I really love hot dogs but I can't eat them regularly without them hurting me. But as spring arrives, independent ice cream stores are opening again, which is the ultimate excuse to also get a hot dog.
I'll probably stay for as long as I have friends playing on it, but I definitely gotta prepare to jump ship if it ever crashes & burns. It's likely to happen, but no idea when.
Ah fun, I learned too much about the FFXI private server I'm on and now I'm conflicted on continuing to play there. Love it when that happens.
Time Extension trying to both-sides SNK being owned by the Saudi Arabian government when four months ago they were advocating a boycott of retro handhelds made by drone manufacturers is one hell of a double standard.
Aren't you the same site that explicitly advocated boycotting a retro handheld for being made by drone manufacturers? Same author too! Nice double standard.
Facebook reels have these insidious thumbnails that look like they'll uncover text if you click them, but they're just still images with a link to a content mill site in their comments, which doesn't even give the full story implied in the image.
In a surprising first: an early access game on Steam crashed so hard that it made Steam crash too. Can definitely say I've never seen that happen before.
Dying at this logo edit in the newest Second Wind video
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FFXIV feels like it was written to be deliberately anti RP and it's infuriating. It's basically impossible to participate or even exist in the game world without being some kind of chosen one. I try to push back against it whenever I can but the lore doesn't make it easy.
I don't want to be a main character, and when RPing I kind of expect other RPers to not be main characters either. It's immersion breaking to have someone in an RP setting lucidly aware of MSQ events & characters.
Everything is bad now because kids get their taste in music from algorithms instead of from trying to impress the older girl you know who looks like the Bombchu Bowling Alley Operator
Grandia 2 has entered the "spam AoE attacks in every normal encounter" act of the RPG cycle remarkably early
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Art of Sunstone is a solid artbook. Lots of art that isn't available online anymore. Sadly does not include the non-canon comics but it is specifically an *art*book
What gave me this thought was seeing two Mass Effect books with similar names. And given the reputation of Mass Effect 3, it's probably not wrong.
Ah yes, the stories are identical, but this one has Ryan Gosling instead of Mark Wahlberg. And to get Scarlett Johansson you have to trade a Natalie Portman between them.
Whenever I see books or movies in one franchise with similar names I can tell they're sequels but my head always reads their titles like different Pokemon versions.
Grandia 2's second major boss is beating my ass and I don't remember having trouble with it at all in 2015. It's got sleep spells, confusion spells, four of the most annoying normal enemies backing it up, and zero opportunity to get any actual attacks in.
I may have to grind.
It's wild how Amazon lets you buy dildos & JAV DVDs off their store and lets you look up porn on IMDB but won't let you stream naughty games on Twitch or find naughty games on IGDB. Weirdly targeted to censorship in gaming specifically.
a train is a monorail
a bus is a norail
Is the Hellsing catboy patient zero for proliferated far-right opinions in femboy communities?
Every ticket comes with an estrogen shot
If anyone on Bsky wants to confess anything to me, should probably do it before the site goes down again
I should probably move the photos on my website off Bsky huh
It's really jarring how I'll hear people talk about games having no correct way to design them, but are so aggressively unmoving on this in particular; acting like it's the only thing that makes RPGs worth playing, which is definitely not true.
What bothers me more is the absolute insistence on it as something RPGs fundamentally require, when they absolutely do not. Choices don't need to take anything away from you to give them meaning. They can give you personality, affect an NPC's mood, and neither of those require a permanent change.
The only two games where the choices actually made me quit were Disco Elysium and Pillars of Eternity 2. The former was touted to me as "failing forwards" but also has a death mechanic that undoes your progress. The latter has big splash screens for every skill check that put me off even on success.
Unironically, choices & consequences are the worst part of RPGs. I don't need a game to tell me if my choices matter or not. I can decide that for myself.
I can tolerate it if the surrounding game is good enough, but if a game makes it central to its experience, I'd rather just not play it.
Ngl I'd use a shower like that. Walk-in bathtubs exist but they're not the same.