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And we were not allowed to play in the sandbox.

So many rules. I am trying to implement a new one: If you want to buy a new game, play one you own but haven't played yet first.

So that was rule number 1. I always mix this one up with your rule number 2: if there are mods that improve your gaming experience, use them.

Stop over at Shanghai airport. Friend I am traveling with went for a smoke and missed boarding. Tried getting around Tokyo with two huge suitcases and both our carry on. People were quite amused. As one lady said: "You must have a lot of kids" probably thinking I was carrying presents for all of the little rascals. I knew passive smoking was bad.

I find that is a general problem with writers. You even see it in shows like Walking Dead. The protagonist, Whatshishame sheriff in all the Karl memes, had as sole personality trait "protagonist". Writers seem to think audiences will care for the protagonist just because they are supposed to, then wonder why the supporting cast gets all the fans. Then as series progress, often you see secondary characters come to the forefront, because for those some interesting idea was used somewhere on an episode to justify the episode. Think BSG, where nobody cares all that much about the admiral's son, but everyone wanted to know what happened to the guy who gave up his spot to evacuate the scientist - to the extent he got written back into the show.

The result is the same though: Neither of us could use 20m3D@y2Y0uG37Th3K@thh0und@nd20m3D@y2Th3K@thh0undG3t2Y0u as a password

I just kept typing, but since I had hit the limit, it cut off at the same point in both the password and the confirmation so everything was fine.

Logged in. Remembered that 3 out of 5 characters didn't have names since the first server merger. Logged out.

So pretty much like most big titles these days.

Yeah, same for me with the EU server merger. I think half my characters lost their names.

Just got the email that if I do not log in, I'll lose my character names

No annoying settlement building? Take my money!

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: