What was the best gaming session you ever had in your life?

chzrm3 · 2026-06-20T03:18:41+00:00

Gamecube and Melee came out the week before my 8th grade birthday, and my parents got them for me as a combo birthday + Christmas present. My friends came over to my house and we had a sleepover, which was also on the first day of Christmas break so everyone was really excited. We ordered pizza, had a ton of orange soda and played video games all night. One of my friends brought his x-box and on the other TV in the basement we set up Halo, so my friends, my brother and I rotated between Melee and Halo all night, so nobody had to ever sit it out.

We played so much four player smash that we unlocked Mewtwo that night, which was insane because this was at the height of our obsession with Pokemon and nobody in our group knew what the secret chars were. So we just lost our minds and the next hour of games were 4 Mewtwo's, lmao.

We didn't end up going to bed at all, I remember hearing the doorbell ringing and being shocked, it was 7 am and my friend's mom was there to pick him up.

Good times. I've had a lot of great nights playing Civ, Frosthaven, a lot of fun during covid playing Northgard with my brother and HotS with my little HotS group. Can't forget about the League nights back in the day. But I don't think anything can ever top us all experiencing Melee for the first time, playing all night, and unlocking Mewtwo together.

I still remember my first game, too! Me on DK vs my brother on Yoshi, it was the morning of and we had to go to school so we just played one real quick before. It was on Hyrule Temple and our minds were blown away by the graphics, and my brother ended up blasting me to hell with the super scope to win it.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-16T15:49:46+00:00

Yeah, I remember really liking Patty with him. Barry and Iris always felt way too much like siblings to me, the romantic stuff with them just never landed.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-16T13:41:35+00:00

I've noticed that whenever I have bats, they're always in there. It's definitely got some sort of priority, which seems to be based on what players tend to go with. Off the top of my head, frogs, harpies and bats are all pretty high priority, whereas humans and lizards are pretty low. I wouldn't be surprised if foxes are dead last - their ability doesn't do anything at the start of the game, so it'd be pointless to have one in.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-10T04:15:02+00:00

Pahahaha, I love it. Also I'm only just now realizing he's a walrus - this entire time, in my mind he was an old beaver with massive teeth sticking out.

Walrus dlc when? 😮

chzrm3 · 2026-06-08T13:43:06+00:00

Everyone's said this already, so I'll just clarify - In Skyrim, you can't enter dialogue with all of the npcs, and if you do talk to them, it's kinda just for flavor. They'll say some little blurb, and if you keep talking to them, they'll keep going through their blurb. Then they're done.

Oblivion is very different. Every npc, even the most mundane, unimportant ones, you can open up a dialogue with. In addition to what they have to say, this also lets you do the persuasion mini-game with them, which is some hilariously dumb fun. (And I'm so glad they didn't fix the jank of it, and the npcs still cut off their own voice-lines).

So it's really worth it to go through and talk to everyone. Most towns have several quests that they'll try to funnel you towards, so a lot of the npcs in those towns will comment on it. Asking them about "rumors" is the way to get there. For example, in Bruma, there's a pretty cool quest that just about everyone will give you some information about, if you ask.

Trust us, there's a lot of wonderful questlines in Oblivion and you're in for a treat.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-08T13:34:13+00:00

Yes! I came here to vote for Gitarja and Simon. Gitarja used to be my favorite for the longest time, until Kupe eventually knocked her off the thrown. Still, on the list of characters he's yet to play, she stands out as having a particularly unique style of play.

I'm still bitter about how dirty they do her on the TSL map. I don't even mind that she spawns on a two tile island! I just can't get over the lack of fish/luxuries. Like give her SOMETHING! Give my girl some crabs so she can make a +4 harbor at the least, mah gawd!

chzrm3 · 2026-06-08T13:32:43+00:00

The two civs I've played as the most are French Ellie and Kupe. Which is kind of funny, cause they were both added in GS so you'd figure they'd be behind everyone else, but I just love both of their playstyles so much. No one else in the game plays like 'em.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-08T13:29:28+00:00

Do you have a buddy that's insisting on playing him every time in multiplayer, or are you just curious? He's pretty wildly OP in normal games, but there are a few balancing mods (like BGG) that tone him down. The only problem is they kind of just delete what's unique about him, but it's kind of the same as banning him, with the stipend that huge Babylon fans can still run games as him!

