Yes, but also absolutely no.

If every game becomes a paralyzing consequence nexus, some of us wont play them who would otherwise actually play a linear RPG like we’ve come to expect from the FF franchise.

Final fantasy is not the same niche as baludars gate, and they really need to not see themselves as competitors. Fewer cutscenes and more play? Absolutely. Changing the entire genre of the game? Ehh.

I genuinely dislike games where I can play multiple times and not get all the content. Im always stuck. I want to experience as much as I can for the least time investment (hated choose your own ending books for the same reason), but they are made to be infinitely replayable and I'm not into that. There are more games out there. 🤷🏻

Unsurprising that actually feeling safe increases use over “trust everyone bro, even the people who threaten you, painted lines will stop them!”

We all thought nazis were a back in the day problem too, though. Maybe better we don’t make that assumption this time.

My parents held a seance with a “medium” (a grifter my mom knew), trying to contact the spirit in the house named Edward (the man who built the property and lived there until he died in a fire he started while drunk).

I was 10-12 or so and it was really dumb. They recorded the session on a boom box (this was the 90s) and importantly I rested myself on it throughout the whole thing so I probably ruined the whole thing because the only notable anomaly on the tape was a heartbeat, and it was probably mine.

However, as a result of all the chatter around the supernatural, I had “unexplained occurrences” for the next couple weeks due to being attuned to that sort of thing which I’d normally have blown off. Im not religious, not spiritual, and don't really believe in supernatural phenomenon, other than “we cant explain this but it definitely happened” sort of stuff. Many of the things I experienced the following weeks I’ve been able to explain as my knowledge of the weird natural world expanded, so..

Technically you always taste the contents of your bowels, you just aren't conscious of it.

Your digestive system has tastebuds all up and down it, just like your tongue. Unlike your tongue, they very thankfully aren't hooked into sensory processing parts of the brain. Instead, they are used to help determine everything’s good. If they detect something is off, bacteria byproducts, spoilage, etc, they cause the purges to happen (vomiting or diarrhea depending where in the digestive process it is, sometimes both!!)

But thats basically why you can sometimes feel very spicy food move through and burn along the way.

How was it? Delicious?

This reminds me of the dude who built a computer that technically runs doom inside satisfactory or factorio (I think satisfactory).

I’m struggling to find the video now, but he wrote a ton of optimization code to make it run faster, because it’s painfully slow. I think the video was sped up 1,000x or so just to show it was, in fact, playing.

I love looking at natural older faces at rest because they tell a story about the expressions that person made most frequently throughout their lifetime. Like a little glimpse of the life that person led.

Its just wild to me how angry/condescending all the conservatives tend to look when their faces are at rest.

Probably why mar-a-lago face has become popular with them. Being a bootleg barbie beats being angry old men.

The last time I went under, I was talking to the nurses about the equipment in the room and stuff and the last thing I really remember is asking what drug they gave me, and when I learned it was fentanyl I was like “oh, this is fentanyl? It’s pretty nice. I can see why it’s a controlled substance, yeah.”

I’m entirely sure I continued to be annoying though, even if I don’t remember it. Mostly because they don’t tend to bother trying to get me to count, they just kept me chattering. Same thing when they wake me up. I tend to be.. “helpful”.. removing monitor pads and such and slurring my way through asking how it went, if I gave them any trouble, and when I come around a bit more, asking if they amputated the wrong limb (I’ve never had a limb removed).

Exactly what I do. I fucked up long ago and had to grind an end boss for weeks to not replay the entire game (saved with basically nothing in inventory).

Now I rotate save files, always keep stacks of consumables, etc. and absolutely never use awesome or unique items. Because you never know.

The sad part is I'm much better at games now, having had 30 more years to practice, so I rarely even need those crutches.. unless theres an easy to use hotkey for it, I probably wont use them much. The situation that convinced me to be abundantly cautious has literally never happened, or come close to happening, again, and not at all because I changed strategies.