@Sachi

I would choose immortal, because in sense you would also eventually live a life as a portal jumper with more connections. You can’t live for eternity in the same place without eventually being discovered. Every ten years or da you would have to restart your life. Become a new person with a new name in a new place.

Leading to my next question

Would you rather be a vampire, forced to live in the shadows and hunt prey at night never to see the light of day or enjoy the pleasures of the living again or as a werewolf, enjoying a mortal life while having to live with a beast of which you have no control of.

@SwampCreature

Oh I really like Tetris Effect. Super fun to play after an edible! 😉

Hard to answer, mainly because when you review games for beer money, you're going to be playing a lot of bad games.

Death To Spies - An early review title. It was supposed to be a sort of WWII-era Soviet-themed Splinter Cell sort of affair. It was painfully bad. Shoddy controls, lousy character movement, just godawful all around.

The Suicide of Rachel Foster - Don't imagine a "Lifetime Original Movie" made into a video game. Imagine a "Lifetime Original Movie" that somebody screwed up trying to make into a video game. This particular "walking simulator" wanted to deliver a psychological thriller with "a very important message," and it totally dropped the ball.

Empyre: Dukes of The Far Frontier - A terrible steampunk sequel to a terrible steampunk game. It was so buggy, I was physically unable to reach the end of it.

I have never gotten past the tutorial. On any edition.

I replay Final Fantasy VII at least once a year, every year. It's like re-reading a favorite book. I also play Tetris and Dr. Mario when I just need to turn off my brain for a minute.

@Ezra I am part of the reason for society to be like this 😂 I find that my peak productivity is from 7am to lunchtime. It feels amazing to have finished something really productive at noon and there's still most of the day left, so it's a great positive feedback loop.

@mianngu Interesting. What happens during true fumbles in that game? Just weapon drop?

@mianngu My most recent was a bagpipe player, its amazing the songs that have been covered by bagpipes LMAO

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Well, you can't really see him, he's about the size of a large rice grain, but I have a single brine shrimp named Dewey who lives in a self contained ecosystem as seen on the left side of the photo. If you're not familiar with those, it's a closed habitat that perpetuates it's own balance so long as you allow it some indirect access to sunlight. Inside, algae grows that offers oxygen and food for Dewey.

Dewey originally belonged to the building manager at my work. During a QA session where I was feeling rather slap happy, I asked him about it and if he named it. He said no and challenged me to do it. So I drew a picture of Dewey in the process and his response was what you're seeing there.

A month later, the building manager was transferring to California and asked for me. In short, he gave me Dewey and now the little guy lives on my lamp table where I can make sure he gets some light for his little home. I check on him daily.

@SwampCreature

I am obsessed with Solid Snake's herculean odyssey, his machismo archetype, and his ability to become the avatar of the audience that plays him. His rise and fall. His naivety to betrayal lends itself so perfectly to an audience coming into the story for the first time.

His ability to nod the fourth wall that controls his steps without accepting it. He follows orders with suspended disbelief in what is real and what are the psychological horrors of the battlefield He follows his own ideas with a certain cognitive dissonance to both the plot AND the concept of being inside a PlayStation. The way he gets distracted by childish things (as an aside to the equally bored and overwhelmed viewer) whenever something important is revealed in great detail.

He is a perfect vessel for the player... A film will never be able to capture the magic of Snake as a video game character. I could go on.

Also, I love Senua from Hellblade.
I love the concept of being schizophrenic/ mentally ill in ancient religious times. Fighting off shadows in the forest. Finding meaning in random shapes and colors. Stricken by grief of lost loved one. All to the tune of ancient pantheons. Her acting and mocap were amazing. Her performance was incredible and the character as a game concept was peak 2010's.

And the Narrator in Darkest Dungeon. His anguish for his sins. His desire for more. A lot of twists and turns. A memorable performance!

I'm late to this, but I also love dice with tiny things inside. I'm always seeing unique dice sets come up on IG; I've recently seen some cool nature-y ones. I also like glow-in-the-dark, glitter, or hollow core ones filled with colored water. I think my perfect set would depend on my character and the game I was currently playing. In my current game, I think I'd love some transparent dice flecked with gold, with small leaves and vines swirled within (or carved into them), with a little deer inside, representing my character. 🦌

Airbending, especially if it includes being able to harness storms. I've always felt an affinity for wind and thunderstorms. I love how many people in this thread chose Airbending, I didn't think it would be so popular!

“You are a horrible person. I'm serious; that's what it says: 'A horrible person.' We weren't even testing for that. ” Pretty much anything GLaDOS says in Portal is gold. I don't know that a game has ever made me laugh harder than that one.

Also, any quote from Handsome Jack in Borderlands 2, there are too many to name, but I do especially love Butt Stallion. The Borderlands games have such good dialogue.

@Alexander-Salkin

NO! You are right, they were so drunk on power, they never stopped to ask why! WOW. And to be ended by a rusty knife of all things! Pride does goeth before the fall. I have to say I LOVE evil campaigns. I think they are so fun and fulfilling. It sounds like you had an awesome group and campaign. To get past level 20 and then die. But it doesn't matter cause it was epic and everyone is still happy. That is truly the biggest compliment for a DM. Kuddos.

@Alexander-Salkin

I woke them up in a cave, how very DnD of me. They got to explore, fight (baby owlbears), and stumbled upon a secret door. Who would have thought? I was a little disappointed though. I had a color puzzle that I had seen on reddit and thought was fun and simple. Purple Door - Red/Blue/Yellow Torches. Light the right ones (red+blue = purple) the door opens. I didn't even get done describing the room before they had figured out the puzzle. Shrugs. Could have been worse. At least they got it.

@mianngu I didn't even know there was one lol this is pretty exciting! I often wondered what kind of bender I would ultimately be....

I think there’s definitely a market for it, though it’s not for everybody. Obviously there’s romance in RPG video games (you and I share an affinity for FFIX which has one of my favorite canon romances ever) but in TTRPGs it will ultimately come down to what players are comfortable with. I reckon as long as everyone is communicative about their comfort levels and boundaries, it can absolutely be done and be fun! I know it’s been done on real-play TTRPG podcasts too - I’m only personally familiar with The Adventure Zone where it was executed very well, but I think there were romances on Critical Role as well.

I'm going to the park this weekend to play! I haven't played in years but I'm excited to get back into it.