This year was a good year for games.

Hades II is a fantastic roguelike that sucked me in for weeks.

I got convinced to play Project Zomboid by a couple friends. I get the hype now.

Project Diablo 2 is an excellent revival of LoD with rebalancing, new features, and controller support. So much fun on the deck.

Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii was yet another great addition to the off the rails nonsense that is the Yakuza series.

Yakuza 0 Directors Cut was also a good remaster and English dub. People shit on Yong Yea as Kiryu but I like his performance. Could be because I never played the game in Japanese.

Also spent a lot of time playing Subnautica. An oldie but a goodie, especially with a multiplayer mod.

Yup, this was a good year for gaming.

EDIT: Oh! Can’t forget Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound. Pretty fun, challenging but sometimes a bit cheap in the challenges. One optional challenge relied on firing a knife through a narrow gap, but there was no reliable way to line yourself up. And since it was timed and at the very end of the challenge, if you mess up you have to do the whole thing all over again. Other than that, really fun.

Happened in Saskatchewan too from what I’ve been told.

Fast food is too expensive and people aren’t willing to pay top dollar for shit quality. Who knew?

If you use company resources they absolutely can claim ownership on whatever you create. That much I do know. Though to be fair I’m in Canada so our laws will definitely differ in some ways.

I’m just glad to live in a country where companies don’t get to own people.

Like, things you work on during your personal time, using personal resources, belongs to your employer?

That sounds illegal. I don’t know where you live but that does not sound right.

This is huge! Guess I’m gonna throw another hundred hours at the game.

Most of the time my gf does the cooking. I’m the primary breadwinner, plus she loves to cook. I do too, but she does more. I do other stuff around the house - clean up after the cats, clean floors, take out garbage - but cooking is her deal.

Breath of Fire 3. Spoilers but you’ve had decades to play.

The first boss, the nue chimera, you’re supposed to kill it because it’s terrorizing the town. You then find out as it’s dying (because it uses its final breath to jump in front of a cave to block it) that it was just trying to find food for its cubs that have already been dead for a long time. It also played some somber music during this discovery.

My 8 year old self thought it was incredibly sad.

Probably is, but it also happened in my city. My city’s gone to meth in a real bad way.

Guess it depends on your city. In my city I have literally seen a homeless person throw food back at the person who gave it to them and scream “I ASKED FOR A DOLLAR, BITCH!”

At least for me, turning 30 felt liberating in a sense. You’re not really described as young anymore, and expectations of you are different.

I still care about social issues but I don’t feel pressured to be militant about them, and even if someone tried to exert that pressure I wouldn’t care. I can just say I’m tired if I don’t wanna do something and that’s considered a valid reason.

Dating? So much less pressure. I know who I am and what I want, as do others in their 30s. You figure out if you’re a good match pretty quickly.

Sure, it takes longer to bounce back from injuries, hangovers, etc and the simple act of getting up makes more snaps, crackles, and pops than a bowl of Rice Krispies. But overall it feels like I can live my life the way I want to and nobody cares. And that is a good feeling.

Misty in Cyberpunk 2077

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Clearly they must have been on to something. Let’s just ask them what they did right, clearly they must still be around if they know what they’re doing— oh.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Good night sweet prince.

If it runs through a Bluetooth mesh network, wouldn’t that mean you would need a substantial userbase for this to be viable whatsoever unless you are physically near the people you want to message?

Keep dreaming.

Do you mean Hypno that had a coin on a string?