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"At least some of those civilians might have participated in combat so we should keep all of them prisoner" isn't a great argument to be perfectly honest.

There is someone I am currently having to take care partial care of who I am not getting along with great right now and the prospect of having to provide emotional support to someone, even someone I am close friends with, for the forseeable future due to unavoidable circumstances beyond either of our control is really not a prospect I feel great about. Neither of us are emotionally well. She is in a far worse state than I am, but that doesn't remove my own issues from the equation. I'm so exhausted.

I'd like to apologise, but I won't be able to take my turn or Maloy's turn on account of being sick for several weeks.

Well, it seems I have quite the archive binge ahead of me.

It's been a long time, how goes the Museum, and the world surrounding it?

Vintage Story is a former Minecraft mod which became big and complex enough that in the end, the Devs decided to turn it into a standalone game, and I think ye might find it interesting. It focuses far more on survival than Minecraft, with the entire process of going from flint to copper to bronze to iron to steel recreated in detail. It is a very grindy game at times, but it is staggeringly in-depth in its design, including real geology and realistic ore generation and distribution, all four seasons, animal husbandry, cooking, cheesemakers, archeology(?) And horror. It's very much not a game for everyone, but as I said, some of ye may find it interesting.

Also, despite being made by a much smaller team, it is arguably significantly better optimized than minecraft, but this will differ based on your specs.

It's out for Windows and Linux, but not mac.

The game just keeps going. It just keeps going. There's just so much of it.

I love Totk, but I cannot truthfully say that I prefer it to Botw. Botw was a far more tightly designed game, whilst totk has a lot of odd loose ends that it has to retroactively deal with. The retcons are incredibly jarring. I have found exactly one reference to the Calamity in the entire game besides item descriptions that were lifted from botw, and it was a random memorial north of Hyrule castle that's incredibly easy to miss. I'm sure that people will be finding all sorts of ways to tie them together, but the fact that Calamity Ganon is never once mentioned is so strange. So much of the game's story is clearly set up to be a follow-up to botw, but it almost goes out of its way to never say anything out loud. Malice is never mentioned, it's all gloom now. They probably intended for Gloom to be a more powerful version of Malice, but Malice is never acknowledged in any way. There's just so many strange loose ends that would be so easy to tie up, but it's like they can't acknowledge the past game for legal reasons. There is a very conspicuous empty spot in Zora's domain where the old shrine used to be which is not used for anything in totk, it's just empty. It all feels... extra. I think I agree; They probably became worried about it being too closely associated with botw so they steered away from it... but in ways that don't work very well.

And I still amn't done the game yet. For all my criticisms, I think that the shrines are fun, I love the proving grounds type shrines where they take away your things and force you to be resourceful, I like that there's a bit more focus on characters than in botw, I love being able to explore everything again, I enjoy making dumb machines that desintegrate, I adore the new boss fights, bu- wait, I've got it.

The reason Totk weirds me out sometimes is because the way the map and story has been changed reminds me of Wow Cataclysm. If you know, you know.