Watch The Prestige.

I’m in a similar situation and I have been for a long time. I used to get games at launch and tear right into them. Now, I’ll still buy them, but they’ll sit, wrapped, until I “get around to it” which doesn’t happen a lot.

Mentally, I’m in a tough space. I’m likely ADHD, both my mom and sibling are diagnosed with it. I grew up poor and did well in school so I was never evaluated for it. As an adult, I don’t know where to start if I even wanted to get help with it. I’ve got something else going on too. I’m a maladjusted perfectionist.

I’m still exploring the causes on my own, but I believe my reward response is messed up. I have two weird hangups, one is that if it’s a series of games, I feel like I have to play the entire series from the beginning. That’s often so daunting, I never start. The second is that I got bit by the “productivity grindset” bug. Even if I don’t want to, I feel like gaming is just me wasting time and that if I’m playing them, I need to be streaming and creating contact around it. Again, that’s daunting so I tend to avoid playing things in the first place.

Enter Your Name

The Brandonization of the Dems will continue

I hear that. I’ve been replaying Death Stranding 1 before I start Death Stranding 2, but starting E33 is always on my mind. I have several other co-workers singing its praises as well, I just give this particular one’s opinions more weight.

On Final Fantasy, while acknowledging that VI is better in nearly every way, I prefer IV. It’s purely for nostalgia reasons haha. Chrono Trigger is always my GOAT though.

Been really wanting to play this one. I have a co-worker with similar JRPG tastes to my own and he put it as his #3 behind Chrono Trigger and FF6.

This is the guy posting pinochet helicopter memes on ex the everything app

I think I’m still suffering RSI from doing Godhome like 4 years ago.

Azahar

Wow. This is the first I’m hearing of this. Thank you for the tip.

It’s hard to tell if it’s a direction thing or if he just didn’t know what the context was for some of the script.

I like Kojima and there’s absolutely a nonzero chance that’s the case.

I picked up some cheap stuff on the Steam sale, but I’m replaying Death Standing 1 to prepare for Death Stranding 2. Knowing how 1 ends along with the premise for 2 is interesting as I’m seeing strands (heh) of the plot woven very early in the game. Looking forward to 2 as well.

Activision

:doomjak:

IIRC, didn’t they try to sell recently and it didn’t pan out for some reason?

Generally, a grenade that explodes immediately with no delay would be useful for trapping an area. I can’t think of any other uses off the top of my head. It could also have been an old or incorrectly installed fuse in the grenade.

All of the signs keep pointing to it

Hey this is super neat. I hadn’t heard of Microshift before so I’ll definitely scope them out. Much appreciated!

I want to say that there has been too little look at price inflation and in particular shrinkflation in the cycling community.

When SRAMs cheapest MTB gearset was GX, you could get an affordable bike with it, but then they created NX and eventually SX which are worse gearsets, but prices for those entry level bikes remained the same. Hell, I just looked now and they’ve made an even cheaper gearset, the S1000. Looking at the MTB I purchased just before COVID, the same money that got me GX Eagle will only buy S1000 now.

Nice! I’m old enough to have kind of experienced the full evolution of modern video games and I have a weird interest in seeing how people react to dated gameplay loops which is why I asked

Did you play those at launch? I did, but I’m curious at the impressions of someone who didn’t.