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I finished “Hardspace: Shipbreaker”. It was pretty fun! Much better story than most sim games.

I’m mow playing “Enderal”, a totally free full conversion of Skyrim. You need Skyrim, obviously, but everything is new. New world, story, questlines, skill trees, everything. So far it’s really, really good. Much better than Skyrim. It’s difficult, but there is no level scaling so you can actually revisit areas when you levelled up.

Nintendo thought is was pirated. The original seller copied the game, then sold the original and kept the copy. Nintendo saw both copies running at the same time and disabled them both.

Just… don’t. Non-technical people should consider consoles, not PCs. Not even with Windows (which is actually harder to use than some Linux distros). If you want to game together with them, just get them an Xbox. It has much more games with cross play than a PlayStation

I’m a patient gamer. Most of my games I wait until they are $10 or below. If it’s a really good game and I really want it I maybe go up to $15-18. I have almost never payed over $20 and I have almost always been disappointed. The only ecceptions have been Deep Rock Galactic, Sea of Thieves and the Steam version of Dwarf Fortress. But that last one I bought mostly to support the game since I have been playing the free version for so long.

Have fun!

They are very different. X4 is more of a grand strategy game where you need to build up your empire. I really like how all the resource production and manufacturing works. You can’t just buy ships. They need to be built. From parts. That need to be manufactured and supplied. If you want to beat an enemy empire then you can attack their supply lines and they can’t produce new ships.

The game starts off much like Elite, just you flying around in your ship. But by the end you usually just sit in a chair pouring over the map and issuing commands while your hired npcs do the actal work.

I loved that game and I love the setting and art, but it’s soooo much reading. And I love reading, I really do! But it began to wear me down near the end.

The problem is that it’s probably going to be hard to play without the internet to look things up

Ohh, thank you! I didn’t find these in my search. Only cheap chinesium.

Their controllers look great, but I wish they had a super simple 8-bit Nintendo controller for PC. No turbo buttons or other extra buttons. Something that my young kid could use.

I wonder if the EU can throw the book at them. Technically the port on the switch is not USB-C but a proprietary port with the same physical connector. But EU mandates USB-C especially so people can use chargers and things they already have. So I wonder if Switch 2 violates EU regulations.

It’s a beautiful game, but I really, really hate how you have to backtrack and kill your ghost after every death.

I’ve been playing Foundry on a shared world with a friend. It pretty fun! Our factory is a giant spaghetti mess that barely works though.

I’ve also been playing Elite Dangerous. I bought a cheap second hand X52 hotas and I set up head tracking using my webcam and OpenTrack. It’s a fun way to fly!

Doesn’t all our wireless communication basically amount to nothing compared to the sun?

Nah, just roll some dice: http://gamesbyemail.com/news/diceomatic

Days Gone is well designed and balanced. The map isn’t overly large. If you just follow the quests you pretty much go everywhere anyway. I highly recommend you just give it a go. It’s a great game!

Applications like Teams still don’t work on Firefox because they rely on the buggy pre-standard implementation of WebRTC in Chrome, while Firefox follows the web standards.

I really hope that after all the tech issues with Starfield, and the experience gained with porting Oblivion to UE5, that they finally ditch Creation Engine for ES6 and just go with UE5

I plan to do the same with my kid as my parents did: PC in the living room. That way I can at least keep an eye on what they are doing. I haven’t figured out what to do about smart phones yet, but I got at least 8 years before that becomes an issue.

Online dating and 4chan are both not suitable for children