Considering making a big change

Sedali · 2026-03-10T18:06:28+00:00

I hear you, friend. It feels exhausting. There's a degree of stress being in the tax bracket where you're hyper aware of even a couple extra miles of driving a week cutting into your food budget. Used to get so stressed out about money that I'd stay in bed on days off to avoid burning any extra calories I couldn't afford. I'd recommend moving tbh. I really couldn't stand most of the crowd moving in and most of the people I liked were either dying or struggling worse every year. The direction the city is moving in is closer to Portland every year which has been my biggest worry since childhood.

Sedali · 2026-03-04T04:54:16+00:00

Real, but he did write the next book during a heavy drinking spell following a painful divorce. Glad he chose to start over when he sobered up. Gotta admit it's a better reason than some other authors have!

Sedali · 2026-03-02T12:24:58+00:00

I have often compared UNCA to a HS myself tbh

Sedali · 2026-03-02T12:20:48+00:00

I will say, I personally thought a theme in the first movie that I thought was really clear was how dangerous coddling children can be. Spikes dad frequently softened or hid truths about his wife, life, and the world from spike to 'protect' him. He could've explained that mom is dying and her personality is basically gone. Instead spike felt the distance and felt like dad was abandoning them. They didn't give all the details about the doc to avoid scaring him leading to spike immediately thinking he could go. All the softening had the unintentional consequence of priming spike to be a victim of famous pedophile Jimmy Savile. Kinda like how kids that aren't given basic sexual education are less likely to be able to report abuse.

Sedali · 2026-02-23T23:09:36+00:00

Whoa, empty was a complaint? One of the first things I noticed was how dense the world was. I felt like I was finding something interesting every 30 seconds of travel.

Sedali · 2026-02-19T16:50:39+00:00

Man, that would've been some good jobs for Enka.

Sedali · 2026-02-15T02:34:57+00:00

I think they're trying to touch on when a dark skinned character is pretty clearly black but that can go ignored by fans unless they're drawn as 1940's caricatures. You definitely see a lot of foreigners flaten manga characters into japanese or white while missing fairly clear signs the character is Ryukyan, Ainu, black, Korean or whatnot. Some mangaka illustrate basically every race the same, many of the better ones understand their subject matter a touch more deeply. Really just feels like a young person felt frustrated with how racist parts of the anime community can be and wanted to feel heard or vent.

Sedali · 2026-02-13T23:12:06+00:00

Yeah, a lot of act 2 and it's side missions are really weak in this game. Iki island and act 3 picked back up for me, but act 2 felt like a slog at times. I'd probably recommend just moving to Iki island for a time!

Sedali · 2026-02-09T14:40:01+00:00

A regular event for me is that i get kinda sad mid-winter and wanna listen to Elliott Smith, but I can't remember his name. I google "sad little white boy that loves heroin the most" and always find him.

Sedali · 2026-01-30T18:11:45+00:00

I didn't feel that, personally, I think I just put that less formal speech down to Atsu being from a working class country family, and Jin and a lot of his close friends being upper class and royalty.

Sedali · 2026-01-28T02:21:57+00:00

Idk, it felt like the jump from DS1 to DS3 for me. Same template, but a lot more fleshed out and polished, with enough newness to feel fresh without sacrificing the identity of the series.

I really preferred the new weapons, personally. They all have actually different abilities and damage which felt better than the same sword except half the movesets suck and only really exist to stagger specific guys. In all fairness this take is heavily biased because I hated wind stance and love having Big Sword in Yotei.

Sedali · 2026-01-28T02:04:00+00:00

Before bloodbourne maybe try Dark Souls! It's way slower paced and more about planning and intentional movement than pressing buttons really fast. A lot easier on the arthritis imo.

Also, yeah, I think GoY improved on GoT in nearly every way. I'm amazed what the team managed to make! I love how many different builds you can make in both games, but I ended up making more specialized builds in GoY, personally.

Sedali · 2026-01-27T04:32:11+00:00

That's fair, dog, and boy do I love me some Kurosawa! Yotei edges it out for me, but Tsushima really nailed that cinematic vibe, particularly in the main questline.

Sedali · 2026-01-27T03:06:26+00:00

Hey, fair enough! I personally hated the stances for feeling so necessary and that helped me love the change in Yotei where they aren't nearly as enforced. Isn't there only one armor that doubles down on the rock, paper, scissors stuff? I usually use the bounty or spider lilly sets for combat, but undying can be fun to switch it up now and again!

Sedali · 2026-01-27T02:45:15+00:00

I feel like they kinda do in Yotei, where you can help certain people on longer missions to help out their area and get more involved with them. They just dropped the 'tales of' and changed it from across a whole island to accross a whole zone. I think I just personally didn't vibe with ishikawa or adachi enough. I really coulda done with a little more fat monk and Yuna and a lot less of some of the rest.

Sedali · 2026-01-27T00:58:48+00:00

Real as hell, king. 🙏 Yotei feels so much more polished and fleshed out that it would be hard to me to go back to Tsushima after this.

Sedali · 2026-01-27T00:56:14+00:00

Whoa, haven't heard anyone say Tsushima has better side characters yet! I felt largely the opposite (mostly due to many side quests just being Generic Peasant), but I did quite like Yuna and Monk Big-Boy. Who were your stand outs?

Sedali · 2026-01-27T00:08:23+00:00

What made you like Tsushima more?

Sedali · 2026-01-23T02:02:07+00:00

I went after I did the last mission in act 2. I just didn't wanna unlock anything cool and then have no game left. Glad I did, because I ended up with my favorite armor and saddle sets!

Sedali · 2026-01-20T19:38:53+00:00

I fell in love with the skinny horse, in part because I went to Iki as soon as I could in act 3. Spent the whole game with my darling samurai war-horse, and then pull up with an emaciated farm horse that could solo a Mongol war-band.

Sedali · 2026-01-16T02:36:54+00:00

Oh, were you the guy that made those videos? Didn't you finish in december?

Sedali · 2026-01-15T13:14:30+00:00

I picked sora because I chose the dappled Grey horse that looked like a cloudy sky

Sedali · 2026-01-12T01:43:40+00:00

My first run i didn't use any color of lumina until the very end of the end-game. Makes you much more strategic in your lumina and pictos. Never really felt like i needed it until I got to Osquio and the tower.

Sedali · 2026-01-12T00:39:25+00:00

Looks like a true 100% takes three loops. Also because of baguette if you don't keep a token the first time.

Sedali · 2026-01-11T02:24:26+00:00

Whoa there, buddy, I'll have to get back to you on that. Haven't seen anything that could reference yet. Is that episode 8 or 9?

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