100% agreed.

I loved the OA until the last episode. No spoilers, but in what was meant to be a monumental and emotional, touching moment, I laughed and laughed and laughed. I laughed harder than I do at most comedies. It made me retroactively think the previous seven or whatever episodes were silly nonsense.

I don’t even know, man. Some AC: Origins to finish the last handful of side quests? Some BF2 while listening to podcasts? Maybe a little Steep because I bought it dirt cheap the other day and it’s nice a game yet, in typical Ubisoft fashion, feels like a tech demo for its far superior sequel?

Right on. I always get frustrated when I see people discussing alcoholism and addiction - how it works, how substances affects people, anything else - because it’s like, nope nope nope, none of this is accurate. Not just based on my own experience and the experiences of many others, but also the many, many hours of…

I find this is true of all games except Battlefront 2, for some reason. Whenever I’m listening to a podcast and have BF2 on mute, I clean the fuck up. Actually concentrating on the game, and with sound on? I’m middling.

That’s a really good point. The main story was absolutely thin in Origins, and I couldn’t put my finger on why. I do think it was redeemed, however, by the fact that pretty much all the side quests (or, at least enough of them to stand out in my mind), related directly to whoever your target for that general area was,…

Haha, thanks. I try to be thorough.

I know this is totally outside your point, but holy shit that’d be a steal! If it only cost five bucks for a bottle of Jack Daniels, I would’ve had a much easier time paying my mortgage when I drank.

I...you’ve never met an alcoholic or looked into the doctorate of AA and it’s ilk, have you?

Huh. I thought they were both fairly easy (I did almost die once during Sobek though, mostly out of my own stupidity).

I do think it is easy sometimes for people to mistake two elements that stem from the same root as having a cause and effect relationship. As in, “society makes it so that women have to doll themselves up; society also makes it so that men feel empowered to do what they want towards women; thus, women dolling…

I think it’s possible for that to be the reason, while also acknowledging that it is not an excuse (at a certain point, intent or reason does not matter when compared to the severity of the transgression). I don’t think he went so far as to make that distinction, which could mean he is trying to use it as an excuse,…

I think it’s definitely to its detriment (I think it’s like if BotW focused on Korok seeds and geared its entire gameplay around that). I don’t dislike Odyssey - I rolled through the campaign pretty quick and now it’s my go-to game when I have an hour to kill, or if I know I’ll be waiting around for a while out of…

I shamelessly turned on assist mode after a while. My thing was, if dying has no real consequence - other than losing ten coins you’re going to make back right away - then what’s the point of dying? It’s an annoying formality at that point. So rather than sit through the black screen that counts down my coins, I just…

Yeah, in that context it makes sense to me. I’ve just never heard someone who’s been sober a while still use that term in the present tense. I was sort of the same way.

I really want the skeleton outfit; however, SMO is my “game to play when I have nothing else better to do”, so I think it’s going to take a while.

Huh. I’ve never heard a recovering alcoholic refer to themselves as a “functioning alcoholic.” Only “alcoholic” or “recovering alcoholic.” Perhaps its a regional thing? (Also recovering alcoholic, here.)

So, did you find the Larry David joke offensive because it wasn’t funny, or was it not funny because it was offensive?

Ditto. I always plan on 100%-ing everything, but then after a while I just get sort of done with it.

I read the spoiler-y section in the review, and no, it doesn’t seem to be necessary or worthwhile. I won’t go into any details, but the reviewer described it as “all stick and no carrot”. So pretty similar to BotW, it seems.