The Retired Demon of the Maxed-Out Village: Volume 2 - Managed to finish this volume. I liked the first one well enough but this time it was a drag to read through. The series seems to follow an approach where it revolves around the story of a different visitor to the village in each volume. The visitor in this volume didn't do it for me at all. I really couldn't care less about whether she lived or died and that made it so sluggish to read. The people I wanted to read about were just set dressing with very little screen time (word time? page time?). I'm not sure if I continue this series. - 3/10

At this point "Hayo Miyazaki's last movie" just becomes a marketing blurb.

I wouldn’t mind 8 episodes less of Haruhi.

The trust is gone and Unity will never be able to gain it back. The damage is done.

I also wonder if this is just playing out as planned by Unity. Try to push out a change that will piss people off by adding a more egregious change and then say "we hear you" and roll back to the change they wanted to push initially.

Depends on the TV. For gaming, it would be essential that it has some form of gaming/low latency mode.

Also, why would you pay extra for a "good" main board? That's literally the one thing where you can go cheap without a problem if you're not investing in the high-end segments of the other components.

As a sidenote: have you looked at something like a SteamDeck for your kid? It's a full fledged PC that you kid can hook up to the TV and if you want to watch something on it the kiddo can still use it with the build in display. the base model is also dirt cheap for what you get.

I genuinely felt tears well up in my eyes as we watched the Torment Stag boss fight – that moment cemented the fact that I want to play this game.

I somehow have my problems trusting a reviewer who gets teary-eyed because of watching some gameplay video.

There's not much coming out this week, but I'll use this to sell you all on Cooking With Wild Game since it's criminally underrated.

I always make the argument that it is, at its core very similar to Ascendance of a Bookworm:

• Both have a slow progression.
• Both have a low-stakes plot that starts very insignificant but creates larger and larger ripples as the story progresses
• The core plot of both deals with a class divide
• Both plots are intrinsically character-driven instead of event-driven like most other LN.

This series is in my top 3 spot (Bookworm and Tearmoon are #1 and #2) and I find it sad how little love the series gets.

Press the left stick during dialogue choices and a little window will tell you what stats are used and if you get any boni on the rolls.

They allegedly are the great minds that managed to create a supposedly impossible holy grail of science, but they are unable to focus a camera for their great demonstration? really?

I think they already have nailed the controller scheme with DOS2. I don't think they have to change much for BG3.

Want a really obscure recommendation: Yamada's First Time: B Gata H Kei which might sound really not like what you're looking for when reading the synopsis, but is actually a really solid rom-com that doesn't follow the cookie-cutter tropes. Well, it does but only to a degree.

Then there is Ore Monogatari!! which I consider being one of the most refreshing rom-coms since they don't spend all season on getting to the relationship but are developing that relationship instead.

Lastly, my favorite rom-com series is Working!! which is just perfection that got even better with each season.

Well, isn't that exactly where Microsoft wanted to go in the first place all those years back when Sony made fun of them in E3?