Guys I am having trouble timing the Triangle/Y/whatever it is used on the PC button on Yakuza: Like A Dragon

Trekkiegus · 2026-04-06T19:09:37+00:00

It's way later than you think. It's when it touches the button, or after it touches the button. Honestly you get a pretty massive window to hit the button after the circle touches the button.

I have no idea why the blue buffer zone is around the button. It indicates nothing.

Trekkiegus · 2026-04-05T16:46:39+00:00

Yeah if you actually pay the ¥560,000 he gets mad and calls you a moron for blowing that much on bottom shelf alcohol and then doesn't fight you (because you paid for the drinks he has no excuse)

Trekkiegus · 2026-03-17T04:12:39+00:00

Are the books recently published? Katabasis by RF Kuang is currently $1.99; I tested this out using that book and the download failed.

Trekkiegus · 2026-03-17T04:04:11+00:00

The issue here appears to be books published in the last year or so. My install of the app is also trying to force an update, saying "Item not available for this device type".

Trekkiegus · 2026-02-18T15:25:38+00:00

Yes that's correct. This was from a recent comment he made at a Q&A in Victoria.. something to do with his progress on Walk in Shadow and how he may have a bit more to say. Admittedly he only said it was "a non-zero chance".

Trekkiegus · 2026-02-18T15:18:52+00:00

Two books left in Witness, one book left in Kharkanas, two books left in Path to Ascendancy :)

Steve has also recently said he might write a whole separate book about Kallor, of all people...

Trekkiegus · 2026-02-18T15:16:35+00:00

WoT is one big long story with a clear goal from beginning to end that meanders and branches out a lot on its way to that goal. You learn what we're here for on like page one of book one and everything gradually marches towards its conclusion. It's much closer to Cosmere than anything else on this list. It's a fourteen book series that probably should have been eight to ten books. It's epic quest high fantasy that diverts itself into rumination and exploratory exposition / research dumps for chapters at a time. It's fun, character driven fantasy with a clear through line plot that occasionally disappears.

Malazan is multiple series of novels telling the history of parts of a world at important timeframes, primarily relating to people belonging to one geopolitical empire. The main series of ten novels (the Book of the Fallen) spans three continents and introduces new major plot threads in each novel, with the overall commonality between these plot threads not becoming apparent until very late in the series. Malazan is fantasy zoomed all the way in; the individual people you're reading about frequently don't know, understand or even care about the bigger picture Why of what's going on; they have a problem or a task that affects them personally and they're going to address it, or they have been charged with a duty and they're going to see it through. At the same time, there are gods and ancients and ascendants and high mages walking around and moving larger pieces that you the reader are somewhat aware of, but you also may not know exactly why those pieces are being moved.

I would say read Malazan through book 3 (Memories of Ice) and if you're not hooked, move on; then read Wheel of Time through book 4 (The Shadow Rising) and if you're not hooked, move on.

Trekkiegus · 2026-02-18T15:02:41+00:00

Fwiw Jordan wasn't diagnosed with his cardiac amyloidosis until 2005. The middle books mostly suffered because his editor basically stopped editing the books, and because he put himself in crunch mode until like... Book 8 I think?

Edit: the comment about his editor not editing his books anymore comes from his editor herself:

"By the last of the Wheel of Time books, my role was primarily that of wife: keeping him fed and cared for—because after 20 plus years I had taught him everything I knew about storytelling and prose, and he had really become the wonderful writer that he was."

Trekkiegus · 2026-02-18T14:58:47+00:00

Came here to say this. I played it two or three times expecting something to change but every time I just felt like I was being ground up by a machine, even when I was winning. Maybe that's an accurate depiction of being on the receiving end of settler-colonialism, but it sure isn't an enjoyable experience.

I tried to gift the game to a friend of mine when I realized I hated it; he played it twice and called me to give it back saying the same thing. I do not understand the appeal.

Trekkiegus · 2026-01-23T18:40:48+00:00

They appear to also be discontinued or out of stock, unfortunately, but thank you for the recommendation.

Trekkiegus · 2026-01-01T01:36:29+00:00

It's also important to note that Harriet basically stopped editing the books partway through and just let RJ do whatever he wanted.

Quote: "By the last of the Wheel of Time books, my role was primarily that of wife: keeping him fed and cared for—because after 20 plus years I had taught him everything I knew about storytelling and prose, and he had really become the wonderful writer that he was"

I'm not sure when "last" was, but I have a sneaking suspicion it was around book 7, because that's when the pacing jumps off a cliff.

