Carighan Maconar

The strength of life to face oneself has been made manifest. The persona Carighan has appeared.

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Yeah this would 100% be reason for separation for me.

    Because I mean, if you are mentally on a level where Donald Trump can appear like a valid choice to you over valid alternatives such as entirely leaving the US, then I got fuck all clue what I ought to expect from you in the future. You are clearly not mentally well. I might ask you to seek therapy once, but if you refuse I’m out.

    Sidenote, his facebook post:

    “God Bless America. God bless #45, 47.”

    What is it with the general religious fucknuttery in the US? Do these people genuinely still think Santa Claus is real?










  • Yeah it’s the same when people say this about FFXIV, which does have an extensive money-shop for extra mounts/animations/skins/etc.

    They’re pricey as hell, but at the same time the only thing you ever might feel pressured into getting are:

    • Fantasia (character do-overs) after enough years because you feel like you’ve seen enough of this face and want another one and want to finally become a cat-girl like everybody else is! The game does however give you two for free, and we’re soon getting a third one, at least temporarily.
    • Character boosts if your friends are being assholes and berate you for not skipping the story (seen it happen) and it starts to get to you, instead of what 99% of the community does which is the exact opposite and encouraging everyone to take their time however many many months that might be. 😅





  • one of the greatest stories in this medium

    I mean admittedly I don’t read cyberpunk as a genre, but as an avid reader I find that hard to believe. My two standout sub-stories are the intro heist and the expansion’s main story, and while those are awesome, they’re not exactly literary masterpieces. The rest of the game’s story is… amateurish? But not in a bad way? Like, it’s servicable as the thin motivational veneer you expect from an open world game, and doesn’t stand out either way, which is more or less what you want from your open world story: To not get in the way. The last few parts are quite bad though and show how much the story must have been cut apart and pieced together to fit a release date.

    Is it really outstandingly good comparing other cyberpunk works?


  • My opinion is… so and so?

    I gave up on it initially, annoyed by it’s deluge of bugs coupled with the overall tepid and empty-feeling design.

    I gave it a serious go a year ago after also getting the expansion. I wanted to not use any mods but ended up having to use one anyways, as CDPR still couldn’t be arsed to fix some keys being hardcoded so changing your keyboard layout is annoying as stuff gets in the way. Luckily, fans fixed that issue and made all keys rebindable. <3

    I will say… I enjoyed it. It’s nothing superb to me, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable romp. It’s big upside were the visual design, in particular during the expansion and its high points like the top floor of the tower or the sequence at the space port, the great voicework and Songbird and when you meet her really is a standout in both visual and scene design. I also liked the expansion and the tutorial stories a lot.
    It’s weak points to me were the open world itself which feels pointless and a thin, lifeless, facade plus the main story itself. Character progression was also super broken back in the days but by the time I played felt a lot better, so I’m not really holding it against the game. That being said, there were still quite a lot of bugs and glitches. Nothing major a reload here or there could not fix, but still annoying, considering how long the game has been out.

    So yeah, solid 7/10 for me. The expansion is fantastic, wish the whole game were like that!