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keybladewieldernier · 2 years
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No but Rune Factory 2 and Oceans were the best ones actually
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benisasoftboi · 4 years
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Gushing time.
Rune Factory 4 Special arrived a day early, so my entire day has been consumed in nostalgia. The original Rune Factory 4 was the first video game I ever bought on release day - I remember saving up all my money and making my mum drive me to like three different shops trying to find one that had it. I was already a fan of the franchise - before then, Rune Factory 3 had been my favourite video game, across the board. Aside from a playthrough of the first game last year, I haven’t played a Rune Factory game in a long time, certainly not RF4. But just starting up the game and hearing the music again, it was like it was suddenly seven years ago. Running around Selphia and seeing all the characters again - I love JRPGs, have played a lot of them, and I can think of very few that have characters that have stuck with me this long. And the aesthetics - the best thing about the Rune Factory franchise has always been the aesthetics, the music, the scenic and character design, just the general world. It’s a beautifully whimsical balance of urban and fantasy, and it’s the only JRPG world I think I’ve ever come across that I would genuinely want to live in. Rune Factory may no longer be my favourite game franchise - but I don’t think there has ever been another series that has felt so much like home to me.
Here’s a very long selection of personal highlights from the art book (by which I mean photos of the art followed by my rambling opinions):
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Yeah, see, here’s the thing - Rune Factory 1 is not a good game. I could write an entire essay on why it’s bad (I actually started and got pretty damn far before realising no one’s interested in my two thousand word review of a game that came out over a decade ago - the short version is ‘Misty Bloom-fucking-Cave’. Anyone who’s played RF1 knows exactly what I mean). Don’t get me wrong, it has good qualities - excellent boss fights, for one, and also, as with the rest of the franchise, it is aesthetically wonderful. But ultimately, it feels less like playing a video game, and more like playing a proof of concept for a game. Which I guess it kind of was - and I can’t hate it because we wouldn’t have the rest of the series without it.
But it literally ends with a dragon spewing plant breath on a tank to make a turnip grow out of the gun. ‘Profound’, my arse. 
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It’s Raguna! The “master sowrdsman!” (that is not a typo on my part that is a direct quote from the ending of Rune Factory 1 this game’s script had so many issues-). And Mist! My favourite of the ‘canon’ love interests!
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Best girl! When I was a kid, my favourite love interest in RF1 was Rosetta. As an adult, it is Tabatha. I don’t know what it is about her that I find so likeable (she’s as lacking in personality as any other RF1 character), but... idk, I just like her a lot.
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Camus’s big ambition is to leave town like even once. He will never achieve it
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Fun fact about Melody is that she’s extremely depressed, a fact that comes up once in an optional side quest and is never addressed again. It’s incredibly dark for an RF game
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Fun fact about Lukas is that he sucks (he’s one of those ‘obsessed with talking about how hot all the girls are’ characters, an archetype that thankfully doesn’t show up again in these games). But also, interestingly enough, thanks to one of RF1′s many, many script errors, if you marry Rosetta (the girl Lukas is the most obsessed with), he’s supposed to express disappointment that he lost her to Raguna - but instead, he implies that he’s disappointed to have lost Raguna to her. The translators typoed their way into giving him a sexuality change. Which is honestly kind of amazing.
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LOOK AT THIS SLIME THIS IS SUCH A COOL SLIME LITERALLY EVERY OTHER JPRG SLIME GO HOME DRAGON QUEST GET FUCKED (jk I like Dragon Quest a lot and its slimes are cool too). Wish you could see in-game that this is what they’re meant to be like.
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I just generally love the monster designs, they’re really charming
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Rune Factory 2! The RF game with the most weirdly mundane protagonist name (Kyle. In the main four games of this franchise we’ve got Raguna, Micah, Lest, Frey... and Kyle). The two generations thing was actually very cool, but when they say ‘each chapter captures a different lifestyle’, what they really mean is ‘the first half is a weak Harvest Moon I’m sorry, STORY OF SEASONS game, and the second half is a pretty good Rune Factory game’  
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lookit this little fuck
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Yue Yue Yue! I love Yue so much, she’s great. She’s kind of like a much chiller version of Anna from Fire Emblem.