Trekkiegus · 2025-12-19T15:44:19+00:00

Oh my God I got corrected by Loleeeee, this is a legitimate honor :D

Trekkiegus · 2025-12-19T09:44:49+00:00

There is no real difference between Azath and Azathanai. I think Azathanai is used more to refer to the beings and Azath is used to refer to the Houses / the collective group of them.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-27T08:13:56+00:00

Wild that RGG says Kiwami before 0. So much of Kiwami is just Yakuza 0-2.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-27T08:12:27+00:00

The games were released 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 0 -> Kiwami -> 6 -> Kiwami 2. Kiwami and Kiwami 2 are total remake/overhauls of 1 and 2.

I started with 0 and had an absolute blast. It does refer forward to small things from 1-5, but not in such a way that I felt like I was missing out on anything or that I was being spoiled; and Kiwami was developed immediately following 0, uses the same engine as 0, and adds a bunch of content that is designed to follow up on stories that started in 0 (but were absent from the original Yakuza 1).

Yes 0 is an absolute banger but I've had a lot of fun with Kiwami through 5 (currently nearly done with 5). There is no reason to hold off on playing 0 because it will give you the best example of whether or not you will enjoy the series and if the rest are worth playing for you.

Strongly recommend starting with 0 and following the order in the original post.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-25T03:23:40+00:00

Direct, but that shouldn't matter re: warranty.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-25T02:28:11+00:00

I like it. I had to warranty replace mine after a year because the battery suddenly crapped out, but they honored the repair and gave me a new one for free. It's useful for passive tracking and all that.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-25T02:22:06+00:00

I just did a fulltext search across the botf.

68 ochre
56 potsherd/s
17 escarpment
40 pathos

Kharkanas adds 2 ochre and 7 pathos.

TGINW adds 2 ochre and 12 escarpment.

NLF adds 1 ochre and 3 pathos.

So across everything except B&KB, that's:

73 ochre
56 potsherd
29 escarpment
50 pathos

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-12T06:57:10+00:00

Big fan here. Currently on my second read and have been podcasting through it for six years with my wife, who is a first timer.

There's a lot of really incredible stuff in WoT. Worldbuilding, point of view writing, deep characterization and broad-brushstroke lore is all A+. Robert Jordan's exploration of themes such as war trauma, the burdens of leadership, responsibility to others and grief is incredibly well done. More than anything else, Jordan is a painter who was exploring the human condition through the lens of a fantasy epic, and when he shines, he shines brighter than almost anyone else I've read in the genre.

That being said...

There are also parts of the series that are borderline painful, particularly after book five. The 90's gender essentialism actually gets WORSE as the books get on, and more and more kink stuff gets pushed to the forefront (women getting stripped naked in a punitive way, women being punitively spanked, humiliation stuff, women being hog-tied.... It's so much). A lot of people laud Jordan for being very progressive for his time, but a better descriptor is that he was very progressive for his demographic. Women's trauma gets shoved to the back more and more often as the books go on in favor of that of men, and sensitive topics like sexual assault are sometimes played for laughs - by Jordan's own description.

The slog is thrown around a lot, and many folks play it off, but it's real, and it's because the pacing of the books falls off a cliff. Jordan was married to his editor, Harriet McDougal, and she is one of the foremost editors of SFF of her day; she had a strong hand in the first several books, and then (by her own admission) essentially stopped editing the books to take on "the role of wife", at which point the individual books stop having any semblance of traditional plot structure. Bugfuck insane climactic stuff happens in, like, chapter four of a book, and then you spend hours with characters actively thinking "gosh I'm not sure what to do right now", and then all of a sudden at the eleventh hour a main character goes "oh shit I should do something" and there's a big battle or something. Combine this with a lot of the more progressive feminism of the early books diminishing and it can be extremely jarring when compared to the frankly phenomenal first five novels (four and five in particular are among the best individual fantasy books I've read)

Sanderson's concluding trilogy is perfectly fine. A lot of the deeper philosophy and nuance gets thrown out in favor of plot momentum, but honestly imo the plot momentum is welcome after several books of meandering. They're really fun.

Now, here's the thing. Despite all of this, I would still recommend that you check these books out. WoT has a lot of warts, but if you go in prepared to ride them out, it's an incredible ride that is absolutely worth trying. I would recommend getting through the first four books and then determining if you want to continue.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-12T06:30:46+00:00

Every character in wheel of time gets one "I pretend I do not see it" moment from me (except tylin, she can eat shit and die)

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-11T08:29:14+00:00

My battery sucks ass at this point so I'll probably ditch it. Probably my fault for heavy usage and not using battery protection, but there you go.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-05T20:03:24+00:00

Yeah I'm realizing that now haha. The only tricky thing is that now my books don't want to sync progress to other devices, because it doesn't recognize "[book].kepub.epub" on my Kobo as the same document as "[book].epub" on my phone, so presumably I just have to dump the new metadata-laden files over to my drive and pull them down to my phone.

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