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The Outsider by Stephen King and Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito. I like them both a lot so far. The first half of The Outsider was really strong and had me hooked.

It was murder on my back. I’ve been doing stocking jobs for years and developed chronic pain in a previous job. Don’t want to fuck it up even more.

I wish I had this when I was playing the pre-Persona 3 games. There are zero reminders, aside from maybe a character telling you not to go to x because we have to go to x. I ended up taking a lot of notes and reading a guide for Innocent Sin.

I generally make notes for myself or only focus on one game at a time.

A lot of games still have that option. I mostly see it for VNs, which is really useful if you’re going for certain routes.

Last I tried, it was hard to find videos I would enjoy, and I couldn’t create an account.

I like YT for playthroughs of horror games, video essays, music, highly specific skits, and some miscellaneous stuff.

None of the YTubers I follow are interested in anything other than YT, Twitch, or Patreon, as that’s where their audiences are.

I considered joining Peertube as a creator, but there’s still the issue of finding an instance.

I didn’t even know that was an option, but don’t want to get my expectations up.

Animorphs. Loved those books as a kid and revisited them as an adult, and forgot how dark they got. Child soldiers, war crimes, the horrors of losing yourself to the hive mind or being forced into the body of a small animal (not talking about Tobias here).

Plus the books are also about friendship, which many youths want to see more of than romance.

My girlfriend’s wisdom teeth, along with two of mine.

I used to collect animal bones in my hometown, where hunters carelessly tossed what they didn’t want behind nearby train tracks. Found a whole boar skin once, but only took home little knuckle bones. I might still have them somewhere.

I have a deer skull on my shelf, but I think most people would overlook that. Human teeth left in storage among other junk? Not so much.

I haven’t read the series, but after seeing more context of the scene…wow. That’s really bleak for what I assumed would be a more light hearted romp. It does make me actually want to read the books now, but damn.

Not a book, but I immediately thought of a point and click game that does something similar. In A Date in the Park, you play a guy who moved to Portugal, but doesn’t speak the language. He goes to the park to meet up with the woman he has a date with.

There are several key moments where the language barrier ultimately works against you. I first watched a let’s play of the game, where several viewers translated what was being said. Really changes the mood of a seemingly cozy game.