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Sorry, I'm trying to avoid spoilers so I didn't want to try and find the answer. When it comes to inviting new people to Wishville does the game let me invite as many people as I want without any real limit in a Pokemon, "Gotta Catch em all" like way or is it more like Animal Crossing where if I invite too many people eventually the game will be like "You've reached the maximum carrying capacity of Wishville and cannot increase its size any more, get rid of some resident's if you want to invite someone new?" To be clear I really mean the "Invite" path action and whether I will be no longer able to use it if I invite too many people unless I kick them out.

Hey all. I was hoping to hear from people familiar with both games. Some quick back ground. I played and own the original Brass and was very familiar with it. One of my friends did get Brass Birmingham and I played it once but I remember being unimpressed with it. Like in a "if we already have Brass Lancashire why would you want to play this?" type of way. I want to be very clear that it was over a decade ago and my memory of the game is basically gone. That statement is not intended to decry the game and is just paraphrasing my feelings at the time. I will say that I remember not realize just how important Beer was in the end game and being unable to get late game Beer for my actions.

The reason I bringing this up is because I know someone who will never miss an opportunity to insist that Lancashire is the significantly worse game because it has "Gotcha" mechanics (their words not mine). If I try to press them to explain what they mean, they say that if you don't know what you are doing you can find yourself unable to play on the final turn though they don't provide any specifics. I've been puzzled by this statement since while sure, you can find yourself in a tough position on the last turn of Lancashire, the same can really be said about any game and didn't seem to me that either Birmingham or Lancashire had this any worse than the other.

Prior to making this post, I combed through as many Birmingham vs Lancashire threads as I could find and it did seem like "new players getting stuck on the last turn with nothing to do" was a criticism leveraged against Lancashire more than Birmingham but again, no one explained what they meant or why this was the case. Additionally there did seem to be a lot of people who described Lancashire as being the "Tighter" game in the sense that I think there was more head to head with players. I was not really why this would be the case and I was wondering if anyone could elaborate on that too. Lastly and bizarrely, Birmingham was regularly described as being both more complicated and easier for new players. Can anyone explain how this can be? A lot of things people said in those threads were general statements and not explained using game mechanics from each game. Specific examples on what aspects of each game results in this would be appreciated. Thank you.

Just finished replaying Okami again and it's still amazing. The last time I played it was in the late 2000s and it was the Wii version. For those of you not familiar, on the Wii both Fleetfoot and Glaives were kind of hard to use so I basically ignored them on my previous playthrough. This time it was the Switch version so I was looking forward to this play through to see how good they were and boy did they great.

It's funny what I did and did not remember going into it. Like I could vividly remember climbing Cat's Tower, the Sparrow Area, Racing through the Forest and for some reason, needing an Inkfinity Stone on the bridge in Taka Pass. Then there were major things that were just a complete blank to me like the City being afflicted by a plague, Rao being a fake, or Princess Himiko dying. This was especially surreal because I remembered Shrinking and using Mist to dodge a Broom but for the life of me, I could not remember why I was in that situation. Re-experiencing it all again was a blast.

I'd also like to share a strategy for dealing with burrowing enemies that I could not find mentioned anywhere. I actually remembered from my first time playing that if an enemy goes underground you can use Whirlwind to "dig" them out. I was a bit surprised since I was expecting this to be common knowledge but when I looked I didn't see it anywhere, not on the Wiki not in any thread here. I see that there is a better way of dealing with them where you "ink" them to stop them from burrowing in the first place but I thought I would share this since I didn't know if there was any other way to get them out from underground if they already burrowed.

I've been needing to update my laptop for a while now. My current one is over 15 years old but the reason I'm having trouble parting with it is I'm worried about getting a new laptop that physically wears out in just a few years. Let me explain a bit better.

My current laptop is an old Toshiba model and for the outer casing they used what they called "Fusion Finish." This basically gave the laptop a smooth and glossy Plasticy/Fiberglass feel and for the most part seems to last forever without rubbing off or getting stained. Additionally the letters on the keys are part of the keys themselves. All and all this means my 15 year old laptop still psychically feels and looks great. To be clear we have replaced the insides and swapped out parts and I don't use it for anything intense hence how it's survived 15 years.

However I've seen other laptops and this is where my worries come from. Some laptop have clear oil/grease stains from where people have touched it repeatedly. I had one friend who had, I think a Dell laptop with a Silver outer casing and after just a few years the entire thing was rubbing off showing the material beneath. My father has a newer laptop where the letters were clearly printed onto the keys and after a few years all the lettering has rubbed off. This is the type of thing I'd want to make sure to avoid in a new laptop but I don't know how to identify this ahead of time.

I would love to get another laptop using the same fusion finish or something similar but Toshiba really isn't in the market anymore and Dynabook doesn't advertise it. I'd be willing to buy something else but I don't really know what to look for in an advertising sense. Some of the laptops I've seen have a less smooth slightly coarser feel to them and I don't know if this is fine or if it will just rub off after a year or 2. Any insight on what to look for or what to avoid and how to identify it or even brands that are good at this type of thing would be appreciated. Thank you.