>>739191
god i love classic fallout

so based, frankly

>>739220
I have my rocket launcher build right now that's fun

>>739222
you do big guns... didn't have you pegged as the type

>>739224
I always play big guns and explosives builds

>>739225
f2 don't got no explosives tho

>>739226
You should lay in my bed

>>739233
I'm aware, I run the rocket launcher thoughbeit, I was talking about in RPGs in general

>>739239
You are straight because I am going to (redacted) you

>>739248

>>739269
Cute

>>739272
You are my housewife though

>>739274
He's kinda cute ngl

A marine husband doesn't sound too bad

>>739286
No, this is real metal
.play imagine dragons–

Too late

I already got it in

>>739291
straw girl will you do the dishes

I just cooked us a delicious lunch but I don't want to clean up

Lamb chops with risotto

You don't want some lamb chops and risotto?

Dear, you are supposed to tell me ahead of time!

My housewife has a job too, she isn't a housewife anymore...

>>739306
Dear....

I finally cleaned my ashtray

don't tell me you're going to wear those sunglasses during a night operation

>>739325
My sunglasses

I always wear them

my vision is augmented

>>739328
I never asked for this

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father
gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over
in my mind ever since.

“Whenever you feel like criticising any one,” he
told me, ‘‘just remember that all the people in this
world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been
unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I
understood that he meant a great deal more than
that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all
judgments, a habit that has opened up many curi-
ous natures to me and also made me the victim of
not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is
quick to detect and attach itself to this quality
when it appears in a normal person, and so it came
about that in college I was unjustly accused of
being a politician, because I was privy to the secret
griefs of wild, unknown men.

ost of the confidences
were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep,
preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by
some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation
was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate
revelations of young men, or at least the terms in

which they express them, are usually plagiaristic
and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving
judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a
little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as
my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly
repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is par-
celled out unequally at birth.

>>739343

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I
come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct
may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes,
but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s
founded on. When I came back from the East last
autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in
uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever;
I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged
glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the
man who gives his name to this book, was exempt
from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented every-
thing for which I have an unaffected scorn.

If per-
sonality is an unbroken series of successful gestures,
then there was something gorgeous about him, some
heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if
he were related to one of those intricate machines
that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.
This responsiveness had nothing to do with that
flabby impressionability which is dignified under the
name of the ‘creative temperament”—it was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness
such as I have never found in any other person and

which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No—
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what
preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the
wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my
interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded
elations of men.

y family have been prominent, well-to-do peo-
ple in this Middle Western city for three generations.
The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have
a tradition that we’re descended from the Dukes
of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was
my grandfather’s brother, who came here in fifty-
one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started
the wholesale hardware business that my father car-
ries on to-day.

.skip

.play gatsby audiobook

>>739365
You don't like the Great Gatsby?

A real American classic

One of the greats

>>739376
Hello :)

>>739378
love you too cutie

Saeki do you like risotto?

>>739398
Risotto and lamb chops

I already ate it all, but I would give you some someday

>>739401
It's good

>>739331
i have never played the new deus ex games, are they any good?

>>739403
It's okay, the original is better hand down. Uh I'd say that Human Revolutions kinda narrows things down, uh it feels like a crappy dishonored knock off almost lol

It should have multiplle

The original deus ex is the gift that keeps on giving

Give me the GEP gun

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.play give me the gep gun

.play deus ex malkavian mod

I'm an empath

tbh I wish that Tropico took itself more seriously lol

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The idea of a proper citybuilder in the Cold War would be good, there's that game uh workers and something or other that is serious

Yeah, I feel like Tropico 3 had a nice tone where it had the occasional humor but was just played straight

Tropico 4 is a bit too silly, but still not like insanely dumb except for just some random moments, Tropico 6 goes full retard

Saints Row 2 is good about it, but I think uh Saints Row 1 is a bit more serious and where it should be. I guess Saints Row 2 is serious if you don't like... think about it. Because the first mission in Saints Row 2 after the tutorial is like silly lol

idk I wish more games were willing to be serious even if it does come off as stuffy

I hate that the games that do try to be serious all still go down the obnoxious self referential route

Oh video game writers are like the game's journalists of the writing industry

Game writers are usually just not as good as any other kind of writer and can get pretty easily outclassed by some dork that spent 10 years coming up with their DnD campaign idea

>>739450
That's cool, never been big on writing

>>739453
YIIK out

I do think that YIIK got hit hard by people not understanding that a protagonist isn't necessarily supposed to be likable, though I don't think it's writing is that good

>>739463
Oh God the uh NorthernLion clip that I was just reminded of

.play northernlion I feel bad for 20 year olds because their favorite movie is the one that makes the most sense

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How is this clip so hard to find

>>739463
people really do seem averse to the idea that a protagonist is flawed or just a bad person, even if it makes interesting literature and story-telling

>>739470
It's uh the whole thing where people want the media that "makes the most sense" as opposed to like something creative or moving. The whole cinemasins-ing of everything.

