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A grocery store near my house has an entrance exactly like this, except the roads are 3 lanes each. It’s genuinely a nightmare to navigate if it’s even remotely busy.

Conversations about language aside, the error is that “Monday” is a string with a length of 6.

Wouldn’t the opposite be Jesus’s mother? In other words… Mary is the anti-Christ?!

My favorite (probably inaccurate) point about the name “Jesus Christ”: the name “Christ” means “anointed one”, as you said. People were generally anointed by having oil poured on their head. “Jesus” is just contemporary form of the name “Joshua”. So in another life, “Jesus Christ” could literally be translated as “Oily Josh”.

I’m extremely surprised that the number is only 95%.

Cultist Simulator is pretty unique… not necessarily in a good way. It’s a storytelling/puzzle game with some great writing if you can power your way through the gameplay. The mechanics are deliberately very obtuse, with no tutorial, to emulate the fact that diving into the occult is confusing and dangerous. The end result is that the game is very unique and cool, but it’s absolutely not for everyone. TL;DR on the basic mechanics: you have a handful of verb boxes, such as Talk or Research, as well as various cards that you can slot into them. Each card has a variety of tags on it. Depending on which cards with which tags you put into the various verb boxes, you get different results.

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I don’t know for sure, but I think it’s just a couple missions before the end. You have a choice to either fight Cinder Carla (siding with Ayre) or to fight the corps (siding with Carla). I sided with Carla, which made Ayre the final boss, and the fight was godawful. My understanding is that there are maybe more endings with NG+, but I’m trying to muster up the will to bother even turning the game on again after how atrocious the Ayre fight was.

Honestly, Armored Core VI. Endgame spoilers below (idk if there’s a way to do spoiler tags?).

The final boss is absolutely godawful. Just utter garbage. It took me hours, and I hated it from my first attempt. It’s categorically different from anything else in the game, and there’s never a point where it’s fun. Probably 20% of my total playtime was on this one boss. I was absolutely loving the game up until then, but that one boss is so unbelievably poorly designed that it ruined the entire game for me. It’s genuinely impressively horrible.

Oh no!

Anyway…

It’s appropriate because that kind of shit happens irl, too. Small city with a cool local vibe becomes popular, people move to the city because it’s popular, all the popular stuff gets priced out and paved over to make room for more Starbucks. Then people whine about how cool the city used to be. Gee, I wonder what happened to it?!

Every Pokemon Frame in Order

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I was really hoping to pick up some of the Stellaris DLC’s that I’m missing, but of the 5 I don’t have, 4 aren’t on sale at all, and the last 1 is only 20% off. Pretty bummed tbh.

I really wanted to like Sakuna, but I just… couldn’t. The platforming combat is really stiff, and the game is pretty bad at explaining mechanics. Oddly enough, I found the rice farming to be the most interesting part! Unfortunately, rice farming is essentially just there to provide buffs for the platforming, so I stopped playing after about 10 hours.

I guess I’ll be the token naysayer and say that this game was pretty disappointing. The combat is… fine. Nothing special. The story is also unexceptional. There is a twist that flirts with greatness, but they pretty much just throw it away in favor of something more generic. And, without spoiling: there is an infamous long section that is extremely repetitive, and the payoff is not at all worth it. Most people disagree with me on that, so your mileage may vary. People also like to talk about how philosophical the game is, but aside from certain characters being named after famous philosophers, there’s not really much to grapple with. The flirty plot twist I mentioned could have been leveraged for some great introspection, but… just isn’t.

All that being said, the game is still fine, just unremarkable. Honestly, if the primary protagonist wasn’t a babe in a cute dress, I don’t think anybody would have given N:A a second glance.

YACF?

If it’s merely life-threatening, then I’ll wait for an Uber.