MindFreak

Well, I won't say he'll be missed. He was largely invisible to the public. Any picture of the Furukawa-guy? Also, Shibata steps down as president of Nintendo of Europe. No successor mentioned.

Fixed the elevator as well and can now start at chamber 2. But that doesn't really help as I can usually clear chamber 1 without taking any damage and will thus get an extra heart. Switch says that I've been playing the game for more than 5 hours. Seems to fit the bill quite well. On another note, Light Fall is supposed to drop today but can't find it on nintendo.co.uk. Is the game out in Europe today or is it only in the US?

Haha, yeah. Well. I hope he sleeps a little during the day!

I've been considering SMRPG since it looks awesome. Glad to hear it plays well. May pick it up since I'm going on paternity leave from tomorrow afternoon (3 months) and will probably want to play some games when the kid's asleep.

I finished Fe last week. I didn't really enjoy it as much as I hoped I would. While it was atmospheric and interesting, the gameplay just wasn't really that good. The environments were too uniform and didn't make you want to explore to find secrets and crystals, and the crystals themselves are largely obsolete. The controls were a bit off but it was only a problem when trying to jump from a tree to another tree. The game took me 4.5 hours to complete. All in all I'm glad that I didn't pay full price for it but got it for half the price they're asking. Other than that I'm playing Enter the Gungeon. I suck at it but finally had a good run and got to chamber 4 the other day. I'm starting to enjoy it more as well but I still wish there was an "easy" mode where there were perhaps half or 3/4th the bullets as normal. That would help a lot.

June 29th

I still need to watch Spider-man Homecoming and Thor Ragnarok as well as Black Panther. The first two I can watch from home but I probably won't be able to watch Black Panther before Avengers. Having a kid puts a serious stop to going to the cinema!

Erm, yeah. Well. I hope that was just a bad trailer (because it was a bad trailer!) and not a reflection of the entire movie. Although I have my fears. Anyways, it's always been a Netflix-movie to me - i.e. one that I'll wait for being available on Netflix before watching.

That is freaking awesome. Loved it. Such a well-crafted trailer!

Sigh. Trying to find a Ditto. Found one the other day in a Ghastly but that was before the mission was active. So that's awesome.

I think this is Nintendo pushing the release to August. May looks to be really busy with releases from both Nintendo and others but July and August are a lot less busy. An August release is my bet.

Agreed, this is not something someone should decide. I was merely interested to know if I was being weird seeing an issue here or not. Regarding adoption. This is both very time consuming, regulated, and it requires so much more than making a child artificially. And furthermore, adoption is basically the same as donor sperm for the father and then I would rather that the child was a least genetically hers. We have never spoken about adoption and mind that this is only worst case - that all 6 trials go wrong. My answer to her the other day regarding donor sperm was something like "I don't like that at all - but can't we at least wait till it may become relevant to discuss it? I may have changed my view at that point in time." She wanted to make the deal right away which I couldn't. She was furious after that. In general, she worries a lot and overthinks a lot of stuff and wants to have a contingency plan right away whereas I in general would like to see how the first plan goes before deciding what to do next.

Thanks for the input. Just for the record, adoption is not really an option. I just added something to my original post - whenever someone said that my son looks like me, I've been proud and happy. It's something that is valuable to me and would be totally lost if we got donor sperm.

No. I'm waiting for it to be as I find it very much too expensive compared to other platforms. I'd be fine with £20-£25.

Alright, trying to make a long story short here. My wife and I had a son last year, he was sick when born and had to undergo surgery thrice - the last surgery fixed him by removing most of his colon. Since then, he has naturally had a higher output rate than other babies and will always have to go to the toilet more often than most people but will other than that be fine. Now, the sickness was a genetic disease given by me, and there is a 50 % chance of doing it again. I don't have the disease actively but the genes for it are there. My father and one of my sisters have it, actively. Therefore we will have to go through a process when we want kid number 2 in order to select a cell that with 90 % certainty does not have the gene and put it into my wife to grow a child. Fine. We have three free trials and can afford to pay for 3 more if this is not successful. If those other 3 trials do not result in a baby, my wife wants to have a child with healthy semen, i.e. not from me - of course in a clinic and all that. This is where I'm split. Because I'm not sure that I want more kids if they are not mine and I'm afraid that I will not feel like the father if we get a child that way. I told her the last thing and she told me to see a therapist... She wants more kids, and that's final - but this way, I will not get more kids, if you understand - I will have to take care of another man's kid. So... Question is, am I being weird about it, or is this a general man-thing that I just have to get over?

Despite what everyone say I will take the new job. It's a good choice for my career, they have agreed to match my current salary so won't be going down, and I really like the place. People I've talked to about it that know the place have said that they didn't really work overtime and thus missing out on overtime pay is not much of a deal. Sometimes they even offer it anyway if there is a critical deadline. Also, the place I'm working now is a dead end. I'm the only software engineer left under the age of 40, maybe even 45, and people are leaving. So yeah, will start at the new place September 1st. Now the question is if I quit my job now, before going on 3 months paternity leave or wait till I'm halfway through it. Either way I will have one month after the leave to "clean up" and transfer my knowledge because I don't have the time to do so before my leave, I think.

I didn't.. I mean.. you don't.. but.. Okay, sure.

Yeah, that's a good trailer. Did nothing to dampen my excitement for this movie. Nothing at all.

Saw that this week as well. I also enjoyed it but haven't read the book. I found that some parts where just either too easy fgoing and felt like they skipped something to forward the story faster. Nothing that breaks the movie as it was entertaining on its own. I would give it a small 7/10 because of that. Also, spotting references was half the experience. Really well done.

From the description to the video: So it'll probably be delayed on Switch. Shame.

Almost tempted to try it just for that HD Rumble.

14 Candy as you also get 2 for transferring it. Finally saw and caught a Sandshrew - now I have 40 Candy for it. That's awesome. Double Candy also helps me get Bellossom and Machamp after so long. Now I need to find some Doduos so I can get a Dodrio and an Aerodactyl, and my Kanto Dex will be complete (bar legendaries). That's awesome.

Etrian Odyssey X announced for Japan on August 2nd.

The pixel art is gone for me now. But I wish we could toggle it on and off from now on. Now that the 3D models are back, though, the icons have become smaller than they were before. I hope they fix that.

Started watching A Series of Unfortunate Events season 2 yesterday. Seems to go even more weird and black but I like it. NPH does a great job, and the story got a bit more interesting all of a sudden. It's a good show and I'm glad that they confirmed a season 3 right away - and that's it apparently. Snicket at least said that we were about one third into the story right at the beginning of season 2.