#i freaking love this game

[unripemelons64]

I just pulled off, the wildest move, In Baldur's Gate 3, EVER. This just cements my belief that Astarion is the most OP character in my squad. Hands down, I'm not lying. Bro is carrying my mismanaged team.

But let me start from the beginning. I was doing quests. And it just so happened that I needed to slay some goblin leaders. And me, not liking combat that I know for sure I would lose, and liking to oppose every instruction given, I had to find a roundabout way of killing them.

So i stealth the first one, the second one I needed to keep alive, but that I mostly did normal combat style, since there weren't too many enemies, and I had a fun strategy (Tav, Astarion, Gale as backup and Karlach, as what I like to call the strong characters, the meat shield). Then came... the one. That one bastard that aggros the whole damn goblin settlement.

After a long, long hours of, trying to first use void bulbs to suck him into a hole in the ground, I dropped off some loot to other characters, grabbed some explosive barrels from another room, painfully slowly dragged them over and set them around, then climbed back to the rafters and finally blew him up and teleported away before they could aggro on me. And it worked.

But, people who play this game, from what I've seen, know this tactic. It's standard, so that's not the crazy part. It's what happens after

Because you see... I forgot that I left the druid that I needed there. In the basement. With a horde of angry goblins waiting for me. (No seriously, who made that ruins? Who made the goblins so hard to beat? I'M ON NORMAL DIFFICULTY DAMMIT-)

Anyway, yeah, I kinda had to get back in. But you know, I'm not fighting all of them, because it's not fun (I'll get their asses once my party has higher level, you'll see…) Thankfully, I quite like stealth, so that would be fun! And fun it was! (And I don't feel bad about save scumming. They gave me the save button, so I will use it!) I made Shadowheart give Astarion a bonus sneak buff and sent my boy off. Also thankfully, my perfectionist collector brain made me explore most of the place, so I knew how to get around. I question how the goblins didn't hear the grown man jump down with the loudest thud known to man, but I'll take it. Eventually he ended up over the main door, so I went in... ... Yes, I opened the door from above. Game logic lol-

The real fun began inside. Because it was literally Astarion walking in, and every goblin in a nine-mile radius collectively turning their heads at the same time. I'm sorry, my boy, but I think there was no sneaking out of this one... But you underestimate how much I didn't want to deal with combat and sneaking the whole party past too, so I made him run for it-

Normally, he wouldn't get there. I ran out of potions at the end, and one hit, and he would be d.e.d. But you see, while exploring while the goblins were still calm, I found ~a secret tunnel~ So there was a horde of goblins, and Astarion was just dashing and dodging while chugging down health potions. He was LITERALLY ONE HIT POINT from dying :p But he made it! It looked comical, and he was pissed that he was hurt, but Astarion, your deeds will never be forgotten. Without you, my team would be a bit more crap than it is now. You carry everyone's dumb asses.

I imagine he came back looking like those Minecraft players full of arrows. I healed him, but my game might have glitched, and so he's now just permanently stuck in the pained pose. We understand Astarion, you break your back for us.

I let him carry all the party's gold from now on.

[kruelsaffron]

Friends!!

[aufi-creative-mind]

So, how's everyone else doing with Tears of the Kingdom?

As of posting this, I have completed 94 shrines, lit 63 lightroots, collected 193 Korok seeds and counting... Got freaked out and then intrigued by the Depths, got even more freaked out by evil gooey hands, found the Master Sword early before doing of the Temples, did dragon tours through the sky, cried for a dragon, lost count how many side quests and side adventures I have finished thanks to my hoarding habits, got a holiday house, getting headaches over the lore implications, procastinating and getting distracted by everything and everyone in this three tier land of Hyrule and....only completed two Temples so far.

It's....it's a lot. Just as I thought Breath of the Wild was big and distracting. Tears of the Kingdom is even more so...like 10x10x10.

I freaking love this game so much. It made me re-experience that same feeling of exploring and wonder that I had when I first got Breath of the Wild.

[catspewer]

Morgana is so that homophobic dog from the meme.

[vermiliondrug]

New Stardew Valley update is out, that means I will only hyperfocus on this for the next many weeks

[thund3rhand]

Luigi's mansion 3 edit made by me hehehehehehehehehe

[fanguy]

Behold! I did day 2 and 16 in one! Also disclaimer I did NOT draw Mario (it’s pretty obvious to me but clarifying always helps)

Anyways I plan on playing the remake for ttyd when it comes out! I know they probably won’t do spm but a guy can dream

[thirtysixgnomes]

[onceuponaladye]

Honkaiiiii

Starrrrr Railllllll

[er1c-c4rtman]

IM GETTING BACK INTO FUNNI MII ISLAND GAME

[wildfire153]

He bought himself a plant, put it in the middle of the room, and now he stares at it all day.

[walkingcorpse03]

my favorite thing is neil judging andrew so immensely hard at first for being weird when he’s literally neil josten

[cuthechicane]

um did no one clip this? new 2016 silver war lore from nico himself?? brocedes the gift that never stops giving 😭

(tl;dw: lewis got nico sent to the stewards to review whether nico's pole lap was legal as the last few corners were completed under yellow flags)

[timethehobo]

If Rook had to choose between themselves or a companion in a losing fight.

[chalkrub]

thank you for a great art fight! here's some of my final attacks. had a blast, already missing it - see you next year!

[souenkun]

I need the pokemas anniversary to come soon so we can hopefully see volo go batshit crazy again for the second time!!!