I had a productive break. And by productive I mean I finished Expedition 33, Trails Through the Sky FC Remake and half of Octopath Traveler 0.

remembering a bunch of fake screenshots of FFT floating around with Ramza saying various leftist things and it seems plausible he could have said most of them.

I will vote for the politician who has the conviction to enforce a new Hank Green standard upon our nations grocery stores.

Quick reminder: Ys VIII is out there and you could play it. You could play it *right now*. Never played an Ys game before? That’s ok! The series is more of an anthology than a strict, linear story. Dive in to the series with VIII if you like action-focused JRPGs.

The average American has three friends.

Oof that intro to Expedition 33… what an incredible start.

Blue Prince has captivated my entire family. I am not allowed to play it if my wife and daughter aren’t sitting on the couch ready to holler at me that I’ve “missed something” and “need to go back”. Highly recommended.

The stock market lost 2 trillion dollars this week *so far*

Wife: don’t make plans for next Saturday we have a show we’re going to see. Me: Oh ok what show? Wife and daughter in creepy unison: You’ll see!

Have the “We needed a recession!” talking points been rolled out yet on the right?

Shangri la Frontier is a far better anime than it has any right to be. The whole family is hooked.

There are only 3 kinds of rewards designer. I will not explain.

Predictably I’m sick from traveling back east for the holidays. My wife is also a *little* under the weather. Enjoy this completely unrelated pic.

Don’t mind us just being New England as fuck in Freeport Maine these past few days.

Digging my new shirt.

Merry Christmas everyone. My daughter has been grinning from ear to ear over the gift she got for me. We played this in an arcade in Osaka this past July. I hadn’t expected to see Drum chan again so soon!

I randomly picked up Wizardry Variants Daphne on the iPhone this week and I gotta say: This is a really great game that I think most people are going to miss entirely. It’s a F2P dungeon crawler that is dark as hell and dripping with pathos. If you like grim dark hardcore RPGs check it out!

Excited to dive into PoE 2 @path-of-exile.bsky.social this weekend! I just need to attend one kids league soccer game and then run my first session of the Mothership @mothership.bsky.social RPG before I can begin.

I love that Warcraft II received its first balance changes in 24 years. us.forums.blizzard.com/en/blizzard/...

You’re a mean one Monsieur La Croix

I’m getting blockchain game “Play to Earn” vibes. www.dexerto.com/gaming/elon-...

Once again my heart has been claimed by a Mount and Blade Warband mod named “The Last Days of Middle Earth” It’s fun to take a lesser known faction like the Lake men of Dale and push it into direct conflict with Mordor during the War of the Ring. Don’t worry Gondor, Dale is here to slay Sauron. 🏹

It shall be an heirloom of my kingdom.

I used to follow a lot of video game music composers and arrangers on X that sadly haven’t made the swap to Bluesky yet. I really hope they do at some point.

@paultassi.bsky.social where are the Metaphor updates? Stop doing other things and focus on what matters: writing about how you now like what I like.

Wait I’m confused. Is Gintama good?

Based purely upon a sample size of four: ten year old girls at a birthday party say “bro” to each other about twelve times a minute.

Uh oh, started reading a lot about the Mothership RPG and I might be smitten. I’m already committed to running two D&D campaigns, I can’t afford a fling with a sci-fi horror game…

#DiabloIV Patch 2.0.5 notes are now available for reading. This update will hit next week. Tons more news coming with next weeks PTR stream as well! Very excited for this one. news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo...

Past me: “In the event that the prophecy comes to pass I entrust the future to a presumably wiser Joe Piepiora to address.” Current me: “God damn it.”

Going off of the site bsky.jazco.dev/stats it looks like Bluesky added another million users in the last 24 hours. Good.

Metaphor just keeps getting better the longer I play it. I can’t recommend it enough.

Housing! Even I didn’t know about that!

I might do a big D&D thread tomorrow.

Moving from Twitter to Bluesky is basically Death Stranding.

Alien Romulus may have just become my second favorite Alien movie. This makes Alien my third favorite Alien movie and Aliens my favorite Alien movie. Enjoy parsing that.

Picked up Dragon Age Veilguard for my Steamdeck to play around with on the side. I’ve enjoyed the first ninety minutes for the fun romp that it has shown itself to be so far. I’m curious to see how it develops.

Well here we are.

Every morning when I wake up

If you enjoy this clip we can be friends. youtu.be/x2ypDDYDl70?...

Great to be able to log in to a social media page and not see eleven “Fuck it, porn thread” engagement farms. Instead people just post art and links and stuff.

Planning a party where a bunch of my friends run PowerPoint presentations for everyone on completely random, funny and/or niche topics. I’ll let everyone know how it goes.

Seems like there’s enough activity on here now that I can step away from the other one. I feel as though a weight has been lifted.

Whelp… time to cheat on my Metaphor playthrough with Ys X.

I had to stop and read that again.

Out to lunch at a conveyer belt sushi place in Irvine. It was a blast and we managed to net a prize.

We’ve got a huge update to walk through next week. It feels like I’ve been waiting forever to go over all this stuff.

I suspect that if things were ok in the housing market right now I’d be seeing fewer videos about “Shipping Container Homes” but maybe that’s just me

Me trying to figure out why the kanji for Tokyo (東京) and Kyoto(京都) are different…