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Strength and power are not the same. Strength is often portrayed as the ability to exert force, or to make others do what you want, but those who have worked hardest to build real strength (which is different from muscle mass, something which is completely unrelated) know that strength is the ability to do things on your own without support or resources. Making others do things for you? That’s power. These are not so much quirks of language as they are natural phenomena which are both referenced in their real natures as well as confused and mixed up often.

These ‘strongmen’ are some of the weakest humans in existence.

That said, it is funny and logical. As a person who has not made the decision referenced here, it is funny to watch those who have made the decision. It is essentially resigning your fate to those who want to harm you, it is putting your utmost trust, and sole trust, in those who want to create problems for you. It is even more comedic when such persons who make the decision then take up the banner of legitimacy—everyone else who hasn’t made the same decision is problematic.

Simple logic is hard to use apparently. A person who wilfully tries to harm you persistently, then promises to back off from those tendencies if you obey them, are only going to increase the problems they cause for you if you aid them in… causing problems for you. Funnily enough these people then attribute such events to unavoidable reality. No, they’re probably too embarrassed to admit to themselves that they contributed to it themselves. In doing so, they make it pretty much impossible to rectify the horrible situation, instead relying on the same forces they call problematic to make things better for everyone.

If these ‘strongmen’ are simply seen for the fools they are, everyone around will only see just how incapable they are. Instead you have loads of people who don’t even buy into the ideological horseshit each of these particular persons may have, support them to get them to back off a little bit in the extreme short term, only make it easier for these ‘strongmen’ to create much more severe and long lasting problems for them… which wouldn’t have been possible without their help in the first place. How tragic…but my sympathy only lies with those who did not contribute to such things but suffered regardless.

Dealing with these ‘strongmen’ who are everywhere rather than just at the heads of some nations is also a good thing to do. After all, it is not good to see them go unpunished after messing around, and causing problems, just so they could tell themselves that they have not chosen badly all their lives, which results in them not being able to do anything on their own despite not having real, natural circumstances preventing them from doing so.

In the end I just settled with the logic based ones like minesweeper and sudoku. F-droid has a good version each (and more than one maybe).

PlanetCon is a decent strategy game on its basic settings. I haven’t customised it but have had a fair amount of fun in it. But it is nothing perfect, do not expect too much out of it. If you learn how to not attract the ire of all AI opponents simultaneously though, you can have short bursts of decent strategy enjoyment.

No wonder they sold it at 95% off on steam recently. Did they at least complete the story of this one? It was supposed to be a mobile-like live service thing (whatever is wrong with providing a complete story in one go?).

I’ve only really plaued Arkham Asylum from the Rocksteady Arkham series. It is a decent one, I found it easier to get into than the hour of Arkham City I played. Perhaps I’ll try that again sometime. Though recently I got into Hand of Fate which has a similar combat system.

Started Mech Armada, a roguelite which is turn based and with a fairly good customisation system which gives full freedom in making units from what you ‘find’ (pay to unlock randomly by paying a resource which is also used for other things so you have to choose) in the run.

Required a fair bit of learning through experimentation but now I, at least keep winning the first map and have just reached the boss of the second. Without any of the ‘roguelite’ bonuses. Which you can unlock with a separate currency earned. I chose not to unlock anything to see how viable it is without unlocks. It is decent. That said, there are more pieces added to the ‘gacha’ as you play. Through an experience system. The experience system carries over between runs but is not really a ‘boost’ since it just unlocks a bigger pool of more varied parts.

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The rabbit hole of looking harder and being amazed by what exists will probably never end if persons keep looking (till they become proficient enough to be the ones making those things).

There are many games where you just install and play them. I’ve found many after excluding both AAAs and popular indies.

As far as AAA goes, the very emphasis is on graphics, sound, etc (big ehhh to the gameplay). Popular indies are also not my thing because it has become more of a social activity and the makers themselves play on that a bit. Aside from those two categories itself, I’ve got maybe a hundred good games which can be played maybe hundred to a few hundreds of hours each, maybe more. Most of them unplayed.

