It’s so obvious. I’ve never had a job that was possible to do from home, but everyone being home and off the roads helps so much. I had a driving job when covid hit. Everything about it was easier, faster and less stressful when most people were staying home, and oh would you look at that, driving when you’re less stressed is another way to save fuel because you’re less likely to thrash your car. Whether you’re able to personally do it or not, WFH benefits everybody. Well, all of the actual workers anyway, but we know how the Liberals feel about us already.

Edit: Ok maybe not everybody, I imagine cafes and whatnot that rely on people heading into the office likely struggle a bit. But you get my point.

In all my years…

Years of what, you’re a clown. And I’m not saying that as an insult, he’s an entertainer. A stand-up comedian & reality show host who gets a podcast and turns it into a hugely successful propaganda spout isn’t a fuckin political expert. He hasn’t been studying global politics for the last decade, all his years don’t mean any more than anyone else’s. Hell even my experience is probably more meaningful, at least I live in the real world.

I know I already commented on this post in another comm but I saw this one and I’m still salty.

Man if I were Joe I’d be so pissed off at the most popular podcaster in the world for having one of the richest men in the world who bought one of the most widely-used social media sites in the world on his podcast the day before the election to help endorse Trump. If only half the planet had seen this coming and said something!

I work 2-3 nights in a row with 2-3 off in between, so I’ve been limiting myself to only jumping into Pokopia once between each batch of shifts so that I won’t overdo it. Once I start though, that’s it for the day - it’s bedtime the next time I’m aware of my surroundings.

I mainly just chill out in Palette Town (or Paulette Town because my Ditto is named Paul), building habitats and trying to make it into a nice little village. Despite spending at least a good 20 hours there I’ve barely made it 30 seconds’ jog away from the entry road. I’m basically only doing the story so that I’ll have more options for building and more friends to bring in, like I think I’ll need to get into the next (4th) main map to find cable cars to unlock the item for one of Eevee’s mates. I just like making my own little slice of paradise in post-apocalyptia.

Since I’m working this weekend and only have my Switch, I’m bouncing between Pokémon Violet, Scarlet (for exclusives), Arceus and Sword just doing a few little tasks each day in my endless quest for a shiny living dex.

I’ve also been playing a bit of Gale of Darkness now that it’s been rereleased. I played a lot of Colosseum as a kid, but never managed to get a copy of this one. It’s pretty rough, but about what you’d expect. Some of these models and animations are insane.

Looking forward to getting back to Monster Hunter Stories 3 and Resident Evil Requiem next week.

He didn’t “go” that way, he was always like that.

That’s basically what happened in Australia’s last election. The Liberals were trying to play up culture war shit & wanted to emulate DOGE, and it backfired hard. I was waiting to lock up a polling place for the night in Western Australia which is a couple of hours behind the eastern states, by the time they’d finished packing up the votes to be counted it was already so lopsided that even if every remaining vote was Liberal it wouldn’t have mattered.

The textures are flat on purpose so the AI filter looks “more detailed” in comparison.

Definitely. Boot up the game and look at the actual graphics. Their “OFF” pictures look terrible.

You don’t think Grace would have dolled herself up to go investigate the burned out hotel where her mother was murdered as soon as she finished having a panic attack?

I’m stuck at work, but I brought my deck for a little Monster Hunter Stories 3. I opted to start over rather than import the save from the demo, so I’m not very far in yet. It’s such a satisfying game to play and it looks so good!

I also smashed out a little Pokopia (brought the Switch too… Security can get a little slow some nights) and did something I’ve been ignoring for a few days but was told today is a limited time event. I hate timed shit in games :/ It took like 20 minutes to get more than enough trade-in items to buy everything, but I still don’t like being told when to play games. Oh well.

Are the pumps all covered in those “I did that” stickers?

Is this complete or a work in progress? I’m asking because a bunch of stuff is missing in some areas, like Luxury Chirp-Chirp Meal says nothing spawns there, but Pidgeot’s entry lists it as the habitat. Quite a few of the habitats have missing or no spawns.

Not accusing you of anything, but I’m also curious why you’ve posted this a bunch of times to different comms each with a different new account that has no other posts, it looks kinda dodgy.

On my way to work today two of these passed me, I was doing 40 in the city and they zipped by at 55-60 by my estimate. There was a passenger on the back of one, none of them were wearing helmets, and they were weaving in and out of traffic closely enough to touch each car. There was a red light up ahead so they just turned straight into the flow of traffic at a higher speed than I’d do in a car and kept going. I’m not at all surprised hospitals are seeing a lot of people from incidents involving these.

Usually it’s just a couple of kids driving through the parking lot and screaming at the top of their lungs every 15 minutes all weekend, and yeah that’s annoying but at least they aren’t as likely to get someone killed.

