Silent

The discord is for posting Yui Hirasawa every ~4.5 months

It's that time of year again, again. No worries whether they came out in 2022, although some very nice titles came out this year. I like making these posts! So here we go. Oh, also I set up one of these and I seem to stick to updating it better than MAL or Kitsu so it helps with writing this up.
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Honorable Mentions:
 
Top 10:
 
The Rest:
 
Also might be a nice place to post the Steam Replay things

It's that time of year again, again. No worries whether they came out in 2022, although some very nice titles came out this year. I like making these posts! So here we go. Oh, also I set up one of these and I seem to stick to updating it better than MAL or Kitsu so it helps with writing this up.
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Honorable Mentions:
 
Top 10:
 
The Rest:
 
Also might be a nice place to post the Steam Replay things

its a shame this photo isnt dated because the most interesting thing in-universe about it is that it was taken the day immediately after the setting's equivalent of 9/11 (where they all almost died)

new comm of the party done by someone we're all familiar with 

the time machine?

the time machine?

I finished my first VN route without a translation today! It was a very simple slice of life romcom VN that I'm sure about twelve people on earth really remember but it's still a victory in my book.
 
At times I really wondered if I was taking in the stuff I was reading, and how much I was just glancing past, but at the same time, that's almost exactly how I read english, so... I wasn't overtly confused by much so I think I can consider this a win for me. Now if only I could manage to put together a coherent sentence in japanese, I'd be able to maybe pass an elementary school test

echoes of the eye

Ignore that I got impatient last year. 
 

 
 

That's a good art, though the way your Steam avatar crops it, it made me think of a less...savory image in the vein of this one: 

@Raze and I got a new comm

Just a heads up, depending on your company, this is risky. It depends on their reasons for migrating to the new network, but this could be seen as bypassing company security policies and that can be a fireable offense (i've seen it). You could mostly likely just play dumb if they spot you, though. In your situation it would be hard pressed to say you're actually bypassing anything. "Oh, my PC never changed" should be fine. But I thought I'd point it out.

he's been here since the beginning

consoomed some more indies in the last 3 years
 
 
 

Update: I have started speedrunning Bugsnax Any% and it is jeopardizing Hades’ place as GOTY for me.

I played Hades, Disco Elysium and Outer Wilds this year and I'd consider them all 10/10s and potential encroachers on the 3x3. I've been playing Noita since early access and it's clearly the Baba is You of this year for the sheer innovation and scale of it. I even think Among Us deserves a mention despite the memes as a new staple party game to play when everyone is here, as my friend group hadn't found an accessible social deduction type game beforehand.
 
One game I played for kinda this first time this year that took me by surprise was Rain World. @Rhombo installed a co-op mod and convinced me to do a playthrough and it was such a unique experience of a game that it went from something I was initially put off by to something I quickly became obsessed with. The AI, and the fact that it's equivalent to animation, makes the game world feel more like a real place than any other. I just wanted to fucking explore the shit out of it. I'd definitely describe it as a flawed masterpiece in that it relies on you to want to push through the unintuitive design choices (which didn't work for me the first time I played it!), but it almost felt like co-op was how it was meant to be played. To the point where if I were to have someone over and we were looking for a co-op game to play it'd be my first choice.

The only thing I know about pokemon is that the fire starter is the best every single time.

I think this'll be the last one I do of this party before we finish the campaign barring a good Rhea opportunity
 

I feel like I really need to pour my creative effort into making these instead of actually writing and prepping campaign stuff
 

Got a commish of a character I'm playing in Silent's campaign sometime down the line. She's a human Grave domain Cleric. I'm aware it's a little sad that I'm getting one of a character I haven't played yet but I'm just really excited :3c
 
 

Not something I'd wish on my greatest enemy. Get well soon, man.

A lot of the questions were backwards such that you couldn't just google the name of the creature/spell, so instead of "what is the material component of a telepathic bond spell" it was "what spell uses an eggshell as a material component". It was still possible to cheat, but harder, and I had a soft timer in the form of the Polygnomials who were quite slow to answer questions about stuff that wasn't magic. I wasn't very happy with my scenario if the party lost (it would be discovered that the Polygnomials used Legend Lore to cheat and would be straight up murdered in front of the party) so I'm glad the team aced it, and everyone provided at least one answer.
 
Beasts and Creatures (we had encountered a fair number of these playing DnD already, but since a few of us had monster manuals at hand, I figured we might have some people who were knowledgeable about others)
 
Spells and the Arcane (same as above, really. the alchemy jug and chaos bolt questions were gimmes)
 
History+Geography (aka the Have You Been Paying Attention round)
 
 
Bands+Songs (a little like the above but there was a much greater potential for using logic. all the band profiles were available so it was a case of matching the titles to a genre like metal/idols/parody, aside from Elvish Presley, which I think someone actually figured out. If I loved anything about this part it was the Weird Al expy parody song titles, like you can imagine this centuries-old order singing a metal ditty about the return of an immortal god-beast and then a shitty halfling responds with a song about his last barbeque)
 
Name that Instrument (yeah this was the funniest one for me because I quickly figured out that you could see the name of the audio file being played in Roll20. so rather than just make them all blank I thought it'd be better to fuck with anyone who thought they were being clever. left is the name of the file i used)
 
Only thing I regret about the game show bit is that Hans Duller for a headless horseman is probably the best joke name I came up with out of the entire adventure.
 
 
 
But really though I felt it dragged on much longer than it needed to, it was a really good experience as my first time DMing for more than one session. I put way too much effort in than I felt everyone got out of it and it was way too railroady for something that long. I learned a lot, especially about how far ahead to plan, since I think some of the best parts of the dungeon were ones that I came up with based on the players' progress. I think ending a campaign with a EBA-esque power of friendship/hope/love tropey bullshit ending was near the top of my bucket list though, so there's that.
 
Also Corvette of note is that this is the individual who brought about the first TPK of 2+ years of us playing ttrpgs:
 

 
and also her Druid BFF who Wild Shaped into an alpaca and fucked everyone up: