I've gotten back with my toxic situationship (I've started playing eve online again)
In the deepest depths of my EVE addiction I had taken my computer to my living room and hooked it up to my big TV so I could multibox better
As an old, Jump Space really is like playing Deep Rock while lightly scratching the X-Wing itch. I need more.
Mostly DnD. That counts right?
I'm still working through 100% every non-mmo final fantasy game. Yesterday I worked on FFII.
A friend wants to 100% Factorio together so I did the tutorial for that too.
Ooh, Factorio, now that's a game with great trains 
. Have fun!
Working through every Final Fantasy is a neat goal. Hell of a series.
I can already tell I'll have fun with Factorio but it will mostly be my friend speedrunning for that 40hr achievement and I'll just be along for the ride, lol.
I've always loved final fantasy but only every played in fits and starts. Figure no time like the present to fix that.
Ooh, Factorio, now that's a game with great trains
There's even a project cybersyn mod to make them even better. Although mods invalidate achievements, unfortunately.
How are you liking Final Fantasy II? That game has been on my radar for a while, I've heard it's good but a little rough around the edges.
a little bit more time stranger, a little bit more terrible old yu-gi-oh games
felt the ancient call of the dungeon crawler so fired up grimrock, those games were so damn good
I started learning a new keyboard layout, so I haven't been playing much, but I started playing Gunfire Reborn with my brother and damn, this game good. It's a Chinese FPS furry roguelike, and it's very adiccting. The translation is not the best but is good enough most of the time.
Other than that, I want to finish Hollow Knight. I'm currently stuck on the 4th pantheon. And also want to go back and finish FF7 Remake, iirc I'm on chapter 12 or 13.
First time I've seen Gunfire mentioned in the wild. I love that game, it's fantastic with friends
Hell yeag! Even solo it is pretty fun, but I've been having a blast playing with my brother. I wish there was more content online about it, I only really found one of two videos about the game, maybe it is just much more popular in China then outside.
Gunfire is neat, I especially like the owl who plays a TCG at the same time as shooting people. Some of the difficulty stuff is wonky, and once you discover some of the wombo combos runs tend to get samey, but still good fun.
I was playing a lot of Hades II, working on clearing the Night's Champion challenge, but a new patch came out the other day that added new events leading up to and after the True Ending, and it kind of killed my motivation to keep playing tbh. I don't really want to go back and redo the story for the stuff I missed, but I don't want to just keep playing and never see it either... So I think I'm just gonna stop playing for a while and start over whenever I feel like it.
Otherwise I've been playing Wind Waker mostly. I also started Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman this morning, it's a very silly Shiren the Wanderer style roguelike that's inspired by tokusatsu. I'm enjoying it so far but I haven't played much yet, I'm still in the tutorial dungeon.
Hades I is the only game I have had this experience (Devs adding more and well executed content) where it made me stop playing for about a year.
Yeah... Like I appreciate that they are willing to keep working on and improving their game, and I still enjoyed it plenty up to this point, but it is kinda frustrating to wait like a year and a half for the game's 1.0 release only for them to change things a month after the fact. Kinda makes me wish they had just kept it in early access for longer.
Yeah, completely relatable. I put this one down while I was still excited about it just to not have this experience.
Partner and I started playing Code Vein, shit slaps
After some procrastination, I finally finished Death Stranding 2 over the weekend. My thoughts overall are complicated, but it's Kojima at his most bombastic. It's a unique piece; some of the ideas are so far out there, I can't imagine anyone but him being given the budget and time necessary to see it through.
Overall, having played both back to back, I'd say the narrative is stronger in the first game. The sequel has higher highs than the first, but it's more inconsistent. The gameplay in the second is best-in-class. It feels like the logical continuation of what was started in MGSV, which is why I've heard that it's so MGS-like. You have a large sandbox of toys and you get to choose how you want to proceed. Also, DS2 took a good look at the UI in DS1 and corrected pretty much every issue I had with it.
