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 got into Balatro finally, and holy fuck, it really is great. I wanted a turn based roguelike since I realized I didn’t have many of those, and I knew it’d be good, but it’s hard to find something I don’t like about the game.

    It looks good, the interface is good, the music is an awesome ever changing single chill song, it’s turn based so you can think about your decisions, but if your build is strong you can play pretty quick too. There are tons of build options and unlocks.

    There is a nice balance between playing hands and altering your build between rounds, I like that the money economy is low in number, similar to darkest dungeon and its low number damage stats even single digits matter. Learning the game and starting runs you begin to establish a build that you can add synergy to incredibly quickly. I just struggle to find anything bad to say about it.




  • Thats relatively tame, he’s done more ridiculous stuff than that, but it is creative and funny in an “industry” where most streamers just play a game straightforwardly and don’t “cut loose” in quite the same way. I’m just habitually hyperbolic.

    I also don’t want to spoil the best things he’s done, half the fun of watching Jerma is discovering those things.


  • He’s a fantastic video game streamer. Very charismatic, genuine, and funny. I think one of the things that makes him special is he’ll do ridiculous things for a joke. If he thinks of a funny idea on the fly, sometimes he’ll basically stop playing whatever game he was supposed to be streaming, and just do something else stupid instead.

    For example, one time he performed a “magic trick” by unplugging his modem and then plugging it back in, using the time in between when the stream was frozen to run out of the room, making it look like he “disappeared”. He would do insane, hilarious stuff like that regularly, it wasn’t like he had special streams where he did things like that, he did them all the time.

    Of course he ALSO did special streams where he went even further, such as the “doll house” stream where he had a whole set made up like a fake house and basically became a Sims character with needs bars and everything. He’s a really special guy, and you could spend all day listing all of his amazing feats. He perfectly walks the line between being actually stupid in a funny way, and playing it up as a character, it’s convincing enough that it all just becomes “Jerma”, but he is also a genuinely good guy.




  • I’m glad that you enjoyed this game! Some of your reactions to the characters’ fates took me back to when I played the series on Vita haha. It was also nice to see you mention the extra stuff like Distrust.

    I will warn you now, if you are playing the trilogy through on the Switch’s Decadence Collection… V3 is poorly optimized during certain class trial sections and I actually struggled to complete some of the mini games because of how laggy it was (when it ran perfectly on the Vita). It’s possible they patched it since I played it after the first or second patch, but keep it in mind.

    It is still doable, but it’s a bit of a shame because I love this series. I hope you enjoy Goodbye Despair and V3 provided you complete them as well!


  • Persona 3/4/5 (not all tracks are instrumentals, but most of them are and they are straight bangers)

    Katana Zero Danganronpa 1, 2, V3 Silent Hill 1, 2, 3 (all I can vouch for, but I hear the later games still have banging soundtracks) Crosscode Kingdom Hearts 1/2 Nier Automata Minecraft Donkey Kong Country 1/2 VA-11 HALL-A Catherine Full Body Deadbolt Risk of Rain 1/2

    Some of these you’d have to sift through, like Silent Hill is one part industrial creepy noise, and one part absolutely incredible hip hop and rock


  • I respect that you posted the original context. It’s a sad fact that there are people who don’t understand others, and react with hatred or skepticism.

    Do your best to be patient and forgiving, being snarky or outwardly rude does damage to their opinion of you and the topics you want them to be educated on. They will not want to learn or be accepting if you give the venom back.

    And that may not even work either, but if you care you have to try, and don’t sink to someone’s level.




  • I don’t think it necessarily excludes sex workers, it’s just one of those terms that means more than the literal words. For example, just because it’s not safe for work, doesn’t mean it is then safe for all other situations, like a dinner with extended family.

    If you wanted to redo the term to be more literally accurate, I suppose you could say “About or Depicts a Subject that you would rather not have to explain or openly reveal to someone whose beliefs or relationship with you are not casual enough to ensure that, without a doubt, their comfort with you will remain the same after being exposed to your viewing of said content, either in a professional or publicly social setting”

    I am honestly not sure how to make that any shorter while encompassing all of what I feel NSFW has truly come to represent for society. It’s similar, though not identical, to other words that may have originally meant one thing, but have come to mean another through the years.