Is this the cat version of Keanu Reeves? Love it!

It's a mix of tea, warm milk with honey, chicken soup, and endless binge-watching-of-whatever-is-available or audiobooks for me, mostly. Once I'm feeling slightly better, I usually try gaming to figure out how dizzy I still am, and then take it from there.

Either way, get well soon and say hi to the pups, love!

That's more like it!

I hope not lol

Left to right: saxophone, violin, transverse flute

Been going through my collection of books just now, and apart from the Thrawn trilogy and Plagueis, I can also recommend "the hand of Thrawn" duology ("Specter of the Past" and "Vision of the Future") as well as the Han Solo trilogy ("The Paradise Snare", "The Hutt Gambit" and "Rebel Dawn").

I could probably recommend a few more, if you're interested, but these books are definitely worth the read.

Can comfirm, these ones are great!

the "Lenin" of the Sith

These are my favorite star wars books, I've read them multiple times, especially the first one, and I love how accurate this description is tho I never would've found the words.

I'll try that one, thanks! Tho I think my pc tower might be a bit too heavy lol

I'm curious, tell me more. Been trying to find solutions for the cramps for years and this is the first novel one I've heard.

I decided to continue playing before I reply to you, and now after roughly 60 hours and progressing Bellara's story, I agree with you, my criticism was funny. She turns out quite alright and becomes very intriguing after a few more hours.

I honestly have to say tho, they really butchered the beginning of the game, and the more you progress, the more it seems to find it's footing, or dare I say, a Dragon Age-esque tone.

Actually, that's a good point.

I'm playing it too rn, and I agree with the stuff you said. Also, yes, the review bombing is all-out based-ness for the most part (~90% from what I've seen). But there are other criticisms that I think are valid.

I'm personally not enjoying the game, to put it mildly, for multiple reasons:

• the writing: the dialogs are flat, the lines are so repetitive that at some points I'm just zoning out, bc I don't want to hear again that "dwarves don't dream" or that "Elgar'nan and Ghilan'hanin" escaped their prison. I got the impression that there's little love or even interest in the stuff they've been writing. It feels heartless and lifeless, which is incredibly sad given how interesting the plot actually is (bunch of guys trying to prevent the end of the world)
• the lore inaccuracies: it's as if they started writing this game and went like "All that lore we created for and in the first 3 games? Shredd it, we don't need that". One instance would be the "dwarves don't dream" thing. Dwarves sleep and dream. They just can't enter the Fade in their dreams. (That's just one, but there's so much more.)
• the (voice) acting/tone of the game: I'm blaming this mostly on the dialog, but some voice lines are delivered in such unfitting tones of voice. Like, guys, how tf are you so cheery, you're trying to stop the end of the world? That's not per se a bad idea, but given that dragon age has always been so dark and sarcastic, it feels so out of place for all these characters being so annoyingly cheery. (Maybe I'll get used to this, Idk)
• Bellara: perfect example of how to butcher a potentially amazing character. First of all, this character feels like a horrible stereotype of someone with ADHD, like "omg, sorry, I'm rambling and so random", like fr, this is not how it works. Second, her backstory is actually great which really doesn't shine through enough. And third, whoever decided to give her the Garrus line ("calibrations")??? It feels so out of place and not funny at all.

I like the combat system, it's somewhat refreshing to see an action rpg setup in dragon age, so that your mage finally doesn't die immediately in close combat scenarios. I'm also madly in love with the hair animations. I keep entering the character creator to swoosh around the hair lol.

All in all, I wouldn't recommend (buying) the game, but it definitely has its moments.

Get well soon comrade, we are here for you I really hope you (and your dog) will be okay!

Mao

It does, and thank you! I can relate a lot to what you said, especially the bubbling up of "new children's toys". And I would also definitely agree that you cannot ask for consent too often. Rather interrupt the moment than be uncertain or ambigious about it.

if you're just purely bored, you find something interesting or exciting and you have fixed the problem and the need has been addressed whereas with ennui there's a sort of restless interregnum-like quality where you experience a feeling of boredom but the thought of doing something exciting is also in itself boring somehow.

Contrary to what you said, this actually makes a lot of sense lol, and I think that all of what you wrote made me realize I really should get checked (for anything really). This sounds too close to home. Thank you again for sharing!

Out of curiosity (and only if this should apply to you and you feel comfortable sharing): Does auDHD also interfere with your experience of sexual desires? Meaning, is there conflict in that regard between autistic desires and ADHD desires?

“It is better for them to die than to be captured and held here.”

I... these atrocities become more and more unfathomable. My brain can't process this insane disdain for human lives anymore. Reading this man saying that death is preferable to captivity is something I never wanted to read again. Nobody deserves this. Nobody.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

I'm giving you the biggest virtual hug I possibly can. You are loved, friend!

Again, not a bad idea, but I'd have to explain away 9 years for both degrees.

Edit: And as someone without any work experience whatsoever, I don't see how omitting the degrees would really help improve my CV.