Catpone Cerberus

As games should be. Fun for those who choose to play them. I don't really care about the politics of a game. I just want to enjoy the game for what it is, if I want to play it.

I haven't kept up with Starfield but it sounds like a similar situation that Forza Horizon 5 had, though I don't recall many influencers talking about it. It was mostly people whining on Reddit and such about how it's difficult for them to pick one of the pronoun options due to personal beliefs. I don't see how it's difficult, unless they're also questioning their own pronouns and are unsure themselves.

I like your idea of using they/them beyond the intended use for it. You can be a mysterious racing driver this way too.

And like any other game really, I imagine there's far worse problems in terms of gameplay in Starfield. FH5 has a problem with random hitboxes in the middle of where you're driving so it could cause your car to stop completely or flip over. The rewind feature is useful but it's GG's in multiplayer if this happens.

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it's difficult for them to pick one of the pronoun options due to personal beliefs. I don't see how it's difficult, unless they're also questioning their own pronouns and are unsure themselves.

This, it has absolutely no effect on the game itself to have an extra option, and especially not their life. To me personally it's even weirder because I don't understand the general obsession with pronouns, partly due to my native language only having one, gender-neutral pronoun. 

Like, I personally hate the "say few nice things and boom, the NPC wants to have sex with you." - thing that modern games have, but do I go on the internet to cry about it? no, I just don't interact with that mechanic, even in games like Cyberpunk where it's partly forced on you, I just skip it as quick as I can and move on with the game. 

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And like any other game really, I imagine there's far worse problems in terms of gameplay in Starfield

Exactly this too, Starfield has problems, but optional choice you see once in a playthrough is not one of them  

I think she looks great!

The loosest definition of a furry is someone who likes anthropomorphic animal characters, so liking MLP would already be enough for that.

@Tacodidra
Yeah, the loosest, but wouldn't that make pretty much everyone a furry, since anthro-animals have been in cartoon, and stories in general, since the start of stories  

But where goes the line after which you can't deny it? Enjoying anthro art? making anthro art? or am I a furry only after I start drawing boobs on the anthros? 

I do know lot of furry terminology But it's only for art-reasons, I swear  

Yeah, most of my favorite cartoons are about talking animals. I prefer them in most cases, since I feel that allows for less realistic, more fantastic stories and elements.

That's hard to say... I guess it depends on whether you consider yourself one (unless it's really obvious, like getting a fursuit – at that point, denying it won't really work). I don't, really, though I wouldn't take offense if someone thought differently.

That's awesome to hear! Though I've never heard of that game before.

@Tacodidra
It's basically Doom, but a rhythm game.

Yeah that makes sense, and I think you should do whatever it is you are comfortable with doing. I hope that you are doing well. 

Not really a matter of comfort for me, rather, don't want to waste the time of others, I like to chat with people, I also have this...disconnect with my internet persona, which means that there isn't really anything that is "uncomfortable" to me online, it's just that, what's the point of starting chats with people, if I have no idea what I would chat about? you know? Like, if there's something you (or anyone else) want to talk about, my characters? your characters? Life? games? cats? dragons? hay, I'm even open for politics, I'm 100% open for that, it's just that, I won't be the one to start that chat  

And yeah, I'm doing fine enough, will have a nice long summer break before worrying about finding a new job, maybe i'll find the energy to draw again, I have quite the line of characters needing to be created, and few redraws.

I'll go ahead and send you a DM, since I can probably come up with a few things to talk to you about. I'm just trying to hang in there and do what I can at the moment. 

I forgot about the whole thing – but I'm glad it never amounted to anything. I was already thinking about VPNs and such to be able to use the forums.

@Tacodidra
I was originally worried about that too but I remember that they later added something that limited it to sites beyond certain size, a size which, Poniverse is not even close to. 

I may have to go to school again and get 3rd training, my first is pretty much useless, and since construction is in such a mess at the moment, I don't think I have high hopes on this field either my company is just one more in the over 300 that have gone down this year alone 

I've started to take courses too for similar reasons. I just wish I had chosen a better subject to study in the first place, but what's done is done. I really hope things take a turn soon, not looking good at the moment with the things you already mentioned, a lot of layoffs in different companies and such.

