Would you say that Withering Realms can be played without playing Withering Rooms beforehand?

I personally don't think it makes any sense to play them in reverse order. Realms is a full sequel and built directly on top of what Rooms establishes, and I think it would lessen the experience of both games to do so. And Rooms is such a lovely game with such cool world building and lore that it deserves its spotlight as your first game in the setting. And trust me, you'll get used to the 2.5D in no time.

I really enjoy your post in these discussion threads, and many of the games you talked about have landed in my bookmarks, like, for example, The Drifter.

I'm glad. Sometimes I don't know if my tendency to take the community rules as guidelines is taken well or not, hah. I do the same smudging of the line in the Patient Gaming community at times. And I hope you do get to The Drifter at some point. What a great game that was.

After a long mid-game hiatus to waste a few weeks on Football Manager and then do a NextFest deepdive I am finally back to Withering Realms, which I will finish this weekend. I guess with an asterisk that there is a post-game/NG+ mechanic that I am unlikely to engage with at this point in time, and will probably save for next year and the full release. It's actually a Soulslike so for once I am following the tenets of this community instead of talking about other types of games here like an irreverent filthy casual.

I think a combination of sparse bonfire placements with a "Stake of Marika" type system is perfect for me. For exploration I love the tension of getting through an area with few bonfires, I love the relief of finally finding the next bonfire and I love when clever level design and shortcuts let you reuse previous bonfires. Cathedral of the Deep in DS3 is a great example.

But boss runbacks? Pass.

Svårt att se något annat utfall än en ny Tidöregering i någon form, i så fall. Är inte lika säker som Jimmy på att det inte blir något extraval, men ett extraval skulle så klart bli massaker för vänstersidan ändå. Rimligen skulle de ju därför vilja undvika det till varje pris, som han säger, men jag tror V kommer fortsätta spela Allan och hålla sin hårda linje även om det slutar med katastrof även för det egna partiet.

All those work for me in Summit, despite not having visited them before. Part of the problem I think is the OP not using the "!-inititial" link formatting.

I'm not familiar with splattercat but I'll keep an eye on him. Would be interesting to see a crunch-experienced veteran try to figure this game out, hah.

Welp, that's an instant wishlist. Thankfully it's only a reveal trailer and not a release trailer, because my backlog could use some attention first.

God, there are just too many games.

Navigating the sea on the overwold map is turn based, but combat is indeed real time.

It's tough. It even touches on it in the article. On the one hand it's not great in a vacuum that new, more invisible and accessible and socially acceptable nicotine products are out there (especially those more appealing to children). But on the other hand it's actually good to have less harmful alternatives to vapes, pouches and (especially) cigarettes for the purposes of helping addicts quit.

Är det slut på eländet? Mycket svårt att säga. Jag skulle säga att 2024 var ett IQ-test för USA, och de misslyckades fullständigt. Detta var absolut minimum - så mycket talade emot republikanerna att om de behöll makten i båda kamrarna ändå så skulle vi slutgiltigt kunna konstatera att USA är en permanent förlorad nation. Jag personligen utgick i från ett resultat av den här typen och är inte alls förvånad.

Problemet jag ser är att ICE, bensinpriserna och Iran-kriget är tre otroligt mobiliserande springande punkter som i stort sett är självmål för Trump & Co. Hur mycket av den här blåa vågen representerar en sann, varaktig skiftning i opinionen och hur mycket står tillfälliga konkreta vardagsproblem för? Kommer de här förändringarna hålla i sig till nästa presidentval? Är det amerikanska folket slutgiltigt trötta på Trump och hans nynazister till anhängare och hans korruption och fuffens och narcissism och sexuella övergrepp och allt eller är det bara så att det for närvarande är för dyrt att köra bil i en nation vars infrastruktur är ritat från grunden av bilindustrin? Framtiden får utvisa det, antar jag.

Men oavsett vad så är det absolut goda nyheter, det här resultatet innebär skademinimering för de kommande två åren och det är något vi kan alla vara tacksamma över. Och jag hoppas innerligt att det här är början på en pendelrörelse åt rätt håll för det amerikanska folket.

I mean, over here it's mostly damp, dark, cold and bleak. Already barely any hours of sunlight in a day, months of darkness ahead still and too early yet for snow. November isn't great.

Great game. Also nice to see some couch co-op games release in this day and age.

I love that. Beautiful colors and pose and I love the melting warping limbs. I like it a lot.

Shortly after the Reddit API debacle three years ago and the ensuing little exodus of users from there to here some guy created an Advice Wanted post asking for dietary advice for a circumstance where he couldn't poop for three days. He was using very vague language, he was refusing to specify exactly why he couldn't poop, and he was refusing to specify exactly what he was doing for those three days. When pressed about it he said he would technically perhaps be able to poop if he really had to, but it would be much better for everyone involved if he didn't and he would really like to avoid it.

Obviously replies kept flooding in, both befuddlement, genuine advice as well as rampant speculation about what kind of activity he was to be engaging in. It also took over the meme communities for a good while, and I think it was still the most upvoted post of all time here when he deleted it (and his account).

There are some remnants here: https://lemmy.world/post/637339

My wallet has leapt into a corner now and is giving you the evil eyes from across the room, hissing like an alleycat. Thanks.

They definitely know how to smash, from the sound of it, so it would make sense.

Nintendo bought the rights to the films to halt their distribution.

Did we need another reason to hate Nintendo? Ah fuck it, throw it on the pile.

I do do that and I do carry a couple of diagnoses so I guess it's accurate? How I wish that asshole blubber of a lump of useless fat was a bit more cooperative.

I've heard so much good about this game it's actually a problem. Mantra time, I guess.

Play unplayed games you own before buying more games.

Wait for a sale.

Play unplayed games you own before buying more games.

Wait for a sale.

Play...

No-poop guy is a deep cut. It's such a shame he deleted his account and the posts, truly deserved to remain the most upvoted post of all time.

Thank you for creating self-promotion content!