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I have a ridiculously long list of games that I want to play so I finally got a copy of this game.

I am about 3 hours into and and Wow, it is really great. The save system is a bit wonky so about an hour of that three hours was being annoyed getting past the first boss. You are only allowed to save at save points and the first save point you get to is after the first boss. So I died on him/it twice.

Most of what you do leading up to the first boss is just learning the mechanics of the game. So having to redo that three times was .. annoying.. but that makes you learn fight mechanics, so I appreciated that after I got him “down”.

Visually the game is great. The combat system is really intuitive and the game uses camera angles that are a bit jarring at first. Sometimes the camera angles feel like old school 90s arcade games. The aesthetic of the game is awesome.

The game seems to be very deliberately rolling out the story, so the experience so far has been very hack and slash. I am curious how that will play out. I am hoping that the story gets more involved the more I play the game.

Like I said I am only three hours into it and so far it has been fun!

How are you guys doing?

Seven Feet of Snow is pretty wild.

This looks wild!

I am beyond numb to the stupid hateful shit he says. So i am OOTL on this.

What is the story with Trump and shitting on the American people?

First one to post!

Hi all.

This looks terrible.

The Alienist.

It is historical fiction that takes place during the Gilded Age and is set in NYC. The primary characters are a newspaper reporter (narrator of the book), a psychiatrist, two police detectives, a police secretary and a number of assistants the psychiatrist has helped throughout his career and became part of his crew.

The story is about the psychiatrist and his team, at the direction of Teddy Rosevelt, investigate a serial killer who prays on prostitutes.

The author Caleb Carr at the time of writing the book was a military historian so the setting of the book is meticulously researched and Carr works in historical figures and settings, such as JP Morgan, Adolf Meyer.

One of the primary early events of the book takes place in Teddy Rosevelt’s office when he was the police commissioner of the NYPD. A major theme of the book is inline with the gilded age as organizations moved away from conventional wisdom to more science based approaches.

The title of the book comes a widely held notion that people who had mental illness were alien their body, therefore psychiatrists were called Alienist.

The Jacksonville Jaguars kicker, Cam Little, kicked a 70 yard field goal. If it had been a regular season game it would have been a new record.