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Well, Scrouge McDuck is insidious capitalist propaganda

If they had added pulp aliens that are little more than humans with funky foreheads or antenna and pop art skin colours, I would have been more interested. Flying through space is more fun if you end up in a cantina in a hive of scum and villainy with aliens, than if you end up in a cantina in a hive of scum and villainy with just the same garden variety scumy villains you had where you started.

Aren't you a teacher? You probably know these things.

If there is two half lives and you own both games, do they combine into one Full Life ?

Disney Dreamlight Valley

Starfield just seems so bland. I don't even feel any energy to try it.

I tried Children's Capitalism Simulator. You wake up in a magical land, covered in darkness (the land, and I guess you because you are in the land). You then start helping people and saving the place with the power of friendship. One of the first people you save is the richest person in the world. From then on, whenever you try to save someone else, you end up needing to do menial work for the rich person, seeing how they have a monopoly on pretty much everything. The game is a continuous series of exploitation by the 1% hoping that through it you will be able to help the rest. Add the in app purchases and it is pure capitalism in every sense.

UE isn't the best choice, it's Spacer's Choice.

Today I left the computer on so a download would finish while I was out. Came back and noticed I had forgot to unpause the download.

It is very slow. Not slow as in too many steps to get to the fun bits, but slow slow. I played only in fast forward x2 speed, which for other games would have been normal speed. It puts a lot of weight into the Landsraat, which is badly designed, as you have no way to affect how others will vote. You can buy more votes with influence, but as we have already seen in Endless Space 2 with the Academy requests, if something is decided by how many resources are dumped into it, the AI will always have an advantage through the resource bonus it already has. Alpha Centauri worked, because different policies were tied to traits that the different leaders and societies favoured to different extent. Then it adds the houses minor for random vote distribution. This is a simple RNG though, so one resolution was marked as being favoured by the houses minor - it failed because while all major houses voted for it, all 300 house minor votes were assigned to votes against. In the end, the Landsraat is just a bad RNG system. The game does nothing truly right, while doing some things truly wrong.

Tried Dune Spice Wars. Didn't like it.

I wonder if they intentionally wanted old people think of Dr. Sbaitso.

This sounds like painful AI narration:

Having multiple characters also means Bartimaeus has more targets to repeatedly stab, so more characters may escape.

Most games don't allow for protagonists with gnawed off heads. That is why people in Bartimaeus' vicinity have trouble identifying with video game characters.

Brought to us by the same people who had proof of WMDs in Iraq but no proof of human rights violations by Israel. Yeah, I do not see how anyone can take anything coming out of the US seriously anymore.

Why should you be having fun while your wife is at work? Game working as intended 😛

I didn't mind them too much until I tried reading the terrible, horrible novels. Before that, they simply had an elitist yet honourable air with their batchalls etc. Then you realise they send mechs against normal people for "training".

I first thought "Cool!" then remembered that I can't stand the Clans - eugenic, fascist clone experiments they are - so decided against trying it.

My problem is twofold: 1) if for whatever reason my internet is dead, I can't game. 2) if for whatever reason they kill the server (EA with Darkspore), I can't game.

My regret: I couldn't find a nice old set of scales to put the gargoyle's quest cartridge on one side and chocolate on the other.

Yeah, I boycott every company that doesn't force me to be online for my single player experience.

Fired up Vambrace: Cold Soul Got an achievement for Starting the game The members of my tutorial team are Biggs and Wedge...

I enjoyed transmog in GuildWars 2 and Old Republic. If you are going to try and get people's money by selling them a "look how you want" or generally spend hundreds of hours with that character, I believe it only makes sense to allow players to enjoy it.

Not playing DA Inquisition. After spending several minutes staring at this, I Alt+F4ed out of it.