SuperBiasedMan

Using those specific terms is a specific kind of classification that enforces the idea that trans people are in one state or the other. You can talk about what genitals a trans person has when it's relevant, but pre-op/post-op are terms that are most often used with the idea that they're always relevant. Note that from what badfinger posted there's no actual mention of there is a planned change in genitals, but because of those terms it's been assumed as a future event.

I might not be able to play Uprising cause I'm partly being gifted it due to a dodgy circle pad, but I could easily borrow it to try see how well that goes. This is all good news! I didn't know that they improved gameplay stuff, nor did I know it was a trilogy with a third one on the way.

A lot of 999's charm was going from knowing nothing to learning the full story. I thought VLR would be diminished by the fact that I have some context, but if you're saying otherwise then I'm interested again. (also since you clearly have good taste returns high five)

That's a bummer. TWEWY is one of my GOATs but the adventure stuff is boring as hell and those mechanics really don't scale well. Early game you can just flail and ignore the top screen, but later it gets tougher and you need to try get a handle on stuff. Not that I ever got it very well, the mechanics are not what made me love it.

Can confirm, I went through FO:NV just wiping out whole towns/factions. I didn't find the story engaging at all but liked exploring and accidentally set up a macabre compulsive quest of clearing all people along the way. That lead to basically no-one being alive on the strip, and all of the Legion's settlement were wiped out. So the only being I could interact with was Yes Man. Though they kept one in their back pocket by having another character revealed then who I... promptly killed without even listening to his speech thing. That said I would have found it more interesting if the game had just faded out when I finished off all the NPCs and that in itself defined my ending where it was even more of a wasteland than before.

I've only played Persona 4, not SMT proper, so two solid recs there. I didn't even know the 3DS had a Persona game. I'm probably not going to get MonHun I'm afraid. I played a bit on the PSP (3 I think?). It seems a pretty solid game but I don't think I'm that compelled to play. I'm already playing Dark Souls which is giving me my fill of engaging/demanding combat. I don't feel like I'd get into MonHun even if it has better mechanics than DS.

Thanks! Also yeah I'm looking for general fun times too. I mentioned narrative heavy in particular just cause I expect a lot of people wouldn't think of those when talking about 3DS games. I can't believe I forgot to bring up Pheonix Wright. I played the original trilogy and then Apollo Justice which felt more flat to me though maybe just cause I wanted Pheonix (which is funny cause usually I'm not big on sequels stringing characters along). How are the follow ups to that series? I know there was a Layton crossover but the idea sounds ropey to me. Worth following along? ALSO GHOST TRICK. Damn I *loooved* that game. It just hit all the right sweet spots.

Yo Thumbs. I'm soon to receive a gift of an old 3DS as my brother moves onto to newer New 3DS pastures. I'm wondering if there's any diamonds in the rough I might have missed, having not paid much attention to consoles for years since I haven't had one since my DS. I did have a 3DS for a little bit but I don't remember playing a lot on it. If anyone could give recommendations of stuff to check out I'd much appreciate it. I've heard of most of the Nintendo fare, and will probably eye up Luigi's Mansion, Fire Emblem Awakening and finally play Majora's Mask (unless anyone wants to talk me down from one for some reason). But what are some of the more unusual and interesting stuff I could look into? I'm keen on games that are weird and different. I've never looked into the eShop or heard much about what's on there apart from some Pushmo games I've vaguely heard of? I don't mind something being a bit rough around the edges if there's something there to appreciate. Also I liked 999 on the DS, it was a fun game. I'll consider Virtue's Last Reward but I am a bit wary that it wont be anywhere near as interesting when I start the game with a wealth of knowledge instead of starting it knowing nothing at all. I'd like to hear thoughts on this, but also any other narrative focused 3DS stuff too. The way the DS had Another Code and Hotel Dusk, I'd like to know if there's good narrative heavy stuff for 3DS (not that I ended up thinking that highly of either AC or HD in the end...).

I feel like sometimes people feel the need to complete games regardless of how little motivation they have besides the actual feeling of completion. It's hard to make a game actually have a steady flow of engaging a player either by leading them on narratively/mechanically. Frankly to me lots of games peter out, or are stretched out, or have totally negligible stories coupled with fun but limited mechanics. A few hours of Bioshock gave me a nice dip into an interesting world, and then I left before the mechanics and story got too stale. I do this with games all the time, I'm more surprised when I'm keen to stick through to a game's end. I'm definitely more fickle than most people this way, but there are absolutely people who will slog through a game for the sake of hitting the end point even if realistically they've gotten 95% of what they'll get out of a game. That's what I thought of when reading Badfinger's post, though I don't know for certain if that's what he was getting at. It's all grey area as you say, but I've certainly perceived a trend in gaming where there's this idea that completion has inherent value even if most other value to the game has evaporated. Course I'm viewing people through the lens of my brain, so I might be way off with this.

I don't particularly worry about my backlog being wasted as much because my purchases are part to get the product but also financial incentive to the people who made it. I sometimes feel bad if I play one game so much I have no time for others, but in a way that's the opposite idea to what sparked this. I'm pretty quick to shelve games though. I only finish a fraction of the ones I play. Not out of inertia, I decide to set them aside and move on when I feel like I'm done as much as I want to be.

I have only the vaguest knowledge but when I went to my high end sniper rifles I was destroying enemies in one shot so I was kinda weapon focused.

Classic Ironman~.

Oh yeah early on I often got them to pistol up and finish off weakened ones since they couldn't move and do heavy damage.

I found snipers great for doing high damage on important targets. I might have accidentally specced to give them great equipment.

TLoU was the only time I felt like messy stealth was done well. You wanted to try stealth things because it was safer and less resource intensive. It's very tense while you're attempting stealth particularly because of how the clickers behave, and then as soon as a mistake has been made, you instantly know and you scramble for the 5 bullets and 2 shivs you have, hoping that you can get out of it without losing everything you have left.

Also Futurama has very heavy blatant mutant segregation.

If you're talking about outside Dublin as in suburbs/nearby, there are buses and a light rail service but you'd probably wanna look into individual places. There's a lot of buses but they're kinda expensive and unreliable. I believe that outside of Dublin most towns are walkable really if you're living in them. Dibs might correct me on that though, I've mostly been in the not as big towns.

I'm afraid if you want to live alone then Dublin just is expensive and shitty quality. You could probably just share a house apartment/if you don't mind people. Though I'm stull still not sure how cheap that is compared to other cities.

I'm curious how Cibele will play having a successful emotional connection with someone online. (not quite sure how you measure that 'success')

The Fifth Element was a good world but man was it a weak story. And all the fun characters get exorcised before the ending of the movie, so the final place is where it really focuses in on the boring/trite themes and narrative that I didn't care about.

Yeah seen in that respect I could get it. (and of course if he was just fully competent there's no dramatic tension). I think him being incompetent at times is good, but weirdly the coupling of often incompetent and jerkiness meant that he was not admirable to me, so each element irked me more than otherwise. I haven't seen Die Hard so I'll have to get back to you on Mr. McClane.

I guess this is where I say that I didn't enjoy Raiders of the Lost Ark because often Indiana Jones himself is incompetent and almost always an ass to those around him, but the film is pretty sour if you don't like him.

That's a bit of an assumption. It might just be a stylistic choice. Or maybe having a ceiling there would hamper reaching that torch.

I'm unclear if Spotify wants good ads or wants to annoy people into subscribing.

They spend a long time on the advertising and general show stuff but I'm averse to call it begging to ask for donations to a show that you get for free.