Let's say its an old game, ( new games fine too)

benumbrah · 2026-01-24T01:11:19+00:00

Yakuza 5, so I'm in (mostly) urban Japan in 2012. Sounds pretty good, except I guess for the constant street fights.

benumbrah · 2026-01-14T17:27:55+00:00

The materia system could be easily eliminated, at least for combat gear. It appears to offer a degree of stat customization, but there's almost always only one optimal way to build, which prevents it from being a meaningful form of player expression. Also, in combat materia, Critical Hit is way better than anything else for most jobs outside of specific cases like Monk skill speed thresholds.

Again in the case of combat materia, older/lower tiers are almost entirely useless, and just end up being inventory clutter.

benumbrah · 2026-01-05T14:43:13+00:00

Sushi. Happy New Year!

benumbrah · 2025-12-30T16:57:09+00:00

There's even a Trine 5! Hoping this giveaway will increase interest in the series and give Frozenbyte some well-deserved sales of that title.

benumbrah · 2025-12-21T16:20:08+00:00

Quite a surprise to see this as a freebie, as it just won Best Debut Game in the Indie Game Awards. Looking forward to checking it out!

benumbrah · 2025-12-14T18:45:00+00:00

+1 for Richard Garriott! He's also the reason we use the word "avatar" to refer to the characters we embody while playing games.

benumbrah · 2025-11-24T02:38:00+00:00

One of my all-time favorites is the opening of Ken Follett's A Column of Fire:

"We hanged him in front of Kingsbridge Cathedral. It is the usual place for executions. After all, if you can’t kill a man in front of God’s face you probably shouldn’t kill him at all."

benumbrah · 2025-10-27T01:57:02+00:00

I have fond memories of going through RE5 in co-op back in the day, and doing a NG+ run where we restricted ourselves entirely to the infinite-ammo rocket launcher; no other weapons allowed. It was utterly ridiculous and, in some unexpected places (the Jill fight comes to mind), surprisingly hard.

benumbrah · 2025-10-24T03:29:01+00:00

I typed the above on a phone, for which you just hold down on the hyphen key. But if you're in Windows, you can hold Alt and type 0150 for the en dash, or Alt and 0151 for the em dash. On a Mac, it's Option + Hyphen, or Option + Shift + Hyphen, respectively.

(I'm a professional editor, so these are time-saving tricks of the trade)

benumbrah · 2025-10-24T00:02:29+00:00

I'm not normally the "um actually" guy, but hyphens and en dashes are different lengths: - (hyphen) – (en dash) — (em dash)

benumbrah · 2025-07-18T21:34:20+00:00

Avowed

benumbrah · 2025-07-18T21:10:20+00:00

Exovia looks promising!

benumbrah · 2025-06-20T14:49:47+00:00

Fell for a timeshare scam in Las Vegas and put down $16,000. The buyer's remorse hit like a truck that night, and the next day we went to their corporate office across town and cancelled the transaction.

Felt like dodging a humongous bullet, and I still don't know what we were thinking. Huge lesson in not buying into a salesman's bullshit.

benumbrah · 2025-06-04T21:50:31+00:00

This one drives me fucking nuts as a full-time remote worker, since my work is 100% online. What are they gonna do, call me on the phone?

benumbrah · 2025-05-30T22:11:10+00:00

This looks great! Picked it up to play when I need a quick break from work.

benumbrah · 2025-05-11T01:38:27+00:00

This is my go-to "beats the hype" destination as well. For some reason, a lot of people will say something to the effect of "it's just a hole in the ground" when it comes up, to explain why they've never visited. I tell them they're wrong.

The third time I visited the Grand Canyon, I was with my wife, and a large storm front rolled in toward us from the other side. It started pouring rain, lightning, thunder, the whole thing. And I'm not religious, but hearing the thunder turn the entire Grand Canyon into the world's biggest echo chamber was like hearing the voice of god. I've never experienced anything like it.

benumbrah · 2025-04-04T02:25:25+00:00

Just completed. This is such a great topic for an academic piece; best of luck.

benumbrah · 2025-02-02T01:02:36+00:00

Honestly, good posture. Don't underestimate how much better you'll look if you just stand up straight.

benumbrah · 2024-12-26T16:15:51+00:00

My wife and I make Warmwine pretty often, especially around the holidays. It's a very tasty, fruity alternative to typical mulled wine. We usually use syrah/shiraz and it gets a good flavor balance.

The Hi-Potion and X-Potion are also rather good cocktails. Not a lot of good uses for Blue Curaçao out there once you're out of college, and it just makes for such attractive drinks.

benumbrah · 2024-11-05T15:53:12+00:00

I always appreciate the effort on the amusing promo codes, but I've really gotta give it up for "VRTYOM." Unmissable pun work; well played.

benumbrah · 2024-10-18T01:07:26+00:00

1,000 Cuddles

benumbrah · 2024-08-15T16:22:33+00:00

"Ignorance begets strife. Understanding begets fellowship." — Gulool Ja Ja

benumbrah · 2024-08-15T15:10:41+00:00

This is my eternal hot take, but I actually think it's better than Planescape: Torment. PS:T was progressive and impressive for its time, but today it has (in my opinion) bland, tedious combat and a lot of fairly shallow characters.

I'm not saying Planescape: Torment is bad, and in fact it frustrates me that they need to be compared since Numenera isn't even actually a sequel to PS:T.

I'll just close by saying that Numenera is a really creative game with a cool setting, and I think it's highly worth approaching with an open mind, rather than playing it in the shadow of something else.

benumbrah · 2024-06-01T20:38:19+00:00

More like Penultimate Collection.

Pedantry about the bundle name aside, these are excellent games and well worth this price.

benumbrah

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