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I once forgot to turn my old wind up alarm off properly when I was living in halls of residence. After lectures I met with friends and didn't come home till late. But as those alarms didn't differentiate between AM and PM, in the evening it started ringing and didn't stop. My flatmates called campus security to unlock my room and check on me. They were worried I was lying dead in a corner, since I didn't hear the alarm

Age of Wonders 4 did a faction creation contest. They were going to pick three submissions to win stuff, have a fourth get a gift through community reactions, and a fifth by random draw. They apparently expected only some forum regulars to participate. They got a thread with 18 pages instead. So today they announced they'll do more winners.

Trying the Terror from the Void mod for Phoenix Point. I don't think I'll last long enough to see if any of the changes/additions from the mod are any good. The changes to classes and skill trees gets a meh - whatever rating on the internationally recognised melkathi scale*. The non-vanilla human enemies, where every group of scavengers, every squad of jericho troops, has a leader granting an ability to their team, and they all have cringeworthy squad names gets a please go back to writing Harry Potter fanfiction rating. Adding npcs to staff the initial base instead of having everything AI run, gets a thumbs up. But is that enough to get me to care? * often described as a jaded, grimdark version of the popular BruceVC game rating system. Just from the perspective that people are useless amateurs until proven otherwise.

I have the post for November with another ad already planned The UK at the time had good video game ads. I remember watching those when I was in Birmingham at uni.

The evil twin of Random video game news ! Today in video game history (and completely written without AI) : 27th of August 1999 27th August 1992

Using my phone since around 2014. Before that I had a small alarm clock freeware on the PC. That was a time I'd wake up to Sugabases - Too Lost In You; which ironically I do not listen to under other circumstances, only as an alarm The old alarm clocks were always so annoyingly loud.

Talk to Fionavar. You write it. He posts it. We read it.

Saw a Sally Rooney novel in the supermarket. Bought it just so I can say I can't travel to the UK for fear of getting arrested. I don't think I'll enjoy reading it

I am afraid you'l be right, and it will be one of those souls-action games. On the other hand, nothing in the trailer prevents it from doing a complete plot twist and have the characters travel forward in time to bring their rivalry into the current era to battle it out at a music event as K-Pop Idols. Then the game would be part life sim, part music industry management sim, part dating VN Unlikely, One can hope.

I don't know what to watch since I don't really like anything. I think last time I liked something was Ted Lasso, and before that Stranger (the Korean crime series). Or was it the other way around... I need to make money to make my own shows...

You wanted a simulation of the current events in the US?

I use sunscreen in the summer, when I have to be out for more than just dashing to the supermarket and back. But in Greece in the summer you should wear sunscreen. Saw the nice sunburn a friend got the other day. Really don't need that.

Bored on a weekend. So same thing.

Wait till you find out that Hexen has become a base building survival sandbox

I dove deep into the adulty parts of the interwebz and looked around a bit. Well, there is a lot of Renpy in that list, so expect those games to be a similar experience to Treasure of Nadia (so not really worth your time). Leap of Love changes the formula to at least to such extend that you are boosting your skills to impress a girl and live happily ever after - so the adult part isn't the main focus as in those other games, that are just an excuse to throw mediocre renders at you. Honestly, reading up on Leap of Love, I like the concept that you are a frog turned prince, but now you have to make sure a princes will actually want you around for ever after, so you don't get re-frogged. Adult version of Long Live The Queen, without being the queen. HuniePop is the only one on the list I actually played years and years ago. It is a decent match 3 game, and I play match 3 games to zone out. But there is so many, I have enough SFW choices that I don't need the NSFW ones. Sapphire Safari seems to be national geographics meets monster girl porn. So again at least it gets points for trying something different. Personally not my thing once more. But then again, nothing in that bundle is If I were to play any of the games on that list, it would be HuniePop for matching threes, Leap of Love for helping an amphibian out, or Sapphire Safari as a walking simulator. But match 3s and walking simulators you have better choices in the SFW part of gaming, because as always, those aspects of a game you aren't interested in do affect the ones you are - dev time is limited. For example the devs who thought King Arthur Knight's Tale needs a VS mode, took time away from the programmers that could have been used to properly integrate the free dlc into the campaign. Which means, meh. I wouldn't waste my time if I were you.

I watched Escape from Pretoria yesterday. Lots of actors trying to get accents right

I am not too bothered. It is the voice acting I find annoying, similar to, but not as bad as Expeditions: Rome. Voice actors do a generic "foreign" accent that is supposed to cover the whole Mediterranean and sounds nothing like anyone from anywhere in the world - unless voice actors are actually all from Voiceactorlandia and that is the voiceactorlandian accent. I enjoyed Total War: Troy. Only TW game I managed to finish a campaign. But I have been starving for a non-medival fantasy RPG. I would love an Elder Scrolls type game in a different fantasy setting. Something based on India or Mesopotamia or somewhere that hasn't been done to death. If only Carnal Instinct weren't a porn game :/ Take out the porn and give it proper funding, that game would be fun...

I am playing the original Titan Quest because with 2 coming out, I realised I never did.

I tried a new run of MechWarrior 5. It is fascinating how much a dev team can do wrong. The new scrapyard maps added with dlc are the worst maps I have ever played in any game. The AI is completely incapable of navigating them and gets stuck on bits of terrain every few meters. The AI gets worse/better with difficulty. At normal difficulty, when reaching higher tier missions, the allied AI started to dumb down noticeably, to the point where it would simply stop firing and stand there, allowing the enemy AI destroy the mechs. As the enemy AI gets significant stat boosts across the board, including turning speed, acceleration, cooldown time on weapons, damage and armour (so much armour), it meant that a light mech could almost take down a full lance of heavy mechs, while a heavy mech could take down your whole lance. Of course AI mechs never overheat. So, it becomes increasingly frustrating and unrewarding to play this. The first impression is "What a great mech sandbox". And then the game works at a steady pace to deconstruct that.

The Chained God is definitely worth it, as it directly continues the story after the end of game save. The other two seasonal updates with the Sidhe I lost interest in. All the seasonal content starts at the end of campaign save - so you go back to a save before you played the other dlc. It is a bit odd.

Did that include the "dlc" missions against the fomorians?

Yeah, with all the restaurants around, that something smells a bit burned every now and then, doesn't ring alarm bells - it just makes me think "What idiot didn't maintain their Dunstabzugshaube?" (yeah, I think that word in German) Also it is summer, there are fires around Athens every year and the whole city can smell of ash... And I can be absentminded or hyperfocus.

Work problems this week have made my depression resurface. So today I felt so bad, I thought I couldn't breathe and that I would collapse on the floor. So I dragged myself downstairs to check if there is a nice wind in the garden and maybe sit there, or close the garden door and drag myself back upstairs and collapse in bed. When I got to the garden I found myself face to face with a nearly solid cloud of smoke. To the point where you would have had trouble to see your extended arm. And as I had all windows open, the smoke was getting throughout the house. Turns out it wasn't depression. Idiot neighbour across the street had a kitchen fire in the restaurant. I guess it is "just" smoke inhalation.

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