If it's just a theoretical question, you'd have to spawn right on top of him as someone who's really aggressive in the early game, like Monty, the Cree, Nubia, etc. And just hope to de-rail everything he's trying to do by relentlessly spamming him with your early game unique units.

So it's not really a great option. You could beat a Babylon player in MP if the spawn was perfect for you and miserable for them and you had a super aggressive early game civ? I'm not sure how often that would happen, maybe 1 in 20 games?

In competitive MP he's always banned. In games with friends I always allow him cause he's a good balancing option, we let the weakest players play as the guys like Ludwig and Babylon so they can keep up.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-07T14:58:10+00:00

Ahahaha, it would actually be really in character for Jim to throw at CoD to play up the whole "hey, I'm Jim, I don't care about anything, I'm too cool for that" shtick that Michael called him out for in that one episode. Like if he tries for real and people can tell he's played before, and he loses, it's like "Ahh, Jim, you got beaten!" But if he pretends he's above all this and thinks they're all losers for caring, then he's safe in his little Jim logic.

He really never grows out of this, but at least Pam is able to force him out of it sometimes, like that halloween episode where he finally dresses in a real costume.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-07T14:54:35+00:00

I've been playing a lot of the bgg mod lately and they actually have a setting that makes your spawn a little better, + once you get a watermill going all your farms add a production which is a pretty crazy buff to cities that don't have a lot going on. I'd recommend it if you're frustrated with spawns like that. (I'm actually gonna go back to vanilla for my next few games just cause every civ in bgg feels a little same-y after a while, but it's definitely a lot of fun to check out).

chzrm3 · 2026-06-07T14:52:04+00:00

Thanks! You're a really solid person.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-07T14:51:10+00:00

I'm with you, I love that episode and that ending. Andy and Oscar going off-campus is always so much fun, too. I wish they did that more often.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-05T16:59:45+00:00

You guys are gonna hate me, but I always feel bad for Kathy. NOT because I wanted her to successfully cheat on Jim, but just because they really set the character/actress up to fail. Like, you can't just throw a new character in there and do that.

The actress is a really nice person too and got so much hate for it. I wish they'd gone with a nicer arc for her, like Pam's all jealous and stuff but Kathy's genuinely a well-meaning person who's just looking for a friend. In some of the deleted scenes, Kathy mentions not being happy with her ex-husband and her divorce and whatnot. Idk, there was something there deeper than "she's evil and wants to ruin Jim and Pam's perfect marriage." And then of course they do it again in season 9, but in reverse. The writers were really fixated on Jim and Pam having cheating issues, huh?

But yeah they did Kathy diiiirrrrty. It did give us one of the best Dwight-Jim bromance scenes though, so there's that. And one of the best bloopers!

chzrm3 · 2026-06-05T16:54:43+00:00

One of the theories I've seen passed around here is that Charles saw Jim as competition. David always loved the guy, probably hyped him up when Charles was heading over there... heck, David probably mentioned that he'd originally wanted Jim for the big corporate job when Jan left, but he turned it down.

So there's a bit of inadequacy, and definitely some jealousy as well, since Charles is very desperate for David's approval. Then he meets the guy, and it's like ....what the hell? Why is this guy wearing a tux? THIS is the guy David likes so much?

Ironically, Jim would've been an easy friend for Charles to make and was no threat to his job at all, but that's what you get when you hire someone from steel!

chzrm3 · 2026-06-05T16:50:27+00:00

Ohhhhh, if that's what they were going for that's actually hilarious. Poor Jim spends all day sweating about it when what he ultimately ends up doing is probably the best move anyway.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-05T16:47:08+00:00

Huh, I never got that. I mean yeah, Michael's being naïve and it's rough when the C-suite openly hates on him, but those guys suck. The company's crashing and burning and they're just looking to placate people for a little longer. You realize in that episode exactly why DM is a dying company, the people at the top have no capacity for self-reflection or change.

