The most dangerous game! It’s fun to watch them grow into their personality traits, which upon retrospect were always there if you knew what to look for. So if you think, “Hey, m_cubed is super chill”, that’s great! Probably a super chill kid!

The key to unlocking Cecilia’s potential is to make sure she has Triangle Advantage 3. I also gave her Bowbreaker (I believe from Setsuna) to ensure that even nastier bow units like Bow Lyn and Bride Cordelia (though I don’t see the latter much these days) are kept in check, but G Tomebreaker would give her an edge…

I finished the first dungeon in Persona 5 and am being introduced to Makoto, whom I already think of as having the first name “Best Girl” because the internet despite not even trying to look up information about social links in the game before playing it.

I hear you. even on the WiiU my son started on my profile and I have to switch to my wife’s every time I want to play. Super annoying.

Yay, Invisible Inc.! After I beat it on the easiest, level, I beat it on the next one, then did a relaxed run where alerts only increase when I’m caught. It was so fun and calming.

I’m trying to understand how you could reel in fish more than a dozen times before the pieces start wearing on each other or the string breaks.

Pyre is fantasy NBA Jam with a team made of of a rogue’s gallery of RPG party members. It’s gorgeous and the music is great. I paid $10, enjoyed it a lot, and will play it again at some point. It’s normally $20.

My problem with Grimrock was that I realized I wasn’t understanding a puzzle because the graphics were set too high and it was slowing my computer down juuuust enough to make a puzzle impossible to solve. So I had to make some adjustments and move on, but once I realized I had to real-time puzzles in first-person I…

I think that’s where the length of the game factors in for me. I beat Pyre in 8-9 hours, I’d wager, and I mostly just powered through, even forgoing some character challenges late in the game because I just wanted to beat it. But I also know that next time around I’ve got the skillset and understanding of the entire…

I cannot understand how Applebee’s overcooked, over-salted, over-priced food exists. It’s not any better than at any drive-thru or fast casual place except it costs more and I have to tip, to boot. It’s bad food at a bad price. What’s to like?

A movie that can empathize with the sometimes-torture and impotent rage of being a parent, starring a wild-eyed Nic Cage? Yeah, all right.

Also I hope Ryuji calms down after this dungeon. All he does is exclaim angrily.

Dishonored is very much a game at odds with itself for most players, I think. Some pull it off and enjoy it, but for me I felt more time restarting sections over and over again because playing the game with human mistakes made the world worse off. The game seems to want you to be this perfect shadow but I never felt…

The wha?

Black Lab had one real hit in “Wash It Away”, an alternative-pop song that got some traction in the late 90s. They also had some soundtrack songs and were featured in a season trailer for The Shield, but mostly they were “Wash it Away.”

Well this is vexing. My better half LOVES LiS, bought Before the Storm Deluxe, realized our creaky old laptop won’t run it (but it did until the end of the first episode....), bought it again on PS4, and now.... this.

More Persona 5 (still working through the tutorial-heavy first dungeon stuff), more Fire Emblem Warriors (once Intern Flam lends his aid to help me S-rank Noble Lady of Caelin to get Lyn’s Sol Katti), and some board and card games tomorrow night - Pandemic Legacy (February attempt #2, after a fiery and heated failure…

The local shop down the road makes the a great coffee with a fantastic boost, but Dunkin is seriously underrated. They make a great caramel macchiato, a great iced coffee, basically the best of the chains and it’s usually about a buck cheaper than Starbucks and your local options.

I admit I’ve spent the time since I beat Pyre wondering how I might do it differently next time. Who would go first, and who would follow them, narratively? Would it be cruel to keep the gang together all the way through the end? Is it possible? Should I lose on purpose to certain parties for some kind of greater…

The aesthetic, a kind of fantasy with steampunk filligree, is very Baston, and the music is as well, with some of the more signature sounds making returns. The gameplay is more inspired by Transistor, I think, but is less designed around creating specific game-breaking exploits and more about mastering a variety of…