• Water Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    I recently finished the map-collecting sidequest in FF15 without a guide out of gamer pride hubris and it was not worth it. The final reward is just 50K Gil and a mythril ingot - basically nothing. And a thank you note too I guess.

    Judging by the extreme difficulty of finding everything, I thought the reward would be notable. I could feel the devs laughing at me though the screen for some of them. Man, if I had known ahead of time then I wouldn’t’ve tried so hard.

    Anyway if search engines somehow catch this comment, here’s a spoiler-freeish guide if you want to put in a more appropriate amount of effort into the search:

    • There are 14 map pieces total: 5 in Leide, 5 in Duscae, 4 in Cleigne
    • The scraps and maps are spread more-or-less evenly across the continent
    • With one exception-ish, no location hosts both a scrap of mystery AND a Sylvester map piece
    • You will find scraps exclusively near civilization. So check towns, scattered buildings, and ruins. Don’t check bushes and rocks and nature. Don’t go inside dungeons looking for scraps either
    • There is nothing in the Vesperpool swamp and Ravatough mountains
    • There is nothing within imperial bases or the army junk outside them
    • The Sylvester pieces will be pretty close to the exclamation point. Idk why the game highlights such a big search area; nothing was ever by the perimeter
  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Never watched the Olympics before but it is surprisingly fun. Got me anxiously watching a sailing match even though I never watched sailing before.

    Just a mental display of human athleticism.

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      I can’t find any sources that state this beyond randoms on Twitter, so my assumption is that this is not real.

  • Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    Well, several close friends reached out to end their friendship with me because I won’t vote for Kamala.

    Saw this coming, because it happens every time there is an opportunity for liberals to go full fash, but still hurts.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Wolves have returned to The Netherlands (just a few though) and it is interesting to see how much detached to actual wilderness the average Dutch person is. A supposed wolf bumped into a child in a ‘forest’ today and there is a total panic now. Don’t go outside with your kids! We need to shoot the wolf!

    Part of it is because we live in a small country I think. But the biggest part of it is that we treat our country like one big farm property and as a result we have very little actual nature left. Dutch people see the outdoors as nothing more than a path to take a walk in with no danger at all. Because there is none. Forests get designed, paths get carved out, the furthest you can be from a road in The Netherlands is I think 11km or something like that.

    I noticed this on my holiday as well. I was hiking on a mountain path along a stream carved into the mountain some hundreds of years ago. At some point we saw some Dutch people ahead of us and they were loud and started throwing rocks into the stream, causing it to clog and spill over the side of the mountain to below. The complete direspect people have for nature in this country should be studied. Not only are you being a dick, you are also being a danger to the area causing floods and a fucking waterfall to slide down a mountain with loose rocks on it.

    There is also a tv show I watch about B&B owners abroad looking for love. There is this woman in it who owns a hotel like thing in South Africa’s wilderness. In comes a Dutch man and while he is driven to this resort accompanied by a ranger, he tells the ranger that it would be a nice thing to set up a mountain biking company in Kruger National Park. You know, the park with the lions and rhinos and elephants and crocs and leopards and stuff. The ranger looked at him like he was a complete fucking idiot.

    We act as if we completely own the world. As if it is our personal theme park to have fun in, instead of actual wilderness with biodiversity and wild animals and stuff.

    • SugandeseDelegation@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      This sounds similar to the UK. I’ve heard it called an ecological desert and almost everywhere you go feels very much like paths through some meadow or woods to take a stroll through. I would hope it’s not like this everywhere since they still have a few large natural parks, but from the little I’ve seen, it sounds like what you’re describing.

      We act as if we completely own the world. As if it is our personal theme park to have fun in, instead of actual wilderness with biodiversity and wild animals and stuff.

      Yep, the hubris and arrogance of westerners in their relationship to nature is staggering. My coworkers are some of the most disrespectful people towards the environment I’ve ever seen. Drinking water from plastic bottles instead of filling up their glasses from the water cooler because it takes fewer trips to the kitchen, and throwing them in the nearest trash can instead of walking an extra 30 seconds to the recycling. I know in the grand scheme of things this isn’t what’s causing the climate catastrophe, but still I think it speaks volumes about these people

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    People call a plant based diet extreme meanwhile I have ads on my instagram for ground up cow testicle pills because it is supposed to be crucial to any meat eating diet

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Uhh, I think that I might be sleep deprived… but I’m also not tired, so, uh… why am I acting weird? seems like it’s been a while since I overdosed on tranquilizers so idk

    hahaha

    p.s. I’m kinda sweaty today haha

    ETA: ok I did my capitalismindecay post now I can go to sleep! bonne nuit or as we say in Hebrew, láyla tóv. haha. (I don’t feel too tired but I gotta try.)