The original one probably doesn’t know, but I’d consider myself functionally immortal for as long as there are other vampires who didn’t age for a couple hundred years more than I did.

As the original one, however, I’d never stop checking for new signs of aging. Well, at least until I’ve had enough of life altogether.

I spent my time once again with Xenoblade X. Currently preparing for Chapter 9, Lv 67 and 33% of Mira done.

My equipment is filled with EXP augments. You can get these preinstalled from the shop, they get better when you level up the Sakura manufacturer. Or you can craft the 40% one quite cheap early on only using material tickets. Set one to each piece of armor for a grand total of at least 200% extra. (It may be capped at a 100%, they are so cheap, I never bothered testing).

My teammates are only lv 33, I didn’t given them any.

The other ingredient was simply fighting stuff up to 10 levels above me. If you succed you easily get a full level early on.

Xenoblade X continued to take up all the time I spend gaming. Got a bit carried away with side stuff and reached Lv 40, currently inbetween Chapter 6 and 7.

Just got my Skell too, but I honestly don’t like them much. Ground combat feels more dynamic, Skells don’t level in any way and the hefty repair cost doesn’t match my playstyle of stat checking every living thing I come across. Probably why I’m so overleveled.

Just like in the WiiU version, it will probably get relegated to cheesy grinding tactics, if necessary, and flying.

Got sucked into Xenoblade X, it’s from one of my favorite ongoing series after all. Finished the first 4 chapters and did a lot of exploration until my vacation ended and will continue this weekend.

I could probably blitz through some more chapters if I wanted to. I’m Lv 24 and did a good chunk of the map activies already. Got about 30% of Primordia and a bit of the others.

I’ve already played the original version and am really curious about the additinal content, but it’s also been nice to test the online features. They were long gone when I played the WiiU one.

That’s depressing as fuck.

Played Mario RPG Remake this week. It’s quite short and I was on vacation, so I finished the entire thing. It’s fun, although the post game bosses did get annoying and I didn’t beat all of them - maybe I’ll finish them over the weekend.

Besides that, I’ll join in on the fun and start Xenoblade X.

Oh, and I started a replay of Monster Hunter Rise with my partner. This time around, for every mission, we roll a random weapon each we have to beat it with, which is quite fun. After playing about 200h using the hammer exclusively, it’s nice to slowly learn all the other weapons too.

Well, and then there’s the guy who made Balatro in Lua.

That’s actually a common practice in some areas. I saw people doing it in London for example.

God of War 2018 isn’t the same as God of War 2005, I’m not that old.

It’s incredible how seemingly effortlessly Cranston pulls off Hal again. One friendly smile and the whole mental image I got from Breaking Bad is forgotten.

I’m a layman, too, so take everything with a grain of salt.

As for evidence, if I both understood and remember correctly, the maximum distance we can actually see something (Hubble radius) just happens to align quite nicely with the Schwarzschild radius, a parameter based on the mass of a black hole, which correlates to its radius. They have to be identical for this theory to be true. Them almost being so could be a coincidence, though.

In addition, from our perspective, there’s no real difference between an expanding universe and one with shrinking particles. If the planck length actually shrinks, to us, it will seem like everything else will move away. Within the last 100 years, multiple people created some models for that, proving how it could work while leaving physics as we observe them intact.

A proof could be found by observing a white hole, the opposite of a black hole. A space you cannot possibly enter, ejecting energy. Think of it as the stuff entering the black hole from the outside, as oberserved from the inside. They are just a theory for now.

Once again, I’ve got not actual clue and you might want to dive into that rabbit hole yourself. It’s fun in here.

That’s a fair point. My family isn’t exactly known for getting old. I didn’t even meet half my grandparents and the only one I really got to know only lived into my early teenage years. I’ll probably only get to around 70 myself.

Damn, I’m about a decade older than you and there’s no way I’d call 1950 recent in any way. For all I care, it’s just as much ancient history as the roman empire. I don’t know anyone alive from either period, at least not on a personal level.

2100 on the other hand feels closer because I’m expect to come close to it within my lifetime. At least closer than I ever was to 1950.

Honestly, there is no comfortable way to use Joycons. I practically never used them, the first and only accessory I bought was an adaptor for my DualShock. I just won’t buy games that don’t work with it, just like I did with motion controlled games on the switch.

Most likely, the feature will be heavily used in early games. Just like every other forced gimmick. After about a year, I’d guess, it will be only mandatory for party games, lazy ports and 3/DS emulation - which I think this feature was kinda made for.

Guess I’ll start with the same disclaimer: I don’t think I’m too smart for chess or anything.

I always thought chess is kinda boring. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun enough as a novice. It’s probably also fun for people who mastered it, I’m not denying that.

However, for everything inbetween, it’s mostly about memorizing stuff. You just learn hundreds of openings and how to counter them. From what I’ve seen, a lot of intermediate players fall apart once they go off-script. It takes years until you’re good enough to strategize properly on your own, like a novice would, without some going “That’s the ‘double helix chin twister’” and beating you.

It’s kinda like the problem multiplayer games often have for me. There’s a set meta and you either learn it or lose. To experiment yourself successfully, you have to invest a massive amount of time. Experimenting myself is the fun part. I’m don’t want to invest hundreds if not thousands of hours before I get to have fun.

I’m still on my Metaphor ReFantazio playthrough, and I’m still loving it! I’m currently in the main dungeon associated with the first tournament trial.

However, I just unlocked endless mana by virtue of stealing it from enemies and all resource management has been thrown out of the window, I presume. I don’t like limiting myself, but I also think JRPGs need proper resource scarcity to be good - it’s probably both the most important and most overlooked design parameter for a great dungeon.

Due to this excessive amount of MP recovery, these dungeons don’t feel tightly designed at all. Persona 5 was a lot better at this, even though the endless ammunition in Royal made it way easier. I don’t think these games should have any skills to regenerate MP.

Nope, it’s just like Persona 5 - part dungeon crawler and part social sim. If anything, it’s less social sim than P5 was. Of course, the game is still quite wordy, but that’s par for the course when playing a JRPG.

Probably spend way too much time playing Metaphor over the last week and I don’t plan on stopping. Shin Megami Tensei is one of the few franchises, along with Xenoblade and Dragon Quest, to always capture me like this. Metaphor isn’t a SMT game by name, but by heart it’s just Persona 6 - I highly recommend it.

It would be totally on brand to deliever their best direct yet, just to disappoint next week. However, I expect maybe something about Pokemon and Metroid and otherwise just listing the last big third party titles. Surely, they don’t have any new first party titles lined up, right?