Wow I can't believe Burnout 3 was that cheap!

Yeah, that's the downside to the game. All the stuff with your home base island is fantastic but some of the story missions are a bit long.

That game might be the most I played a game after finishing it. I put like 50 hours in after beating the story.

But hey, I only had 18 unread emails in my inbox today so there's that!

It's not really a mystery box show, like Lost or Severance, even tho it pretends to be. It's much more of a character study, like alot of Vince Gilligan's other stuff.

Still can't believe I played through the entire Phantasy Star series (at least the mainline games) this year on a whim. I genuinely love that series now and some of them have replaced Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest as my favorite 8/16-bit jrpgs.

And just for fun, some New To Me games I played and loved this year:

UFO 50
Phantasy Star series
Sonic Mania
Lunar: Silver Star Story

Some honorable mentions include:

Sword of the Sea
Skate Story
Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter
AC Shadows

After a certain point, I found DQ11 was very respectful of my time, which is not something I can say for other 100 hour RPGs. Also Sylvando is the fuckin best

That Kinokuniya book store is one of my favorite places to people watch. It is mind-blowing how all walks of life will pop into a manga shop.

I'm so sorry to hear that. My condolences to you and your family

Ain't that just the way 😅

Ah that makes sense. I'm lucky that I didn't need to rely on them for too much monetary support but am more looking for moral support 😅

I wish my family was that eager to help me 😅. I commiserated with some old friends this week about how our parents don't understand how hard things are now compared to when they grew up.