Player tip: either use the Spell 5e app or Emmet Bryne’s custom class sheets. Or both, like I do.

Why waste good food?

Dying Light had a mediocre story and repetitive gameplay, but the parkour mechanic was what made it interesting in the long run. Jumping around and climbing stuff was so satisfying.

As for side scrollers, Ori might not be the most difficult platformer I’ve ever played, but it certainly was the most fun, thanks in no short part to the fluid and dynamic movement of the main character. The camera is also very wide, to allow you to see the road ahead clearly, which is not something that all platformers do right, surprisingly enough.

I appreciate the lengthy explanation!

I tried playing Shogi a few times but I could never quite wrap my head around the strategies - big board, lots of pieces, different promotion rules and, of course, the drop really made my head hurt! Probably my inability to differentiate the pieces at a glance didn’t help, either.

This one sounds a lot more similar to the game I’m accustomed to. The river and palace rules sound interesting, and the low number of pieces keep it “simple” enough (as much as chess is simple, of course). I might want to look at it more closely in the future. My friend is a lot better at chess than me (1600 ELO vs 1000), I could use this game to spice things up and maybe even the field a bit :P

Are there many differences with western chess?

From what I see, the pieces move the same way, but the kid uses the pawns to eat pieces in front of them instead of diagonally. Is it the kid not knowing the rules, or does Xiangqi have different rules from the chess I know?

Me in my 30s: take that, Ganondorf!

I don’t know, fixing a marble statue missing the entire body below the neck is a tall order.

I don’t blame them. Nintendo fans buy anything at any price. I don’t see it being different this time.

Mario Kart 8 never goes on sale and sold 70m copies; Pokémon Scarlet/Violet sold 30m despite looking and playing like dogshit; they sold Skyward Sword HD, the remaster of a 10-yo game, at full price and still placed a few millions.

Nintendo is basically like Apple at this point, the brand is enough to convince people to spend more than they would for the competition, regardless of quality. I personally know a lot of people who loudly groaned/complained at the price announcement, but will still buy it day one, just like they always had in all these years.

And people terminally online should stop pretending the Steam Deck is competition to the Switch 2. It couldn’t even compete with the Switch 1, which was five years older, had worse performance, and had been easily emulated for years at that point.

Amity cooking edible food? Is this a new AU?

You can change that from the settings -> Posts feed -> Post appearance -> Prefer image at the end

Not much to say but this is the usual comment to thank you for your wonderful posts.

Enjoy Rome! Be sure to try our Carbonara at some point! :P

A subscription seems like the exact opposite of what GoG stands for. I buy a game, I own it forever. How does a subscription improve that?

Have you tried playing with the settings in Posts feed -> Post appearance? I use “compact” view and I don’t need to scroll far at all. You can also set a line limit for “Full” view.

That’s me when I have a deadline and I decide to procrastinate a bit.

Women in the army? What else should we expect? Men wearing trousers?

If only Cato the Elder was here, he’d have very stern words to say!

The title :D

Ahah don’t worry, the written form of names in these books sometimes makes no sense at all. Why is Egwene pronounced that way? What is wrong with Nynaeve? Did Moghedien’s parents hate their child or something? Are we sure that’s Tear’s pronunciation? And WHY DID ROBERT JORDAN USE “DAMANE” AND “DOMANI” IN THE SAME BOOK SERIES?

It’s funny because, as a book reader, I frequently mispronounce names (I’ve read all 14 books thinking that Gawyn was pronounced the same as Gawain, for example), and watchers/audiobook listeners have the opposite problem. Back in the Reddit days, it made for fun realizations on both parts.

I have quite a few not-quite-TPKs, but my DM (despite trying very hard to pose as a tough-as-nails juror) is physically unable to kill off his players.

Last time he had the Pally’s god come down and gift us 10 HP each to allow us to survive the encounter and run away.

Minor correction: it’s Aviendha (not Aviendah), Moiraine (not Morraine), Alanna (not Allana) and Siuan (not Suan).

Thanks for these posts btw. I can’t contribute much because I’m not watching the show, but it’s been fun reading some rando’s opinions on it, and as a book reader, extrapolating what the show runners are doing from your short summaries or other references scattered in the comments.

Hi! :D