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It’s really cool that we got to see grown up Cecilia (she was in RF1). I have this silly headcanon that if Kyle doesn’t marry Mana, Nicholas (her friend in 1) comes to visit Cecilia one day in the hazy-post game future, and meets Mana, and they get together. While Yue is my favourite, I do genuinely like Mana a lot, and I just want her to find love, I guess.  
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Here’s original Barrett! There’s a reason he was popular enough to make a reappearance (well, aside from the whole grumpy pretty boy thing he’s got going on) - he was a great character in this game. His and Dorothy’s relationship is also definitely the most compelling of the rival romances. Bonus Max, who also has a little shout-out in RF4 (check the diary in what will become Dylas’s bedroom at the start of the game)
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Ray is male, but apparently he was originally going to be a female character, as he has an unused portrait in a wedding dress. My friend and I agree that this makes him a Trans Icon
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Monster designs remain excellent. Especially the goblins
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Skipping over Frontier (and also Oceans later), as I never got to play it growing up due to not having a console, and still haven’t got around to it - might try this summer. Except I do need to point out that these guys should be memes. I don’t know in what way. But they should.  
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Rune Factory 3! My first RF game. The transformation thing was very cool, even if it was basically useless outside the main story. My friend and I spent hours mucking about in the WiFi dungeon. I loved the desert settlement and all of the dungeon designs in general, and man, RF3 is just great. I hope it gets a remake one day.
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Raven Raven Raven! I LOVE Raven (as do most). Her story with Micah is the first time I can remember getting genuinely invested in a video game romance. I’m so glad she cameos in RF4. I love her. She’s wonderful.
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I have an odd fondness for Marian. When I was about twelve, I decided to do a playthrough where I deliberately romanced the least popular bachelorette. After poking around on forums, I determined that character to be Marian, and did a run with her. And... I actually came to really like her. I find her endearing. I get that people find her annoying and don’t like her... unethical medical practices, but doing that run has still made me a pretty protective of her. It’s been a long time since I played RF3, so maybe I’d change my mind if I replayed now, but currently, as far as I’m concerned,  Marian’s a good’un.
I think I also used to low key ship her with Collette lol 
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Pia’s official art has always been super weird to me because it’s so not what her character is like in-game. She’s a ditzy airhead. This makes her look so serious
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RAINBOW! Another character whose art makes them look way more serious than they actually are. Daria is great and would be a meme if this game was more popular. I think she’s also implied to be a relative of Margaret. 
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I’ve always been super confused about what Kuruna’s skirt is meant to be. Is it fur? Is it part of her shirt? Is it even a skirt at all?
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Check it out, it’s the guy everyone would ship Micah with if this game was more popular
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I want Zaid to make a reappearance and interact with Doug. Pretty sure it’s canon that they’re from the same clan? Think it would be very interesting.
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RF3 definitely had the coolest farm. Also, still love the desert settlement.
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This is from Oceans, so I have no context, but it’s just so cool that I had to share
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Rune Factory 4. Culmination of the series is right - when I was playing it for the first time, I remember being blown away by just how much it is a true love letter to the franchise. I have never come across another game series that so consistently grew and improved from entry to entry. RF4 was a perfect ending.
Not that I’m complaining about getting RF5. Quite the opposite.
But if it had been the end (as we all thought it was until about a year ago), well, like I say. Perfect. 
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Well. Aside from soda can nipples. Can’t believe they didn’t fix those. Though in some ways, that would have made me sad too
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Dolce has such a cool design, in both human and monster form. I’ve always kind of crack-shipped her with Margaret, for no real reason at all
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Vishnal! I love Vishnal. Vishnal is pure as heck. Marrying him this time around.
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Doug! My choice from last time around. Another character who looks more serious in his official art than he is in-game (well... most of the time)
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And then there’s Dylas, who looks much happier here than he does most of the time. Kind of looks like he and Doug swapped bodies, actually. There’s a fanfic prompt for you.
Their ship name is Dyldo. I love them
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Leon is nostalgic for me mostly because my friend and I used to get into a lot of arguments about whether or not he’s the hottest character in the game. She maintains that he is, because muscles. I maintain that muscles aren’t actually that attractive. It is a rift that divides us to this day
(He looks oddly... younger in this art though? Weird)
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Sechs Empire is such an unfortunate name. Seriously. How rushed was RF1′s localisation team? All those script errors, and then this (the Sechs were the antagonists in the first game, and were only referenced in passing in the rest until RF4 - so it was a bit of a ‘sins of the father’ situation by then).
