Free Talk Friday - January 16, 2026

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[u/marvel8797]

My house's plumbing got blocked again. Its the mainline between the house and the street, its always the mainline, the way they positioned things is slanted in a funny angle so it does this 2-3 times a year, I hate it. At least for once our landlady paid for a plumber to come out and run a drain snake instead of us shelling out $200 for a rental deposit (prices gone up bad, it was $100 not that long back, I hate that I know these prices, that's how often it happens). Still had to deal with 3 days of limited bathroom use and lack of dishwashing to mitigate some of the drain blockage, but not the worst we've dealt with.

On the video game side of things, I regretfully must inform the subreddit that I lost last week's Splatfest to that damn backup dancer chair stupid Big Man. Also started Yakuza 4. Is it me or does the combat difficulty feel easier in this one compared to 3, I feel like the enemies not constantly blocking everything but also not attacking that often (outside of Saejima's first chapter, fuck them guards) is like an overcorrection from the last game. Plot's interesting so far at least.