Yup, double edge blades are so cheap compared to cartridges. I got pretty long life out of blades too, so it got even cheaper.

Same here! I was just thinking why doesn’t something like this exist, but it seems it does. And they have from XS to 4X, which pleasantly took me by surprise.

Oh, good. I was worried it was you I accidentally offended. I try my best to avoid anything that may prickle someone the wrong way, especially in this group, yet there’s always at least 1 or 2 that find something objectionable. As long as it isn’t one of you regular guys. I really value all of you that participate here.

The photoshops are one thing, but I do not have the patience to learn Blender to animate dancing Saw Whets, no matter how much I may want to right now! 😅

Edit: This seems to have needed an /s

They just get cuter the scarier they try to look! 😍

I wanted to like the go karts in LAD and the drone racing in in Judgement, but I’m so bad at both!

I enjoyed Tsushima a lot. I still think about how it ended, some of the paths the characters took, and how beautiful all the scenery is.

I have probably tried 3 dozen blade types, and Feathers and Gillette Yellows are the tops. Double the price of the cheaper ones, but absolutely a nice “splurge.” Decided to grow out my hair and beard for a while to mix things up, but I still have a big grab bag of blades for when I change moods again.

The gf made fun of me at first for using it, but now she does too, especially as she likes to take off her shoes without untying them. 😒

She brought home a metal one a while ago after our long plastice one broke, but this one already bent somehow. I keep bending it back, but it must be made of the cheapest metal possible because it keeps bending again. Still works, just looks stupid. I’ll have to ask for a quality one for Christmas. It does make me feel rather gentlemanly when I put on my work boots!

I’ve done 0-7, Like a Dragon, and Judgement. I have Lost Judgement installed, but haven’t gotten to start it yet. I’ve been meaning to finish Persona 4’s bonus content first, but haven’t touched it in a couple months. Very much looking forward to Ishin, though I hear it’s a bit slow on PS4. I don’t know much about Infinite Wealth or Gaiden, as I’ve been trying to stay spoiler free as much as possible.

The dubs of Kiryu and Majima took me right out of Like a Dragon! I didn’t know they were going to appear, and when they did, it felt like “Fake Kiryu” from the other games showing up with that voice. That’s not my Kiryu! 😅

Nothing wrong with that. It’s not as constant action of a thing for sure, the real fights being spread out after the exposition is what makes them more impactful to me, the regular street fights are mainly just grinding while you get used to the combos and are kinda boring. The varied minigames give you a break, and I like the comedy bits to swing the mood back and forth from serious to funny. I enjoy the GTA games, but find them much darker and the protagonists aren’t as likeable to me. Yakuza has Kiryu as a relatively good guy, and the games are all mostly in the same city over the years, so you see the city grow, businesses come and go, and you see your NPC friends change jobs over the years, so it is a really organic experience, but it’s not all fresh and brand new, so people could get bored of being in the same places a lot of the time. It’s more of a book experience than an action movie.

They’re all excited to migrate, then wham!, caught in a net, only to be man handled, tagged, and measured by strange creatures with bright lights, and then just as randomly, be dropped back where you were to carry on like nothing ever happened. Very alien abduction to me!

I keep meaning to rewatch The Fourth Kind, as I remember that movie having owl imagery in it, like all the creepy “the owls aren’t what they seem” stuff from Twin Peaks. That’s another alien abduction movie.

Some cultures supposedly see owls as bad ones and kill them on sight, so thinking they’re aliens and not messing with them seems preferable.

For me, it was probably the Yakuza games series on sale at the PlayStation store. I don’t game very much, so I wait to get things until I find them near free, and during the start of Covid I went looking for a game and got Yakuza 0 for $5. Got probably 100 hours in that game, and I picked up all the others (1-7) all for about the same price, so I’ve gotten hundreds of hours of gameplay for less than $50.

It’s sort of GTA-like, but the protagonist is actually a good person, so I enjoy it more for that, and it’s more minigame centric. There’s some great story, and lots of funny gags throughout.

I started using one because the back would always wear out (heel counter, I think it’s called) so the shoe horn has reduced that to nothing. Now the shoes wear out first, so I’m sure I’ve saved the cost of a couple pairs of shoes by now.

Plus I feel classy using it 😆

Ooo I haven’t thought of Rockbox in a long while!

I still have my SanDisk mp3 player for audiobooks. It feels more straightforward to use for that purpose and the battery lasts for like 3 days of listening and is lighter than my phone.

I’ve read some accounts of people saying many of the Saw Whets come from so deep in the Canadian wilderness that many have never seen a human before, so when they’re caught for banding, they don’t really know what to make of us.

Must feel like an alien abduction!

They blend back into the background when they’ve gotten satisfactory attention.