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Favourites: Takumi - the ending of Conquest. He shouldn't have forgiven Corrin. Lukas - not enough supports! Um, drops off in usefulness in late game; that movement is too much of a hindrance. Canas - off travelling while leaving your 2 year old son at home? For shame! Least favourites: Faye - I really like her design (cute, practical and pretty unique) and she's a pretty solid unit, I actually use her. Clive - Um. He's loyal to Matilda? He tries? Peri - her hair is great, and she feeds my army well.

I love character analyses and this was a great one! I must admit that I'm not a huge Frederick fan but you've managed to endear me to him a little more. I've also learned some new things about his past (perhaps time to replay Awakening?). He definitely would be a good father, can you imagine the type of dresses he might make for his kids?!

I'm 34, and nope, I find the opposite. However, this is largely because I'm almost solely a mobile gamer. Since having kids I've had NO time for TV consoles. Around the age of 27-28 I could easily spend 7-8 straight hours on the 360 or PS3. Mobile gaming (DS, Switch) make it really easy to play games, though. I managed 500+ hrs in Fates with many long sessions because that's when my youngest was a baby and was feeding frequently, so I was often tied to a chair or the bed. These days I can play 7.30 pm (bedtime for the kids) - midnight easily (although I usually pause to do chores). I think it'll also depend on the type of game and your personality, though. My husband gets bored easily with games; half the time he can't decide what to play, and when he does, he doesn't play for long. I have an obsessive personality so I get really, really into a couple of games a year. I rarely have under 50 hours in a game; if it's a short game, I play it multiple times. I bought Skyrim for the Switch last month and completed it last week with just shy of 200 hrs into it - that's an average of 6.5 hours a day, oops!

I can see my daughter growing up to have collections like yours, Pandog! I'm afraid I've had to throw away quite a few random rocks and feathers as we're moving soon, but I've kept her nicest rocks and crystals. My biggest collection is probably actually Fire Emblem stuff for my favourite characters; lots of fan-made merchandise as official merchandise is thin on the ground.

Moving to the U.S.; it's had arguably a greater effect than having kids has had.

Well, well... in trying my hardest to pull NY!Takumi I finally got Lukas (got a summoning screen with no colorless, so picked blue for my sole pull).

This is important to remember; the definition of ‘evil’ varies hugely. For example, Catholics in other countries are fine with D&D. My mother is about as devoutly Catholic as you can get and she thought our D&D sessions were great fun. Other people will say anything make-believe isn’t evil. You have people, too, who will refuse to read Harry Potter but are fine with dropping an actual bomb on an enemy city. Anyway, D&D sessions depend wholly upon the players and DM. I will say that nothing I’ve ever experienced in a D&D game has come as close to being as dark as a game like Skyrim, if you want a point of reference. Skyrim’s Dark Brotherhood and Daedric quests are definitely amongst the most morally questionable make-believe scenes I’ve encountered (another example would be the torture scene in GTA V).

To quote people who are better at words than me: ”Diluting the language to be more vague also dilutes the concepts, so it will make the attempts to advocate and study these groups less focused and less direct. Getting to these words in the first place probably took a lot of discussion to choose just the right word that was appropriate and expressed correctly. So it will be a barrier and delay to even settle on synonym-type words that people will recognize as “code words.” Then who is to say those will not be on the banned list in a month or a year from now? It is an attempt at a slow erasure of all of these concepts through language.” If the CDC can no longer simply say that the efficacy of vaccinations is ‘evidence-based’ that’s a victory for anti-vaccinators. If writers have to find work-arounds and longer, more complicated way to explain certain concepts, then it confuses and muddies things for the lay-reader. What will they substitute ‘fetus’ with? Something like ‘unborn baby’ isn’t accurate and is agenda-laden. John Pavlovitch isn’t mincing words: “As a Christian and twenty-year pastor, one who’s served for much of that time in the American Bible Belt—the list is eerily familiar. It’s the extreme Evangelical Christian Right’s signature mix tape, the careful curated playlist they’ve had on heavy rotation in their indie gatherings for the past 60 years—only now it’s getting wide release, thanks to the monster they’ve aligned with; one who’s perfectly happy to disseminate it to keep their union intact.”

Phew, I can’t believe (but am relieved) the non-child-molester won. BTW, stories of voter suppression were all over Twitter today. Not surprising, and pretty shameful. Exit polls here.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, too! I feel like the Forest Farm is probably the best farm for a beginner/completing the Community Center ASAP. It really is. My husband actually tried to get me to play it over a year ago; he bought it on Steam, gog and for the Xbox One, each time trying to entice me to play, but I'm pretty much solely a mobile gamer these days. I *was* interested - I just never had the chance to really sit down and sink any time into it. It's actually what prompted me to get a Switch!

Yes, when I actually get to take a bath

Absolutely agree; with this in particular, but also the rest of your posts. Incidentally, my SIL worked as a writer for games for a decade, and everything she has to say about the industry makes it sound as if it reflects many online gaming communities, only amplified 10x. Absolutely incredible amounts of sexism and abuse - not just aimed at women, but also at gay men or men who dare to side with women/gay men. So you also have a hyper-masculine industry that is unwilling to branch out not just because media tells them that women aren't interested, but because they themselves simply don't want to cater at all to women.