Seriously, try saying ‘Sechs Emperor’ out loud and tell me you can take this man seriously 
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I??? Love??? Them???
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I??? LOVE??? THEM???
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Still confused as to why Kiel, Xiao Pai, Arthur and Margaret are on the cover now. Don’t get me wrong, I like them, but... Amber, Dylas, Dolce and Leon made way more sense? Even the Archival Cover makes more sense (Vishnal, Clorica, Forte), as those three are all kind of Lest/Frey’s servants (well, Forte for the whole town, but still). Of those first four, all but Arthur basically lift right out of the game with little-to-no impact on the story
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NO HAT TABATHA NO HAT TABATHA
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I’ve always really loved this Raven picture
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And I am thankful for you <3
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dreamxsims4 · 4 years
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Newcrest Gameplay Day 15
50 Shades of Garbage Edition
Lol I skipped some days, missed some days but today, it’s Thanksgiving! And that’s all I need to know at this point. 
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So....ap opera.....time......irl I drank entirely too much cognac, champagne and tequila. I also smoked a blunt (2 puffs worth lol) for the first time in five years. What triggered this relapse was....just being around it all the time in my most intimate and personal spaces. So in my head I was like, im gon smoke me a blunt. I barely made it past the first puff, was high all night and was tripping major ball sacks. Don't do drugs, I’m also suffering a two day headache. Anyways! The importance of me saying this is one, just venting, two this is why this gameplay is so shitty. Because I just wasn't in the mood. Plus.....plus...and thanksgiving only lasts for so long y’know. Plussssss I am suffering depression because one of my relationships won't work out no matter how hard I try and its kicking my emotional ass. 😏
Let’s get into this gameplay shall we, thou it is not much to get into. Fair warning. 
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*ahem* sorry about the quality. Welcome you guys, this is Cedric’s side of the family. From left to right, Cedric’s Mother, Nita (that’s not her name), his niece Latriece (that’s not her name), his sister Bronhelda (not her name, I forgot all of their names unfortunately....I might be suffering brain damage), his dad Cedric (don’t ask what’s wrong with me, that is not his name), and his brother in law Roderick, (not his f*cking name, sorry).
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This is Brielle Miller, Yvette’s little cousin. She is a freshman in college now, technically which is really driving me to buy this $40 dollar game but....guess what...shh, lean in close.....
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So I jump on the game after changing everyone’s outfits and wow, just wow. Someone has died, Elvis has left the building however, get this.....no one knows who passed away into the sim heavens. I looked through notifications, contacts and didn’t see anyone who passed on to be a ghost so....I was confused Confucius. The whole entire freaking family was mourning though no one actually passed away. At this point I was aggravated and almost shut the game down. 
.......
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So! I took Jamal to the bar so he could cheer up. He was the only one who could go out of him, Yvette and Cedric so he invited Brielle to go with him. Now that I think about it, it might be homophobic that he didn't invite Cade, Brielle’s brother. They are the same age, can't drink, but can still have fun. It’s just that Cade is what one calls a flaming gay, and I didn't bring him along and now I feel bad about that. Jamal is not a homophobic, he just forgot. Anyways, Brielle is flirting with Jamal all night and  I’m like, what the hell...does she not know that he is her cousin. 
So around midnight, in great sim morale and fashion he leaves and drops her off at home. He was on the sunshine pill and a glass of whiskey, but he was still sad at the end of the night. I mean sobbing, like...who died bro? For real.
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Back at the Miller-Woods residence, Yvette and her mom Cecilia (these are their names now, by the way), are preparing the meals for Thanksgiving. 
They are also eating the meals for Thanksgiving. Noice. 
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Yup....I guess it’s safe to say, they did a great job. Alright, so they went to sleep woke up the next day and it was time to celebrate SimsGiving!
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Lmfao, that’s all they cooked. I ended up placing the @indisim​ Thanksgiving set but I didn't take a picture. It wouldn't have done it justice though because game lag was too real. 
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Look at Momma Miller’s face....she was like, “Brielle! Brielle Miller I know your mother did not let you come out the house like that with them lashes on. They so long you can use them as wings and fly away if you wanted to!”
That’s what she was saying at that moment. Brielle replies, “She has on the same lashes. You have on lashes, it’s what the kids are wearing these days.”
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Touche, m*th*rf*ck*r, touche.
