Now that you’re 30 it’s time to fully embrace the cringe. Be free.

I absolutely love online lunatics like this (and also they have way too much time on their hands 😅). Gaming wouldn’t be the same without 'em.

The call is coming from inside the building.

Bring out the scones and cucumber sandwiches, it’s high T!

I’ve gotten very used to this little free app called Audio Switcher that makes it way easier to switch back and forth between speakers and my headphones.

I’m so used to cropped memes now I didn’t even understand this for a minute

This kind of looks like one of those painted rocks you see at chotchky stores

Got it, thanks!

I see, thanks for the explanation.

Ah ok, I probably am. I actually haven’t heard about either of them for a long time and I didn’t realize isis was gone.

Aren’t they running a government now? Am I out of the loop?

Well that’s the rumor at least. No actual news about that one yet, right?

They’re a lot of fun actually. Especially if you like open world exploration. They add a lot of very cool maps.

Most of the game is solo-friendly. Some things are very difficult to solo, but if you get really good at the combat system it’s still possible.

Coordinated end game party stuff isn’t my bag so much, so I’m not sure about soloing it. There are a lot of different things you can do with different names that all amount to dungeon/raid style content. The things actually called “dungeons” are all from the original game and are really old at this point. The newer 5 man dungeons are called “Fractals”, and there are also 10 man raids, and 10 man boss only encounters called “Strike Missions” (basically a single raid boss with no dungeon around it).

I thought I hated excel, but then I tried Google sheets. Somehow it’s even worse.

Gw2 is like the sleeper MMO that no one talks about but everyone still plays. I think the lack of subscription and never raising level cap does that to it. It’s a very welcoming game to pick up and put down as time allows.

I’m probably not the best judge cause I’ve been playing semi regularly since launch, but I’d guess it’s a really good time actually.

Long story short they’ve recently changed to a yearly expansion model with smaller scale expansions that tell more contained stories. The first one was pretty rocky, not gonna lie, but this new one is really good so far.

If you’re someone who wants to go through the entire story and catch up you’ve got a very long road ahead of you (up to you whether that sounds good or not), but if you wanted to get back in quickly the new expansion is a totally reasonable starting point I’d say. You won’t get a lot of the references, but I think you’d still get plenty of enjoyment being dumped in. I’m guessing it would feel like picking up a long running book series on book 20–there are lots of references and characters you don’t know, but it’s also doing its best to catch you up as a new reader and not expecting you’ve read it all.

Aside from story stuff, the game has had a bit of a Renaissance lately and there are a lot of new players from what I can tell.

Guild wars 2 just released a new expac and I’ve been really enjoying it. Lots of people online, so I’d say not dead at all.

Well you see, they wrote the articles with AI.

This joke has always confused the hell out of me. My very first time I had no trouble finding it. It’s very easy to find. It’s literally the part that sticks out and is the first thing you get to usually.