Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[MilkieTea]

My PC finally kicked the bucket today. BSODed into her demise

I ordered a new one and it’s coming in on Monday, but I will always have a special place in my heart for my sticker covered, bulging in awkward places, horribly wired mess that was my first handbuilt PC. RIP Joanna, you will be missed.

[RobynDaBank]

My PC finally kicked the bucket today. BSODed into her demise

I ordered a new one and it’s coming in on Monday, but I will always have a special place in my heart for my sticker covered, bulging in awkward places, horribly wired mess that was my first handbuilt PC. RIP Joanna, you will be missed.

RIP! I always get almost weirdly emotional when a tech in the house decides to give up the ghost. Such clever engineering slowly over time aging, getting slower and less efficient, just like a human - until finally, it blinks its last and shuts off.

[MilkieTea]

Current events have opened my eyes to some people on these forums. Not naming names, not shading or anything just… people who I thought were upstanding folks showing their true colors. :/

[RicaRuin]

I've been powerlevelling my Black Mage with Trusts yesterday. Normally, I don't have motivation for that, but the current world state and news have me... scared and a little bit overwhelmed, so I started to use FFXIV as escapism.

[MilkieTea]

I've been powerlevelling my Black Mage with Trusts yesterday. Normally, I don't have motivation for that, but the current world state and news have me... scared and a little bit overwhelmed, so I started to use FFXIV as escapism.

Yeah. I’m probably gonna retreat into FFXIV tomorrow once i get my new PC. This entire thing feels like a fever dream.

[Kolsykol]

Well, if this is true, at least they did one original thing in that they did the exact opposite of how everyone else do their games by focusing on the one of the two that sells worse, but i guess it doesn't really matter with the series staple terrible customization and no shop to sell some frilly dresses and/or bikinis.

I didn't even mention '' frilly dresses and/ or bikinis '' tbh it's really annoying how people literally always jump to this the moment anyone talks about '' feminine gear '' or whatever.
I dunno how '' original '' this is considering that it's basically the norm in AAA games and in the West too ( terrible customization included, I dunno why it feels like it has gotten worse with time ).
If you want to sell to mainstream audiences you basically make games for dudes and focus on muscle men and design everything for male characters.
That's the safe bet.
In the end of the day what you're talking about is more of a niche audience tbh, there's a reason why '' generic derplander '' is the staple for marketing for basically every game.


All I want is some gear that doesn't look like it was fitted for a broad guy.
They actually did have it in the past games, the Dancer of Boreal Valley armor set comes to mind and in general they did fit the gear to make it look a bit more like it was fitted to your character.
In Elden Ring it feels like it's two sizes too big for my character, I did find some robes but they've got terrible clipping issues even just from moving normally.

I did finish the game today too altho I didn't kill all of the bosses and finish the whole map but I didn't find any, it was truly an incredibly experience tho and my opinion on it only went up it only got better and better.
It does affect my excitement for exploring and finding new gear tho.
I honestly didn't find any I liked.

[Caurcas]

DS1 really didn't have much outside of armor apart from some of the witch/princess sets some of the npcs had. DS2 had the Smelter armor and the desert sorceress stuff. 3 also had the sorceress stuff and witch stuff. Bloodborne was pretty much all unisex long coats. Demons' actually had genderlocked gear. You have to give it credit, it's a series that sticks very hard to its aesthetics.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Built the Baund Doc. Pictures cannot properly convey just how eye-gougingly 80s these colors are.

[RobynDaBank]

The conversation a little above about female armour, I think Monster Hunter got it right in some cases. There's probably sets I'm missing that hit the cliché skimpy points for the female version, but RN I can remember none. Perhaps the Kirin set? Wasn't it revealing for guys too? The Nargacuga armour was sexy for females, but honestly that looked too cool so I excuse it.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Re: male/female armor design - gotta say, I'm glad there are some franchises (such as Soulsborne) which stick heavily to a chosen aesthetic that works for all genders, rather than divides masc-options into pure, functional armor and femme-options into "skimpy battle bikini with frills".

As a girl wanting to (usually) play female characters, it's incredibly tiring when my only options are various levels of skimpy or otherwise lovely armor sets ruined by not even tastefully-designed skin showing. Look, I'm a heavily femme-leaning bisexual - I appreciate T&A as much as anyone, and sometimes I don't mind the armor sets if I'm making a character I want to look at and ogle a bit while I play! But T&A out-skin everywhere-body suit type 'armors' aren't the only thing ladies can look good in.

Dunno about most of you, but to me there is nothing hotter than a woman in full plate mail. I will die on this hill.