I'm playing Mad Max in preparation for the falllout in the US that is about to happen.
It's an incredibly fun game. They really nailed the Mad Max feel
I made a comment a week or so ago but it really does nail the Mad Max aesthetic. The problem is the in-game story is a bit retconned. But my head cannon is that the whole Mad Max lore is being told through campfire tales in the far future anyway so it's like an "unreliable narrator" idea between the Lost Tribe and the History Men/Women.
Big issue in-game is that the character Scrotus is actually Rictus in Fury Road. Second issue is that the game probably takes place between Furiosa and Fury Road but opens up with Scrotus(or Rictus) getting murked with a chainsaw but he(well all 3 brothers) are in Fury Road. The rest so far could fit in a "what was Max doing during the 18 years between Furiosa and Fury Road though.
But I digress. It's really fun and easy to pick up and put down. It's hard at times when you get overwhelmed by bad guys but it's very forgiving because you just start back at the last checkpoint. I have water, ammo, and fuel refill set up at Jeet's place so I can fast travel whenever I need more too lol.
E: I guess in-game Scrotus is still alive since he's the final boss.
I made a comment a week or so ago but it really does nail the Mad Max aesthetic.
I just played it the first time a couple months ago, and downloaded some "fury road" style shaders to really enhance the look. It was great. Decent fun, holds up relatively well.
The game def feels like it came from that era of base taking games but it still looks really good. I can imagine using 3rd party shaders to make it really shine.
Not really anything because my desktop is dying but on the 22nd of August I am getting a new one. Going from a gtx 980 to an rtx 4060
rtx 4060
Best way to play Stardew Valley
Are you assembling it? The 4060 is rather poor value within its class, but if you got a good deal on a prebuilt, that's something else entirely.
Satisfactory again. I have a whole ass spreadsheet file for this game. Planning for an extensive use of trains, each grouping of related products will be done together. e.g. I have an iron district, it imports iron ore from around the map, smelts it into iron ingots, and turns those ingots into iron plates, iron rods, and reinforced iron plates as needed. Any products that need these resources will draw from this district via trains, and when I need to expand I can build additional floors to the existing buildings.
Here's a screenshot of my (very much WIP) home base
I tried to get I to Satisfactory but after getting coal power going, I ended up getting side tracked. Do you know if there is a 3rd person camera mod by any chance?
There is, though I haven't used it so I'm not sure how janky it is. Getting sidetracked is all I ever do in this game lol, takes me so long to get anything built.
Getting sidetracked is all I ever do in this game lol, takes me so long to get anything built.
As a factory game enjoyer, I get it lol. Also oh no, I just found out they have a Linux build for their Mod Manager. Oh no...
With 1.0 coming in September, I can't bring myself to work on my old saves. It sounds like so many nodes are getting moved/deleted 
Yeah I'm probably going to start another new save when 1.0 drops. Unless I don't get anywhere with this one, which I suppose isn't that unlikely.
p.s. gorgeous base
Thanks! I've still got work to do on it, like the decorative lights around the lower containers I want to extend to the rest of them, and probably change all the floors to coated concrete because it looks nicer. When I come up with good ideas I tend to reuse them in future save files.
For instance here's a couple shots from my previous save where I used many of the same design ideas.
I use trains a lot, and have a whole rail network set up (which I imported from elsewhere, since building out rail infrastructure every new save gets tedious). Putting a train in the middle of my mall lets me use trains as a mobile storage mall. I stock it up with things I need for building, then park it nearby the project I'm working on, so when my personal supplies run low I can restock from the train instead of going all the way back to base. Also I can dump stuff I pick up (slugs, leaves, wood, etc) into the train to free up space in my inventory. And when I want to return to base, I just have to hop in my train, set the autopilot back to base, then sit back while it takes me home. Watching the world go by from the train is its own pleasure.
That's some real :train-chad: Are you in the central forest, near the uranium & sulfur, above the falls?
In the old save I built in the jungle forest/lake forest area, and in the new save I'm by the giant hole just northeast of grass fields. The window to the left overlooks the hole and the waterfalls pouring into it.
Trying to close out Shadow of the Erdtree! Loved Elden Ring overall, but it definitely had more than its fair share of bullshit bosses and generally unfun segments, a game with a ton of highs, and some sour lows. I think I like Sekiro more still, as a pound for pound package.
Soon, I will move onto Fear & Hunger, debating getting a censorship patch or not, or maybe if Fallout: London is out before I finish Elden Ring I will go for that, we will see.
Void Stranger is hard.
I was getting my ass beat by Fear & Hunger earlier, might get back to that this evening. It's really interesting so far even if the learning curve is a bit too steep for my liking.
Oh, that's soon on my list! How are you liking it overall, is the learning curve actively pushing you away from it, or is it interesting enough that it feels rewarding to press on? Might not want to move to another brutal game right after I finish Elden Ring, haha.
I just picked it up and haven't gotten very far in at all so I can't really make any judgement in terms of how rewarding it actually is. I'm mostly in it because the combat is kinda cool and, call me sick but I really want to find out just how depraved the game gets. It's very CW: everything grimdark fantasy with sex, violence, dismemberment, body horror, or some fusion thereof so its not for everyone. If you do play it I reccomend giving the starter guide on steam a read, it got me from dying in three minutes to dying in ten minutes lol.