It's extra sad because the company is an old one, and relatively big, it has survived the two previous major economic downturns, this one just was too much. 

dude be thinking it's an anti-aircraft gun 

@Props Valroa
In my case it's not an issue of trust when it comes to the one friend I do have, he is very trustworthy, his personality just is such that one can't form a certain type of close relationship, he's bad with emotions so to speak. He's also very stubborn and close-minded, like for example, being a brony, he doesn't insult me on it or anything, but he would never even consider looking into the fandom because he dislikes things like anime, furries and such out of principle. 

@Princess Silky

I don't know if really is anxiety per say, now, I do have anxiety in certain situation, but not in general, i'm also not that shy, I'm actually quite social introvert, anyone who knows me will tell you that, I won't stop talking when I start, and i do enjoy talking. It's more a wall that i have build around myself, while not officially diagnosed, I'm 90% certainly autistic (Asperger more specifically) so that has effect on my social self, and I also have a history of being bullied, so I have grown to be very closed in, among other things, so while I'm social person, someone needs to push themselves through that wall first. in fact, these forums know more about me than anyone in my offline life, because the fact of none of you actually knowing who I am lets me express myself more directly.  

My comment about not finding close connection like what I need has nothing to do with this however, and more to do with realities of life in this country. It is already unlikely that I find someone who matches with me that well, especially in reasonable time, because of how....un-norm-like my interests and such are, and then you add the fact that there's only 5 000 000 people in the whole country, and that's not even considering how many of those are actually of age that would realistically work. 

I appreciate the offer, but there's nothing more talking can do, I've seen professionals, I've been through that stuff, there's only action left, slow action, but action none the less. Honestly, the only reason why I ever started trying is my mother, if I wouldn't have been so lucky to have such great parents, Catpone Cerberus may have not been.

In fact, fun fact for those who know anything about my characters, the certain theme with them, especially those I consider my favorites, is not coincidence, character creation is my form of self-therapy, and playing as them is a sort of a mild form of "fake it until you make it".

i'm bad at taking compliments but I do want to state that no bravery has been needed, because like my sexuality (asexual) these things really are not that big of a deal to me, anonymity of course helps, but frankly speaking, I'm done caring, "Damned if you do, and damned if you don't" as some say, I've taken so much mental torment from others in my life that I've grown numb to it, jerks will always be jerks, nothing one can do about it. 

And lastly, It's not that the Pride disappointed me in any way, it was exactly what I expected, because I was there last year too, even if I was late then, a place with positive energy, but ultimately meaningless experience that leaves no lasting impact on me. What I didn't expect was the crash when I got home, though, I haven't been in the best of moods lately, so it could be that the realization was just the last drop in the bottle could hold.

Honestly, I don't really even know why I stayed up this late to write this response, I'm not seeking sympathy, because ultimately it's just words on a screen, and I can't really call it a rant/getting it off my chest either because frankly, I felt nothing, not when I started, not during writing, and not now, after it has been written, I truly am just like  Anyway, sorry about ruining anyone's mood who decided to read this. 

@Catpone Cerberus

I have similar issues myself. There are a lot of people I talk to that have no interest in ponies. I have to admit I have no interest in furries or anime myself. It's sort of the opposite issue with me sort of - the majority of the people around me are into video games and shows I have no interest in myself, so it often feels like I am just existing in a conversation because they are all talking about and doing things I don't understand / have any sort of interest in. 

There is nothing in my town of living that I could get involved in with people my age. I can't afford college, either. My former irl friends are gone. It's been years since I spoke to them, no idea where I'd go to find them anyway.

The biggest problem with people is finding like minded people in your area you can realistically interact with, in a basis that leads to friendship. At least that is what my experience is. 

@Props Valroa
It's not the lack of interest for me necessary, it's more the lack of tolerance. Let's keep using ponies/furries as example, I draw characters, ponies and what one could see as furry, since apparently all animal inspired things are considered furry nowadays. But I have nobody to show them. (I'm not counting online posting, because that lacks the personal connection)

Interest is not required to appreciate someone else's interest, like, I don't care about cars, I know nothing about cars, but if someone is passionate about cars, and tells me enthusiastically about something car related they did, I will join the enthusiasm.

But the problem with my situation with the one friend is that, while we are a perfect fit in certain things, certain type of closeness can't form, because if something isn't in his interests, it's "k" at best, and "don't wanna hear it" at worst. 

I don't know if anything I say makes sense since I kinda just let my hands to the writing without thinking what to write, but whatever. 

