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Yep my Canadian history classes in the late 90s also conveniently excluded the Korean War genocide, said it was a just war and that almost none of the good guys died so such a success for Canada's military prowess.

More details, since I'm getting paid to shit now.

Nearing the end of Lie of P. It has been a very solid souls like game, that is sort of like bloodborne meets sekiro. I'd say I enjoy it more than bloodborne (the worst of the souls games for me) but far less than sekiro. It's trying to do too much I think, with the only thing that really matter the ability to perfect block a series of boss combos. Which is very meh to me, because the timing always feels not quite there. Sekiro it was forgiving enough on perfect blocks, with your side equipment being solid to assist you in a variety of ways. Lies of P arm parts are seemingly only useful between boss fights. Simply just too slow to be viable against any boss.

Wo Long, is like a weird half nioh, half sekiro but it leans towards being easier compared to Lies, with plenty of options to offset a skill deficiency and perfect parry being less needed but easier to time as well. It's a romance of three kingdoms game, which is a setting I adore so after I finish Lies I'm going to dig into some more.

Golden Idol and it's DLC have been excellent, a lovely mystery game where you figure what's happened by clues on the people in a scene and some logic, and some gaming of the systems. I'll be sad when I finish the final case, but the sequel was announced so hoping it's good.

Ravenswatch, is like a single session diablo thingy. You pick a fairy tale hero and try to stop the nightmares. You level up, and are given a choice of two traits to modify your skills, they can increase your power quite radically. It's in early access with the final act still being made. It's great to kill slightly less than an hour of time. Quite a bit of grinding to unlock all the traits for each hero though. My favorites being ice queen, beowulf, Aladdin, and the mermaid.

I've always been playing stardew with my partner maybe 3 hours a week when we have time. Been meaning to play more on my own time too but xmas gave me many games to play.

I also have Mario wonder to start.

Lies of P

Wo Long

Curse of golden idol, lemurian vampire

Ravenswatch

And power washing Sim for podcasts.

Need to get back to zelda tears, and Bayonetta 3.

EDIT: see reply for details, Most anticipated for this year is dragons dogma 2, Im.hoping it's solid, I only got 10 hours into the first one and I'm going to try to play it through but I've got stuff on my plate so we'll see.

Monster hunter wilds is the only thing I'm eager to play but it's still a year off at least unfortunately.

Then what are they fucking complaining about??? They aren't canceled then?

If the slightest push back from people who aren't even their fans upsets them so badly then I'm sorry, we might just be dealing with soft little snowflakes. It's a little criticism, get over it Mr. Rich guy.

For a nice simple train game that isn't really technical or complex I enjoy "Sid Meier's Railroads!"

It's like an arcade tycoon game. Pick an area and you can randomize the geography or use somewhat real life. You can grow cities by supplying products to them. And you'll have rival companies trying the same, you can buy them out if you're doing very well. It's a nice lite game I used to play while listening to podcasts.

Bright greens

Death to America comrade

slice & dice is an extremely fun rogue Lite type party based game where you roll and lock dice that have your abilities on them. Many clever synergies for items and abilities to make obscenely overpowered builds to annihilate the last bosses. Then story over to do it again. There's no progression mechanics. But you do unlock things to play with as you accomplish things in the game. Has 4 difficulties and a dozen alternate gameplay modes. It has a demo with half a run in it. And it's about 5 bucks to buy the whole thing. That all you'll pay. Try demo if you don't like walk away.

Why why?

I can only manage it with a talk over stream. So I used Remap (Patrick klepak and Rob Zacny and Cado) to get a slight leftist dunk on the whole proceedings.

I was thoroughly unimpressed barring seeing new titles from a few indie devs I've liked and the reveal for monster hunter 6.

The awards are farce (although this year mostly good titles were nominated, but in such a stacked year any of the nominated games could be seen as acceptable winners) given barely half a minute to say thanks, while Kojima is given 5 minutes to say he's working on a game. And it feels like a security guard told all the winners that they would have their legs broken if anyone mentions the real world, no mention of either the mass layoffs within game development or the Palestine situation. Because Geoff is a coward who wants to get paid and is afraid of offending anyone especially his friends at the big publishers and advertisers.

The reveals are mostly garbage slop. the indie stuff is fine because they just announce a game quickly and show some gameplay and move on. But AAA bullshit is just big long reveals with no gameplay and you just wonder what the game is, until Geoff says "wow what a game, I saw it a few months ago and let me tell you to keep your eye on that title!"

Basically avoid the show at all costs unless you have streamers you enjoy and trust to dunk on the shitty show.

I'm sure it has happened because Florida has the huge spring break scene when college weirdos go there and do shit they'd never do back home.

Which is to say that they are leaning hard into Florida man bullshit. Every place in America has that insane weirdo shit happen, Florida media just has open access to police reports so they can comb through everything and find something insane to make a slow news day more exciting.

Oh I've enjoyed it immensely from what I've played but it takes a lot of focus and usually I just don't have it these days unfortunately.