u/stannisbaratheonking

Hello folks! I’m visiting your lovely city for a few weeks. Do you have suggestions for good cafes where I can work remotely? I’m leaning towards Starbucks Lulu. Here is a list of my preferences:

1. Not too much noise. Ideally no music etc. I may have to attend a call or two. I can carry noise cancelling equipment.

2. Work hours will be typically be 2-6 pm on weekdays. So hopefully not too crowded at those times.

3. Not ridiculously pricey. I guess that’s a subjective definition, but ideally it’ll be nice if I don’t have to spend more than 500-600 bucks per session

I’m leaning Starbucks simply because I’ve seen people work there. I’ve also heard of Eve’s Cafe and Baker’s Arch Garden Cafe, but I don’t know how they fare in these respects. Your suggestions, and wherever appropriate, your personal experiences, are most welcome.

What a game!

I love story-driven games. The gameplay is never the driving factor for me. It should always be secondary to the plot for me, because I think a game has the potential to tell a story in a way that’s far more immersive than a movie/TV can do.

I’ve tried Horizon before - never quite got the hang of it, likely because I was playing on PC with not quite good graphics. And even this time I definitely struggled to I make it out of the prologue on Normal. Guess I learned to play better by degrees.

But the story-it defied all my theories. On first glance you’d think - okay Striders are horse-analogues so presumably they went extinct as a result of humans being humans, and machines were crafted to replace the same ecological niche. Explains why turkeys, badgers exist as flesh and blood creatures but not them. But as it turned out this was far better than any theory I could have come up with. I’ll refrain from spoilers, but in the latter half of the main story, every mission gave you a ton of lore drops, which completely changed what you were thinking of. It’s brilliant.

I’ve played Frozen Wilds as well - did that before Sunfall - looks like that was the right call because there were definitely references in that mission to what we saw in Frozen Wilds. Fascinating.

I’m very tempted to go directly into Forbidden West. Some small things to wrap up in Zero Dawn, nothing story related, but I’m tempted to skip them. I would imagine that the sequel will probably be better with gameplay etc but it’s probably got big shoes to fill story wise - even if the story is immaculately told, it’ll likely struggle to evoke the same sense of mystery. Regardless, I’m excited. Clocked a total of 83 hours thus far and from what I’ve heard FW is even bigger. I don’t mind that at all.