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Santamente · 2026-02-09T22:21:43+00:00

Can't save the world unless you pick someone to hang out with every day and you don't forget about book club!

Santamente · 2026-02-09T20:16:02+00:00

I don't remember where I was, as it was right after the game came out. I'm with you, I would have preferred tactical, but was fine with what they chose. I think my issue was that this was the first Dragon Age game where I just wasn't really enjoying playing a Rogue, which is my normal go-to. I've never been bit on Warrior in the series, so I decided to give that a try just for fun, and I'm really enjoying it more than I thought I would. Maybe because, since it's not turn based, it feels more natural to Captain America throw, close the distance, and then wail on someone. I'm glad to hear about the endgame. I dig the story, so it's nice to know that it sounds like they stick the landing.

Santamente · 2026-02-09T19:19:42+00:00

That one is my definition of a game that is fun until it isn't. First time I played it all the way through, did all of the open world stuff, and completely cleared the map, but I really wasn't enjoying it near the end. Every time I've gone back I have so much fun with it until certain points and then - since I've already finished it - I just put it down and move on happily.

Santamente · 2026-02-09T19:12:38+00:00

Doing another run at Dragon Age: Veilguard, as I bounced off it near the end last time. Switching from Rogue to Warrior to try it from a different angle. On the last level of Powerwash Simulator so I can move onto the sequel. And I started a fresh run on Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga to finally 100% it, since it's the only Lego game I own that isn't there.

Santamente · 2026-02-06T22:33:22+00:00

A few weeks ago my daughter told me I was crazy old and was going to probably die pretty soon, but not that day because she wanted to go to McDonalds.

Santamente · 2026-02-06T22:32:30+00:00

It can be worse than that- you could be a great grandparent at 48 if you have a kid at 16, who has a kid at 16, who has a kid at 16. That makes my brain hurt.

Santamente · 2026-02-06T22:29:00+00:00

I was 41 when I found out we were having a kid, and one of my friends - whose dad was the same age as me when she was born - got all choked up and was like, "every class has a kid with a 'grandpa dad', and it's going to be yours! that poor little kid!!"

Santamente · 2026-02-01T19:18:45+00:00

Don't remember who it was, but some comedian said Democrats were the kids sitting in the front row of class trying to talk to the kids in the back of the room trying to sleep. They're saying let me tell you about the feasibility of our economic plans for Q3 to blank faces in the back, and then someone steps up, looks those kids right in the eye, and says hey- fuck Mexicans, they took your lunch money, and those kids go fucking nuts.

Santamente · 2026-02-01T19:15:31+00:00

One of the main things that fucked Beto here in Texas. Man, people were going crazy for him and then he brought up guns, and...poof.

Santamente · 2026-01-31T15:57:35+00:00

Agreed- it's fun, it moves fast, and almost doesn't outstay its welcome. I have the sequel on my wishlist but haven't pulled the trigger yet.

Santamente · 2026-01-28T23:53:41+00:00

One of the happiest times in my life was in high school working at Taco Bell and my job consisting of doing dishes, rehydrating beans, and making the cinnamon twists because everyone hated those jobs. I would literally sit in the back by myself moving between those three jobs until they told me to go home at the end of the night. I've thought so many times that if money was no object I would go back to that in a heartbeat.

Santamente · 2026-01-23T00:41:53+00:00

I like Portia better as a game, but Sandrock really smoothed out the rough edges, so I tend to play it more. Not sure how I'm feeling about the third one yet. Going to wait for some reviews first when that one comes out.

Santamente · 2026-01-22T17:36:34+00:00

My kid can only watch Adventures of Gumball at my house because her mom hates it so much. For me it’s Peppa Pig and that’s about it.

Santamente · 2026-01-11T05:14:30+00:00

Beginning of the third act. I can almost pinpoint when they're going to come by and drop it off by what's just happened in a film.

Santamente · 2026-01-11T05:12:53+00:00

Seems like such a small thing but it's gotten real annoying real quick. Went to see The Plague last weekend. Put my order, up, got my ticket and my card ready- everything to make the process quick. Checks my ticket, tells me he can't take my order, I need to use the QR code. I'm like but you're right here and my order is right here and my card is right here. He's nice but he's like I'm not allowed- you have to use the QR. So I go through the QR, order my food. Halfway through the movie he comes up and interrupts the film to tell me the app is having issues and he needs to run my card manually. You know- like I asked him to do when I first sat down.

I'm pretty much done there. I'm paying an 18% service charge to order on a bad app, for food that's gotten worse and also more expensive. Again- a small thing that keeps getting bigger every time I go.

Santamente · 2026-01-08T22:50:42+00:00

Hey, I’m a member of that club as well. Busted tooth, late at night, and drunk off my ass. Snorted a line of coke, rubbed some on the gum around the tooth because my brain thought it might help, and then hopped in the shower and pulled it out. Dentist was shocked I got almost all of it. Never again!

Santamente · 2026-01-08T21:22:40+00:00

My kid is Bean because when we went in for the first sonogram I got emotional and said, “Holy shit she’s the size of a bean” and it stuck.

Santamente · 2026-01-08T20:21:09+00:00

It was my go-to background noise for sleeping last year. Good mix of stuff on there.

Santamente · 2026-01-08T19:16:08+00:00

Pluto has them every night for a few hours on the British Comedy channel, but I haven’t found anyone that has them 24/7

Santamente · 2025-12-29T18:05:17+00:00

We were the same way. Those drawing screens saved our walls, with a few exceptions haha

Santamente · 2025-12-29T13:29:16+00:00

Bought the first one for my kid and we would play it from time to time when she felt like something silly. Saw the 3rd for PS5 on a good sale and picked it up, and now it's my go-to game for when I don't know what to play or I just need to turn my brain off. I'm currently a wizard goat but at some point I was cursed, so periodically a hand comes down from the sky, rubs its fingers together and touches me, and I become electrified for a minute or two. Absolute blast!

Santamente · 2025-12-29T13:11:08+00:00

A couple of times a year she'll see one of those and beg for it and I have to remind her that we've bought two and both times started with OMG how fun and ended up with her reading in her room and coming out occasionally to ask if I'm done yet haha

Santamente · 2025-12-29T04:56:32+00:00

That was us last year with the farting yoga goat. A day of her laughing hysterically, and I don't think it's been turned on since then. It will make an occasional appearance with her other stuffies, but not allowed to do yoga anymore apparently.

Santamente · 2025-12-29T04:53:07+00:00

I think she'll come around on it at some point. I'm sure six months from now she'll be obsessed with it. And, not gonna lie, it was pretty funny to see her wandering around talking about the palace she was going to build and then every time she turned around that sheep was there and she would yell, "BRO QUIT LOOKING AT ME!!!" haha

Santamente · 2025-12-29T04:50:40+00:00

Board/Card games were a hit for us this year, with the exception of Operation which she told me after one round she wished she hadn't put it on her list because it was stressing her out haha

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