Rose Thorne(She/Her)

Bring together the Old Faith and the New.

Has Phoenix Wright been a documentary about the Japanese legal system this entire time, and we just wrote it off?

I haven’t opened a PTCG pack since…

The OG Starter Decks.

Yeah, even if they want to keep it primarily to the collecting, there needs to be more.

I know it’ll never happen, but I remember Konami putting out Yu-Gi-Oh cards with special codes on them to coincide with some of the games. You typed in your code, you unlocked that card in-game. Would be nice if TPC could work out something similar, so your actual efforts could be part of your digital collection.

I’m kinda surprised, actually. I’m enjoying it, so far, but it’s pretty bare bones if you’re not looking to drool over pretty cards. We can’t even trade them yet, at best you have battles or putting them in a display.

You can also just ask one of the bakers if they mind cutting it in half, and using two bags.

Easier to shove it down your pants that way.

Vampire Survivors has got me back in its grip. The Ode to Castlevania DLC dropped on Halloween. I really don’t understand where the time goes when I play that game.

Also picked up Webfishing, an absolutely adorable time. I don’t know that I really consider it “playing”, the actual gameplay is pretty basic, but I’ve enjoyed the peaceful nature of it and have had fun just chatting.

This is seriously dating myself, and probably hyper-specific, but it feels more like chatrooms back in the late 90s to early 2000s. Most of the rooms I’ve been in have been relaxed. Having a talk about life while someone strums “Simple and Clean” on a guitar somewhere in the background. A bit of roleplay going on.

The small lobbies, the small map, the chill gameplay, all makes for a cozy, welcoming place. Like you really did just stumble across someone’s campsite, and they invited you to sit.

Xenogears deserves the FF7 treatment, damn near. They’d have to straight up recreate the second disc that was absolutely butchered into what we got.

Now, if we can get that rolling, can we also throw Saga into the mix? Please? Fuck, just pretty up the front half in an emulator, but give us the proper ending. 3 totally redone, in it’s original design, and a complete 4th chapter.

Tell these stories right, the way they were meant to be told.

Only if there’s a 6-hour unskipable praise session towards the Enkindlers.

Have we figured out which of the 5 will make us their bitch yet?

Wasn’t this also in the big FPS Wave of the era? I keep wanting to put it alongside Resistance: Fall of Man, and kinda remember that being the defining trait of most of those titles. Decent, but overall forgettable, experiences.

That somehow culminate in the existence of Haze, and we should be ashamed of ourselves as a species for that.

Where they gettin’ arrested at this go around? Gotta top what happened in Greece.

I mean, have you looked at HoI4 lately?

Look, I get it, but the state of DLC in Paradox games has moved beyond even the memes. I think they took those as inspiration. There’s a fucking monthly pass now!

I deeply enjoy their games, but the DLC bloat confounds me.

It’s about the only staple of the series left.

Diablo had Hellfire, 2 had Lords of Destruction, 3 had Reaper of Souls. All decent titles for an expansion pack.

When will it be time? Time for them to take my love, my anger, and all of my sorrow?

Hey, he’s got Hi-Tops on, at least. Keep that ankle stiff if he rolls it bustin’ a sick trick.

You know he’s never going to give it to you.

“Can’t expect me to train my replacement if I don’t remember how I did it!”

This is what happens when you take things away. Used to be you’d just levitate yourself wherever you needed to go.

Then there’s Fallout. Who needs horses? Courier can carry themself and 400 pounds of Sunset Sarsaparilla up a damn near vertical cliff face if you do the side-to-side.

My friend, do yourself a favor and invest in a proper grinder. You can find pocket grinders with a kief catch for like $15. That catch will be your friend during the hard times. Let it build until you need it, and never clean that shit unless it is into your apparatus of choice.

ETA: Clean the grinder teeth, not the catch. Just knock it into the catch with a toothbrush before you do. Sometimes you can scrape some extra goodness up, but it sucks using a gummed grinder. Should be able to grind in one smooth motion, not too much resistance.