All in all, I'd say DS1 is absolutely required reading before playing DS2. The games are waaay too interlinked to skip it. For the future, there is a very obvious thread to pull on for another game, but so much of what was built in the first two games is over that you'd really have to take things in a different direction. I'm curious about OD, but I'm more interested in seeing what PhysInt is going to be.
i can't wait for DS2 to hit pc so i'm stuck here just avoiding spoilers for the next like, year
still going through BG3 with my partner and brothers, but that's been on hold for a week while a few of us are out of town. Jumped back into helldivers 2 for a bit, and having a ton of fun. performance is still janky, but better than it was, and i'm having more fun killing bots than I ever had before. aside from getting stunlocked into a ragdoll loop on occasion.
i tried bf6 "redsec" or whatever the fuck its called and really it just makes me want to play bf6 more, but i'm not at a point where i can drop $70 on a game that i won't adore as much as i want to.
Also running through The Quarry for the first time with my partner. We finished chapter 1 and maybe even chapter 2? i'm digging it!
Gone back to tf2. I honestly have no idea why I didn’t play soldier more. Is demoknight based or cringe, I’m thinking about going back to stickies
Demoknight is incredibly more based than the fucking stickies. fuck the stickies and their 0,5s time to prime
I had a lot of fun with Dragon's Dogma 2 this weekend, and safe to say, I suck at it, but I'm enjoying the clunkiness the game has. Beautiful designs, overly chatty characters and boss fights with up to 5 healthbars so far have not deterred me. It's hell but it's fun 
I keep restarting in WR:SR. Trying a map of Cuba I grabbed from the Steam Workshop this time. Without the need to worry about heat plants, a lot of opportunities open up. I skipped the indoor pool to build a soccer field for once.
Accidentally had about 70 people move in early, but I was able to manage water/sewage by truck until the plumbing was finished.
what is wr:sr and how can i play cuba
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, the infamously difficult city builder themed after the eastern bloc countries.
There are a few maps on the steam workshop where you can build in a Cuban map instead of eastern europe, though you'd probably have to grab several dozen other mods to add more Cuba-specific assets.
though you'd probably have to grab several dozen other mods to add more Cuba-specific assets.
You could do that, and they do exist, but I'm just plopping down Khrushchevkas in the Caribbean.
Arc Raiders. It's so good I haven't enjoyed a game this much in years
I finally beat Black Mesa. The Gonarch can throw ~~hands~~ eggsacks. Once out of that I breezed through the rest of Xen. The second half basically keeps your health, armor, and gluon gun constantly recharged. It reminds me of the final section of Half-Life 2 where you become death. I'm glad the final boss doesn't do that teleportation nonsense.
As a final note, I want to let the AI programmer for the headcrabs that my hatred comes from a deep place of respect. Not only do they do a significant fraction of damage, but are quick to re-engage. More than a few times I busted out the shotgun so I couldn't miss.
I was gonna league start Path of Exile with a General's Cry Tectonic Slam of the Cataclysm build but didn't realize it was nerfed until a few hours before the patch dropped. So I just chose to default to RF instead. I'm not super enjoying it, feels very weak and I haven't been able to craft myself a good enough shield to make up for the lack of damage with tankiness. Will probably roll a cast on crit character once I save up like 50 divines.
Playing battlefield 6 with my friends. its the first BF i've played in a long time, since bad company, and i'm finding it a lot more fun.
Tomorrow is Europa Universalis 5 day, so i'm gonna disappear for a few weeks while i play that lol.
Was a rough work week at the store (I hate being given 5 days of work) and so wasn't really able to play much.
But I did finally get some kills on savage omega in monster hunter wilds. And then managed to farm it enough times to no longer need to fight it again. I then farmed the normal fight to get the parts needed for the armor sets, and the dark knight armor is very fun with a cool blackest night ability that is fun to play around with.
Continuing to grind away at Warframe, but steadily running out of things to grind for. Currently, I need to get 2 specific rare parts from relics from Scare-o Kiteer so I can build two of the same gun and then combine them (magnus/akmagnus), but that's super mind-numbing so I'm mixing it up with other stuff. The real problem now is that, of 82 items I have yet to master, a full 50 are vaulted primes, and the other 32 are real sicko shit so it's starting to be slow going. The 6 Kuva weapons I'm still missing are probably some of the easier things, with the more annoying ones being stuff like Sigma & Octantis (log in for another 150 days) or the Braton Vandal/Lato Vandal (obscene droprates in an extremely boring mode).
