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Digimon World - New General Megathread for the 28th-29th of September 2024

Digimon World (デジモンワールド Dejimon Wārudo?) is a role-playing, adventure, and digital pet video game developed by Bandai released at January 28, 1999 in Japan, North America at May 23, 2000, and PAL at July 6, 2001 for the PlayStation. It is the first game in the Digimon World series. The storyline focuses on a human brought to File City on File Island by Jijimon to save the island. Digimon have been losing their memories and becoming feral and the city has fallen into disarray. The goal of Mameo is to save the island by helping Digimon recover their memory and return to the city.

As it came before the anime in Japan, it is very strictly based on the Virtual Pets. The game play revolves around raising a single Digimon from its Digitama form, hatching into a Fresh, up through In-Training, Rookie, Champion, and with work, Ultimate. A Digimon partner will die with age, and return to an egg eventually, so the player has to raise it again.

Fans of the anime will be familiar with the sixth stage, Mega; however this game was made only shortly after the Pendulum series of pets, which introduced Mega level.

To raise a Digimon partner, the player must train it, feed it, let it rest, and take it to the bathroom.

The other main aspect of gameplay is battle. The player's partner Digimon fight the Digimon that have become aggressive due to a crisis on File Island. Partner Digimon begin the game with a few basic skills but acquire more as they progress in levels through the game.

The PAL region's variant cover art features the seven initial Partner Digimon from Digimon Adventure. The group includes Tentomon which isn't obtainable but does however appear in Beetle Land and Gomamon, who is otherwise completely absent from this game

Gameplay

Digimon World's game play utilizes two major aspects: Raising and battling. The element of monster raising consists of feeding your Digimon, allowing it to rest, and leading it to the bathroom. As a Digimon grows and trains, it can digivolve into a stronger form; there are 5 stages of digivolution in total including the desirable Ultimate form. Raising a Digimon carefully and properly helps progress through the game, and improper treatment can lead to dire consequences. The second element of the game, battling, composes the other major aspect of the game. Digimon World's battle system heavily relies on options that a player can command, such as "Your Call" and "Retreat".[3] As a player ventures in the wild, Digimon may engage in battle when touching each others paths. Battles are usually inevitable while adventuring, and they are a reliable source of techniques that a Digimon can learn and money. Training a partner Digimon enhances its parameters, enabling it to fight with better ease and digivolve to powerful forms. Digimon World also provides various mini-games for the player, including fishing, arena tournaments, and curling. Sub-quests are also available, mainly for new recruiting Digimon and other hidden surprises.

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  • I still dream of the day you can be casually communist. Where the low information voter can go "of course the people who do the work get the fruits of the labor." I want so badly for libs and conservatives to have to explain themselves to childish people and be dismissed with shit like "but heroin needles on the streets and nurses in trashbags in America." So many fully grown adults take so much liberty in their philosophy just because they happen to share their ideology with the people who hold all the power.

  • I wish I stole more food at work today. I'm on prep and not the line now so I have a lot less opportunities to make myself something. I still had the opportunity to do a little bit of snacking, but I usually get in at least a solid pound of fries over the day

  • in addition to all the horrific shit happening wrt geopolitics and the various wars and hexbear doomers insisting that resistance is futile, i also somehow managed to piss off my roommate because i took their noodles out of an inactive microwave to microwave my own stuff. they say their noodles need to 'cook' after the microwave is off, but obviously the water will still be hot outside of the microwave, it doesnt stay hot after it turns off, definitely not hot enough to cook noodles. i just put them next to the microwave, but they scold me first thing when i wake up anyway. they even performatively put their noodles in for an entire second microwaving, like their noodles were already microwaved fully and were just cooling off, i did not interrupt that for enough time to warrant a second microwaving. of course if i were to point any of this out it would only cause strife drama and misunderstanding so im venting to internet strangers and feds on hexbear. i already woke up to horrific news from lebanon, already feeling suicidally depressed and wondering if fascism has simply won the physical plane of existence, already suffering the psychic damage from that idiot doomer in the news mega insisting that iran must cause nuclear armageddon or else they are cringe or something and the resistance has already lost and every single hezbollah commander is dead because the zionazis say so, and then this silly noodle shit happens. i hate existing. i cannot process these two kinds of existential horror, of fascisms seeming/alleged/apparent dominance of material reality and of my personal inability to coexist socially in a non-alienated/alienating way with the people around me, at the same time. i can't really even process them individually, all there is left to do is bear the suffering eternally.

    • We can suffer together

    • That sucks. Palestine will be free. When Iran does make its move we are all gonna be like "oh my gerd! what a cool move I never thought they would do something so based and clever." Communism will win. If the fascists have won the physical plane it is only temporary as their internal contradictions and oppression will force people to the other extreme. Fascism and oppression are the crucible that revolutions flow from.

  • As much as I love Moo Deng, I worry that many people like her for all the wrong reasons.

    A lot of the memes you see of her always seem to depict Moo Deng in some sort of irritation or distress. Look up "Moo Deng mouth open" and you'll know what I mean. One of the most famous pictures of her shows some distress over being picked up. Also, there's been some reports of people throwing things at her, probably to get a "cute" reaction or try to be the person who makes the next meme image of her. What this boils down to is taking pleasure in a baby animal's misery, and that's just pure cruelty. It's sad that some people do not recognize this.

    • I like the picture of Moo Deng where the keeper is petting her and she's looking at the camera with her funny eyes. It's very cute.

      Also, there's been some reports of people throwing things at her, probably to get a "cute" reaction or try to be the person who makes the next meme image of her. What this boils down to is taking pleasure in a baby animal's misery, and that's just pure cruelty. It's sad that some people do not recognize this.

