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Why these feet were nearly a foot long!

I feel like I’ve mostly got it from context. The ones “knowing them over” are the ones who are fully aware that they exist but working to perpetuate a world where the average person is oblivious. Rather than knowledge leading to the acceptance you typically expect, they know about but pave over.

If I were given carte blanche to redesign 3D Sonic gameplay, making it control like a faster-moving Tony Hawk game seems like the way to go. Sort of the middle ground between conventional platforming and vehicle control.

On my seventh attempt, I walked into a store and was told yes when asking if there were any Switch 2s in stock. The young cashier adorably turned to his older coworker and unironically said "Wow, that's four in one day! You weren't kidding about these things."

So anyways the past few days have been a blur of Mario Kart World. The new mechanics are a challenge to learn but they're a challenge I'm delighted to have and make me feel incredible when I'm using them well, the soundtrack full of remixed classics on par with the best of Final Fantasy VII Remake's that are just there to fill the empty space between the proper racetracks, and I was not prepared for HDR in the hands of Nintendo's artists. This game is by far the most beautiful thing I've ever seen on a screen and that was already true before I looked up how to use that shockingly unhelpful calibration tool the Switch 2 has and now it's twice as beautiful on top of that.

The sole complaint I have about this game is that I'm not enjoying Waluigi's new voice actor. I can't hear the pain underlying the mania that Martinet understood was core to the otherwise ill defined character. His animations and his costumes are so fucking good, though, it's hard to even care that his voice is downgraded.

I have lost so many Baldur's Gate 3 Honour Mode runs because I've accidentally blown up the Zentarim hideout.

Did you know that having a torch equipped as your melee weapon means you're considered to be carrying an open flame even when you've switched to have your ranged weapon out? I just found that out yesterday. Always learning new and exciting ways to explode.

The pockets are nets.

Shower curtain with pockets. Never again will you knock bottles off of those inadequate shelves.

Jeez, what was starting with 3 like?

I finally picked up Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, this being a game that's been on my radar since well before it came out because I was a big fan of Jet Set Radio Future back in the day. It's kind of too much like it and not enough like it at the same time? I tried the original Jet Set Radio when that came out on Steam and bounced off it but based on that limited experience I think this is kind of splitting the difference and that's where most of the frustrations come from. Movement is more like JSRF but level design is more like JSR. And the soundtrack seems to lack that variety of some songs being made for the game and others being licensed that kept the monotony at bay. No "Aisle 10" to slow things down for a bit.

I am enjoying it, though, for as little as it sounds like I am. Movement feels good enough that it's making me search for combo lines for the sake of combo lines and at the end of the day that's what's really important about this kinda game.

Also finally finished Zelda echoes of wisdom.

Never would have guessed going in that that would have the most graphically violent last boss sequence the series has ever seen. I beat it feeling like I was the real monster.

I hope you're not playing Anniversary Edition for your first time with the game. Getting bombarded with all that Creation Club stuff would not be my ideal first impression.

I got that Blue Prince bug where your data secretly stops saving twice now. I read it’s been fixed but playing the game has a tension behind it now that’s discouraging me from investing too much in it, psychologically speaking, and also I’m hesitant to play anything else on the PlayStation because closing the Blue Prince application on it risks being hit by the bug again if it does still exist.

Which all seems like the universe telling me it’s time to try Baldur’s Gate 3 Honour Mode again with these new subclasses. I’ve made a dragonborn barbarian, planning for him to be a giant that specializes in punching, playing him arrogant and naive. Lae’zel and Wyll feel like good companions for that temperament but I don’t know who my third should be. Maybe stick with a hireling until I get one of the druids? He’s too insecure to tolerate Shadowheart or Gale. Astarion or Karlach would mean having to reclass somebody so there’d be a support role on the team and reclassing the origins never sits well with me.

UPDATE: Things did not go well at the goblin camp.

It’s not unusual to say something less controversial than what you wish you could say, so it tracks that someone who wants to say “I’m a boy” would say “I’m a girl who isn’t girly” in a time where the truth is presented as less of an option than it is today. It’s not that trans guys and tomboys are the same thing, it’s that the same label can be either true or a euphemism when applied to different people.

What gets me about the original post is it looks like it’s saying I as an unambiguously masculine man could wear a dress and be called ma’am by a stranger and when I respond “I get why you’d say that but I’m actually a man wearing a dress” then there’s an expectation the stranger might respond “don’t be ridiculous, that’s not a real thing. You’re obviously a trans woman.” I just don’t see this kind of scenario playing out.