This weekend will be pretty light as work has, despite my greatest efforts, once again infringed upon my sacred weekend. Luckily I just have to write up a short review to go along with another publication I prepared (in the field I want to go into!) so it won't be bad.

Have you played any other Mario & Luigi games? I really wanna play Paper Jam, but hearing about how disappointing it is compared to the others makes me wary. I think some of that might be blow-back from Dream Team which took the hand-holding to a ridiculous extreme and which Paper Jam didn't do much to fix.

Ugh reading that story on Polygon of their planning for Alan Wake 2 was so disappointing. Hopefully Remedy can get back to it one day.

Did you grab the special edition of OSL? Hardcover art book? Metal slipcase?! ALICE & SOCRATES ART PRINT!!! Yes, please.

I'm about to jump back into Tropical Freeze after quitting on the final world. That shit gets HARD at the end, even more-so than Rayman, I thought.

That's some good ol' fashioned username-comment synergy right there.

Thanks for the replay. It's good to hear from people who've faced this and how they handle it. It is easy to get lost in the rest of my life (job, relationships, etc) I can ignore it until it pops back up and suddenly I feel isolated again. I've had friends going into therapy now for a variety of reasons and hearing…

While it sounds like they may have had (what they assumed were) your best interests at heart, I'd be fucking angry/mortified to hear from a co-worker that I should seek therapy, especially after listening to a single seminar about relationships.

I started having some really, really upsetting and intrusive thoughts right before I graduated from my Masters program in April. I had had some over the years prior to that (almost exclusively concerning myself and no one else), but they suddenly focused on others. I couldn't tell anyone and it just fed into some kind…

I'm guessing the nuts in question were Brazil nuts.

Upvoted for parrots, Overwatch, worker's rights and Destiny in that order.

I'm assuming you don't have a Vita since you finished P4 and not P4: Golden. But if you ever miss the characters, grab Dancing All Night! It's a fun little distraction with plenty of good remixes (and some bad) and kind of a heavy story.

Oh story of my life. If the game is too long or open-ended, I'll never finish it. Just mine the maximum enjoyment I can and move on. It doesn't help that most of them have pretty crappy endings (looking at you, DA:I) that make all that time feel a bit wasted.

Codenames is wonderful and probably one of my party favorites! Every one of my friends I've played with have loved it. It helps that it is so easy to pick up.

I beat DOOM and Dark Souls 3 last weekend. DS3 was filled with some vigorous summoning throughout followed by a lot of soul farming to buy armor sets. I decided to take a break for awhile. Maybe one day I'll start up a NG+ and try out some spellcasting. Overall, it felt waaaay easier than DS and DS2, but in a good way.

"You wanna know how I got these scars, eh? You ever heard of a movie called Risky Business?"

Some of the early logs gave me a Scientology (but with demons!) vibe which didn't quite play out in the end, but it was pretty fun to consider.

It wasn't so bad once they figured out how to breed out the vocal chords. Once all that horrible, horrible screaming was gone, the cowmans and pigpanzees were much more tolerable. And delicious!

This is what I'm telling my therapist next time he accuses me of hoarding.

The Boxians of Cubova Prime quickly became humanity's greatest foe, for what they hated, above all, were our luscious curvatures.