This is my main gripe. Pick up item > second or two of empty hesitation > over at least two dialogue boxes “… Oh wait, my pockets are full! What should I do?” > selection > result. Good grief, just have a little X show up or “inventory full” if I try to pick something up when my pockets are full. Stop making me have to mash A for every minor game interaction.

The excessive dialog in general is really a frustration. Half the time I just accept less cash for dropping items into the sale box outside the store because I don’t want to have deal with mashing A through all the Nooklings dialog when all I want to do is friggin sell stuff and move on with going out to collect more. And even then you’re not safe, because the next day when you log in, they call you on your phone and tell you that they paid you, over multiple dialogue screens.

I’m all for taking things nice and slow overall, the chill pace of the game is part of the appeal for me. But when every tiny little routine action is deliberately made to take a longer time than it needs to, it gets frustrating.

I wanted to love this game so bad. I loved the setting and the feel and the music. After a few days of trying to play it, the last straw was when I accidentally like grappled/threatened to rob a random guy in town when I was trying to wave and say howdy, and I just turned it off and never booted it up again

I’m just using pass on Linux. Haven’t figured out a good way to access my passwords through it on mobile yet, but I avoid using my smartphone when at all possible so I haven’t been particularly motivated to find a solution to that

Might be more of a monster than a villain, but I’ve loved the Disney version of the headless horseman since I was a kid. That laugh still gives me chills

He ate my lunch, definitely not a nice guy, no sirree

Such a clever weasel

I hate that I upvoted this, but it’s the frustrating truth

Proton seems okay still at the moment, but with their growing in scope and success I imagine it’s only a matter of time

I knew trouble was brewing when they started adding the little corporate cute waving graphics and stuff to the UI. Glad I already migrated away

This was my first thought reading the title

Can they just leave him trapped in the summoning circle indefinitely? Throw a tablecloth over him or something

Oo-de-lally oo-de-lally golly what a day

Not to put too fine a point on it

I’d rather keep my ear clear

… matching salt and pepper shakers!

Good on you for your sacrifice. Might come across as sarcastic but I mean it, so many parents won’t engage in activities their kids enjoy because the parent just finds it too boring and next thing you know there’s nothing for them to connect over and they both feel the other is distant and uninterested in them as a person

Yeah, I’m gonna go ahead and not comply

I get you pard, there are some creative works that I still hold on to as well despite learning disappointing things about their creators. Others I’ve let go.

I love Silk as well, he’s such a fun character. Belgarath I generally like except when he goes all in on mocking the stupidity of everyone around him, and when he starts dumping on Garion. The latter feels like a betrayal because otherwise he’s very supportive of the kid. Being a kindly grandfather-figure to Garion is a big part of his role in the story so it’s difficult when he acts otherwise. Durnik was always my favorite because I have a soft spot for the solid, practical, dependable types, likely based on my great relationship with my grandpa when I was young.

You have a point with the ancient characters being tired and jaded by all this, since they’ve been through all this type of stuff before many times, and having been around so long they do have an exceptional accumulation of experience and wisdom and knowledge, so I can see them getting frustrated more often with having to deal with their lessers. Still though: We see Belgarath fail. We see him be unsure of himself sometimes, we see him fall on his face, and even if begrudgingly, we see him own it. Same with Silk - he’s recruited largely because he’s the clever and witty one, but on more than one occasion we see him get bested and importantly (to me at least), he also owns it. Even Mandorallen, the guy whose whole shtick is being absurdly self-confident and self-assured, has his moments where he falters and struggles, and he owns it.

Polgara, though? Oh, no. Polgara is never wrong. If you ever question her, you had better be prepared for some mockery and intense cold shoulder and judgment by everyone else for even thinking of doubting her. And this will only end when you finally “realize” that you were wrong and apologize to her, at which point she oh-so-benevolently welcomes you back in now that you’ve admitted to her that you were wrong and sorry for ever thinking she was anything less than perfect. She feels like the type of character a narcissist would write as their self-insert.

Upon thinking about all this, I do also wonder about the fact that the humblest of the main characters end up getting together with the two most spoiled and self-satisfied ones. Given how I feel about Polgara, I was pretty bummed out when my guy Durnik never got over being smitten with her and they ended up together. But hey, there might be some evidence there that maybe he’ll be good for her, at least.

Oh, and on the note of Durnik and Polgara getting together … the one time she might have actually had to lose something, to really sacrifice something … nope! Just kidding, what a twist! She actually has to give up nothing, and instead Durnik is elevated to sorcererhood solely to give her the loophole she needs to continue on being just perfectly amazing in every way and capability! Even the friggin rules of the cosmos bend to accommodate her!

Yeah yeah, I’m ranting. But people typically rant about things they care about. I loved these books, and I’m not just ranting out of grumpiness but out of being bummed out that I can’t manage to love them anymore. Because I still want to. In any case, not trying to convince you to stop liking them, just venting and wanting these thoughts to be heard by someone. Thanks for the opportunity and take it easy out there.

I’ve been playing with calcurse and calcure, both TUI calendars because I can’t keep something like Thunderbird open on my cruddy low RAM laptop. There are some sync methods but they’re pretty janky. I’m tempted to just set up a plaintext file with appointments and have a script scan for the upcoming 24 hours for notifications or something