Elfi @elfi@pixie.town

@gavi the groundwater here is some of the best, enough that profiteering corporations are bottling it up for their own use, but there's a water softener for the apartment building that downgrades it from "paragon of freshness" to "okay I guess"

@gavi @sunflower@plush.city alas and alack for me to not be discord friends with you

I'll just keep an eye out for anything you throw on the TL then, no worries

@arina honestly not having one doesn't stop me from nuzzling my cat so I get it, it's fun to do regardless of configuration

@sunflower@plush.city @gavi tagging into this for the flood of cat pics

@sunflower@plush.city @gavi@wandering.shop tagging into this for the flood of cat pics

@Zennistrad Yeah, I think FFXIV really deconstructs player agency in a similar but inverted way to Deltarune though. Sure, you're your own self, but in the main scenario, as the Warrior of Light you don't have any choice but forward, and eventually even find out you're not even your own person, just a reincarnation of one of the paragons, Azem

Contrast Deltarune, where Kris is evidently their own person, but steered--perhaps unknowingly at first--by the player without any of their own agency except when they can break free. God knows, after how forcefully they screamed they were upset by Spamton after I let them, I'd love to just sit down, listen to them, and ride in tandem if they're willing to permit it! But also as the plot goes, the player has very little agency in the experiment too

Interestingly, I've read that Ar Nosurge explores this whole player control/character agency thing with the Interdimend system being a tangible interface that the player uses to control EARTHES/Delta that ties into a lot of the dimensional physics of the series, but it also has a lot of racy bits so I've shied away from messing with it myself, because as a person my agency is particularly bothered by being forced into saying things I'd never want to because of the limitations of the fourth wall

@mos_8502 @Fury there's been an alarming number of drug shortages and I'm concerned that I never hear any coverage of it

@Zennistrad oh yeah, FFXIV's got that in spades too. The agency in the story of that game can be lacking at times

@ReyTracing +Friend-shaped

@schratze time to bring back a classic, huh?

@gavi used to have some gold and nitra but the lootbugs ate it all

@gavi sorry, no diamonds here, just morkite