As much as I enjoyed Wrath of the Righteous, I give zero fucks when being foced to play a damn human. Sure, my companions could be something else, but I must still be a human, and I’m just not about that. “Lookit all this fantastical fantasy stuff! But here, play with the basic human.” Fuck off. No. No thanks. Wish GW would push their other shit more.
TBF most of the DSM labeling kinda sucks in general because its labeling is primarily symptom based rather than being derived from the actual mechanisms that result in the symptoms (which are currently beyond medical grasp.) Imagine conflating a virus and a bacterium because they both lead to a runny nose.
Wut.
Looked this up. Can’t believe Record of Lodoss War got a game in 2021. I remember watching the 1990 anime on Toonami’s online-only list of anime at the time, along with Harlock Saga. Both old school AF.
I have a list of Metroidvanias I’ve started but never completed. The only one that managed to hold my attention to completion that wasn’t an actual Metroid title was Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Which is a shame, because Ori and The Blind Forest is beautiful and Hollowknight is very cute, but neither could really hold my attention.
You can’t fool me, those bricks are mortared together!
No, but it doesn’t matter 'cause I’ll estrange myself all on my own anyways.
I played the first game way, way back. At the very least, I remember completing it, and liking it. So fast forward several years, the game goes on sale plenty, and I’ve forgotten nearly all of it, but remembered I liked it. So why not play it again, right? Picked it up for cheap, and just could not get into it. I tried a couple times even, but I just can’t for some reason.
Boxed stuffing has been on sale and I cannot stop buying it. I have eaten 10 boxes of stuffing in under 2 weeks. I have 6 more boxes left, and they will probably be gone by, like, next monday. I spice it up with california reaper slivers. I’m sure the 4 tbsp of butter per box is killing me, but I can’t bring myself to care, whether because it’s too good or I’m too depressed.
When the sale first started, there was plenty of chicken, pork, turkey, and cornbread boxes at the store. Then the chicken ran out. Then the pork ran out. And I guess people just don’t want Turkey and Cornbread, and then I thought about it, and you know, turkey on thanksgiving really is just like, the biggest sham.
Chicken is the superior poultry. Which is why it’s readily available nearly everywhere all the time. People like it, its good. Meanwhile, turkey gets the “it’s healthier but doesn’t taste as good,” label. Like, wtf actually wants turkey bacon over pork bacon. Or turkey slices on a sandwhich instead of ham, salami, pepperoni, roast beef, corned beef, or half a dozen other lunch meats.
But once a year, families get together and really just insist and pretend this jumbo sized foul fowl really is just oh so delicious and totally worth the pain in the ass cooking time and work. Then the other 364 days of the year people drop the act and just get a rotisserie chicken when they want a full bird.
It’d be cool if it were true, but I’m pressing X to doubt.
Just add one more step: finally remembering when it’s no longer relevant.
Back when Overwatch was fresh, had a couple randoms I wound up buddying and partnering up with pretty often for a few weeks. But one of them was a really annoying person on mic, who was just very clingy with the other guy. Then other guy wanted to drop clingy guy. Clingy guy freaked. They didn’t split but I eventually just stopped playing. Don’t know how their friendship ultimately turned out.
The only time I’ve ever had someone approach me asking about my autism was from a fellow autist. Twas a good talk.
Nothing much new to say, just reiteration. A big or huge or gigantic map is fine, so long as it’s populated by meaningful content.
Really wish Forspoken had been more populated. It’s a huge world, and combat/abilty wise it’s a great pure-mage action game, which I really really loved about it, that’s not a very common thing. But my god, the world is so empty despite being so big, and most side objectives are just collectothons. There’s some more difficult endgame content, but no real reason to grind up for it.
DOOMSCROLLING.
Doom doom doom doom doom, doom doom do DOOM, DOOOM
doom do-doom, DOOM do-doom doom doooom, doom doom
ooom, do-do-DOOOM!
(6 months later)
Doom doom doo doom doom, DOOMY-DOOMY-DOOM, doom do do
DOOM, Do do DOOM, doomy-doomy-doomy, Doom doom doom
THE END
The fuck. I’ve never heard of this. Haven’t heard anything that interesting in pokemon since years ago back when I was using smogon university to dig into the meta and play on some online simulator where everyone just locked their pokemon at lv50 and could choose all their IV/EV distribution, natures, and move loadouts for the ultimate meta experiance.