Thanks for the heads-up! I'm fine with CW stuff, but I don't like it when it's handled poorly, for cheap shock valuw, sounds like it's not great with that but not bad either. Thanks!
Trying to get into Dwarf Fortress but I'm almost watching more tutorials /reading forum posts than I am playing at this point. I've played space cannibalism for several years so I'm mostly wise to setting up efficient workflow for my short kings but there's so many items and tasks it's hard figuring out what to prioritize.
I wanted to play Victoria 3 but its too hot in my house shit will overheat, then in winter I do 60hr weeks, so I can't really game. I'm playing Undertale right now, lol my reflexes suck so bad, if I played Doom or something I'd get pwnt.
Might try to actually get somewhere in SDV next maybe, or play nostalgia ridden old games on dosbox since that's light in summer, usually.
Doing my NG1 victory lap in Elden Ring, and learning to fly fpv drones with Liftoff.
I wanted to play some games, but instead, I sat down and wrote the foundation of my setting's lore. It was just a short historical write-up, and I did it in a bit over 2 hours. At least it's a first draft.
elder scrolls online. it’s the only mmo i have actually enjoyed. ive been trading a lot and making a ton of gold
Just finished the Elden Ring DLC last night, one day short of a month since release.
My original plan was just to get a character to the DLC, then finish the DLC and quit. But I ended up 100% clearing my save (killed every boss in base game + DLC), and now I'm going to get the last 3 Steam achievements in my NG+.
A bit more no man's sky (day 1 save) earlier while waiting for the washing machine to finish and getting on with my day, marvelling at the new features and hoping the next expedition drops soon 🤞
SD card for my handheld with all the roms and saves seems to have got corrupted 
oh well
This week I had unlocked all the characters in Bushido blade 2
After sitting on it for years, I've finally gotten back into Where the Water Tastes Like Wine. Great, slow-paced game that starts to logarithmically ramp up. I need a special kinda burnout to engage with it, since the music in it often has me dropping out of it to pick my banjo.
Replaying that recent Hitman trilogy. SOSA, but only so I can have 47 do his assassin shit in a clown outfit.
Snowrunner because big trucks are cool af 😎😎
Elden Ring with a friend who's new to the series in coop, having a pretty good time. I'm using a mod to cheat so that every time I get a new weapon drop I add a random weapon from the DLC instead. The stat requirements are so high lol this was a bad idea.
Balatro. I love the ghost deck, I love gambling, delete all jokers and fuck myself over for a 1:20 chance something good happens? Don't mind if I do!
Death Must Die and the Vampire Survivors Amogus DLC. DMD is another Vampire-like with aiming. I don't want to aim! I just want to vibe! Also procedurally generated infinite map which imo is lame. The Amogus DLC meanwhile really suffers from being best played on the one new map, which gets old pretty quick. Some neat ideas, probably worth the $2.50.
Probably more of my pant-less run of Disco Elysium
Also I have an original XBox that is modded. There's a hard drive inside with a bunch of "legal game backups" and other useful things. I was wondering if I can pull it out, hook it up to a PC externally and pull those files off the drive without any extra steps? Then I could gut the console and possibly use it as a custom mini PC case 🤔
I'm late, but I started playing Fire Emblem Blazing Blade and I have been enjoying it so far. It's a bit dated and rough for things like dialogue, but for a 2003 GBA game I'm impressed with the level of detail in the animations and the art that appears sometimes when characters are talking. I was surprised that they could make it look as good as it does with how many pixels are on screen.
The GBA Fire Emblem games are delightful. Binding Blade (the Japan-only one) is probably the most fiddly and annoying of the three, but they're all a pretty great time!
I finished my first HK rando run yesterday, clocking in at 5h 46m. Feels slow, I'm sure I can improve that time. It didn't help that this seed was stingy with giving me claw. It's such an essential early game traversal item that it threw me off not having it. OTOH I'm surprised where I can get without it.
Just played a bit of Helldivers 2 after a couple months hiatus. Also played a bit of Still Wakes the Deep and Nobody Wants to Die.
how is helldivers holding up? I was really hyped for it but none of my friends wanted to play it
I'm enjoying it! I got it about 2 weeks after launch. Still some issues, patches working things out, weird balance stuff, but the gameplay loop is very fun. DM if you pick it up, i'm on steam.
Still playing Trails into Reverie and just cracked 105 hours lol. Should be able to finish it up this week.
I picked up a bunch of games on the recent PSN sale. Some boomer shooters Prodeus, Project Warlock, Metal: Hellsinger. Bought Bug Fables. Got the The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures too. Probably gonna start the original AA trilogy just in time for the Edgeworth collection. 
i've started viewfinder, nice puzzler, will probably finish it tomorrow. i'm also gonna play rain world for the first time.
Still enjoying Unicorn Overlord! Just making little bits of progress here and there.
I also started playing Dome Keeper. I think I like the mining portions a lot better than the tower defense bits. Yes, I played Motherload a lot more than the little tower defense flash games lol
I started playing WoW again (I was clean for 6 years). Surprisingly the game is still fun even if more soulless than its past iterations. The MoP remix event is also really fun, my Nightborne Warlock is completely overpowered now
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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