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Sure, let's vote for the richest person on earth to finally get someone to support us poor people!

Played Mario RPG Remake this week. It's quite short and I was on vacation, so I finished the entire thing. It's fun, although the post game bosses did get annoying and I didn't beat all of them - maybe I'll finish them over the weekend.

Besides that, I'll join in on the fun and start Xenoblade X.

Oh, and I started a replay of Monster Hunter Rise with my partner. This time around, for every mission, we roll a random weapon each we have to beat it with, which is quite fun. After playing about 200h using the hammer exclusively, it's nice to slowly learn all the other weapons too.

Er selbst. Trump wurde 1992 das erste Mal in den Simpsons erwähnt und im Jahr 2000 hatten sie sogar einen Witz, dass er Präsident wird.

I loved FFTA, but I just couldn't get into FFT. Mainly because every other mission was to protect someone who half the time killed himself before I even got a turn - I stopped at the gunslinger, who got killed by some black mages about 30 times in a row.

Other highlights include my whole squad being flooded by chocobos breeding like rabbits and throwing stones being pretty much the only viable skill for a good chunk of early maps.

Hopefully, the 'enhanced gameplay' fixes problems like these. I'd love to give it a proper shot.

Well, yes. But it hasn't worked yet because it is so fucking dumb.

Yes, it is okay for teenagers to watch porn. Pretty much everyone did, at least everyone I know. None of these people have any problems because of it. There certainly are people with unhealthy relationships to porn, but the same can be said about basically all things. You wouldn't ban video games because gaming addicts exist, would you?

A ban such as this only makes sense for things without any upside, like gambling. But exploring your own sexuality is a natural and healthy thing to do. Porn is an easy way to do that.

Funnily enough, while our takeaways about MP are similar, we come from different ends of the spectrum.

I think limiting MP as much as possible is integral to a great dungeon, because now every encounter is something to think about. How much MP do you spend? Is the EXP worth the investment? How much damage should you take - how much healing do you still have? And some more. The answer to the question "How can I survive this encounter with the minimal amount of resources?" will shift with your gear, level and resources. Dungeons are all about resource management.

If they are not, they become boring. Every encounter will be the same, and you just use the same moves, which are usually your strongest ones. The answer to "How can I defeat this encounter as fast as possible?" will be the same each time. Especially with Press Turn as implemented in Persona games. You start every fight with advantage and kill everything in the first turn, nothing short of a boss would ever hit you if you're not forced to use weaker moves or even rely on auto-attacks for some things to preserve MP. Also, without a limiting resource, endless grinding within a dungeon becomes an option, and I don't think it should be.

Sadly, outside some Persona games and Etrian Odyssey, a proper dungeon seems to be a lost art. Older Pokémon games kind of went for that sometimes, but with healing around every corner and before every major fight, there isn't much left there either.

huSo, I just finished Metaphor today. My opinion remaind mostly the same as I already stated last month, I think:

Next up is either Mario RPG, Octopath 2, Xenoblade X or Baten Kaitos. I'll decide on that tomorrow, I think.

Bold of you to assume I even use auto complete!

Well, and then there's the guy who made Balatro in Lua.

That's actually a common practice in some areas. I saw people doing it in London for example.

Ich bin etwas zwiegespalten. Mehrweg ist immer besser, keine Frage. Ich will allerdings wenn möglich auch gar kein Plastik in der Nähe meiner Nahrungsmittel, gerade wenn sie warm sind. Dann lieber vor Ort essen, oder direkt selbst backen.