I love how their second recommendation for people new to fantasy is The Simarillion. I mean, this is a pretty terrible flowchart in general, but jeezus

Are there any instances that you know of that disable the censorship? I already got my fill of cybernannies on Reddit.

Edit: My alt on sh.itjust.works can see the censored words, and it defederates with much fewer instances than lemmy.ml. Seems like migrating over there is the best choice.

Edit 2: I think I've finally figured it out based on what my sh.itjust.works account shows:

1. If you're on a censored instance, all words will be blocked no matter what
2. If you're on a non-censored instance looking at a comment from a censored instance, that comment will still show up as removed
3. If you're on a non-censored instance looking at a comment from a non-censored instance, the comment won't be censored

When I'm on my sh.itjust.works profile, the comment by @Lazerbeams2@ttrpg.network isn't censored, but mine still is. So, the censorship gets you both coming and going - no censored words can make it into a censored instance, and no censored words can make it out either.

I've just edited all of my scripts to point to my sh.itjust.works profile instead of lemmy.ml. Wish there was a way to migrate comments and posts over, but no biggie.

Has anyone made a multi-Lemmy yet? Where all of your posts and comments from all of your profiles can show up in one place?

(also, what's the formatting for double-spacing after a list?)

I have - I've played all 3 Grandia games. The second is really good, and it refines the battle system in some nice ways, but it's a (slightly) smaller, more character driven story that loses a bit of the grand, somewhat naive, adventurous spirit that makes the first game so unique and satisfying.

There's a large number of people who prefer Grandia 2, and for good reason, but I prefer the characters and story of Grandia 1. If you haven't played either, I recommend playing both in order. Grandia 3 is a bit of a letdown in comparison, but I still really enjoyed it and think it gets a bit more hate than it deserves.

Definitely sh.itjust.works. The largest instance that defederates with the fewest other instances (though they could still do better here - there's no reason to defederate either exploding-heads or lemmygrad), no email required on sign up, and a super chill vibe.

Japanese has demonstratives like "that", just no articles.

I have an alarm set every week just for grabbing the free Epic game.

Bloodborne

500 hours is also my sweet spot I think - I don't think I have any games with significantly more than that. Here are the games I have ~500 hours in (that I can remember off the top of my head):

Breath of the Wild
Civ IV
Dark Souls
Monster Hunter World
Skyrim
Warframe

If entire series count though, it's gotta be Civ, by a landslide.

Phone by itself in left front pocket, facing leg. Keys and sundry in right front, wallet in back right, receipts in back left.

Classic

I just finished blazing through Life of Pi in a single day today. I thought it would be obnoxious and tryhard, but it turned out to be a surprisingly interesting read and a hell of a page-turner. Gets a bit... weird... toward the end, but definitely a book I'd recommend, and one which I'll probably be thinking about for the next few weeks.

Onward to rereading Children of Dune!

Grandia is one of my favorite games of all time. It captures the pure joy and excitement of adventure better than any game ever made.

Also one of my favorite battle systems. A great expansion of the early Game Arts system seen in the (also amazing) Lunar games.