Done with skong but occasionally do a couple hours on my steel soul run. I give myself “checkpoints” by doing a backup of the save whenever I’ve done a big thing, haven’t had to use them so far and I’m up to mid act 2.

Been getting back into Vintage Story latest update with a bunch of mods. Found a cool better ruins’ abandoned village and used that as my place. Got a bunch of copper, started making bread and pies, pretty decent resources but lack of lime or alternatives for soaking pelts and making leather. I managed to sieve enough flax pulp to make parchment and craft my map finally (I play on wilderness, with craftable cartography so no directions, coordinates or map unless you craft stuff to get it. Makes you rely on your own directions, markers, etc. Easy to get hopelessly lost.) I need to find a source of lime or borax for leather making, and now I got a map I can travel far and do some prospecting.

I also started playing rain world! Cryptic, very hard, but I love it. Reached what seems to be a milestone/important step in the first campaign (survivor). Slugcats are cute :3

Also, I got Warcraft 2 BNE installed in lutris to play that again for some reason. Felt like playing Warcraft 2. I really want to do a full ratchet and clank thing at some point and play through all I can emulate. I only played like 1-4(?) I think so some others to discover if they can be emulated

Oh I’d tried cultist simulator too but haven’t found time to keep going. It was really neat so I want to at some point.

Damn I’m back in gaming. Also want to get into Hades 1 for real, never really did when it was popular.

I love it so much.

I really do love this difficulty, it’s exactly my level, so it’s great for me, but i feel bad that many people are struggling and not having fun. I think a difficulty or accessibility option would have been great.

I do share some of the criticisms but none of it is fundamental or makes it less enjoyable for me, just slight frustrations that are easily overcome. Yes I do think some attacks/moves/enemies/contact with enemies shouldn’t do 2 damage, but i’m generally OK with it.

The 2 damage on environment hazards is weird tho. I get having one that makes sense and that you can reduce with a charm, but i’m in the middle of Act 2 and it is kinda strange how almost every environmental hazard does 2 damage. Again i’m OK with it but I don’t really understand the purpose, it feels weird design-wise.

I think the difficulty curve needs to be tuned, I accidentally skipped the boss everyone hates in Greymoor and fought it later, and even with the upgrade I had by then I agree it has too much HP. It hasn’t really made me struggle too much but I see what other people are talking about. It feels like game gets more open and more options after a certain point late in Act 1.

I love Act 2 so much, and I just realized

Have not had this much fun in a long time, i can’t stop playing it and i’m taking my sweet time, doing everything, finding everything, re-visiting places regularly to see what changed, trying interactions and finding lore, etc. It’s so good.

Silking it hard right now. IN LOVE with this game. It’s huge, there’s so much to do now that i’ve got (maybe) all the movement upgrades like double-jump and stuff.

Absolutely Love It.

There’s a weird difficulty spike mid-way through Act 1, a particular boss seems to have too much HP and be a bit of a wall for a lot of players, and you still have limited options at that point. After that and 2 other (better) bosses, the game really opens up in places you can go and things to do, and it’s felt incredible since.

I didn’t struggle too much on that boss btw, i’m pretty good at these games and platforming so i’m having a fucking blast, but some of my friends that are less good at those games have struggled a lot.

It’s definitely harder than HK, that’s for sure.

Finished Abiotic Factor last week, played a bit of Lord of the Rings Online again while listening to podcasts.

Tried Cultist Simulator for the first time yesterday and it is fascinating.

Today i’m gonna play Silksong! And probably keep playing it for a while.

Its a fantastic game and I’m constantly amazed how much it keeps expanding.

It has jank and the survival/crafting part means you’ll need to return to previous specific places where specific materials respawn, but it also makes you learn the labyrinthine black-mesa-style map a lot and rewards you for finding shortcuts and building other bases or little things that make traversal faster.

Crystal trinket passively recharges all electric batteries on you its amazing.

I never needed recharging stations, especially useful for personal teleporters, healing briefcase, energy pistol

I was kinda mad when I realised the battery charging trinket didn’t work for the laser upgrades but it makes sense, or I would have never needed to use a different trinket.

I use laser pistol and katana, hypercross magbow with rebar bolts fucking wrecks shit, mugnades, and the goddamn healing briefcase has saved my life countless times since solo apocalyptic is tough. I also usually have some type of spear or hammer with a good shield, tons of tough enemies are trivial once you realise you can poke and block.

Lmao. I just made a base directly in voussoir.

Im exactly at the objectives you’re at! Playing solo apocalyptic, its been really fun but getting to the point where crafting requires grinding for a lot of materials.

So happy. Finally! Huge thanks to all the comrades in france who have fought for his liberation for years, decades, relentlessly. Thanks to LFI especially for being part of that fight massively in recent years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kAcPMFWYzY

Yea i basically have stopped using any specific site/thing for discovery. I just kinda look around when I fancy, hear something somewhere and find it, check out the discography of that band, look into what people also like, etc. I don’t rely on algorithms basically. Maybe the emails I get from bandcamp sometimes based on stuff i’ve already bought or groups/people I already follow.

The downside is that since I don’t even listen to radio or follow specific influencers/recommendations, I feel like a weird hermit, I don’t really know of an artist or their music unless i’ve randomly come across them, even extremely popular stuff everyone’s heard about. But it’s no big deal, I still find plenty of cool things.

This is basically aimed at preventing second hand smoking for children, so its public places where children tend to be.

Good honestly

Yep, that palestinian MEP is Rima Hassan from LFI! God I love her. Hope they all make it out okay.

Man I hated star wars before and had to be convinced multiple times to watch this. One of the best tv shows i’ve ever watched, abolutely incredible. Star wars will never be this good again.

I will remember Nemik’s manifesto. And I keep coming back to the Past/Present Suite.

If its on sale maybe I’ll try, if its not too long tho. RPGs basically have to have perfect writing and a very interesting and original plot/concept for me to enjoy them, otherwise I get bored pretty quick.

Gameplay looks cool and like it tries to avoid being grindy and repetitive which is rad.

But yea I guess my writing standard for rpgs is very high, that or it has to be very short.

Thats cool! Self referential and fourth wall stuff has to be extremely specific and basically perfect for me to not absolutely hate it. Seeing a little bit of the games humour I think I will probably not enjoy myself ^^

Ah, not my kind of thing then

Oh dang this OST looks pretty nice, let me acquire it by totally legal means real quick… done.

The game itself looks very pretty but pretty bland setting/story/character wise tho, some of the comments/reviews are confirming this, that’s a dang shame if true.

The original video of him saying this to journalists in the oval office needs to be seen.

They skip over his direct, obvious and fucking terrifying rant about how and why it would be “rebuilt”, and how its " such beautiful land, it could be much better there if they hadn’t managed it so badly" etc etc.

Its so overt and chilling and nobody is calling it out.

probably what happened to me as well, i remember a large part of my itunes being gone. I switched to downloading and managing my library manually on musicbee and haven’t stopped, even after switching to linux i still run musicbee through wine.

Given the horrible impact of spotify on the industry and the shady shit going on, i don’t regret it, as much as i feel like a weird hermit sometimes for not using spotify or any other streaming service. Nobody can take my music away, and I can use it however i want.