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(+) Yeah! (+)

Also glad youre getting some use out of the SNES mini; I think I probably only played mine a handful of times!

I played it a decent bit until all the games ended up on Switch Online...!

I have an NES Mini that's still in the box

A little late, but congratulations!

Congratulations!

Maybe one day we'll finally make storyline progress in Tears of the Kingdom

We have found some cool stuff going in the complete opposite direction of any of the points on the map though

Storyline progress is impossible. I get sidetracked 50 different ways just walking from one shrine to another.

my wife is obsessed with riding horses and also chopping down every patch of tall grass or shrub to see if there are resources hiding there

I like how they made Korok seeds more fun to get. I've already gotten more in TotK than I ever did in BotW.

TeamRocketElite posted...

I like how they made Korok seeds more fun to get. I've already gotten more in TotK than I ever did in BotW.

I don't know if I'd say they're more fun, but they do seem less annoying than I remember them being in BotW.

Yeah, they generally seem a lot quicker to just pick up and move on with your life.

Minus the backpacking ones. Those guys can burn.

Those are the fun ones! >_>

The backpack ones get much better once you get a certain ability IMO.

I decided to start Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere books. From what I understand, there's no consensus on where to start, so I'm going in release order.

I finished Elantris, which was pretty good. It had some Attack on Titan vibes to it, and I enjoy stories with alternating perspectives, too.

Mistborn is up next.

Release order is a great way to do it.

I liked Elantris a lot. Some good mysteries and fun characters. His writing is a lot more amateurish there, but I don't really mind that sort of thing.

Yeah, it was a pretty simple story, but it had some good characters and a solid mystery. I definitely enjoyed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaNcB4cwtlE

What a thrill

https://www.konami.com/mg/mc/us/en/

There's also a Master Collection (Volume 1!) with MGS1-3 coming out this fall

EVERYONE IS BACK

"The METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION allow fans to play the games as they were, as first released on the latest platforms."

please tell me this doesn't mean it's not substance/subsistence

I can't imagine it wouldn't be Subsistence in MGS3's case, at least. That camera was a game-changer.

It'd be a huge gaffe on Konami's part if it's the original, but at the same time, I wouldn't be surprised.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg140A2HPnk

heck yeah Kraven (and the symbiote too)

although if this game is coming out in Fall 2023 when am I ever going to find time to play it

what a loaded year

Picked up Tears of the Kingdom (and Disco Elysium too but lol backlog)

Crossbell Status: Final Chapter. Duvalie experienced her first canonical bullying and I defeated Arianrhod. Stopped right after that last time though. Getting close to the final stretch. *laughs in Ao no Kiseki*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnGnNCRW5jY

I never thought I'd see the day when Lil Wayne is narrating a Street Fighter trailer

Still not sure what to do about SF6. I'm interested in it, but I know I don't have the time to dedicate to it for a while. I might just wait until they release the inevitable version that has the DLC characters already on it, even though that might be a few years down the road.

I'll definitely follow the fighting scene online though. This looks way more fun than SF5.

Also I've made it to Rito Village in Tears of the Kingdom, so we might actually be on the verge of some real storyline progress...!

I still need to reach the Rito Village someday.

Ted Lasso Season 3 Episode 11 complete!

Well, they made it clear how this story ends with this one. Also, a really strong message on the importance of forgiveness, I appreciated that.

Somehow we wound up watching Cocaine Bear tonight

What a dumb movie

We're working our way through the Rito Village stuff. We've got a companion for this section who can produce a version of Revali's Gale, except it's horizontal, not vertical.

I made it to the Wind Temple. This section has been really fun so far. Let's see if the dungeons have improved from Breath of the Wild.

This Is Us Season 6 Episode 14 complete!

It's nice to see that romance finally work out. Feels like that was the right choice.

So Netflix started implementing all their anti-password sharing stuff. My wife is the one who pays for Netflix and was sharing it with her family, but of course, they didn't reach out to her about making her the primary account. It just asked the first person who logged on, which happened to be my technologically illiterate mother-in-law. She just clicked yes without thinking what it meant.

