I started with Crunchbang in its final years. It was a great introduction to Linux, to be honest. It was also a very solid distro, as it was Debian-based.

But, sadly, it eventually folded. It still has a spiritual sequel in BunsenLabs but, in the meantime, I’d moved to Arch (btw).

Portuguese here. This is anecdotal evidence but, as far as I can tell, a lot of our proficiency comes, essentially, to constant exposure to the English language since the early to mid-90s. We don’t dub English-speaking media (apart from movies and tv shows more aimed at kids, but even then, Cartoon Network didn’t even have subs when I was a kid and I still watched it religiously), the video games we played when we were kids also didn’t have a Portuguese language option so we were basically forced to learn English.

And now that the Internet has become widespread throughout the country, the younger generation consume a lot of English-speaking content, so they have little trouble with speaking and writing in it.

This results in a good % of the population having decent to good English, not just the kids but a lot of people in their 30s (and some in their 40s) too.

In most games, when there’s an option to play as a man or as a woman, I generally choose to play as a dude because…I’m a dude. I guess it helps to immerse myself in the game but I never really gave it much thought beyond that. But in my second playthrough, if it’s something like an RPG or anything like that, I usually switch to a girl just to see different story paths, conversations, personality even.

Except for fighting games. I’ve been telling myself it’s because I love fast, rushdown characters like Millia Rage or Cammy. I even managed to fool myself into thinking it was because I used to do the martial art they’re representing, like Lidia Sobieska from Tekken. Which is technically true, they have to have a play style I like.

But along comes Granblue and I’m torn between two characters: the badass old man brawler that is Soriz and zoner archer lady Metera. And at this point, I can’t lie to myself anymore and will probably play Metera because she’s a woman and she’s hot.

TL;DR: I like women and they’re hot.

I’ll chime in and suggest PC, as you can probably get them at a lower price than on PS4.

I’m ashamed to say I’ve never watched Initial D. But it’s on my watchlist.

Not necessarily a song but a whole sub-genre: Eurobeat. It started with Running in the 90s and I just went from there to listening and thoroughly enjoying pretty much the whole Initial D soundtrack.

https://downloads.khinsider.com/ is the best I’ve found so far. Some numbers:

• Total albums: 43,913
• Total songs: 1,325,601
• Total size: 12581

Probably The Last Blade 2 for Neo Geo and Tekken 3 for the PSX. The former I actually ended up playing it on an emulator but it’s still worth mentioning because it’s such a great gem of a game. Here are some of the super moves just to give you a taste but there’s also match footage of top players on Youtube if you want. And you can also play it on Fightcade for free.

Tekken 3 needs no introduction, I think. Considered by many to be one of if not the best entry in the series.

I think it’s sub.rehab.

Guess I made the right choice, then, as I went with Wrath :).

I had one game-breaking bug where I had to install a mod to teleport out of an inaccessible area after the game deleted an elevator

That’s good to know, in case it happens to me as well.

And thanks for quick analysis of the writing. I didn’t actually ask but I was also curious about that.

Yeah, if I like Wrath, I’ll probably get Kingmaker as well at some point.

It makes builds a lot more flexible, too, compared to Kingmaker/base PF1e.

That’s nice to know, thanks! And thanks for the recruiting tips as well.

Yeah, the more people mention, the more that kingdom management part is not looking good. Thankfully, as someone already mentioned, there are mods to handle both that and the crusade management part in WotR. But turning off all failure conditions is also a good option to keep in mind, so thanks.

That said, whichever game you start with, I’d strongly recommend you download a mod to trivialise the management minigame

d) can brick your campaign if you screw them up.

Wow wtf, really? Thank you very much for the tip!

Yeah, I know about Baldur’s Gate 3. Made by Larian, no less, so my expectations are kinda high. I played (but never finished) the first one and I remember liking it at the time but thinking it was a bit dated. But I loved the traditional CRPG experience so I hope they stay true to that, more or less.

That’s ok, I don’t mind exposition. I’ll probably go with WotR, then, thanks!

Oh ok, good to know, thanks! I don’t mind harder to follow stories, and having more character customization options is always a good thing for me. I guess I’ll go with WOTR.

I remember playing the demo of the first one (and then the game) when I was a kid and absolutely loving it, so I can’t wait to get back into it after all these years.

I also had no idea From Software created the Armored Core series (or, I guess, didn’t remember) so it came as a shock to me after watching 6’s first trailer and seeing their logo there.

Yep, felt the same way on reddit. Sometimes, I started writing a comment but then halfway through I thought to myself “can I really muster the energy to engage with people who just skim through it or aggressively pick it apart and write an essay on how right they are with sources either taken out of their ass or taken out of context just to suit their viewpoints?”. So I just ended up deleting it and go back to lurking.