{"id":1770198,"date":"2026-02-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1770198"},"modified":"2026-02-14T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:00:00","slug":"what-weve-been-playing-i-think-my-brain-might-be-cooked-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1770198","title":{"rendered":"What we&#8217;ve been playing &#8211; &#8220;I think my brain might be cooked&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"features\" data-article-group=\"feature\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/features\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Features<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">What we&#8217;ve been playing &#8211; &#8220;I think my brain might be cooked&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">A few of the things that have us hooked this week.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Nioh-3-image-showing-a-warrior-with-a-blade.jpg?width=690&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Nioh 3 image showing a warrior with a blade\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"Nioh-3-image-showing-a-warrior-with-a-blade.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"690\" height=\"388\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Team Ninja\/Koei Tecmo<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"features\"><br \/>\n                    Feature<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/robert-purchese\">Robert Purchese<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Associate Editor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-02-14T08:00:00+00:00\">Feb. 14, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/what-weve-been-playing-i-think-my-brain-might-be-cooked?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          14 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"c14a30e0-fed1-4bf4-bd66-40aba0e60247\" data-name=\"Diablo II: Resurrected\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Diablo II: Resurrected\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Diablo II: Resurrected\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Diablo II: Resurrected\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Diablo II: Resurrected\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Diablo II: Resurrected\" title=\"Follow Diablo II: Resurrected\"><br \/>\n  Follow Diablo II: Resurrected<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<div class=\"desktop_mpu\">\n<div class=\"mpu1 lazyload\" data-dfp-id=\"eurogamer_net\/mobile_web_display\/article\" data-dfp-sizes=\"300x250\" data-dfp-targeting=\"site=eurogamer.net,pos=1,gto=false,position=desktop-article-mpu,gnpos=1\" data-dfp-collapse=\"false\" data-dfp-above-the-fold=\"true\" data-dfp-refresh-direct=\"true\" data-prebid-config=\"MPU_1\" id=\"desktop_mpu_1\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>14th February<\/h2>\n<p>Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we&#8217;ve been playing. This week, Bertie plays a classic but finds himself getting a bit bored; Marie adopts a black cat called Salem; Tom can&#8217;t get out of the menus; Victoria makes a young child cry; Dom Platinums a game and feels very smug about it; and Connor finds an inventive way to play two MMOs at once.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for something else to read, or a reminder of what you once wrote, there&#8217;s a whole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/topics\/what-weve-been-playing\">What We&#8217;ve Been Playing archive<\/a> to delve into.<\/p>\n<h2>Diablo 2 Resurrected, Switch 2<\/h2>\n<p><!-- code from Primis - Eurogamer.net - eurogamer.net --><\/p>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- code from Primis --><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit boring? Ever the contrarian, aren&#8217;t I? But I can&#8217;t hide the truth: this was how I felt when I played the game. Important clarifying statement: I haven&#8217;t played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/diablo-ii\">Diablo 2<\/a> before. I&#8217;ve always been keen to; it&#8217;s one of the games I&#8217;ve had earmarked for years out of a sense of duty to perform some reverential digital pilgrimage to experience all of the classics. Plus, I&#8217;m a Diablo fan, and with a brand new warlock class added this week, there&#8217;s never been a better time to try Diablo 2. But I didn&#8217;t especially enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a bit disappointed with myself, truth be told, but if I step back a bit, I realise it&#8217;s not necessarily my fault. For I have been raised on a diet of modern Diablo, which I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s mean to say has more artificial flavourings in. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/diablo-iii\">Diablo 3<\/a> was my first game in the series and that was a dramatic pivot for it. And as Diablo 2-facing as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/diablo-iv\">Diablo 4<\/a> tries to be, it&#8217;s still a fireworks display of dings and dongs and treasures and rewards, compared to the dour sparsity of Diablo 2.