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wanted to contribute to Odyssey discourse but unfortunately nothing I could say is better commentary than bsky's post settings

@laurentheflute.bsky.social, @heartbreak.one, @reven.bsky.social, and @mrhassansan.bsky.social already figured out how to make this work. We can do this. 💪

Maybe I’m biased because I spent two years of my life adapting it to an audiodrama/musical presentation, but man, with a similar playtime you can do a lot if you just remove the grind and don’t go insane.

Am I the only person who thinks they could slim it down, take out a lot of the pointless combat grinding, and still hit the plot points and deliver them with extra pizazz and *make it fit in one game*, even in a heightened visual presentation?

YESSSSSSS You're HERE! Man, Gene & Jude's was THE hot dog joint all the kids in the Elmhurst College Jazz Band went to after gigs, and Superdawg was the place my family would hit every time I went into the city. Two great hot dog spots. A delight. 🙏

I skimped on the decals a bit, but *heck*, this guy is SO good. So many cool moving parts, individually articulated joints, some really impressive skeletal design, just a really REALLY nice model. I wasn’t sold on this design in the anime, but man, if it’s not really good as a kit.

The only person I want talking to computer out loud.

Siiiiick! I hope it shows back up soon!

Which one’s next on the list?

remembering the greatest interview of all time

Decided to try to tackle my first RG. Stopping before arms tonight. So far, so good!

ERIKA YESSSSSS

Horaaay! Congrats!

Good lord, these are, like... really DUMB mistakes, wow.

TLDR: It was a neat concept, but a squandered shakeup.

We've sorta arrived at the same old status quo, but with a "new frontier" (same as the old, sorta, but with things shuffled around) in play. Don't get me wrong, I'm really looking forward to SFA season 2 (and weeping that there's not gonna be more), but I wish things had been handled differently.

Big economic/ecological/societal disaster, society turns inwards, old systems that operated via post-scarcity rules collapse, scarcity whiplash causes people to become the worst versions of themselves, etc. *but I just don't think it was handled well, and I don't think it was solved satisfyingly*

I think I agree with you. I *get* the idea of a Federation that turns inwards and collapses and loses it's idealism (goodness knows, we've, uh, maybe seen some parallels with that IRL), and there's a world where that's interesting and handled well.