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And so yeah, I mean they were pretty not lit, I mean we got a good playlist though with this new hip hop playlist! I was like ohhhh okayyy, seema wema blocklist poppin, exactlyy.
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Everyone left with food poising because...if you look closely to the right....they were eating spoiled food. I don't know where they got it from. IF ALL THAT WAS OUT TO EAT WAS THE DAMN FOOD THEY JUST COOKED, STAY TF OUT THE FRIDGE, EAT THE SIM FOOD ON THE DAMN SIM TABLE. Sh*t.
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at this point I'm just about as done with this SimsGiving as I am with the new American Impeachment. Who forgot to pay the bills???? Then it took them the rest of the party to get the lights turned back on, omg....so frustrating. So the dinner party got a low rating and I was just like...I am not neglecting my homework for this sh*t.
They just sat in the dark and ate they spoiled food too. I didn't see nobody eat the roast chicken, macaroni and cheese, or the damn salad, or drink the drinks!
Can we say...
Waaaaaste of simoleonssssssss.
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Eating spoiled food in the food, mm I mean in the dark🤦🏾‍♀️....and what do y'all have on?!?! I spent like an hour creating bomb af outfits for them to show up in this sh*t. Ugh. 
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So then everybody went home, Poppa Miller cleaned up the kitchen thankfully and Myles Miller got left behind so Yvette had to take him home. The end! 
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! I hope everybody enjoyed their holiday! Got out the house, spent time with loved ones, loved themselves or showed love to others. I’m out of hereeeee boiiiiiiiiiii ✌🏾
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ecotone99 · 4 years
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[RF] They never found her and she was always in plain view
I graduated from college in 1978 and decided to travel with the money my parents had given me to travel around the country which I did. By 1980, both of my parents who were older (they were in their early 40's when I was born) had died. Actually my parents weren't my biological parents as I was adopted but that's another story.
It was spring break that I met Ralph Joneson who lived about 75 miles from Daytona Beach in the town of Winter Haven. It's not too far from Cypress Gardens, which is now Legoland. Thomas Johnson, an ex-boyfriend now husband who had psychic abilities had told me to use the name of Mary Smith when in Florida. He even made me a fake license saying to use it if you feel like I'm in danger. For some reason I felt this with Ralph Jones, even though you couldn't have asked for a sweeter guy. That is, until you got to know the creep.
He was one known to throw the first punch when angered. Soon he was swinging at me. I knew I had to leave and in a dream my male friend told me that this creep would soon be arrested and I needed to leave when he called. Ralph called and I said I would pick him up at the jail early the next morning. It was about midnight when I left in his car as I didn't have a car.
Everyone was sound asleep when I left. I got on I-4 and drove towards Orlando where I picked up the turnpike and then I headed North on I-75. By 2 pm I had driven over 700 miles and was just getting in Nashville, Tennessee. Actually I was from Nashville (grew up outside of Nashville). My parents loved the Grand Old Opry and we went there a lot. My parents knew a lot of people in the industry.
They knew Thomas and his parents. Thomas and I met in high school, dated, broke up and then dated on and off during college. We took 2 years off from each other which is how I met Ralph.
Thomas hid the car for several months and then it ended up in a chop shop most likely. He left it out where he knew someone would steal it and then try to sell the parts. This is what happened and it never was tied back to me.
My husband predicted that he would become a country music star in a couple of years which he did. I became his wife in 1981 and we had four kids. We were the beloved Country Music couple. Sometimes I would sing with him when he went on tour (I'm a pretty good singer). We were a fixture at Grand Old Opry and went to all of the events.
Fast Forward 2019 - Nashville, Tennessee.
My husband and I have been married nearly 40 years. Our four children, two boys and two girls are grown and we have 5 grandchildren. A couple of years ago as a joke, someone suggested that we both host the Country Music Awards which we did and have been for 3 years. We were a good pair. Being that Country Music is more conservative and people tend to be on the religious side, we only told clean jokes and we never were censored. Neither me nor my husband liked dirty jokes. Don't get me wrong, we aren't prudish but we like clean jokes that we can tell everyone.
Everyone in Nashville raved about the aqua blue gown that I wore. It was a wonderful night.
