Malcador

So now the Sith have scabbards for the lightsabers.

Visiting Glasgow ?

Good thing it just might have been that.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/21/new-zealand-police-arrest-pair-trying-to-enter-auckland-with-large-amount-of-kfc GTA New Zealand sounds like it'd be dark.

Finished first run through Gamedec, all in all not a bad game. It's not as grand, for lack of a better term, as Disco Elysium but I had fun with it. The consequences of your actions they leave up to the end, I am regretting (as I sort of expected) blowing that teenager's head off. The twist near the end is what you'd expect it to be. I did enjoy the cases, if the game had better backing would have been nice to have more of them. Took me 12 hours or so to clear. I guess I'd recommend to grab it on sale.

And finally beat Massilia. Forgot market ladies pick granaries based on distance also some weird preferences or so it seems - they always walk to the leftmost path. Was wondering why everyone to the right seemed to be ignored. Also realized that theaters/amphitheaters/colloseums need to have shows to count for Culture points, and I had like 1 generator building for the plebs So have beat Caesar 3 on Hard using the alternate paths from what I recall choosing back in 1999-2000. Only 20 years late to finish a game off. Caesar 4 will be next I guess, after Gamedec

Pressing onward in Gamedec, the skill system is a bit weird, finding it hard to get the red points I need. Some of the professions are amusing, at least the Infotainer one where you are just someone with a large Twitter following. Odd to use that to intimidate a drug dealer Pretty sure I did the wrong deductions in one mission after breaking drones that would have given me evidence as I didn't go about figuring out the hacking puzzle first, maybe will save scum and re-do that. Still, is pretty fun, there's a lot to read as well although the in game Codex is broken in some places but is good for world building. Note - increase the text size.

Surprised you needed to spell that out, heh

Sort of funny that the protagonist in Gamedec owns a lot of ships in the ersatz Star Citizen game Also got to blow some teenager's head off, so good stuff. Had to redownload the game due to GOG somehow seeing my copy as invalid. Haven't encountered too many bugs. Did have one character speak to me in Polish and one puzzle seems to have glitched out but I solved it by fluke, looking back at it.

I'm just glad there wasn't any more Korn in that trailer.

France recalling ambassadors from Australia and US now, hm. Guess the Japanese might get a chuckle out of all this, they got sniped out their bid to equip Australia with subs by France - Australia's military procurement seems lousy in all of this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58604655.amp?s=09 Well US admits they screwed up and wasted 10 people for nothing.

I knew I should not have bought Titan Quest 4 years ago

Have to admire such brazen hypocrisy.

Debit cards are pretty popular up here, although a bit dangerous as the default tap amount per day is ~500 so if you lose your card you can lose that amount and the bank is no help. Credit has overtaken it over the years, at least what I see, due to apps and devices. Oh and that sweet 1% cashback.

First mission in Gamedec is fun enough, some rather interesting characters, if not somewhat tropey, so far. Will need to screw up that unicorn guy on another playthrough, am a super charismatic hacker type - even though I managed to piss off two hookers or something so no information from them. It's no Disco Elysium, but feel confident I'll get my money's worth.

The French strike back! https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/16/us/political-news/expressing-fury-over-the-australia-submarine-deal-france-cancels-a-gala-celebrating-relations-with-the-us But in all seriousness, seems like an unnecessary situation to generate.

Decent enough reviews, PCG gave it 58, did say it was very buggy. But I paid for it, so will see how my low standards self finds it. Adventure games, evolved.

Thought Gamedec was out yesterday but guess it's today. Caesar 3 is almost done, using Warehouses to route food around is unsightly but is working well enough. Seems warehouses do not need roads when "Getting Goods" though, so that is something interesting to learn about a game 22 years late. Also left my beloved Brno in FM18, for Arsenal. Who are 17th. And have signed strikers who are mediocre all earning 150k a week. Was funny when I let the AI manage them against my Brno team and Brno beat them 4-0. Might just go back to my old save

I like how the T&T minister of health got involved - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/14/rap-artist-nicki-minaj-faces-backlash-after-tweeting-inaccurate-information-about-covid-vaccines.html Best thing for Trinidad was exporting her

Hah, thought I imagined that, was eating dinner and half listening.

Reminds me I haven't turned my camera on on calls ever. So my coworkers haven't seen me in 18 months