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Btw if you actually enjoy Minesweeper, try Globesweeper.

Uncharted on console/with a controller. Unless you really love sitting behind knee-high-cover™ I highly recommend playing them on easy and like an older Tomb Raider game. Much more fun that way.

You could try Tadoku and then Learn Natively. It's basically just reading until you're fluent.

I have some games that I'm sure I didn't purchase but are not tied to the PS Plus. Maybe it's a bug?

Making it a routine is key. 2 week break is huge and will completely mess with your learning. Method that has worked for me is to do them throughout the day. Every time I would do something dumb on my phone, I would first go through few cards (or all if feeling motivated) and sooner or later they're all gone. Are your cards just kanji or words?

For kanji to stick, I've been using Ringotan which is free. It teaches you the stroke order and you can choose the learning order from multiple sources like Wanikani, RTK, Genki, etc.

Downside of my study method is that I do it for 1-5h/day and only after 3 years it feels like I've cracked the code and can actually understand something.

If I started from 0, I would probably start by watching all the Comprehensible Input content there is. Like from https://cijapanese.com/ (also on Youtube, but I feel like the website is better). This also takes time though.

That's usually without tax in US, right?

I just started playing Stories yesterday in order to learn Japanese. It's wild how different some of the names are. Hopefully the language barrier will keep me occupied until Wilds is released.

I've been playing since Freedom 2 and have played almost all of them to at least village completion. Exceptions are Tri and Frontier(s?). Def my favorite series by far and even if they have had their failed experiments, I'm glad they tried them.

I've tried fair share of clones as well but they usually don't hit the mark.

This would be a perfect spot to advertise that EU petition. There must've been at least 1 person who liked the game and now can't play anymore.

Well I already run an adblocker in 1 game so I guess another won't hurt. At least after I'm actually willing to update. (Yes there is a mod that does that)

Oh I do play it regularly as well but I would never let a minor setback like this to gate me from one of my favourite games.

You can download old depots from Steam and even keep games from updating. Very useful if you want to try outdated mods or prevent devs like Beat Games from forcing monthly updates on you.

Not really excusing Gearbox since I like to think that I'm sane but the game is really good. They really should've released the update as a beta first.

Why? They are not live service games.

If the meat of the game is in it's multiplayer, then you just need to be declared as the grand champion.