open the whole time. I can't imagine how this must have been experienced 28 years ago.

The "first boss is the final boss" fakeout is a well-worn but welcome trope, so I wasn't expecting to be expected to defeat Dracula in that cutscene. A short bit of exposition later, and enter Alucard, stage left, in an entrance that gets you really pumped to be the worlds broodiest twink.

I've really leaned heavily into the "Metroid" side of the "Metroidvania," and all the "-vania" heavy games I've played seemed really bad. The sluggish wind-up feel of the characters is something I'm getting used to. I'm not above being charmed by theatrics-- I'm sold.

Okay, time to go play the next five minutes of this game

sentiment status: very relatable

If your safety relies on privacy, please know that nothing is E2EE and the admins (if they can be fucked to SQL in), LEO with a warrant), or hackers (if they're good at it) can see private forums and DMs.

I don't think Postmill has support for "private" forums, and I don't think I'm alone in browsing jstpst by new posts chronologically.

What you can do is to encrypt your posts now with a private key only you remember, posting gibberish to the frontpage. That would be a new type of Jstpsting I think

I was started on half the minimum dose of an antidepressant early 2021 and it turned me over fast, good, and hard. I felt like I was about to pass out. Now I permanently occasionally get these brain zaps, especially in moments of falling asleep, although I'd call them "door knocks".

Awful idea, thank you for sharing! Please tell us how this goes for you. With enough time, Jstpst will become a worse erowid 🙏

This takes me back. Is it possible a child lived in that room? A neighbor friend put up stars before a sleepover. They moved out and when I met the neighbors, I could see they were still there :)

This is such a pleasant thing to share with us, thank you for posting

i just had to figure this out on me own

cursed by a wizard named childhood trauma,

i am invested in the status of the sandwich you considered

#tantalizing...

good news!!

you can claim the world record for "furthest distance ejaculated" if you do it from high up. first person to jack off from the space needle goes straight to the front page of the guinness world records. but also to jail. food for thought #feminism

Read this as "out of spiced tea" at first, a terrifying proposition,

Oh yeah, I want to be clear that I agree with you. I just wanted to illustrate it, for lack of better words.

i think u should make a post here or in f/true_just_boobs with that quote

regardless i am thankful for the shirt that makes my boobs look good, because it makes my boobs look good

that's a good quote

I think it's that bathrooms are a place that are still gender-segregated, and where people feel vulnerable.

The patriarchy is a real thing that makes all of society asymmetrical among women and men, but focusing on the bathrooms is (1) simpler than all of that, and (2) something you can do without acknowledging the sexism built into society.

It's one place where you regularly make yourself vulnerable and to the mercy of the public, with a nice viewing-gap in every stall for some reason.

Say you have a red-blooded American idiot, feeling that natural vulnerability you feel with your cheeks on that seat. They sit down, and Tucker Carlson's visage appears in their mind, saying, "Be afraid! A transgender will RAPE you! It can HAPPEN RIGHT NOW!" And the transphobe wipes, get up, and get ready to leave, hands shaking ready to grab your pepper spray if there's a transgender on their way out.

But if you're just Any Transgender Person using the bathroom, it's probably the number one area where you can anticipate conflict. It was probably pretty scary the first few times you dared to use the "other" restroom. If you've been trans and using restroooms for awhile, you probably had conflict in the past.

You know now you got out safe, but those conflicts didn't start with that assurance. You wouldn't know if they would escalate to violence.

And when people feel increasingly empowered and even mandated to start conflicts at the bathroom, that die rolls again and again. Maybe next time you'll get shoved, or even pepper sprayed, or assaulted even worse.

So, the transgender person sits down on the seat in the adjacent stall, and the visage of Actual Conflicts You Had appear in your mind, saying, "Be afraid! Someone might yell at you! Or worse! It can HAPPEN RIGHT NOW!" It doesn't matter that the trans person has reason to be afraid and the transphobe doesn't-- both are afraid.

The trans person wipes, flushes, and goes to wash their hands. Your cortisol is up, and even just a scornful stare is enough to bring it higher.

I've definitely left situations like that feeling, "fuck!! i have all this anxious energy!! i need to POST about it", falling for the exact thing you described. And then Fox fucking News wins again.

I was a child when I saw it, so, grain of salt. And it would be deeply embarrassing to base ones worldview on it.

But it's entertaining mediocre enough to give it a scrappy quality, does a lot of worldbuilding work that goes underappreciated, and is only 90 minutes!

I've been thinking about this. Flabberghaster already took the "I have never been rightfully criticized" joke, so I must engage seriously.

I think trying to turn the tide of a conversation on somewhere like Reddit is very different than trying to change an individual persons mind. On Reddit, if you can belittle someone well enough, you won't change their mind, but you might change a hundred onlookers minds.

But I do agree- if you want to change an individuals mind, you need to be compassionate and generous and give them outs where they can save face. If you can bring them to agree with you, it should never be embarrassing or hypocritical.

When I was a teen, I was a little MRA shit, and folks at SRS and The Fempire basically saved me. But I did like to think of myself as a perfectly logical automata(*) which helped me see through the jabs and circlejerks and whatnot.

That said, I can't remember the last time I was criticized and unready to hear it. I think I've always been able to see that people can say useful or correct things, even if they're dicks about it or are incorrect about a lot of other things.

* i am using the label from your post but i would be so embarrassed to earnestly use this label for myself. "perfectly logical" is just the floor. u gotta have good epistemics and u also gotta have a good capacity to think beyond just the tools of logic. they call me "philosophy of thot" for a reason

good reminder that Thanks Giving is also a Transgender Thursday