Hmm. I hope the NexusMods sale won’t enshittify the site. It wasn’t sold to a company, at least. Still.

Bad news! My PC died, it was involved in an accident. :(

Good news! I was far enough along in saving for a new PC that I could order it right away. :D

Bad news! It ate my savings buffer, coz I wasn’t *finished* saving.

Good news! I get paid in two days and can start rebuilding the buffer, haha!

We're at 5% of the count in Australia and early swing shows +2% to the left and -4% to the right. Please cross your fingers it stays that way. >.>

Hmm. Perhaps we can call them ‘Eddies’ as shorthand. Perhaps we can use them to build a whole new sovereign city-state! Perhaps we can call it ‘Night City’. I foresee nothing going wrong with that, ever.

Watching the FOBBV Bald Eagle nest is a burst of happiness every other day. The eaglets are getting so big!! And still so fluffy! :D

You would think I would know better by now when it comes to the LaD games, but the mid-credits scene from Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii made me absolutely lose my shit lmfao

Platinum complete though, totally worth it. Majima's so delightful.

Ah, figured out what I actually meant (because wording good is hard and I am bad at it)

The word I was looking for wasn't *happy*, it was *hopeful*. Those are different things! Still can argue that's against the genre, but finding hope in the face of crushing oppression is super punk, imo.

Ok. Ok. I have a list of things to play still, I am self-banned from restarting Cyberpunk 2077 until after I finish saving up and get a new computer and can play it in Glorious Ultra RayTracing DLSS4 Mode.

I feel like Spongebob sitting at the table with a glass of water. Darn you, CDPR.

You know what. I really, really hope Project Orion has a ‘happy’ ending. Yes yes Cyberpunk doesn’t have those, but I don’t want an ending where you ‘win’, specifically. You can’t, it’s not what happens. Heck even if you headcanon V gets a cure in Star/Sun, they still didn’t ‘win’. /1

I have learned 3 things about motorcycles while playing Cyberpunk 2077.

1. I absolutely understand why people in high traffic cities own motorcycles.
2. I absolutely understand why the accident rate for motorcycles is so high.
3. I should not be allowed to own a motorcycle.

Boy, I sure do love Cyberpunk a great deal already. $10 says this is going to end hyper-bittersweet like Shepard in Perfect Destroy and I’m going to have to headcanon my way out of despair, though.

So I wrote that list to keep myself on track for my backlog, and as soon as I finished Veilguard (again), I immediately failed.

SO ANYWAY I finally started playing Cyberpunk, oops?

Ok, ok, a lot of games and their developers just won some very well deserved awards (Yay for Astro Bot!), however.

HOWEVER.

OKAMI SEQUEL HNNNNNNNGGGGGGG

Dragon Age games are full of unromancable NPCs that make you bounce between "Aw, darn." and "What is actually wrong with me?". Presently looking at Malavai de Riva standing next to Illario Dellamorte and feeling both of the above moods at the same time. Ah well. Another loss to your cousin, Illario.

Ok so my #Veilguard personal-canon Rook is a Crow, and I managed to get screenshots of Viago when he first sees them again and it is sending me. The older brother vibes are so real.

"Haha, yes, my idiot is home! >:)" right into "Wait. My idiot is home. :|"

Ok, checklist so I have to hold myself accountable.

Veilguard (run two: evanuris boogaloo)
Finish run of LaD: Infinite Wealth
Horizon Zero Dawn
Dragon Quest 3-HD
Soul Reaver Remastered
Persona 3 Reload

In that order! Take that, backlog, I'll get you, just you wait.

Whew, I've never really @'ed someone before, here we go! @trickweekes.bsky.social , I'm about to kick off my second run of Veilguard (first run blind, second run "canon", it's The Rules) and gosh I hope you and the whole writing/dev team are so, so proud of yourselves and the game.

I am here! Finally, after deleting the account on The Bird Site! I shall now proceed to occasionally ramble about video games to nobody. :D