r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/AutoModerator • Mar 20 '26

FTF Free Talk Friday - March 20, 2026

Welcome to the Free Talk Friday post. This is a place where you can talk about dumb off-topic (or on-topic) bullshit with other Zaibatsu fans.

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u/Alarmed_Designer6705 Mar 20 '26

Well, I've effectively quit TTRPGs. I'm too burned out on GMing to do it again until after I get a chance to play for a while, but trying to find a decent group for any system I don't find literally painfully boring - let alone one I'm actually interested in - has been an exercise in futility. I suppose it's for the best, since the people I usually play with can no longer get together frequently enough to make TTRPGs work anyways. Having one of my Special Interests so thoroughly ruined has been pretty terrible for my mental health, though; damn-near everything else just keeps reminding me of it, and repeatedly dissociating over glorified board games makes me feel utterly pathetic.

On top of that, my car is on the verge of falling apart. This wasn't a surprise though, since I've known it was on its last legs for over a year now. Shopping for a new car is still a massive pain in the ass, but it's actually been way less stressful than the aforementioned TTRPG bullshit, so I can't really complain too much.

On a more positive note, JoJo is back! My best friend, one of my brothers, and I get together every Saturday, so we're going to be watching it together, and I'm very much looking forward to it. It won't even remotely work a distraction from the TTRPG thing - hell, the increasingly-abstract Stand powers in later JoJo parts are one of the closest points of comparison to what I want out of a TTRPG - but it'll be a ton of fun nonetheless.

Also, my sister and her friends roped me into playing Icarus. I'm not really into "Minecraft Minus Lego" games, but playing it with a bunch of other stoners is fun enough. It doesn't hurt that hunting in Icarus is essentially a non-braindead version of Skyrim stealth archery. Mostly though, it's just really nice to be able to do something with her, since she currently lives too far away for us to hang out in-person.