I’ve only dabbled in emulation to play things on my phone, so I only really have suggestions for Gameboy Advance games, but here they are:

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Golden Sun 1 and 2

Harvest Moon

Pokemon Fire Red/Leaf Green

Lizards are so fucking cool. This fella looks nice.

I do not share in this optimism. We’re talking about the American public here.

Yes. I had a buddy who started taking it to ween away from his alcoholic tendency to enjoy a 5th of whiskey every night, and he quickly became addicted.

He told me the withdrawals felt worse than what he was dealing with from the alcohol (though he was getting hit with both), ended up losing his job and spiraling into a recluse who spent all his time in bed or doing kratom. He eventually got help and got better.

There’s this idea that its a “safe” drug, and posts encouraging its use in threads like these as some sort of alternative to getting drunk don’t help that perception. Its very addictive and the withdrawal symptoms suck just as much if not more than with booze, although I don’t think you can die from Kratom withdrawal the way you can from alcohol. Someone fact check me on that.

Edit: What makes it dangerous is how quickly you can become physically dependent on Kratom.

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It’s kinda like a slur Rorschach test.

They (company, sycophantic politicians) sell it on the idea of bringing jobs to the city they’ll be placed in, but these places, while huge land wise, will only employ 100-190 people and I am doubtful of it ever being the high estimate. Even if it was, that’s like no jobs! Every angle of this is so fucking stupid.

Asking cities of hundreds of thousands of residents to give up their drinking water, during a time of fucking water scarcity, to employee 3 and half Arbys franchises worth of people is so goddamm shortsighted.

It’s super cool when they decide to build these fucking things in water scarce actual deserts in the Southwestern US. I’m aware of a handful of these projects currently being proposed - and the one nearest to where I live is being proposed to use “reclaimed waste water”…after the initial 3-4 years after the data center is up and running. They need time to build the reclaimed water infrastructure you see, and they can’t just leave the data center turned off until then. No, they need 3-4 years of scarce drinking water so they can be up and running generating a profit, and then in half a decade to a decade they’ll totally get that reclaimed waste water infrastructure in place to make sure it runs 100% on stinky water.

This totally wont be a rug pull or anything. There’s no way these massive silicone valley companies would do something like that!

Valheim is great! I recently started playing with my partner and we’ve been having tons of fun.

The sense of progression is great. Simple skeletons were giving us so much trouble when we first started, now after about 40 hours we’re competently making our way through dragur swamps to grab some scrap iron, while dodging abominations. I don’t feel “good” at the game yet and it’s been cool learning how to play without feeling the need to look anything up on wikis.

I missed out on playing Gothic during its time, but I did play Risen and really liked it. I’m hoping that the Gothic Remake will be decent enough to enjoy so I can finally see what the hypes about with that franchise. I’ve wanted to try Gothic, but ive heard it’s janky, and without the nostalgia of playing it previously, I just feel too old and tired to deal with that kind of jank now.

Drova is fantastic! I was really impressed with it. Thanks for the other recs.

That’s fair, and I also felt short changed after it became apparent that the strong themes of sacrifice for the future were just a hook that was disregarded pretty quick. I was very interested in the lore of Lumiere and the previous Expeditions, but that all disappeared after the game decided that wasn’t actually important.

I have a different interpretation of what the game was about, so my take away is very different, but I see your perspective and think its a good take.

It’s very metaphorical and junk.

I loved the game and thought it was very well done. Seriously one of the best I’ve played in a long time.

Frozen veggies are kinda underrated for convenience and you can never go wrong with any of the many variations of beans and rice. Dry beans are cheaper, but you do need to remember to soak them the night before which I frequently don’t. Canned beans are also solid.

If you consume meat its always best to buy it as whole as possible and process the cuts yourself. It’s not as difficult as you would think, but it does need to be learned.

I always keep some tofu in the fridge (buy it at Asian markets for the price) because its always hella easy to chop some up, toss some spices and oil on it, and toss it in the air fryer for about 20 minutes for a easy versatile protein addition to whatever I’m making.

This is like that bit from Silicone Valley when Jared gets trapped in a self driving car inside a shipping container, but these absolute morons did it to themselves lmao

I do feel bad about the deportees being stuck in there with them though. Thats got to be rough. Do you think there’s a chance they all become friends afterwords, as if they had a very bonding sleep over?

The actors voicing them have all died.

I’m not big on turn based JRPG styled games, FFX is the best Final Fantasy if that gives you any indication of how I feel about the genre, but this game really managed to hook me after you leave Lumiere.

I’m a big fan of the surreal environments and how aggressively French this game is. The game has STYLE and I find it very refreshing in a new and interesting way.

The story is engaging and pretty great so far. I’ve been finding the world interesting enough that I go out of my way to find side content that expands on the world more.

The combat really opens up by the time you get to the Gestural Village early in act 1. Or at least thats when it finally started to click for me. Figuring out how to synergize your party members with each other and playing off of their set ups is satisfying. The dodge and parry system took a little bit for me to get acclimated, and I found it very achievable but not necessarily easy.

I think I’ve been enjoying it as much as I have been mostly because its so different from what I normally play.

Ah the Patrick Star method, I see. High level planning happening in California.

What the fuck is the point of this compared to say buying vacant land for the purposes of allowing people to camp there? You could then have outside support networks set up some basic infrastructure for the people living there through grant funding/philanthropy. I don’t think this a great idea, but at least the money spent would have a tangible benefit. As opposed to this stupid homeless people shell game/shuffle state and local governments insist on playing??

Christ II would have been pretty bad ass as well.