No argument here. This is purely for people who were already interested. Not going to push those run times on anybody

Yeah I blocked those ages ago and the only game that I was actually interested in that got blocked was baldurs gate 3. Easy to hit “show games blocked by my filters” to get the one game that was the exception, which I already knew about without Steam telling me so

Seconded. Not only does it make the watch period much shorter (about half), but it also makes the watching experience insanely better. The biggest weakness of the anime is pacing

Duluth Trading co work pants. High comfort and durability, good range of motion, pass as khakis for business casual most of the time

The last time I bought pants, the guy at the register had nothing to say but “hell yeah” “Do you need your receipt?” “Nah” “Hell yeah” He must’ve said it 6-8 times

Can’t wait to remove the ladders from the pool Bezos is swimming in and then have Zucc bottom for the grim reaper to keep him from dying. Zucc is pregnant now. This happens every day. Elon is of course locked in the basement with all the babies.

Totally reasonable. Not every game is for everyone, no guilt!

It gets better, but that does continue to be a thing. Part of the reason it’s so heavy is a bit of a spoiler, so I’ll leave it to your discretion:

That being said, either way the game is somewhat chatty. Even if it gets better, it never completely goes away.

Gotta love that classic “Not only will this kill you, it will hurt the whole time”

There’s actually a Wizardry mobile game that dropped recently that is technically a gacha game with permadeath, but is actually pretty good and I’ve yet to put a cent into it. Wizardry Variants Daphne. I wish the dungeon layouts were a little more complex, but I’m not that far

Yeah I think the goal of the game was “make a single player game that makes the player feel as though the are collaborating to build something bigger” and I strongly experienced that feeling. Using tools left by other players, looking for places I could place tools for others to use that didn’t have an easy traversal option otherwise, especially the big projects like bridges and roads, which gain a lot of their required resources from others, felt like I was helping build back a world to make it better for everyone. That success, saying “we want the player to feel x emotion” and succeeding in that goal? That’s art. The soundtrack is outstanding as well.

F-Zero GX is the goat, but nintendo didn’t make it! It’s actually made by Sega’s AV (amusement vision) team, now known as ryu ga gotoku studio

Also their birth rate is the lowest in the world, but like much of Asia, they’re fairly xenophobic, so without immigration or kids, they’re likely to stop having a working population while the government continues paying out a pension fund, resulting in a permanent recession and/or total collapse starting within the next 10 years. It’s WILD that South Korea, for all its successes, is going to collapse BEFORE North Korea, because of xenophobia and sexism.

What? Polymorph might disable the target, but if its a single target boss fight, what does that help? Whether you kill the transformation or wait for the spell to time out, the result is the same

If you enjoyed the sombre tone of some of the other media, I’d encourage giving Halo 3 ODST a shot. Invasion of earth from the perspectives of more typical marines, not a supersoldier. It’s still very clearly halo, but the vibes are completely different.

This has been on my radar for a while, but I haven’t picked it up yet. Good to know that it’s at 1.0 and was previously expecting such progress wipes

Having just come back to the US from Europe, I immediately miss nutriscore on groceries. A to E letter grades for the purpose of comparing two similar products to tell which are higher in sugar/salts/saturated fatty acids and which have more protein/fiber/fruits/vegetables/healthy oils. It was so nice picking up, say, two boxes of cereal and going “oh. This one is full of garbage and this one isn’t.” Not a perfect system, but a very valuable one

Reminds me of that greentext of the guy who was eating exclusively egg whites and nothing else

Oof. Good to know, especially since you can’t buy mana restoration items and need to farm them. Thanks for the heads up

Seeing these remarks on the H2A soundtrack after having previously gone back and forth a bit on it makes me feel guilty, hopefully the callout of the difference didn’t lessen the experience. I don’t know about you, but I’m often blissfully ignorant until something just slightly negative is pointed out and then it becomes a bother. Glad you enjoyed it, either way! The H3 start was jarring for everyone though. I think one of the books gets into the details for what happens between 2 and 3, but not any of the ones I read. The short version is “Chief really wanted to go home to earth, so he got on a covenant ship going home. When they didn’t go straight to the surface, he tried to do the sonic adventure 2 opening and surfed on a door from orbit down to the ground”