Good.

Reminder that Blizzard sexually harassed an employee literally to death.

Hello from Spokane, where we were literally off the chart yesterday! (AQI of 511 out of 500!) I went outside for five minutes to water the garden and my eyes were stinging and teary for a while afterwards.

But nobody gives a shit unless it's the east coast, because this has happened nearly every year for the past 5 years. At least I can see the sky today.

I'm so hyped for this game. Yoshi-P is the only one at Square-Enix who knows what he's doing. We're going back to some cheesy ass faux-Shakespeare localization (yeah I like Final Fantasy XII, don't @ me). We're getting a classic medieval fantasy story with magic crystals and killing god, but you also get to play a motherfucking kaiju battle sometimes. Inject it directly into my veins.

It feels like game development timelines are so long these days that there's very few games per hardware generation. I look back at the PS2's library (to be fair, it was enormous even for its own time) and everything on the Switch feels tiny in comparison.

Also, even if the "new Nintendo Switch(i)" or whatever is backwards compatible, the rise of digital sales means I can't play my switch games on the new console anyway.

I'm just tired of having to buy new crap.

Doesn't this violate OSHA? I'm doing HAZWOPER training right now at work and just covered the heat stress section. OSHA mandates that you have to give workers access to clean water, shade, and rest breaks.

Edit (citation): https://www.osha.gov/heat/employer-responsibility

Why is everyone acting like Dragon Age: Origins is the only fantasy RPG that ever existed? Baldur's Gate 3 is the next step in a long legacy of genre defining games.

Honeybees are a non-native livestock species. Their survival rates tell us nothing about the health of the ecosystem, only the agricultural practices.

The bees we need to save are the solitary native bees. http://xerces.org/pollinator-conservation

• Gather raspberries.
• Put raspberries in mouth.
• Repeat.

I'm here for the Disco Elysium memes. Kim must be protected at all costs.

You can't actually get the true ending on your first playthrough. You have to do the neutral ending first.

It is a wonderful little game!

Mid-2000's gamer culture really was the worst.

I am sad to hear that the term "JRPG" has been tarnished by the hypermasculinity of that time. PS2 era JRPGs were an absolute heyday and one of my favorite periods in gaming (possibly mostly due to nostalgia goggles, but still).

Alan Wake

Hey, I'll have you know that after 1,000 hours of Total War, I have finished a whole campaign twice.

I am a huge Pathfinder fan (check my home instance) and have played both games.

Tl;dr, play Wrath. The plots of both games are standalone.

I hated Kingmaker. Incredibly frustrating experience. The game is difficult, buggy, the writing is beautiful in places and baffling in others, and the kingdom management is balanced poorly. It's easy to get yourself into a death spiral on kingdom management that takes 50 hours to play out (which then gives you an instant game over).

However, Wrath of the Righteous is one of my favorite CRPGs. I have roughly 200 hours in it. The writing for companions is much better in this one and while the army management side game still isn't good, it is a lot less frustrating and opaque than the kingdom management mini game. There are still some bugs... I had one game-breaking bug where I had to install a mod to teleport out of an inaccessible area after the game deleted an elevator. My only other complaint is that the ending was clearly rushed, but the campaign is about 100 hours and most of it is of excellent quality. Overall it's very worth it. The different mythic paths have tons of interactivity in the world, so it really changes each playthrough when you make different choices.

Also kudos to Wrath for well written evil companions and choices! You can be a psychopath that kills everyone you come across if you want (and there's even a mythic path tailored exactly to that), but there are also more subtle choices that allow you to twist the crisis at the Worldwound to your advantage (try Lich!). It is still satisfying to be a big damn hero, too.

I'm a Pathfinder fan with vague disdain for 5e as a ruleset and active loathing for Forgotten Realms as a setting. I love this game.

The IRS generates many times more revenue than its operating cost when they audit wealthy taxpayers.

People have been driving like goddamn maniacs ever since the pandemic. It's like the lack of traffic hit a reset switch and made everyone forget how to behave.

I mentioned it to my mom the first time I got "ma'am"ed. I'm a cis woman and I hated it! Mom, who looks much more ma'am-worthy than I, said the same thing. I don't know if anyone wants to be a "ma'am."

I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I really love Dragon Age: Inquisition. It has huge flaws, yes. Chiefly having way too much generic filler sidequesting.

Do note that you'll need the DLC to get the most important part of the story. (Thanks EA.)

To be fair, I am not the model series fan. I gave up on Origins in the 12 hours of identical dungeon corridors underneath the dwarf city. Never played DA2. Love KotOR, Jade Empire (still holds up surprisingly well!), and Mass Effect, though.

Rub their back along walls and furniture like a bear?

You joke, but my husband does this all the time.

Subnautica legitimately made me stop and stare at my screen with mouth agape at the wonder and terror of a glowing undersea behemoth. I've never had a game provoke pure awe like it does.

Dorf Fortress!

The entirety of Spiritfarer, really.

I'm GMing an Abomination Vaults campaign for Pathfinder 2e. Players are level 8 and coming close to the climax of book 2 of 3! We had to cancel last week so I'm looking forward to playing again.

...How is this even possible to enforce? Are they going to make websites collect scans of everyone's ID like what PornHub was protesting?

Final Fantasy is a lot like Zelda in that a particular person's favorite is going to be the one they played when they were 12 years old. Depending on the age of the recommender, you are most likely to get 4, 6, or 7 as an answer.

Personally, my favorite is FF10.

My life has been completely subsumed by Baldur's Gate 3. I spend all day at work thinking about it.

My husband called it a "tactical combat dating sim" and that cracked me up.

Ok, I'm starting a new cryptocurrency, then, it's a Google Sheets page.

The rabies test requires decapitation, so don't worry, the debt went to the bat's widow.

Just finished Final Fantasy XVI and feel vaguely disappointed and unsatisfied. The story kinda fell apart in the last third.

2 weeks until Baldur's Gate 3, no idea what I'll do until then.

Chicken flavor is going to be hard. You could try adding some more umami? Soy sauce, mushrooms, nutritional yeast.

Tofu or paneer are great and tasty additions for more protein but are not chicken-like at all.

If you want more texture and can get your hands on immature jackfruit, it has an excellent meaty feel and no flavor. I had a jackfruit "pulled pork sandwich" that was amazing.

Did you not hear about the poop potion?

Get the Starbucks poop potion

I was a Snuggie hater for many years, but I got an off-brand one as a Christmas gift probably 10 years ago and I live in that thing when I'm at home. It's great for when I want to be cozy and play video games but don’t want to put my controller under the blanket.

I'm so excited for BG3! I'm already over-planning my first character's backstory.

I agree, I like the variance in line weight on it. I'm a dirty serif-lover, though.

I prefer a nice contained 25-30 hour game most of the time.

That doesn’t stop me from having 700 hours in Total War: Warhammer II. But it takes a really special game to grab me for more than 60 or so hours.

I haven't figured out how to subscribe to new communities on Jerboa. I keep having to go back into the web browser to do it.

Right, sorry, I was misremembering my issue. There's no search bar on Jerboa, so I can't find new communities through the app unless they happen to pop up on All.

Yoko Shimomura is my favorite Square Enix composer, hands down.