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I like to play though GunStar Heroes (a terrific Contra style bullet hell) with a self inflicted "melee attacks only" rule.

The fact that it's possible is one of the cool things about the game.

I had the opposite FF8 experience. I got lost like 3 times, and between over leveling and limit breaks, none of the bag guys ever got through their dialog trees during a fight. It was funny, but I don't recommend it.

I did the speedster pacificst build in DnDOnline once, because I liked to kite most enemies while charming a few to fight for me.

It was wild how that character could solo some difficult dungeons, but then a solitary guard at the top of a ladder was nearly impassable.

I do the same!

I would love to hear people's preferred early game alternate starters.

I usually go with the first non-Normal type Pokemon I encounter and build my team around it.

That makes me so happy.

Rarely. Require linear history for the win.

These are all very real possibilities.

Here's another: The big shot billionaire's agreed over drinks one night that their handlers - the staff that used to make them look smart - were overpaid.

I'm guessing that skill with Cascading Style Sheets is considered wasted time and effort at X, much like media relations, accessibility, and microservices.

I'm getting sidetracked here, but I want to give my support of McD's turning every possible life event Grimace can have into to a new marketing event, so long as each comes with a new Gameboy color game.

I'm not sure, honestly.

Charitably, we could assume it's just from removing Google and various carriers background apps meant to improve my experience.

Uncharitably, I have my suspicions. For the last five or so versions of Android something always seemed to be using processor cycles and battery when I wasn't actually doing much with my phone.

But I never saw evidence of usage data exfiltration via Google apps - at least after I turned off the related optional settings.

In any case, switching to GrapheneOs was a startling and pleasant speed boost for me, whatever the real root cause.

I feel you.

I have found that searching for game reviews with the term "Cozy Gamer" finds games that fit into that after work funk, for me, when I have that time.

Indeed! I wish they would standardize this mode and add it as an icon to the back of the game box.

Edit: Also I'm old enough that I think of games as coming in boxes, still...