And apparently the only person who can change the primary account is the person who set it in the first place (and they have to be connected to the WiFi it's set to), so now my wife is having to try to walk her through the steps over the phone and it is not going well.

Netflix really did not think this through.

As someone who has had to do a lot of "tech support" for my parents... oh god she has my sympathies.

Yeah, I'm thankful my mom is pretty tech savvy, so I haven't had too many of those moments.

oh no first the contests ended
now the poll of the day has too

R.I.P. polls

This Is Us Season 6 Episode 15 complete!

I saw it coming over the last few episodes, but Miguel's story still managed to hit me hard here. His arc over the course of the show might be the most impressively done of all the characters.

Wind Temple beated in Tears of the Kingdom! That was a pretty fun (albeit very easy) boss. I liked the backstory you got about the War of Imprisonment afterwards, and that's a neat way to let you keep your companion's power.

The POTD lives again!

Give me some FF domination for old time's sake to revive the soul of this site

I kind of expect to like Diablo 4 more, but I'm not planning to play that right away, so FF16 it is. Are you going to start 16 when it comes out? I assume you'll still be in the middle of Tears.

I'll play a little here and there until we finish Zelda. I'll probably just play it when my wife isn't around or after she goes to bed for the time being.

I still don't have a PS5 (and that's unlikely to change until I get a job), so no FF16 on launch for me

I actually have a PS5 now but I'll be in the middle of Zelda and RE4 playthroughs so it'll have to wait.

got over the barrier (Trails to Azure beated)

ya go my crossbell

And with that I should be able to start Zelda... soon. Maybe tonight, if not, almost certainly tomorrow.

We've only got three episodes of This Is Us left, so I've been thinking about what to watch next. Transience's topic today has inspired me to give 24 a shot, so we'll see how that goes!

24 is pretty damn excellent.

24 hype

Out of interest, how much do you know about the series right now?

TeamRocketElite posted...

24 hype

Out of interest, how much do you know about the series right now?

I know the main character is Jack Bauer and each season is about a single 24 hour day (or I guess I assume that's the case), and that Kojima wanted Kiefer Sutherland for MGSV because of his role on this show.

I found a Dragon's Tear in Zelda. Could this be one of the titular Tears of the Kingdom?

Glad to see they brought Memories back for this game. So is this the present-day Zelda time traveling back to pre-War of Imprisonment or something?

Yeah I like the format better with Tears than how it was done in BotW.

s1 of 24 is especially brilliant - enjoy!

Zelda started and the tutorial area beated.

I'm torn between thinking this is Zelda's fault for continuing to press on as things got more and more ominous instead of turning around and going "okay yeah this might be a bit more than we bargained for, we should get some more help down here" and thinking she should have been right it just so happened Link jobbed like Samus at the start of a Metroid game. >_>

so did rauru just dump link inside the cave of awakening after cutting his arm off and replacing it? didn't seem like the most sanitary surgical environment he could have chosen

Ultrahand is pretty fun. Think my highlight so far with it was getting extremely stubborn when I walked down to one side of a cold water river and saw the other side had a bunch of premade rafts with fans and being like "fuck this i am not walking back and getting there the 'right' way i am going to cut down every fucking tree on this bank if need be and patch together a chain of logs that can get me close enough to those boats to steal one and cross over that way" and i did

Jump scare highlight was when I didn't realize the mine cart railway was partly broken on that one section of rail and all of a sudden we derailed and fell to our death LOL.

Fuse seems pretty cool so far. Not sure where I stand on Ascend. It just never is intuitive to me that it is the solution to a problem. I'll end up looking for something with Ultrahand first and even Rewind before going "oh yeah I can use Ascend here"

Stopped once I left the tutorial zone and landed in Hyrule Field. I almost may have sequenced broken too. I saw that strip of bridges behind the Temple of Time because before I went through it the right way I got to the top of it with Ascend and tried to climb down to it but fell and died to fall damage and was thinking about seeing if I could get over there with a Zonai Wing but decided to go through it normally first to see if I'd get a new ability or traversal method first.

Yeah, despite its usefulness, I often forget Ascend exists. Maybe it's because it almost feels like a hack or a cheat.