It has done the joy of making it so that traveling the world isn't boring (it's basically a metroidvania) and building your party and changing it up across the game is so key to winning fights as you go through tiers of play. And the moment to moment game play makes you think on what to do each turn

Some thoughts here echo what I feel about traditional jrpgs. think it might be worth looking into a game called Crystal Project, which I think is one of the best examples of semi traditional jrpg and is one of my top 10 games of all time. World traversal is great, combat system never bored me once.

Toss gold*

In yesterday's ttrpg our baby party tasted loss for the first time. It sucks to be robbed by bandits, but we learned that there's a greater conspiracy because of it, and each person in the group has to wrestle with bruised egos, desperation, and how much we cared to toss hold for each other. Aces!

If you have that much love for someone, and that someone is special to you, they will be happy to hear it.

I know it's a 5 month old comment but wanted to say this was drilled into me once and I was sparse with saying it. I regretted it a lot.

Now I have broken down every single barrier and say it so often and my partner tells me that he never gets tired of hearing it. Don't dam your love. Let it flow!

IMO You can rephrase it to "If you feel like it, I'd love to see you there." so it's more dependent on how the person feels, but showing enthusiasm for them if they did. For many, the enthusiasm makes the consideration matter more because the thought is: If someone isn't excited to see them, why go?

Reposting old articles that have no source or have a dubious source or have outright been debunked, reactionary behavior. I think flooding the room with misinfo/disinfo is going to do a lot more harm than good.

I'll take two if you are accepting more? Seems like you're considering post Christmas stuff!

Is it the case of 'I like the idea/the fantasy roleplaying of it more than actually doing the motions IRL'? Motions here being everything to do with romance and sex - the lifestyle changes, the expectations, etc.

They took and have taken a strong hard stance for months now and dunk genai every podcast. But, Given how much anger and honest suffering there was in the last podcast once the larian news PLUS pat being made aware of (I think) a recent French interview w/ e33, I think pat reached activism fatigue

In the words of a popular gaming merchant, "what are ya selling?"

I'm glad you're getting to travel a bunch! It must be great to experience lots of these places.

I really wish that the sample size was bigger - they say over 1 million have taken the full survey but only 1800 took this gen ai optional survey, it seems. The results are promising but I wish we'd have a bigger number to show the people with their 'focus groups'

Happy birthday Reth <3

I'm so glad I got to see you. It was great, even if it was brief! I'm so happy that it has been such a great con for you! You're wonderful, and I'm glad you got to really push yourself out there. This con was very similar to me. It told me what I needed to pursue going forward as well.

It was joyous to see you!

Me too, young Sam. Me too.

I think the x and y axis are both gameplay. Theme should just be an added descriptor (campy or realistic)

The y axis to me would be character power. You can call onimusha vs. Resident evil along this line with RE being close to mid on y, with silent hill then alien isolation lower down.

Is kcd2 the dragon's dogma 2 we were denied?