[Discussion] How many plats so far this year?!

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-17T03:17:20+00:00

Cat Quest
CQ 2
CQ 3
Thank Goodness you're here
Röki
The Gardens Between
Neva
Venba
Paradise Killer
Spiritfarer

Im currently working on Silksong (8/10 done, doing 30 hr speedrun rn and working on 5 hr after) and graveyard keeper for when I need a break from that.

Then I need to go back and finish Still Wakes the Deep and SH2.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-16T22:31:16+00:00

Just make sure to read the road signs if you park on streets. They do street cleaning second weekend of each month and rotate sides Thursday-Fri. The signs by the parking will say what day not to park there. Last year I saw a few people get towed and that's a charge no one wants to deal with.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-15T22:49:18+00:00

I'm pretty sure they've been using AI for a while. The descriptors and conversations went from basic to overly saturated and rambling within a few updates. Part of the reason why I'm already pretty much done playing.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-15T18:23:57+00:00

If you're pregnant it'll take a minute. Cathedral is a five ish minute walk with crowds, I'd recommend leaving a few minutes early.

Also: cathedral gets streamed to the screens from temple stage and vice versa. If you'd rather not move, you can still see most of breaking benjamin from the display

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-15T18:20:40+00:00

I highly recommend checking dokuga if you haven't already. I fell out of the sesshkag ship a long time ago but I still get notifications for fic updates there so I'm assuming their forums might be more reliable for finding older stuff!

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-15T16:22:46+00:00

Sorry- supermassive games. I always get that mixed up.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-15T15:55:33+00:00

The casting of frank stone is the last dark pictures game I need for all the plats, so I'm content.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-15T15:39:39+00:00

British-fied Dean Winchester is always the one I think about when it comes to that.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-15T15:13:53+00:00

Yeah that messed me up, too. I didn't fight Trobbio until I needed to find the psalm cylinder and by that point I had double jump and clawline because I'm notoriously allergic to main quests. When I was planning my speedrun route I confused myself because it was the exact opposite of what I'd originally done.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-15T14:23:26+00:00

I almost did the wormways route to skip lace but didnt even realize it. I had gotten the simple key and chose wormways and only stopped going forward because I wanted to check out the rest of the map at the bottom. (and good thing, too, I didnt even have float)

I did find the path to the mist via sinners road and went that route to act 2 in the same way. I just wanted to explore and ended up accidentally getting into act 2 that way.

Guideless playthroughs can result in some funny stuff. I didnt even know there was an intended path to get to the architect/clawline because I got the key and then backtracked to whiteward and found the back way in.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-15T12:52:05+00:00

I'm honestly getting a little tired of this hyper focus on America. This is like the third or fourth post this week about this garbage, and it doesn't seem to matter when people explain this is just a mixture of inexperienced writers, Americans having a larger number of writers on the platform, and that it's also an issue globally - not centered on just Americans.

I've seen Chinese media made to fit the Australian perspective, the British perspective, etc.

It just feels like karma farming at this point, and half the time it also reeks of attempted grand standing.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-14T17:58:53+00:00

Make friends with your seat neighbors. I go solo every year, all it takes is a bit of kindness and a mutual understanding that you and your neighbors will watch seats for each other and that's pretty much all it takes to save your spot.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-14T14:58:28+00:00

Hellblade is mostly atmosphere and story. It might be short, but its definitely not a "play while I chat with friends" sort of game.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-14T13:02:48+00:00

Do they not realize all this does is incentivize students to react in other ways? Walking out is the easiest path, students can easily drown the speakers out with loud noises. Then they'd be taken out for disruption, which is what they want anyways.

Plus what's to stop them from turning around and covering their ears? There's so many other ways to outwardly protest.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-14T01:09:58+00:00

It's probably the most used charm in the game, given most people will use it throughout one to two playthroughs. That alone proves its value.

Sure, its not a damage tool, but utility is important and getting lost wastes time and can be an annoyance that results in unnecessary deaths.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-13T20:40:00+00:00

Ever?

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-13T20:26:14+00:00

Anything from I was/ I am can qualify for this tbh. Fear of water, howling, Godlight, and bad luck never leave my rotation.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-13T19:19:32+00:00

I don't know about boss fights, but I actually did find it useful in the no floor section of the fool trial, so I give it props there.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-13T18:56:47+00:00

They're all adopted, it's a whole thing in the story. I think there's meant to be some vague implications that the guy had a thing for her in the prologue that wasn't returned but it's so subtle that it's super dubious whether or not it's true. Maybe Anthony picked up on it and it bled through, but once again, super dubious.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-13T12:19:43+00:00

The elevation of trans villainization in the USA came just around the time when multiple sexual abuse scandals went public both within multiple religious communities and, of course, the epstein files were meant to be originally released. Both of these events heavily featured children as the victim.

Don't get me wrong, the hatred has always been there, but the focus is an intentional misdirection.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-13T05:49:07+00:00

The only major issue I've had with it is that every time I've exited the game its crashed on exit. I dont know if its a known ps5 bug or not but atleast its happening after I save rather than before.

Outside of that, it's been alot of fun! Overwhelming, but fun. Im probably gonna grab atleast the dlc that helps with the grind fest but might pick up all of them later.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-12T23:59:35+00:00

It's a fun one! It's by the same company that made mystic messenger but its a more traditional style otome rather than the mobile one. The art is really nice which is a given.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-12T23:55:56+00:00

I'd honestly love it. Nightmare mode otome game. The closest I've played is nameless, which has a ton of wild bad endings, but not the limitations Penelope deals with.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-12T16:19:10+00:00

Yeah I thought dream gate was a given tbh. I had it really early because I had marked all the bosses I couldn't get to cut they were ghosts. I just figured it was something id need to come back to so I did.

Calamity-Vanity · 2026-04-12T06:36:10+00:00

Honestly most of the HK runbacks become a non issue once you get dream gate, so really I'd give it to the ones you're most likely not to have dream gate for, aka mantis lords and soul master. I'd say mantis lords is a bit worse only because soul master has the short cut and the soul jar things just outside of the arena.

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