I thought I was a vernal pool, but y’all, I might be a playa…
I thought I was a vernal pool, but y’all, I might be a playa…
I sometimes finish the sentence for them to speed things along. It’s a bad habit of mine and I try not to be rude about it. Hopefully it just comes across as understanding and supportive rather than usurping the conversation.
Ghost of Tsushima is one of my comfort games, but I hate replaying the end of act 2 because of the emotional toll.
In Devil May Cry 3, the Nevan boss fight and backtracking through the rearranged tower after it’s activated are just tedious.
Another user said the Fade section of Dragon Age: Origins, but I’ll go with the Deep Roads. Everything you learn in that section is fascinating, but man, I just want to see the sky again and you’re down there for a while.
I’ve been pretty happy with my Motorola moto g series phones over the last several years.
I also read some things in the languages I’m trying to learn, and this feature is essential for translating words I don’t know yet.
Plus, the backlight (adjusted for warmth so as not to keep me up) lets me read in bed with the light off and I don’t have to get up to turn it off when I’m done.
I was very pro only real books for a while, and still am a fan of a real book, but the quality of life features of e-readers eventually sold me. Especially because night is one of the few times I can read.
Maybe look into an Onyx Boox instead of a Kindle. It will let you download books straight from the web (like standardebooks.org and Project Gutenberg) without having to side load. Also, you can add the Libby and Overdrive apps to it since it accesses the Google Play store. Also, it accepts all files formats so you don’t have to convert anything.
I read on e-readers a lot and I’ve been known to long press a word on the page of a real book to get a definition. Yeah… Muscle memory is a hell of a thing.
Dragon Age: Origins. Not sure why. I was a big fan of Mass Effect already, and of story heavy RPGs in general, but I stopped this one pretty early on and sat on it for several years. Needless to say, it stuck the second time and now I’ve played it and the other Dragon Age games multiple times.
Yeah, it’s the price that bothers me the most about this. For the same amount, you can get a whole Switch Lite.
And I’m still salty about how they treated the Vita. This is what we get as the first handheld successor to the Vita? And the Vita didn’t cost much more.
Thank you kindly! Off to do some shopping!
Yeah, @Freesiana, I have to know where you got that Mass Effect pillowcase. I want one.
Also, adorable sus kitty!
I just discovered a cookbook called Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden while looking up cookbooks to get me to eat more veggies. It’s in the mail, so I can’t vouch for the recipes yet. Apparently it’s very highly rated though and I’m excited for some tasty veggies.
Yep, my parents are also sadly in the school of “just take a pill for it,” which then turns into taking more pills for the side effects of the pills they’re taking, and on and on.
While I’m in the “make healthy lifestyle changes” camp and have, so far in my early 40s, never been on long term medication and hopefully never will. It’s so frustrating watching my parents deteriorate while still paying for so many meds.
The little fuckers have given me PTSD. The toll they take on your mental health is real.
It’s almost pornographic. I can’t stop staring at it.
Did your cat write that?
Hmmm, the same might be possible in the book too:
Pippin felt curiously attracted by the well. While the others were unrolling blankets and making beds against the walls of the chamber, as far as possible from the hole in the floor, he crept to the edge and peered over. A chill air seems to strike his face, rising from the invisible depths. Moved by a sudden impulse he groped for a loose stone, and let it drop. He felt his heart beat many times before there was any signs. Then far below, as if the stone had fallen into deep water in some cavernous place, the came a plunk, very distant, but magnified and repeated in the hollow shaft.
‘What’s that?’ cried Gandalf. He was relieved when Pippin confessed what he had done; but he was angry, and Pippin could see his eye glinting. ‘Fool of a Took!’ he growled. ‘This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance. Now be quiet!’
Nothing more was heard for several minutes; but then there came out of the depths faint knocks: tap-tom, tap-tom. …
This is how I feel too. I keep bouncing off of them, but I really want to like them.
I’m guessing it’s the top down camera that’s the issue with lack of immersion.
The only CRPG I didn’t bounce off of was Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Not 100% sure why that one clicked, but it might be the writing.