Gratifying

Not sure if 2.9 is still going to be a thing, as it was just announced that 2.8 is not only the HD remix of Dream Drop Distance but also BBS Volume 2 (or 0.2) and the cinematic version of Chi called Back Cover. I suppose that if they split off the opening of KHIII like MGSV did with Ground Zeroes they could still do both, but 2.8 was also labelled as the Final Chapter Prologue; maybe new cutscenes? Actually, KH2 would have been better to do that with since Roxas' part of the game is separate. Maybe the prologue is Sora earning his Mark of Mastery and then the rest of the game will follow after that since he goes through another wardrobe change and whatnot.

The past week's episode of Critical Role involved catching Sam up since he'd been gone for several sessions. They had just finished up another part of Keyleth's side story, and coming up is Percy's side story. I am totally on board with killing some Briarwoods, and the part with Percy shopping for gunpowder and iron ore beforehand was hilarious. Otherwise, I'm not sure how Scanlan's bard abilities were not considered cheating (unless it falls under bardic immunity or something) whilst blatantly trying to use healing spells and trying to lie about it clearly was (landing Keyleth and Tiberius in jail yet again). Also, Grog clearly won through cheating by a combination of Stone Giant strength potion and Scanlan's inspiration die. I'm happy for Travis that the Cowboys won though, even if it was at the expense of the Giants.