Yeah I play FE not as a strategy game but as kind of a relaxing beat-'em-up. Get mad over leveled (via arena abuse, monster maps, whatever) and then enjoy the steamroll.

To me the previous one felt forced and dead. Only the first was “authentic”.

This one? A mockery.

Not corporate-owned…yet.

In my experience, which is pretty similar to the author’s, it always finds a way.

Until then, pull up a chair.

It took me quite some time to get past the rocky (hah) start, the absolute lack of all but the barest exposition, but once I did…wow.

And I recognize the talent and skill it takes to make that work. Very risky to do, but it damn sure paid off.

Seems to be the general flow of her writing style. Broken Earth certainly doesn’t hold your hand, either, but if you stick it out through the directionless lost feeling at the start, suddenly you’re hooked.

Yeah. The end of Boost was the end of Reddit for me, too. Now I’m here and trying to figure out Lemmy. So far so good…I think?

My Reddit feed was the result of months of “hide X subreddit” and finding words to blacklist so it’ll take a while for Lemmy to mature into something like that, but whatever.