Wait for others to chip in, but maybe that’s what they’re all like? They will do what they can to make the process go as smoothly as possible and reduce the risk of the deal falling through - otherwise they won’t get their fee. I’ve only had one experience, and he didn’t feel that pushy, but I perhaps regret agreeing to the mortgage insurance thing since I’m still alive, and I think they steered me towards getting the survey that only values the house rather than the more expensive one that highlights any issues with the house (which would have prevented a couple of surprises). When the valuation came in below the agreed price, he quickly suggested meeting halfway, which in a way saved me quite a big chunk of money, but maybe that’s a standard thing the agent would have advised me of anyway.

Well, I got the emblem so I guess I’m back to randomly opening up wonder pick to get my dose of surplus green event tickets from a bonus pick.

I played symphonia (gc) and abyss (3ds) long ago and enjoyed them both, but can’t really get interested in these 15-year-old remasters of old games. They look like the same game, same gameplay system as those, just with different characters. If something recent like Tales of Arise gets a port to Switch 2, though - then I’ll be interested.

I far prefer the 5-in-a-row event to the 45 win event. There’s a bit of tension involved with 5 in a row, whilst the 45 wins just feels like a grind.

Did a little bit of TotK becuse I still haven’t finished all the shrines and I actually quite like the puzzles. Still got about 20 shrines left I think. I think that’s the last little completionist thing I’ll do in the game.

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I’ll be checking here for trading partners when it’s opened up. I still need 8 diamonds and a few 1-stars.

I got cards to play a pikachu ex deck pretty early on, but I’m missing second copies to be able to play a lot of other meta decks - no second gardevoir, no moltres ex at all, no second celebi ex or gyarados ex. I’d quite like to try a deck with starmie ex, but I only have one of those too… So filling in some of those gaps will be nice.

No worries - it’s always a bit difficult to find which communities are active among all the dupliactes on Lemmy - there’s many pokemon comms and even multiple TCG comms.

It’s a bit annoying that you’ll only be able to trade with friends - unless you know people irl who play it, you’ll have to organise trades on social media probably.

I was working quite hard to get all the genetic apex diamond cards to complete the dex, but now I’m more focusing on any 2-star and above cards I like.

Anyone else here hooked on Pocket? Glad that trading is coming. Obviously I’d prefer for freedom to trade above 1-star (like I somehow have three immersive Charizards) and I would have liked there to some kind of global trade station where you propose a trade to the ether and someone accepts it. But still happy for a bit more clarity on how trading will work.

Who is the burden of proof on to show the wind speed? The insurance company doesn’t know the wind speed on his roof, and it doesn’t seem right to assume it’s the same as somewhere nearby.

The conditions she was held under are obviously terrible, but I also can’t believe they also just stole a bunch of her stuff which is clearly not related (like her jewellery) and just left her ~200 miles or whatever it is from her home where they arrested her.

Ah, I didn’t see your edit to say you’d played it too. I’m not sure if it will appeal to a more hardcore player (I hadn’t played any for at least a year prior), but yeah, I think it’s pretty nice for newbies and more casual players. Some people will like just opening packs and might not bother with the battles.

One thing about PTCGL was that the app/PC client were really bloated, slow, and ran hot on my devices. The app for Pocket has great performance.

I’ve still been playing Fire Emblem Engage in bursts, but don’t think I played it this week - however, I think I’m on the last chapter now, so might finish it this weekend. Although there’s still DLC chapters to do that I haven’t looked at yet.

What I’ve actually been playing is Pokemon TCG Pocket. I played PTCG Online a bit just before it transitioned to PTCG Live, and then continued with PTCGL a bit after that, so I was already familiar with how battles work. So far, I’m pretty happy with PTCGP. It’s a simplified version of the normal PTCG rules with custom cards without real-world equivalents. It is definitely more straightforwards, which is nice for doing quick battles but limits the types of interesting plays you can make. What I really appreciate is some kind of single-player mode (which they had in PTCGO but scrapped in PTCGL) with interesting challenges to do.

I’m not sure if a meta has emerged, but I feel that the online battles I’ve done are farily diverse it terms of the decks people use - I think there are more viable decks to use. In PTCGL, there were like 3 or 4 decks that everyone used, so that battles were really repetitive.

It’s still early days for PTCGP, but I think it’s a very well made game. Not something I’ll play all year round, but might dip in every now and then.

To be fair, it’s only the countries in dark blue on that map that have it. The light blue countries have something like one of your parents has to be a citizen/settled, which is what the previous commenter was suggesting as an alternative.

Not most, technically - wiki says 0-14 make 44% of population. But this article breaks down the 70% further by saying 44% killed were 14 or under, so it’s pretty much bang on for indicating that they’re killing Palestinians at random.

The huge list of echoes that you have to scroll through in a single line looking for the right one is pretty annoying. It was same kind of problem when you wanted to attach something to an arrow in TotK.

How exactly are they going to offload all that artisan cheddar?

I’ve been doing a bit of Fire Emblem Engage every evening, and it’s really grown on me. The battles are challenging in a way that you really have to think about how you set everyone up at the start, consider most moves carefully, and respond when the enemy does something you don’t expect. It all leads to a very satisfying result when you execute it well. I haven’t played a FE game since Awakening, so I can’t really compare it with more recent games and maybe I’ve forgotten what FE is like, but it does feel like a really well-balanced game in terms of the battle difficulty.

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Slowly carrying on with Fire Emblem Engage. It’s picking up a bit and it’s pretty fun now. I’m playing on the easiest settings (no permadeath and unlimited use of the time crystal to rewind when you make mistakes). I’m slightly conflicted about that now, because I did enjoy the old challenge of getting through without anyone ever dying. In Engage I’m mainly using the time crystal when I make a button press when I don’t mean it or immediately seeing a better placement for a unit, but every chapter or two I have a character die and I rewind to save them (where in the past I would have restarted the chapter). On one chapter, I didn’t bother rewinding and just let someone die because I knew they’d come back. It is a huge (real) time saver, but it’s a very different feel from older FE games. I know I could play with harder settings, but now the option is there, I’m not sure I have the patience and time to go back to the old way. Not sure what the point of this ramble was - still a fun game, and I’m definitely going to play through to the end.