Old Dork Yells at Clouds

I really enjoyed Persona 3 Reload. I didn't play the original Persona 3 as I came into the series with Persona 4, so I don't have some of the baggage that some long time players have regarding the combat changes. On the contrary, I think the combat in the game is the best in the series. It took the combat in Persona 5 and made it more balanced and engaging.

That doesn't change the fact that the meat of the Expansion Pass, Episode Aigis, gives you nothing but combat. I enjoyed the combat of Persona 3 Reload greatly, and I quickly got tired of the dungeon after dungeon in Episode Aigis. At the end of each dungeon, you get a 5 minute character scene. That's it. Everything else is dungeon crawl. It's not the eighties anymore Atlas - the Wizardry format doesn't work.

I will give Atlas credit for the climax of the Episode Aigis, it is very fun and engaging. All of the characterization and plot of Episode Aigis is crammed into maybe the last hour out of thirty hours of gameplay. I don't care how engaging your endgame is, it is not worth thirty hours of non-stop dungeon crawling.

The extra music and costumes in the expansion pass are not worth discussing. No one would have bought the costumes or music DLC if they weren't bundled with Episode Aigis. Someone must like this kind of garbage DLC, as companies keep publishing cosmetic DLC. I have yet to meet this person - they are probably very deranged.

In Plano a couple of weeks ago, some company opened a goofy licensed Minecraft LARP in an abandoned Buy Buy Baby. For some reason, the company decided that our plain suburb should be the first stop for their "experience". Seems inconsequential right? No one would notice its coming and passing besides some Minecraft enjoyers.

Wrong. Local social media has been flooded with free tickets to this thing. Why?

If you buy a ticket and attend this experience, they e-mail you a code for cosmetic DLC for Minecraft. A cape. A really ugly cape. That is selling for 200 dollars. The catch that you can't get the code without actually going to the event and getting your ticket scanned. So people who live all over the world are spamming local social media with free tickets. Locals go to this dumb thing, and the buyers get a $200 item that they can scalp online since the code is sent to the e-mail that bought the tickets.

Hey, kids, you can mod Minecraft and put any texture you want in there. It's one of the selling points of the game - modability. Please don't incentivize the Internet to scam locals in my city, Minecraft Experience. I hate our lame cyberpunk present.