Ah yes, one of the neat advantages of being ace, easily being able to ignore people claiming to know you’ve watched anything sexual. Either because you never have, or because it’d have to be incredibly specific to ever be right, depending on how being Asexual affects you.

You know, I thought about it after reading the comments here, and I’ve thought of one possible explanation for MM-DD-YYYY, that being the order you effectively get the useful information from a date.

Going by DD-MM-YYYY, you read the first part, and that tells you the day in a month, but not which month, just skimming that first section gives you no actually useful information about how near or far it is without reading the second.

Doing MM-DD-YYYY on the other hand, you first read the month, which immediately tells you what part of a year it is, and if it’s relatively sooner or later, and then reading the second part of the date just gives more precision, rather than the whole useful answer.

So basically, it makes it easier to skim dates within a year with more useful information listed first, whereas putting the year first would just delay or offset that same skimming method.

Day first gives a range of error between 0 and roughly 330 days without reading further, whereas Month first gives a range of error of only up to 28 to 30 days depending on the month.

Oh no, furries, the most apology worthy state of existence- Wait a minute…

This basically, as in my case, my sensory issues make it hard to do many fairly basic things, and causes lots of discomfort that otherwise wouldn’t bother me if not for the sensitivity.

“Fixing” is very different from “reducing the issues for the person with the sensitivity, making life relatively easier to handle”.

Wait a minute, something feels off…

Think of it like this: Arrowhead, the developers, spent almost 8 years developing the game, getting funding throughout from Sony, which managed the publishing side of things so they could focus on game development.

Then, around 6 months before release, over 7 years of development up to that point, Sony wanted PSN to be required for the game, and clearly by release time, that was not enough time to even implement or test that well enough.

Their hands were tied years in advance, they couldn’t just let almost 8 years of their development time go to waste over one decision by their publisher, nor could they reasonably go against the publisher or get a new publisher only about 6 months before release.

On their end, they didn’t do anything particularly wrong, unless they could see the future over 7 years before and realize Sony was going to practically pull the rug out from under them with everything in Sony’s favor, a decision only actually made far more recently.

In Helldivers 2’s case, say a cheater forces everyone in that mission to max out samples/medals/super credits, it entirely kills the progression and takes away a reason to keep playing unless it’s reverted safely, which then means that mission was pointless because someone else used cheats.

What’s odd is I instantly recognized how to type on that type of phone, but I’m from roughly gen Z.

What’s funny is, one time I had someone consistently just shooting me every time I got reinforced. After the 3rd time, I headshot them with a counter sniper once, reinforced them immediately, then went back to what I was doing, and they just stopped shooting me after that. Absolute mystery to me really.

And have you noticed the automatons moved up a bit on the map, making more room at the bottom?

Besides the unlimited use ferrystone, which doesn’t work in bitterblack isle, that was added to the first game later, the fast traveling works pretty much the exact same.

If anything, there’s more fast travel options in Dragon’s Dogma 2 thanks to the ox carts which let you skip time until you arrive, or get ambushed, which lets you continue once you clear the ambush. And that’s just from well under a few hours of my time in game.

Also in the significantly less than 24 hours I’ve had, rift crystals, the currency they’re selling for “convenience”, are quite easy to get, and you absolutely never need to spend them on pawns, just drop the max pawn level to your own level or under and they’re free to use.

I’ve already gotten enough to do a full appearance change, another thing they’re selling for “convenience”, without specifically trying to get them, just having fun playing the game, exploring, and completing quests.

And the tents? They aren’t consumable unless maybe they get broken from ambushes, which I have yet to have occur after over 5 uses of the cheapest tent, likely because I clear the area around me first. All that’s affected is weight, which becomes less of a problem the more you play regardless.

Wakestones? If you’re dying, you’re not prepared or ready enough, come back later, it’s really that simple. I’ve already gotten a wakestone shard randomly, which you combine a few to get a full wakestone, which seems way faster than the first game given the much larger scale of this one. Not to mention that the ones you can buy as DLC are limited in that you can only buy 5 total, ever, but likely you can get endless amounts later in the game.

The rift incense? The one offered is the actual worst one available, it’s random, as opposed to the pre-set ones you can get in game.

Even the rift crystals you can only buy a limited amount for “convenience” when you can get unlimited just for playing the game.

