I was homeschooled, so I never read any of the books most people did. What are some must read books you think someone should read?

So I never read any of the classic books some people have in school. Lord of the Flies, 1984, Moby Dick, Frankenstein, Dracula, Odyssey, Brave New World, The Hobbit, Beowulf, Fahrenheit 451, The Great Gatsby, etc

Only books I have read and completed in my life are Wheel of Time Book 1: The Eye of the World, Ready Player One, Hail Mary Project, Be Water, My Friend.

So what are some classic books you that you read in school growing up that stuck with you, clicked for you and just absolutely loved journey you had reading it, that I might be missing out on? Or am I not really missing out on reading any of these and they were better suited for kids learning to read, do critical thinking and studying the plot as a group.

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u/thatguy01220 — 6 days ago

First attempt at Expert and Beskar trophy. (Perma death off) Wish me luck.

So far I beat the game twice on Normal, now I’m gonna try for the expert and Beskar trophy. I read Hawk should be a Medic to help form bonds quickly, and aim to get the medpack mark IV from the Aureck Zone asap. I also assigned him pistols just cause it’s easier to get one shot off if need be for an ADV point in between tossing combat stims to maximize bonds. Then down the road when I can pick a second class, I should be a scout for when I get Cly and then the game should beat itself from there especially when I max out her darts to just costing 1 ADV.

u/thatguy01220 — 1 month ago

Not gonna got a little heated on that one

I get missing 95% chance shots its statistics, but don’t lie me saying 100% and still missing. 100% literally means 0% chance of failure. You gonna do that make it say 99% don’t give me false hope.

u/thatguy01220 — 2 months ago

Found Venom Lethal Protector at one of my LCS I don’t usually visit.

Haven’t read any of these comics before. I tried to flip through it quickly just to show a variety of color and heroes and villains in the book cause I’ve seen some people comment on other post wondering what the color quality is inside. Couldn’t really find a green color dominant page.

Just saw that it had Venom Lethal Protector 1-6 (always wanted to read it) and had some ghost rider and wolverine features. Also looked only it ranged around $70-87 online or I could pay $45 and have it now. The bottom corner for the back cover is lightly damaged, has a strong folded back crease like someone tried shoving it in a tight space on the bookshelf and left it that way for awhile until some else fixed it. It’s pretty small and it’ll get wear and tear with time when I read them.

I’m still made at myself the day I got Spider-Man Man or Menace? Epic collection when I got home it slipped and drop on the corner of the bottom spine on gravel/dirt and messed it up and gave it some pretty good scratches… still kinda stings when I look at it lol

u/thatguy01220 — 2 months ago

Please for Spider-Man 3, give us some suit facts in the menu like the OG Spider-Man PS1, also make comic book covers the collectables.

I have vague memories of this game playing it as a kid but this menu really sticks out to me and Stan Lee narrating it. I loved learning little details about the suit even if it was just brief (or none at all like Captain Universe). I think it would be cool if they did a throw back and added this. Just when the first was shown in what issue of spider and a little fact like this was a concept suit of the spider-man movie, this suit belong to Ben Reilly who beloved in himself to be the real Spider-Man.

I do remember comic book covers were a collectable and I think they should really do that again. I can’t remember but I think they also gave brief synopsis or explained what big event happened in that issue to make it a key issue. They already have Spider-Man comics in the insomniac games and that’s the sort of the subtle meta 4th wall breaking thing that’s always been in comics and I love it’s.

That’s what made the collectables in Insomniac first Spider-Man game fun they were backpacks that explored the lore of that universe but very similar to the stuff that happened in comic and movies like a love letter all jumbled up. I feel like collecting comics and the suit facts are the next best thing. Just another thing to this list of ideas we all keep sharing.

u/thatguy01220 — 2 months ago

I feel like Insomniac should have made Spider-Man D tier rogues mini boss fights as a random crime.

>!It sucks they killed off Vulture, Scorpion, and Shocker in Spider-Man 2!< Imagine how fun it would be especially post game just swinging around doing stoping random city crimes like we do… but every now and then it’s one of Spider-Mans rouges. Maybe beat up their thugs, and the villain, then when the villain lose some health he makes a break for it, you go on a short chase can do some damage mid chase, and if he still has health at the end of the line you finish up the fight.

