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    Can’t tell if this is worse or better than my shit. How much worse are flags compared to this, most of them are fallout related none of them are WW1 or 2 related though I do want a Ukrainian anarchist flag.

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        Fun fact I been using some variant of vaultdweller 13 as a username since I was 12 since I played NV fell in love and then played 1 and 2 and got an isometric rpg addiction. Sadly unlike other classic Fallout fans I am neither a Slavic millennial or trans so I have little to distract from the isometric rpg withdrawal symptoms.

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          Atom RPG, wasteland 3, etc. Not as old school isometric, but the vibe is almost there. I do miss the quirky humor, though. It is a shame the TV show is as campy as it is. Fallout 4 was all the dumb mechanics that weren’t the game. Unfortunately, I don’t think we’ll ever get a NV2 or the vibe of NV set in a different location.

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            Too late played through those games, I require more. I’ve also played through Wasteland 1 in a deluded fevor state when I got covid.

            Also yeah I doubt we’ll ever get a NV again especially with how Bethesda seems dead set on doubling down on the camp, which is honestly a shame because for all its flaws Fallout 3 has a pretty good balance of goof and grimness. Maybe we could get something akin to that if Owlcat were to make a post apocalyptic game since they do 40k pretty well without too much grimderp encroachment. Also play Roguetrader and Wrath of the Righteous if you haven’t, real fucken solid games and don’t worry about the devs being Russian they fucked off to Cyprus early in the war.

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              Also play Roguetrader and Wrath of the Righteous if you haven’t, real fucken solid games and don’t worry about the devs being Russian they fucked off to Cyprus early in the war.

              See, this is why I love fedi. Thanks for the recommendations!

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                No problem, frankly speaking they are not given nearly as much credit despite being really solid devs since their games are relatively linear at least compared to what they are inspired by. Honestly I don’t really mind since too many CRPGs have a bit too much openness resulting in a confusing experience like their first major game Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Also they are making a Dark Herasy game which is neat, hope it has an All Guardsman Party reference.

                Also another recommendation I forgot about, Arcanum it was made by the same devs as Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines who also happened to be Interplay alumni meaning it’s got the same weird crackhead energy as Fallout 2 but instead of the Enclave being obviously based off of the Nazis you get literal 19th century steampunk eugenics. Games great 10/10 will shoot wizard with elephant gun again.

  • Let's Go 2 the Mall! ❌👑@lemmy.world
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    As much as I loved Heath Ledger’s Joker on screen, seeing it on anything else is so cringe. I know at least 2 people with Joker tattoos and they are exactly the kind of person you would assume.

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      I remember going to a convention the year after The Dark Knight came out and there were so many dudes dressed up as Nurse Joker and I can’t help but think that many of them were just aching for the opportunity to do a little cross-dressing.

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      I think it’s bucking the trend of idolizing villains. Not to mention the sheer size of the posters, making them far too much of their identity. Also buying a gold KAWS figure for some ungodly price was a choice…

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            That does look more like a shitpost than something people who actually believe in that nonsense would put up.

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              While I agree, characters in one frame comics like this aren’t usually trying to be subtle or fly under the radar when demonstrating their values.

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            Outside of memes I genuinely don’t know anything about Thanos. Is he good or bad? What does him being on a poster mean

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              In a recent Marvel movie arc, he tries to “save” the universe from suffering and conflict and insufficient space/resources by indiscriminately deleting half of all life in the universe with a snap of his fingers using a super powerful artifact.

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                Never understood if you could snap half the life away, why not just double the resources or improve the efficiency of existing resource utilization? What a stupid, small brained solution to reach for when you’re tapping omnipotence. Especially because it doesn’t solve the problem because life fucks and makes more life! Fuck I hate what comic book movies became.

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                  Or simply make all life half the size.

                  Could you imagine Earth if everything alive were like, 10% of its size? There would be so much space, so much room for resources to flourish.

                  So much distance between one country on one side of the planet and a country on the other side that wars between the two would be completely unfeasible.

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          Sometimes being judgemental is okay. Calling someone out for idolizing mentally unstable murderers is justified.