Old games are also something which are not going away if you check compatibility in advance (or use GOG preservation mark games, which apparently try to fix those problems).

I’m currently playing Battlefront 2004 and Monster Slayers (deckbuilder) but have a shitload of games from many genres installed. Most of them unheard of, being good quality in game design and enjoyable for many hours.

I don’t miss them because they’re still here!

Exactly

Sadge💀

A steam friend gifted me Achron and Takedown:Red Sabre from his steam inventory. I’m thinking of trying them and seeing how they’re designed. Other than that, maybe some Serious Sam Classic 1 or some other old thing.

The talk coming out, clockwise from top left: Weirdly interesting, terrifying, happy, publicly embarrassing

I looked exactly like this (when I was 16). My surname is exactly this. My life was heading exactly to the point where I would have turned out exactly like this. There was one critical choice I made, despite knowing the consequences. After that my life became hell, but I did not turn out like this. I do not even look anything like this anymore.

At times I’d have a funny thought that what if an alternate version popped up and faced me, who has made the other choice at a moment. How that would turn out to be. What he would think of his own choice, what he could have done different. Maybe he’d go into frenzied denial and attack too (harmlessly). This feels like putting that exact scenario in front of me. It is creeeeepy hahaha. Except he’s a lot older than me, so I’m like the alternate version which has come to haunt him. Tbh I think in such a scenario that guy would be scared. And I’m pretty non-violent, but the sheer difference and possibility itself would scare him. To look so similar as I did, we’d have had to share very similar backgrounds as well up to when I was around 16. It is creepy. There can be such coincidences in the world too that it is almost possible to live out this previously mentioned thought which I had when I was still a fairly naive kid, though already very different from what I would’ve otherwise been🤔 which could get well have been something like this guy🤮 I knew it already, but this person who made such a film is making me say it just for the sake of this itself haha—I chose well.

Hmm fuuuuuuuu… we’re born in the same city as well. Born to Catholic parents who also wanted to send me as an exchange student arrrrgh what is this. Another difference though, I resisted that. My parents are similar to this person actually in belief. What a bullet I dodged haha this is so mood dimming. Even more so that from what I see, I am an exact opposite version of this one now as a consequence of my choice and perseverence—that means I am on the opposite side of any power, absolutely refuse to marry ever due to being repulsed by the concept, there must be other things. Some kids manga or comic may have done some anti-matter version of a person, I feel like such a thing.

This is ridiculous.

The part on the right has persons who look like there’s something really interesting in it. Very interesting sounds coming from it

Details. I like it. Verifiable details.

And I dare say, accurate too.

You pretty much know that I had no racist intention. If I had racist intention, that would be bad, yes. There are too many people who go against other people on the basis of race, it is ironic that a person who is not racist has a comment pointed out as racist. I confirm, I do not have any racist belief. Kindly take your concern to those who really use concepts such as ‘race’ to talk about concepts like ‘superior’ or ‘inferior’, or any other form of statement saying any particular person is bad because of something which wad not done by them—no act of harm intentionally caused.

That said, I shall delete the comment which uses the name of the main character of the game series ‘Shadow Warrior’. Specifically, “It is (character name), sir. (First name) is (last name)”.

Because I like to play a game I paid for, which will run on my hardware. Especially when I avoid all the modern live service is a necessity horseshit. If people are not confident in releasing new games which others would buy despite having old games, I will stop buying games.

Let them do better or eff off.

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Has been on my to-try list. The old one I mean, I don’t have the new.

… Might and Magic Book One: Secret of the Inner Sanctum… Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Restoration of Erathia (vanilla)… Invisible, Inc… Severed Steel… Solitairica… Griftlands… Hand of Fate

I don’t have a favourite unfortunately. No ranks. But I’ve played a lot more and these shine for gameplay first amd foremost. Some, like the first, are gameplay only (as was the requirement in the era, there was not much more to go by) whereas the others if you remove the flashy bits in ways which wouldn’t affect the gameplay, they’d play really good… just fine.