I’m sorry if I went off topic and on an extended reply, just a bit frustrated that I’ve been seeing tons of people spreading outright wrong and incorrect information about basic parts of the game. I’ve played both games now and gladly will clear up a ton of stuff like that. It’s one thing to criticize the microtransactions themselves accurately for what they are, and another thing entirely to lie out of ignorance just to have more to complain about.

Hi, here’s your pretty much useless furry check.

Double meaning entirely intentional, because funny.

To my knowledge, that is actually a thing. People with Autism, as well as people with ADHD, tend to be a bit better at some things that people without usually struggle with for one reason or another. Basically just down to differences of how their brain works with vs without Autism/ADHD. And due to those differences being all you’ve ever known in your experience, it’s hard to know what might make something easier for you, as it just comes naturally, while other things might be completely unnatural to you compared to someone without. I can’t exactly recall anything specific without doing some searching, but doing so would probably give some answers.

Also, side point but I only thought about it a bit later despite it being your first sentence. Something also common with Autism is that it’s significantly easier to tell when someone else has it when you do as well, and vice versa, where people without Autism might not ever even tell unless they’re maybe more familiar with it.

I’m honestly surprised I’ve not seen anyone make that connection for a joke, thanks dyslexia, it’s pretty funny.

Totally not completely cursed, and those example sentences absolutely didn’t make me regret being literate.

Ah yes, even in the dark future, furries are making super advanced and useful technologies to be more furry.

Yep, that actual chance at learning something instead of being blindly insulted anyway is such a refreshing change.

And especially never admit you’re totally not running Windows on a Protogen because you couldn’t be bothered to modify it.

From the US, as per the rule of the community.

• Generally as it’s understood, yes, people are to a degree born gay. Although as it is now, it’s up to chance and the environment around them if they discover it or not, as being straight is so normalized some never figure out they aren’t straight, or if they do, it’s later on in their life.

As to “becoming” gay, it really depends on what is implied with it, usually through context around the situation.

• If it’s implied by the person saying it about someone else as being a decision, especially a sudden one, to just “be” gay, it’s generally with an ignorant or sometimes naive perspective behind it, respectively thinking it’s to spite them, just following a “trend”, or just to get out of the relationship with an excuse, or alternatively, they just don’t know better about how it really works.

• And if someone is saying they “became” gay about themself, it just tends to mean they discovered that they already were, or in many cases, became more open about it to others after previously figuring it out. Perhaps until that moment, they thought they were straight, or even bi or any number of other possible options, but found out otherwise and realized they were specifically gay.

• And finally, if it’s considered offensive, it depends on that previously explained context, as well as the context of how it’s framed within the series, whether it’s just that one character that believes it, or if it’s more widely held as a belief, and whether it’s shown as a good or bad thing within the series.

• If it’s taken 100% seriously, and isn’t challenged as being wrong, either by being portrayed comedically as that character having awful views, or another character or some other means indicating as such, then there’s the possibility of it being offensively intended, which goes back to it being naive or out of ignorance.

And for the TLDR variety, start here:

If it’s actually played for comedic effect and/or looked down upon, then it’s the character that is being offensive, and not the series itself.

• The problem indeed isn’t that the girlfriend is a lesbisn or potentially bisexual, or that she isn’t interested in him, which would go hand in hand with not being straight, but rather that she is cheating on him, which is itself a more complex matter, and doesn’t necessarily attribute the fault to the girlfriend by itself.

• It could even be that part or even none of his claim is true if it’s not otherwise shown to be, in which case it might just be him making up excuses for why his girlfriend isn’t interested in him, when it’s likely to be his personality or something else driving her away from him in reality.

I only recently managed to convince the more reasonable and less religious of my two parents that it’s pretty likely I have Autism and ADHD, given the extensive amount of signs of it throughout my life.

Though the rest of “me” I’ve had to keep hidden unless I want the more religious and less reasonable one of them to have a field day due to their regressive beliefs. Because, you know, being a Autistic ADHD Asexual Aromantic sort-of-gender Apathetic Furry, (I’m probably missing something here) or AAAA as I sometimes comedically shorten it to, doesn’t exactly line up with their ideals about many things.

Also, thought I’d comment from here for this, but I’ve surprisingly adjusted pretty well despite all that I’ve been through. My main struggle recently has been dealing with stress from it, and the Autism and ADHD not making that any easier on me.

But overall, I’m proud of myself, I’ve continued going through something as horrible as all this and still keep bettering myself despite it all.