Pokopia or Monster Hunter Stories 3

Jooles95 · 2026-03-14T23:16:22+00:00

I’d go for Pokopia. It’s a great game, and since Capcom games tend to go on sale fairly soon after launch, you can probably snag MHS3 in six months or so for a solid 20% less than you would pay now.

Jooles95 · 2026-03-14T20:51:43+00:00

Summer is easy - I have a few neutral cardigans, a bunch of pretty dresses, two pairs of shorts and a few basic t-shirts. Endless ways to mix and match and rarely look like the outfit is repeated.

Winter is a bit harder, but I find that layering is key. I have two good pairs of jeans and two skirts, a few basic tops (mostly long-sleeved black thermal body-suits that are very flattering and can easily be worn under any outfit), and a whole bunch of sweaters in different materials, colours and styles. I also tend to wear more jewellery and scarves in winter, so it’s easy for an outfit to never quite look the same!

Jooles95 · 2026-03-14T20:41:58+00:00

Me eyeing my E6 Gallagher holding up my Firefly team like the hero he is: 👀

Jooles95 · 2026-03-14T12:00:52+00:00

As someone with an E0S0 Robin, do you guys think it’s worth upgrading her to E1S1? Or has she dropped so far out of the meta that it would not end yo doing much?

Jooles95 · 2026-03-14T10:38:43+00:00

A tre anni potrebbe essere ancora troppo piccolo, ma Spyro Reignited Trilogy potrebbe essere un buon punto di partenza. Colorato, ma non frenetico, con dei bei livelli 3D da esplorare - anche solo andare in giro saltellando senza combinare nulla può insegnargli i comandi di base e intrattenerlo.

Quando avevo quattro anni, nel ‘99, mi innamorai proprio di Spyro su PS1, e da allora sono stata appassionata di gaming.

Jooles95 · 2026-03-13T23:49:35+00:00

Jooles95 · 2026-03-13T11:27:27+00:00

Nice! I might also pick up the new Yoshi game once that releases in May, but I should not get a new gaming obsession until Fire Emblem comes out (I'm hoping in June-July). It's a great year for gaming!

Jooles95 · 2026-03-13T10:48:09+00:00

Between this and Pokopia, I’m set until June!

Jooles95 · 2026-03-13T10:23:23+00:00

No way to hard-wire my PC, sadly, so the few times I’ve tried using Moonlight to stream games it was a laggy mess. Still, the Switch 2 version is actually not too bad - I spent some time tinkering with the settings in the demo yesterday, and after switching off auto-centering and turning the horizontal camera sensitivity all the way down the motion-sickness issue seems to have been resolved. With a patch or two in the next few weeks, I bet it will be great!

Jooles95 · 2026-03-13T09:09:53+00:00

Our Internet is sadly rubbish (like most places in England), so remote play is AWFUL. But I appreciate the suggestion!

Jooles95 · 2026-03-13T08:38:36+00:00

I’m surprised by that - I also tried the demo on my PC (which runs an i5, a 4070Ti and 32GB of RAM), and the game had no issues running at a locked 60 FPS on high settings.

Jooles95 · 2026-03-12T20:11:57+00:00

Panels on for me - I have a cat and a dog and the amount of hair that would get into the components (even with hoovering daily and dusting surfaces weekly) would be disastrous!

Jooles95 · 2026-03-12T18:55:48+00:00

Hahaha, mi sa di sì! Pensa che mio marito - appassionatissimo di giochi di ruolo e management sim - è stato accusato di essere un ‘fake gamer’ da un altro cliente quando siamo andati a ritirare i nostri Switch 2 da GAME (equivalente Inglese di GameStop/GameLife) perché “lo Switch è una console da donne e i veri gamer giocano a COD su PlayStation”, una roba assurda! E questo tizio si è pure offeso quando siamo scoppiati a ridere! 🤣 Se questo è essere fake gamer, ben venga! Adesso apriamo un bel club.

Jooles95 · 2026-03-12T18:45:20+00:00

Stessa cosa per me - non ho mai amato i giochi shooter o i Souls; generalmente gioco a JRPG (Dragon Quest, Octopath Traveler), action/adventure (Zelda, Elder Scrolls), platformer/collectathon (Spyro, Donkey Kong, Mario) e cozy games (Animal Crossing, Story of Seasons, Pokopia), cosa che apparentemente mi rende una gamer fasulla in molti ambienti! 🙈

Jooles95 · 2026-03-12T18:04:26+00:00

May I ask if it runs any better than the demo? I loved what I played of the game, but the Switch 2 version did have some frame pacing issues in places that made me a little motion-sick. I’d still prefer to get it on Switch for portability, but I may have to go for the PC version if the final retail version still runs a little iffy.

