autismdragon

Mine is A Link Between Worlds (which isnt a JRPG lol) or Tales of Symphonia (which is! so yay!) I think.

Of course!

(Tbh Fire Emblem is basically a JRPG for me anyway because if anime and tropes lol).

the gameplay is a skinner box where the treat pellets are cutscenes

Me as a kid cheating this system by running from battles so I could get to the next cutscene or town to talk to people in (yes, I liked getting one line of dialoug from each NPC that much). Then ending up coming up against a boss that I'm underleveled for, getting stuck, and quitting.

Honestly for me growing up has been learning to enjoy the gameplay part more as well. I get what you're saying though. But personally I like the narratives of pretty much every game in the FF series a lot, for example. And the Tales series as you mention. Other ones have more simple ones but still feel satisfying to me to explore it. I just find that method of narrative exploration very rewarding.

But I also like Shonen lol so that probably has something to do with it.

Been playing through Earthbound and streaming it for my girlfriend a bit lately. Its really enjoyable. The early game is SO difficult and even after you get party members the inventory management can be annoying, but the writing is so clever that its all very worth it. I am admitedly using an exploit to make PP management not as much of a worry at my girlfriend's recomendation and I'm worried its making the game too easy lol, but I'm still having a very good time exploring what the game has to offer.

I'm really excited to try Mother 3 as well. Though that might be a bit because me and my gf agreed I stream me playing Earthbound for her, then she streams her playing Chrono Trigger for me, before we do Mother 3.

Chrono Trigger isn't like, my personal favorite game because there are games that have more like, significance to me. But it is the game that I consider the "best game I've played" from like, objective standards if you know what I mean?

Since the merger theres actually three Square characters here lol.

That said Xenoblade is cool but Chrono Trigger is the all time greatest so I agree with the decision.

Lmao get a grip. BabyTurtles just said that state level politics exists and you respond like that?

And thats not even getting into the ones who think we're paid by China or Russia.

Me with a touchscreen phone, no cash, and since it was mentioned, and keeping everything in cloud storage (mostly because I dont have room for it all on my harddrive, but also so I can access it on multiple devices).

Not that you're not right. The touchscreen is only because thats the only thing being made anymore anyway lol. I find cash inconvenient but you're completely correct about it ideologically speaking.

I dont think people doing lesser evilism/harm reduction rhetoric should be called Nazis though? Like Nazism is a very specific thing and words should remain meaning things. Just call it what it is, liberalism, liberalism is already bad enough you dont need to call liberals something else lol.

Also I promise you, if you get outside the bubble of Hexbear, there are incredibly well meaning people who still believe in lesser evil voting. Hell, that was me up until the Gaza genocide began in earnest. (I mean, I didnt vote for Biden in 2020, but that was only because I lived in a state where I felt safe making a statement vote). I was full on in communism, I just though lesser evil voting was the right strategy for the proletariat. I wont bother arguing my reasons because I dont believe them anymore lol, but reality is a lot of people do think that way. A lot of them are queer people who have been gaslit by the Dems and their supporters into believing that Dems will protect them from being killed for being queer and think lesser evilism is self preservation. They're wrong, but their motives are definitely not Nazism. In fact I largely see them as victims of a proactivly gaslighting political party. In their minds they dont think voting for Biden will make the genocide worse so they don't see a problem with it. It took me a loooooong time to understand how my vote is actively an endorsement of the bad things a politician does because in my mind I wasnt voting for that, I was voting specifically for the differences. It took me until very recently to understand that the politician doesnt see it that way and sees it as an endorsement of everything they are doing.

Now granted, they dont go around talking down to communists who are anti-electoral (or anti-electoral in this specific instance) or actively pushing lesser evilism ideologically, not the ones I'm specifically referring to that are part of my life anyway, its more of a personal choice for them. But still, fuck Dagwood but I think you should be accurate in what you call him. I dont see how "Get off of our instance liberal" is bad to say instead. In fact I think its a marked improvement to be accurate in what we call people.

[Unless at one point he did actual genocide denial or support in one of those posts I cant see because they were deleted lol].

Sorry, I know this is pendanticish and maybe Im getting caught up in my autism, but Ive always been against calling liberals Nazis because words mean things and liberalism is already bad. You can talk about things like how fascism is liberal capitalism in decay, how even before that decay liberalism has fascist characteristics, how liberals will always enable fascism, how liberals will start acting like fascists when scratched, and so on. Those are all true. But Id still call them separate things. Related, but separate.

Also I predict a response of like "Biden is already supporting a genocide how is he not already a fascist" and my preemptive response to that is that liberal capitalism in the imperial core has always supported genocidal actions in the exploited places. It becomes fascism when its turned inward. And while there are some things going on that are are fascistish (family separation and locking up asylum seekers in general being the biggest, but also certain things the police are doing, the movements in that direction towards trans people, and the backsliding on abortion) I'm not ready to call it that yet. Maybe the difference is that you are. But I think thats misguided if so tbh. And its not like you even said fascist, you said Nazi, which has even more characteristics specific to that specific ideology than just fascism generally that I don't think "I think you should vote for the lesser evil in FTP liberal democracy" really crosses the line into lol.