Tom told me in early 2019 that it wouldn't be long before Ralph would get Karma for his nasty, mean and abusive behavior towards others. He finally did and as Tom predicted what came around went around and it was bad. Ralph was drunk and took a swing at someone at a bar in Orlando, Florida. It was his last swing and last punch. He was found outside a bar at Church Street Station, beaten and blooded. He didn't make it and died shortly after being taken to the hospital. This was about 2 weeks after the County Music Awards shows which was held in Las Vegas.
Police knew who assaulted Ralph (there were several individuals involved in the assault) as it was recorded on cell phones and by a camera at a nearby restaurant. The people involved had fled and were on a plane back to California. They were members of a college baseball team, one of whom had a famous brother who was Major League Baseball Player.
Ralph's behavior from day one was brought up. Thankfully he never had any children. No one in the town would date him having known his violent history, so he moved to North Carolina (to hide his past). He got a mail order bride from Russia but he made the mistake of abusing her and her brothers paid him a visit he didn't expect. They got away with it because it happened outside of Winter Haven. If it happened there, the (the brothers) would have served time in prison. He had no family or clout in North Carolina. He spent months recovering from broken ribs and bones. He had a bad reputation there and no one felt sorry for him.
His mother had died years before and in her eyes he could do no wrong. I never liked the woman and I know she didn't like me.
Fast Forward Early 2021 (Corona virus ended in the spring and didn't return in the fall of 2020)
I was never mentioned but Tom said, "Just wait, it will not long and sure enough the defense attorney of one of the men charged indicated that Ralph might have killed a woman named Mary Smith.
"No one had seen this woman since 1980. No one. I believe her name was Mary Smith. Unfortunately we have little to go on and there aren't many people in the town that even remember her. A lot of the older folks in the community since that time have passed away. We only have a vague description of her, average height weight, possibly dark brown hair hair. If she is around, we would like to talk to her. Unfortunately, we don't have a photo of her.
Nancy Roberts did my hair the brief period I was in Florida which was about 3 months. I think I went to her 4 times. She was a little older than me but know retired, she still remembered me. At the time when I was in Florida, she had just gotten married. She now was retired, had 3 children and 4 grandchildren. Her hair was graying.
"From what I remember, she was a nice person. She didn't really know anyone in town when she came to live with Ralph. I do remember the last time she came in for a haircut, Ralph was in jail for getting into a bar fight and was going to be bonded out the next day. She told me that she was afraid of him and didn't really want to bond him out of jail. Never saw her again after that. I hoped that she had escaped from him. Really not sure what happened. I know she never showed up at the jail and to my knowledge his vehicle was never recovered. I really believe that Ralph had something to do with her disappearance - perhaps had someone else take care of her."
When we came to Florida on a tour a couple of weeks after the Dateline special about Where is Mary Smith , Tom couldn't resist calling a rock station in Winter Haven and Dateline. He did a fake voice which couldn't be traced and used a phone which was traced to the wrong place. It sounded like a mid-west accent which can be flat and monotone. It actually sounded like a computer.
"Mary Smith is alive and well and she is in plain view but you don't know that. She will never be found and doesn't want to be and I don't blame her. She got away from Ralph before he got to her and really didn't damage."
The Dateline update two years later (corona virus caused the trial to be postponed for near two years) mentioned the text and phone message which was left.
Ralph had no family that would defend him and no one cared when the baseball players were acquitted by a jury. Many on the jury believed that Ralph was responsible for Mary Smith's disappearance and most likely killed her or had someone else kill her.
Being the wife of a country music legend, I was in plain view all the time. You would wonder well didn't you run the risk of Ralph seeing you and recognizing you? Ralph didn't like country music that much and didn't follow it.
I remember one of the brothers of the Russian woman being interviewed by Dateline who didn't like Ralph from day one saying that he believed that Mary Smith ran off and hid. He believed I was still alive today but didn't blame me for coming forward. He told the reporter, 'Mary Smith was smart and had the right idea. My sister should have ran when she arrived in New York. She had a window of about an hour. He wouldn't have found her."
After a couple of months, the story was old news and faded into the background.
Decades later
I'm in my 90's and my husband sadly passed about 8 years ago. My great-granddaughter Clara was doing an investigative report into the disappearance of Mary Smith back in 1980 or 1981 (I can't remember now) My grand son Daniel is sitting on one side of me and Clara is on the other. They are talking about this. Daniel was just a kid when this happened and has no memory of it. My son Tyler comes into the room. He vaguely remembers it but I have a good memory of it.
