I just call them “wester-style RPGs”. It’s like the contrast to JRPGs.

I think you’re right about the “use big muscle groups for repetitive actions instead of small muscle groups” idea. That’s probably better overall.

I don’t think I’ve encountered that thumb problem you describe, though.

World of Warcraft is a hell of a drug.

There’s dozens of us!

Agreed. I’ve been using them since I did PC gaming as a kid. Only downside (at the risk of sharing something non-dull) is that I eventually dislocated my shoulder from spending so many hours gaming with a trackball when I was young. I would just anchor my wrist to the desk and move my fingers only and I guess my shoulder didn’t like that.

Console gamer here, so I just use the built-in trackpad on the laptop. No need to be super agile when not working.

Not enough experience with it to say.

Accurate

Holy shit lol 😂

Would

I haven’t had luck generating original jokes out of thin air with GPT, but I can tell you that if you already have a concept for a joke, it’ll analyze the concept and give you great advice on how to enhance it.

This is the kind of educational retconning I need of Disney movies.

I feel like much of my life has been a waste because I haven’t been apart of this debate before. Mimetic Polyallow ftw because you don’t have that long lead time.

Love this kind of stuff

That was a hell of a trip

Cheeky lil fucker!

Wish I had a dad

You’d be right… for about 5 seconds until she decides that it’s time to give you nightmare fuel. She’s actually sick right now, so the terror is at a minimum (but I’d take all the terror she has to give if she’d just feel better…)

When life hands you oranges…

(Advice at the bottom.)

I’m so sorry that you’ve lost your friend. When our baby girl (cat) passed away, we sobbed and sobbed. Losing a pet is sometimes harder than a family member because the pet is there EVERY MOMENT. Literally everything reminds you of them and how much you miss them.

But hang in there. The final form of “grief” is “appreciation” and having a friend that you feel that kind of appreciation towards is one of the deep joys of life.

We lost our girl in March and only just last week I saw a picture of her and shed a quiet tear thinking of her (this was after a couple of months of feeling really great and having “moved on”), but I was thankful that I could cry and knew that she still mattered to me. It’s hard, but also deeply beautiful to love so much.

Now for some advice: when we lost our girl, doing a “ritual” to honor her was really important for me. In the days after her passing, I stayed up late into the night going through every picture my SO and I had of her and found the ones I felt like captured our pet the most. Once I had those all together, I went online and made a picture book from Google Photos and ordered a printed copy to keep on the bookshelf.

The hours and hours of gathering photos really helped me to process the grief. Then, about a week after I ordered the book, it arrived in the post and I looked through it and cried some more.

Afterwards, I really felt like I had honored her memory and had cried about as much as I needed to.

Wishing you well on your journey, and thank you for making the hard choice to shorten her suffering as much as you could — that’s the burden that pet parents carry for our pets.

Blessings!