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This is significant for a variety of reasons, but the one thing that keeps running through my brain is "Fallout: New Vegas 2"...

@terminallychill said:

I don't know about any tabletop simulator versions, but I thought I saw it on Amazon for the MSRP. There are still people trying to scalp it for hundreds of dollars, though, which is weird.

I have a flow-chart-esque set of recommendations for you:

1. Do they like working together or competing against each other? If they like working together, jump to part 2; otherwise, jump to part 3.

2. Do they love Marvel? If they do, I'd recommend Marvel Champions: The Card Game. It's a fantastic cooperative card game that sees each player taking a hero of their choice and going up against a villain. It's sort of a must-buy if they both like Marvel, and even if they aren't huge fans, it might be worth a look.

If they dislike Marvel, I would recommend Aeon's End. Definitely not for them if they don't like generic fantasy, but it's a great deckbuilder that really encourages teamwork.

3. Do they like stomping on each other's plans and being mean? If they do, pick up Unmatched. It's a skirmish game about maneuvering around a map and beating up on the other player, it has some of the coolest art in anything ever (Mondo, the movie poster people, did the art), and it's extremely quick. There are a bunch of different sets to choose from, so just choose the one that looks interesting.

If they dislike direct conflict, I'd give a hearty recommendation to Wingspan. It has a great theme (birds!), great art, and is very easygoing. It's my partner's favorite board game to play by a wide margin.

@finaldasa: Okay, thanks for the details! I can definitely get behind defunding the police, and agree that police forces don't need any of the military armaments many of them have. This situation is completely inexcusable for a variety of reasons, and things cannot continue as they are.

So, is the call to disband the police a literal call to end all policing in the United States, or a call to end the current system and build a better policing system? The current system is obviously broken in ways that may not be fixable, but I'm not sure if I fully support calls to have no police at all. European countries have police forces that don't have these systematic issue, for example; couldn't we try to rebuild police in that image?

I apologize if I'm speaking from a position of ignorance; I'm just now hearing of the sentiment to disband police, and I want to know what that means.

I think AC2 is the better, more accomplished game, but ACB is the more fun, sillier playground. The story is much worse, the assassin summoning is too good, the crossbow is absurdly too good, the parachute is just ridiculous, and the combat is even more trivial than before, but it all just makes it more fun to screw around and kill guards. I think the epitome of this is the horse-to-horse assassination; it makes no sense! This did not in any way need to be in the game, but jumping from your horse to another horse, killing the horse's rider, and then just riding into the sunset on the new horse is so hilarious it never gets old.

ACB is sort of the peak of the trilogy in terms of fun, for me. AC2 laid the groundwork, and Revelations added a bunch of mechanics that just weren't as fun as they should have been (the hook blade and bomb crafting come to mind).

@nutter: I think your situation is a good encapsulation of Ring Fit Adventure's value. If you have a regular workout routine (like you have), the game doesn't have anything to offer. For people who struggle to keep to a routine, though (like me), it's a perfect motivational tool that adapts to your fitness level quite easily. I'd recommend it to every person who wants to work out but can't find the motivation, and steer away anybody who already works out regularly.

@nutter: I don't think Nintendo's fitness things can't improve someone's health, I think they just fail at being more interesting than a standard workout routine. If you played Wii Fit for thirty minutes a day, every day, I have no doubt you would get some good exercise in; that said, because Wii Fit was never more enjoyable than just going to the gym or going for a walk, myself (and many others) just stopped playing it for the same reasons I bought it--lack of motivation.

I'm on the sixth day of Ring Fit Adventure, and I don't see myself stopping anytime soon. Instead of just being a virtual trainer with a bulky peripheral, it's actually a game--not an incredibly deep or interesting one, but still a game. It does a great job of not making you feel like you're just in a VR fitness class, and feeds you new elements and exercises at a steady clip, so you feel like you're playing a real game that just happens to feature exercise as a mechanic. I bought RFA with some reservations, but I'm wholeheartedly enjoying it, and I've been sore every morning after playing, which is a good sign. My only worry is that my motivation will run out once I've played through the story, but hopefully Nintendo has a way to deal with that.

Gah, this new chapter is blisteringly difficult. I just finished it, and I was surprised by how long it was (a good 5 hours or so), how consistently tough it was (probably on the level of the C-sides), and how touching the story was (it picks up a few months after the end of the base game). It serves as a really amazing capstone to a really amazing game, and it reminded me of all the things that make Celeste such a work of art.

I watched this show over the course of a day and really liked it. I was a bit suspicious when I did some research into the source material (the writer of the comic said he wanted it to "out-Preacher Preacher", which was a pretty huge red flag), but the show ended up having a really good balance between comedy and brutality. I sometimes wished the show would be a little more clear about each superhero's powers (Maeve seems indestructible in the pilot, but she broke her wrist saving a bus full of kids? Starlight seems both very dangerous and also just like a glorified Jubilee?), but the show does a great job of painting most of these heroes as both people who have emotions and desires, but also gods who find themselves disinterested in human goings-on. The Vought Corporation is also wonderfully evil throughout, and works really well in the age of mega-giants like Facebook and Amazon.

The first season ends on a tremendous cliff-hanger, so I'm desperate for the second season; it's close to my favorite superhero show (along with Daredevil and Jessica Jones), and almost definitely wins out in terms of how much it has to say about modern life and capitalism.