I’m migrating to lemmy.zip, at least for the short term. They also have public instance reports, which was the major reason I joined lemm.ee. Transparency and accountability is essential. I guess the fact that those reports got more and more sparse at lemm.ee was a canary in the coal mine here…

It’s been a while. I usually leapfrog upgrade, but I did it all last time: i5-10600k, 3060Ti, an m.2 SSD. Was amazed at the size of the SSD.

I overclocked the CPU and it’s held up way better than I had expected, but as raytracing stops being optional more and more, I don’t know how much time my GPU has left.

Ugh, I can already tell this is my deadline for my getting a GPU upgrade.

Hopefully the switch to a third-party engine means I won’t have to wait a year after release like I did with CP2077. I imagine this game has to be super important to Epic.

This is in Kovir.

Farscape.

I had a roommate that loved the show and some of the later season stuff seemed really interesting when I caught it by chance, but I just couldn’t get into it every time I tried to sit through the first season. I think it’s a lost cause now with how much sci-fi TV has evolved.

The funny thing is Claudia Black’s character was my favorite part of Stargate SG-1, and I also liked Ben Browder on it too. At least I saw enough of Farscape to catch the little wink-and-nod there.

This was the show that taught me cringe-inducing humor is not at all for me.

None completed this month for me. I played a little Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance and will likely continue to do so this month. I keep trying Atelier Escha & Logy but it’s just not grabbing me. Not unusual for me with Atelier but feels worse this time somehow.

Might try Breath of Fire IV. Also have had my eye on Fantasian: Neo Dimension, could pick it up if it’s on sale this month.

If I’m being honest, before Hades, I wasn’t sure how much of a future Supergiant had in game dev. They clearly have talent for making beautiful looking worlds with great soundtracks and writing, but their gameplay was not exceptional for the genres they dabbled in. They didn’t try to iterate either, flitting from genre to genre.

Hades was the result of them taking what they learned from Bastion and Pyre and applying it to a trend. They really nailed the gameplay this time. I think Hades 2 is even better, and I suspect it will be again be a GOTY contender when it comes out.

That said, I think they could very well end up branching out again from roguelites after this.

Has happened multiple times in Australia.

Very similar to that for films, the rating board process mostly regulates games in development. In the US, for example, the AO rating will prevent your game from being sold at mass market storefronts. When your game has borderline content, it’s a back-and-forth process that’s resolved before release.

Freezing diced veggies was a game-changer for me. Sometimes I just want to get it all done at once so I don’t have to pull out the board and wash everything every time.

It’s like I’m a sous chef for future me.

A lot of cards have other fringe perks like insurance on rental cars, for example. Absolutely worth flipping through your benefits package sometime.

Game content rating boards work (ESRB, PEGI, CERO, etc.). The difference here is there’s no pressure from the digital storefronts. They don’t have the same taboos on gambling that brick-and-mortar stores had on sex and violence in video games back when they started up.

I can hear it in my head.

The Expanse is one I never skipped once on watch or rewatch (I was even annoyed that it wasn’t regular until season 2).

Yuri’s original post has since been deleted. Erin Fitzgerald, the (second) voice of Chie, also said on Bluesky that she won’t be returning, along with Amanda Winn Lee, the voice of Yukiko, elsewhere:

I don’t know if Sega or Atlus did something to piss everyone off, if it’s some bizarre marketing stunt, or if the others just decided to pile on after Yuri went scorched earth on this. The whole thing’s pretty weird.

Are you saying that Hashino himself was responsible for the problematic content, or that he would have stood in the way of revising it?

I wishlisted Tactics Returners and Last Moon. Last Moon isn’t typically my kind of gameplay but it looks gorgeous enough that I’d like to follow it.

I was impressed with Runa when I first saw it a few months ago, still looks good too.

Toups said calling it gumbo is a north/south Louisiana thing, but hell if I know.

He also said to use good sausage, and if you don’t live somewhere where you can get good sausage, move. Solid life advice.

Gumbo. I’d never tried it since I’m not a fan of seafood dishes, but I stumbled upon Isaac Toups’ chicken and sausage gumbo recipe and it’s borderline life-changing.

One of the best things to ever come out of my kitchen.

Also a calorie bomb, unfortunately. It goes in my Thai green curry and I wish I could have it more often 😩

Coconut milk is also one of those things where brand name makes a huge difference.