The Japan-only prequel to Earthbound was basically carried by its marketing. It wasn’t a great game by any stretch of the imagination.
Big (empty) world with innovative (terrible) graphics, a challenging (unbalanced) combat system, an interesting (impossible to follow) story and packed full of content (grinding) that will keep you playing for hours (because you keep game-overing)
It was pretty cool to hear that late night psychosis was a real thing that everyone deals with. Stay up too late and you start becoming REALLY mentally unstable. I have that (and the three times I went absolutely shitfaced) to thank for all my life decisions up to this point, including this one.
For me it’s weird. I wake up and I feel like a normal person, then I can feel it slowly fade away as my usual self takes over then I forget everything I didn’t make a mental effort to hold on to during the process.
There’s a mod which turns minecraft into stardew valley. Would strongly recommend, it’s really good. I remember playing a modpack with it included and it was easily the star of the show. It wasn’t until the end game when I started flying around on a bike ET-style using that one that lets you cast magic spells that I actually stated playing around with the other features of the pack.
Stack luck (Ginger Ale and Lucky Lunch/Magic Rock Candy) then go panning on Ginger Island to get your first lucky ring. If you don’t succeed take your stacked luck to Skull Cavern and just do a normal run and you might get one as a drop. With high luck your chances of getting an auto-petter and auto-getter from the loot floors. I have two lucky rings and always do ginger ale and rock candy and my luck stacks so high that I get pretty much a 100% drop rate of the things to the point it’s kind of a nuisance. Once find a lucky ring put it on. Later on you can take it to the forge to fuse with a burglars for double drops and again Iridium for the magnet. Now every day is a good luck day.
EDIT: You can also combine lucky rings with your favorite set of rings. For example luck/coffee with luck/burglars is a very funny combo.
Ginger Island was phenomenal. They took everything that made the game suck and fixed it without disrespecting players who liked doing things the old way, plus they added in some cool content which added a lot to the end game. Fairy dust is single handedly the best feature ever added since once you get a room full of Statues of Fortune you can just pump out any item you want at breakneck speed. Fairy Rose goes from being a niche flower you use for bees to a genuine powerhouse of a crop during a season which is normally a massive lull in production. The only thing that sucks about them is that they stack really badly. I really hope next update fixes that because that is unacceptable game design.
If you ever find yourself linking a video from a fascist grifter, you need to log off for a year and rethink your life.
EDIT: Oof I should have looked before posting. Healthygamer intentionally uses that kind of language to reach people who would otherwise/have already fallen into the fascist griftersphere. He’s very much not a part of that pipeline, quite the opposite actually.
You can do your part by fighting for socialized housing (tenants collectively own the property and rent goes to upgrades) and municipal cable. The rewards are well worth it. You don’t have to (and shouldn’t) wait around for a bloody revolution to fight back against capitalism. Every little thing you can do to wrench power from the capitalist class even something small like joining a union helps a lot if we all do it.
I like the idea of UBI too. I hope it happens and that we transition into a UBS model once its success is shown to the world. That being said it’s important to front that with me not being in support of the neofeudal UBI that silicon valley techbros push for. That would be a disaster.
Not to poopoo your point too much but inflation only happened after covid because a recent war gave justification for greedflation. You can’t really argue money is losing value when CEOs are raking in record profits during an economic downturn.
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I really appreciate that I can keep coming back to that game (lemmy.world)
I'm a raging introvert (slrpnk.net)
UBI works too (lemmy.world)
Trying to pay rent these days... (lemmy.world)