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I actually did revisit it last winter around time of release. If anything, my lack of ability to summon up interest in it was one of the starting stepping stones of my realization that gaming just ain't it for me anymore.

I don't dislike it, mind you - neither gaming nor DF - it just doesn't fulfill like it used to, nor possess the same attraction.

I agree with lots of what's already been said and haven't got much to add to those extant conversations, so let me try to add in some that I've not seen:

RuneScape is a candidate. I started way back with RS Classic (the sprite-based one!).

Oh, and Dwarf Fortress too. That began in 2009.

Achaea and/or Lusternia are way up there but I don't imagine anyone but me can share the experience.

Oh, as well, Mount & Blade: Warband. Quite the adventure(s).

I don't really game anymore. But this thread did dredge up some memories, old and new.

Thank you.

But did you know about the nearly 50% reduction in Threads users???

While I will exhaust all local alternatives first, Amazon is my pinch hitter when I can't find The Thing anyplace else.

My shortcut to it is now in a graveyard folder, alongside an old app called Troper.

Haven't seen this before, but my step-cousin said the same thing once!

It took me quite some time to get past the rocky (hah) start, the absolute lack of all but the barest exposition, but once I did...wow.

And I recognize the talent and skill it takes to make that work. Very risky to do, but it damn sure paid off.

Seems to be the general flow of her writing style. Broken Earth certainly doesn't hold your hand, either, but if you stick it out through the directionless lost feeling at the start, suddenly you're hooked.

Oh geez, mine came back and back and back and while it has been about a decade since then, the last operation (which I guess was the one that worked) ended up with my ass looking like someone just carved a hunk out of the living flesh with an ice-cream scoop.

Foul Ole Ron!

Been there, done that. Hope you've recovered.

Probably because this image has been making the rounds for around a decade.