The Hobbit on GameCube.
As a kid, I could never get past the first 'stealth' section. As an adult, I livestreamed it a few years back and discovered that you're not supposed to use the game's stealth mechanics in that section at all.
You could try the Ultimate Decades/Test of Time challenge?
Okay, I hate to break it to you, but furries at Renfair have been A Thing for a while. Anywhere that caters to fantasy freaks is also going to attract furries and Trekkies, and they will go in the "wrong" costumes because Renfair is a socially acceptable place to dress up Weird.
It is completely understandable that you don't want to hang out with your thirteen-year-old sister who is doing something you find cringe. You're sixteen. Being embarrassed at your family is kind of your ground state rn.
But she's not doing anything wrong. YWBTA if you keep giving her grief over it.
If you really wanted to be kind, maybe make her some garb she can wear with the suit?
(...Also, I don't want to be all r/nothingeverhappens up in here, but if your preteen sister is making fursuits, that's genuinely impressive. Fursuits are complicated to design and expensive to make, and the fact she's got something wearable is a huge accomplishment.)
I think one factor no one's brought up is that a lot of people use fantasy to cope with their experiences of gender prejudices, and will say "it's realistic" so they don't have to unpack their trauma in front of a live studio audience.
If you haven't tried it yet, I'd STRONGLY recommend Final Fantasy 6- specifically the pixel remaster, which has some major QOL updates.
There's some enemy scaling, but it's more "reused sprites to save room on the cartridge" than anything, and the story and visuals are fantastic, especially for the time!
Have you tried the Octopath Traveler games? They're pretty much exactly "an old school final fantasy with the rough edges smoothed out"- I think the only piece of the formula that's not there is the airship.
Hi, my name's Mal or Earl, I'm a freelance writer and aspiring full-time children's book author, and I'm here to help get tips on how to manage my raging ADHD and succeed on my non-traditional career path!
I'm trying to find freelance writing work-- it's gotten to be a struggle lately, but I'm keeping my chin up-- and promote my writing.
I'm working on my word count for my kids' book-- I've nearly hit 37k out of 60k words, and I'm so excited to be done.
I went grocery shopping, rescheduled a doctor's appointment, and put in an application to the local community college.
Someday, you won't be in mind-bending physical pain anymore. Keep at it.
Scrivener is a lifesaver if you're writing anything long-form-- it lets you keep all your notes in the same place, lets you set a word count goal and automatically generates a daily goal for you, and formats your manuscripts. Saves me a LOT of time figuring out which chapter is which, haha!
Holy shit, you're on a roll. Good job!
Chants of Senaar (puzzle game, learn a simple language and bring inhabitants of a Babel-like tower together, magical and haunting)
Kingdom Hearts (the action JRPG par excellence, a story that reels you in even as you realize how convoluted it is)
Frostpunk (THE CITY MUST SURVIVE. Grimdark Victorian city builder. 2 bucks if that sweetens the deal.)
Who's Lila? (If David Lynch made a Gameboy adventure game, it'd look like Who's Lila. It's a horror game, caveat emptor.)
Super Lesbian Animal RPG (I've been following It's creator for a while and she's a genuinely delightful person, so her game is likely also delightful)
Okay. So, next question, because I'm not 100% clear on this-- is this meant to be a "serious" LitRPG, is this meant to be satire, is it something in the middle? Are you trying to hit the same tone as Shrek, Nimona, Discworld, an isekai anime...?
Do you prefer playing with original Sims, or the premades?
If you like playing with the premades, I'd recommend playing rotationally-- play every family in the neighbourhood for a season, with no repeats til you've been through them all. There's enough variety in the families that you'll never be doing the same thing for more than a week or two.
Here is a question: what are you trying to accomplish with having "classes" in your story? What (if anything) are you using them to say, and what (if anything) do the differences add to your plot?
I'm playing through this for the first time (no spoilers for anything after the pigeon quest, please!) and the thing that's shocked me most so far is that it portrayed an out of wedlock teen pregnancy with sympathy and compassion.
By today's standards, yeah, FF6 is a bit underwritten, and a lot of the characters... you need to use your imagination to make them three dimensional, as was the style at the time. But for its time? My gods, it's a tour de force.
...My one big, unreasonable, "make this and I'll die happy" gaming wish is that Square gives the Octopath Traveler team the keys to an FF6 remake.
Genuine curiosity: How is that oversharing? He sounds like a lovely person.
Talking to your subconscious is a really useful technique, especially if you have any kind of trauma (and being poor can be traumatizing).
Kudos to you for doing the hard stuff.
Read some Guy Gavriel Kay, a good translation of the Iliad/Odyssey, and perhaps the Aeneid too.
....Roderick Heffley, as in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, or....?
Also I think everyone's a little bit fluid, because the way society constructs gender is truly something else. If you cut the world in half and say "this half is blue, this half is pink, blue people have to stay in the blue zone and pink people have to stay in the pink zone", and someone likes any other colour than the one they're supposed to? They wind up being fluid by default.
Here's a thought: make a simple naming language for your setting, and use that to name your minor characters and inconsequential places.
Easiest way to do this is to pick 10-20 syllables and, when you need a random name, randomly combine 2-3 of them.
For example, say you've got a naming language using the syllables "ma/na/ka/ta/va". Pick two syllables at random, and you get names like Kata, Tava, Mava, Nana, Vaka...
Or if your syllables are "att/bach/wick/kat/ott/kent/lack", you get names like Ottwick, Attbach, Katatt, Lakkat, Wickott...
If you want to get really fancy, assign some meanings to the syllables. For example, a lot of older English place names have the syllable "wick" in them- it comes from the Old Norse word for "bay". You can give your minor characters Meaningful Names that a clever reader will easily spot.
Cargo pants are definitely back in for women rn, so yeah, give it a year.
And the Bible is filled with an ungodly amount of misogyny. Your point?
What type of person would you never date again?
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