I'm almost halfway into the first book after the trilogy but the time skip into the 80s is so noticeable in this. I don't think smoking has been mentioned at all so far.

Every time a 30-something-old shows up, the books are like "look, a baby. a newborn. he's gotten almost to the top of the corporate ladder despite being an infant himself." and I find that wonderful.

Personally, if I was First Speaker at the Second Foundation, I would have revoked Stor Gendibal's Speakership just because he was surprised that a bra lifted a person's breasts.

:(

Actual shit from a butt

I find it difficult to get excited for future videogames, if they're just going to be jammed full of that shit. Even a wonky drawing is so much better than that slop.

It looks so well-meaning though!

Jucika??

I figured they'd do that, it would be kind of jarring otherwise. They did that in The Invincible game too (originally a Lem novel) and I thought it was a good touch and a great game.

I was going to retract my "definitely not a woman" point but then I finished the trilogy and... nah, I said what I said.
Anyway, I started reading Foundation's Edge and Trevize + Branno... GET A ROOM.

(tbh I must disclose that I did pay for Spotify premium for a while - but fuckk it's expensive)

He was right though, he's named like one of these home exercise machines from the early 00s

I see, that makes sense! I didn't know enough about this game to expect background-heavy companions, I guess. The recruited folks still say lines, express their opinions and interact with other NPC-s along the way, but it is different from having their own storylines and sidequests.

I went with the default stats, just changed their looks + backgrounds a bit for fun. I find it really fun but I can see it getting really tedious in harder modes. It was very rough early on even on Easy.

I don't ever see them outside of this one day of migration. I know they can be aggressive towards other birds but sparrows can too and we have plenty of those! Grackles wouldn't make that much difference.

They sound so funny too! Rusty door hinge birds.