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll persevere; I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s a grower. I&#8217;ll probably become an insufferable Diablo 2 bore by next week. But it&#8217;s interesting, isn&#8217;t it, the different ways that series evolve?<\/p>\n<p><em>-Bertie<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Stardew Valley, Switch 2<\/h2>\n<p>I needed a serious break from my battle with Cooking Mama, so this week I have found myself starting a brand new farm. I have good intentions: this time I will stick with it and not restart after a few hours. I tend to have a habit of reaching Year 3 and realising I want to start again with a different layout. But not this time! This time I have chosen the beach and I will stick with it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve raised several friendships to six hearts, stolen the Mayor&#8217;s shorts, completed some museum collections, beaten Abigail at the egg hunt and adopted an all black cat called Salem. I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s pretty decent progress for midway through summer in year one.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Marie<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Silent Hill 2 Remake, PS5 Pro<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Silent Hill 2 Review\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vOv1JTfPnuQ?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/vOv1JTfPnuQ\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Silent Hill 2 Review<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vOv1JTfPnuQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>I think my brain might be cooked, as my 12-year-old son might say. I finally decided to play the near-universally-loved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/silent-hill-2-remake\">Silent Hill 2 Remake<\/a> and I spent most of the 40 minutes I had with it flicking between Performance and Quality visual settings. There&#8217;s been so much chatter about the shimmering, which people seem to think is because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/topics\/ps5-pro\">PS5 Pro<\/a>&#8216;s use of PSSR (its image scaling system) in Quality mode and the apparent overly-dim lighting in Performance mode, that I became almost paralysed, unable to commit to one mode or the other. I feel like both modes are compromised in some way (although the vastly superior frame rate in Performance is probably edging it at the moment) and I really wish there was just one that the developers decided was the best way to experience the game.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Tom O<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Dobble<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always known that I am quite a competitive person, but I didn&#8217;t really appreciate how competitive I was until playing The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Dobble with my neighbours and their son last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ARAGORN!!!&#8221; I bellowed as I slammed my hand down hard onto&#8230; their son&#8217;s tiny and unassuming hand. He looked at me, and I looked at him. I knew what was coming. So did he. So did his parents. We all knew what was coming. &#8220;Mum-mmmmmy,&#8221; the small boy cried out, his once adoring bright eyes now filled with tears as he ran to the comfort of his mother&#8217;s embrace. Whoops!<\/p>\n<p>Still, I won the game. So, you know: worth it.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Victoria<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Nioh 3, PS5 Pro<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Nioh 3 Review\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vzzlnOScjIw?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/vzzlnOScjIw\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Nioh 3 Review<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vzzlnOScjIw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Allow me to boast for a second: I have Platinum&#8217;d Nioh 3. I actually think it&#8217;s the easiest game in the trilogy so far. Being able to grind against bosses and enemies in the open world helps a lot,<em> a la<\/em> Elden Ring, sure, but I also think the ninja\/samurai dichotomy really works in its favour to make you feel like an invincible killing machine when all the cylinders align just right. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, there are still some skill checks that feel deeply aggravating,, and the gauntlet battle scrolls where you need to beat five bosses back to back suck. Maybe I&#8217;m just getting better at the series, or maybe Team Ninja wanted to make it a bit easier to get a bigger bite of the apple. Either way, it rules.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Dom<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Double MMOs, PC<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been playing a combo of Old School RuneScape and World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade &#8211; at the same time. Now, that might sound wild, but it works. Here&#8217;s how. In Old School RuneScape, there is plenty you can do practically AFK. For me, it&#8217;s been going for rare versions of certain fish: the big bass, swordfish, and shark. These are low-drop rate variants of common fish so you just pull up to a fishing spot, start fishing, then tab out.