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I'm at almost 7 hours in now and it's still the same - can't win a single fight on first try. It starts to drain my energy. Even the bosses that I can *feel* are easy ... I'm doing them like 10 times until RNG allows me to finish it. I've just rage quit on the ****ing birds. There's like 4 or 5 waves and it just feels so incredibly random. First game was a hell of a lot easier - already simply because not everything and their mothers would deal 2 damage in an attack. I don't really understand the thinking behind that balance. If everything does 2 hearts damage, then why not just give me less hearts and instead make everything just deal 1 hearts damage. Maybe there's a charm or tool or whatever to mitigate this, but if so, no clue where. The backtracking is not helping at all. Usually you have to walk like 2 or 3 screens until you are back at the boss. I get why they don't just have you spawn outside of the boss arena again, but the way it currently works feels more tedious and thus... unfun.

Silking the song since 12 minutes after it officially released. Need to get used to the new attack pattern still. First few bosses took me more attempts than I like to admit. Music is amazing again. Visually very good looking. Will see how the quest.. I mean.. the wish system ends up later. Hopefully it won't be fetch-quest filler. We'll see, I guess. /Edit: So my first impression after a couple hours is that the game is a lot harder than the first one. There wasn't a single boss fight yet that I could do in first attempt. Lace also looked a hell of a lot easier in the E3/ gamescom videos. She's mopping the floor with me. I'm at attempt 10 or whatever already and about to give up for today.

If only Bioware would have had the idea to sell Tali's Bath Water, it would have financed a whole new ME game on its own.

Finished Metal Gear Solid Delta. It feels pretty much exactly like the original game, which is good. They improved on the worst elements of the game, which was the way the moving and shooting worked. This now behaves more like in MGSV. I remember that years back, people kept saying that changing this would change the whole feeling of the game, but I disagreed... and now we have proof that it doesn't harm the rest of the game at all. Kinda wish they would have went a little further, because hiding in cover and the climbing / dropping down mechanics still feel super clunky (just like in the original). But eh, not the worst. Performance really is ass, though. Since I'm not at home right now, I have played it on medium settings on my laptop. Getting constant 30 FPS at least, which is fine. But in comparison, MGSV runs on ultra settings at 60 FPS... and Delta doesn't look *that* much better in the end. So while it's impressive that this technique works (emulating the original game and rendering via Unreal Engine), it does feel terribly bad on the performance side. Oh, one more thing... I know David Hayter is iconic, but his line delivery is so cringe in most scenes. Granted, the writing is cringe as well in most scenes, so it's not all on him and his acting chops. But still.. replaying MGS3 like that made me understand why Kojima picked someone else for MGSV.

Nothing. Was toying around with it for like 2 days and then didn't open the app anymore. Once I realized the chat bot is really brain dead and actually has no character at all (which didn't took very long tbh), the whole thing felt unmasked as nothing but smoke and mirrors. I feel sad for people who get into and believe this stuff. Maybe it's harder for me to get with it, since I have a more technical background, so whenever anything happens, I'm imagining triggers and conditions in the back of my head. I dunno... point is, ai companions are stupid.

Last year I tried one of those AI girlfriend apps for the lolz, since everyone kept talking about it. Couldn't understand how anyone is able to take this stuff serious. Even if you allow yourself to really get into it, how is this what anyone would want? A chat robot that never disagrees with you, that never has any discussion with you, it's just buttering you up all day long and wants you to spend money on clothes for the 3d avatar, lol. Obviously I'm not the target audience, but this is just more than weird.

It ends up being toxic positivity and it's as bad as other toxic stuff, imo.

Avowed was running great on my PC. Couldn't believe this was an Unreal Engine game since most other Unreal games run surprisingly bad for one reason or another.

Silksong in 2 weeks. I cri.

Putting it into politics thread, because Project 2025 brainrot again. https://www.thegamer.com/steams-adult-content-ban-has-been-plotted-for-a-year/

I remember absolutely nothing from DoW3. I do remember a lot of DoW1 and 2, though.

Uncontrollably Fond was so good. Not much a fan of period drama or fantasy stuff either, but I'm sure gonna give it a try.

Oh boy.

Another 2 hours??? No thanks, I really can't with this anymore.

But what about the crime of not liking Donald Trump?

Fun fact, I tried one of those sub-channels a while ago and found it *very hard* to cancel them... because that's hidden in an extremely terrible ui that tries to make it as hard as possible for you to cancel.

Why would anyone pay for Prime Video only? As far as I can tell, they have like 5 free movies nowadays, and everything else needs to be rented. Don't see much a point in it anymore.

Finished Twinkling Watermelon. I actually liked it. That time travel thing came out of the left field, I did *not* expect that one at all. But then the first episode and such started to make sense, because I was *really* confused for a while with those characters. Thought it was funny how in those shows they sometimes name drop famous bands, like "we will be the Coldplay of X" ... and then they play their music and it is nothing like Coldplay, hell it's not even remotely the same genre. Why can't they commit? It's always terribly generic and mushy k-pop slob.

They could always just not talk about it. I guess major goals were achieved and something has changed that we don't know about. /conspiracy

Ok, finished Weak Hero s2. The ending was nice, I liked it.

Saw that earlier today. The name felt a bit off putting to me, but ok, I've added it to my list and will check it out next.

I have 1 episode left of Weak Hero s2. Will probably watch it tomorrow. Tbh, I kinda need a new lighthearted romantic k-drama to swoon over. Feels like I already watched everything that interests me, which sucks. Saw that Jung So-min had a new show in 2024, so went into it immediately.. just to see that I already saw it, lol. Or rather, I started watching it, but it didn't click with me at all and dropped it after a few episodes. Nothing new from Bae Suzy yet either, sux too.

Watched more of Weak Hero s2 and after the first episode it's basically constant fighting again. What's funny is that almost all of the shows issues could be solved if people would just talk with each other.

Watched Weak Hero: Class 1. Not bad, but I have no idea who that hero is, and I don't know who the weak one is, since everyone is beating up each other all the time. It got a bit much and highly criminal in the end, which kinda made it too unbelievable to me. Edit: Damn, s2e1 was really good.

Wait, I don't get it -- you were breathing in the smoke without realizing it until you were outside?