They found a theme they liked and ran with it didn’t they.

Do you have any corps or established stuff in universe you could make into game cabinets? Callbacks are always good. Even really mundane stuff like shoes or bubblegum could have one. Maybe the sponsor wants to make the crew into a cabinet. I also like the idea that something like Packman or galaga is taking centre stage over all these fantastic modern games.

I enjoyed my time with it. Working out the correct path was fun though I was really disappointed that there was only 1 path and to finish the game you just followed the objective marker. There were some fun moments though and I enjoyed the powers and the repeating elements. The endings were pretty poor I agree. I think it really depends how much the core gameplay appeals to you as to how much you’d enjoy it.

First off depression is a removed and will have made this whole thing harder on both of you. It sounds like you were moving forward and he felt like he was being left behind.

Could you have done more? Maybe. I think people can pretty much always do more but doing more isn’t always the right thing to do.

Generally relationships should have some give and take, not always equally split though that depends on the individuals. I’ve been in a position several times where I’m the only one making any effort to keep in touch with friends and it gets harder and harder to keep making the effort when you don’t get anything back. Eventually I stopped trying to maintain those friendships and now I just have them on social media and we never interact.

People grow and change and sometimes, with distance especially, that can be enough to end a friendship.

Try to remember the good times if nothing else.

My preference is to take an established setting and run a game in that. The most prep I did for one of my games was my Dresden Files games set in our home town. I looked into local legends and planned a bunch of character details and motivations.

In general I try to do as little as possible and improvise most things. Usually I’ll have some NPCs or factions with some motivations and plans. Maybe a few thoughts about where the players are heading next.

This sounds cool but the article could do with a paragraph explaining what they are doing. My impression is using solar panels as partial roofing over farms which seems to have some quite good benefits from the article.

Is all the electricity used by the farm or is that exported to the grid?

It really depends on the lifestyle you want and what “retirement” means to you. Do you want to never work again or work part time? So you want to live in a home with no mortgage and minimal bills or travel the world for 6 months of every year. Your best bet is to talk to a financial advisor.

Honestly I’m not sure. Probably the same as the chem trails and 5g, he’s all in on the conspiracies these days.

UK here. We have fluoride in our water. My understanding is it’s good for teeth and helps prevent dental problems with little/no downsides.

My dad is a conspiracy theorist nut who thinks it’s a government mind control agent or something so both sides get purchase over here.

I know we’re talking audiophiles here but the budget option is £350!

The expanse is so good. The audiobooks are really well done. The latter books aren’t as good as the first few but I still really enjoyed them and the series ends well.

I thought the TV series of it was also excellent, really good casting and they did a great job with the space combat too.

I’m using boost, you can add filters to everything you’ve subscribed to.

I’ve run a small campaign of mother ship and a one shot. I didn’t use any visual aids other than a map of the space station as a handout. No issues whatsoever so it should be totally fine to run theatre or the mind.

If your dog is doing things you don’t want them to, restrict their access to the things you don’t want the dog getting. Maybe shut her in one room rather than give access to the whole house for example.

I suspect you’re getting downvoted because the guy in your picture is a tool.

Unfortunately I don’t know enough about US based finances to have any useful advice for you.

We use the CAGE questions in the UK as a quick screening tool.

Have you ever felt the need to Cut down on your alcohol intake? Have people Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking? Have you ever felt Guilty about drinking? Have you ever needed an Eye opener (drink first thing in the morning)?

Yes to two or more indicates problem drinking and probably alcoholism.

Other factors are drinking every day, drinking more than a few units in one go regularly, drinking to black out drunk, causing damage to yourself or others.

We spent 2 hours doing CPR on a lady who worked in our hospital, while her husband watched and cried. She was young and the cardiac arrest was unexpected so we tried everything we could. Despite all our efforts we didn’t manage to get her back. CPR is not like it looks in movies and shows, it rarely works and is brutal on the person who’s died. CPR is physically exhausting to perform, generally you rotate so you’re only doing about 1-2 minutes at a time but even with breaks it’s still very hard work. Add on the emotional shock of an unexpected death and supporting a grieving partner, it was a naff day. One of the worst parts is you’ve got to go back on the floor afterwards and carry on like it’s normal.

Totally agree, it’s just playing ring around the rosie until you manage to get the monster/ player in the right space, there’s no tools available and no where else to go if your struggling to get past an area.

I put it in safe mode and didn’t look back until I finished it. The game is easily one of my favourite video game stories.

Really looking forward to the update post from OP about the ending.

Was scrolling through to see if this was posted yet. Such a hard game, emotionally and mechanically. I’ve never managed to get very far through it before everything goes wrong and my characters start dying horribly (Which is entirely the point).

It’s a really good portrayal of the civilian toll of war I think.

Anywhere you can buy food here you can probably get alcohol. Corner shops, petrol stations, supermarkets all have booze.