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In The Burning Crusade, I&#8217;m playing a Boomkin, which is basically a giant chicken who uses a lot of mana. While questing, you kill a lot of enemies right? Boars and big birds and loads of orcs. After a few mobs, the Boomkin is out-of-mana (or OOM). This is annoying in group content, like dungeons, but in questing it doesn&#8217;t matter much. In fact, it provides a chunk of time when you can tab out while passively regenerating mana.<\/p>\n<p>So you see where this is going. I&#8217;m doing some fishing in OSRS, then tabbing out to quest in WoW, then going back to OSRS when I&#8217;m OOM. Yeah it&#8217;s stupid, but doing this I hit level 69 in a few days and have both the big bass and swordfish. I&#8217;ve also not had a match on Hinge in like three weeks so y&#8217;know, that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s going at the moment. Excited to run The Botanica!<\/p>\n<p><em>-Connor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<div class=\"desktop_mpu\">\n<div class=\"mpu1 lazyload\" data-dfp-id=\"eurogamer_net\/mobile_web_display\/article\" data-dfp-sizes=\"300x250\" data-dfp-targeting=\"site=eurogamer.net,pos=1,gto=false,position=desktop-article-mpu,gnpos=1\" data-dfp-collapse=\"false\" data-dfp-above-the-fold=\"true\" data-dfp-refresh-direct=\"true\" data-prebid-config=\"MPU_1\" id=\"desktop_mpu_1\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>14th February<\/h2>\n<p>Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we&#8217;ve been playing. This week, Bertie plays a classic but finds himself getting a bit bored; Marie adopts a black cat called Salem; Tom can&#8217;t get out of the menus; Victoria makes a young child cry; Dom Platinums a game and feels very smug about it; and Connor finds an inventive way to play two MMOs at once.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for something else to read, or a reminder of what you once wrote, there&#8217;s a whole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/topics\/what-weve-been-playing\">What We&#8217;ve Been Playing archive<\/a> to delve into.<\/p>\n<h2>Diablo 2 Resurrected, Switch 2<\/h2>\n<p><!-- code from Primis - Eurogamer.net - eurogamer.net --><\/p>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- code from Primis --><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit boring? Ever the contrarian, aren&#8217;t I? But I can&#8217;t hide the truth: this was how I felt when I played the game. Important clarifying statement: I haven&#8217;t played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/diablo-ii\">Diablo 2<\/a> before. I&#8217;ve always been keen to; it&#8217;s one of the games I&#8217;ve had earmarked for years out of a sense of duty to perform some reverential digital pilgrimage to experience all of the classics. Plus, I&#8217;m a Diablo fan, and with a brand new warlock class added this week, there&#8217;s never been a better time to try Diablo 2. But I didn&#8217;t especially enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a bit disappointed with myself, truth be told, but if I step back a bit, I realise it&#8217;s not necessarily my fault. For I have been raised on a diet of modern Diablo, which I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s mean to say has more artificial flavourings in. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/diablo-iii\">Diablo 3<\/a> was my first game in the series and that was a dramatic pivot for it. And as Diablo 2-facing as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/diablo-iv\">Diablo 4<\/a> tries to be, it&#8217;s still a fireworks display of dings and dongs and treasures and rewards, compared to the dour sparsity of Diablo 2.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll persevere; I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s a grower. I&#8217;ll probably become an insufferable Diablo 2 bore by next week. But it&#8217;s interesting, isn&#8217;t it, the different ways that series evolve?<\/p>\n<p><em>-Bertie<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Stardew Valley, Switch 2<\/h2>\n<p>I needed a serious break from my battle with Cooking Mama, so this week I have found myself starting a brand new farm. I have good intentions: this time I will stick with it and not restart after a few hours. I tend to have a habit of reaching Year 3 and realising I want to start again with a different layout. But not this time! This time I have chosen the beach and I will stick with it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve raised several friendships to six hearts, stolen the Mayor&#8217;s shorts, completed some museum collections, beaten Abigail at the egg hunt and adopted an all black cat called Salem. I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s pretty decent progress for midway through summer in year one.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Marie<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Silent Hill 2 Remake, PS5 Pro<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Silent Hill 2 Review\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vOv1JTfPnuQ?