GetThereThenRest

I am going to proceed to write 80% of my post about myself and details of my life that no one cares about, but please indulge me anyway. I will then wrap things up with a cheesy and masturbatory feel-good praise about loving the people who love this hobby.

Upvotes to the left, please.

I don't mean to be a buzzkill, but felt like I needed to vent somewhere.

My mom got sick very quickly with neuroendocrine cancer and died less than 3 months after diagnosis. She took her last breath on August 24th of this year as I held her hand.

I thought I was doing somewhat okay with all of this. Went to a grief counselor for a few visits and that seemed to help a bit. A couple weeks ago we had to put my oldest dog down and that just sent me back into an emotional tailspin. The cumulative effect of losing two of the people/animals I loved the most feels like it has broken me. Having to put down my Mom's oldest and most loved dog two days after she died did not help either.

Thanksgiving

What I mean by this is, are they meant to be played in one sitting as their own experience? Or are they meant to be added as a side quest or side plot to a campaign? Or both?

Title pretty much says it all gents. I played the shit out of DR2 when it first came out, but never got around to playing Off the Record. I just installed it and fired it up, and already it seems like the dialogue between characters is the exact same with Frank as it was with Chuck, meaning psychopaths say the exact same thing.

Is Off the Record worth playing? Or if I played the crap out of regular DR2, will it be too boring of a rehash?

I'm shamelessly stealing this prompt from a BGG post a few years ago, but it's always fun to read over everyone's responses. I'll go first:

Last Night on Earth: The included soundtrack actually was pretty neat and made the game somewhat more enjoyable.

Twilight Struggle: Aldrich Ames in the early editions was beyond severely broken. I'm not sure what the hell the designers were thinking when they made that card.

Show us on the doll where the FLGS touched you...

I am doing my best to stay positive both with myself and project that positivity outwardly to help my wife, who is also starting to freak out about the prospect of our first child arriving in the next few weeks (due 1/15).

Everything I read on here talks about how utterly miserable the first few weeks (sometimes months) are with a newborn. I'm not trying to make excuses here, but I have had a terrible few months leading up to this point. We found out my wife was pregnant on the same day that we learned my mother had terminal cancer. My mom died in late August, barely 4 months from diagnosis. I have been starting to feel less shitty about life, and then my oldest dog declined sharply and had

DAE humblebrag about best wife evar?

Today I had to say goodbye to the sweetest, most gentle and loving dog that I have ever had the privilege of knowing. A little less than seven years ago, I adopted a seven-year-old dog named Dixie from a local shelter. It was one of the best decisions I have ever made.

Dixie had previously been abused and was very jumpy from any sort of unexpected noises. It took her some time to come out of her shell, but eventually a sweet, loving, carefree dog emerged. Dixie wanted nothing more in this world than to sleep and snore in someone's lap, gobble down food and treats, or sleep in her dog bed on our bed. She was the cutest and best dog that I could ever ask for. She didn't have a malicious bone

Today I had to say goodbye to the sweetest, most gentle and loving dog that I have ever had the privilege of knowing. A little less than seven years ago, I adopted a seven-year-old dog named Dixie from a local shelter. It was one of the best decisions I have ever made.

Dixie had previously been abused and was very jumpy from any sort of unexpected noises. It took her some time to come out of her shell, but eventually a sweet, loving, carefree dog emerged. Dixie wanted nothing more in this world than to sleep and snore in someone's lap, gobble down food and treats, or sleep in her dog bed on our bed. She was the cutest and best dog that I could ever ask for. She didn't have a malicious bone

I didn't know much about this game other than it was Telltale-esque, so I bought it on a whim recently. I ended up starting the game on Friday and finished it today. I don't even know where to begin, so I'll just jump right into it.

This game wrecked me, emotionally. My mother passed away in August from a very aggressive form of cancer. She was perfectly fine in April, and gone a little more than three months later. While not as traumatic as a car crash like William died in, many themes in this game just hit home for me so hard.

My mother died in a hospital-style bed at home, just like Chloe did in the alternate timeline. Both of their deaths were so peaceful. The themes of giving anything

PSX has shown the three-OSA setup to be king of the meta at this point. I'm having Ghosts MTAR / Vector flashbacks. What do you guys see becoming the new optimal setup once the OSA is inevitably nerfed?

I put in two separate (and large) orders on 11/16, and I have not heard a peep from FFG/Asmodee regarding shipping or further processing of either order. I had a pair of pending charges on my credit card, but these has since vanished. Maybe I have gotten spoiled by Amazon/CSI/MM/etc and their quick shipping, but I'm starting to get a bit concerned that neither order will be fulfilled successfully.

Anyone else having this issue?

Here it is, in all of its glory

$1,666 for the highest tier, sheeeeesh!

EDIT: For the people who cannot read the campaign page fully, the core game releases in the summer of 2017.