That's one of the reasons I don't want kids, if anything like that happened to them, some people would die and it wouldn't be pretty.
Finished it yesterday, can confirm, while it's not on par of course, it's a great game and an amazing tribute to old JRPG.
Depression isn't equal to all the things you compared it to, and saying that none of us can change no matter how hard we try, maybe shows that you're the first obstacle to it.
I wish you luck and for things to get better.
My fellow human, you're either depressed, and you should seek help, it will do you great good, or you should start looking into some personal growth wisdom.
Both aren't easy paths, but they're well worth it.
While you're overall right, DOS 2 is a terrible exemple for that.
Calling them just "fighters" is downplaying. Calling that a simple "culture", instead using the proper call out like I did, is downplaying.
You telling me to engage and then baffled that I "dig" is making you look like them more and more.
It is technically "culture". It is far from being only that though, and you somehow chose the least incriminating word to describe them.
That is baffling imo.
Point being that simply calling it a different "posting cultures" isn't just semantic, it's downplaying what they do.
We shouldn't downplay racists, genocide deniers and trolls.
Go check what's happening on shitjustworks instance currently and say that again. It's absolutely not just a problem of "posting culture", that's downplaying who they are and what they do.
They're just straight up toxic 99% of the time and they don't seem to want to do anything about it. It's a resounding echo of a sentiment on most Lemmy instances that it is how they act and yet, I still see weird and factually wrong takes like this.
French here, he was speaking about his own terms, his entourage is defending it as "Ahah dw it was a late night joke !"
And this guy is so corrupt that it could be true, or not, it's a toss coin at this point.
One thing's for sure, it's not gonna happen anytime soon, the French deffo wouldn't let him.
The answers and reactions of those admins is incredibly fishy tho, and I don't really see a good ending to all that with what's been documented.
Do you take some wine with your daily propaganda meals ?
Your experience is anecdotal. There are countless documented cases of people being not only in control while lucid dreaming, but also remembering what they did. It's just that there is a limit to what you can do in dreams, because they have a purpose and trying to force too much through lucid dreaming ends up damaging your sleep, which your brain will do everything in its power to not let happen.
Not really what you asked, but preparing and improvising aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
IE, you can prep some encounters, rooms, vilains etc, but mostly on the surface, they don't have to be predetermined as, for example, goblins in a cave, or the villain can be anyone or even better, you just improvise him towards the end, for a huge plot twist in your players mind, while you just picked what happened to fit the best at the time combined with what you prepared.
Adapting/reusing on the go what you prepared/envisioned is, imo, one of the best skills a DM can have and work on. And this applies for things you prepared in a previous session but happened to not use at the time.
I hope that helps.