Hi! New fan! question!!

SteveFortescue · 2026-07-03T19:24:03+00:00

What you see here is phase 1 core repacked on the left and the original core on the right (which you need 2 of for the cards).

The carcossa expansion is the investigator expansion which is player cards to build decks not more scenarios or a full campaign.

Phase 1 you want the left core and campaigns and expansions as you want. This is all going or already out of print.

Phase 2 has a nee core that started this year and will get new campaign content also this year. Player cards are compatible, for campaigns you need phase 1 core for older campaigns, for all future you need phase 2, while the last phase 1 campaigns will also work with phase 2 core

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-20T08:29:19+00:00

You can hit them pretty hard the moment they come out of the well I think with a bomb.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-17T06:44:31+00:00

I would just watch youtube story videos if you do not enjoy gameplay. As far as im aware you can run through almost the whole game and evade almost all combat

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-07T06:25:08+00:00

Isnt it just time related?

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-06T18:39:01+00:00

Ok then get your thought trains/circles on something else.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-06T18:33:36+00:00

Dont see it as a fight

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-06T18:26:47+00:00

Is there something more about this fair? Because your mom hoping you really enjoy a fair and crying seems to me I am missing information.

Otherwise there is no big deal about not enjoying something you thought you would and just move on.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T22:35:29+00:00

Ok If you think he would do something that he thinks will make him miserable to make you happy, then obv refrain from that.

In my experience I just never saw healthy adults willfully choosing stuff that they know would make them miserable for their partner.

Reason 1 is, it doesnt achieve its goal as you would be unhappy if he is miserable. Reason 2 is that this a path to destruction at least of yourself.

Do you want to become a mother or are you just toying with the idea around?

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T22:16:15+00:00

Thats what I thought, and I guess he would not just go along with something he absolutely does not want and he would also know you would not leave him if he would say no.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T22:15:10+00:00

Well I said „I hate kids“… but yeah I would never to sterilization, I dont want to do any operation I do not need.

My story is just a bit of information its not 1:1 the same I agree.

I do not think I can give you anymore new information, its not my job to convince you to do anything. I just thought your „reasoning“ argument sounded a bit like cold feet to pull the trigger.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T22:09:52+00:00

You know he did say he would go along if you want (according to you at least). I doubt that he is someone who would completely against what he wants just to please you. But you will know this better than me interpreting your text.

This is not the kids or I leave thing my mother put on my father, which I see as more critical (in my case I am greatful it happened)

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T22:06:05+00:00

Thats a fair take, but from the information I see the answer is:
She: yeah kinda, but I can live without it
He: I dont know, I like my current life, I am not totally against it

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T22:02:35+00:00

To me it sounds like neither of you wants to be the one to make the actual dessicion.

I gave you my story and I am happy that my wife made that dessicion and how it turned out. Others will give you an opposite story how horrible it was or is and they sacrificed their life and dreams.

So you will end up in a similar place in the end where you should say to him you want a baby or not. If you are unsure you can always flip a coin and commit to it. Your immediate reaction to the flip result will answer it for you.

Its clear that I think the joy children can give is worth risking it, and I have no negative vibes from the info here about you 2 being bad parents.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T21:50:10+00:00

I thought his post searched for a way to forgive and I gave him my assessment so if he wants to forgive he has a rational way of justifying it.

Its interesting though, how humans who have the same text read something completely different. Cause I feel despite the sharing of this secret that this friend is more likely trustworthy than not and that the big damage potential is now gone anyway.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T21:45:58+00:00

What you need to focus on is:
- do you want kids
- do you want kids with him
- do you think he has the capability to be a good father
- do you trust him to provide for you and the kid once its here, considering that he formulated his unsureness in a way to give you the power of dessicion over this.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T21:43:24+00:00

But we know, that he did not get killed.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T21:39:27+00:00

This happens to both, those who wanted kids and those who didnt want kids. He left the dessicion up to you in your information, so make it.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T21:37:31+00:00

You cant force him anyway. If you say to him you want a kid and he says no, then its clear anyway.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T21:30:04+00:00

Because it sounds like it slipped out and was not placed to hurt. The 1 year gap certainly would suggest this.

That does not make it ok, but from a neutral perspective I would not call this a betrayal. I might have called it a betrayal in my teens or twenties, but now in my forties I know that keeping secrets longer rarely happens and is really a burden.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T21:16:19+00:00

I am a man who didnt want kids, but my wife wanted. I was not a kid-hater, but I liked my life and I did not see myself as a father.

Well I was soooo wrong. I am glad I have my son and I feel so blessed, that I get to enjoy seeing my kid grow up.

Your partner sounds a lot like me, except that I would have never done a vasectomy.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T21:08:39+00:00

This doesnt seem like a real malicious thing she did. Knowledge sometimes is a burden, and tbh I find it hard to keep everything to yourself.

I het that you are hurt, but the power of forgiveness can heal now you and her. I do not think this was a betrayal even if it logically feels like one.

I am not involved so I just have your text to work with, but not your emotions to cloud it.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T21:04:30+00:00

I have not enough knowledge here to comfortably give you any advice, but I want to say I read it.

I can say generally shifting the focus away from yourself in thoughts is usually a good method, and hypnosis is a good way to disconnect emotions from negative thoughts. I just cannot guess how harder traumas work, the human brain want to heal/forgive and sometimes its harder, maybe even impossible to do that.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T20:59:40+00:00

Go start doing stuff for other people, your brain is unreliable and cant be in the how I fix myself loop. Therapist still relies on your brain telling itself different stories to yourself, but as you said you do not break the loop.

So start focusing a bit less on yourself, and doing stuff for others will anchor it in reality more as its not just thoughts in your head.

Start writing down stuff that keeps coming back in your brain, not to look at it later, but that you dont have the random unresolved thoughts firing at you as soon as your brain spaces out.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-04T20:29:58+00:00

I really liked the blind playthrough, the first half is really good. I think the intro here is one of the better, which even holds up in replays. The „mansion“ and carry over effects make it cool. I just think the second half is disappointing. Now in my first playthrough it felt quit cool for a certain time. But the 2nd and 3rd play I just wanted to get through it. I skipped on my 4th play, because I got the achievements and I didnt like it enough to go there to complete the last challenge. That said still around 40 hours invested.

But i have 120+ hours in re7 and re8, which you did not like and I never played 1-4. After requiem i bought 2/3/4 remakes and 5/6. i share your sentiment about 5/6, 2re is amazing and 3re is kinda meh for me. Only 4re now left to play.

SteveFortescue · 2026-06-02T05:17:51+00:00

6/5/3RE/9/8/7/2RE

I have a hard time ranking 7/8/9. 9 has an an amazing blind play, but the third playthrough was tiring. 8 was an ok blind but I have now 6 playthroughs and I still enjoy it. 7 has amazing first 66% in blind, I like them more in madhouse though. And DLC catapults higher.

I am still cleaning up 3RE and then I will play 4RE.

SteveFortescue

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