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Week is going okay. Gearing up for some fun TTRPG game sessions. Been trying to get past the 2nd act of Inscryption too (it's my 2nd time attempting). Love the game, but 2nd act is just such a drag compared to the 1st act. But I wanna complete it because I loved the 1st act so much. 2nd act brings it down for me a lot, but I still really respect the committment and decision to make such a drastic switch—it's why I love indie games, really.

WARNING - RANT: You ever have a best friend who, in your adult life, you realize you two just aren't on the same page anymore? It's been a difficult realization over the past 5 years or so that my best and I are just on 2 different sides of the political spectrum, and I'm sort of mourning that. What makes it worse is that sometimes, it feels like he doesn't care about how I might feel about something and just goes ahead and sends me racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc. content. It's very difficult to talk to him about it even though I know I should, but I just kind of ignore it or awkwardly play along.

Hello and hope you feel better Alyaza!

• Spent the weekend playing TTRPGs and honestly, I'm learning to cherish these moments because it's kind of awesome that I've got 2 separate games going on that's able to fit in my schedule and energy levels.

• Watch the premiere of Last Week Tonight with John oliver and it's such a breath of fresh air after watching Jon Stewart. It's my first time watching Jon Stewart this past year and I don't understand the hype around him. I guess he's funnier than Oliver but that's about it.

• Started playing Pillars of Eternity on Xbox Gamepass. I'm not super far in, so I'm hoping that the real-time with pause combat starts clicking with me sooner rather than later.

Yay, some ttrpg talk on beehaw! I'm very interested in non-D&D games/systems, though I'm playing an in-person Curse of Strahd game that's been very fun.

Outside of that, I've been really loving Blades in the Dark. I'm GMing it online for my friends and TBH, it's been up and down. I think the problems for me are:

1.) I over explain rules and hand hold my players too much. 2.) The game requires lots of input from players which is difficult for some of them. 3.) I run into the same problems that plague a lot of groups regardless of the system---scheduling, buy-in, etc. 4.) Playing in-person is just better than playing online, personally.

I know that sounds like I dislike BitD, but I really don't. When the game hits, it really hits! And I find prepping for the game much more fun than DND 5e.

other games: 1.) I've got Masks and The Wildsea on my bookshelf, but I think I'm going to try playing those games as a player first before introducing it to my friends so that I have a stronger grasp of how it should feel like to play these narrative driven games. 2.) Mousegaurd and Dungeon Crawl Classics are OSR games I want to try, and they might be easier to introduce to Dnd 5e friends. 3.) Ten Candles and Fall of Magic are other narrative driven and mechanics-lite games I'd love to play in-person if given the opportunity! 4.) Lastly, Mothership is one that I'm interested in too

RTwP is the only thing that I'm worried about since I'm coming from BG3 and Dnd 5e. Plus, I'm playing it on Xbox with a controller, and RTwP seems better suited for mouse and keyboard, but we'll see how it goes!

Excited for this! It might scratch the Skyrim itch I've had for so many years. I know I can go into this without playing the other PoE games, but I've been hooked on CRPGs ever since BG3 so I kind of want to play those games first