After putting 12 hours into the Shin Megami Tensei V demo, I think I'll be buying it. Haha. I've also been playing Sekiro, which is much better at 45 fps than I figured it would be.

Shin Megami Tensei

Arceus was a fun break from the norm, and was even more fun once I played it on redacted to remove some of the performance issues my Switch had with it. I'm looking forward to Z-A exclusively because the impression Arceus made (well, and ::: spoiler Spoiler mega evolutions ::: )

I've been playing a randomized (and slightly higher level enemy Pokémon) run of Shield after beating it once originally and being quite disappointed, and I've enjoyed that pretty thoroughly as well. The return of follower Pokémon in the DLC is something I've been asking for since HG/SS.

That would be more valid here if Pokémon were focused on being fun. As a lifelong fan, modern Pokémon games are typically both ugly and not terribly fun. They make decent "turn off your brain" games, but the quality of game did not go up with the decrease in graphics.

A different one, although I'd prefer not to dox myself. Thankfully we still had running water (although those with well water did not), but I know what you mean about gasoline. The national guard had to be posted at gas stations as they came back online.

An actual hurricane took out my power for a week and blocked roads near me for days.

Despite doing recycling where I live, they explicitly do not recycle glass. Safety hazard, maybe?

TimeShift, an FPS from the Xbox360/PS3 era. It was my first PS3 game played on an HDTV. The time mechanics were fantastic, the graphics were amazing to me at the time, and it was a surprisingly fun time. I would be so happy with a remake/spiritual successor.

I have the physical book. I still find it hard to read. That does not detract from how fantastic it looks, and I did not mean to imply it did.

Can we also recognize how difficult a lot of the speech bubbles are to read?

I won't lie, usually Christmas is my favorite time of year. Something about the music, getting to see all my family, and trying to find inventive ways to make friends and family happy through gifts always cheers me up. Never really had the money to go all out, but the spirit was there.

This year I just do not care. Usually I listen to dozens of hours of Christmas music and this year it is less than 2 hours so far. I'm not looking forward to giving or receiving gifts; it just feels so formulaic and rabidly consumerist. My usual comfort movies hold no interest for me. I'd skip it if I could. And all of that was before my grandmother died this past Saturday.

Walmart (US) a while back. I think it was advertised for small dogs.

Fate/Zero is the best place to start in my opinion. And a fantastic show.

Edit: And if you wanted to watch it from "the beginning" you could try Fate/Stay Night UBW, but Fate/Zero is a prequel to that (and better).

As long as it doesn't hinder his "elbows" any or touch his ears, he's fine with wearing most costumes/sweaters/shirts. We actually like to joke that he likes them, but I'm pretty sure he's at best just thankful for the additional warmth.

No leaves, but he's wearing a sweater so that counts.

Not quite as bendy: Enkidu

@ NPCs in Dragons Dogma

Contrary to my usual tendencies, I was not a patient gamer with Survivor. I got it on PS5 the week it released, if I remember correctly. The performance issues were surprising (although actually still better on release than Fallen Order was), but other than that the game was an improvement for me in every way. Once a few patches came out improving stability, it completely superseded the original.

Edit: And I'm glad to hear it runs well enough on PC now; once I upgrade my GPU I may watch for a sale and double dip.

Even the people I know that are otherwise relatively tech savvy don't do this.

Not to say it's a good operating system, though.