I live in the 3rd largest city in Finland and I feel the same, and I'm not even looking for people of my age necessarily, just inside a reasonable age gap I've been through 2 vocational schools and still got no new friends, hay, even the army, something that people say always leads to friendships, left me with nothing.

I agree, though I'd say that modern technology does allow  "your area" to be bit bigger, I don't mean online friendships, but friendships that start online but move offline...not that it has helped me in any way, but one can always hope. 

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It's extra weird, because the player can never drop their inventory in death, and I don't think there exists a thing that would normally clone the player's inventory, nor should the mod, which only just moves some values around, add anything like that either, so it's not a case of pulling wrong code in wrong place. 

Given you're playing on a modded version, I guess everything is possible.

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This is actually surprisingly common glitch in games, be it the exacts of pulling it off being different, I guess physics objects and unbreakable moving things don't go well together  I remember time in Agents of Mayhem where my vehicle just launched for no reason. (pic included)(I don't recommend that game) . Though the under map happenings is weird, guess that's their way of doing the whole "teleporting back to map" thing  

Yeah, it's very common, and it's always fun to toy with.  

Same thing was happening in "7 Days to Die", for example. If you put a 4x4 truck into trader's gate and close it, things happen...

We literally spent hours putting trucks into different interactive things 

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I have a very faint memory of also experiencing similar bug at some point, though I'm not 100% sure, that does sound funny though

It was, we spent a lot of time watching that dude 

 

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We managed to somehow break Claptrap's birthday quest for good with my friend, the mod may not be entirely blameless but I don't really know why it would have broken that from all possible quests. in short, somehow we managed to fail the "enjoy the party" part, and now, every time the quest is tried, it fails at that part immediately. We managed to break a quest where you don't even need to do anything  

Oh that does sound familiar actually, I think we also have run into a trouble with that quest. There was something wrong with its completion, but I don't remember what exactly was happening.

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We are true game breakers with my friend, we don't even try half the time, and still do it, the quickest bug (not counting when game just doesn't start anymore) is 15 seconds from pressing 'start game'. In the game 'The hunter: Call of the wild' the moment he spawned in, my friend went to a nearby building and got stuck in the doorway...he had to restart the game 

Exactly like me and my bro.  Sometimes we try, sometimes we do not, but even crappy games are fun if we start playing them our own way.  

Getting stuck is such a classic, and kinda the most disappointing result when you try to squeeze somewhere or something.  

We've broke countless of games as well, I have some replays saved, like this one from dead island riptide - I was dying over there 

(I have potatoed the resolution/quality to reduce filesize; also removed sound as nvidia captured our voice chat -- well rather, my bro's voice only, because it doesn't capture mine (input))

 

Me and my friend don't have replays because we have nothing that records our games, but we have screenshots, lot of them from Payday 2, that is a beautifully broken game (also our most played game).
 

Ultimately my favorite bugs are the ones that are weird but not game breaking, like Rivet

And most of payday
 

If the game isn't already broken, we'll jump (sometimes golf) at walls until we find something to break, and if possible, we'll mod the game until it does break. (I have broken both versions of Skyrim to such a state that they no longer launch  )  

I have no idea when it started, but at some point we just started testing the limits of games for fun, purposely spamming animations, doors or whatever just to see if something happens. Like the flamethrower knife in the picture, it was actually triggered by a specific set of actions that I found by accident while jumping around and smashing buttons  

We're just using nvidia's replay-saving function, since it comes with the drivers anyway.  

I believe we've played a little bit of payday, but not too much.  

Interesting 👀 we're exactly the same in that regard.  

but yeah, spamming animations and toying with doors and the like often hides a treasure. 

I see, I see.

With Borderlands 2, I had varied experiences. In the past I had extreme lags and troubles with connecting to a friend - while interestingly, pre-sequel was working great. Now not too long ago I've been re-playing these with my bro and the second one worked flawlessly, while the pre-sequel kept crashing. I just have a bad luck to these series I guess. 

The vehicle physics are always broken and fun to toy with 

@Rikifive
Game issues tend to be very machine specific cases, so everyone has bit different, my favorite is when Spore kept crashing on me and eventually the reason was because I had the Finnish language chosen in game (mind you, it was an officially supported language)  

Yeah, it is like this. Hmm that's interesting 👀

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