otherwise the game would just be a case of maxing relationships day 1 and then dungeon crawling for 5 hours until the next cutscene.

Sounds perfectly fine to me. That has been the way I play since my first JRPG (Dragon Quest 1). I guess it is another kind of resource management, but I don’t really see the need for that.

I keep hearing good things about the Persona series, but for this particular reason, I haven’t tried playing any Persona games.

What was the question again?

Trans fats are bad.

Excess saturated fat could be bad depending on the health condition of the person.

BBC Crowd Science - science topics discussed in a fun way, even my daughter enjoys it https://www.bbc.com/audio/brand/p04d42rc

Office Ladies - Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey talk about each episode of the sitcom https://officeladies.com/

Remember The Game - retro gaming podcast by a comedian. Focusing on one game per episode https://www.rememberthegamepodcast.com/

Black Box - The Guardian had an excellent series about AI, but only the first episode is available now. https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/aug/26/black-box-episode-1-the-connectionists-podcast

Other than that, lots of other gaming, science and tech podcasts.

Haven’t listened to music for a long time unless it’s part of the media I am consuming (tv, movies, games etc).

Been mostly listening to podcasts instead of.