"Maybe this Mary Smith doesn't want to be found." I said.
"Well, momma, chances are this lady is probably dead or very old, most likely dead."
I nodded in agreement with Tyler, not saying much more.
In the end Clara never found Mary Smith and the mystery of her disappearance continued. I died in peace, knowing that Mary Smith would never be found on earth or in heaven.
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realtalk-princeton · 7 years
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Ziggy, you gave a ton of great advice to a frosh, but when you said, "making meaningful relationships"-that actually made me a little sad. I don't think I've made a single 1 of those. Can you please define what that REALLY means to you? I mean, I try to be friendly to everyone & lots of people say, "hi" as they pass, but as a somewhat introverted person (I know, a rarity on campus, right?)but no one ever tries to have deeper conversations or ever initiates getting together. I try, but it's hard
rf sf ‘16:
I can’t say for sure what he meant, but I remember a time when I was in a similar place. I think it came a lot from not wanting to rock the boat, not trying to disagree with people, and in the process, stopping myself from developing or expressing opinions. the thing is that opinions and arguments make for much more interesting and enjoyable conversations, and perhaps the best way to do develop your opinions is to talk them out with other people - as is the case for any idea (could be for a paper, political opinion, reflections on yourself/your strengths and weaknesses/your personal history, etc). try to avoid surrounding yourself from people with the same viewpoints though, cause echo chambers are a real thing (everywhere, not just at pton). hearing your referring to yourself as an introvert and wondering why your general friendliness has resulted in kind of stagnant, limited relationships made it seem like it may be a matter of your feeling uncomfortable with opening up or challenging people, so i’m gonna focus the rest of this answer on that. hopefully this is relevant to you, or at least to someone out there.
another thing that resulted from not wanting to be controversial or polarize or offend anyone was me not expressing/being myself very much at all. like, being goofy or making jokes or sharing stories was not something I allowed myself to feel comfortable doing. at this stage, I think the way to get over this is to kind of push yourself to break down your own barriers and not filter yourself or your behavior. people will respond the way they will, and you’ll probably find that they don’t care as much as you fear they would and may actually enjoy that they’re interacting with someone who has an actual personality and sense of humor and unique sets of quirks. in the process, you’ll feel more comfortable in yourself and in interacting with others, and especially in the presence of this other person (if they react positively), and you’ll end up feeling like you’ve established a more substantial relationship. I’ve described this process as being like perfecting a recipe (still a metaphor-in-progress): you test out different components of who you are and what the other person is like, see how they mesh, and adjust over time to find something that both people enjoy. hopefully, it’s not just water, but a unique combination of spices and ingredients that come together to create an interesting and enjoyable product.
friendliness/cordiality is surface-level stuff, but a more meaningful relationship requires a deeper, more complicated and nuanced connection. to get to that point, you may need to actively work to overcome any anxiety or fear of judgment that you may have when it comes to social interactions. to do that, you need to prove to yourself that rocking the boat is not as bad as you think.
in short, push yourself to open up, act out of the norm, and try not to worry as much about what other people thing.
Response from Ziggy:
^ I’m a chick
In response to OP: For me, that means a relationship where we don’t censor ourselves in pretty much any way. We know what the other person is thinking without them having to say it. We legitimately have each other’s backs — like, in an I-won’t-hesitate-to-fight-someone-on-your-behalf-and-have-probably-done-it-before kind of way. We empathize to a point where the other person’s feelings can change how we’re feeling. 
I literally feel this way about, like, 2 friends, and I didn’t meet them until halfway through Princeton. In the meantime, it’s not like your relationships are worthless. You can get a ton out of just knowing people here, since they tend to be pretty cool and interesting. There’s also nothing wrong with friendly people you just say “hi” to, or with having a few going out friends that you enjoy drinking with but barely know past the surface. Basically, don’t feel like there’s something “off” just because you haven’t had the chance to meet your best friends yet
Totally not a rarity to be introverted, btw. I think it’s more of a rarity to embrace it. I’m super introverted and am perfectly happy not talking to people for days on end, but I definitely feel like TI’s culture and some of my more extraverted friends sometimes shame me into, like, rejoining humanity when all I want to do is work on my thesis and browse /r/sloths.
reresponse from siggy floyd ‘16:
oops sorry ziggy. fwiw, I really like your posts and advice : ) I think i assumed because of the similarities of our usernames
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