How do they react when they see each other? Is it hissing and growling, or are they trying to kill each other?

I forgot to mention it last week (I missed What Are You Playing This Weekend), but I started Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward! It's very good, although I've found the puzzles much more difficult than 999. That's my current portable game, at least until I pick up Zelda again.

What platform are you playing on? I've been experiencing bugginess from day one, but last night I experienced my first truly game breaking bug. I got to the end of Drack's loyalty mission, and the game flipped its shit. Character models started floating around, dialogue wasn't playing, and then the game froze.

Do the cats each have their own space in the house/apartment? Even if one cat has a bed in your bedroom and another has one in the living room it can make a difference. Cats need safe spaces to retreat, maybe they feel like the other is constantly encroaching on "their" territory?

This works really well unless you have one fatass cat that will clean up every morsel of wet food the other cat leaves behind.

I'm probably going to sell Andromeda when I finish it. I'm not going to buy the DLC piecemeal after this experience, so I'll eventually be buying the game again when it comes with the DLC. Maybe by the time that version's on sale I'll be ready to play again.

Some cats actually like having their tummies rubbed, but you're playing the lottery if you don't know the cat well. My cat almost exclusively rolls on her back when she wants me to pet her, but that's not the norm.

I'm 5 episodes in to The Simpsons Season 3, and I'm starting to worry I won't like the show as much as everyone else does. Don't get me wrong, it's a good show, but I've watched quite a few "all time classic" episodes at this point that have left me a little cold. It's a very good show and I'll certainly continue, but…

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I'm really surprised people like the Nomad. I think the controls are actually worse than the Mako, and I'm having less fun driving it. It's too sluggish and needing to change to all wheel drive for hills is really annoying.

My dream Mass Effect game would follow an average person living on the Citadel - maybe a C-sec member so the game would have combat. All the missions would take place in the Citadel's various hubs, and it would all be focused on the small stories that unfold there every day.

I'm finding the reaction to Andromeda absolutely fascinating. The game is flawed, but it's also incredibly divisive, and not even Mass Effect fans have reached a consensus on whether it's a good game. There are many opinions that I think are obvious - that Peebee is annoying, that the lack of a power wheel is bad,…

Thank you! That autobiographical comic was what I read way back in the day, but I can't say I remember most of it.

I know my next two big ones are Horizon and Nier, not to mention older games I could replay like Fallout and Borderlands.

Have you found that you want to skip 99% of the NPC dialogue? I feel silly talking to all these people when I end up spamming X to make the conversations go faster. On one hand, I feel guilty because I'm not getting as backstory. On the other hand, when I try to pay attention I'm almost always bored.

Out of curiosity, why do people dislike Erika Moen? I read one of her webcomics a good 10 years ago, but haven't kept up with her since.

Everytime I have to kill someone from the Milky May, I'm thinking of our population (and genetic diversity) plummeting.

How many planets do you have to get habitable? I thought I was seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, but tonight I might have found 4 more planets full of bland waypoints and vaults. I'm level 22, and I thought all I had left were a few priority missions and whatever loyalty stuff I chose to do.

And all the planets had the same goddamn enemies! I thought the giant raptor looking alien was scary the first time I saw him, and then I realized the bastards lived on multiple planets.