Mister Jack

I also need to remember to buy turnips during the small window of time when Daisy Mae shows up.

I really need to play the stalk market but I am just so afraid of wiping out my savings...

Persona 5 Royal Man, what a game. If you haven't played Persona 5 yet then don't even bother with the vanilla version because this is now the only way to play. I finished with the true ending at just over 107 hours, which is roughly 20 hours more than it took me to beat the first playthrough of the original release. Not only is there an extra semester on the calendar after the original final boss with a new palace, a new FINAL final boss, and multiple new endings, but the whole game has gotten a lot of balance tweaks and quality of life improvements. Guns refill their ammo after every battle now, which is a big game changer since you no longer have to ration a handful of bullets for an entire day. The game is also more generous now with providing ways to restore or save SP, letting you use skills more. Palaces that used to take me two or three days to get through are now possible in just one day thanks to this. Of course, you need the extra free time because now there are two new confidants, another confidant that has been expanded upon, and new side activities. Perhaps the biggest change to combat is the increased viability of status effects and tech hits. Before, these were just a small little damage bonus whenever they happened to pop up, but now they've been buffed so much that they're a vital strategy in battle. In fact, if you put in the effort to level up the newly introduced tech ranking the tech hits can be even stronger than exploiting weaknesses. It adds a whole new layer to combat and it's great. It also helps that the palaces have been remixed to be less repetitive and you now have a grappling hook to help you get around faster. The new story bits are introduced during the story of the original game and eventually culminate near the end if certain conditions are met. The new party member, Kasumi, is extremely charming and has a really compelling story arc that kept me glued to the controller. The new villain is also pretty interesting. Their motives, methods, and ultimate goal are surprisingly complex and I imagine there are probably some heated discussions in the Persona community surrounding it all. It does feel more like an epilogue, even if the stakes are higher than before, but it's a good epilogue. But fuck all that. MORGANA DOESN'T MAKE YOU GO TO BED ALL THE TIME ANYMORE! Thank god! He still doesn't let you leave the cafe if you spent the afternoon in the metaverse, but at least you can still do things like read books or raise your social stats. You can still do something so it doesn't always feel like your time is being wasted. Persona 5 was my GOTY back in 2017 and if 2020 wasn't such a strong year for games already I'd be tempted to make it my GOTY all over again. It's one of the best JRPGs I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing.

Why...exactly...would doctors and nurses inject someone with a death virus on purpose? What exactly is the logic behind this conspiracy theory?

Don't suppose there's a US version of that link?

Are you longing for a specific villager but you can't seem to get them on your own and amiibo cards are ridiculously expensive online? Try amiibo coins, which are fanmade coins that work just as well as amiibo cards, only without the collectible card part of it. A lot of people still charge out the ass for popular character coins, but this lovely lady is creating coins on request at a flat rate no matter the character. I went ahead and ordered a couple. I expect them to work just fine because she has a ton of good feedback but when they eventually arrive I'll do a follow-up in case anyone is unsure.

I've wanted this game since the 90s. Of course I was going to buy it.

20 dollars is pretty steep for me, a guy who usually watches movies alone these days, but if they bumped that rental up to 72 hours I could maybe swallow that price. This is all pretty experimental right now and there's plenty of time to adjust the model.

This doesn't really count as politics but we don't really have a general news thread and this is worth following. AMC and Regal theaters have announced that they're banning Universal films from their theaters after Universal's CEO announced that the digital success of Trolls 2: World Tour has made them decide to release new movies on both platforms from now on. This could be the beginning of the end of the traditional movie theater business model and I couldn't be more happy to see it go.

Got a couple of good ones. Maybe you already know about them since they're popular but they're also not on the app store so maybe not. You want a youtube app that will keep playing audio after you shut off your phone screen or go back to your home screen? Youtube Vanced. It also cuts out the ads as a bonus. It's like getting everything you get from Youtube Premium for free except for the terrible premium shows that nobody likes anyway. Want a good manga reader? Tachiyomi. It's the only thing I've found that lets me read series such as One Piece, Beastars, or Berserk. All the official apps in the Play Store only connect you to webcomic crap. Edit: This one is a Windows app but it's a huge help. Do you have a bunch of empty folders on your PC but you don't want to go through them all one at a time to get rid of them? Use Treesize. It analyzes any directory you choose and lets you mass delete empty folders if you wish. It's saved me a ton of time.

I saved so much money on the phone that I decided to sell my old tablet from 2015 and get the Tab S6 , which is the new hotness. Going Amazon refurb for this one too which was 100 bucks off. Also ordered a keyboard case for it. My intention is for this to replace my laptop for most non-intensive tasks like web browsing since the new Android OS has a mode that acts more like a desktop.

