TheMightyEthan

Yeah, I was shocked too.

Yeah, that's a Sig Sauer P365. We picked it because we liked how the Sig grips and triggers felt, and that one in particular has a smaller magazine (10 rounds) so it's legal in every state, but it can also accept larger magazines. Also it's got a safety, which apparently most of them don't anymore. Might get a rifle and/or shotgun at some point, but wanted to start with this.

I honestly think you probably made the right choice. I ended up playing BP for about 20 hours and I thought it was good-ish but nothing amazing throughout. I'm enjoying RoboCop about as much. It's not as good as the good parts of BP, but it's also never aggravating, so it evens out.

Not really, but I think it's possible. Plan for the worst, hope for the best and etc. Rather get one now while they're easy to get and never need it than for things to really hit the fan and not be able to.

Also bought a safe for it.

Just in case things really go to shit.

Yeah, would be cool if a Europa submarine like got a video of a space squid or something.

Blue Prince I'm of two minds with this game. On the one hand, at its core there's a really great game here, with a really cool idea behind it. On the other hand, it's constantly shooting itself in the foot with the RNG bullshit. It just does not respect the player's time. There's tons of stuff that should be a permanent unlock but just isn't for some unfathomable reason, the metaprogression and story reveal is so thin on the ground that you can go multiple runs in a row without making any significant progress on literally any avenue of investigation. It's just frustrating, especially because a few small tweaks could make it so much better. So like when you open a door and are putting down a new room it gives you three options to choose from, and there are dice in the game to let you re-roll those three options if you don't like them, but they're quite rare on most runs. If those dice were more common it would alleviate so many of the problems, and that's just one example, the game is full of things like that where it's just like "why would you do it this way? it's needlessly time-wasting." So yeah, I both love and hate this game. It's a great game that is fatally flawed. Grade: B-

Not strictly technology, but fuck it: https://www.reuters.com/science/scientists-find-strongest-evidence-yet-life-an-alien-planet-2025-04-16/

I've been playing Blue Prince, I'm enjoying it, it's good, but I'm not seeing why everyone is so in love with it (at least not yet, 7.5 hours in).

Mostly we just talk in General anyway.

Several of us in the discord have been playing that, you should come back!

125 now.

Old phone is 4 years old and with tariffs hitting I'm expecting prices to jump, so I thought I'd go ahead and upgrade now. Pixel 9 Pro XL

That's a hell of a haul.

Yeah, I'm gonna hold out for an OLED version.

I got my niece a Retroid Pocket (3+, I think?) and put a bunch of retro games on it for her. All she uses it for though is Mario Kart 64 and running around the castle in Mario 64, lol.

I'll be interested to hear what you think, that kind of game is very hit or miss for me.

And a few more... I would have bought Syndicate too but for some reason that one's not on sale.

I also just bought Immortals Fenyx Rising.

The back paddles on my Xbox Elite controller have started going gummy, and I've heard other people complain about the build quality so I didn't want to buy another one. Enter the Scuf Envision Pro. It's PC-only, but way more customizable than other "pro" type controllers, and also cheaper. I'm a little nervous about the different positioning of the back paddles compared to what I'm used to, but we're gonna give it a shot. I bought it on Amazon so I can always return it if I don't like it.

Zenless Zone Zero is neat.

Hell yeah OLED life!

I just didn't enjoy the encounter design, and thought every encounter went on way way too long.

For me it's mainly because I think the pacing is awful, the gameplay is not fun, and every section is approximately 3x longer than it should be, which just exacerbates the fact that it's not fun. Also the story is trite but that's just video games, I don't hold it against this one specifically.