u/toe_beans_4_life

I feel like I'm going crazy. I really like TPS, so I played it a lot a few years ago. I think I got my old Timothy up to a 60 level, if not 70. I liked how hard it felt to me at the time.

I'm starting fresh now (playing Timothy again bc I just like him), bc I just want to enjoy the game all the way through again.

Well I'm to level 12 and it's felt way easier than I remember it being. I decided to load up borderlands 3 for a comparison and I struggled significantly more in that one tonight - then again, I hadn't played bl3 in a while so maybe I was just rusty. But I'm just not feeling the challenge from TPS that I remember, and that I got from BL3 tonight.

The big difference I can think of is that I'm using more sniper rifles than in my previous playthroughs. I hadn't really used rifles in my last playthroughs bc I was worse at aiming than I am now. I did also notice that I have almost 100 badass points that I apparently didn't use in my previous playthroughs that I can use for this character. But I've only used about 20 of them, then just turned them off.

Has anyone else experienced this? Am I missing something? I have been playing some notoriously difficult games in the past few years, so I guess it's also possible that my metric for a difficult game has drastically changed. I keep wondering if something carried over from my previous playthroughs that's affecting this one tho.

TPS was the first game that I ever completed on my own, and it was the first game I ever actually became obsessed with. It's always been my favorite borderlands game and it always will be.

I'm replaying it for the first time in a few years and the nostalgia is so great. But I forgot how much I love the soundtrack. Especially Mooncore, Helio, Lunar Surface, and SpaceStation.

The soundtrack not only fits the game perfectly, but it's also so well composed. Not surprising coming from Jesper Kyd!

EDIT: oh and can't forget how good the claptastic voyage soundtrack is too

I've just started reading Mercedes Lackey's Magic's Pawn. I had asked for a recommendation here a few months back for gay male characters in classic fantasy a little while ago, as I had been reading classic scifi and was getting sick of seeing zero representation - or homophobia - so far.

I love it so far. I was a little apprehensive bc I'm typically picky about young/new adult fiction, but I'm already a big fan.

I'm realizing tho that my current TBR is still mostly barren of books that focus on M/M, since most representation is going to be in more recent series and at the time I was looking for classic stuff. And I want to make the biggest, gayest TBR now!

So! Do you have any recs for scifi, fantasy, and/or horror that focus on M/M?

Here's some of my favorite books/series for reference to what I typically like:

1. Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles

2. Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun

3. Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb (yes I do also love some lesbians in space!)

4. Dune

5. The Murderbot Diaries

6. The Magnus Archives audiodrama

7. The Welcome to Night Vale audiodrama

8. The Alien franchise movies and some of its books

I'm not super into stories where sex is the primary focus, but sex as a natural development is fine. I like strong plots that aren't only focused on romance.

Thanks so much!!

Edit: I should say that I've already been recommended the Widdershins series, if anyone was going to mention that one