My old phone was starting to swell right out of the bezel. I suspect it was the battery, but I figured I was due for an upgrade anyway so goodbye to the S7 and hello to the S10e! The best part is that this is a 600 dollar phone but I got a refurbished one on Amazon for 350. If it didn't come in a generic box I would have never known the difference.

I don't buy it. It's too good to be true.

Thanks for the nugs, homie.

I can't help but find it bitterly ironic that it's the ultra conservatives, the ones who bought all those guns and have been itching for some kind of apocalyptic scenario so they have a chance to use them, who are out there in the streets screaming for everything to open back up because they can't stand not getting a haircut. And they say liberals are the coddled.

Up to nine. I got one right now. I'll keep an eye on my turnip prices and see if they go above 101 at any point.

Anybody have gold nuggets they're not using? I need them for crafting and I'm willing to pay 15,000 for each one, which is 5000 more than the twins give out.

I got enough for the wand I want but it took forever.

Whoever decided the spawn rates for the meteor showers needs to be taken out behind the shed. I can wait for up to and even over an hour and get absolutely nothing. It's absurd to make people wait that long and it seriously needs a buff.

What is everybody's native fruit? You get more money selling your fruit on an island where it's not native and I've been hoarding my cherries to wait for a good opportunity.

Code ain't working, chief

It really doesn't end. There's just a part where the credits roll and after that Tom Nook says he has no more advice for you. From there it's all up to you how you want to develop your town.

Doom 64 Now THIS is what I call a preorder bonus, although you can still get it for 5 bucks on its own. This is really more of a remaster than a port, and a fairly well done one at that. Keeping in mind that this was originally an N64 game, the textures look good, the game plays at a proper widescreen resolution, the framerate is consistently smooth, and the controls are tight. There's even an extra pack of all new levels--more on that later. Doom 64 is a good game, but I would still say it's my least favorite of the original Doom formula. That sounds worse than it is because I consider Doom and Doom 2 to be two of the greatest games of all time so saying that a console exclusive from the N64 era isn't as good really isn't all that damning. However, this game still made some changes that I don't think were for the better. Enemies all got redesigned and some look better than others, but this is a matter of opinion. Likewise, the music is more ambient and atmospheric, and while I prefer the rocking tunes of the first two games I will say that the spooky tone of this game would make it great for a Halloween playlist if you're the type to play horror games every October. Doom 64 is by no means a horror game, but it leans closer to that kind of feeling than the other games do. Take that as you will. The level design is a lot trickier than the other games too, with more emphasis on puzzles and activating far-off switches by shooting them, which isn't really much of a thing in Doom 64's predecessors. Your mileage may vary on how well this works. I personally prefer Doom to be just a straight up action game with minimal switch hunting and puzzle solving, but that's just me. Either way, it definitely feels like a different designer's vision was at work here for better or worse. Oh yeah, there's also a lot of platforming going on here, and by platforming I mean sprinting off of one platform fast enough to hop a gap to another one. This was a real pain for a while until I realized that the autorun does NOT let you run at full speed, which is necessary for a lot of platforms. You have to turn autorun off, then hold down the sprint button and run off the platform. Not the worst thing in the world but not knowing this from the beginning halted all of my progress for a frustrating amount of time. On one more note, the fact this was a console exclusive means no number bar for switching guns. They didn't add in a weapon wheel either. You have to tap the weapon switch buttons and scroll through every gun until you get the one you want. You can mitigate this somewhat by quickly tapping however many guns you want to skip over, but I still wish they had at least added a wheel, even if it wasn't originally made that way. I assume they chose not to do this for balance reasons, but the game already doesn't feel like it's balanced for a control scheme that can't quickly switch weapons. I died more than once trying to get to the weapon I needed. Oh well. The new levels are pretty good, but also pretty daunting. They make up their own episode which means you start with just a pistol despite having barons of hell right there at the beginning. You end up going through most of these levels with the basic bitch weapons which means no plasma gun, no BFG, and especially no Unmaker until you're close to the end, but at least you get the super shotgun and rocket launcher fairly quickly so you can still manage, it just won't be easy when the game is constantly throwing enemies and traps at you. I found myself running dangerously low on ammo more than once. Ironically, the final boss fight at the end of these new levels ended up being a cakewalk because the game decides to hand you a fully powered Unmaker for free during the last level, but I consider that my reward for scraping by all the previous levels. So yeah, Doom 64 still kicks ass and it's only 5 bucks. I remember this game getting dismissed when it came out because it wasn't as visually impressive as Turok or Goldeneye, but Doom ended up having the last laugh because it holds up much better today than the other two.

Well whenever you want to post a Dodo code just do that and I'll swing by if I'm available.