Yeah if you’re into Pokémon and want a simple little game (or big game because apparently it’s huge) I’d rec this. It’s worth it, the others are having fun too and you can’t put a price on your loved ones’ enjoyment. This is the first I’ve heard of that tradition and I’m not entirely convinced it’s a real one, but check your DMs.

I’m an outlier there. I like slow, atmospheric survival horror punctuated with small segments of high pressure action. 4 is a full game of all of the worst parts of the series, I hate it.

I loved 7, 2 Remake and 3 Remake, then pretty much find most of the rest of them dull & tedious to an unplayable level. I wasn’t paying much attention to Requiem, but I’ve been watching a mate play it and it looks really good. I think if you liked 7 it’ll be right up your alley. As for Village, it wasn’t for me (there’s one section I thought was great, the rest was eh) but most people I’ve spoken to who are into the newer ones rate it highly, so I hope you like it.

Since you asked for a follow-up, I’ve played a bit of Pokopia.

It’s cute, and it’s a lot more Minecrafty than I expected. You build little habitats for Pokemon like a few bunches of tall grass or tall grass under a tree or whatever, and things will move in to live there. Everyone has a basic personality, and it’s all super friendly. There’s no pressure, you can half-ass everything without consequence, but you advance by making your community happy by providing them with what they ask for. I’ve done the first 2 maps so far (they’re all based on towns from the Kanto region). The last thing I did was get to a map that basically has no real story and lets you build however you want, and the game said I can move my Pokemon from other maps there so I’m going to build a little community for my favourites.

As for negatives, building is quite tedious, you can place blocks in 3D space around you based on where the camera is looking so you kind of have to swing it around madly to get things where you want them, and building in a cramped area is rough. Destroying blocks takes a few punches but you punch in a little AoE attack, so you have to line things up very precisely with the same annoying system when you only want to hit a specific block. You can make pre-made building kits that require the help of a bunch of mons with different skills. This is great, but anything past the most basic couple of huts takes ages and it’s in real time (as in “Come back tomorrow and we should have this done”). Thankfully you can just change the console settings to time travel without consequence, because fuck that.

Anyway, it’s a nice cosy, low-pressure game with a surprisingly grim story. You wake up in the post-apocalypse and everyone’s gone, so you have to try to make the areas nicer to attract more Pokemon back, while rebuilding towns in the hope that humans will come back too. As you explore you find pre-whatever logs, & some post-whatever journal entries that seem to be suggesting the world became uninhabitable due to climate change so everyone “went away.” A lot of the friends you make are so sad that their trainer is gone and can’t wait to find them again, and I don’t know how this is going to end but well… I think you should get comfortable without them, guys.

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Other than that last week I mentioned Digimon Story Time Stranger, I played the demo but didn’t really like it. Then there was Monster Hunter World, which I mentioned was one my favourite games but my gf isn’t really enjoying it so my dreams of playing that together with her have been crushed. On the bright side the demo of Monster Hunter Stories 3 is fantastic, I never finished the 2nd game because while I liked the game I started to really hate the teammates’ AI and couldn’t force myself through it, but the upcoming game fixes a lot of issues and it so fun to play. I just dropped $330AUD on Pokopia this week (one for me, my for my gf and one for my sister’s birthday present), so I’m not sure about dropping another $108 on this, but it’s extremely tempting.

Oh man, I like Nekrogoblikon but I haven’t been able to listen to Jericho’s podcast for years and there’s just a sour taste there now. It bothers me too much that he won’t (or wouldn’t, but he probably still does it) stop platforming people like David Weiss who will push every conspiracy under the sun without ever stopping them to call them a stupid idiot. Stick to musicians and disgruntled ex-WWE guys who just want to bitch about the company.

I might be wrong but from what I can find it’s just comic artist Tim Doyle drawing various characters killing ICE agents, it doesn’t seem to be a series. Absolute is DC, but like you said it’s not out of character for Punisher so I wouldn’t be surprised if this has been a real storyline at some point. I haven’t read enough to point you to anything specific.

Same, I even use dev mode to knock down enemies if I can’t be bothered with a raid at that time. I don’t want them turned off or anything, I just want to deal with them when it’s convenient for me. I do turn off things like solar flares though, that’s no fun.

I like to hoard stuff and build extravagant buildings out of money. The usual place it ends up is with half of the colony operating a giant silver hotel, restaurant (/drug den) & casino with the Hospitality mods, and all of that bankrolls a facility that turns my colonists into superhumans one by one with bionics & implants from various mods, which usually snowballs as they start researching and crafting more parts faster and faster for the next set of colonists. At that point I generally get bored and drop the game for a few months before doing it all again.