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submitted 11 months ago by drearymoon@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

i think it would have been fun to do a playthrough as a gay canadian arab cis man. alternatively, maybe a transbian columbian woman.

the only consistent thing i'd keep in all my runs is being gay for sure.

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[-] Jenniferr@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago
[-] Judge_Jury@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago

I'd max out luck and put the remaining points into charisma

blob-no-thoughts playthrough, just vibing

[-] BennyHill500@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

Use the charisma to become a socialist leader and use the luck to survive all the CIA assassination attempts

[-] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Castro build

[-] Othello@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago

give me rich gentle parents and make sure im hot. also i want to be 7 feet tall and huge muscles.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

i want that for you too

[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago

A high speech skill and autism doesn't result in a mediocre speech skill, you just end up with high speech and too much anxiety to do anything with it

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

I would have loaded cheat engine and maxxed my stats. Failing that, I would have just removed the "Bipolar" and "ADHD" flaws.

[-] drearymoon@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

i like the flavor mental disorders add to my runs. for me, i think i'd keep around my ADHD but drop MDD since the ADHD flaw has some boons too.

i'd like to experience a run with BPD but i'd probably get tired of it real quick.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Totes fair. If I could pick and choose symptoms there are definitely parts of ADHD I'd keep - The wild lateral thinking leaps, for instance. And Bipolar has a few perks, too. They're just massively outweighed by the negative symptoms.

Borderline or Bipolar? Bipolar is an absolute trip. I have type II, which involves hypomanic episodes, so like less-than full bore manic, and even though they're not as intense as manic episodes they can be quite frightening and disruptive. It's an incredibly odd experience, one of those things I don't think people who haven't experienced it can fully understand. I kind of wish we had some kind of temporary mental-illness ray. I think if people could volunteer to experience hte symptoms in a controlled, safe way it'd be much easier for people to be compassionate towards people suffering from mental health symptoms.

[-] drearymoon@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

yeah, Bipolar. I'm curious about what a manic episode would be like since MDD just kinda sucks and is boring? so it'd be nice to have some extra flavor

mildly curious about Borderline since it seems people with it have really exciting lives (but it seems pretty shitty to have)

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

My brief description for mania is being absolutely, unshakably convinced that you are the coolest, smartest, sexiest, most capable, awesomest person in the room. Not in a self confidence way, but in an outright frightening unshakable delusion way. Kind of the opposite of when you're severely depressed and think you're the worst and everyone hates you, but that doesn't really convey the feeling.

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

i would have chosen to have properly functioning organs that werent the result of poisoning by chemicals the us used to commit crimes against humanity

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

I would download one of those ginormies tiddie mods and have an impossibly huge rack for no reason and nobody will ever make reference to it

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago
[-] panopticon@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

I would simply turn down the peasantry dial

Probably the ADHD one too

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Take the secret shapeshifter option

[-] drearymoon@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

damn what combo was i supposed to hit on the start screen

[-] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

I dunno, you kinda have to throw away any and all notions you might have about your own identity if you want to get the most out of a shapeshifter run

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

my gender loaded incorrectly, mods haven't fixed it yet

[-] jack@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

would've just modded so that I'd have god mode on and then I'd go directly to Israel

[-] Venus@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

And then politely suggest that they consider a humanitarian pause right? anakin-padme-2

[-] jabrd@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

I wouldn’t have picked so many of the mental illness traits. The buffs are not worth the debuffs. Also I would be an orc

[-] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

I would spec into bimbo and i would then bimbo about bimbly

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

i would choose Banker from Boston so i had a lot of money and then just bought everything i needed at the beginning.

[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

less injury proneness. fuck this shitty knee ruining my life

Death to America

[-] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

Not play, this game is pay to win.

[-] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

I'd probably have designed something more balanced, and not dumped Psyche. Through the course of the game I wound up putting far too many points into Electrochemistry when I meant to take the drugs so I could boost other skills.

Also I probably would have put more points into motorics before taking Savoir Faire as my signature skill.

[-] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 11 months ago

Well I picked Jack of all trades and hypercompetative as starting traits, turns out, not a good combo. Would probably trade out Jack for some growth type skill

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

i would hold down the power button

[-] Magician@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

I'd turn down the sensitivity and memory features and put the points into charisma or social cues.

If luck was a stat, I'd turn that on.

[-] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

in this game merit is make believe so most stats are useless other than luck

probably all luck and secondary charisma

[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

Congrats Mr Trump

[-] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

greedisgood 999999999

sharpandshiny

fountainisdown

WhosYourDaddy

thereisnospoon

[-] anticlockwise@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Less trauma. I'd probably genderflip a bunch.

[-] let_me_tank_her@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

uncheck the dry/bad skin box

[-] blight@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

I would say max out accuracy but I actually haven't tested that out

...yet fedposting

[-] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I want that perk that gives you giant muscles for no good reason. I know it is rare in humans. Pretty much all the other apes get it and I am missing out. Fuck up my myostatin homie.

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Dump Str/Dex (useless for my class), Tiefling for the racial Cha bonus (for RP purposes). Other than that just whatever will be the most annoying for the people in my party

[-] sisatici@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Would make myself aro/ace

[-] CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I like being smart, but I'd probably make myself a himbo if I could pick my stats. Just seems to make things so much easier.

[-] machiabelly@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The only things I'd want to change:

  • Getting rid of hyper mobility
  • Family that would've seen and accepted me being trans from an early age
  • A family that I actually connect with

Basically I don't feel like I've finished this run yet so I want to sort things out before I think of different builds.

Being neurtypical would be easier but I have neurodivergent stubbornness.

I guess growing up in a place with an actual culture would've been nice. The suburbs are kinda... lacking.

In conclusion given a choice between changing my own character creation and doing a waifu character creation I'd choose the latter. Going through puberty for a third time sounds terrible I'd rather just fix this one.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

i'd be less removed

[-] GriffithDidNothingWrong@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

I wouldn't make constitution my dump stat this time, that's for sure

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