Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

Veerp!

Things that are like dark souls (that aren't just genre):
* You are undead
* The opening cinematic includes a vague lore dump, and then a list of some of the bosses you will fight
* The world has been driven mad by some event
* Managing stamina
* Checkpoints are sources of light that you sit at
* A maiden helps you level up

Things that aren't like dark souls:
* You can jump
* Sneaking
* Guard counters (more on this later)
* You have a goat-horse
* Non-hostile creatures

I wasn't going to get Elden Ring when it came out, but then... I did anyway.
(Guess the marketing worked lol)

My usual PC isn't good enough to run it, but my nesting partner's PC is good enough. It's plugged into the television, so I get this weird experience of it feeling like a console game.

The thing I wasn't expecting was: it feels so dark souls-y. Like, obviously it's in the same genre and from the same Devs, but it feels more like dark souls than even bloodborne does.

Groöd mjornîñ

My handwriting is bad, but I wanted to share this phrase from my conlang.

Good morning!!

Snish!

Most of you are sweet-and-sour!

jō ɓǫ is a combination of the words for river and moon - the language's speakers live alongside a large river and have a sacred connection to the moon, resulting in them calling themselves jō ɓǫ ōŋwe ("river moon people")

wúgų is the verb meaning "to speak", and dān is the nominalizer (that is, it makes the verb into a noun) - so together it means "speech" or "language"

I've finally come up with a name for the conlang I've been working on:

jō ɓǫ wúgų dān

(Or "Yobo wugu dan", for how I'd expect English speakers to end up pronouncing it)

the diacritics represent tones - a line above means a high tone, an ogonek below means a low tone, and the upwards-rising diacritic represents a rising (low to high) tone
All other sounds are as per the IPA, so j is the sound at the start of the word "yellow", and ɓ is the bilabial implosive (sound not in English)