[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Listening to He Who Fights With Monsters rn and enjoying it. Started out slow, but once the ensemble characters get introduced it picks up.

I enjoyed Trash of the Count's Family (licensed in English as Lout of Count's Family by Seven Seas) until it got too repititve and drawn out for me (which tbf was smtg like 600 chapters in) though that one's lighter on the game interface aspect (ie you're not getting stats and ability blocks). The found family focus is nice.

So I'm a Spider, So What? is really heavy on the game interface, but the weirdness of the premise (what it says on the tin here) and the quirkiness of the protag with a sort of deuteragonist who handles the more serious side of the story until it all comes together was good.

There's also an whole "girls' genre" focused on visual novel games that's pretty popular (haven't read/watched it, but My Next Life As A Villainess I think is the most popular). Heads up though these ones are usually around having to build relationship and romance meters if you're just looking to stick to power leveling "boys' genre" stuff (which no shade both are fun!). Villains Are Destined to Die is a pretty good one I've read for the genre, but severely depressing (there's a bigger story, but most of it is about "I'm stuck in a game world that forces me to deal with an abusive family and it's making me suicidal"). Probably more happy girls' genre ones, but I can't think of any that have an official English translation/are default English off the top of my head haha.

If you wanna dive into the genre I think most important decision is what amount of gamifying you want to read about it cause it extends from "character woke up in/is playing a game and it's rarely if ever mentioned this is a game world again" to "every other page you have massive game statblocks dumped on you and are supposed to remember entire stat systems, skill trees, etc".

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

This is the one I bought. It works pretty well and has controls for each half so I can just heat one side if I want to address aches on that side or both if I'm trying to warm up quick. Haven't run it through the wash yet so I'm not sure how it holds up there. Otherwise for pets (since I have a cat) their claws don't get stuck on it, but they may cause threads to get pulled out (I haven't had this happen a lot, but I figure if you have big dogs or something you'll see a lot more threads pulled out; I have a miniature pincher sized cat so small dogs I assume wouldn't cause too much wear and tear). It heats up pretty fast too, I think it only takes about ~2-3 minutes and once it's heated up you don't feel the lumps from the wires inside.

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Iirc everything's loaded as one map so you don't have long loading times going from lot to lot. So if your sim goes on a date downtown you don't have to then load downtown to continue playing and then reload the sim house when they go home.

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Idk about hit, but decent success maybe? Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers wouldn't be bad with a re-release that fixes the controls (gameplay is mainly a series of mini-games which the timing is off for making attempting completing them a rage inducing task) and the travel map areas redone to have actual purpose instead of "here's a zany spot with cyclical weather where you can throw stuff around to play with our gravity code". The story was pretty good/interesting imo as a Final Fantasy version of Cowboy Bebop.

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I would expect a lay article to absolutely define these things. If nothing else, gets their word count up so the author can be paid more and helps the lay person understand what they're reading about, win-win. I know Reuters is more of a gives the mere basics so other news sources can pick it up and write more encompassing listicles site though so I'm not gonna have greater expectations for them here. Thanks for posting!

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just looking for low! Doctor said a piece of toast is okay, but there's a big difference between a toast slice and a big bowl of Chex mix lol. Thank you for the suggestion!

ETA: also I'm splitting this between six individuals lol so if something is carbs and X I can always add more X so the carbs are lower for everyone as long as it's not like oatmeal or something that's like all carbs all the way down lol

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Agree with this. Though tbf I'm not a super fan of bell peppers so I think it was probably not a dish for me, but still tasted good which says something. My relatives (made it for a holiday dinner) really enjoyed it though which was surprising because holiday dinner for them is manicotti, pasta and meatballs with like no vegetables lol (reason why I made this cause hey fancy vegetable dish and I wasn't stepping on anyone's toes).

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Darn maybe soon, thank you!

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Is there a way to do this on mobile?

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Since La'an and Kirk were sorted out in this episode I kind of expect Chapel and Spock are going to get their resolution in the finale. But yeah it is feeling a bit like when Deanna and Worf dated lol "wow it happened and then was gone so fast hunh...".

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