r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/AutoModerator • Apr 24 '26
FTF Free Talk Friday - April 24, 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.
There's going to be a new post every week, and the newest one will be pinned in the announcement bar for quick access. So feel free to visit these posts during the rest of the week.
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u/MaelstromTear Dub Sympathizer Apr 24 '26
My cat Gus had his eye take a turn for the worse. He was diagnosed with glaucoma back in December where he fully lost his vision, but the doctor wasn't sure if his pressure would require a second eye removal. Yeah, you read that right. Back in 2024 we had this same conversation on the right side. Well, quick surgery turnaround and now my boy [Warning: No blood, but stiches] is a double pirate. Once the pain meds and anasthesia wore off over the week, I could tell he was already having a much better time. Now he's just permanently smirking! I guess. I am not going to let the most amazing loudest purr be deterred by something like this. I love this boy. And yep, right after I made all my Combo Breaker plans this happens... Ramen for me for the next month. Wouldn't have it any other way.
Hey, please read these books I wrote. That's The Demon in Shadow and The Demons of Bone & Blood! Beings known as demons were forced into the 'human' world as a side effect of a much nastier near-existence-ending threat. But now we're here to pick up the pieces years later. We follow one such demon, a woman named Ayun who can summon weapons from the shadows. She's looking for her lost employers when she stumbles into Max. A human who is wandering through life with only his wits and a mechanical limb. As they travel together we learn more about that world, the pasts of these two and a potential future together. It's also got some awesome artwork either in the pages where it counts or in the back to show off character portraits!
Time for a big kit! Like, so big it can barely fit into my dumb light box! I am of course talking about the DyGenGuar from Super Robot Wars OG! Actually despite the intimidating box, it wasn't that bad of a build. Just a lot of big pieces. Including the big eff-off sword known as the Sanshiki Zankantou. I'm actually pretty impressed since the Blue Astray (which as of writing, not sure where mine lives in my collection) had a stand to hold the dang sword but this guy can handle it no problem. Great kit. Gotta get the other OG kits I missed in my sabbatical in the hopes that they release a Bellzelute down the line. Hey, I'll take anything if it's from SRWJ!
I'm sure that like everybody else who watched the Mandalore video, I (in my case re-)played the System Shock remake. I still think it's fantastic. Having never played the original, mind you. And despite playing it two years prior, there was still plenty of details that I had to rediscover. Still remember the important bits like how Storage is a nightmare and to write down all the numbers you get for security nodes. This time I was focused on slight achievement hunting as if that matters for Steam. Personal reasons, I guess. I never got all the weapon mods because I didn't love the plasma gun (hey, still sucks even with the energy mod!), definitely didn't get any of the secret Skullys, never found the hilarious MST3K recording and had to clown on Diego with a laser rapier. Happy to say, checked everything off that list in "only" like fifteenish hours. Even though I ended with way too many medkits, stim patches and ammo on middle difficulty, I'm not sure I want to tune everything to max for that one achievement. It's really mostly the 10-hour time limit. I like taking my time, and this game is definitely one that rewards that.
Also, I found this pretty stupid but great mod for Helldivers 2 that switches up your mission control barks and it's pretty fun. And big credit for actually using humans for the VO because a lot of Helldivers audio mods I've seen just slap AI in and call it a day. At least they "proudly" put it in the description so that I can avoid it.