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Cake day: March 23rd, 2022

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  • Yeah there’s some massive double standards when it comes to judeophobia vs literally any other kind of bigotry. For libs, I get it, since they can’t tell up from down anyway. But among commies, the royal treatment is baffling.

    Like, sure, not all Zionists are Jews and many of its most ardent supporters are Christians, but it’s also true that Jews are Zionists, almost universally so. It feels like people are ignoring the latter by constantly emphasizing the former. We should take this seriously and put blame where blame is due because Jews are supporting Zionism materially via fundraisers, stolen land sales, and outright colonization. The lionizing of judeophobia as some sort of transcendental, eternal law of nature only serves Israel.

    If Jews are racist, it’s because the poll was rigged. If Jews are criminal, it’s due to targeted misreporting. If Jews commit genocide, it’s because they were tricked into doing it. It’s ridiculous and I can’t think of a single other demographic that gets treated with kid gloves like this.






  • Yeah you did well to avoid story spoilers but you did get spoiled on game’s premise, which is arguably more important, so now you pretty much are playing it wrong. Undertale is best when it’s subverting your expectations but it falls flat if you don’t have those expectations in the first place. But to be fair, this is a kickstarter indie game from a creator previously best known for making music and who had only developed an earthbound ROM hack up until then. By all means, undertale should’ve been a niche game and it’s weird that it blew up as much as it did. I don’t fault the developer for designing his game with the assumption that people will treat it the same as the billion other indie RPGs.

    Like with that boss you mentioned, she’s designed to be challenging for a player with good gear and a high LV. Then you beat the game and are told to replay it without fighting. Then during a second playthrough, you remember this boss when you reach the point where you can buy her key item. Then you’re relieved that you don’t have to fight her again, but without your gear and stats.

    I feel confident in saying that you’re not meant to know in advance that this boss is optional because you’re not supposed to know at first that fighting as a whole is optional. The key item is better understood as a mercy for repeat playthroughs than a secret requirement.

    This video is tangential, but I think you’d be interested. It covers what RPGs is like from someone with nearly no gaming experience at all. The player didn’t resonate with undertale either because she didn’t recognize the tropes that it subverts so it just came off as boring and irritating.

    https://youtu.be/YBRTg74ZhLU


  • In case you didn’t know, the true pacifist ending isn’t available on your first playthrough anyway. You must complete at minimum one neutral ending first.

    Undertale became massively popular so now everyone knows everything about it, but the game is designed for players to come into it blind & with the expectation that it’ll be a normal JRPG. You’re meant to kill monsters, be surprised that they stay dead, finish the game to learn why, and then be told to avoid combat as a new game+ challenge run. You’re not supposed to know the gimmick beforehand and start the game with the challenge run.

    There’s something to be said about how subversive things lose their appeal when they become so popular that they lose their subversiveness. But yeah, go do some grinding because you’re probably level 1 and have garbage equipment.