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Holy crap. Welcome back! I hope you are doing well (this goes for others too, no matter of the circumstances [to me], whoever comes by)

I also beat Ocarina of Time 2026. Great remake, very faithful while updating it in welcome ways.

The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time (2026 Remake) A faithful remake that enhances everything while staying true to the original. I would have been so tempted to add in a Light Dungeon or make the ice cavern a full dungeon or something but they resisted and I think that was the right call. Now that said, they should go buck wild with the DLC.

I've been pretty immersed in the culture of this game. It started a few years ago when I was looking for something to fill the esports void Starcraft 2 left in my heart. I stumbled on a youtube short about a rising new star named Donk who was playing in ways that were contradictory to everything I thought I knew about CS. It led to me watching pro matches to pass the time at work. Fantasy leagues became my favourite passtime and eventually I would be confident enough to place some real money wagers on matches. After the skin market crashed earlier this year I took some of my winnings and made some small investments into the skin market while everything was down. That got me obsessed with sticker crafting and spending hours engraving dumb words onto my guns using portions of pro player signatures. I'm always finding some dumb new thing to enjoy about this game. That said, I still have a relatively low <300 hours of actual gameplay in CS2 having only started actively playing a couple months ago. It's pretty hard to find anyone to play with. People seem to either find it too daunting to pick up or they're so invested that they worry my inexperience might cost them their rank. Solo-queueing is a bit of a shitshow; you always hope people will have mics but if they do you often wanna mute them. I've found some nostalgia in the 10v10 casual mode; it plays a bit more like the 32 player servers I used to frequent as a teenager in 1.6. I am kind of looking for some people, ideally less experienced, who would be down to queue up together for competitive or premiere modes. I kind of want the experience of playing with a team without too much pressure to improve or do well individually (lets be real the only stat going up right now is my age).

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How've y'all been? It's weird you drop a couple comments on a random day in January 2014 without knowing they'll be your last.

No, I'm not posting in the wrong thread

And purple Kansas?! I love that mural.

Mitch McConnell didn't end up dying but he can now witness districts that are heavily gerrymandered Republican turn blue. I shall accept that. But good fucking lord do I rather not be in this timeline. It's just so stupid, cruel, and downright exhausting. Expensive too Edit: what the fuck? Blue Texas? Edit2: Edit3: Kansas

Orbitals This was a fun game made by ex-Hazelight devs. It's in a similar style to like It Takes Two, mandatory co-op, split screen even if you're playing online, etc. It's got a really cool 80's anime aesthetic that it completely nails, and the game is a lot of fun. My partner wasn't a huge fan of It Takes Two because a) the characters were absolutely horrible, and b) the stuff you're doing changes up too often and while they play games they're not a big gamer so by the time they felt like they had a handle on what they were supposed to be doing it would change and they'd be starting from scratch. Orbitals fixes both those problems, the characters are actually likeable and seem like they like each other, and mechanically you only have about four items you use throughout the game, and you get to pick which character uses which one, so my partner was able to get more familiar with them. It's pretty short too, about 5 hours, which makes it easier to actually play through the whole thing. Overall it was a great time. Grade: A

PowerWash Simulator I'm not sure if I ever posted about this game when I finished the career mode. It would've been at some point in 2025, I think. Anyway, since then I've been working on and off on doing all the bonus content, both free and paid DLC, and I'm finally done. There's really not much to say about the game other than what you see is what you get. If it looks appealing to you, you'll probably enjoy it. There's just something inherently satisfying about cleaning all the grime on a level. It's the perfect game to zone out to with a podcast or youtube video playing in the background. The career mode actually has something of a story going on, too. It's nothing mind blowing but if you're paying attention to all the text messages popping up on the right side of the screen as you clean, there's a bit of a mystery slowly unfolding. I think the best thing I can say about the game is that, after spending over a hundred hours on it, I'm eager to jump right into PowerWash Simulator 2.

Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends A PS1 game that as a kid, I never finished, even though I liked the cartoon, the opening area was way too creepy for me lol. Even now, it's still quite creepy, the music, atmosphere, sound effects, it holds all up, even if the gameplay hasn't aged that well. Overall it was fun, except for a few really frustrating levels, specially one towards the end, thankfully the game took mercy on me and the last boss bugged out, it just stood still while I blasted it to bits, after the annoyance of the previous level, I was glad the last boss was that easy. I also learned that the original cartoon is available on tubi, so I might check it out, see how if it holds up lol. Grade: B-

Control Resonant This game was great, though I do think a little of the shine is wearing off the FBC. A big part of their appeal is all mysterious weirdness, and the more you're exposed to it the less effective that is. I think the FBC would be better used like in Alan Wake, as an organization that shows up on the periphery of other stories, rather than being the focus themselves. That said, game is still great. Grade: A Ace Combat 8 I don't have much to say about this game besides that it fuckin rocks. There was one boss fight that sucked, but other than that no notes. Grade: A+

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve GOTY, that's all. Loved the soundtrack, it has what you'd expect, when the skies speak Latin and all that, but it also has some cool rock and metal tracks. Played on PS5, the way it uses the adaptive triggers and the speaker is pretty neat, specially towards the end, That said [RAILGUN WARNING] is now a sound that will haunt my nightmares until the day oblivion claims me. The fight against was a bit annoying, but nothing that would detract from the overall experience for me. Story was great, the moment when Got a very loud HELL YEAH from me. \m/ \m/ Overall, yeah, this is my GOTY, easily. Grade: S

Tewy, queen larper, get a pass, despite her arrogance. Shadow 22, larper clown can eat a guided munition to his face though

I completed Retropolis 2 the other day. Cool little robot noir detective puzzle solving game. Nearly finished Red Matter (another puzzle game with soviet vibes). Going on to Red Matter 2 next. Kinda wish I Expect You To Die trilogy would come to PSVR2, but that seems a forlorn hope given that Sony have sold the patents and the whole thing seems dead in the water.

Best lyric video ever lol.