Those damn kids on their Nintendos! They should be enjoying proper content like the intellectual cartoons I enjoy, 10 hour video essays, and browsing Lemmy!

I think steaming it is a bit better - microwaving can be hard to get right. Mushy broccoli sucks

Roast broccoli with some oil and garlic is pretty good!

That doesn’t sound all that bad? Not everything needs to be salted. Broccoli in and of itself has a nice flavour, imo

Somehow I seem to have avoided a lot of talk on GTA 6. No doubt there are countless discussions online and youtube analysis videos etc, but unless you’re actively searching for these I’ve found it pretty easy to avoid?

Am I just good at ignoring stuff? Where are people visiting that they’re getting overwhelmed with GTA content?

I’ve been quite out of touch with Nintendo announcements recently - do people reckon this is likely to be a first party, flagship brand kinda thing? New Zelda or Mario?

Edit: Oh wait, there’s also a Zelda direct coming? Interesting!

Thank you for saying so ❤️

This feels quite minor compared to most of the stuff here, but something that has stuck with me.

I was on holiday with my parents when I was younger - maybe around 12 or 13. We were on a short boat trip, and I noticed my dad was wearing a baseball cap. In my mind I had this cute scene of me taking the hat off his head and putting it on myself, and all of us laughing. Kinda wholesome. But the second I reach for the hat he whacks me hard around the back of my head. I was more confused than anything - why did he instantly resort to violence? I hated the injustice of it; the image in my mind of doing something fun, something you’d see other families doing, but then the actual result being the complete opposite. I never understood it, but then I’ve never had much in common with my dad.

Don’t kink shame :<

Batman Arkham Asylum… damn guess I’m getting drugged by Scarecrow and being forced to deal with supressed childhood memories while lunatics try and attack me 😭

That looks really fun, thanks for the heads-up! The occult element looks quite interesting too. Roleplay as Circe!

hopefully this one is better

Something about exploring the same areas with a fresh take on it really appealed to me. Plague Knight was my favourite!

I hadn’t heard that about the company. I hope they’ve done well from Mina, because they’re a really talented bunch of devs.

One thing I really loved about Shovel Knight was the DLC in which you played as different characters with abilities that completely changed the feel of the game. I hope they do something similar for Mina!

Thanks for sharing! I’ve just read through it and I agree that the writing and pacing is really great. It touches on some interesting ideas about taboo, exploitation and I suppose… hidden lives.

What did you make of the ending? Spoilers:

Mina is great! Excellent combat and movement mechanics, great chiptune soundtrack as always from Yacht Club. I have found it more frustrating than Shovel Knight (by the same devs). I think partially because of the Dark Souls-esque loss of currency when you die. Dying feels like it has more of an impact in this compared to SK, and it’s more of a time sink too (having to traverse back to a certain area and pick up items again).

That said, it’s very satisfying when you do finally beat a boss. (I made some progress on that front yesterday, still a bit more to go though).

I need to finish Mina the Hollower - I’m at the final boss (I think), and I’m gradually whittling away the boss’ health bar but I’m guessing there’ll be multiple phases…

I’ve also been playing through Botany Manor. From what I can tell, I don’t have much left of the game. But that’s not a bad thing - it’s been charming throughout and sometimes a short but sweet experience is exactly what you’re after.

FFXII has been on my Steam wishlist for a while - I should give that a go sometime. The battle system sounds fascinating!

In fairness I think Matt Damon did a good job in this role; but I totally get what you mean

I guess, but things like community gardens get people together, to communicate, share ideas and help each other out. Modern capitalism attempts to eradicate community and keep the individual alone, stuck inside, easily manageable and placated with tailored content online.

Building community seems like an important bit of defiance, even if it doesn’t ‘scale up to industrial levels’. It depends what your goal is here, and I don’t think the ‘goal’ of community gardens was ever to feed an entire society.

I saw the Odyssey the other day and thought it was great. Though it did make me laugh seeing trailers beforehand for Dune part 3 and Spiderman which both feature Zendaya, who also plays Athena in the Odyssey.

I’ve got nothing against her and Tom Holland, but it does take me out of the narrative a bit when it’s the same few actors in every film. I’d love to see more with lesser known actors.