I tried Dark Souls and quit pretty early because I couldn’t pause. I don’t care about doing inventory or anything like that, but I’d like to be able to just stop things if I need to go check on the door or something. The outside world doesn’t stop just because I’m gaming.

Divinity Original Sin 2 is my favorite RPG of all time. DOS1 is good, but a bit dated.

Those numbers are from the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health. Regardless of whether they’re true or not, Israel supporters won’t believe those numbers.

It’s because education is sold as a way to get a job. Nobody communicates the value of being an educated person other than the salary one could potentially make.

If you haven’t played it, Divinity Original Sin 2 is a fantastic Larian-made RPG that uses a non-D&D system.

I had one DM fight the absurd amounts of time combat took by instituting a minute rule: if you can’t describe your entire planned actions in a minute, you forfeit your turn.

There were lots of common-sense exceptions, but in general combat felt more like actual combat, and the whole thing felt more like an action-oriented story than a football game (where more time is spent planning the action than executing the action)

Not a native speaker, so I could be wrong about this:

I’ve seen a construction using proper nouns (eg. Annas Haus) where an “s” indicates possession, but no apostrophe. This doesn’t seem to apply to non-proper nouns (das Haus der Frau) and is different from normal genitive construction that adds an “s” to masc/neut noun genders (das Haus des Mannes)

Pandemic was actually pretty good for most board game stores, as people needed something to do at home.

I didn’t like it because they spent so much time doing character development (Barney in particular) and just dumped it all out the window.

The problem is that “women are attracted to nice guys” implies that “being nice” itself is “enough” to be attractive. Guys get this idea that all they have to bring to the table is “I’m not a jerk” and the ladies will fall into their laps. The problem is, the jerk down the road is in better shape, has interesting hobbies, and/or has a real, dependable job. Being “nice” is like having two slices of bread and saying you have a sandwich. If you don’t put anything between the bread slices, everyone’s going to opt to order the burrito instead because it’s got an actual filling.