I got an analogue watch instead of the cool futuristic digital watch I wanted, so I cried. After reading the rest of the responses I feel very very fortunate

Probably a sea turtle. Was snorkelling in Malaysia, completely obsessed with the coral and all of the fishes, when this massive turtle just cruises by. Held my breath for as long as I could to swim next to it, not too close but just wanting to be in its presence, it was so calm and majestic as it headed out into the deeper ocean

Also playing this on PC currently. It's good fun, but I feel like it is far less polished than the first. Sometimes completely janky.

Performance is pretty much fine, with some stuttering here and there that nothing will fix. But not a huge deal.

Here's a tip though: always save at a meditation point before quitting. There are a few auto-saving checkpoints around story beats, but reloading these can cause issues - I recently got completely stuck by relying on one.

Basically, there's a moment where you can force pull a door open, but then end up going a different way and acquiring a new ability. Then you come back through the now open door. I had to quit the game after getting this ability, and on reload, the door was closed. Nothing I could do to open it from this side, and no way back up and out in the opposite direction.

I tried everything, and if I was on console I think I would have been completely screwed, at almost exactly halfway through the game. I had to download a mod to get to a debug menu where I could expose and load a previous 'backup' save. No idea why they don't just expose a couple of these saves in the 'load game' menu....

Cheers, I'll definitely give it another go, what I played of it was fantastic.

With the running out of pins, I just meant the map markers that you can place on the map. You have a few different colours and a limited amount of each, so I was using them for different types of gate/hurdle/blockage. But quickly ran out. That's when I decided to draw a map

I don't play metroidvania type games very often, and I struggle to remember details to come back to. For example,, if I gain a dash ability, I want to be able to check my map and know where to head back to as there might be half a dozen spots it may allow access to.

Add in a few other types of blocked routes scattered throughout, and all of the branching paths etc, I find it hugely helpful to have a customised map.

I first tried with just the in game maps and the pins you can drop, but I ran out of pins before finding the abilities to revisit and clear out the areas.

Control is about story and atmosphere for me, I usually play games on normal or hard modes for the challenge but something about Control's particular difficulty was annoying and got in the way. I tweaked some of the accessibility options and found a real nice balance, didn't make it easy but made it super enjoyable

Hollow Knight for me also... I'll resume once I find the damn paper maps I drew while exploring, I moved house and they're somewhere.....

Flying tips:

Always lock on to your target planet. For example, if you're wanting to fly around Timber Hearth (home planet) instead of jetting off to someplace else, lock on to Timber Hearth first. This lets you use the 'match velocity' button to bring yourself to a stop any time you start feeling out of control. Use it a lot.

Until you have a hang of the controls, the landing camera can be helpful for exploring too. It doesn't tell you this but when you're in the landing camera, the flying mode changes too: the ship will automatically orient itself so that the feet (and landing camera) are pointing straight down (again, make sure you're locked on to the planet).

Now you can stop worrying about pitch and roll completely. Don't touch them. Just use the right trigger gently to hover, go up, or let go to fall a bit. Use the left stick to strafe around the planet. If it's small like the moon, it can kinda feel like just rotating the ball beneath you to look at the surface.

The landing cam also has a cute little altitude meter that I didn't notice for the longest time

Edit: feel free to message me in the future if you do give it another go and have any questions, I'd love to help you experience it. I wouldn't worry about any 'platforming' in the game, if something is physically very challenging it's usually not the intended solution. It is also usually very clever about any long trips to get back to where you were.

I played the game late, so all of that content was already there. Was nice to do the gauntlets and inner versions in between playthroughs, but I can also imagine it being a really great addition to come back to later on.

I've completed 3 endings and 3 gauntlets... I've peeked online at the list for the final gauntlet and I'm not sure I'll ever attempt it, my god. The ones I've done were harder than anything else I've ever played and I'm not sure I could even do them again (have only played a couple of other games in this genre)

On the other hand, one day I'll be curious to see the fourth ending, so I'll play it again, then I'll probably just have a wee look at the gauntlet, then I'll see if I can get a bit further, etc.... Shit.

Get them on the real stuff, there's plenty of it. The couch thing is known to be made up and is just misinformation now (well, always was).

He certainly seems like someone who might fuck a couch because he's fucking weird, so keep the jokes about it coming, but the book excerpt was fake

Just go double or nothing a few times! Simple!

The answer to your last question should tell you why everything you wrote above it is fucking awful.

If you're driving safely and an unleashed dog sprints into the road and goes under your car from the side, what the hell do you think you would do to avoid it?

It's the owner's responsibility and fault, not OPs

I'm sorry, that's horrible. Did anyone else see what happened and stop? If so, chat to them first and see if they'd be comfortable backing you up on what happened (dog ran out, no time to react). Hopefully that's not needed, but you never know.

I saw that exact thing happen when the car in front of me hit a dog. Poor thing was dying on the road and I heard someone down the street whistling for their dog to come inside. I went and told them what happened, and made sure to say that the driver is distraught and absolutely could not have done anything to avoid the dog. Fucking sucks for everyone involved

If the dog ran into the path of the rear tyre, what do you think you could have done differently in this situation? The owner is responsible for their unleashed dog

Checking in from NZ, sounds familiar to me

Well goddamn it. I was just having this convo on another thread. My main point: don't spread lies especially when there is SO MUCH real shit to laugh at them for...

Edited from my other comments elsewhere:

JD is a creepy weirdo, but the couch story was made up.

I fucking hate it when people feel the need to make up stuff about someone who already has plenty of real red flags that need attention.

Yes it's funny, and it's working in the short term. But any lie, once uncovered, makes it so much easier for even the worst positions to be defended. 'See, they have to make shit up about us, they have nothing'. Bam, now even all the other factual points are discredited in the eyes of many people who may have been on the fence.

You know the whole 'fake news' thing being thrown around a lot by one side in particular? It doesn't seem like a good idea to give them more examples they can correctly point to when they want to discredit you and anything else you say.

Keep calling them weird, keep having fun with it. It's fucking great. But use the real shit. There's so much

Really? You haven't seen a rise in facts being deemed false? Or maybe news being deemed fake? Maybe there's even been a new term created for it that is being thrown around a lot by one side in particular.

Doesn't seem like a good idea to give them more examples they can point to when they want to discredit your facts

From an outside perspective on the other side of the world, I disagree. Any lie, once uncovered, makes it so much easier for even the the worst positions to be defended. 'See, they have to make shit up about us, they have nothing'. Bam, now even all the other factual points are discredited in the eyes of many people who may have been on the fence.

Jd is a creepy weirdo, but the couch story was made up.

Not directed at you (unless you already knew it was fake, I guess) - I fucking hate it when people feel the need to make up stuff about someone who already has plenty of real red flags that need attention.

I've only attempted it once and can't remember much of it except for those fucking tunnels being the reason I gave up also