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I have, actually - it’s pretty good!  Perhaps my wording was too strong, but my basic point is that if you’re alright spending $250 on a shot, the $50 tip shouldn’t be where your “frugality” kicks in.

Yeah... the expensive shit exists as a flex, nothing more. That $250 shot exists to let somebody, really anybody in earshot, know that you’re perfectly fine literally pissing away a couple ounces of liquid.

I brought a plate of sugar cookies my wife made and put them out on a counter in my department.  Sent out an e-mail.  By 9:00 AM, 3 dozen cookies were gone.

WTF is it with people and free food?

If you hadn’t said the name, I’d swear you were talking about my sister-in-law. She was also a receptionist at a vet’s office that would give out unsolicited advice, and all the other stuff sounds up her alley as well.

I don’t treat my Switch as portable either, because I’m not in a situation where portable gaming is a thing. I drive myself to work every day, don’t have the opportunity to play games at work, and I rarely travel.

I’m not very far into it yet - didn’t get a chance to play it much. XCOM: EU and XCOM 2 streamlined the absolute shit out of the original XCOM games. So far Phoenix Point seems to be reversing that a bit, while keeping/adding some of the modernization.

You’d think, but he goes to the doctor regularly and all his numbers and such are apparently fine-to-great for a man his age.  It really is quite amazing.

There’s a guy I work with who eats literally everything and anything he wants, and appears to not gain weight. Here’s a small, non-exhaustive list of things I’ve seen him eat in one sitting:

Also what is with everyone fact-checking today?

Knocking a piece of entertainment because it doesn’t go down some very specific road that the writer wanted it to is pretty much the main form of critique across this network’s sites.

Yeah, I can see that. But Merrin does start questioning the idea of using the Holocron pretty much immediately upon joining the team. In fact that’s largely the only thing she says if you engage her in random conversation. They do kind of get there pretty quickly, but the decision makes sense and isn’t completely out…

My response to a lot of this is of great confusion. The letter writer sounds completely insufferable, so I expected comments as such... lo and behold, I come here and people are agreeing. It’s weird.

Yeah. I think for a first effort it’s pretty good. I would have liked it to be 10-15 hours longer, but will take something resembling narrative economy compared to some of the sprawling games that have come out. While the direct story of the game was pretty ticked and tied, it was still left for more adventures.

I think I like the ending of this story conceptually.

Yeah, it has the same problem that a lot of these types of games have, in that you get very little time to actually play around at this game’s version of full strength. I didn’t even finish out the skill tree before completing the story, and only had half the available stims I could have had.

For narrative purposes, the poncho was a utilitarian outfit for somebody who’s spending a lot of time out and about salvaging shipwrecks. His outfit is what he wears to do his job that he was doing before the events of the story.

The quality could be better, but the rewards for exploration being cosmetics is fine. I actually think the stim chests should be easier to find. I only found three chests for a total of 5 stims, and two of those were on the first main planet.

You just described the basic gameplay loop of nearly every game that has some combination of loot and endgame.