I’ve been having a rough month (stomach issues) and so I’m fending off depression with stardew valley (year 1 winter just reached) and slay the spire 2.

and indeed it is the most fine.

It was a week to forget. Between an 8 hour hospital visit and then struggling to work afterwards (doctors figured the work wouldn’t hurt too much) I’ve been very tired.

I did play through cocoon, a puzzle game like inside, with an interesting jumping inside worlds to solve puzzles. Takes about 4 or 5 hours. Fun, not too hard.

I also took blue prince to about as far as I want to, (sat on the throne, and opened all the doors in the crate tunnel). I read what comes next and im good for now. Maybe in a year I’ll get the itch to see it through but for now I’ll let it be.

A little bit of khazan. It continues to exist. It’s definitely mediocre souls like, worse than nioh and generally just fairly bland. Itemization is easier than nioh, so that’s something. But enemies are neither dangerous enough nor is there enough if them to make for a challenge.

Debating returning everspace 2, which I was have more fun with.

Slay the spire 2 early access this week as well so I’ll enjoy that.

Been playing everspace 2, it’s like an arcade space sim with Diablo arpg loot system to upgrade your ship. The story is been nothing special, but it has lots of progression mechanics that make number go up feel nice as you shoot space laser at space ships.

Just been debating what game to dig into next, I have stellar blade (I have no idea if it’s good or just a Gooner game), the first berserker khazan, and the trails in the sky remake (I have played the original so not really rushing into it).

I have been considering more blue prince, I’m at the stage where I need to bring three things into a throne room in a single run, so we’ll see if I can build the endurance to make that happen.

Yeah we’re at the point where if you aren’t making 30 an hour you’re probably barely getting by and almost certainly do not have any health coverage.

I have finished Clair obscur expedition 33, I didnt do all the act 3 things, mostly didn’t do the endless tower, or finding Simon (whoever that is).

My verdict, it’s a fun game, well made, but the story is classic jrpg trash. Specifically this one owes a debt to ffx. The twist specifically takes the wind out of the principle plot you’re introduced to, and shifts it to something centred on family trauma (which I really do not care for). While it does make sense of a world that makes no sense, it’s unsatisfying for me.

Basically, I can understand why people adore the game, but I feel about it as I do for people who exclaimed that ffx was the greatest ever, or those who exclaimed about ff7 being the greatest. They’re all fairly mid and your first one will hit you hard.

but it’s this little girls turn. Get in line kamala.

Started expedition 33, and it’s clearly good. Just in chapter 2 now and enjoying it. But it’s been hyped to such astronomical levels that I don’t think it’ll ever reach them. It seems like a very standard jrpg with a profoundly weird setting and a fun combat system. I’m playing on easy so I don’t have to waste time grinding too much to get through it.

We’ll see if gets really good at some point or if it jumps into excellence at some point.

China fixed the automotive industry, are they about to fix the housing crisis now as well?

No, because the crisis in the west is that houses are worth too much money, creating a bunch of cheap houses was always possible in the west, but the governments prevented that solution because if the price of houses fall then boomers and the other home owners will have no equity and be angry. The crisis that people don’t have homes and get ripped off by landlords is not one that government actually cares about.

I finally finished metaphor refantazio! It’s done, the land is saved and everyone is happy. Very persona like ending, nice epilogue day to round out the characters. Ultimately I think the story was a little too clean, wrapped up too nicely. But it was a fun ride. Definitely enjoyed the pacing much more than a persona game, which can drag on in my experience.

Onto expedition 33 now I suppose, but also the roottrees are dead as a palate cleanser.

You need to write down your thoughts. If you don’t like writing then you need to talk to others and discuss the themes together. You’ll never notice everything because you have your own lense through which you see the world, and that’s why talking to others is useful to reveal the lense that other use to understand the media they consume. You will hopefully each be able to scratch away part of the underlying themes and such that go beyond the surface level stuff.

I’m incredibly bad at it as well. I’m reading books along with shelved by genre (Austin Walker and ranged touch people) and I’m never able to match their analysis. It’s deeply frustrating sometimes because I really struggle sometimes to make the connections like they do, but they’re like professional media critics, and I’m just some dude who never really dipped my toes into this until the last decade or so. Just gotta keep trying and maybe accept we will never be able to decode all the bits in our media.

Metaphor refantazio; I’ve hit the final stretch I believe. I think I like it overall. It’s a little optimistic in that you can simply do the the good things because you can build power out of nowhere. And there’s no real choices to make concerning the plot. But as an idealistic fantasy game about saving the world from the corruption of the powerful elites it could be worse. We’ll see how the finale goes and if it sticks the landing or if it flubs it horribly.

Yep, I’ve seen numerous shit libs blaming this on Putin and Xi… Like nothing but

I got many games for Christmas. Too many games for Christmas. They demanded I give a list of games I wanted and then they bought them all. This is good. Except it’s also bad, because I’m still not through the games from last Christmas. But I got pocky and rocky reshrined for PS4 which is a remaster/reimagined pocky and rocky game. And so I’ve been playing that mostly.

Also metaphor refantazio, which I’ve been on a week break from because Christmas and shit. Hopefully I can get back to it now and finish it off in a month and dig into all the other games I got.

The other games I got? Clair obscure 33, khazan first berserker, ever space 2. I need a vacation just to dig into these games.

It’s cold as balls here so I’d gladly send you the cold and snow if anyone wants their Christmas to be white. Negative 18 out now, probably be around negative ten for most of the week.

First time with my partner for Christmas so it’s different and I don’t really want to spend time with family, but tragically I have to. I’m burned out from retail work and just want the holidays over so I can have normal routine return.

Who gives a shit about honor of the rich? They’ve never had any, because they’re fucking rich.

Give the wealth away and help actual people if they’re concerned about being honorable.

It’s so good, I can just zone out and focus on cleaning things. I’ve already got like 30 hours in it.

Working my way through metaphor refantazio. And decompressing from work and family holiday stress with power wash simulator 2.

Oh no is the genocidal army having a hard time finding people to murder innocent people all-day long?

I mean I’m fairly certain it was the most anyone had seen Zuckerberg in a decade and caused him to begin his buff broccoli look a year later or something; so I think that was the main takeaway he learned is people are revolted by him.