All good, and picking it up on sale is a good idea. I finished it today. It’s a good game and the gameplay loop is fun, but the story was just… ugh, convoluted to fit into Final Fantasy canon. The plot suffered from “good idea, poor execution.”
I’m enjoying it. I bounced off the game the first time I played as I was expecting maybe a more traditional Final Fantasy experience and it didn’t click with me. I’ve played a few souls-likes since and the gameplay is meshing better for me now, though it’s still difficult at times.
Combat is enjoyable, but the gear filtering and management is kind of annoying.
I’ve read it’s similar to Nioh’s gameplay but I’m not familiar with that one.
Been going hard on Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin.
Besides that, I’m 10-11 hours into Stella Glow on my 2DS XL, and have been playing Grim Dawn and Slay the Spire 2 co-op with my wife.
Yeah, I use roasted peanuts and cashews, and they keep fine. Make peanut and cachew butter in two and a half cup batches in the food processor, which comes out to about half that once made into butter.
I don’t know how long it takes to go through, probably a few weeks each. I’ve never had any go bad.
It varies. Sometimes I use salted peanuts, other times plain.
I think people may not realize how easy it is. Or maybe a food processor isn’t a common item in every household. I only bought one last year, prior to that I was making peanut butter with a hand blender and that was a pain.
American here, I just make my own peanut butter in a food processor. The ingredients are: peanuts.
Works for me.
I dunno, I’m not a fan and I expect there to be long term ramifications. Literally everyone I’ve seen pictures of after Ozempic/weygovy/whatever look ill. Screwing with your body’s natural process tends to be a bad idea.
Most people on it long term seem to end up looking like Skeletor. I’m happy to keep losing weight the slow old fashioned way.
This was in context to taking GLP1 medication (Ozempic, et al). 1200 kcal a day on those is probably even higher than is comfortable. Ozempic supposedly massively slows digestion.
I agree though, it seems like a terrible idea and I suspect many people on these are ending up malnutritioned.
now I don’t think I could enjoy certain political aspects of the story where the americans (the government, not the people) are the good guys…
As an American, I feel you on this.
All I can say is that Conviction is a personal story for Sam, and in that one there’s a terrorist threat, but it’s domestic terrorists.
In Blacklist, the Engineers seem to be global and evidence points to the Middle East, but it’s a misdirect. And while 4th Echelon is working to stop the attacks, I don’t think the American government is painted in a good light in that one either (the stated goal of the Engineers is to get US troops out of other sovereign nations and bring them home). It’s actually feels like a relevant and nuanced plot in the modern day.
Been playing through Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne remaster. It’s been something of a white whale for me as I missed it in the PS2 era despite really enjoying Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2.
Also enjoying Ball x Pit here and there.
Nice try FBI.
Benefits of living in bumfuck. Though to be real, I’d never buy or build in a HOA. It’s a choice. Renting in HOAs was bad enough in the past.
It essentially all takes care of itself, it’s a whole ecosystem. There’s no standing water for mosquitos thanks to the foliage. There’s also lizards, the occasional frog, birds. The deer eat some of the taller stuff. Even with the deer, there’s at least one mountain lion in the area I’ve seen, which I presume helps keep the population reasonable. I dunno, it doesn’t really need any tending, other than to clear a path where I need.
Aside from that, my neighbor has pine trees, and occasionally pine cones take root and need their root- balls shoveled out. That’s the only big maintenance because I don’t want the big trees on my property. I wouldn’t mind, but for two things:
They always seem to root down near the road on my driveway path or walk-down.
I have solar panels and can’t have them growing up on the southeast side side of the house, and that’s where they tend to fall.
Besides that, I have to knock down the occasional wasp nest (paper wasps) on the house, but if they nest away from the house I leave them alone. It’s all minimal maintenance. If you let nature do its thing it tends to find a balance. Humans are the ones usually screwing it up.
I know this is a meme, but shit like this is why I allow wild growth on my property. First year I owned my home the ground got muddy as hell from the new build since the ground was all dug up and tilled.
From the second year on I’ve only mowed a path for my driveway and the front walkway and the rest grows wild. Sweetgrass and other native plants anywhere from like 1 to 3 feet tall and the area is high desert (Colorado) so the “weeds” suck up any moisture they can get, no flood, no mud. It’s great. I’ll never understand MFers in the rurals curating lawns.
Plus, it looks nice, and the deer in the area seem to like it as well.
like I still remember that comment about Stellar Blade being a gooner game.
No lies detected. Glad to see they’re still providing accurate analysis.
I’ve got games ranging from PS2/PS3 going all the way back to the NES and Atari 7800 on my NAS. The PS3 stuff is hit or miss, but everything PS2 and down is great to play today via emulation.
Heck, I even still own a modded 3DS and a DSi XL with a flashcart. Those ones are able to be emulated fine, but it’s just not the same.
For modern digital games, it’s a toss up. Some have DRM, some don’t. There are games you can buy digitally on Steam, install, and just copy out the folder somewhere else, zip it, and move it to another system to play, it won’t care. Others, DRM prevents it. GOG is good for the DRM free stuff.
Funny enough, I have Madden 08 for PC. Bought it on Amazon many years back, this was way back before EA decided to introduce launcher hell. Installed updates, patched the exe, and it’s good to go. It’s zipped on my NAS and completely portable. Last year I even installed it on my Steam Deck, works perfectly, just extract to a folder and launch the game. And it’s still way better than the modern Madden games.
Digital everything. Books, games, movies, TV. I don’t want a bunch of physical stuff cluttering my space.
I do prefer things I can archive to my NAS whenever possible though. I make exceptions for gaming with Steam, but all my books, video, and music are locally stored, I don’t like streaming services as an indefinite solution.
Nice. Well, it’s abandonware and I have a copy. Will have to get around to checking it out. Does it need any proton or WINE tweaks to get running?
If you’re interested, WRC 7 and 10 play surprisingly well on the Deck. 7 has excellent controller support out of the box, and 10 has very good control but needs some tweaking in the settings for better control.
All the games I mentioned except for RBR have run well on the deck and handle fine on a controller. Might want to check if any are on sale, since Steam has the Racing Fest on right now. I also can’t recommend New Star GP enough, it’s arcade F1 style racing, and really fun.
Hell yes.