FrontalMonkey, as determined by the XBox Gamertag Generator

One of the nice things about following you is that basic productivity tools I never knew existed just pop up on my radar like this. For search I’ve come to depend on Agent Ransack, but I never considered an explorer alternative, I’ve just…suffered lol

Seriously. I didn’t think that halftime show would affect me, but something about that salsa portion hit me right in my soul and took me back to summer vacations down in Miami to visit family, and I would *love* for other cultures to feel that, too.

Plus, introducing me to new music? Yes please!

Yes, 100% agree. Fusion *worked* but it certainly had problems. My only strong memory of fusion was secret hunting just to progress which left a bad taste in my mouth, but the atmosphere and the SA-X *really* worked.

Unfortunately, it’s like they learned all the wrong lessons for future games.

I finally finished Hollow Knight last year just after Silksong’s release date was announced, so I love this for you. It’s such a ride.

Now you just gotta get the true ending. ;)

The literal first time this has ever been useful for me happened only a few weeks ago. I had just beaten Chronicles of the Wolf, was rolling the credits, and an old friend of mine DMs me “Is that French Castlevania? It looks rad”.

I was like “oh boy, have I got the game for *you specifically*”

Agreed, but close second to OHMSS.

And ultimately, my biggest takeaway was that PS:T was an important part of video game history more than anything else.

Basically, PS:T walked so Disco Elysium could run.

You know, I played through PS:T…I dunno, in the last 7-8 years and it was…fine? The novelty for me (and what I knew going into it) was that it was “Like Baldur’s Gate, but the combat is an afterthought”.

Which is fair, and good, except for the fact that you get funneled into combat in the third act

Unlike SCOTUS, D&D has rules 0 and 0.5.
Rule 0: what the DM says, goes.
Rule 0.5: is the DM is an asshole, their players go, too.

And the reason I know my brain is broken is because it wasn’t until the second “500” in your post that I realized you meant “a large number of errors” and not “Internal Server Error responses”.

Whoa that’s awesome I want one :O

Is THAT how that works?!
I literally never understood how that worked and wondered how some of my characters would inexplicably have a bunch of job points for a job they’ve never been.

It’s been over 15 years since I’ve been to Japan, but one thing remains true: I see a can of Boss Rainbow Blend and I want it *immediately*.

Tbh while I loved the game I’d say almost half of its appeal is just the fact that the soundtrack completely whips ass…easily put more time into the ost than I ever did playing

I still haven’t gotten around to silksong, but in all the Metroidvanias I’ve finished this year (HK, both Ender games) it always boils down to “disrespect the boss mechanics and die”. 60% pattern recognition, 40% execution. Once you recognize brute force doesn’t work, it gets easier somehow.

If anything, S2 has encouraged me to go back to the S1 library, just like I did with XSX and PS5 to the previous gen. The upgrade is far more variable from game to game than I’d like, but the load times and smoother framerate alone makes a lot of games more bearable.

I think it’s primarily a “me” thing. I appreciate the “wow” moment, but shifting my brain in that specific way throws me into analysis paralysis *really* fast.

Oh hey, it’s the reason I never beat Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Honestly the thing that yanks me out of a game harder than anything is the one that brake checks you half way through with a genre shift, like The Messenger. Give me a linear game OR a non-linear game, not both.

I think with how ubiquitous support is becoming for things like games, and with the things I use my PC for…it’s about time.

But it’s still scary and new, so I’m just shouting it at the void.

Like…I think the only releases I know of are Red Hat and Debian? But I know there’s a thousand different flavors and a million different packages and I’m like “uhhhhhh…”

Idk.

I only used bash for like a year in college to upload projects and I forced myself to use git bash at work to do some basic things like do checkouts, commits, pushes, etc.

But beyond learning the CLI, the most daunting thing about switching to Linux by far is not knowing what to get.

Reading a thread on Linux this morning made me realize that pretty much the only thing stopping me from making the switch off of Windows on my home PC is the fact that I don’t know where to start.

I’ve been using a Microsoft OS since DOS 3.0. It’s so ingrained in me at this point.

It boggles the mind (in the best way) how enough people bought the absolute acid trip that is MDK to warrant a sequel.

You could make a strong case for 2010 or 2001, but for me it’s 1997. The late 90s were just…whew, what a time to be alive.

lol, it’s also a series staple that the end of the tutorial dungeon throws a boss at you designed to completely murder you to introduce you to the “you can’t actually die permanently” mechanic

Such a good series, and an excellent entry point.

I feel like you probably understood way earlier than that. Part of it was comfort, sure, but also part of the fun for me was trying out different builds and/or party makeup. In that sense, I think you had the same experience with Mass Effect 2.

Yeeeep. Right there with you. The only time I ever beat FFT was on the PSX back in the days when I gamesharked *everything* and I got stuck near the end of Act 2.

Such a great game, and I am looking forward to finally going through it the way I should have back then.

I only really prefer it in specific instances where I’m desperately trying to figure out Where The Thing Is (like in a collect-a-thon game or while working out a puzzle or something).