The LiquidLegends Lounge - Page 1750

Terraforming in ES2 is a fairly strict progression of worse planets to better ones, unless you're Riftborn because they Terraform backwards for flavor reasons but weren't given appropriate bonuses to make that remotely worthwhile. In ES1 it was a lot more nuanced and changed as the game progressed and you unlocked technologies which made the population cap differences and happiness modifiers less relevant..

ES2's race and political systems are almost completely irrelevant. That's good because if they weren't people would hate them as implemented.

ES2's story quests feel like trying to follow a TV series where you skip 2 out of every 3 episodes. There are a lot of, "Wait, when did that happen/that attitude change/who is that???" moments.

Again, ES2 isn't bad, but it was disappointing. I expected more given how good Endless Space was at launch.

So, I mentioned here before that I found this cool nerd girl. Unfortunately that flaked out a little, I think we were a good fit but just timing was wrong, and she was maybe afraid of how fast things between us were progressing and pulled back. Fair enough, things happen.

I happened to meet this girl at my local super market, right across from my gym, where she happens to work. So i've been kind of avoiding buying groceries by doing drive by's to check if she's working, because like 30s of conversation is hard and scary and I'd just rather not deal with it. So last week or so, been needing some groceries, but shes just been there every time I went by. Fast forward to today, I have no groceries. I drive after work, she there, so I hoped she had some sort of late afternoon shift, and just decided I would go back later after I worked out, hopefully she wouldn't be there.

So I slam a protein shake and eat my last salad, and walk to the gym. Finish my work out, walk across the street to grocery store. I'm exhausted and body still pumping with adrenaline from my workout. I see nerd girl there, and I'm just crushed. All this effort to avoid her, and now I'm stuck in a scenario where I need groceries now, and shes the only cashier working this late at night. Shit. From here, I just hustle and grab my shit as fast as I can. Apparently this was a good move, as there is now this large line forming.

I'm starting to get nervous, I'm coming up close to the front. I'm bracing myself for the inevitable awkward reciprocal "hey how are you..." Manager comes in, opens a second till, calls me over.

Thank jesus. I don't even need to worry about the small talk. At this point, the Manager notices my one bag of salad has one leaf that is going bad, asks if I want a different bag instead. Awesome. That is pretty cool of her to notice, and let me pick a different one, made my week marginally better than it would have been otherwise,
while making more work for herself and losing the store money. Manager walks me back to the lettuce cooler,
lets me exchange, and I take the opportunity to thank her for her kindness, and told her that I really appreciated it.

All things considered, nothing bad happens. We're getting back to the till, I grab my bags. Its over. Nothing bad happened...

"Hey, I want you to meet Nerd Girl! You're such a genuine guy, Nerd Girl deserves someone cool like you! She'd really like you, I noticed your Triforce tattoo, and shes real big into Zelda! She's had some bad luck. Nerd Girl this is... Sorry I didn't catch your name?"


NOOOOOO!!!!

-.-

Why tho.