Gamer nerds: what video game affected you the most emotionally?

As a 35 year old man, I don’t play a lot of video games anymore, but still do from time to time and I grew up in the era of video games starting to have actual plots and acting. I was usually a sports only gamer, but one that actually had me invested and cutting onions at the end was the first Walking Dead game. Just destroyed me in the end. I haven’t played the second (I’ve watched a play through on YouTube though) and haven’t done anything at all with the third, especially since they made Clementine a minor charachter. Was just reading up on the 4th and final and it looks like they’ve not only made Clementine the playable main character again but brought back the main writer from the first season, so I may very well dive back into the series again from the start.

Runner up is probably The Last of Us. It wasn’t an incredibly emotional ending, but it was enough on top of the fact of how many hours I’d devoted to the characters that it really sucked having it end (super jacked for the second one to be coming out as well.)

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Calling Eastern Iowa Clones. My wife and I are planning a bathroom remodel and we are looking for recommendations. This will pretty much gut a very small bathroom and finish off a utility room. Will involve all new fixtures as well as moving some walls/door. In the past we've used Lane Stark-Master Carpenter. Very good, great work but pretty spendy. Looking for recommendations. Will probably get quote from Hometown restyling. Anyone here use them before for inside projects?

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Wisconsin Dual Discussion

Looking ahead to Wisconsin and below are the ranked matchups:

125- Kysen (19th) vs Barnett (5th)
149- Ech or Casey (16th) vs Zargo (15th)
165- Carr (2nd) vs Hamiti (4th)
174- Gaitan (23rd) vs Maylor (27th)

Didn't see Braxton Amos in the rankings, wonder if he is taking an Olympic Redshirt? 165 will be the highlight match of the night, but Kysen has a great chance to climb the rankings if he can beat Barnett again. Good challenge for Gaitan as well. Overall, Wisconsin seems pretty down so it should be a comfortable win for the Clones and a good tune-up before Iowa.
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