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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • I’m not super feeling it either. Not horrible looking, but I expected a lot more. I know people get angry with the POE comps and Diablo, but this would be a pretty weak POE league and I was expecting something a lot more in line with the more ambitious POE offerings for the first season.

    Don’t want to be doomer and I already had a great time/got value out of the game, but there’s a lot D4 needs for me to continue to have a great time with it and this didn’t really move the needle. I’ll probably check it out and see if there’s any cool builds to play with the hearts, but I’m not overly excited about what has been shown. Hopefully the boss is cool.













  • Ornstein and Smough on the 1.0 version of Dark Souls in 2011 when I was very bad at Dark Souls and video games in general. In the DLC Hawkeye Gough has some line about how hunting the dragons teased out his dearest emotions and that’s truly how I felt about my O&S experience. They kicked the ever loving shit out of me so many times. I remember finally scoring the kill in spite of the controller nearly falling out of my hands due to sweat at like 4 AM. Reacted a bit too loud, woke up my girlfriend (now wife haha). Just one of those moments that I will always remember.

    Besides that, mostly all the Destiny raids haha. The Day 1 raiding experience in Destiny is just such a unique and awesome thing. Nothing quite like problem solving with a group of friends. Deep Stone Crypt is probably the most memorable of such experienced to me, first time the group I play with tried a Day 1 raid and completing it just gave me such a crazy high.



  • Nightmare Dungeon Sigils will now act as a fast travel item that will immediately take players to the chosen Nightmare Dungeon on use.

    this is huge. One of my biggest complaints about Nightmare dungeons.

    Nice to see resists getting some attention too. I like that resists aren’t like a crazy mandatory stat the way they are in something like Path of Exile, but having a completely dead affix on items kind of stinks too.


  • Tons of great ones this year

    Resident Evil 4 Remake was a real highlight for me, just a stellar way to revisit what I consider to be one of the best games of all time.

    Haven’t finished it, but Tears of the Kingdom seems like it’s on its way to be a historically significant game and deserves the praise.

    Jedi Survivor is a favorite for me. Really good review scores, but it ticks a lot of the right boxes for my personal taste and elevates it even higher. Technical issues aside, thought it was a far better game than Fallen Order.

    Diablo 4 is also a lot of fun but I’m undecided as to how I feel about the endgame. As a campaign experience right up there though.

    …soo much to play right now haha.


  • Really vivid memories of going Christmas shopping with my mother and getting Final Fantasy X with the strategy guide as an early gift when I was young. I think it had just released and it was all over the magazines I was subscribed to (shoutout Gamepro haha). Was super engrossed with it during that break. I always interested in RPGs, but I was at just the right age to really start enjoying them a lot more when that game came out. Was a really awesome, memorable winter break.

    …on a more duderbo note, my high school friends and I would stay up ungodly hours and drink waaaaay too many Five Hour energy shots playing Halo 3 and later Reach. Undoubtably unhealthy, but very good times.