Genuinely enjoying the "villains" in Megaman Star Force. All are people who are put in bad positions by greedy scumbags and are given a chance at revenge by the actual bad guys who want tuse them in turn. Much better than Battle Networks mustache twirling villains.

Whoever came up with some of these QuickTime button hit events in megaman star force 1 needs a good slap. They are unreasonably difficult and dont add anything to the gameplay.

Its a very silly moment in a very silly show, but part of me is so mad about this bit in Airwolf ep 1. As part of his "I'm so rich and cool" intro the MC shows off an original Van Gogh. Hanging in his living room. In the same room as a fireplace. No environmental protections on it. Insanity.

Because of He Who Fights with Monsters I've decided to give Airwolf a try. This show is unbearably 80s horny, like the preview to the episode has multiple scantily dressed girls making out with various characters in clearly different scenes.

Finally got through act 1 of Path of Exile 2.

Watched the first episode of #KnightRider and its pretty fun with a heavy layer of cheesiness and 80s synth.

The last few times I've gone to play Diablo 4 I immediately remember Path of Exile exists and go play that instead. Then I remember that both games are needlessly sweaty time sinks that you need to treat like a second job to be good at. Are there any fun casual ARPGs?

Listening to #PostingThroughIt podcast by @jaredlholt.bsky.social @michaelehayden.bsky.social about how the gambling industry is eating everything and its terrible. My podcast app had an ad for Draft Kings at the bottom of the screen.

Felt like some ARPG time so I booted up Path of Exile 2 and had a chuckle remembering I'd named my witch NekroStepSis. NecroSis was already taken, but I like my compromise.

Spent some time organizing my Steam library this morning.

Just 2 and a half more hours until the weekend

Finishing up an on site Windows 11 upgrade while listening to He Who Fughts With Monsters. Upgrading software with the power of quips.

More on One Piece S2: Smoker, awesome. The execution scene... felt a bit rushed but still solid. Reverse mountain, AMAZING. Wapol? They did what they could with that design but it was always gonna look weird AF. Overall they are blitzing through the content, can't wait for Alabasta.

One Piece season 2, impressions so far: Tashigi is absolutely adorable.

Why do I only get offers I can't use? Call from CAA offering me free membership to anyone in my household. I'm single and live alone. Government calls with debt help program offer, dont need it anymore (5 years ago would've been awesome). Anyone else got cool stuff I'm not allowed to use?

Getting fresh bread from my favorite tiny sandwich shop, Pop's Paninis. Also picked up a turkey brie sandwich, naturally.

The final final final boss fight of Trails through Daybreak is such a stupid slog that I quit about 10 minutes into it. Whoever did the encounter design for the endgame needs to be slapped. Every enemy takes forever to wear down, and making your core gameplay mechanic boring seems bad.

If games are going to have repeated long enemy attack animations (like 15 seconds or longer) you NEED to give us option to skip them. Sure, it looks cool twice but the 20th time the player is going "aw crap not this long ass animation again"

Ah Trails, never change.

I guess it isn't a Trails game without some ridiculous final dungeon showing up out of nowhere. I really thought I had finished Daybreak, should have known better.

It looks like the Israeli state is seeking new and exciting avenues of child murder. I guess slaughtering Palestinians got too routine and boring for them. I fucking hate living in interesting times.

Rewatching some of #LostGirl and this just hits me in the precise spot. Supernatural, sexy, decent world building, decent plot, fun characters. Not a masterpiece but completely my jam.

Well I'll be damned. Trails Through Daybreak actually managed to make the society of Ouroboros seem threatening again. That hasn't happened since... cold steel 1?

And this is why AI is not a good idea! #TrailsIntoReverie

I play Trails games for the plot. The plot:

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

Crock pot roast turned out well

Just noticed that the latest Dresden Files book came out. Guess I have something to listen to while I clean up my apartment today 😀

Making a roast in my instant pot for the first time, we'll see how it goes!

Time to level my sneak skill once again....

Watching some early Smallville episodes and I'm reminded of how good early Flash and Arrow was. There's something about superhero stories before they get bogged down that is just plain glorious.

Time to be way too late to get in on an anime

Let's GOOOOOOOOOOO!

For the first time I think my country needs nuclear weapons. It seems to be the only way to keep the insane fascists and resource thieves at bay.

Re-listening to the wondeful Rivers of London series the past few days. Amazing supernatural police procedural set in England which neatly sidesteps the "why it just use guns" problem you get with American supernatural detective stories.

Re-listening to the Rivers of London audio books and I dont think anyone has done the supernatural police procedural crossover that we'll before. Not even the Dresden Files.

Ahh, Vaike. I forgot how much comic relief there is in this game.

I dont know of this is an unpopular opinion, but I think the 3DS era Fire Emblem games are the best ones.

While long trips always suck in some fashion I was at least able to listen to all of @coolzonemedia.bsky.social and @paizo.com playthough of Dawn of the Frogs complete with anarchists providing food AND bombs in more or less equal measure.

Making the long drive back to Ottawa. Around 4 hours left to go.

Well, that didn't take long. Someone made a comment after my brother talked through a straight hour of A Christmas Story and he threw a fit. Every single year he makes it miserable for the rest of us.

I love the weird of the internet. A video of Weird Al joining in on a very serious cover of Killing in the Name Of, has thousands of comments like "we as a people have erred for the Weird Al has become the Serious Al and is going to judge us for our sins." Wacky shit.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

Pokemon ZA is starting on a good note as the first promotion match is against the CEO of Uber.

Between #TheMightyNein and @coolzonemedia.bsky.social book clubs Pathfinder one shot I am getting psyched up for DMing my next session.

I'm seeing too much Switch 2 posting... I'm starting to think I want one despite the small game library and high prices on the games.

Holy crap, low of -19 Celsius! I guess I'll have to stay home and play video games tonight! Which is definitely not what I have been doing anyways...

Slowly realizing that supervising people is actually a lot of work and means catching shit not only for your screw ups but other people's screw ups too. I miss just fixing people's printers. Well, except for newer HP printers. Fuck those trash machines.