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            Feel like if it was mussolini or Trump this would be the message. It’s a cartoon character. Anyway, this thread is starting to feel silly. Thought I was missing the joke, I guess it just isn’t resonating.

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              While the Thanos bit might be artistic hyperbole, picking the Joker as a role model is more common irl than it should be, and is a legitimate red flag, considering that Joker stans tend to romanticize his relationship with Harley Quinn, which is very much an abusive, manipulative one.

              When looking for a mature, emotional healthy & safe partner, Joker fans should be avoided at a costs.

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          Dating is all about being judgmental - you’re looking for someone that’s compatible with you. A lot of people find idolizing the Joker and Thanos not compatible with them.

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      A gamer and a marvel fan? Get out as quickly as possible.

      This comment came in at the same time as yours and answers your question lol

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        Does it though? What indicates gamer? I think it’s more about edginess and cringiness than marvel/gamer.

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          Oh ok, you’re purposefully being obtuse about this then lol

          Yeah the implication is that it’s cringy.

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        What is wrong about gaming and marvel? I don’t really know much about marvel, gaming is surely such a wide thing how can that be a problem at all?

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          I married a man who likes Dragon Ball Z enough to have several of the mangas, so don’t get me wrong here. Some of this stuff doesn’t necessarily bother me personally, but there’s a certain reputation that fans of the Joker get and picking Thanos of all the Marvel characters is a choice.

          Gaming is hit or miss - if someone is into gaming so much that all of their decorations are gaming related, it begs the question if they are willing to make enough time in their life for you around their hobby. And I say this as a gamer myself. It’s known to be a hobby that people dedicate a lot of time toward.

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    Hey at least there’s posters on the wall and an attempt to make the space livable! And he offered her a cold drink!

    I loved hanging out with the single bachelors in my slut phase, but good lord, most of those guys were very content with a single chair and a TV in their apartment and only those things.

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      Have to admit, before I wanted a partner, I needed to build a proper “nest” to impress any potential mates. Got a home theater setup. All the right accoutrements and candles. Nice dishes, furniture, the works. I had designs to slay so much after I was done with the place. The only person I ever brought home ended up marrying me.

      Before that? Mattress on the floor. One desk and chair for the computer. Didn’t even have a TV.

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        This is the advice men need to hear. Cleanliness and a hand towel go a long way, too. Also no one wants to fuck in a smelly apartment, clean your damn cat box.

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              19 years later, I don’t fuckin remember. He probably had emptied it and put in a clean bag before I came over, statistically!

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              How do people both simultaneously shame men for understanding and not understanding women’s needs?

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                I think this more of a bar in hell thing. Who wouldn’t have a trashcan in the bathroom? A demon.

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                  I mean I dunno but I’ve had a trashcan in every room rule since I left home so maybe I am the problem. The bathroom ones got a removable sleeve so I can empty it into the big trash can to make it slightly easier to clean but that’s more a recent thing it’s not rocket science.

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                  I did not take it as a comment on me! Or him, as he had the trashcan. And other qualities! It was mostly silly on my part, but it did inform me he thought about guests.

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        Before that? Mattress on the floor. One desk and chair for the computer. Didn’t even have a TV.

        It can be very practical to live like that when you’re on your own! I get it haha.

        The only person I ever brought home ended up marrying me.

        Damn, maybe you found your alternative career if the current one fails!

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          Damn, maybe you found your alternative career if the current one fails!

          Maybe it is genetic. My uncle did interior design for a living. To be honest, it was both difficult and easy at the same time because I knew what kinda colors I liked but needed to pick a scheme that said “responsible adult you want to fuck”. What’s hilarious is that my partner and I am not home decorator people. Current home is definitely not something you’d see in a magazine. It was easy to spruce up a little studio apartment, more effort when the space is a lot bigger lol

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      If they didn’t care about home décor and just wanted to get laid, and the lack of home décor didn’t prevent them from getting laid, it sounds like they had things figured out pretty well.

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        Two way street - I wanted to get laid and the lack of home decor didn’t prevent me from riding that dick hahaha. Win win!

