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Chasing after fads. This one happens to be a very lucrative fad.

I finished The Red Tree by Caitlin Kiernan. Okayish for a horror novel. I'd definitely read more of hers, but I'm not dying to recommend it to anyone else. Now to decide whether I'm going back to my Weaboo nonse and read Re:Zero 7 or that copy of Welcome to Night Vale I got for Christmas.

No Man's Sky It's changed so much since release. I won't say it's a whole different game, but it's definitely a much better one. The first thing I noticed when I started a new game is my ship was nowhere in sight. The game wanted me to learn how to recharge my environment suit first before telling me where to find it. Elements and crafting have been completely revamped with a refinement system. Iron has ferrite dust, pure ferrite, and maxnetized ferrite, for example. carbon, concentrated Carbon. Copper, chromatic metal. I remember fueling launch thrusters with just red crystals, whatever they were, and now you have to build fuel out of like oxygen jelly stuff and iron sheets. Space stations are no longer what appears to be a bar with like two guys, but an airport with a dozen or so and like 6 traders. Using pulse engine to approach waypoints, the ship will stick to that waypoint, and even orbit around the planet to drop you on top of it. A great improvement over having to manually orbit and hope you don't miss it. Combat appears to be rebalanced. In 35 hours of my original playthrough, I never won a space battle. In 4-5 hours last night, I've won two, a tutorial mission that lead to my first freighter, and some quest a guy gave me. And then there's the base building and freighter ownership. And your starship can apparently come be summoned anywhere, assuming you have launch fuel to do it. That would have helped me so much that one time I got stranded on a planet that didn't have any of those red crystals, so I had to scrounge far and wide for them. And I forgot vehicles! I haven't even seen those yet. In the original game, all my time was spent hunting for backpack upgrades and ships with higher capacities. Well, I've not seen a single one of those once. My entire gameplay loop is changed and I'm spending more time focusing on just getting fuel to keep on until I find a fascinating enough planet to build my base.

I kept a tech support scammer on the line for 30 minutes. Pretending to play along, pretending that it didn't work, asking him if my cat was likely to blame for my computer issues. I also tried talking to him about if there were any cute girls in his office he fancied or if he'd listened to any interesting music, but alas, he refused to get off script. The guy he transferred me to was very rude. I had to remind him that Yahoo is a family establishment!

I've been playing Torment: Tides of Numenera and really liking it. At least until I got to the Bloom. I hate these sort of areas and it sucked all the interest right out of me to end up in a city that's just fleshy stuff everywhere. Played a little Red Strings Club and that seems neat, but not enough to get an impression. And Overlord, the game that first caused me to buy an Xbox 360 controller. And it's still a pretty good game.

I get enough horror in my daydreams that my mind doesn't bother doing it at night. It just gives me random stuff and I go on to extrapolate it into something terrible. I'm like Rimmer in Better Than Life. Which is how a dream where I'm walking around my old neighborhood when this random woman runs up and kisses me turned into the start of a horror novel about a dude being stalked by an eldritch monstrosity.

I dreamed I got a haircut, but the barber refused to cut it as short as I like. When I explained that I'm too thin on top to have long hair again, she calmly told me she took care of it. So I looked in the mirror and had a full head of hair. #BaldPeopleDreams

I saw someone else put it best, it's 2018 and I'm looking forward to a Shymalan movie.

Broly is coming back and this time he's canon. That's pretty exciting.

I'm pretty excited that we're finally getting Siege of Mandalore. I'd hoped for something like a movie, but a whole 12 episode season is better.

Omni Link mostly. Which is a indie VN/spaceship game. It is probably the lowest quality game I've not given up on after only 30 minutes, to be honest, and it's very obvious it's all made by one guy. The story is pure wankery with the main character running into beautiful women who all fall in love with him despite him being kind of a dip. It's also filled with typos and needs a good editor. But the art is simply fantastic and I enjoy the simple mechanics for the starship. It's clearly a passion project and it kind of shows. Like a good B-movie. Edit: And Sundered, too. Interesting Metroidvania with lots of combat. The combat's getting repetitive though. And I'm practically getting lost running through the dungeon at this point trying to find where I'm supposed to go next.

Most game writers I see are established writers from other mediums that are hired for writing or they're developers and designers in their own right. You can learn skills to make games, especially simple ones, or for working on mods.

Just copy past the entire list and send it to him in a PM. He probably won't even notice.

Sam & Max Dating Sim MMORPG I, of course, would join the Max faction.

Almost certainly not enough.

Spent too much time on a second run of Subnautica. Took me forever to find the Vehicle modification console, which made things kind of interesting. And made a second base down over by the 500m Degrassi base. Those suckers just didn't know how to build 'em! Of course, my Cyclops ran out of power when I left the silent rigging mode on. And I was stuck 500m down! All in all, kind of a failed pointless expedition. But at least when I deconstruct it and rebuild it at the Lost River I know I'll have most of what I need to start that up.

Are people praising FFVIII? Don't make me go get some Cheetos and Mountain Dew so we can have ourselves a good old fashioned cheesy fingered internet argument. I will bust out some overly jpeged image macros and you will know I am for real. Or I guess I could just accept that people like things I don't.

I finished the Heroes Rise trilogy. Lots of fun on that one. It was a bit too gamey for my tastes, constantly telling me about points and scores, with guides for perfect legend scores, and the third title going so far as to tell you about bonus power ups you can get if you take certain choices. What kind of interactive novel has freaking collectibles? Anyway, I only ran across two so it wasn't that bad, just annoying. What was more intrusive was it constantly telling me about my health and power scores. Or regain points. Or you get a bonus because of your unleash score! It was good aside from that, but geeze does it need to lay off it a bit. I find myself sorely tempted to do a second playthrough of Subnautica. Since I know where everything is already I figure it should take as long. And I'd like to do a run where I build multiple bases instead of just the one.

Heroes Rise: The Hero Project Heroes Rise: The Prodigy was pretty interesting, not as good as Fallen Hero, but it eventually hooked me. I'm enjoying these enough that they've been my major bunch of purchases over the sale. Also I won Sundered. Had my eye on that, so pretty excited.

Subnautica NEED MORE TITANIUM

Did a boss battle in Saliens. Played the entire health bar and went from level 7 to 12. Took me an hour, I think.

Ahhhhh...the demo for Book 2 is out..just saying XD check the forum ! when you are done teehee... Finished the first and it was simply incredible. I don't think I'm going to touch the demo, though. Don't want the tease hanging over me before release.

I'm nearing the end of Higurashi Chapter 1 and things are picking up. I'm really hooked. But I'm also splitting time with more Choice of Games titles since Choice of Robots was so good. Just started Fallen Hero Rebirth, which is about a mind controlling supervillain that used to be a hero. And it's pretty nice too.

I've used a wired XBox 360 controller for PC games ever since Overlord released. It was the first time I ever used one. And it's worked comfortably anytime I've wanted to use a controller.

I played the first re;birth on PC, but with gamepad. I thought it was delightful. Kind of been putting off the second only to dredge through the rest of my overfull backlog.