"Testicle-like nests"
I was not prepared to read that this morning.

I remember playing this when it came out. Overall I enjoyed the gameplay and story, but I vaguely remember some choices made by the guys that frustrated me. And the ending made me sad.

It had one of the best co-op modes that I ever experienced. You could play in groups of 2-8 with a mixture of 3 classes: soldier/heavy, a ranger/scout, and a medic.
Soldiers had a mini gun that could deploy a shield around him and others could stand behind it for protection. The ranger could throw out ammo for the other players. And the medic could heal people.
What made the co-op better is the enemies would scale with the number of players and I think even the overall level of the players. So if you had a full group of 8 players, the firefights would be intense.

I may need to load up my copy on RPCS3 and play through it again. I think it's been over a decade at this point.

Another small feature I remember about the game: the main menu would have Nathan Hale staring back at you. And as you progressed through the story, the main menu version of him would physically change to reflect where you were in the story.

I thought those were called poultrygeists

Nope, is just that good looking of a cat. I took these with my DSLR. Here's another shot.

I keep this in my phone for whenever those thoughts hit.

Theseus' brain

On top of that, a lot of the women are listed as "& family" which to me implies they aren't the sole owners of that wealth.

Right? I'm surprised, too. I think the main reason they're able to make so much progress because one of the main devs worked on either PCSX2 or RPCS3 so they already have experienced people on it.
But I think it's also because of the PS4's x86 architecture which makes it much easier to program for. Which also means it's much easier to emulate.
But that's just speculation on my end.

I believe Atlas Pro did a video on it one time. I'll go check.

Edit: Yep

I've been repeatedly disappointed with most modern games, so I've taken to emulating my old games and playing them on my laptop. It's honestly a pretty good time, would recommend.
I'm getting to play games I loved that I haven't touched in over a decade (MotorStorm, all the Ratchet and Clank games, the good Need for Speeds, etc). Plus if there were any games I wanted as a kid but didn't have the money, I can buy most of them off eBay for cheap.

I am just barely ahead of you at 4 weeks and I noticed something similar with me. I'm very similar dimensions; at my lightest I was about 57 kg and 176 cm.
Once I started taking E, I was hungrier longer and it took more to satiate me. Now I'm around 60-62 kg, which is where I've been in the past, so I don't look all that different.
I noticed my legs feel a little squishier than I remember. But that could just be me looking for things that aren't there. I think it also moved some fat around in my face as my cheeks feel a little thicker/puffier than before. It's taking some getting used to.

Loved LBP back in the day. Played through the entire story, 100%-ing each level and bonus level to collect all the different skins and costumes. Going through the different DLC.
And the best part were the online levels made by the community. One particularly popular mode were bomb drops. You'd go into a confined area that would drop bombs randomly on the map and you'd have to stay alive long enough to reach the bottom as the bombs slowly make the land harder to navigate.
There were also a few maps that people managed to look a bit scary, which is an achievement for a game that looks as kid friendly as this.

Edit: Another interesting idea were bonus levels that required between 2-4 players to complete. On one hand, it was cool there were levels designed that needed more than one person. But at the same time, if you didn't have friends or online functionality, the rewards from those levels were nearly impossible to get.

LBP2 was also pretty good, but I could tell a bit of the charm from the first was lost. Then I tried LBP3 on the PS4 but I couldn't get in to it. I might have been too old at that point to enjoy it, or the formula changed enough that I couldn't enjoy it enough.

I'm gonna play this on RPCS3 this weekend for the nostalgia.

Been noticing the same thing, but I use All for my feed.

They make pretty reliable trombones, too.

I recently jailbroke my Wii and ripped all my current games, so this is surprisingly relatable to me right now.
I also got a low firmware PS4 to jailbreak so I can rip those in preparation for ShadPS4, an up and coming PS4 emulator. Bloodborne is running on it now, though it's still far from playable.

I am in this picture. I excelled in school almost all years and graduated in the top ten of my high school class. Then I went to an engineering school and got my ass handed to me. I managed to graduate after 5 years, but it was a struggle and my GPA was noticeably worse than high school.

Your collection of toy cars reminded me that I loved Hot Wheels as a kid in the '90s and early '00s. And I would often have to get more whenever we went to the store. Or at the very least see what they had. Luckily they were cheap so my parents were ok getting 1 or 2 each time.
I was also really good at remembering what ones I already had, so I knew at the store what ones I didn't have.
It's been a long time since I counted, but I amassed over 300 cars by the time I grew out of them.

Careful. They bite.