I’d add on that the expectation in an individualist society like the US is to become independent and move out. Those ideas are used synonymously in a lot of contexts. Someone who hasn’t moved out can be seen as lacking independence. Of course that isn’t necessarily true, but it’s the perception.

For a young person growing up with these ideas as the standard, there can be a certain safety in forgoing that independence. That was my situation for years, where I was financially independent, but moved back home after my roommates moved away. I was in my mid twenties before I moved out for good.

• Enter The Matrix [Ties Into The Matrix Resurrections]

• Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora [Co-Exists With The Avatar Movies]

• Ghostbusters: The Video Game [Acts As A Sequel To Ghostbusters II]

• Marvel’s Spider-Man (2018) [Exists In The Spider-Verse]

• The Thing [Takes The Mystery Out Of The Movie’s Ending]

• Saw: The Video Game [Saw’s Creators Contributed To The Game]

• Mad Max [Introduced Furiosa’s Main Villain]

• The Lord Of The Rings Online [Expands The World Of Middle-Earth]

• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor [Part Of The Star Wars Timeline]

• Kingdom Hearts 3 [The Toy Story world is meant to take place before Toy Story 3 in the canon timeline of the movies.]

Some of these are a stretch, imo

I have the arranged in the order I use them most. Spoons are on the left, then forks, then knives. I rarely need knives while eating, just for cooking.

Reading the parahumans story, “Worm”, has changed how I look at people. It is my personal-favorite character study. There are dozens of characters who all have unique world views to explore.

Swinging between feeling like you’re a computer god, and then feeling like you’re horrible at your job.

You were trying to be profound, but you sound like crazy Alfred from Bloodborne.

I guess I didn’t mind the Mako’s handling as much as the big empty planets that felt like they were designed not to be driven in.

For Mass Effect, I gotta say I hate driving anywhere in the first game.

All for a game I picked up on sale for like $2 10 years ago

That’s even better than what the article said, great news!

For 30 minutes, but yeah. Still very exciting!

Nothing, unfortunately.

Bingpot

Yeah that was at GenCon this year.

Oh gotcha. There is a community built around a D&D let’s play who call themselves, “Critters”, as a play on words with the title of said show, “Critical Role”. Thought that was what you were referring to.

Critter as in Critical Role? The CR community here is pretty small to begin with, but maybe you could try posting over there.

Just make sure you find and stick close to the other people at your job who think it’s funny.

Cool, so I’ll wait to pick this game up until it’s $10 on a steam sale in 5 years, and play the community’s modded version.

Starting my 2nd playthrough with a lolth sworn drow cleric(1) bard(11) build. Going dark urge, but resisting it.

I like the idea that through my character’s relationship to an evil deity, they recognize the dark urge is something wholly other than Lolth’s influence. So lawful evil in the sense that, “yeah I’ll be evil, but not because you told me to.”

My favorite thing so far had been Shadowheart hesitantly confessing she worships Shar, only for me to be like, “Oh that’s nothing. Have you heard about our Lord and Savior, the Spider Queen?”

Authentic fettuccine alfredo