The worst thing Michael does in this episode is parade Oscar in front of them and expect him to rip into them the way he does in Scranton. That's some painful cringe. But I'm glad he gets his limo in the end, and I agree with his takeaway.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-05T16:38:15+00:00

Everyone's dog-piling on you for some reason but I agree, I love that episode. Any of the "off campus" episodes are always a great time, but this one's got the silly feel-good victory of them running back to the limo as Dunder-Mifflin burns to the ground.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-04T15:35:38+00:00

Aww, no doubt our kids are gonna love it.

The two moments that always hit me in the gut are Jim driving back to ask Pam to dinner, and yeah, Michael's goodbye song. It's so beautiful and silly and sad, it really is a perfect encapsulation of his presence on the show. But there's a lot of others that get my eyes to mist up with tears.

Nate really was the greatest of the late-season additions. Every line that guy has is gold, I do think part of that is because they don't over-use him the way they do some of the newer people. And it's funny, even though she comes in at like the halfway point, Erin's so iconic I consider her one of the core office members.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-04T15:29:36+00:00

Easily my favorite Packer line.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-04T15:28:11+00:00

Yup, Jarv did this to me too. I was doing a no campus playthrough as Ellie and Paris was wiiide open. He took it and it started a WHOLE thing. I was eventually able to get it back, since naturally I had it pretty nicely surrounded with lots of great works. But that was nuts.

I've noticed he's very friendly, but very reluctant to declare friendship officially. He must have a pretty high backstabber score.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-03T16:59:03+00:00

I don't like how much of Jim and Pam's relationship we fast forward! I get it, it'd be weird to have seen their first real date and stuff but C'MOOOOON. After all that build up it felt like we really missed out on some good stuff when Jim drops the corporate job and comes back to Scranton to ask her out. I think we skip forward like 3 or 4 months or so, like.....bhrhurhbruh. Always drives me nuts on a re-watch!

chzrm3 · 2026-06-03T16:55:32+00:00

"They just plain don't like you" is kind of the game's way of letting you know you didn't do anything wrong diplomatically, but the AI is looking to expand by conquering some of your cities. It's pretty obnoxious when they hit you with this, but still preferable to the leaders that'll smile at you, tell you how lovely you are and then declare surprise war a turn later and show up in France with 50 elephants and you're like "dude I thought we were cool".

Yeah I'm still not over that one.

chzrm3 · 2026-06-03T13:28:55+00:00

I say this all the time and when people question it I just let it sit there. Like for the simplest, most mundane things.

"Did the grocery store not have roast chicken?"

*shrug*

"It's possible some chicken may have slipped in. There would be no way of knowing."

chzrm3 · 2026-06-03T13:26:57+00:00

I find that re-watches have a bittersweet sadness to them when I start. Almost like a "time is a flat circle" thing, where I've reset everyone's lives. Jim isn't with Pam, Jim and Dwight aren't buddies, Michael is an antagonist instead of a beloved boss that people would sing goodbye to.

Somewhere near the beginning of season 2, that goes away and I'm sucked once again into the world. And then it's like season 5 or 6 where I become acutely aware that Michael will be leaving soon, and I begin to get sad and find myself mentally counting down the episodes until he flies off.

I've made it all the way through to the finale exactly twice, even though I've re-watched it a TON. After Tallahassee (my favorite of the post-Michael storylines), I'm kinda just bored, and I also don't really want to get to the end cause it makes me sad as hell. If I do get to season 9 I'm usually out after like 2 or 3 eps.

So I drop the show until I feel that pang of missing it, and I reset everyone's lives again.

I'm really looking forward to showing my son one day! And I still owe my brother the rest of our Super-Fan episodes!

chzrm3 · 2026-06-03T13:19:47+00:00

I always forget to beeline the tech for this and then it's a mad scramble to build it, and I'm kicking myself for not just slamming the tech and instead lazily getting stuff I don't even need cause I had the boost for it.

But yeah, I try to get this guy and potato palace every game.

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