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Damn, earlier than I thought. Let's hope it'll work out.

Even after four decades, you just can't get it out of yer head. (Later on I had one of those Action Replay cartridges though. Came with a turbo loader as well as simply hitting the C64's F-keys to shortcut the "loading routines".) Oh man, SKALD is actually good. I mean real good. It feels like those oldies but with updates where needed: No bloat, just an intriguing setup and off ya go. It's a narrative heavy game, too, but it doesn't drown you in exposition. I'd rather play focused games like these than a 100 hour campaign full of filler. The character system is complex enough, the battles are about the same. There's even a simple faction system in place. What kills it though is the vibe the guy was going for and manages to hit. Sure, it's pixels. But there's a skill check fairly early on whether your character can withstand the stench of rotting corpses in a cave... succeed, and all is well. Fail, and get a debuff 'til resting. This isn't a "poop your pants" kinda game. It's rather all very oppressive and feels like uncovering dark ancient secrets in the best of ways. There's even dynamic weather (and of course day/night cycles), with the island you visit apparently being fogged permanently. Clearly, the oft expressed notion that horror kinda themes and RPG's inherent level-up kinda power fantasy wouldn't gell is nonsense. Then substantial companies had shown such in the 1980s and 1990s. They just stopped trying it mostly with Bloodlines.

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From what I have seen it doesn’t seem terribly, but isn’t great either. Campaign not being great is a big „wait for a deep sale” for me. I still have remasters to finish anyway.

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I'm sure this was reported years ago, but the game still cuts out the audio at the beginning of some voice lines.

Tiny Glade demo - I've had it wishlisted for a bit. ...it's cute, but in the end I'm not sure I'm into the artstyle. I feel like I'm building something that would go into a rich person's ceramic collector fantasy curio cabinet. Which is odd because I might like some of such in a curio cabinet, but on-screen/game it doesn't appeal to me. But it is cute, the mechanics work well enough/are cool (maybe a bit finicky/over precise), and if the style is your thing, looks promising a small/chill time waster. One of those games with essentially no point but use tools to create a small castle/town in a small area.

I clicked on the "Deadpool and Wolverine Popcorn Bucket" video. I feel unclean.* *it is rather funny tho

... I know the (hilarious) intro is a comedic video edit, but - did some quirky AI take over this guy's brain? Seriously, some of those quotes.

One of the first Doctor Who companions, William Russell who played school teacher Ian Chesterton, at 99: https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-william-russell-dies-newsupdate/

Dunno, France had more direct blood trying to hold onto its empire as in Algeria or Vietnam, Britain had more indirect blood from incompetent? malevolent? map making and the like. Wouldn't exonerate them just because it wasn't British troops doing the slaughter and religious cleansing in India or Biafra.

God I have such high hopes, but I probably shouldn't.

Finished Agency, it was a weird book. Stuff just happens, the people from the future just solve every issue. Apparently the original plot was some alternate history where Trump won, and the future was trying to save that. Flynn is barely in this, is mostly Netherton in quantum Skype calls.

I missed the boat, again. I forgot to get tekken 8 at half price too.

woke spaceships ... how ?

I know this is just a gag thread, but having done some cyber security courses for my job, the vendor had a video covering a study that says goatse, 'rickrolling' and other famous meme link gags - has not improved cybersecurity awareness across the world's population. Surprised me.

France - lots more blood - and UK are more recent, their empires falling apart after those two, slightly.

read 40 chapter of manga before remember anime adaptation will come out next year variety of funny face characters would make in manga are very impressive art is amazing there are ridiculous amount of character but many of them still manage to be memorable hope adaptation can live up to expectation

LOAD"*",8,1 SEARCHING FOR * LOADING READY. RUN What actually sealed the deal for me wasn't merely the Ultima/Goldbox aesthetics. But rather: This is a horror-themed RPG, in a sense? When did the last major one come out, really? Bloodlines some five football Eureopean Championships ago? You've gotta be sh*tting me!!!!1 Light sources can be switched out for improved stealth chance (that, is outside of the sun). Combat and character mechanics seem straight-forward enough. But then, a lot of oldies used to be pretty straight forward in that. And I needn't even gather my party before venturing forth.

You are correct about the healthy dose of skepticism, that should be applied to both sides. The reason, that I have shared the last video of Russian soldier claiming big losses, is that I have seen in the last week more than a few confirmed Russian milbloggers, that have been complaining about serious loses at the Kharkiv direction, which have used words, that have been last used by Prigozhin. Can we say with 100% sure, if he was really Russian soldier? Most likely not, but in context to the articles/blogs/tweets which I went through, and the UA side being able to reclaim some previously occupied areas, I have considered the video plausible enough to describe what’s going on in Kharkiv direction.