Ian

One of the big side effects of every game trying to be a forever game that occupies your time, is that it's feeling more and more difficult to justify buying any games.

The rest of their library is what... some re-releases that were always going to draw limited interest, a Two Point franchise that likely wore out it's nostalgia appeal (unfortunately) by now, and Atlus stuff. The later being Persona, or no one really cares.

Sega's complaints about "good games not selling" is understandable, but I'm curious what their expectations were for something like Crossworlds (releasing close to MKW) or Shinobi.

Also think they've over-pushed both Yakuza/LaD and the Total War series.

People are burnt out, or uninterested.

I'm struggling to understand what my actual use case for AI would be in my day to day job.

Maybe intentionally feed data through the LLM to output the same data in a slightly different way. I'm not asking it technical questions... if I wanted the wrong answer, I have people for that.

Got the “Ai needs to be core to your job” speech today. I’m sure the results of this won’t be terrible.

I’m going to keep it out and play Earthboard Rangers tomorrow

lol I ended up having to pull out my sons Eevee Poken TCG card mat for this and a couple of other games. Playing card heavy games on a wood table w/o sleeves is a pain.

Tend Farm, explore, and fish on an alien world.

Played a couple rounds of Tend (boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42...) today. I messed up rules in both rounds, but still had a good time. It solos really well. I actually agree w/the BGG player counts, since solo and 3P are probably the optimal way to play.
Lot of neat ideas.

Imagine going to literally major event in the US right now. Wouldn't do it for infinite money.

I had a chance to chat with @inonzur.bsky.social about his Starfield soundtrack, Todd Howard, music composition, working with Team Ninja on Rise of the Ronin, the Fallout 4 main theme, coffee, and much more: www.rpgsite.net/interview/19...

Tiktok used to be a fun platform, but now it seems largely populated by "let's make viral recipes" and progressive recycled take merchants that are trying to bait chuds into engaging.
Also seeing a lot of Capital D democrat takes about Newsom and dawg, I'm Canadian. We have our own problems.

I don't know how people still have faith in the Yoshi games.
They have just been uninspired and unengaging (even with kids) for decades at this point.

Suburban dog owners piss me off…
Sidewalks and pathways in the burbs are coated in dog shit. All because people didn’t want to pick it up while there was snow.

I’m hype to not play Requim in 6mths when I buy it as part of the last Capcom Super sale, because by that point it’ll be called the worst RE since 6

I accidently went into a random squad in Marathon and it wasn't the worse experience I've ever had... which is genuinely shocking based on past experiences in every game ever that involved playing with randoms.

Well, that was fun.
Ubuntu random broke battery charging for my laptop. Not really sure how. Managed to reload Win11 to test, and everything is working fine... so I guess I'm stuck on this shitty ass OS for a while.

The old characters are the old characters, and are basically using modified versions of build paths that worked in StS1, just adjusting to the fact that you rarely have 4+ energy.

Regent seems to be real good w/Colourless card gen.
Necrobinder is now the one I'm struggling with.

YT algorithm is recommending me StS2 guides, which is cool.
One catch... I'm higher Ascension than most of these runs.

Maybe I should do guides LOL

21.7hrs in Slay the Spire 2 since it hit early access.

Anyways... if anyone wondered how I ended up with about 1500 hrs total (across multiple platforms) for Slay the Spire 1... this is sort of how

The most mediocre white men on the planet have found success by yelling loudly and incorrectly about things that they lack the brain matter to speak on.
And they're empowered to do so, because of a following of white men who are unwilling to accept their own mediocrity or stupidity.

The fact that anyone listens to, or cares what AsmonMold has to say is a lot of the fucking problem with society.

Listen, I am not asking a man who last showered when One Piece was on 4Kids, what he thinks about military industrial complex, or what does or doesn't constitute a war crime.

This actually summarizes my entire Sw2 experience. More fun than I expected, but also everything costs way more than it should.

Pokopia has been surprisingly fun. I do still think that it being $100 MSRP is borderline criminal.

I mean, fair.
I just don't really want to see Kratos in Egypt, killing those gods.

I would love for them to use a move to Egypt as a way to detach from the past series baggage and soft reboot.
Keep the God of War "branding", but essentially start it as a new series. I thought Kratos moving to the Norse pantheon was kind of stupid and unnecessary, even if the games were good.

Ok... so I haven't actually bought Wolverine yet, because I can't.

Digital buys on MLB and Marathon, and my physical copy of Saros is fully paid (from trades, actually... thanks Mario Kart World, among others)

a man in a suit and bow tie says " the problem ... is me " Alt: a man in a suit and bow tie says " the problem ... is me "

Me - Sony doesn't release enough games.
Also Me - Buys MLB, Marathon, Saros and Wolverine... more games than the average posters buys in a year.

I'm up to 18hrs in Slay the Spire 2.

Ironclad, Regent, Necrobinder and Defect all at A2.
Silent. A5.

I've won w/3 different builds. Poison, Shiv x2 and Draw/Discard x2

There's only 3 games I'm buying this year.
Unfortunately, they're all bigger boxes.

I also have 18 billion games coming in March and April and then almost nothing for the rest of the year.

I probably don't need Marathon.
But I also liked the vibes significantly more than Arc, even if it was harder