High School Junior (Grade 11) chronically depressed holding down a job with illegal hours ran by an old man who I suspect dabbled in cocaine.

A woman moved from out-of-state (country?) to date or marry him or something. They went to Vegas for a trip, while taking a shower she rifled through his wallet and saw that he was twenty years older than he told her and dumped him. He was unpleasant for a couple months.

Uhh… I had a flash card on my DS, replayed Earthbound around that time. I don’t remember much about my doings around then.

It’s an I Heart Radio podcast right? I♡R suuuuuvks.

I love Cool Zone Media’s output, but their parent company is exhausting.

I’m pretty firmly against crossovers unless they are particularly compatible with each other. Unless it gels just right it feels pandering and lame. Smash Bros for example worked hard to make the disparate cast fit in with each other with subtle design changes. Ready Player One on the other hand…

X-Men and other super hero-esque media works. DC and Mortal Kombat works when you throw in magic to offset the power inbalance. (Although, I never questioned Marvel Vs Capcom’s power scaling. Hsien-Ko and Phoenix Wright casually kicking Thanos’ wrinkled purple ass never made me think twice.)

I’ld like Capcom to collapse more of their fighting and beat-em-up properties into Street Fighter. Hsien-Ko makes about as much sense in Street Fighter as half of the villains.

I like doing old prospector-y cursing for minor inconveniences. I work at a hospital, so I probably shouldn’t curse openly infront of the unwashed terbuculars.

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My final form is Grandpa Lou Rugrats.

I use the phrase codified. For example Ocarina of Time and Mario 64 didn’t invent fighting or exploring in 3D, but both established a baseline of what it should feel like.

Pokemon took what SMT/Dragon Quest/Mother was putting down, simplified and refined the vibe and made it more accessible.

Both games have full implented battle systems.

Cobblemon allows you to move while battling, and has faint animations.

Pixelmon is more feature complete, but it’s glitchier.

Definitely play it on a server. The procedural generated gyms are cool, but nothing beats humans.

Someone’s gotta show Lost Odyssey some love.

It’s such a shame. Pokemon has so much potential, but Gamefreak/TPC are… a bit shitty.

They could take a leaf from Morrowind. Open world, but use terrain and fog to hide the limitation and funnel the players along the points of interest.

Then late game let them go nuts, flying everywhere seeing the less than pretty areas.

Like Breath of the Wild had some empty ugly areas, but the worse areas were off the beaten path.

Also the bland areas were also usually hiding a shrine or something.

Uhh huh huh… you said depth.

I’ll also toss A Way with Words on the pile too. It’s a long running NPR-adjacent radio show/podcast about linquistics.

My favorite was a dive they did on the descriptor “like a dead preacher” to refer to an annoying awkward thing to move.

The idea of state cryptids rule. I love that.

Folklore is such a deeply ingrained part of a location; and it’s cool to recognize it. It even reflects and _potentially honors the past of previous Native Legends.

It’s a shame that if it ever catches on nation wide it’s going to be nothing but Bigfoot and Loch Ness analogs, like six states have the mocking bird as their state bird.

My buddy got himself a cat a few years ago. (She adopted him)

I would tease him about becoming a cat person. “I will never become a ‘cat guy’, I’m not going to spoil her. She’s just a barn cat to keep the mice out”

The barn in question was the Mother-in-law house at his folks that he was staying in.

After a few months of us cat owners teasing him, I asked him point blank “have you ever slept in an uncomfortable position as to not disturb your cat?”

After a good half minute pause we got a “err, I mean yeah, I don’t want to disturb her if she’s asleep!”

He became a total cat dad until the day he moved into a dog house and left her with his folks. He still dotes on her when he comes home to visit.

Considering the deaths the average Dwarf in my last fortress suffered. I ain’t touching DF with a ten-foot pole.

A deadly dust forgotton beast broke into the fort through a forgotten cavern access. My military quickly killed it; but before they could step into the Dwarven Bath to rinse off the dust 2/3rds of my fortress was dying of a total body necrotic rot.

Boy if that isn’t my mother to a T.

18, my soon-to-be-first-girlfriend was hosting a party.

I still have a fondness for coconut rum and sprite and big naturals.

For a more bitter sweet memory. I love cinnamon shnappes. For some reason my brain really latched onto the time I got Dead Rising 2 for super cheap on the Xbox 360.

My deeply unpleasant ex was on an overnight trip with her friends and I was at peace. Just alone with my cat, nursing on a glass of cinnamon shnappes and sprite, eating some pizza and listening to early youtube video essays.

I was in the peak of my depression, and being around her made it worse. We loved each other and didn’t want to call it quits, but it desperately needed to happen.

Sitting there alone, in that moment of peace. It reminded me that there are still simple joys in life.

Food riot/starvation/exposure/myself brought on by climate collapse.

Otherwise, odds are with my family, it’ll be my heart will go out or diabetes. Can’t rule out car accident though.

NiGHTS into Dreams and Billy Hatcher will always hold a special place in my heart.

It’s a bummer that Sega doesn’t really do cartoony mascot-y games anymore outside of Sonic.

Like they have such a huge library of visually distinct characters just rotting away, only coming out every decade or so for a kart racing game or random cameo.