I forget where I read it, now, but it seems like the violation is, in essence, the pokeball. Throwing a thing to try to capture and throwing a thing to deploy a fighter. I'm not familiar enough with Palworld to evaluate how closely their mechanics match that functionality.

Friday wrote:(They instead have ek2 references)

Wait, seriously? Which zones are we talking about, here? I'm due for another trip through the old world...

I haven't followed any comedians in a few years, which means the people I was following might well have been canceled since the last time I was paying attention. That said, at the time, I had been amused by the work of Pete Holmes, Hannibal Buress, Ron Funches, Nate Bargatze, Kyle Kinane... I used t...

I think I've mentioned before that there are a small number of individuals I find so appalling that I simply do not refer to them, either directly or indirectly. I could as easily make this comment in this thread or the election thread, and it would be equally relevant. I am fortunate that I haven't...

Happy birthday, Niku! I hope it's a good one.

Oh, I guess that means my character is updated. The differences seem pretty subtle. This'll be my first time playing on the date an FFXIV expansion comes out. I heard conflicting reports about the best place to log in, since there were concerns that certain cities or even the inn rooms might become ...

21 years ago, I was fascinated by this trailer. The soundtrack, the contrasting visuals, the bizarre choices about what to depict: I have not stopped being fascinated by this trailer. It still gets me, even after doubling my age.

I'm also doing the Animal Well business. I've been playing for a couple of hours, and while I picked up a couple of useful tools, I only just got my first traversal ability, and it is wild.

Not a fan of these herons.

Casablanca Mediterranean Grill in Philadelphia. Highly rated; moderate prices. In the Google Maps photo, I was seated at the second-closest table on the right. They were also part Mediterranean grocery store, and if the patrons at the other tables were any indication, there was apparently some arran...

I am currently eating dinner at a restaurant. I couldn't figure out how drinks work; they weren't listed on the menu. They also didn't come with my meal, and the waiter didn't ask me about the subject, so now I'm 3/4ths of the way through my meal with no drink, and at this point I don't want to admi...

"But yes, moral relativism and all that. Case in point– I do not consider you to be truly alive. Ergo, I will not be guilty of murder if I kill you."

wow, y'all really hated that dog That dog concealed for years the fact that she was a raging alcoholic! Her castigation of the fast food industry was based in part on an unrelated medical condition she inflicted upon herself! Plus, by dying now, she is depriving Doug Benson of his ability to contin...

Is it still April 25 where you are? If so, you can observe an important holiday: on this day in 2011, in a game of vampires vs werewolves, the wolves banded together with me and Niku to lynch the last vampire, triggering their victory condition, but Niku survived as the weretiger, winning the game a...

I spent much of the day trying to remember the words to this particular looping audio sample that I had stuck in my head. SOMETHING, THE SOME-THING (something, the some-thing) SOMETHING, THE SOME-THING (something, the some-thing) Finally, I remember: it's from this stupid video (from the people who ...

There is a person named Jason Love who posted on this website under the username "Newbie" who had a birthday on March 29, yes. I am sure that, if he were here, that person would appreciate the birthday affirmation. However! I am something different. At some impossible-to-define moment, I b...

I got to play real life jokeboat of my own last week (in that I was on a cruise and there were comedians on board). Since my other forum has integrated image hosting, I posted semi-daily update posts in a thread over there . I never had much interest in cruising in the first place, much less after s...

Whenever you do, make sure you play on the hardest difficulty! Both of VanillaWare's most recent games have novel approaches to RTS/Tower defense combat, and they're both too easy on most of the difficulty settings.

Considering how amazing 13 Sentinels was, I felt like I had to get VanillaWare's next game no questions asked, so I picked up Unicorn Overlord. This seems like the narrative/gameplay inverse of 13 Sentinels: the story's the most generic fantasy war storyline you could imagine, but it's executed well...

Unfortunately, in a two-party system, the only way to effectively communicate to your party that you are dissatisfied with their choices is to make them believe you might not vote for them. You might still actually vote for them, but it's critical that they believe that they've lost your vote. Other...

Today, I finally finished Endwalker , second credits sequence included. Shadowbringers may exceed it for hard-hitting emotional moments—I cannot handle the scene in which you bring Ardbert's crystal to Seto without sobbing—but overall, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker is my "most satisfying&quo...