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micnd90 [he/him,any] @ micnd90 @hexbear.net
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  • You don't have to these days, you can freeze them, and make them battle online for eternity, if you build the monster competitively (with min-max'd stats) you can enter and re-enter tournaments (it is CPU vs. CPU, all you have to do is sign up) for eternal glory. If you don't build them competitively, you can just battle endlessly against other online upload monsters at your convenience, or battle it against other monsters that you raised, CPU vs. CPU control for your amusement, and you can unfreeze the monster and have them walk around your ranch. Or you can combine them with other monster in your ranch and build towards 999 in all stats god on earth.

    The game is more or less solved, here is a tool https://legendcup.com/advanced-viewer-mr2.php so you can see all the hidden stats (stress, fatigue, etc.) and you'll know exactly how much lifespan your monster have left.

  • I'm a g*mer and I have not had the need to kill any virtual beings in 10 years. I mainly play Pokémon, Splatoon, Pro Evo (up to 2018, the new ones sucked), Mario Kart, fighting games (SF6, Guilty Gear), and competitive Monster Rancher 2 on constant rotation. Get on my level Elon.

  • Especially considering the fact that GRRM actually never had a good track record of writing decent ending, even in short stories and novellas - a medium where it is arguably easier to write a strong ending. Think about Edgar Allan Poe's 2 page Red Death story "and the red death held illimitable dominion over all" or other famous short stories (Chekov, Hemingway, etc.) with not a whole lot of buildup, but zinger endings where the authors utterly drive the message and theme home. GRRM is the reverse, tons of buildups but even his 100-page short story always sputters at the end. The best part about ASOAIF these days is unironically to finish the books, play victim and complain about TWOW never coming out (complaining is fun).

  • I've gone back and forth. Of course if you are selling a book series, there is some kind of expectation, promise and social contract between author and reader that there will be some kind of ending and payoff. The fact is GRRM still makes money off book sales, selling IP rights and franchises, making royalties out of expectation that one day he will finish the series. So I have the same reaction as most ASOAIF fan everytime we hear GRRM in the news that is not related to TWOW.

    However, on the other hand, it is also a funny bit, and the insane fan theories and communities that sprung out of ASOAIF lore are great. In some ways, this is the best kind of conspiracy theory to be invested in, (1) it has no social consequences, (2) there is no such thing as coincidence in a world of fiction (everything is author's intent), and finally (3) you can make predictions to your heart's content and will never be wrong because GRRM will never finish the series.

  • electoralism @hexbear.net

    Struggle session: Bernie "my friend Joe" Sanders (I:VT) did this to us

    electoralism @hexbear.net

    So, you run the most incompetent campaign in US history and lost

    electoralism @hexbear.net

    Went hiking, didn't vote, didn't go to work

    the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net

    Thanks, I hate it

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    Anti-fascist song by bis - the band who sang the Powerpuff Girls ending theme

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    Why?

    electoralism @hexbear.net

    300 IQ Democrats at it again - Trump billboard vs. Harris billboard in Dearborn, MI on final week of election

    memes @hexbear.net

    "Look, a crumbling empire"

    electoralism @hexbear.net

    Imagine campaigning in Michigan - state with the largest population of Arab Americans with a Cheney

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    The grifters have become the grifted

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    WE ARE SO BACK

    the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net

    Imagine unironically naming your kid Thatcher

    music @hexbear.net

    Before the Golden Dawn name was ruined by a fascist nazi party in Greece, the Golden Dawn was a cool indie pop band from Scotland

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    One side pretends to be the most moral army in the world™ ¯(ツ)_/¯

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    Basedbollah do not kill civilians, Zionists malding

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    Fresh cover song of the week, Who Would Jesus bomb - by some kid on youtube

    the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net

    Remember when the Tulcels were antiwar?

    chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    X has been completely unusable since probably 2019

    the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net

    Smug NYT columnist Paul Krugman heckled with FACTS and LOGIC

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    Perfectly normal cop behavior