Not quite what I was asking

I’m always amazed at the amount of pokemon games that don’t shake the basic formula too much and still find success, despite a lot of complaints online being about “stale, formulaic game”. Guess all they need is actual story variety

I guess it does, probably the only well known half life fangame that “got gud”, thanks in no small part to Valve giving them the greenlight to make it a commercial product

That sounds counterproductive, but I’m not a company exec, so what do I know

Yeah, I excluded romhacks because the sheer amount of pokemon ones would dominate the comments, either them, Super Mario or Mega Man

I also saw from Pokemon Unbound’s release post that they use “FireRed Upgrade” which is a considerable work on top of the original

It’s one of the rare cases of a fangame that actually gets finished and is good. The soundtrack alone is worth a playthrough. If you enjoyed Undertale, UTY will feel like a game that fits perfectly in. It works as a prequel and you’re the yellow soul kid (fully non canon, though the pacifist ending could work as canon)

imperialism, state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas. https://www.britannica.com/topic/imperialism

Gee, totally not what Russia is doing, my bad

/s

They’re not “fighting NATO”, they’re fighting for their own imperialistic bullshit.

internet is just for filling the void at work where I can’t engage in any productive personal interests, because i’m on company time.

Well, hello me, fancy meeting me here

Back in 2013 or 2014 I think.

I was going out with a woman slightly older than me (me 23, she 27), we had already had sex twice. I don’t recall the exact details of this date of ours, but we met around 19h, later I took her home and we sat in the car, getting hot and stuff, when my hand went down on her, where I noticed something weird. She pulls her panty aside and there’s a male condom sticking out of her. I bust my ass laughing while she desperately tries to not die from shame. We weren’t having anything serious and we both knew the other “might be meeting others”, so I really didn’t mind the fact she fucked another guy before meeting up with me that day. I found it so absurd that she somehow didn’t notice the condom was left inside her that I just couldn’t help myself but laugh.

She started ghosting me after that day, no big loss 😆

Keep in mind that social media is the easy way out of boredom. Doing literally anything else requires more effort. Don’t get me wrong, I also feel the need to talk about my interests with other people that i know also share whatever specific thing I’m on about at the moment, reddit’s size makes it much better than lemmy - but that’s the trap, unfortunately.

Case in point, sometimes I spend way too much time here on lemmy of all things, time that I should be spending on better non productive activities, like actually playing my backlog of games. Sometimes I end up reading some reddit posts because there are no lemmy equivalents (and often the lemmy is just a repost from reddit), but I do avoid commenting and interacting there.

You’re extremely unlikely to find the perfect partner or even someone “who understands your tastes perfectly”. The algorithms can do that to a point, but interacting with people requires effort and also helps us understand that keeping ourselves inside our niche bubbles isn’t good for our social health. I share some interests with my girlfriend, but not several others - I’m lucky she enjoys boardgames and videogames, we can play some stuff together, but not some heavy or hard stuff that I personally enjoy a lot. Sometimes I just want to be left alone and play all day long, other times I suck it up and don’t do that in order to keep our relationship going - she understands why I want some “me time” and doesn’t judge me. Trust is important and luckily, we both trust each other a lot.

So tldr I guess is try again and fill that boredom with other stuff. If possible, set up an hour a day to be completely off the internet, at least. Avoid social media mostly because, although you can get some nice conversations on topics of your interest, you’re mostly dealing with faceless names, and this isn’t good for us if it’s the most social we get.

Docking decks

Back when it got momentum, I was one of the idiots who got sucked into it because of “lol, let’s hate watch it” and actually enjoyed it up to a point (S5, I think? First season after Twilight became princess). Season openings and finales were usually the best episodes, taking the cast out of slice of life situations and dropping them into dangerous adventures.

I wrote some fanfiction that never saw the light of day - thankfully for me and anyone who would end up reading it

Playing a MOBA-like boardgame is possibly the best option because, face to face, people aren’t as likely to be assholes and trolls, even with people they never saw before and might never see again.

Guards of Atlantis (or its sequel) and Skytear (or Onward, its sequel) might be worth checking, for anyone interested

League of Legends, Star Wars. If we travel some years back in time, World of Warcraft, though it has been dying down thanks to a steady decline of players

The solution is for everyone to migrate to Jami, which is obviously the better option!

Exploding a data center is a bit beyond my capabilities, mostly because I live over 500km away from any 😅

Half of capitalism enjoyers I know complain that “communists” (anyone who complains about capitalism) are hypocrites because they “don’t apply communism to their lives” by sharing their salaries and buying iphones and super expensive clothes.

Ask them how one can “apply communism” when they live under a society that is capitalist, where any donation or salary sharing is effectively feeding capitalism and they’ll just circle back to the initial complaint.

That or a reflection of how bad your mental situation is

Glasses. Not for me, but to show the Romans that some that can’t see shit that magic glass can make them see better. Either that or a magnifying glass, so it can double as a fun trick of sunlight burning, which, hopefully, can teach them to make concave/convex glasses for people.

A sewing machine. It’s electric, but by opening it up and trying to replicate the pattern manually, those old, fully manual ones could be built.

A world atlas. Maps weren’t exactly common and, for most of human history, unreliable, so having something like that would be extremely valuable, even if it lacked some info like terrain elevation or type of environment.