Other than that, getting back up to date with Vampire Survivors. Just about wrapped up the Castlevania adventure and then I can start more seriously checking off stuff from Saga and then Ante Chamber.
Also won my monthly 40k game in Tabletop Sim. Thank you Shining Spear Exarch for making like 6 consecutive 4++s.
Fixed my linux partition for dual booting. Tried to start a few steam games, nothing worked.
Partner and I started Digimon Time Stranger recently as our new play-together rpg. It’s actually not ridiculously obtuse which is different for a digimon game. The battle system and digimon systems are pretty cool but the story hasn’t really picked up yet. The english voice acting is mid-to-fine, maybe the japanese would be better.
Im still playing the guantlet mode on age of mythology, i unlocked gargarencis nad in my current run i got some really good blessings for cavalry, so i have been using Nuwa instead of loki.
I got like plus 60% cavalry hp and 40% lifesteal so my tiger cavalry doesnt die, i won 2 deathmatch be spamming so much cav my enemies ran out of resources and died.
Its been pretty fun
I played through The Drifter this past week. One of the best point and click adventure games I've ever played. I went in not having watched anything about it or even knowing the genre of story and that definitely enhanced the experience.
Also just started playing through Toem and am enjoying it, if you liked Alba, you'll like it.
I recently got a modded Dreamcast with GDEMU on it and a VGA CRT so I played a bunch of Crazy Taxi. That game is so goated...
Umpteenth playthrough of original RE4, professional difficulty, with the unofficial HD remaster this time. Such a good game for spooky season. Immaculate fall vibes 
I'm on stage 5-1 now I think. Decided to stick with the Punisher this time instead of following the Red 9 meta.
Team Fortress 2.
Uhhhh.. I have been itching to play a game in a while and I was exhausted with trying to run windows games in Linux I gave up and played TF2 for 2 hours this day. Is cool game, I can chat again (I remember they lifted the f2p chat ban like.. months ago?) and bots don't exist (well mostly, but it's just idling bots now, kicked easily, usually). I was wondering what to do, but I just played and overall, it was fun, with some fun moments.
Though, the chat.. having people who are terminally online produces either AI (horny and not horny) discussion or someone using the n-word hen they're mad.. So, again, I had to be careful on what I say lol.
WoD as GM'd by one of my regular players. He did a damn sight better than I did when I tried running a WoD adventure but then again I had only been playing TTRPGs for a year at that point.
Otherwise I've been screwing around with Emulators
More KSP, always more KSP.
Running KSP through proton is not only more stable than native Linux KSP, it's also more stable than native Windows KSP.
I also played a little FF7R, after struggling to get my 8bitdo controller to actually be recognized by the game. What eventually worked was pointing steam at the exe that I installed through Lutris so the steaminput could figure it out.
playing through mk11 a few weeks ago reminded me of bg3 because of all the cutscenes and some of the armor outfits, pretty weird connection to make between games, I never finished bg3 the other 2 times I played it, always drifted away around the beginning of act 3, I guess the act 2 ending already feels like a sort of full game experience lol, so this time I’ve been playing a Druid (land) wood elf which is a class I’ve always wanted to try, scouting around levels or backtracking solo as a kitty or a panther is fun, I’m also more familiar with the game and spell mechanics than before, also using the new subclasses for all 3 companions (giant barb Karlach, hexblade Wyll, death cleric Shadowheart), also using a mod that gives more in-game outfit/armor options to use for the camp clothing slots, so all together it feels like I’m playing a version 1.5 of the game with all these new things, I’m also delegating more things to the companions and the roleplay feels better than before, also sending out Astarion on some sneaky solo missions sometimes to thin out guards a bit and then flee, it’s not honor mode but i haven’t died yet either and I try to roll with all mistakes and choices, the new subclasses are strong, especially the barb giant thrower is a huge ranged damage dealer, pretty excited for the companion options in act 2, the music continues to impress, talking to animals never gets old, being in animal form is cool
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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