Nd feels, doing smalltalk
That autistic feeling when six separate people ask “how’re you going?” within twenty minutes and every time you freeze for a bit trying to work out the correct balance of honest-but-not-too-honest considering the people and the context and your mental state and you finally manage to get out some approximation of “alright”.
And then if you manage to remember to return the question after all that worry, they invariably reply the same “oh, fine!”
PSA: It's now possible to run homebrew on an unmodded PlayStation 2 using only a burned DVD, using this hack: https://cturt.github.io/freedvdboot.html
Using that, I was able to rescue everything off my 15 year old memory card and convert it to (the pretty-good-at-this-point emulator) PCSX2's memory card format. It's a comfort to know that all these old adventures won't be lost to time.
with the blaster bomb launcher.
when everyone is still in the skyranger.
because your first action was to take one step outside with your veteran, and get missed by a low level Soldier alien with a plasmafuckinpistol.
who missed by miles with all three shots.
thinking back to the original UFO: Enemy Unknown/XCOM: UFO Defence and how the most dangerous foe you'd ever face was not the Ethereals, or the Crysalids, or getting mind controlled at higher levels, or all that guff
no
it was johnny rookiefingers in the back of the skyranger who has somehow gotten hold of the Blaster Bomb launcher and because an alien fired a plasma pistol past the hatch, missing everyone entirely, he does the only thing he can, and panicfires into the wall behind him.
please boost, united states, gender affirming surgery, informed consent, resource
a website that has a list of therapists that have pledged to write letters of recommendation for gender affirming surgery via informed consent: https://thegalap.org/pledge-signers-2-0/
In 1993 Infogrames rushed the release of Alone in the Dark 2, and as a result it came out in a near unplayable state. And then instead of rebalancing it they included a teleport that skipped the entire first part of the game in the CD-ROM version, and threw in this "SECRET DOORS" disk with later floppy releases.
So what was on that floppy? Well, it turns out that it's nothing but a six sets of saved games. It's not even noted which parts of the game they lead to! Remember: $9.95 value!
(I'll be honest if this isn't a vine or tiktok already I will be VERY surprised because this joke is like... friggin out there in the open ready to use, surely.)
(I will say though that doing ten rolls on the character and item gatcha things is... doable with free resources. Like I've been playing it for a couple of days now? and saving up the 2700 free gems from just completing challenges and events adn story missions has been ridiculously easy to the point I've done a total of two of these things now already... Paying money is absolutely not required it seems, so far.)
Okay so managed to stumble across a mobile game called Guardian Tales and...
...it's really good????
It's got those gatcha mechanics similar to Arknights, and of course microtransactions, but no adverts at all (same as Arknights) and if it weren't for the microtransactions and character and equipment gatcha thing, it would be quite at home on a PC or console release as a fun little action RPG puzzler thing. It's kinda adorable, and lots of fun, though blimey does it eat battery.
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.