We’re firmly in when, not if territory at this point. All the names you listed are great, and I appreciate the reminder that they’re still here for now. It still hurts to see folks like you go, though.

They say the unexamined life isn’t worth living. Surely we should say the same for the art we choose to experience, regardless of the medium.

I don’t know what a reset would look like for me at this point. I feel like I would need to go somewhere to break out of the loop I’m in. The closest thing I guess is getting takeout food so I don’t have to cook dinner at the end of the day.

The moment the beat drops in this fight is just so, so good. Triple slash was super powerful for the tentacle phase in normal mode. I’m interested to see how it plays in Hard.

I think I’m gonna be heavy on Animal Crossing this weekend. I’ve finished a week’s worth of infrastructure improvements and am ready to begin beautification in a big way. Also sold my turnips for a nice profit, so I should be well funded for the foreseeable future.

I was supposed to go to the UK at the end of May, a trip I’ve taken for the last 2 years prior to this one. I’ve got friends there, and it’s always great to go over and see them. I’d spoken to another friend about going out to Seattle later in the year, and with any luck that will still happen.

I was supposed to go to the UK at the end of May, a trip I’ve taken for the last 2 years prior to this one. I’ve got friends there, and it’s always great to go over and see them. I’d spoken to another friend about going out to Seattle later in the year, and with any luck that will still happen.

It’s a good question really. Kinda rote, but I mostly just look forward to weekends when I know I don’t have to clock in for work. I’ve been ordering takeout on those nights, too, just to let myself indulge.

Nothing to dispute here. Facts all the way down.

Nothing to dispute here. Facts all the way down.

I hate how often these posts keep showing up. I hate the underlying cause. But I’m glad that y’all keep finding better opportunities. Good luck, Maddy. I’ll be looking forward to Thursdays, as always.

I don’t think I even knew the stairs were an option in the original. When I watched my friend play, he always took the elevator, and when I finally played the game myself, I took the elevator, too.

Ditto on the check-ins. I don’t always have a response, but I like looking for them. They’re a nice way to tell myself how I’m doing, too.

I’m gonna start on hard mode in FFVIIR this weekend. If it’s super obnoxious I don’t know that I’ll stick with it. But I do want to give it a decent try.

I shared yesterday’s TWAB with my friends and one of them laughed that they hadn’t tagged flawless rewards as one of their top goals to address. They do mention something about weapons with an adept mod slot and exploring something in that possibility space. Kinda just goes to show how Sisyphean the task is, though. I…

Tim Rogers said he hopes they call the next game Final Fantasy VII 3.

I was kind of kidding? It just seems like that kind of thing winds up happening these days. Like, I’m just imagining huge threads that get upvoted on reddit where stricken fans demand that creators make an itemized list of corrections to a work they feel has been ruined. The Last Jedi, Game of Thrones, other big event…

My greatest anxiety about the ending is that the “whispers” will not take this defeat lying down. Fan backlash is one of the most ruinous forces in our present culture, and I don’t want to see that alter what comes next. This was the right ending, it was the right choice, and I want to see what Kitase, Nojima, and…

My hands were sweating so much while I was doing this.

It was really nice when I realized the game wasn’t logging all the time I spent in menu as play time. I have so many games where my play time is inflated because I walk away with it paused or put my controller down to eat without powering down the console.