Lex! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @Alexis@beepboop.one

@zensaiyuki The Persona 5 monsters don't look very cute to me, tbh.

@zensaiyuki you know what, that makes it exactly like how for a while people insisted I would like Rick & Morty, which is like Doctor Who meets Back to the Future, but mean.

@InspectorCaracal @purplemontart Then, yeah, just rebuy it!

@InspectorCaracal @purplemontart Knowing what you know now -- that you like the game -- would you have happily paid $30 for it on PC to begin with?

@InspectorCaracal this must be how the "you don't need to tell me about homestuck" crowd feels.

@InspectorCaracal The only conversations I ever have about Persona 5 are
* having it recommended to me Yet Again
* me saying "uh-huh" and trying not to show my boredom on my face

@InspectorCaracal Yeah, that one took me a LONG time to figure out, it's a very weird thing a lot of people do.

@InspectorCaracal also hold the phone, does Persona 5 not even HAVE JOKES???

i'm going to need to have a Conversation with Someone

@InspectorCaracal I'm subtooting two people on the other website whose tastes in other media overlap significantly with mine, but who can't quite tell Do I Like This apart from Would Alex Like This.

But also, multiple podcasts I listened to today.

I'm subtooting very specifically, but also, at, like, cultural background noise, I guess.

persona 5 looks:
* low chill
* harsh colours
* dark themes
* very dramatic

hm I wonder if I would like this

@InspectorCaracal It can take a WHILE for stuff I submit to show up on Piperka, so give them another couple days, but also, lol, that's what people do when I talk about Piperka, too.

what I like appears to be relatively chill, colourful games with low stakes

@InspectorCaracal I submitted it as a test, because I figured it would be on the wrong side of the line? But apparently not, haha.

* other recent video games I do enjoy
** Animal Crossing
** Untitled Goose Game
** Pokémon Sword

* Pokémon is the only one of those with combat, and they did a lot of aesthetic work there that got me into it, but also, like, it's Pokémon

it has value to clarify further:
* am not a dating sim person
* if i were to play a dating sim, it wouldn't be persona 5, which, frankly, looks aggressively straight

* not super an RPG person, either
* in general, i have a hard time with video game combat in MOST forms

** good video game combat:
*** Mario: Jump on Thing, boss fights are more like puzzles
*** Spider-Man PS4: SO FLUID
*** Ring Fit Adventure: gotta do squats

@InspectorCaracal I liked what I played of them, but that might've been around the time I fell off games entirely.

@InspectorCaracal Yeah, I looked into Murder By Numbers, and it looks good, but picross gives me a headache; I'd struggle with the puzzles, and wouldn't enjoy it.

(I'm bad with number stuff to such an extent that, uhh, I might have a light-to-medium case of dyscalculia, tbh.)

@InspectorCaracal You know what, I can totally believe the people who made Bloodshot looked into doing a leg fight and thought a punch fight looked cooler.

@InspectorCaracal I *do* play video games, I'm just picky.