And gaming nerds are the absolute worst about cinemasins-ing every single last thing, where they judge a plot or story based purely on how airtight it is to the point at which anything unique or special or unusual is considered flawed

>>739471
Someone that is actually normal on the internet

>>739476
Everybody wants to quantify everything, we are rapidly entering a world where everything is analyzed quantitatively. idk how to put it exactly, I've been writing like a dumb book in my spare time and one of the central sticking points is that like everything is taken to extremes I don't know how to explain it

>>739480
It's not just that, like er... the sort of body types that people prefer these days, like people crave the extreme, the things that can be directly quantified and compared as opposed to just something that fits all together and evokes an ideal or whatever

>>739485
And people aren't really afraid of saying they want the fake and surgically modified to get someone with those looks either

>>739487
And I feel like you've started seeing this all across society, with fashion, what's more expensive was what was attractive, the best musician, well how do you compare? How many albums they sold, and when rappers put together music, that's exactly what they talk about, their wealth when put against others, their ability to sell more. idk there's a whole thing that I can't really explain fully in words, I can only vaguely describe what I am thinking

>>739492
I think there is a confluence of many different things that has caused alot of this

Like with alot of the quantity stuff too, it's just become entirely detached from reality. Like I saw an article about how Elon Musk is at something like 410 billion dollars and is on track to be a trillionaire by this date or whatever, and it's like these are completely meaningless numbers at a certain point. Sure that's a valuation of a set of objective metrics or whatever, but it's not really, there's no 410 billion dollar thing to buy or sell, there's no world where someone works through that money in a lifetime, nor does Elon even have that money in liquid cash. It's just entirely meaningless, the thing that would carry meaning is what he purchases, what he's doing with that money, but everybody talks about the number, not the I guess qualitative analysis of his spending

Do you mean numbers that are completely inconceivable to the human mind or...?

>>739496
No I don't mean that, I just mean that there is a massive obsession with quantitative analysis and comparisons of these values in modern society

>>739499
I got that much, but why does it matter how people choose to conceive of the world? I dunno, it seems sort of pointless to me be afraid of it? Are you merely criticizing the fact that it's basically just meaningless?

>>739502
I feel like a big part of art is understanding how people perceive the world and I think there is value in sort of understanding how people have begun to perceive things. I am not necessarily purely critical of this quantitative analysis focus, actually at a certain point I'd say that like... it is so everpresent nobody can actually escape it at this point. Even those VGH REVOLT AGAINST LE MODERN WORLD types, the "dark enlightenment" people that think that the scientific revolution was a mistake and we should all read about Evola's mystical woowoo bullshit, even they analyze so much shit with quantities and comparisons

>>739507
Well, that's a separate problem, imo lmao. I try not to quantify the value of human... things(?)

>>739506
Fair yeah, a lot of conspiracy theorists love to do that shit. I think my issue is that people like numbers, but don't really care to understand the underlying concepts so that they can actually try to understand what numbers mean lol. I also try really hard to get an understanding of everything that is both intuitive and adherent to the actual principles and... gah

it's so abstract it doesn't even matter

>>739511
gonna hack your vape

>>739510
Truthfully, I think I'm a bit too pragmatic as a person to truly appreciate some philosophy and ideas

>>739509
I guess I don't even fully mean that, though this is part of it, numbers being detached from any intuitive understanding. I just think people have a huge appetite for comparisons. I mentioned it earlier, but the whole shift in body preferences towards "the big ass, big breasts" deal. Where like, maybe I am look with rose tinted glasses, but in ye olden days it was more important for someone to have this sort of complete form that had a certain ideal to it, now alot of it is just people want the bigger one because the bigger is better and it is slowly becoming just straight up grotesque

>>739516
This makes me curious what goes into making a vape. I don't know anything about this subject, but now I'm wondering what the fuck the chips inside them regulate

>>739519
GPS Bill Gates trackers that give you vaccines

>>739522
That's kind of exactly what I mean, except I think it's just a completely all encompassing deal. It's not just with bodies, or fashion, or wealth, this kind of thinking has just become completely ingrained, which is also why you get gamer nerds that argue about the number of polygons on a shotgun or film nerds talking about the number of plot holes per minute or whatever the fuck. Everything is quantified, cinemasins-ified, etc.

>>739521
But surely some function of them regulates the... smoke producing capabilities(?) lol

I assume there is a heating element which has a voltage applied to it to generate heat?

>>739527
Ah, that's not too bad

>>739531
I remember back in my day the wrote quantitative comparison was "how many hours could you play this game for" or "how big is the open world", it's just this sort of uh... how could you not prefer the thing where this objective quantity is bigger/better than that objective quantitiy

>>739524
I think I have a better grasp of what you're saying now.

The idea that something can just sort of standalone and evoke an idea feels like it has fallen to the wayside, now everything has to be put in this competition with a whole system of things that only matter in relation to each other and then analyzed in terms of a set of quantifiable metrics

>>739541
I suppose but I feel like that has been a general trend for a long time, it was even somewhat enforced by a sort of "code" we had in Hollywood throughout the 50's

And on a similar token that sort of "boredom and desire for something to just keep you entertained" is what underpinned the culture of the Vienna System and such

>>739544
That's me

>>739549
That's me

>>739553
We should cuddle yea

I am warm, so I will steal the coldness from you by wrapping you up completely in my body as the big spoon

>>739560
hm

>>739549
everybody has to learn, give him some grace

>>739570
I am though

That's so RUDE