They all think they’re journalists unless they’re being sued, then suddenly they’re commentators or entertainers.

Sure maybe, except they’re the legendary beasts, not dogs. I don’t think it’s ever actually said that they were Vaporeon, Jolteon & Flareon, that’s just fan theory because the types fit satisfyingly. It’s always “three unknown Pokémon” which for all we know could have been the beasts to begin with. It’s not confirmed either way but there’s just as much in-game evidence to suggest they evolved in the Darwinian sense from Walking Wake depending on which version of Sada you believe 🤷‍♂️

Up to OP which way they want to go with that, but fact is their designs were based on a lion, tiger and leopard, and Eevee being based on a fox was OP’s justification for including Vaporeon in the previous topic.

If Vaporeon qualifies despite its appearance because it evolved from something that was based on a fox, then Suicune shouldn’t qualify despite its appearance because it’s based on a leopard.

Also, I don’t know what that Vulpix is from but they aren’t blue (switch it for an Alolan one?). I’m guessing it’s some fan-made sprite because it’s sort of similar to a couple of real ones.

What about Sonic the Werehog? I’m pretty sure they meant wolfhog.

What a strange petition. I loved Mass Effect, but forcing EA to make more of them when they don’t have any of the talent from nearly two decades ago does not interest me at all. Even if it were a recent title, I’d take a spiritual successor from some of the same team over whatever shit EA would put out 10 times out of 10.

I play so many shop sims, everything from normal simulators like Supermarket Sim to fantasy dungeon crawlers like Fell & Sell or Moonlighter to gimmicky ones like The Walking Trade, I have never found one that I enjoyed as much as Recettear. It’s a hard act to follow.

I really dig Nibelsnarf. Such a cool design. It’s not super different or exciting or anything, but it works.

Honestly, I found many hundreds of hours of Monster Hunter to be absolutely no help when I played my first Soulslike. I tried to play it like I would MH and got destroyed constantly until I forced myself to forget what I thought I knew and let the game teach me its own way. I just got the new Steam Controller, so I’ve been playing a bunch of games to try to get used to it because I really loved the old model. I don’t know if it’s just a case of needing to get used to the camera movement or if I’m super rusty, but my most recent journey into Wilds was rough. I want to keep playing a little bit now and then to keep my skills up for the upcoming expansion, but I’m still a bit burned out on it. Always happens with this series.

I’ve been replaying Batman. I’m still plodding along with challenge maps for achievements alongside the story modes. Asylum is completely done, City has Robin and Nightwing to go plus most of NG+, Origins I’m partway through the story and it’s still my favourite, haven’t touched challenge maps yet, Knight I only need to do 4 more maps but they’re really tough ones, I’ll probably still be beating my head against them when I finish the Origins story and start this one. I’ve also started a separate replay of the series alongside my normal replay so that my GF can see it all and I can infodump on her the whole time (don’t worry, this arrangement goes both ways, she got me though about 9999 hours of Lord of the Rings movies and cartoons and books first).

We also got through Luca in Final Fantasy X. I won the tournament, she lost. We’re treating this the same way we watch TV series and overanalysing everything as we go, really digging into characterisation and whatnot. For such an old game with relatively primitive models and animations it’s still surprisingly in-depth, there’s a lot going on that I never picked up on in the past.

Replaying Metal Gear Solid V. It still rules.

Finally, the only new thing on this whole list, I am obsessed with janky, kind of shitty business sims because I love watching them grow and being able to interact with the devs, and it’s nice having a small community mostly free of anti-woke bullshit. I’m currently into Car Dealer Simulator. I don’t know if I could really recommend it to normal people, but I’m having a great time.

It wasn’t even an interview, it would have been an improvement if a reporter had had to squeeze this out of him. It was a completely voluntary Facebook tantrum.

This is done with a fictional language in the first Nier game. You spend the whole time slaughtering hordes of enemies, but then new game+ gives them subtitles and makes you do it all again with context. It’s grim.

I need the updates. My apartment door is a few minutes and a card-locked lift ride away from the street, even if they could get to me I wouldn’t expect anyone to go that far. It’s not like I could just note the estimated delivery time and be ready for that, I’ve had more punctual doctor’s appointments than the average food delivery.

About 15 years ago when I was at my most depressed and least healthy, I used to get 3 pizzas every weekend (Saturday dinner, Sunday lunch, Sunday dinner) because that worked out as the cheapest deal. One week I only got a single pizza and the delivery guy commented on it, just something small like “Oh only one today?” I never got Dominos again.

I hate the yes vs not now choices. I use DoorDash maybe once a month or two when we’re having a lazy night in, and every time I open it (including to check the order progress of an order I just made) it prompts me to turn on notifications. Yes or not now. Here, I’ll grab it now.

The thing is, I have notifications on!

I will “never miss an order update” as they say because it’s allowed, I’ve only turned off the million ads they want to send me. These companies constantly being as shitty as possible is getting to me more and more these days.

I’m not getting anything like this and I only have a debit card, there must be something else going on. I’m not sure what else to look for but I can get to Resident Evil and porn game store pages without issue on the android app and website (I’m not home to check the PC client). My account is 15 years old so obviously I’d have to be old enough, but since that wasn’t a factor for you I don’t know what the rules are.

Boots were equipment, not an item. You couldn’t assign them iirc. You might be thinking of a later game.

Execute them all

I have two email addresses that I use to sign up to everything, and they themselves are both over 18 years old. The only thing I’ve let verify my age is my Microsoft account, and they did that by looking up my email with their “age verification partner” or whatever, and they determined I was over 18.

Not that I was ever planning to give any websites my ID or do any selfie shit with anyone anyway, but now that I know it’s completely possible to be verified without all that I definitely won’t now. Discord never tried to lock me out, so I guess my account there is old enough? I signed up pretty early when they started. I’ll go completely offline before I play along with any of this.

I think so, yeah. I don’t think I’d have liked this if I didn’t already love the series, which I’ve seen dozens of times throughout my life (it’s my “that show”). Seasons 1 & 2 aren’t my favourite and they’re very different to 3+, but 3-6 and somehow 10 are fantastic.

Maybe try it, and if you aren’t into the first ep it’ll at least give you some context so you can skip to 3 to see if that’s any better. You’ll miss a bit, but for the first handful of seasons the major plot developments are more of a change of status quo between seasons and less about individual episodes, so you should be fine.

I just finished the second Red Dwarf book earlier tonight, I liked it. It’s interesting how they’ve mashed together and expanded on so many of the episodes to make them flow together back to back. I feel so much sorrier for book-Lister than show-Lister, and he was already in a living hell.

Also about halfway through Watcher of the Void by Michael G Manning but there’s not much to say about it. If you can get past Will (and Mordecai before him) being fairly unlikeable and impossibly powerful so that it feels like you’re playing a game with a child who can make the rules as they go, it’s more of the same. This is book twenty-something so if you’re reading it you probably know what to expect.

It’s just that and the next three Red Dwarfs lined up for now, then back to First Law probably.

I’ve (only?) got about 100 hours in it, I think it’s pretty good. The main worry with the new one is that the devs are working with Paradox Interactive now, so everyone expects excessive monetisation and minimal bugfixes because that’s what they do. Since the game isn’t even out yet and they’ve just announced a deluxe edition, limited time collector’s edition, official merchandise, loyalty discounts and preorder bonuses, I think I might pass on this one.

I also have everything forwarding to another account, with a rule to tag the ones sent to my gmail so that they’re highlighted. It’s a big task at first but just do a couple every now and then and eventually it’ll be done.