Started eating healthy, going to the gym, moving to a small mountain town was a big factor as well.

Maybe 10 ish seeds left of a Pack of 200 ...

I get it……I tried.

I put in 400ish hours. But I just don’t see what everyone is freaking out about. A few things that really didn’t work for me:

-The pacing is all over the place. One minute I’m in a casual tavern chat, next thing I know I’m locked in a moral debate with a talking brain in a jar. Feels jarring.

-Too many dialogue options. Like, I don’t need 6 different ways to express sarcasm. Just let me click “continue.”

-The world reacts too much to what I do. I freed a gnome and 40 hours later someone brought it up again. How am I supposed to live with that kind of consequence?

-The cinematics make everything feel too immersive. Like, sometimes I forget I’m just playing a game and not in a Netflix series I accidentally joined.

-The characters? Way too much depth. Why does everyone have such strong backstories and emotional arcs? It’s distracting.

-And don’t even get me started on the companions. I was just trying to fight goblins, not catch feelings for a morally complex vampire.

So yeah. Totally overrated. Only made me feel things I haven’t felt since Witcher 3. I guess if you like emotional damage and high standards for future games, go for it.

But for me? Never playing it again. (I started another run yesterday)

Plenty more engaged on GamePass too

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I am not The OOP, OOP is u/Fresh_Peanut_3492

My (22F) boyfriend (22M) keeps letting his friend (24M) come on our dates

Thanks to u/Arifault for suggesting this BoRU

TRIGGER WARNING: Manipulation, slander

MOOD SPOILER: Baffling

Original Post Apr 29, 2025

Ok, how we got into this predicament in the first place, is that my boyfriend just really likes his friend (Liam) he’s like a brother to him, he saved his life once, etc. But he’s on ALL our dates.

I even brought one of my single friends on a date (so we could double) and Liam and her don’t date, so that failed. I’ve honestly asked my BF “why Liam is on our dates“ and he says that Liam is, lonely, has nobody else, and he has NO SIBLINGS or girlfriend.

but then my boyfriend kind of guilts me because (I know this sounds awful) Liam is the fucking package for guilt! His Mom died when he was young, then his Dad and him don’t talk anymore, so Liam just doesn’t have anyone else to talk to.

I honestly think my boyfriend is guilt tripping me, and I don’t think I can do this relationship anymore. If nothing changes I’m leaving, this has gone on for 3 months.

Like, sure, I feel bad For Liam, but I don’t really know him, and its not my problem. its also not just dates, movie nights, hes here. Going to the mall, hes there, where is he not.

TL;DR my boyfriend keeps bringing his friend on our dates, and basically guilt trips me into not kicking his friend out.

also, I know this sounds made up, I still can’t believe it, but it is very much real. And I basically just need validation that its ok to break up with my boyfriend over this (the whole post).||

RELEVANT COMMENTS

FJBP95

Before ending it (you are fully validated on doing so based on your post) have you put your foot down? Why don't you plan dates and tell him his friend is not invited, period?

OOP

I have, but as I said in the post, he always, like, guilt trips me into letting him come.

saying this out loud, kind of just made me realize he’s manipulative

TOP COMMENT

tsukiii

It’s OK to break up. You didn’t sign up to be the third wheel in your own relationship. He can spend as much time with Liam as he wants as a single dude.

|||EDIT: I called my soon to be ex boyfriend to meet up, and I’m gonna break up with him, I’m gonna tell him the exact reason honestly. I swear if Liam is there though, like, I’m not considering the possibility of not breaking up with him. It’s not even just because of Liam, its that he manipulates me into letting Liam come.

Update Apr 29, 2025

Editors Note: changed the initial X to Xavier for easier reading

UPDATE: I broke up with my ex (I’m gonna call him Xavier) I went to where we agreed to meet up, and guess who he brought with him…you guessed it LIAM! I was very annoyed at this point, I told him I wanted to speak with him privately, and he brings fucking Liam. It’s very uncomfortable to break up with someone in front of their best friend, but I was too pissed, I told him “I said I wanted to speak privately“ he said “say it in front of Liam” eventually I just get annoyed and say “thats it! I don’t want Liam always here in our private life, on dates, everywhere“

he basically said, remember what I told you about Liams circumstance, blah blah blah. I said something like, “I’m sorry, but I don’t give a fuck about what Liams going through right now, this is about me breaking up with you” meanwhile Liam is just standing there…looking confused? I’ll get back to this later. So we basically get into a fight in this park, and it gets to the point where I tell him that he manipulates me into not kicking Liam out of our dates, and about everything he told me Liam went through (like a brother to Xavier, saved Xavier's life, dead mom, dad absent, no siblings, friends, or girlfriend)

and then Xavier looks like he got caught or something, and Liam gets angry saying like, “what did you tell her” this is all really funny and really awful at the same time. It turns out…NONE OF WHAT XAVIER TOLD ME WAS TRUE. Liam has a fiancée, has a REAL brother and sister, and his mom isn’t dead! So, anyway, definitely broke up with Xavier. Like, 40 minutes later, Liam DMs me basically saying that Xavier told Liam that I wasent ”comfortable“ being alone with Xavier, and that he thought I wanted him to be on the dates.

Sir, what? he said the reason why he agreed is because his fiancée is living in Europe to finish up her study abroad program, and he had nothing better to do. So Xavier just flat out is a liar, glad I broke up with him, mad I got lied to, but oh well. This was honestly not a turn of events I was expecting, and I have to get it out somewhere.

TL;DR Xavier is a liar and turns out everything he told me about Liam was false just to play a game or something.

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Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

My fav is riri

After act 2, the game started to get a bit dificult. I thought It's just the late game grind. However, still, I loved every second of it. The issue became when the fights started taking 30min + to complete on normal enemies. They are just sponges I thought. It's all good, let's push forward.

Then I paid attention to the thing that always kept popping up. - picto learned. Wtf does that mean again? So I googled it. Spend lumina they say. Wtf? How do I do that?

Then it hit me. I played 40 hours of the game - with only 3 pictos per character and not a single lumina learned.

So so so many fights where I wished more than 1 character could do more than 9999 damage. So many fights lost...

Oh well. Lesson to you all, make sure you carefully read the tutorial screen, and enjoy this 10/10 game

I found this happy little family on a retaining wall in my garden. I tried to google them but I can't tell if they're flying ants or termites. Please help and advise, lmao. The retaining wall isn't connected to my house but is close enough for this to be terrifying.

Also, I took bug spray to them and a lot of them died in case that helps.