I’ll be generous: Given this...I say Giant Bomb’s got 18 months before it goes under.

Does anyone else feel like was sort of inevitable after Brad, Vinny, and Alex left?

I laughed out loud at that line, just incredible

I’ve been having a ball; at it slowly because I don’t have as much free time as I used to, but the world is a ton of fun to explore, the combat is engaging, and at this point there are enough guides online for character archetypes (because it’s a sort of overwhelming thing to be asked for what starter class you want…

How has the experience been generally? I was so excited about Elden Ring, but also never play a Souls before and low-key terrified

I was able to take him down early with the help of demi-human ashes.  They helped keep the warm occupied. 

He went looking for a fight and found one.  That isn’t self defense, except in Wisconsin and Florida.

Square Enix must have REALLY wanted out of the western game business, because $300 mil for those studios AND the IP is a fucking STEAL

Black Knife Tiche is better in my opinion.  On Malenia she can land a stagger on pretty much every other hit.

Mix the Cerulean Hidden Tear in your Wondrous Physick, pop that and you have unlimited FP for a short time.

Black Knife Tiche and Lhutel the Headless both are highly recommended by the community, but I’d give the nod to Banished Knight Oleg who was the MVP of my sorcery playthrough. Sticky, decent damage, decent tanking, and very good at holding the boss’s attention.

Black Knife Tiche wrecks some bosses shit, and ususally if Mimic Tear isnt doing hot against a boss, she’ll do wonders. I have both on my item bar

Black knife Tiche

I don’t think a single person in California thinks Gavin Newsom is a good guy. He’s merely a standard asshole politician as opposed to a maniacal asshole politician.

I think someone at Sega corporate is dreaming there and casting some pretty outlandish ideas.

It’s really annoying how sometimes you need to rest at a site of grace to move the quest forward. It's entirely unintuitive, especially since you usually don't want to rest b because it respawns the enemies. 

You mean how some quests won’t advance unless you reload the exact same area to move them along. I love this game, but they don’t make it easy sometimes.

*A smile spreads slowly across Miyazaki’s face

Considering how stupid big and complex the map is, the loading times on PS5 are some kind of otherworldly witchcraft. 

Wait, you beat Elden Ring in under 90 hours? Goddamn son. I took me like 120 hours of wandering around just to beat it on one character. And I skipped so much stuff! But there was so much stuff to get into!