Not at all. It’s perfectly straight and looks healthy, no matter what I do - as long as I wash it every other day.

I only use one of those all in one shampoos and a blow dryer. I don’t even use a comb or brush. Yet, I got quite a few comments about having especially healthy looking hair from woman.

Twice a year. I always go for a short cut and then grow it out until it annoys me.

I never cared about having a consistent look.

I’ve been meaning to check out FF XIV for years, but I spent so much time of my youth playing MMORPGs, deep down, I just know I don’t have that kind of time any more. It’s just too much commitment, especially once you join any kind of guild. But I can’t bring myself to remove it from my To-Do list, either.

Anyway, I’ve been continuing with Baten Kaitos. I think I’m close to the end, but it’s hard to tell with this one. By now, I’m mostly out of topics to write about, too.

The most notable thing was a major jump in difficulty. For the most part, the game has been a walk in the park. However, this week, I fought two bosses back to back. The first one was just like the ones before them - I disposed of it within a few minutes. The second one, however, hit hard and actually healed itself. While I never actually lost, we fought for about 25 minutes before I finally won. Some of that may be due to my deck building - his healing came from his life steal, and I simply had no defensive cards at all.

Other than that, I also checked out the demo for Digimon Story: Time Stranger. It’s still janky and a lot of ideas are directly lifted from various Shin Megami Tensei games, however, I can’t help but like it. Should they release on Switch/2, I’ll probably get it eventually. But for the demo, I actually had to play on someone else’s PC.

Maybe some news from Monolith? I think they recruited years ago to develop a new medievel IP. Anything Xenoblade would be great, too. But I guess XB3 was only 3 years ago.

An actual Monster Hunter game would be close a second.

Probably the same thing that happens all over Europe: right wing parties are favored by social media.

It’s easy to just claim things and spread hate in short form content. It’s hard to set things straight and share a more nuanced opinion.

Still on Baten Kaitos, of course.

As if the game itself read my last post, something major happened in the story and I was forced to use a few different characters. Getting their decks up to speed was surprisingly fast, although I didn’t have enough good cards for them to actually replace the missing characters. Mostly because I never chose their cards from the available drops - as you can keep only one drop per battle. I am, however, still annoyed by benched characters getting only half EXP.

Overall, I always liked the story, but the second half of the game started off stronger than what came before. Sadly, it was accompanied by some backtracking through all the major dungeons. It only took a few hours, 2 or 3 I think, but battling enemies you’ve outleveled isn’t interesting, but it’s still slow.

Nothing else came up, but just for the counter, Silksong is on my list! Which means I’ll probably play it this year or next one. I’ve long outgrown the need to consume things as they release.

I’m still confused by the apparent drought of S2 games being released. I’ll get one, eventually, but it’s really just DK and MK for now.

Duskbloods almost got me hyped, but I don’t like online multiplayer.

Honestly, listening to audio books during chores actually did help me!

Recht magst du haben, aber die anderen Antworten klingen mehr nach einer direkten Vorgabe welches Gerät es sein muss. Ich habe natürlich keine Ahnung, was jetzt der Regelfall ist - bestimmt wieder alles ein unsinniger Flickenteppich und selbst habe ich keine Kinder.

Nicht nur die teuersten Tablets, die man im jeweiligen Segment findet, man nutzt sie nichtmal richtig? Wenn alles andere physisch ist, was machen sie damit überhaupt?

Ich lerne jetzt erst, dass man die Dinger wohl mittlerweile (oder in anderen Bundesländern) kauft. Zu meiner Zeit wurde zu Beginn des Schuljahres ein Stapel Bücher verteilt und fertig. Keine Leihgebühren, kein nichts - außer man hat es zerstört.

Arbeitshefte, Taschenrechner etc. schlagen natürlich trotzdem rein. Mittlerweile wahrscheinlich auch ein Laptop oder Tablet? Aber daran wird ja scheinbar nicht geschraubt.

Honestly, it would be weird for any industry to start caring about ethics after all this time.

Not an endorsement of AI but a criticism of capitalism.

Yes, but all the later Tucker stuff from the original series isn’t.

Still on Baten Kaitos! Currently progressing with a snails pace due to other stuff getting in the way.

I’m still heavily invested in the game, however, a few cracks in its systems start to show.

For starter, you only ever use 3 characters at a time. Each with their own deck. Setting them up and planning their decks feels like too much investment to ever switch them up, which means the other 3 won’t ever get used. Even worse, unused characters only get half EXP.

Speaking of EXP, there’s a system in place where you just collect it. To actually level up, you need to visit a church. And you can level up multiple times at once! Now, here’s the kicker: The more level you gain at once, the more stats you get as a bonus! (Up to 10 levels.) That’s fun in theory, but if you’ve learned anything about me by reading these posts, you can probably guess that I never a batch with less than 10 levels.

There’s also a class level, which you can increase by finding certain items for each character. They often get dropped by bosses. Using them increases the cards you can put in your deck, the cards you can hold in your hand, and how many you can play per turn. As a trade-off, your timer to actually play your cards in a turn decreases. Here’s a second crack: The built-in crafting system is still fun, but you don’t have much time to think about it while actually fighting. Even worse, they waste a turn. Even if you can play 6 cards, the crafting combo is only activated if you play exactly the cards mentioned and no others. Also, since your deck can’t have fewer cards than your actual maximum amount, you need to stall until you draw all combo pieces or fill your entire deck with otherwise useless cards.

This, combined with increasingly convoluted combos, leads to the crafting system being sidelined for the most part. I used to craft stuff organically while crawling through dungeons, now it only happens when I start an encounter with the specific goal to craft. The most convoluted combo I’ve seen yet involves 4 items, three of which you have to craft themselves beforehand. A doll, a monkey statue, a dog statue and a pheasant statue. Playing them all, as a reference to the legend of Momotaro, creates a treasure you sell for a lot of money.

They released almost 30 years ago. Adding a few more years, since you can’t properly play them with no reading skills, we’are looking at enough time for some of them to be grandparents.

Heck, I and most of my peers started with Gen 3 in elementary school. There’s a 3 in front of my age.

That’s likely, but that would only help with the most viral cases. Otherwise, what’s even the chance to come across AI generated content violating your copyright in an exponentially growing ocean of slop?

On the flipside, individuals could probably maliciously claim ad revenue. That’s already a thing with music.

Even your gut biome can change how you feel. In theory, a fucking yoghurt can alter your ‘real you’. There really aren’t many things that won’t change you in some kind of way.

Sooo… is this image copyright infringement?

There are just so many weird cases, based on the wording. Would Youtube need to scan for Danes within all uploads to check for copyright violations? Which is obviously impossible.

There’s only liquid, solid and gas. Plasma, if you’re daring. The others are mental illnesses!

/j

Das sagst du so selbstverständlich, als hätte ich die Farben nicht jedes Jahr zufällig neu verteilt.