I feel like that’s the best way to give you a true Spider-Man experience is stopping crimes and occasionally bosses. Fight the harder generic enemies over and over near end game gets old. But if the mix it up with street level thugs, end game thugs, and one of his rogues that would be pretty fun, just to hop on eve try now and then not knowing what villain you fight and until you have your fill and come back when you to scratch that itch again to play as Spider-Man

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u/thatguy01220 — 2 months ago

Tried taking pictures of the NYC and the NPC in the game Spider-Man 2

Playing this game again haven’t played since launch

u/thatguy01220 — 2 months ago

Last big haul for a good while from my LCS. Now I gotta be responsible and save money.

Probably won’t get anything for a good while until I find job. Been unemployed for 2 months with paid leave but now I’m nearing the end of that grace period and I still haven’t even gotten an interview let alone a job offer. I knew it was bad out there… but man is it way harder to get a job than I thought. I might have to bite the bullet get a crappy temp job through a temp agency to get some kind of income.

u/thatguy01220 — 2 months ago

My Claws of Awaji photo dump journey

I was just gonna do the the DLC and thought I was done with photo mode but it kept pulling me back in

u/thatguy01220 — 2 months ago

Small photo dump, finally beat the game, got the platinum, on to the DLC

Spent less time in photo mode for the second half the game and just focus on finishing it up. Once I cross the 100-120 hour mark I start itching to play something else. Had a lot of fun with this game, sucks they cancelled a lot of future DLC, but happy with what we got. I’m kinda looking forward to a more linear style if the rumors are true for AC Hex, after four main AC titles being 100+ hours each.

u/thatguy01220 — 2 months ago

Grabbed these at my LCS yesterday

Never really checked the trade wall and was pretty surprised how many epic collections they had of a lot of characters

u/thatguy01220 — 2 months ago

For Spider-Man 3 you think they should add a walk in arcade with dumb fun mini games like Spider-Man Pizza Delivery?

I was just thinking how I missed old school video games use to have nonsensical bonus game modes, that were just dumb fun post story or just a break from the gameplay loop.

Like imagine you could walk into an arcade but it’s a spider-man theme arcade. You can go up to one machine and play a quick Spider-Man theme mini game.

Spider-Man Bowling - like from the 2002 Spider-Man movie game just modernized.

Pizza Delivery - styled like GTA Ambulance mission. Peter has one pizza this amount of time, don’t do flips to mess up the pizza return to the shop, level 2, you have 2 pizza 2 locations, return level 3, 3 pizza, 3 locations etc, etc.

Spider-Kart - is basically a simplified go kart game maybe styled like bloodborne kart. You pick Spider-Man or a villain, you have 4 power moves when you run over those power up boxes but they’re all simple since it wouldn’t be a super in-depth like Mario-Kart just a dumb fun side thing to do. Front attack like Spider-Man webbing the tire spins them out 3 seconds, side ram like rhino leaning in hitting you or doc oct bring you in and slamming you against his cart cause you to spin out 3 seconds, back attacks/traps Spider-Man web bombs Goblin Pumpkin bombs, then some special attack causing everyone to spin out for 3 seconds.

Spider-Dance - basically just a DDR rhythm game with like 4-5 songs ranging from very easy to very hard. I know this one is a stretch because of licensing music but they did have music in Miles Morales.

Web Shooters - basically a carnival style game targets pop up and you shoot you web.

Kick em’ & Stick em’ - imagine a big room like a batting cage, one wall has bullseye targets with different sizes and points, there’s a group of generic thugs and your goal is to basically web swing kick one of them onto a target or maybe aerial combat them and aim, throw and web them to a target spot on the wall.

I’m sure someone more creative can come up with better ideas than me. I don’t know much about game programming, but I can’t imagine something like Spider-Man Bowling would take up to much time and resources. Especially when you’re just reusing the resources already made. Spider-Kart and Dance I can see being too ambitious.

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u/thatguy01220 — 2 months ago

Mid game photo dump, having a lot of fun so far.

Just explored the whole map, did all side map marker objectives like horse archery, kata, praying at all shrines, exploring all tombs etc. so now that’s left is story and side missions.

u/thatguy01220 — 2 months ago

It’s kind nuts how good the graphics are in photo mode, this is just a random NPC, zoomed in max.

I got this game last week, finally started messing around in photo mode and saw a group of 4 talking by the road, not an actual conversation just the generic NPC idle in a circle. I zoomed in on their faces to be funny but then I realized that it’s actually pretty damn good for a generic NPC model. I know photo mode enhances character models and stuff, but still the coloring and shading looks really solid. Only thing that looks funky to me is the eyebrow hair and eyelash color look a little off.

u/thatguy01220 — 3 months ago

The most sassy finale words from an NPC I have ever heard.

Maybe cause I been up all night playing and I’m just sleep deprived, but this gave me a good chuckle.

u/thatguy01220 — 3 months ago