        At least the lack of decorations helped hide any concerning fandoms!

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      My mother filled my apartment with furniture and nice pictures. Made me look normal. I never understood why until my eventual wife came over and then moved in. The space is very important

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        My partner is rather autistic and part of that is not caring about how his surroundings look. Very practical person. He doesn’t understand why I like having our house decorated, but he does understand that it makes me happy and he likes when I’m happy. It works out nicely sometimes!

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            An unexpected, but pleasant surprise!

            My ex had very strong opinions about how our house should look - strong enough to push all of my wants out of the way - so this is a nice soft place to be in the aftermath :)

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      It’s not that we were content, it’s simply what we could afford.

      That’s the reality of late stage capitalism, it can take years until you can save enough money for the basics. I couldn’t afford a couch until I was 30! Until then I had to put up with lawn chairs and bean bags. My credit card limit was only $500 when I was young, and we didn’t have Affirm yet because it was the early 2010s; if I didn’t have the cash, I couldn’t buy it! So needless to say, decorations aren’t exactly the priority when you can’t even afford furniture!

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        It’s not that we were content, it’s simply what we could afford.

        Nah, that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m not separate from these bachelors that I was seeing, I’m not independently wealthy because I kept more than 1 towel in my apartment, and I’m the same age as them.

        These were deliberate choices to keep things very minimal without any thoughts to having guests over.

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      Furniture-wise, what are we even looking at, though?

      I think I see a dresser on the left and a green couch on the bottom right that appears to be pointed at a randomly placed refrigerator. Maybe it’s a bed, but I think the shape is more like a couch. So, that’s furniture from a bedroom, a living room, and a kitchen, all in one room.

      Even for a studio apartment, this would be a very weird arrangement of furniture.

      “Come, sit on this couch so we can stare at my refrigerator.”

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    I find it especially concerning that this guy seemingly just has a jacket on, over scrubs.

    Dude is a nurse or doctor or surgeon or some kind of physical health specialist… is ok with the thanos snap.

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      Have you worked with the public when they’re feeling extra entitled or in pain?

      I get it. It’s not a good thing, but I get it.

      That said, this is pretty old. Probably just a V-neck and you’re thinking too much.

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        Yes, helping rightfully displeased electronics customers, helping the homeless, as well as helping people who do not return the shopping cart, during the super bowl.

        Hell I’ve done a fair bit of my own … call it unprofessionally qualified trauma response i suppose, a number of times.

        Yep, many people in many situations can be shitty…

        Not shitty enough to make me idolize the Joker or Thanos.

        Also like this is art, its kind of subjective. Looks like scrubs to me, guess you don’t see it, but that doesn’t make me an ‘overthinker’, it just makes you an oddly defensive thought policer.

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    The irony of the Joker next to that Thanos poster. That poster is everything the Joker tries to burn to the ground.

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      Don’t worry - those who ascribe to alpha/beta/sigma mentality don’t know what cognitive dissonance is.

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    Almost bought a house from a guy but decided the prominently displayed oil painting of The Joker indicated he would not hesitate to fuck me over somehow.

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      Artist is named KAWS. The artist is a contemporary artist that uses brand icons, like the Mickey Mouse looking statue on the desk. It’s all very cheap and empty art that I guess some people eat up. He basically just slaps the stupid skull on everything and calls it “art”. Tons of merchandising, very capitalistic.

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          I updated my response to you, but the artist is very notoriously apolitical and really has no message behind their art. Their art basically only exists to sell collectibles and merchandise while appearing trendy. It’s all empty capitalistic garbage.

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            I didn’t recognize it but that’s because I forgot I read an article on this guy. Probably because he is forgettable. In fact I think this is at least the third time I’m reading about him and then forgetting he existed. Pop artist 60 years late to the pop art party, seem trying to get Beeple level attention but only willing to put Jeff Koons level effort into it. Annoyingly, with much success.

            So now knowing who it is, that’s the third strike that sells the comic. He only has one figurine on display, and he probably wants to make an impression, so he thinks this one by a ‘cool subversive contemporary artist’ makes him look grown-up and a man of culture.