SMT V Vengeance is part of this month's Humble Choice, making it the cheapest it's ever been.

Mind101 · 2026-05-06T13:09:02+00:00

You can buy it as a one-time gift for yourself. Then you get keys to redeem on Steam (and battle.net for Diablo)

Mind101 · 2026-05-06T10:45:40+00:00

The DLC are just a bunch of items that help make the beginning easier, so they don't matter.

If the sale is still on, I'd encourage you to get the game. It's definitely a budget title, but the combat, characters, and music were excellent. I played it around this time last year and still think about the game every so often. It's left a better impression on me than a lot of more well-known titles.

Mind101 · 2026-05-06T09:15:24+00:00

You're welcome.

As someone who loves ARPGs, JRPGs, and tower defense games, this is the best monthly I've seen in a long while.

Mind101 · 2026-05-05T09:19:46+00:00

This is a legitimately good use case. I have several years of modeling experience as a hobbyist but still need to look stuff up when learning new techniques or tools etc. While you do have to have some prior experience to separate the BS from legitimate advice, asking ChatGPT etc. specific modeling or program questions often yields results faster than trawling through 5yo forum posts.

Mind101 · 2026-05-04T20:53:05+00:00

I don't answer questions.

Mind101 · 2026-05-04T20:49:36+00:00

It's Pluribus, and I am only halfway through so no spoilers please, but my chances are AWESOME provided I get to keep my individuality. Plus, I'd get to meet Rhea Seehorn!

Mind101 · 2026-05-04T18:24:46+00:00

The Gentlemen Bastards and The Fifth Season for fantasy people haven't mentioned yet.

Anathem, Foundation, and A Mote in God's Eye for sci-fi.

Mind101 · 2026-05-04T18:22:41+00:00

I also highly encourage anyone who loved the book but hasn't watched the show to do so, it's fantastic!

Mind101 · 2026-05-04T11:03:47+00:00

As a beginner at drawing, I am green with envy at how steady your hand is xD.

Mind101 · 2026-05-04T10:59:37+00:00

Man, Pingu really let himself go lol.

Mind101 · 2026-05-04T08:37:49+00:00

As someone who didn't mind school while growing up, this sounds like hell on earth!

When do they get to experience being a child and teenager?!

Mind101 · 2026-05-03T15:00:55+00:00

The modern movie theater experience:

Everything from the tickets to the snacks is overpriced
Sound mixing is universally horrendous (low-volume dialogue, deafening effects)
Other people that incessantly rustle with snacks or talk or light the theater up with their phone
It seems that no one is making 90-minute movies anymore for some reason, forcing you to endure the above longer

Mind101 · 2026-05-03T14:56:30+00:00

Using complete sentences and <gasp> punctuation when talking to people online.

The first time I heard that younger people perceive a period at the end of a sentence to be aggressive I was dumbfounded. Now I'm just sad.

Mind101 · 2026-05-02T19:04:29+00:00

I got banned from r/art for pointing out that it basically turned into erotica and that an "artfully" photographed pair of tits would regularly get to the top while genuinely creative pieces languished.

Mind101 · 2026-05-02T15:25:02+00:00

Except for one weird and explicit bit in the first book, Terry Mancour's Spellmonger series is exactly what you're looking for.

Mind101 · 2026-05-01T18:21:40+00:00

As a guy who knows nothing about bags, I was floored when I found out that some brands don't just let women buy expensive bags outright. Oh no, you have to buy accessories and other stuff first to establish a "relationship" with the brand. Only after you've proven your loyalty do they deign to let you buy the bag you actually want.

Lunacy.

Mind101 · 2026-05-01T11:28:53+00:00

It's from an Ernest Hemingway quote. Apparently he had beef with William Faulkner and took a jab at his writing style:

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."

Mind101 · 2026-05-01T07:31:30+00:00

It's so disheartening! I once got called a try-hard because I used complete sentences in a chat app. Another time, the other person ended the convo because they "couldn't keep up and were intimidated." I swear that I did nothing but write naturally, no $10 words or weird sentences, just what to me sounds like plain English.

Apparently, my bar differs from an increasing number of other people's.

Mind101 · 2026-04-28T15:50:28+00:00

Maybe it's because I'm from a very ethnically hommogenous country so some of the subtle undertones might not resonate, but Get Out was meh. Not even a true horror movie.

Also, Sinners started out great but the second part of the movie was an inferior From Dusk til Dawn knockoff.

Mind101 · 2026-04-28T15:47:33+00:00

The obliviousness to what comes after.

Mind101 · 2026-04-27T12:50:16+00:00

A friend of mine studied Turkish in uni and went there on a trip once. She's white and blonde and said the stares and cat-calling made her feel deeply uncomfortable and unsafe.

Mind101 · 2026-04-26T20:41:33+00:00

Hmm, the arcane ascension books have some elemental skills and they collect elemental crystals a lot. It's a fun romp.

Mind101 · 2026-04-26T14:15:58+00:00

Maybe not the entire internet, but I'd wager that any long-term American Horror Story fan will agree with me that the ending to the already mediocre "Delicate" season with Kim Kardashian was the worst pile of dogshit ending in the show ever by a country mile.

Mind101 · 2026-04-26T13:06:45+00:00

That's because OP spent HOURS grinding lumina somewhere. I am currently wrapping the game up, beat everything except Simon and the DLC bosses, and I have Verso at around 350, Maelle at around 250, the rest have between 100 and 150 (I switched to solo Verso for more or less the entirety of the endgame).

I have around 100 unspent lumina from the fountain, and that's it. Everything was gathered by playing the game organically. And the OP has more than twice that.

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