@ThrasherPrime I'm planning to run through in melee mode in NG+ for that reason. I just tried both at the beginning and this just seemed like the best way to start my first "souls game"

@ThrasherPrime Summons make it much easier. Horseback casting is also good.

@ThrasherPrime Every fight is desperately running away to get distance so you have time to spam-cast whatever you've decided you're going to spam-cast before the nasty bug-eyed monster eats you.

Every. Fight.

@mlttanaka2 @LiberalLibrarian Listen, her tweets are VERY VALUABLE and people trying to leech clout off of her obvious influencer status will NOT BE TOLERATED. Her tweets are VERY IMPORTANT and MUST NOT BE SEEN.

@tyghebright And I don't go near Permadeath. Never, in a game like this. These games are buggy by nature and I'm a risky player. Happy to take the extra difficulty of survival, but don't erase my save. 😅

@tyghebright gotcha. Sounds interesting. That's part of what I like about the expeditions, how they're kind of bespoke experiences like that. Like how last time you couldn't build a base until it was over, so everything was based on mission rewards and, perhaps, smuggling.

I got into smuggling. Oh my that was lucrative.

Teenage me: Listening to Stone Temple Pilots, hanging with stoners, listening to 70s music, but somehow also Straight Edge and angry about it.

40s me: Okay I definitely need double the dose on these gummies.

@ThrasherPrime oh yeah, he was tough. As a sorc, it was a little easier because I was able to focus on summoning the other helper NPCs and then launching spells when he was distracted. It being such an open area made it much easier for that kind of strategy. I'm planning a NG+ as a melee build so I'm sure I'll feel your pain.

@ThrasherPrime And I'm playing Elden Ring too, btw. I just got to the Giant's Mountain or whatever it's called. It's a hard life for a sorcerer, everything basically just eats you.

@ThrasherPrime @tyghebright There's no shortage of prompts for what to do. There's even two main questlines running in parallel.

If you're going to jump in, definitely try the limited-time expedition that's running. They're designed to be a good starting point for new players, and then when you complete it, your expedition save becomes a normal save you can continue with.

@ThrasherPrime @tyghebright 100% free updates. Part of what's great about the game.

@XanHart And I'm old. So.

@XanHart I'm always trying new ones. I mean, there's too much now, can't try everything, but I love the medium in general so when I see something that looks like he has what I like, I get to it. Eventually. Usually that means it has a good narrative *or* just really good sandbox or strategy mechanics.

@misslovelymess thank you!

@tyghebright The expedition is going to be what I play. Survival mode is how my normal save is, so it'll just be normal for me. I usually feel like I'm cheating in the expeditions. 😂

@LiberalLibrarian Yeah mine were 10mg too. 10 was too little. 20 was.. like I said, definitely enough. I was hearing music that wasn't there in the wrestling broadcast, like my brain was trying to decrypt the random noise of the crowd and find patterns in it.

@LiberalLibrarian To be clear, I didn't go for two gummies until a full day after trying one and deciding it had little effect.

@LiberalLibrarian it's so much more complicated than I thought. Delta-whatever specifications and so on.

Plus I'm a big dude and didn't feel much with one gummy? I definitely felt it with two, though, woah.

Tonight I'm going to try again, while playing No Man's Sky, a generally chill game where you explore procedurally-generated alien worlds with a trippy/vibey piano soundtrack. Should be fun.

So for my birthday I treated myself to my first ever cannabis products. Legally, even. Recreational use is legal in my state, despite that they still haven't permitted the sale of it without medical ID.

So I mail ordered it from CA.

I've only taken enough to get really "high" once, while watching wrestling. It was a 5+ hour show and I didn't get bored. 😅