      They know what they are doing, these people are just assholes. I heard that the zoo has now cameras for visitors and only a couple of people with a guide can go and see her for a limited period of time.

    • Fucking hell, that poor baby. I did get a laugh at the image of that baby hippo getting picked up, but actively trying to "recreate" that is fucked up. Hit those folks with sticks, jesus christ.

      • Like if Moo Deng was simply throwing a tantrum in reaction to the care the zookeepers were trying to give her, sure that's cute. But thinking Moo Deng being angry is cute is no different than schadenfreude.

  • Power’s still out, 2 days now. Originally it was expected back by tomorrow but it got pushed to Tuesday now, probably redirecting people to NC where shit is so much worse.

    I really didn’t expect this hurricane to be Katrina for Asheville. It’s like 7+ hours from the ocean what the fuck.

  • Guy who specifically only works out pecs and abs so when he takes off his shirt it's kinda the same effect as Ned Flanders or Grounskeeper Willie

  • Whenever you go out for a meal, know that there is at least a 60% chance that the people in the kitchen fucked something up and just said "give it to them anyway, they'll never know." I know because I was a kitchen porter and we did that shit all the time. Also I have multiple friends who work or worked in kitchens and they all say the same. Your burger bun probably fell on the floor and was dusted off.

    • Yeah, i made peace with it a long time ago. If i find a hair or something I take it out and keep eating. I knew what i was signing up for.

  • I tried to make plans to attack and dethrone god with my friends this weekend, but they were all too busy. Well, I decided to go anyway, and when I got to god, all my friends were there dethroning him without me

  • Life was so easy for boomers and genX if you were upper middle class. Saw a guy claim that "learn to code" was "worse" career advice than "go to medical school", which is an insane reminder that entire generations did not have to deal with career paths having <1% chance of success. Like to upper-middle class people of those generations a good R&D job is just something you get with an egineering or physics masters, going to medical or law school is just something you do, becoming a professor is just a viable career path. Zero concept that you can have a flawless CV you've been building since you were 14 and still not get into a medical school or get a residency. I think my AP calc class had a large proportion of people with MDs now, but even that very impressive crop of people who had planned their lives around becoming doctors had to get master's degrees before getting a medical school admission.

    • I had a friend who decided at 13 he wanted to be a GP. There are crazy amounts of scholarships and stuff where I grew up for people who want to be GPs, he had sponsorships from the church we went to, he had really good grades but his parents are divorced and neither of them have any spare money. So he spent his 20's working shit jobs while part timing school. He didn't pass the entry exams a few years in a row so had to keep "brushing up" because you cant rewrite the exam without taking more courses. Now he's got 2 kids and a wife who is a nurse and brings home the bacon. He spent 2 decades throwing his money and other peoples money to try to become a doctor and ended up a part time barista and home maker. (I bet the cuck still pays 10% of his income to the church too)

  • Of the teenagers I know about through my own teenage kid, two of them fall into the "fucked-up spoilt little asshole kid" category. The first one's dad is a bougie business entrepreneur type, the second one's dad is a cop. I guess this is purely coincidental.

  • considering what a dork i act like in the mega methinks many of you would be quiiiiiiiiiiiite surprised to learn how handsome and charming i am in the real grasstouching world

  • I'm struggling how to articulate this, but I'm kind of terrified that the culture has been geared to killing or ignoring any idea of real male interiority to potentially catastrophic results. Reading anecdotes about how men don't read or buy books anymore, even books that are traditionally geared towards men, and how college literature classes have no young men taking them. Is it just nothing for men but video games and Rogan knock-off grindset streamers from now on?

    • I feel like books are still incredibly male-centric. Like the front section of the Barnes and Nobles is usually "10 steps to DOMINATE everyone in your life", "Manly WARRIORS of Saturn" and "Napoleon's (ALPHA MALE) biography" or something like that. And I actually see people reading it on public transport or whatever. Of course it's part of the grindset culture that you mentioned, I just don't think it's fair to say that men are completely absent from book culture. The grindset/video game culture spills over into the literature world.

      • Maybe I should have been more clear, but I'm talking about fiction or literary non-fiction. Men only being given a diet of self-help grindset book is part of the problem I'm worried about. Like, when I was in high school and college, you could be a "bro" kind of guy and read Chuck Palahniuk, or Hunter S. Thompson, or David Foster Wallace. For decades, authors like Hemmingway and Bukowski found receptive audiences in young men, not to mention all the crime fiction, horror, sci-fi, and fantasy that men have traditionally consumed. The "guy in your English class who loves David Foster Wallace" was a stereotype for a reason. But now it seems like younger men just straight up see no value in reading literature or fiction, because the algorithms just railroad them into Alpha Gridset world. Am I wrong about this?

    • Am I crazy for thinking that the only real culture young men are exposed to now are like variations of the Tom Cruise character from Magnolia?

  • Holy shit, how is it almost October already? It feels like it was just August to me

    I need to get some cute autumn/winter clothes, most of my shit is bland and doesn't fit well anymore

    At least there's playoff baseball and the hockey season starts soon

    Not looking forward to raking after the big ass maple tree in the yard though

  • Did that bandana post get deleted? That seemed like an interesting discussion to learn more from, if only due to all the cultures and subcultures with different scarves and cloths.

    Also one last Digimon thing (prolly), but Mimi's singing in the English dub sticks with me years later: "I'm gonna sing a song, a song that'll wake you uuuuuup."

  • Unfortunately I know what it’s like to be managed by the kid who asks the teacher for homework

    But in corporate, this kid will try to use chatgpt to automate the tasks of people in other departments but when he realizes it’s not as easy as he thought, he assigns it to you to automate. Then he shows it off to his c suite boss and gets further praise

    Corporate social climbers are an absolute plague.

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