De_Narm

Been working through Octopath Traveler II.

I've done all chapter 1 and most chapter 2 stories for all 8 characters. I've come to accept that any attempt to prevent overlevelling for the main story is fruitless as my Ochette just cuts through any boss. Instead I've done some optional high level stuff to get challanging boss fights, which were great.

Also watched my partner play a ridiculous amount of Tomodachi Life. It seems like a lot of fun, but the pool of random events seems quite small. Also, a few things from the original game were cut, like the option to create custom songs.

Started Octopath Traveler 2 this week.

Didn't play too much, only did the introduction for 4 of the characters. Initially, I really struggled with myself on how to approach this game. Just go with one character for the challange, do everything for 4 characters and then do the other 4 or just everyone at once. In the end, I'll probably juggle all 8, but it's really annoying that I can't remove my starting character (which is why I considered the solo run, you can remove them after their story is done).

No matter what I do, I'll proabbly end up overleveled for a lot of stuff, which sucks.

Otherwise the game is great, but I still think the main gimmick - 8 more or less independant characters and stories - just doesn't work all that great on a fundamental level. Maybe I'll think otherwise after finishing it, supposedly it does it better than the first one.

I'm no expert, but I think Santa Claus isn't exactly a biblical figure and neither is the Easter Bunny. These are normal holidays around here, but you'd be hard-pressed to find many children who know any of the christian stuff.

Also, I think Christmas was actually built on top of the prior winter solstice celebrations. It's not like anyone knew the exact date of birth for a random guy from hundreds of years ago.

Played Persona 5 Tactica, which is fine.

The gameplay is similar to the the Mario and Rabbits games, although mostly focused on getting screen wide All-out Attacks - which target everthing within the triangle your three team members create on the map. Spam these and even on hard most maps are done in 1 or 2 rounds.

The story is quite wordy and feels like a slog in some early parts, but overall I really like both new characteres and their story. All in all, I much prefer this over P5 Strikers.

Next up is Octopath 2.

The existence of a queue sparks the follow-up question: What happens if something is born while the queue is empty?

Same. Haven't seen anything about the movie yet and this post spoiled it.

Gotcha, I need to ferment myself.

Finished Persona 5 Tactica. Overall, I like the story and new characters, but the gameplay remained too easy. Until the final boss, which took well over an hour, I didn't even bother healing once. Of course, it's the best battle in the game.

I think it is better than Strikers, which I thought didn't work at all.

On the final stretch of AI Somnium Files: nirvanA Initiative, likely in the final psynch.

Almost all beans have been spilled, and the big revelation was explained. I still prefer the first games resolution, but this one is growing on me. It went from "That's total bullshit" to "Wait a minute..." and finally "Shit, it's actually somehow coming together". To fully appreciate it, I think you'd have to play it twice.

Up next is likely Octopath 2, but maybe I'll go for Nioh 2 or 13 Sentinels instead. Those 3 are my entire backlog atm.

I'm vegan. Even if you argue that plants can suffer - it's the least amount of suffering I can cause without starving myself.

Also "applying ethics" does not mean it's automatically unethical - just that I think about it beforehand instead of categorically thinking "it's okay because I'm something better".

That's a dangerous line of reasoning. Depending on who you ask, people won't consider a lot of things "equal or better".

In no particulary order, a lot of people would not apply ethics to: Animals in general, pets, children, woman or all people of different ethnicitiy, religion or even political views.

I'd argue that ethics should be applied to all living things. Well, at least all things capable of suffering, but that keeps people arguing again - doctors even used to think that human babies aren't fully capable of that.

Regarding the original question: The simulation isn't alive. Stopping it won't 'kill' it, assuming it can be resumed. Deleting it, however, argubly is be unethical, yet it does not cause suffering at the very least.

It's still ongoing. Might as well ask how long the cross gen period between PS4 and PS6 will last at this point.

RPG Maker MV is 80 bucks and that one is from 2015. DLC included you're looking at ~130 bucks. I'd expect it to be quite a bit more expensive.