Yeah - no matter how you look at it, deciding you’re going to be a writer is not an easy road for most, unless you’re one of the 0.0000001% that writes the next smash hit.

Yeah, like - it was bad - but that has become core to Destiny for me, at this point.

I mean, to be fair, he is very fucking talented. I just wish they’d done this from the start.

Is it strange that I think Destiny will actually lose some its (small amount of) charm with this?

It worked.

Damn. That’s really sad. I haven’t tried plunging into the mainstream novel market yet, and it sounds even more daunting than I’d thought.

:( I’m sorry to hear that. I don’t care what anyone says, losing a pet is one of the most gut wrenching experiences in life.

Nah, because Dark Souls 2 was actually really fucking good, and people whine so much about it, it’s ridiculous.

The novel market must be quite different right now from the short fiction market, particularly in the genre scene.

Disciples II still has my favorite combat system from one of those games - simple, fast, fun - despite being more of a Strategy RPG than a 4x game.

I picked up Age of Wonders III, but the combat has yet to really click for me. I need to give it another shot.

It’s certainly a difficult line to straddle for some men (like us). I don’t think you should stop reading stuff like this, though. It shows you’re trying to not be a shitty guy and actually get better at the whole being-a-dude thing. Maybe? Or perhaps that’s just what I liked to believe about myself. I don’t know!

Combat was by far the weakest element of that game. I was hoping they’d radically adjust it in Early Access, but they only made minor tweaks.

Yeah, that soundtrack is stunningly beautiful.

Bahahaa. “Fuck o’clock.” That’s my new favorite phrase.

It’s funny, I was just discussing this very thing with one of my close friends. He recently started hanging out with a girl from our mutual friendship, and it took him a good four or five dates to finally make a move - and when he did (at last) she confessed she’d been wondering if he was into her at all, because he’d…

I like this.

I think that would be one of the few cases where when someone (inevitably) would say, “Oh... so you met online?” I’d respond with, “Fuck yeah we did!”

This just works on so many levels.