I have a particular term for certain kinds of edginess I just call “Shadow the Hedgehog writing”, where it’s more likely to come from a teenager trying to seem grown up/cool than an actual adult.
Plenty of anime/VNs have fallen in this category, giving early content warnings that the content will be dark; and then just having non sequitor turnouts like “And then the heroine stepped in a trap that severed her spine. She screamed for hours, praying for help, but none came.”
There’s a particular game whose name rhymes with “Tomato” that did this for me once. You bring some children to safety, and then go fight the attackers sending tanks after them. I came back to the kids, joking to myself “Sorry, hero, it’s too late; we already drowned in our own fear and sadness…!” And then I laughed out loud when my joke turned out right.
Worst part is, there is some grim and depressing stuff in the world, and yet so many grimdark writers don’t see any nuance in it.
Once cringe, always cringe.
Anyone old enough to call it an avatar?
Yes.
Also I don’t know what the f in pfp is. If it’s supposed to be profile picture, then the acronym should clearly be pp.
ProFile Picture
Profile Picture. PP.
That would be the initialism, yes, but pfp isn’t an initialism.
Then what is it??? Wouldn’t it be an acronym???
That, or just a general abbreviation. If doesn’t have to be a specific form of abbreviation.
Radar (Radio Detection And Ranging) also isn’t a strict initialism, or it would be called RDAR.
Phrases like etc. (et cetera), & co. (company), vs. (versus), are also generally abbreviations.
Pfp makes no sense though. Why does profile get two letters if it’s the same length as picture? Just say an actual word or call it pp.
ProFile Pic
PFP
It’s just the first letters *of the syllables of the shortened saying.
Actually.
Abbreviations don’t strictly have to follow any specific logic, they just need to be understood. What you’re describing is an initialism, where you just take the first letters.
My best guess for pfp is that it’s an initialism of the first three syllables because the fourth is unintuitive, three letters was common enough back in the day of BBS and pfp was recognisable enough, while pp is fairly ambiguous. Someone started abbreviating it like this, people picked up on it, and by the time I was old enough to engage with English message boards it was the norm already.
No but I’m old enough to have custom made my own forum signature banners.
I’ve never been weeb enough to use an anime girl for my avatar.
Good, keep it that way, I’ll come back
First photo: immaturity, longing for status.
Second photo: maturity, longing for happiness.
Being a weeb != maturity.
Being somewhat older ≈ more mature
People have inferiority complex when they’re young so they feel they need to brag with how “badass” they are.
When you’re older you understand that true wisdom is in the little things, in the things that don’t look like much but make up a healthy society.
If you use some masculine image for your pfp on a forum, there’s a good chance you’ll blame women something or spout some other anti-woke shit eventually.
Weebs are very much not part of a healthy society. They’re cancerous.
Go back to watching Seinfeld.
I’d respect it if she wasnt the literal worst girl.
I only watched S1 and the very start of S2, but I would say there is clearly a much worse one. If he just picked her the series would have been over immediately, another big plus.
The first pfp I used was a cropped FF Advent Children walkpaper of Cloud with sunglasses.
I still use Panty from Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt in some places. In other places I have an anime style OC character from a game I was developing (for which I lost the code to a hard drive crash). Some places have my photo (which I regret).
Now I use a photo of my cats.
I don’t think I have a pfp on Lemmy
You do! It’s your cats. Love them!
Heh, I do? Voyager doesn’t show them and I rarely use the web interface so I completely forgot 😅
Thank you! They are some silly floofs, especially the orange one 😹
Another day of weebs trying to vindicate themselves within the gamer community smh my face
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Come to the park and play dinosaur with me
Join us in the world of cozy/puzzle games, where quick time events can go to die and you don’t have to treat a game like a full time job to be good at it 😄
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can you give some examples pls?
- N Step Steve
- Gentoo Rescue
- I Wanna Lockpick
- Lingo1
- Opus Magnum
- Exapunks2
- Snakebird
1 Maybe Lingo 2 but haven’t seen anyone play it or played it myself
2 Amazing game but I don’t recommend.
Baba is you
Patricks parabox
Portal + Portal 2
Outer Wilds
Maize
Linelith
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god everyone needs to play outer wilds at least once in their life
Add Blue Prince to that list! It’s a newer puzzle game that is so insanely deep
Oh yes good call!
Stardew Valley (and its many farm sim clones), Slime Rancher, Balatro, and Chicory: A Colorful Tale are just a few off top of my head. I can delve into my games libraries and list a bunch more lol
Edit: From my Steam library alone, mostly what I’ve played lately:
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Hello Kitty Island Adventure
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Power Wash Simulator
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Unbox the Room
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Wanderstop
And my Switch library:
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Moonstone Island
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both “Mario + Rabbids” games (puzzle/strategy)
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Ooblets
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Animal Crossing
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Sun Haven
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Cattails: Wildwood Story
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Sprout Valley
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Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
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Calico
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The Ace Attorney Trilogy
There’s more in my Steam library that probably fit the bill but I haven’t fully played them yet. All of the above have minimal real time combat/platforming or accessibility options to mitigate it. All can also be played at your own pace, as well :)
Further edit: almost forgot my epic library too!
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Bear and Breakfast
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Toem
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Garden Story
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Not cozy or puzzle oriented, but Baldur’s Gate 3 turns into turn-based mode in combat. Pretty sure the same applies for other Larian games too, but I haven’t tried them.
Do not join any of the others. Join ME and together we can rule the galaxy!
Do you like voxel sandbox games? Luanti is quite nice and relaxing depending on game (Luanti is technically a voxel game engine, and you can find various types of games in the built-in content browser)
Turn based strategy! Also Paradox RTSes are pausable so almost like TBS if you want it to be.
I’ve used the same pfp which is a photo of myself with a funny mask since 2007.
I wanted a pfp of what I wanted to be and now it is what I am. I wanted to be read as cool but now I have Many from Honzuki no Gekokuji, because I love literature and I see myself as a small girlie.
I feel called out.
