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My brother and I finished our run of Divinity! It was a lot of fun and particularly enjoyable to play as a duo. I played a Necro/Hydro Ifan with some sword and board skills, and my brother was a glass canon summoner/archer Lohse. While playing with a friend was a fun way to do it, there were some pros and cons.

Pros:

Discussing tactics in battle and speculating about quests or pondering decisions together was a lot of fun. It was also nice to share feelings of achievement when we hit a particularly nasty combat or tried to achieve a certain outcome and had to keep trying over and over again. And of course when someone did something stupid or crazy and it worked or absolutely didn't there was an audience.
The RP approach when you're in multiplayer is a lot different from solo play and it was fun to have your other party member be an actual person with certain of his own ambitions. We both got into our characters pretty well and enjoyed becoming invested in their own quests.

Cons:

My brother tends to play at a faster pace than me and I have a habit of wandering off into random places so while we were generally in sync sometimes one of us triggered something big while the other was nowhere nearby. There's a teleportation mechanic that helps prevent this from being a huge problem, though, playing split meant...
Sometimes one player gets lore and the other doesn't so the story feels like it would probably have been more coherent if it were played solo.
The difference in RP approach was also something of a con. We didn't interact with any of the NPC companions because we Lone Wolf duoed it, so I still know nothing about them, and even if they had been in the party it would have been harder to really interact with them properly when there is two of us.

We both agreed that it was a great game and we'll probably play again, this time separately. I want to try a rogue elf. Maybe I'll pick Sebille, though I might try a romance in which case I kind of want a male PC. It'd be also nice to play a game in which the scoundrel skills are at all in play. Neither I nor my brother took any of them and we couldn't sneak, steal or lickpick for to save our lives. But a second run is probably not going to happen any time soon. I don't replay games too often, and don't have too much time to do so either.

Below are a few plot/spoilery reactions to the game:

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With Divinity officially in the books, I'm eyeing BG3, but I won't have time to really sit down and lose my life to that thing for a while yet, and I don't want to spend that much money either, so it'll still probably be after New Years that I can get to it. Meanwhile I'm trying cinch this BLM bundle VN play through. I'm almost done for real this time, and if I could get it done by the holidays then I can feel a little accomplished in my fannish life.

Current Mood: accomplished

I've basically disappeared because OWL is on again and I'm spending almost every spare second watching. and most of my posting about it happens on the subreddit so I usually don't have much to say here about it. Guangzhou is no longer tragically awful, which is great. Mixed rosters are still showing a ton of strength, also great. The overall exports environment continues to be trash and things get a little worse every day it seems which is not great. The meta this season has so far been relatively diverse but diversity of meta has never been a thing I care all that much about.

I've gotten a little bit of reading done before OWL interrupted everything. Finished the next Whyborne and Griffin book, Necropolis.

( Whyborne and Griffin stuff. )

Unfortunately that's where the availability of the books stops with Libby. I could buy the next few, and I may eventually just to support an author I'm very much enjoying, but just eyeballing things at the moment... I have like... over 10 feet of to-be-read books just in my field of vision, disregarding the bookshelves of TBR in the closet. So I'm trying to be good and not bring more books into the house even when I am currently working a job that is resulting in free books entering the house, so it's been a challenge lol. I actually am building up a couple of boxes to try to get rid of somehow, because it's starting to get out of hand.

That said if another Tarot Sequence book comes out I'm scooping it up immediately.

Otherwise, most of my time has been absorbed with OWL, so I haven't been reading or watching or playing that much at all otherwise. Thanks to some anonymous kindness I was gifted a copy of Hyper Light Drifter and I enjoyed that a lot. The first run through at least was very fun. It was a good mix of chill and challenging, but I'm pretty sure there is a better end out there for me to get if I more thoroughly complete the game, so in random moments of spare time I've been trying to. The problem is that discovering all the little secrets of the game is mostly a matter of being able to keep track of where you are on the map and what nooks you've managed to fully exploit, and I am terrible at getting turned around and going in circles and all that. But eventually I will probably at least get all the keys, the fragments, and maybe the weird tablet things, and then we'll see if that leads to a different sort of ending or not.

My brother and I have also finally gotten a good schedule going to play Divinity: Original Sin together. After trying to get a duo game going for what feels like over a year at this point we've finally fallen into a weekly appointment that we're both keeping. I'm having a lot of fun with it. We generally have the same approach to games, although I read the flavor text a little more than he does, so it works out that sometimes we will be in over our heads and willing to spend 3 hours trying to get through a single fight lol. I've been enjoying the writing in the game generally although things do get a little messy when someone else is running around talking to people and you're not there to pay attention, and all the side quests have been fun but feel very much like side quests. My necromancer Ifan is so Necromancery that he just whacks his way to full health. I want to use his blood ooze more because I think it's neat, but my bone spider queen is more well rounded and she's cuter.

At the moment we're cleaning up quests around town and then I guess will eventually be finding our way to Arx.

Still on a reading kick but now I need to read for work and I think the Libby queue had calmed down so this might be it for a little while.

Stormhaven

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Reforged
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Trailer Park Trickster

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It occurred to me a while back that there's a decent market for gay fantasy out there now. Such books were around around before - our book club was never out of books to read in its decades-long existence - but nowadays it feels like it's everywhere and that's kind of nice. I don't know if I'm missing it but I can't seem to find the Sci Fi books so easily. Outside of Ocean's Echo I haven't seen any titles cross my path lately and it'd be nice to mix it up a bit. So if anyone has any recommendations for some good gay Sci-Fi, particularly of the space opera type, I'm all ears.

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On the games front we've got a new hero coming soon for Overwatch. He's cute, a flirt, and a support. Here's his lore intro. His kit is also scary in the sense that the options for trolling teammates are endless. He's either going to be so niche that no one plays him, or somehow OP enough that he has a locked in spot. It'll be interesting to see which turns out to be true.

And my brother and I are giving it another go at playing Divinity 2 together. We've tried maybe 3 or 4 times now to get a co-op game going and have only ever made it as far as getting of the damn tutorial island before we get distracted with something else, or lose the time to play, and then we've forgotten what's going on and restart. This time we're going for a dual Lone Wolf approach, with the idea that it will be a more straightforward game if we aren't managing companions in addition to ourselves. So far we've been struggling with utility like CC and mobility because of this but maybe once we get going that will be fixed. We've also avoided the murder hobo behavior from our previous run by just being eager to get through the beginning content for the fourth time in a row and skipping a lot of stuff. I don't know how that's going to hurt the plot in the future but whatever. I'm playing Ifan and the brother is playing the possessed redhead. My Ifan is a "cleric" aka a necromancer I guess who is trying to be a nice guy so far. But he has managed to piss some soul off by shattering its urn when maybe it didn't want to, whoops.

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