I actually can’t decide. Of the games I’ve played: SoV - Has a few of my favourite characters, but so many of the characters are not fully fleshed out. However, overall this may rank first for me. FE7 - I don’t hate any of the cast, but nor do I love them. There’s a few characters I like but overall no one really made an impression for good or for bad. Awakening - I wasn’t fond of a few characters; I really like a few of the others. Overall this may have my least favourite cast just because I sore slightly negative to a few more of the characters... Fates - there are some TERRIBLE characters in Fates. But there’s also a huge cast and some of the characters are great and overall each character has so many supports that I have a better understanding of their characters and aren’t just projecting my own ideas onto them (for example, I love Genny and Kliff’s designs in SoV and they’re fun characters to play, so I ‘like’ them, but ultimately we know exceedingly little about them).

For me the tax reform issues are less about the $ amount (although if it’s not stopped it’ll be pretty catastrophic in the next 10 years or so) and more about the messages it’s sending: - not letting teachers deduct the school supplies they buy (when they have to do so because schools are underfunded, and when teachers are paid a pittance) - taking funding from public education - eliminating deductions for small business owners - making it very difficult for higher education students to fund their education/pay off debt etc.; It’s all about the dumbing down of future generations and punishing the small and disabled And now we have Ryan calling Social Security Medicare and Medicaid ‘entitlement’! As if a healthy population isn’t essential to a successful population; as if the senate has any idea what it’s like to be without insurance when they have a lovely plan provided for by taxpayers; as if Social Security isn’t something people pay into all their working lives hoping to benefit from it in later life. The mother of a friend of mine died yesterday after she was unable to afford her asthma medication.

Asides from not liking being pregnant, that's the main reason we chose to stop at 2, too. I might consider a third if funds were unlimited, but they're not, and my inlaws struggle to keep up with looking after two (not that the kids are difficult; it's a matter of age!). In the brief periods when I think it'd be nice to have a larger family, I run through my list of advantages of only having two: - a parent for each kid! I've had a lot of friends find the leap from 2-3 the toughest for this reason (and a few friends who originally wanted 4-5 kids after having 2 decided to stop once they had their third!) - your family will always fit in a family ticket - your family will always fit in any 4 door car - traveling anywhere is made so much easier and cheaper, especially if you fly Anyway, I'm really sorry - it's a tough decision to have to make.

Bob Corker voted against. Some of the amendments slipped in at the last minute are... interesting. It sounds as if it was a complete mess in general: Democrats also noted that the bill is more than 400 pages long, saying they only have a few hours to digest the entirety of the bill before voting on it. Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin tweeted a screenshot of one of the pages with a long, handwritten note in the margin. “Trying to review the #GOPTaxScam but they are making hand-written changes to brand new text as we speak - can anyone else read this?" Durbin tweeted.

Absolutely not; I mean, of course this is all unexpected. But hey, people are still under the delusion that they'll somehow benefit. And there's still relative silence from more than half the country on Roy Moore, Trump's insults to Native Americans (which were quite deliberate, not that we'd expect any differently, of course), that no one apparently has much issue with all the false statements and lying, etc. And before the whataboutists appear, yes, Franken should resign, too.

The tax reforms are going to screw so many people over that I'm having a really hard time not being super angry over it.

I've played the first two Broken Sword games, first three Ace Attorney games, first Mass Effect game, Baldur's Gate 2 and Fire Emblem: Fates at least 6 times each.

Anything salty and chocolate. Bacon and chocolate. Potato chips and chocolate. Plain salt and chocolate. Sweet and sour Fruits in spicy dishes

Teal and hot pink, as in my living room Black and purple Anything rainbow Hot pink and orange Brown and peacock blue Robin's egg blue and cherry

Aww, what a cutie!!! And an awesome name, too!

I can't comment too extensively on HM since the only one I really played was Friends of Mineral Town, and that was many years ago. I tried one of the DS game and couldn't get into it. Stardew Valley, for me, is everything I expected from a HM game, only better (from what I remember of HM!). I think it's worth a try, at least. The main improvements for me are a) more streamlined farming and more realistic goals (I remember there was some FoMT content I needed either friends or a GameCube for) and b) more mature characters and dialogue. Absolutely - I love that, too. And yes; the characters in general are really likeable. I love that you gradually grow to love some of the characters only as you get to know them better and that they're not all what they appear to be when you first greet them. Maybe I'll name my horse Frederick in my next game...

That depends; what's your budget? Are there future games you're interested in? I currently only have two games for the Switch, one of them being Warriors, which I actually haven't touched yet (oops!). But I don't regret having the system (it was an early holiday present) as I'm anticipating quite a few games next year.

I sympathize! And yes, it's definitely not a game you can really play for five minutes at a time. Hopefully you get to try it soon! Edit: Aah, and there's new content coming!