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/vOv1JTfPnuQ\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Silent Hill 2 Review<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vOv1JTfPnuQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>I think my brain might be cooked, as my 12-year-old son might say. I finally decided to play the near-universally-loved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/silent-hill-2-remake\">Silent Hill 2 Remake<\/a> and I spent most of the 40 minutes I had with it flicking between Performance and Quality visual settings. There&#8217;s been so much chatter about the shimmering, which people seem to think is because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/topics\/ps5-pro\">PS5 Pro<\/a>&#8216;s use of PSSR (its image scaling system) in Quality mode and the apparent overly-dim lighting in Performance mode, that I became almost paralysed, unable to commit to one mode or the other. I feel like both modes are compromised in some way (although the vastly superior frame rate in Performance is probably edging it at the moment) and I really wish there was just one that the developers decided was the best way to experience the game.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Tom O<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Dobble<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always known that I am quite a competitive person, but I didn&#8217;t really appreciate how competitive I was until playing The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Dobble with my neighbours and their son last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ARAGORN!!!&#8221; I bellowed as I slammed my hand down hard onto&#8230; their son&#8217;s tiny and unassuming hand. He looked at me, and I looked at him. I knew what was coming. So did he. So did his parents. We all knew what was coming. &#8220;Mum-mmmmmy,&#8221; the small boy cried out, his once adoring bright eyes now filled with tears as he ran to the comfort of his mother&#8217;s embrace. Whoops!<\/p>\n<p>Still, I won the game. So, you know: worth it.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Victoria<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Nioh 3, PS5 Pro<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Nioh 3 Review\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vzzlnOScjIw?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/vzzlnOScjIw\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Nioh 3 Review<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vzzlnOScjIw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Allow me to boast for a second: I have Platinum&#8217;d Nioh 3. I actually think it&#8217;s the easiest game in the trilogy so far. Being able to grind against bosses and enemies in the open world helps a lot,<em> a la<\/em> Elden Ring, sure, but I also think the ninja\/samurai dichotomy really works in its favour to make you feel like an invincible killing machine when all the cylinders align just right. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, there are still some skill checks that feel deeply aggravating,, and the gauntlet battle scrolls where you need to beat five bosses back to back suck. Maybe I&#8217;m just getting better at the series, or maybe Team Ninja wanted to make it a bit easier to get a bigger bite of the apple. Either way, it rules.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Dom<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Double MMOs, PC<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been playing a combo of Old School RuneScape and World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade &#8211; at the same time. Now, that might sound wild, but it works. Here&#8217;s how. In Old School RuneScape, there is plenty you can do practically AFK. For me, it&#8217;s been going for rare versions of certain fish: the big bass, swordfish, and shark. These are low-drop rate variants of common fish so you just pull up to a fishing spot, start fishing, then tab out.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In The Burning Crusade, I&#8217;m playing a Boomkin, which is basically a giant chicken who uses a lot of mana. While questing, you kill a lot of enemies right? Boars and big birds and loads of orcs. After a few mobs, the Boomkin is out-of-mana (or OOM). This is annoying in group content, like dungeons, but in questing it doesn&#8217;t matter much. In fact, it provides a chunk of time when you can tab out while passively regenerating mana.<\/p>\n<p>So you see where this is going. I&#8217;m doing some fishing in OSRS, then tabbing out to quest in WoW, then going back to OSRS when I&#8217;m OOM. Yeah it&#8217;s stupid, but doing this I hit level 69 in a few days and have both the big bass and swordfish. I&#8217;ve also not had a match on Hinge in like three weeks so y&#8217;know, that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s going at the moment. Excited to run The Botanica!<\/p>\n<p><em>-Connor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Features What we&#8217;ve been playing &#8211; &#8220;I think my brain might be cooked&#8221; A few of the things that have us hooked this week. 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