tbh his vibes are off when he starts dating and agrees to impregnate a 2 year old

but if you remove that I like neelix

I’m currently watching Deep Space 9 for the first time and The Visitor is the best 45 minutes of television I’ve ever watched, so I guess DS9 season 4 even though I’ve only watched a few episodes from it at this point.

before covid, it was a yearly tradition for some of my officemates to come in with suspicious allergies in the dead of winter

and then weirdly everyone else started getting allergies right after

and then I’d get allergies and couldn’t function for several weeks because I’m disabled

damn allergies are wild

I’m with you comrade, it’s incredibly frustrating.

I really liked it. I haven’t watched a ton of the anime, but I have watched more of it than the first season of live action covers.

That’s right.

Mega64 and Rocco Botte keep winning (oh god I hope nobody proves me wrong about this).

Kinda pre-youtube and then youtube, dunno if it counts.

That’s worse than I expected as someone who casually watched a decade ago.

And that’s without us really keeping track of it. Excess deaths should be higher than they are for 2023, but they readjusted how they calculate it to include 2020’s data.

It’s okay. It’s my least favorite Bethesda game. I don’t find its version of exploration all that interesting compared to their past entries.

I just finished up Blapshemous 2 and really loved it. Metroidvania with a few “souls” elements (bonfires/flasks/drop a corpse on death). That stuff might not mean much to you if you’ve been retired for over a decade, but overall the game is a lot like Symphony of the Night or any of the 2D Castlevanias that came out after it.

Here’s a list of them that all did one good thing in 2021

There was a brief moment where I thought video games had to program every possible combination of pixels so it could react appropriately to what I was doing at any given time in a game. I had no idea how things rendered. I didn’t know they were individual sprites that animated separately. Thought it was all just one big thing and they had to draw every single possibility with nothing dynamic going on.

Then I played Wolfenstein 3D on PC and realized how impossible that would be in 3D. Funnily enough, those little pocket games they had in the 80s and 90s like Game & Watch kinda were doing exactly what I thought every game was doing, but they were much simpler games for a reason.

I’d be surprised if we ever saw a new letter for covid again. The “its all just a branch of omicron” propaganda worked too well. Like, yeah, maybe it’s all a branch of omicron… but that’s how evolution works. Everything’s a branch of something. Such an obvious excuse to downplay covid.

probably not

turns out yeah

Yeah damn I’m glad I posted this thread cause some of these posters have very interesting things to say.

I tried one of these last year. Someone got it for me, because I like spicy food, and I felt obligated to try it because it was a chip.

Absolutely miserable experience. There’s no joy in the one chip challenge, it’s just a disgusting stale dorito that makes you feel awful. I have a hard time enjoying any “hot sauces” that go beyond scotch bonnets, because they all just start tasting like shit.

It’s funny because this person is definitely a “the curtains are just blue” kind of person and yet if they actually applied that logic to Judge Dredd or The Empire, it’d be something like “the Judges are just fascists” or “the Empire are just Nazis”. They basically admit it in that second block, they just didn’t think that was a bad thing.

It’s well written and the world feels truly alien. There’s a lot of freedom in what you’re capable of if you put your mind to it. Like you can cast spells that will let you jump across the entire map in one go. You can levitate over mountains. You can enchant a pair of daedric gauntlets that have a single fireball charge that will engulf an entire town. The world is full of mysteries and NPCs. The guilds feel more fleshed out, because they actually are in conflict with one another. For instance, a thieves guild mission could lock you out of another guild entirely. Joining one of the three great houses will lock you out of the other two. There’s a much greater variety in equipment. Quests can have a lot more text, because every line doesn’t have to be voiced. There’s wild stuff like literal Gods roaming around some of the cities.

It just feels more fully realized for me.

I’m sure it’s hard to pick it up for the first time these days, because the combat is odd. It’s first person, but every attack is also still a dice roll under the hood. Just because you were close and your cursor was on an enemy doesn’t mean they’ll be hit. I think that’s the primary thing that will turn off newcomers. Sorry about the rambling post, I’m not great at describing why I enjoy something and I also fully acknowledge there’s an element of nostalgia with me and Morrowind.