Smurfs be like:
I have a blue cock with a blue foreskin
Blue is the color
Of my pubic hair
Blue my nutsack and my semen too
I have a butthole, and it is so blue
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standard Souls formula. My main point was that if I'd been paying attention and known what kind of game it was gonna be early on, I'd have suffered at least a couple years of agonized waiting. But since I wasn't paying attention, it was like, "Here, great game with no wait!"

That's just it; I wasn't paying any attention to it until like a month before it came out. That's when i learned it would have an open world in addition to more traditional Souls-esque locations (legacy dungeons), and you get a goat-horse to ride, and the various other ways it differs from the

Hmm. I'm not necessarily sure "formatting" is the best fit, but I guess it works. Maybe formatting AND focus? The more I think about it, the harder it is to pin it down. But I guess that's probably a good enough description.

fictional politics rather than not liking politics in fiction in general.
Hell, I loved Metaphor: ReFantazio, and that is a very politics-focused narrative. 🤷

have to read 150 pages of how the Lannisters are horrible people doing horrible things and scheming and being incestuous just to get back to what's going on at The Wall with John Snow for a really short, single chapter.
Maybe it's more that I don't like fantasy books that have a primary focus on

It's the presentation. The political aspects of Elden Ring are there, but not the focus. You learn about them organically as you engage with the world. Plus, you have agency and you choose your own path, and there's a lot to explore. In books, it's linear. Like I said in my thread, I don't want to

No, I LOVE Elden Ring. Got around 800 hours in it. I really like the lore, too. My point was that I ignored the game because early info led me to believe that GRRM was writing the NARRATIVE, and I am incredibly happy to have been wrong.

comes out.

narrative is mediocre at best due to constant shifts during development, but the game delivers exactly what I want, and I didn't have to spend a long time anticipating and slobbering over it's release!

Anyway, long story short, sometimes it's good to be in the dark about a game until just before it

need to waste any attention or money on!" Then a couple weeks before launch I find out it was changed to a single-player game, and started looking into it. Seemed like the kind of open-world fantasy playground I wanted, so I jumped on board. And now I can't stop playing. I know it's flawed, and the

it's literally all I can think about for the next 8 months. And I barely had to wait to get it after deciding I was invested!

Fast forward to now, and #CrimsonDesert. When it was announced, it was announced as an MMO, so I was all, "Cool, I don't MMO and never will, so here's another title I don't

or two before the launch of #EldenRing, and I see more about the game, and I'm like, "Wow, that looks really dope! Alright you bastards, I'm in!" And I preorder the game (reminder: DON'T preorder games; do as I say, not as I do), get it at launch, and then that game just devours my brain entire and

"Okay, 4 pages is enough of that, now have 150 pages of how the Lannisters are horrible people doing horrible things and also POLITICS!" Ugh. I read fantasy for FANTASY. Real-world politics suck enough, I don't need that in my escapism. (But I know a lot of people enjoy it.)

Come around to a month

can ignore this one."

For reference, I read the first two books of A Song of Ice and Fire. This told me his writing is NOT for me. Not trying to say he's a bad writer! But reading those books, it was like, "Ooh, here we go, more about what's going on up at The Wall, this is interesting!", and then

Sometimes, it's good for me to NOT pay attention to games. For example, take #EldenRing. At first, it was like, "Fromsoftware is making a new title!" and I was all, "Oh? You have my attention!" And then they were like, "with writing by George R. R. Martin!" And then I was like, "Okay then, I guess I

I remember a number of years ago when @polygon.com used to be a good site. Now they're utter dogshit. Whatever executive did that should be fed to a pack of starving hyenas.

Photo of a yellow and brown leopard gecko poking its face and forelegs out of its hide, with part of a croissant-shaped water dish visible in the bottom right.

@afroherper.bsky.social My kid agreed to bring home the class pet to take care of over spring break. I thought you might appreciate a picture of the cutie. (The class pet, not the kid. 😅)

Hot take time!
Resident Evil is a shit series and the only thing it brought to the table with the original entry (and the only reason it got so popular) was the fact that you could blow the heads off zombies with a shotgun.

I am brushing all of the teeth in my mouth.

But only the ones in my mouth.

So I found out there's gonna be a new live action Masters of the Universe movie. As someone who grew up watching the cartoon and playing with the toys, I gotta admit that this made me feel some kind of way.

Then I found out Jared Leto is gonna be Skeletor. That made me feel some kind of OTHER way.😒

but using the machine to make the microfiche was actually enjoyable and fun." And that is the end of my bothering you for entirely selfish purposes.

@cwtycho.penny-arcade.com Having just read the newspost for Friday's comic I have to barge into your Blueskies all excitement person to say, with enthusiasm, "I know what microfiche is! I used to make it at this job I had! The main part of the job was microfilming stacks of documents, which sucked,

So here's a question. Why is ever single anime butler named "セバス"? Like, literally, every single anime I've seen with an butler, the butler has that name. Are they all the same butler? Like, there's only ONE anime butler that all the studios just pass around to butle in their animes?

I've been watching so much anime lately that I've started thinking, "Why can't *I* meet an attractive catgirl who likes me?" But then I'm like, "Oh yeah, it's because I'm old and married. Also, catgirls aren't actually a thing."

Minimage: it's like minimum wage, except a small wizard

And finally, I watched all 3 seasons of Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest. I guess I had fun watching it, but I'm not sure how I FEEL about it. The in medias res that skipped the isekai summoning was a little original I guess.
Depravity And Violence/10

And then there's My Unique Skill Makes Me OP even at Level 1. Nothing special, but I did enjoy the "in this world, literally everything is a drop" concept.
Farming Bean Sprouts In A Dungeon, The Grind Is Real/10

Moving right along, we come to The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic. Typical tropes except accidental protagonist. The rescue squad training was pretty entertainingly brutal.
Black Knight Of The Demon Army Rules And Is Hilarious/10

Next up is Bogus Skill <<Fruitmaster>> ~About that time I became able to eat unlimited numbers of Skill Fruits (that kill you)~. Also not technically isekai, but laden with many tropes attendant to the genre.
Excessive Use Of Unnecessary Symbols And Punctuation In The Title/10