I can hear it in my head.

The Expanse is one I never skipped once on watch or rewatch (I was even annoyed that it wasn’t regular until season 2).

Yuri’s original post has since been deleted. Erin Fitzgerald, the (second) voice of Chie, also said on Bluesky that she won’t be returning, along with Amanda Winn Lee, the voice of Yukiko, elsewhere:

I don’t know if Sega or Atlus did something to piss everyone off, if it’s some bizarre marketing stunt, or if the others just decided to pile on after Yuri went scorched earth on this. The whole thing’s pretty weird.

Are you saying that Hashino himself was responsible for the problematic content, or that he would have stood in the way of revising it?

Skyward Sword was a weird one for me. The motion controls drove me nuts almost all the time, except when they didn’t and I was having a blast. Unfortunately, that wasn’t super often, and when I finally did get into a groove, it was the very end of the game. The final boss felt really good. But then it was over.

The third dungeon is also one of my favorites in the series and the story has one of my favorite Zeldas (the character) in the series, too. At the same time, there were also large stretches I hated. So many ups and downs for me.

I started a HG/SS Nuzlocke recently–first time I’ve done one–and ran into the same trouble I always do on hardcore/high-risk runs: as soon as it starts to get easy or too predictable, I completely lose interest.

Miss that era of Pokémon something fierce, though.

I wishlisted Tactics Returners and Last Moon. Last Moon isn’t typically my kind of gameplay but it looks gorgeous enough that I’d like to follow it.

I was impressed with Runa when I first saw it a few months ago, still looks good too.

Toups said calling it gumbo is a north/south Louisiana thing, but hell if I know.

He also said to use good sausage, and if you don’t live somewhere where you can get good sausage, move. Solid life advice.

Gumbo. I’d never tried it since I’m not a fan of seafood dishes, but I stumbled upon Isaac Toups’ chicken and sausage gumbo recipe and it’s borderline life-changing.

One of the best things to ever come out of my kitchen.

Also a calorie bomb, unfortunately. It goes in my Thai green curry and I wish I could have it more often 😩

Coconut milk is also one of those things where brand name makes a huge difference.

Sounds like the solo experience isn’t great. Unless you’re okay with getting matched with randos, I guess you’d better bring exactly three players?

I don’t have it as a masterpiece myself, but Night in the Woods is an excellent exploration of the intersection of the anxieties of young and grown adults in a town setting. The script is tightly written.

I think Astro Bot pokes a hole in that, unless you’re talking about a specific award?

Feels like the GOTY frontrunner at this point, as it seems to have edged out KCD2 in the press. Amazing achievement for a fresh studio.

Death Stranding 2 and Hades 2 (if it comes out this year) are other possibilities.

This is the best suggestion I’ve heard for this season’s Ellie problem. I don’t know how people who haven’t played the game feel about this season, but Ellie’s drive for being in Seattle in the first place has felt wildly inconsistent. It’s like she’s flipping a switch on and off, whereas game Ellie is constantly, noticeably pensive, processing, simmering with growing rage. And it’s so important to the rest of the story that I honestly wonder if they’ll be able to save it at this point.

Maybe more Joel was exactly what they needed to keep things on track, keep Ellie’s focus. Because I sure wasn’t feeling it.

Absolutely. The vast majority of my sites do just fine when whitelisting only the primary domain. I consider it an essential add-on myself.

Lemmy is one of the few that needs a little babysitting, and it’s only for the purpose OP stated.

It’s a recent one, but I haven’t been able to get Gestral Summer Party out of my head since I first heard it in Expedition 33 last month.

Both the forest and the late added character were there to give opportunities to shake things up/lighten the mood. This was a grim, grim season and you’ve gotta have some of that in an 11-hour runtime.

I agree on Saw’s part; felt like something they had to get through to complete the series’ connection to Rogue One. I did love the season other than that, though. “Who Are You” is one of the best episodes of TV I’ve ever seen.

I think this series can be really good for people that don’t know Star Wars, too. Anyone that enjoys spy thrillers and political intrigue should really get on well with it.

Thing is, this book isn’t even going to have the ending yet, and at this point he doesn’t exactly have a high bar to clear to make improvements on how GoT approached the ending. There’s also nothing wrong with outright making changes to the ending if he wants.

He’s clearly been in his own head about the series ever since after the fourth book. He still likes writing about the world, so my best guess is whatever progress he makes on Winds is occasional efforts to try to shed that emotional weight and free up some headspace for the side stories he likes more.