Out of curiosity did you play Octopath? Just because Jason Schreier hasn’t liked a JRPG since Suikoden 2 doesn’t mean that Octopath was hot garbage. Outside of Jason’s doom and gloom I haven’t seen anyone nearly as down on the game and most of the online reaction has been between medium to very good.

“The ending you get without it is extremely dissatisfying.”

Speak for yourself. I think it’s the best ending from a storytelling perspective, as it is perfectly thematically appropriate given the game’s story.

No, it’s not a perfectly happy ending with all the loose ends tied up. But you accomplish your purpose. And…

It does have some slowdown and what REALLY irks me is that I can’t map anything to ZL and ZR, which is way more comfortable to hit than the bumpers

I hopen they won’ten use H’aanit to learnen English.

What’s wrong with the parents that they saw their kid playing with the tip money and didn’t tell her to put it back and leave it alone? And, why is their kid hiding money under her menu? And, why wasn’t the tip picked up before they were seated? And why in the fuck did this guy put the little girl on blast on Facebook?

Nope. If I was dumb enough to try this shit when I was a kid, my mom would have beat my ass. The kid’s not gonna feel any shame from this, but the parents should and will.

Isometric awesomeness

I agree. I ordered food, which I picked up at a counter and carried to my seat (or took to-go). Your tip consists of loose change or nothing (if I paid with credit) as you provided a meal rather than a meal service.

It’s possible a customer isn’t leaving a tip like this so much as they just don’t want the change. There are times I feel awkward at a grocery story waiting to get a few pennies back from the cashier. I don’t really want pennies, but I also don’t really want to be the kind of person who doesn’t take money.

Nah, c’mon. Two players landing pocket kings in the same hand where a third dude lands pocket aces is just unlikely as hell.

An equally nutty hand for Cate Hall and Michael Addamo a couple weeks ago: Hall is small-stacked and goes all in with a pair of 10s, Addamo calls with a pair of Qs. Flop is 5-5-5, turn is... another 5. An A, K, or Q would’ve made it a push at that point, but the river was a J. So Hall got knocked out in 8th place with…

I’m not allowed to talk about my job on social media under threat of termination and I work for a gas station.

Everyone knew who shes was and she was specifically talking about her job - in a public arena.

The “problem” with playing critically acclaimed games late is that games are very much products of their times and gamers are fairly bad at context, and those two don’t mix well. That is, people play highly lauded titles years (decades!) after their original release without acknowledging what about the…

Super metroid is still the best metroid Vania of all time, imo. And I came into the genre late. I think my first metroidvania was metroid fusion on 3ds. 

I also played Super Metroid a bit late, around 2000 or so. But far from finding it overrated, it quickly earned a spot on my favorite games of all time. Same goes with Final Fantasy VI and Yoshi’s Island. For some reason, SNES games are evergreen - they seem to get in that sweet spot between ugly-pixels-NES and…

Also useful are old-hand power gamers who know how to keep it in check while quietly compensating for more artistic and creative character builds.

Having a rules lawyer player who is not an asshole about it is the greatest gift man.

That pride is what really keeps drawing me back to DMing. It’s a lot of work, but walking away from a session knowing that you gave everyone their time in the spotlight is totally worth the effort!