Rock is a Lady’s Modesty continues to be a hoot. The second episode was slower but had some great character moments and a lot of humor packed in. I loved Otoha stalking Lilisa around the school.

My wife and I have been binging Apothecary Diaries and are now very nearly caught up. Really enjoying this show a lot. All the mystery and intrigue and just the right about of silliness mixed in, it keeps you on your toes.

Gundam Gqux had a promising start. As a gundam nerd I’m really excited at the idea of an alternate history UC timeline. Tons of fascinating lore bits being dropped in conversation. We don’t know much about our two main characters yet so hopefully that deepens a bit soon. As for the gundam itself, to be honest I’m not a huge fan of its design, but it’s not a deal breaker by any means.

Finally, we sat down to watch Lazarus and found ourselves flummoxed at the language options. Seems that Japanese language with English subtitles is not officially coming to Max for some time. That’s just bizarre. I’m sure we could find it online if we knew where to look, but for now I’m waiting it out.

I second the boulevardier mention. The paper plane has also become a mainstay in our house.

This is what I’m thinking too. If they can give humans something to fear worse than death, maybe the prophecy will be avoided?

Nicely done! Barbatos is one I’d like to build as well someday. Gotta love that giant mace.

Holy shit. We’ve been bamboozled!

For me games from the NES era can tough to enjoy for more than a short period of time. They just tend to feel punitively difficult in a way that is not very fun. I’d much prefer a Mario from SNES onward any day for example.

I played Goldeneye at an arcade recently that had an N64 set up and actually had a great time. But people who hadn’t grown up with it and tried to join in found it pretty frustrating. So I can see that going either way tbh.

I am very much looking forward to: Rock is a Ladies Modesty, Lazarus, Lyco Reco, Gundam GQuuuuuux.

I am still in season 1 of Apothecary Diaries, but I promised my partner we could watch it together so I can’t simply binge it all.

I’m a big fan of the Sakamoto Days manga but am finding it hard to get into the anime for some reason. I get the odd feeling that something just isn’t translating to the new medium very well. Have fallen a few episodes behind at this point due to lack of motivation.

Finally, having recently finished Zeta Gundam I plan to continue my UC Gundam watch directly into ZZ. I have heard good and bad things about this one. Wish me luck.

Awesome, thank you!

Oh hell yeah.

I’m crossing my fingers that this ends up being as fun as it appears. I’m a huge fan of BAND-MAID and they did mocap for certain scenes, so my interest is piqued!

I would love this toggle! The number of times I have accidentally collapsed a post is embarrassingly high. More often I’m trying to tap a button in or around the post and miss slightly.

Agreed. The idea of throwing code up at the CI and expecting it to fix my mistakes seems like a bad habit to me.

Looking forward to playing this later tonight!!

So excited for this!! Not only for the show itself but also for more music! The first season was so great and I adore the soundtrack.

Kind of only tangentially related but if you bought FF7 Remake originally on PS4 there is a way to claim a free upgrade to the PS5 / Intergrade version. But it was so well hidden in the online store I had to watch a youtube video to figure out where to find it.

Man this whole arc has been so strange I completely forgot there were people running around sprouting chainsaws like chainsaw zombies. Wild.

Getting to the top of the mountain in Celeste. It may not be the hardest challenge in the game (screw you Farewell), but just arriving there with the soundtrack swelling felt so good.

Completing the golden path in Tunic.

Any number of silly things in FFXI that at the time probably felt immensely important.

So gross. It shouldn’t be a surprise anymore, but it’s still depressing.

I played it and Blue Shift way back when. I don’t have a lot of specific memories of the levels or story. At the time I was just happy to have more Half-Life to play, and I enjoyed it.