Nice! How long are you planning to continue?

Yeah, makes sense.

I enjoy these posts. Have you skipped any days? Impressive consistency 😁

I had a locker in high school. It was against a wall. Admittedly, it was in a dedicated locker area/room and not in a major plot-device-friendly thoroughfare, but it existed all the same.

Unfortunately, adjusting to not having intact executive functioning requires intact executive functioning 😒

Why swim when you can walk, I always say…

Thanks for the explanation. I gathered from context that it was a derogatory term, I just hadn’t ever looked up what it really meant.

I’m too lazy to actually make the Andy Dwyer meme, but I don’t know what a weeb is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.

Hamilton did almost a whole lap on three wheels at Silverstone a few years ago, and he was welcomed home a hero.

It is pretty overwhelming. I’ve had to just turn the subtitles off a few times.

Even worse, you’ve got 2 autistic children that lose their minds every time the subtitles don’t match or are poorly translated or whatever, and loudly exclaim over the next 10-15 seconds of the show (unless interrupted by another poorly matching subtitle).

I’m obsessively playing guild wars 2 at the moment, and it is arguably similar, in that you don’t absolutely have to grind to enjoy the game. You can get a character to top level very quickly (a few days), and you can gear them up to play a lot of the end game content fairly quickly (exotic gear is about 5% weaker than the best gear in the game and significantly cheaper and easier to get. You don’t have to craft or collect resources to play and have a good time.

So he should have waited til it was at school?

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by “dire pretenses”? I remember the steam release, but wasn’t heavily into DF before that, so maybe I wasn’t aware of things going on in the community? Or is that more about the state of the game on initial release?

Hopefully not

I’m enjoying it. The story can all be done solo, as can most of the open world content. There are a bunch of group things you can join or leave as you want, and there are heaps of guilds that have regular runs through raids and other instanced group content (I haven’t spent much time doing that stuff yet, tbh). One of the biggest problems I’m having is that coming in now after 13 years (I think), there is so much to do it’s basically a sandbox, so having some structure to follow (like the story missions) is essential for me.

It sure is. Not sure how current numbers compare to other MMOs or previous peaks or whatever, but my personal experience is that there are always players around, no matter where I am, or what I’m doing. The community is also very nice. Always happy to jump in and help another player in trouble, or assist in a quest or event that requires a group to do.

Still working my way through the story in guild wars 2. I played it for a bit a few years ago, then picked it up again in earnest late last year, been slowly working through the expansion content. I’m up to the season 4 content, working on unlocking the roller beetle, which looks like fun.

Oh that’s cool. Hopefully they can do it justice.

Thanks 😁