i type way too much about video games and sometimes music

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Cake day: September 18th, 2023

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  • I started with Freedom Unite on a PSP as an early teen, but had no idea what the fuck was happening, just that it all looked awesome.

    Then in my early 20s I resolved to learn Generations Ultimate. I slightly gripe about how almost all non hunting quests have disappeared in World & Rise, because it takes away your ability to change the pacing of the game without putting it down for a more relaxing game.

    However, what World did to MH’s weapon movesets in its expansion and… sleekening is incredible, and the move to open levels with no load zones along with the interactions of multiple monsters does an incredible amount to the atmosphere and experience.

    So I love GU and I love World. And I love Rise. It’s a series I pre-order because I know that even if it might be different, I know the developers gave a huge fat shit about the game as they made it and it shows.




  • Persona 4 as it was my first. the concept of having to choose how to spend your time, split between training in the dungeons, fostering relationships with friends, or studying and working part time was affecting for me, and its characters and stories are very good.

    By extension Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney for showing childhood me that I liked visual novels, before I even knew what that was.

    Monster Hunter. I learned to play MH purely because of its reputation as an obtuse game, I thought if I can learn to play and maybe even enjoy MH, that the other parts of my life I wasn’t happy with couldn’t be that much harder to figure out. Years later and I still adore this series, and don’t think it’s actually that complex, it’s just hard to teach.

    Dark Souls. Really taught me that games are more than just games. They’re worlds, concepts, feelings. I’m sure I have more games than this that were formative to me, but these are what came to mind.











  • To try and answer the question, I think this is really about cultural history and fashion. The real question is “how did the male trucker look come about, historically?”

    Then, “what parts of this fashion look represent traditional masculinity, did the look come to symbolize it, or did parts of the look already come derived from traditional masculinity?”

    Then you can make an assumption that F to M trans that like this look find it to reflect the parts of their inner masculinity, because of the historical symbolism of masculinity held within the look. I’m not gonna do all the historical research, though.