welcome to camp telophase

What's that? XP on the hoof!

(after another interminable cut scene with action in it) I SHOULD BE DOING THIS

Sora! Sora! Sora? SORA!!! Sora. SORA! (Yes, I named the cat after the main character of Kingdom Hearts. He's hiding in our bedroom, probably wondering why Toby's screaming his name all the time.)

Eee. Ah. Uh. Hit the chest.

🎶 Stealing your stuff. 🎶

(Donald: Do we have to go there?) YES. WE DO. BECAUSE YOU COMPLAINED.

I LOVE INVISIBLE WALLS said nobody ever.

This smells like a cut scene.

(Hitting an unskippable minigame) Seriously? You gonna make me do this right now? Well, I'm gonna smash your shit. Fuck your town. Fuck your sewers.

There's a kid, a duck, and a dog running around smashing everything in town. Why is no one panicking?

(upon finding YET ANOTHER MINIGAME) Oh jeezus it's Cooking Mama.

I don't know why I'm picking the controller up. There's going to be another cut scene. You can quote me on that. (spoiler: it wasn't a cut scene, but it went to the Design the Gummiship minigame instead of plot.)

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We have both been sick and are now just starting to feel human again. More later. Maybe.

So Toby has finished playing Wolfenstein: The New Order and its DLC, and has started playing Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. If you don't remember, Toby and I had taken to calling the Wolfenstein game Captain Manpain Punches Nazis. He almost didn't get through the first one because of the manpain monologing by the hero, but he enjoyed the actual gameplay enough--and has heard enough good things about the gameplay--that he was willing to at least start it.

There's still plenty of monologuing--a thing that occasionally occurred in the previous game and has occurred at least once in this one is the hero dreaming of lazing on a lawn chair at a suburban cookout in a war-free world, while his voiceover says "In my dreams, I smell a barbecue. I see children, a dog, and I see someone. I think I see someone. These things, none of it for me. I move by roarin' engines, among warriors. We come from the night." Other quotes include "Death at the gates again. Howling my name. Can't greet you today. I have a war to win." and "I was a kid, we had a monster in our basement. My father said if I'd done wrong it would creep out at night and come for me. I tried to do no wrong, but the monster came all the same."

He also does things like (SPOILER FOR THE NEW ORDER IF YOU CARE) OKs a nuclear strike on his location while he's still there because DEATH COMES FOR ME etc.

Anyway, I figure it might entertain us if I come up with a Manpain Bingo card, so now I'm looking for examples of manpain to put on it. It won't work if I come up with all of them because I'll just come up with all the examples I've seen him do in the game so far and get a bingo before even starting. :)

If it's at all germane, the games are set in an alternate early 1960s where the Nazis won WWII and have taken over the US (presumably the second game is about liberating the US, given what we've seen so far) along with some super-science so there's things like robot attack dogs (PANZERHUNDS!) and mecha suits. The hero is part of an underground resistance group. (As is his (MINOR SPOILER) pregnant girlfriend so I fully expect some fridging in that arena, although they did surprisingly manage to avoid fridging her in the first game.)

Anyway, we basically think he superheroes through the game fueled by the power of his WAAAAANGST and need to come up with a way to tolerate it enough that Toby can enjoy the actual gameplay parts and so I can enjoy Toby enjoying them as he's so entertaining to watch game. :)

For the two of you on my f-list who play Love Nikki, you'll share my excitement when I logged in and saw this this morning. For the rest of you...you won't know what's going on. XD

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If you play and want to friend me, my ID is 104422404 and my in-game name is Alina Zohar (I opted for one of the randomly generated ones).

In lieu of an adventure writeup, because I'm at a point in the game where I'm trying to min/max all of Murderface's perks and equipment which leads less to hilarious adventure and more to picking quests because of the loot or XP they'll bring, here's a bunch of photos he's taken and commentary.

Well, maybe a story or two. And not that many selfies.

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So the remastered version of Skyrim is now out on the PS4. We bought it yesterday and let it download and install last night so I could play it today. It's also out on the PC, for free if you bought all the DLC previously, and Toby discovered it unlocked early so he started his FOURTH run. This time his character is specializing in one-handed weapons, but I predict she's going to end up a sneaky character doing one-handed because he always goes sneaky.

Anyway, I can't port my PS3 saves over, so it's bye-bye Murderface, alas. But given that I hadn't been playing him much because almost every time he went out he was attacked by an ancient dragon that was above his pay grade that killed him horribly, perhaps not much of a loss. Ah well.

The big question now is: what sort of character am I going to build for my new run? I shall not be writing it up because it was getting rather tedious to make notes while I was playing, so you're all spared that (unless something particularly funny happens). But do I go really sneaky, or go full tank? Do I play a paladin or an ass? Murderface's twin brother or someone completely opposite him? Let me know your opinions!

(Also I stopped playing Skyrim quite so much because I started a replay of Kingdom Hearts II in preparation for the release of KHIII, but hey.)