Unfortunately people are complacent about it. I’ve known a ton of people who’ve lived all over the inland empire and are willing to drive 2ish hours a day to work in LA just because they want their own house with a lawn.

I’ve known someone that lives as far as apple valley and works in Pasadena and makes this trip both ways 6 days out of the week. It’s insanity.

Oooh these are neat. Definitely going this route whenever I can afford to upgrade.

You can definitely play MGS5/V before playing 4, if you’ve played 3 you’ll have 60% of the context needed. Peace Walker and Ground Zeroes make up the last 39%. IIRC the only context you’ll get from playing 4 is a few things involving the Les Enfants Terribles project.

EDIT: Thinking on it, if anything playing MGS4 after V might actually enhance your enjoyment of the series as it was fully meant to be a bookend to the series.

Oh, I must have misread. That’s good to hear then.

Unfortunately I don’t have a Wii U, I played through 3U mostly solo on the 3ds, but thank you for the invite.

Death Stranding, Overwatch, Monster Hunter 3U.

Death Stranding because I’m not going to subject anyone to Kojima’s brand of technobabble and self-fellation combined with a (admittedly fairly deep mechanically) walking simulator.

Overwatch because an FPS/MOBA combination has to be doing some actual damage to my psyche, and also it’s just a hard sell to start with because of obvious reasons.

MH3U because it’s only available on the 3DS and Wii U and it’s the last really slow MH of the pre-World MHs. On 3DS it has no online play, and the Wii U servers have been taken down. It’s the last MH before they introduced the mobility additions and improvements from 4 that made combat more fluid and fast, and before World introduced the system that basically finds the monster for you, as well as making mat gathering much more easy and less tedious.

EDIT: ooh for something that’s more ‘obscure jank’ I just remembered I LOVED Phantom Breaker on the 360. It was a fighting game by 5pb/Mages that had a split style system. You had to choose between ‘Quick’ and ‘Hard’ where one was fast/felt more rushdown-y and the other was slower/felt more defensive. The game was super flashy because you would constantly clash, and meter built really fast WHILE ALSO CARRYING OVER BETWEEN ROUNDS which led to wild round start set-ups. This clip from will it kill is from the newer version but it’s fucking hilarious.

Holy shit I just saw the modlog for your com, that guy’s response is both unhinged and hilarious.

most sane 196 poster

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I spent way too much time on this game, but I made at least one life long friend on it.

And it was the first place I ever met a trans person. Her screen name was kirademi and I will always thank her for letting me ask my stupid teenage questions about trans women way before I had an inkling that I might be trans. I owe it to her though because she helped me understand and empathize with trans people from a young age. I haven’t spoken to her in well over a decade at this point but I hope she’s doing great wherever she is.

I miss playing mid rate and ultra high rates though. I catch myself reminiscing about the stalker class and the professor class, they were probably some of my favorite mmo classes because of their pvp class specific abilities and versatility. When battlegrounds came out on the last midrate I played, I rolled support and control on both jobs because they were nearly unkillable when spec’d correctly.

damn i already started watching this two weeks ago

My dude is obsessed.

GOD you just brought back memories of playing the shit out of that game for hours into the night as a NEET in my late teens with my best friends.

I miss that game.

It is what it is. Endwalker was at least the best possible place to end my xiv journey so I feel content for the most part.

I had just finally committed to quitting before seeing all the announcements last night lmao. I had no idea fanfest was going on but this and the new 8man raid as well as the new cyberpunkish city look neat, unfortunately I don’t think I’m gonna come back to xiv for a very long time.

Most of them have literally never even checked hexbear as if just looking at the site will cause them to instantly die of shock or something. Before I got banned, every time I asked a user (and one time a mod) if they’ve even been to hexbear they’d say something along “no why would i want to visit that site.”

Then they call hb an echo chamber.

To be completely honest it’s less roguelike and more Majora’s Mask. (MM/Zelda is one of their biggest inspirations)

I get it though, it took a few starts and a long break to really have it click for me. When it did click though, it stuck hard.

Outer wilds.

It’s the perfect length (8-14 hours), it’s not too difficult nor too easy, provides satisfying movement systems that are responsive and just make sense logically/mentally.

The story isn’t spoon fed to you but isn’t so cryptic that you’re lost and its puzzles are incredibly satisfying to solve while depending entirely on your knowledge so they feel fair.

The vibes that the soundtrack, soundspace, and aesthetics all come together to engross you in are just impeccable.

It also just sticks with you for so long, a good game makes you think about it while not playing. OW has you thinking about it for years after being done with it.

The internet is so overrun with woke nonsense that early MLL models had to be tuned to avoid returning chud-speak

GEE THE COMMUNITY NOTES CAN CARRY A BIAS?

Okay but this is real. When I change my mind on having kids I’m going to treat it the same way I do when I breed pokemon for IVs/Natures/Shiny.