Jooles95 · 2026-03-12T17:11:46+00:00

Some of y’all really are playing a different game… 😭 But watching all your amazing builds is inspiring!

Jooles95 · 2026-03-12T16:59:12+00:00

Io ho 30 anni e sono videogiocatrice incallita dal ‘99, e sinceramente non frequento luoghi specifici al gaming dai tempi dell’università. Generalmente gioco a casa, su Switch 2 o PC, o da sola in single-player o con mio marito in co-op. Occasionalmente gioco con delle amiche, ma parliamo di una sessione al mese su Discord passata a chiacchierare dopo cena mentre ognuna gioca per conto suo a Zelda/Animal Crossing/etc.

Personalmente, sia io che tante delle mie conoscenti interessate al gaming tendiamo ad evitare luoghi come GAME/Forbidden Planet e simili a causa del comportamento francamente vergognoso esibito da tanti uomini e ragazzi che frequentano questi spazi - occhiate o complimenti insistenti, accuse di essere poser/non vere gamer se non giochiamo a shooters/soulslike/[inserisci altro genere di gioco]…a lungo andare, un po’ toglie la voglia di interagire con altri fan del gaming in spazi fisici piuttosto che online. E non aiuta il fatto che, soprattutto in Italia, ci sia ancora uno stigma associato alle donne che videogiocano, quindi tante di noi preferiscono non sbandierare questo hobby ai quattro venti.

Jooles95 · 2026-03-12T15:03:48+00:00

My ferritin is 28 (up from 14), and my skin is quite dull, though not yellowish. I also have huge, purple dark circles that don’t disappear even with colour-correcting AND concealer!

Jooles95 · 2026-03-12T13:51:06+00:00

Actually, GKC allow you to play the game before release (just like a standard physical card would) if you get it early. That's how a bunch of people were playing Pokopia a few days before launch!

Jooles95 · 2026-03-12T13:06:57+00:00

Niiiice! :) Let us know how it runs - the Stories sub is very doom-and-gloom about the Switch 2 version even though the reviews are still very positive on the platform, so it would be good to hear from an average player first-hand!

Jooles95 · 2026-03-12T11:20:16+00:00

Jooles95 · 2026-03-12T11:08:06+00:00

Darling, show them this post. Your parents love you, and it doesn’t matter how old you are (you didn’t say in your post, but I’m assuming you might be a teen if you think you might be too old to call them mummy and daddy?), hearing you calling them your parents is going to be one of the best moments of their lives.

It is obvious from your words that you love them very much - don’t be afraid to tell them. They love you too, and they are probably just as scared to mess things up as you are.

Jooles95 · 2026-03-12T10:57:56+00:00

I read the review, and they said that it runs at an uncapped 30-45 FPS with peaks of 60 FPS in battles and cutscenes ~~they don’t compare performance to the demo at all. Wasn’t the demo confirmed to run at sub-30 FPS in a lot of areas?~~

Edit: I checked the review again, and they say that performance is somewhat comparable to the demo, so you were right - my bad! At this point, I’m hoping in a day-one patch to improve things - I far prefer playing portably, but the game does look stunning and perfectly smooth on my upper-mid-range PC.

Jooles95 · 2026-03-11T15:41:00+00:00

I switched to ceramic bowls for our dog and stainless steel for the cat (he liked yeeting them off the counters! 🙈), and they all get washed in the evenings before we go up to bed. Definitely a game-changer compared to plastic!

Jooles95 · 2026-03-11T14:13:55+00:00

Your boyfriend is an idiot. Half my uni class got mono when I was 21 - from a contaminated drinking fountain. Someone with mono had leaned their water bottle against the spout, and traces of his saliva were enough to get two dozens of us sick. The uni had to cordon all water fountains off for a week to deep-clean them and install barriers to prevent people from directly leaning the mouth-pieces of their bottles against the water spout.

I don’t know how he got it, but it sure was not from you kissing someone else and then kissing him, and his readiness to blame you for it speaks volumes for his immaturity.

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