I don't think about it much anymore but I cried at the end, which is a rare occurrence for me

Been with purely mail for about a year and it's been great!

99% sure it's in the books

Private trackers. I think common ones. If you search them with "tracker" you'll probably find them.

Lots of support already but I made it switch in December last year and no regrets. There's a bit of a learning curve getting used to a new environment but the computer actually becomes a tool you can shape to your needs rather than changing how you work so your computer will do it.

Idk if I noticed that explicitly but I would believe it. The grenade throws early game are also disgusting. Pixel perfect hit your whole team lol

I've been immensely impressed with DOS2 AI. If an enemy is sleeping, another enemy will use part of its turn to hit the enemy to wake it up. There were several instances where I paused and just stared awestruck

Time to shill CrossCode again :)

I think the characters are phenomenally written and the plot is fun and has excellent ups and downs.

Good to know! I'll add it to the ever growing list

Is the rest of the series good? I read the first one and thought it was pretty good but a reasonably well wrapped up story by the end

Book 4 is a bit slow but it picks up a lot after that.

That said don't feel obligated to read something that Doesn't interest you of course

From my understanding, a lot of people appreciate the vibe. It's also designed in such a way that you kind of need to use different tools to complete different sections and you need to be methodical as compared to DS1/3 where you can get by blitzing past every enemy.

I think another issue I had was that once I cleared one branch, since you can do them in Sorta any order, you end up being over leveled IMO.

My issues with DS2 stem from the enemy spam, the low boss quality, the overall floatiness (slow HP regen even from estus, movement, etc), the areas don't feel like Anything special.

I think the vibe and the ideas behind the game are cool and I think to myself every once in awhile "maybe I should revisit the game" then I see a vid of gameplay and realize that's not for me lol.

The fact that the areas to visit are also just the branching paths from your hub also feels kinda bad. That said Majula is incredible and they Completely knocked that out of the park.

I did finish DS2 but gave up during the DLC since those areas are so unfun IMO.

I think it's a skippable entry if free time is a huge luxury but if you like dark souls this is Definitely still dark souls.

Pain to me is not really that important a metric. Figure out where you think it'll bring you the most joy. Most of mine are reasonably visible and I'm very glad for it. Tattoos are much less stigmatized than before.

As for durability, as long as you take good care of it while it heals and you wear sun screen after, most places other than hands and feet will likely do well. Less sun the better but that makes them hard to look at most of the time.

I use semimak mainly but use qwerty often and I feel like there's no problem with using both at all. This is just my experience though. When I first learned Dvorak and dropped qwerty I completely lost qwerty but it came back really easily later when I started using it more

Reading "suck it in and smile" in French to try to get some vocab back after letting my French rust in a ditch for a few years. Enjoying reading French and seeing the spellings of words I used regularly.

That said the story is quite underwhelming with some key points that aren't much of Anything new. Its very short though and easy enough to read despite the language so I'll finish it up soon and move on to a more interesting story

My issue with the silo trilogy is the end kinda drags on a little bit and you're just waiting for it to come. Otherwise I really like those books. There's also a show Thats Apparently really good too!

The Kensington expert looks huge! I'm not sure I can justify getting one lol. Good to know this exists though if I decide to go down this route

How does using a trackball feel? Ive been thinking about maybe getting one but I mostly like my mouse.
Does it feel more ergonomic or is it mostly just less distance to the mouse?

I think I've heard of people putting custom images on kobos but I Don't know too much about it. I'm just using stock kobo and not connecting it to the internet and it's been great for me

I've seen your comments about reading digital media but if you can get an eink screen (kobo, amazon paper white, etc) it Doesn't feel like a screen at all. Then you can look up words right there. Ive started doing it every once in awhile as a native English speaker since its so convenient.

That said I'm gonna start picking up French again (hopefully) and that's gonna be tough because my vocabulary was always lacking in French and I haven't really read anything in French in years.

I hope you enjoy crooked kingdom. I really liked both books. All the characters are so cool :)

I use win11 at work sadly so I'm stick with it there. I find the new context menu unusable so I prefer the old one

I'm using 7zip on win11. You need to get into the old context menu to see it tho. You can edit the registry to make the old one the default too.
No idea why it's a registry edit but Microsoft will do what they will

Haven't had any issues with purely mail myself. I really like it

PIA also allows port forwarding but its a random port

I'm getting more into using logseq. I like it fairly well. It's not quite comfortable on mobile though so I'm sticking to obsidian there for the time being.

I suppose not needing to grind for better gear would be nice. I think I want my next play through to be a repeat of the first and the grinding was part of the 💫 experience 💫
But I can't relive that experience so maybe sergey hax is the way to go.

As to iconoclasts, Nothing gameplay wise is similar but the characters/dialogue seem reminiscent of what crosscode brings to the table, which to me was a big part of my enjoyment.

I agree with the DS3 take. I like it more than DS2 just because DS2 feels so clunky in how it plays but the vibes feel much better.

DS3 is pretty underwhelming when compared to the other games given they each do something unique.
That said, gundyr champion, nameless king, sister friede, and Gael are all unreal fights and might be worth playing through everything just to get to imo

Sorry for the late reply. I think I watched a video with these. I think playing with sergey hax would overall detract from doing a second play through but the extra dialogues/expressions are spectacular.

I'm currently playing through iconoclasts which was recommended as having some similarities to crosscode and I see them. Been having a good time so far with it.
That said, it's very difficult to compare with Lea

I've watched gameplay for SOTFS but I played vanilla and maybe both DLC I think.

Everything up to the lord vessel. Your goals and fast travel completely changes how you play the game and the new areas are less interesting imo

I would say a lot of the characters don't suck in disco Elysium but I also didn't have the best of times with that game. It was cool and I think the zanyness they peppered into the writing was fun to experience.

I had a really hard time getting into Hades. It's very visually pleasing, the VA is great but the gameplay feels unimpressive. Seemed I only almost completed one run but it just wasn't all that to me

I find dark souls 3 successfully condensed down the mechanics and gameplay of the souls games but delivered nothing in terms of exploration and world building.

The lore is DS2 is very good but the gameplay feels so horrendously unpolished and a lot of enemy placement feels really bad.

If I could play ds2 with ds3 gameplay it would potentially be able to rival the first half of DS1 for me

Replying to say this is correct regarding the grammar

I love this game. Number 1 game I've ever played. Sooooo good. I love thr characters so much

Yesssss. I love this game. I think I need to get back to it some time.

I'm referring to the issue outlined here. Thanks for the link to that problem, I haven't encountered it yet but I haven't played with Wayland/KDE6 all too much yet

Changing the scaling either zooms my higher resolution display in too much or zooms the lower resolution display out too much. Maybe the scaling is the only solution though

I can change the scaling of the smaller display to fix it but then everything is too small. I'm not familiar with any other way to fix it. I've browsed online to no avail as well

Yeah, X does it too but I have a solution with cursr. That app unfortunately hasn't been ported to Wayland which is why I'm looking for alternative solutions.