After playing the story through a few times, it’s hard to actually stay invested in it anymore, I also did all side quests one run too, and I’m not keen on repeating that. However, 2077 is the only game where I will start it up just to drive around and listen to some music, whether in game or something I pick myself, and then just turn it off. Usuallt for 30-45 minutes. And I played many of the GTAs and all but the first Saints Rows. But only 2077 will I drive around just for the hell of it.
Yes, I go back and replay the game every few years. Its grittiness is definitely a bit silly to me now, but when I was a kid, I was enchanted by it. While the Jensen games did not have the charm of the OG, the first was still decent, and it’s a shame Square Enix drove it into the ground with the second Jensen title.
I both volunteer and am a member at a center that works to vocationally rehabilitate the mentally disabled (ie, help them find work.) It is one of some 300+ clubhouses that follow the Fountain House model. Ironically, I am seeking disability myself and am currently not employed and have been encouraged by my social worker to not follow up on opportunities for the time being. None the less, I spend my time volunteering here 5 days a week because being within a community with other mentally disabled folks makes me not feel so abnormal. Additionally, doing work, even volunteer work, helps curb the inner self-loathing and low self-esteem. To give some perspective, before I joined this community back in May, I thought about suicide daily. When participating at this center, it drops to a few times a week. So yes, it helps.
None the less, the last couple weeks have been rough. For reasons I don’t really know, I’ve been neglecting my meds. I know they work, they really do. But for some reason, I haven’t been able to bring myself to take them consistently.
Additional stressers include dealing with low-level attraction to a couple center staff, one of which there’s some mutual attraction as she’ll actively seek me out just to talk about her day, then steadily go dumb in the head and makes freudian slips as she talks to me until she has to excuse herself. It’s actually kinda cute to watch her fall to pieces. None-the-less she has a BF she lives with and I’ve no interest in even trying to wreck homes or some such, nor am I at a place in my life where I could be a stable person who can contribute towards a relationship that uplifts both people. I am failing at just taking care of myself and am in need of help I simply can’t return. And I get reminded of this each day, and, man, it sucks. It just really sucks.
Additionally, I’m high functioning enough that staff regularly encourage me to go beyond my boundaries with work or school. Because on the outside I seem capable. I do a lot at this center, from kitchen work, plant work (we have a flowershop,) to creating fliers in Canva or helping members/staff type up proposals for this that and the other. But a closer observation of my past school and work life, which they don’t see and I have to repeatedly re-explain to individuals, shows I’m just good at masking for a limited time before completely falling to pieces. And I have fallen so far as to have a genuine psychotic break that resulted in very paranoia inducing Ideas and Delusions of Reference which I was only brought back from due to meds. It’s simultaneously nice to be held at a high esteem and crushing that I cannot live up to what others would expect of me.
It’s better than being all alone I guess, but man, I really get bummed sometimes.
My own noises definitely bug me sometimes, and I generally try and keep quiet. Can’t really recommend, though. It definitely contributes to making one’s self an uninteresting wallflower.
I got Monster Hunter: Wilds finally, but surprisingly, I have not dropped a lot of time into it despite playing the franchise since the first, with usually 100-250 hours spent on any given title I purchased in the series. TBF, my PS5 controller is in a terrible state right now, forcing me to use K&M, which is genuinely surprising to me that they added support for it in the PS5 to begin with. As far as I know, that is very rare. And while I’m no stranger to K&M, I’ve never used it for Monster Hunter and I just don’t dig it much.
I’d actually have to give my personal GOTY to a game that’s not at all new. I’ve eyed Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous for some time, even though I don’t think I’ve played a traditional CRPG since Planescape: Torment (granted not in 1999, I bought it thru GOG, so it had to be sometime after 2008.) And despite it being a CRPG and me knowing that, I played it via Playstation+ on PS5… with my controller, which still had stick drift at the time but not as bad. I sunk between 200-250 hours into it and I still have not beat the damn thing. I kept remaking my party as I grew more familiar with the game’s system. My last and favorite being subclassing all my regulars to have dinosaur pets. Game went on sale for like 6 or 7 bucks a little while ago so I just went ahead and bought it permanently. I’m sure I’ll revisit it again just like I do Elder Scrolls and Borderlands franchises.