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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Hardspace Shipbreaker update is out. Progress was reset since a bunch of it changed. There's a story mode now and the tutorial is more a part of the game than a separate thing you do.

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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

shame on an IGA posted:

If anyone can point to cheaper AI bullshit than SNES Mario Kart cpu's having items that don't exist in the game otherwise I'd love to hear it

Not quite AI but for like twenty years my cousin loving HATED Duck Hunt with a fiery passion because any time he played it all day that Christmas day the ducks were on pixie sticks, cocaine and red bull energy drink. When I played it they weren't too terrible until much, much later in the levels.

I eventually told him that the second player's controller could control the ducks.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
lol, for giggles I looked on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/CH-Products-Throttle-Quadrant-300-133/dp/B0002A59Z4

Showing at $221.72

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Pretty glad the supply chain stuff going on didn't do anything to CPU fans. Mine poo poo the bed last week. Pretty sure a bearing disintegrated, the whole thing was seized up and made a gnarly grinding sound when I moved it by hand. Got a replacement for pretty cheap and overnighted it, no problems.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Dell switches and routers can eat all the dicks. The entire industry calls it trunking, stop being special snowflakes and making me remember to 'tag' and 'untag' a god drat port.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

not caring here posted:

Speaking of horrible poo poo, I saw something called A Plague Tale: Innocence on the XBox pass thingy and whoo boy that was a doozy. Somehow I had never heard anything about this game.

I got this for free on Epic. Maybe a third of the way through it I'm guessing. It's OK. Light action, mostly puzzle solving. The game is like 90% you running around with at least one NPC doing escort missions so the entire game is built around making that suck as little as possible, which makes intense action fighting stuff not really possible.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
I always knew that guy was a pirate.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
If you're into the chip tunes rabbit hole and haven't investigated it the, dare I say, science of why it sounds like it does was a fascinating evening of investigation. The stuff they did to cope with the hardware and software limits of the day were pretty amazing.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Eason the Fifth posted:

Maybe I'm just old but imo none of the following games were as good as 1942 (though Vietnam and bf2 were close)

With you on this one. Old school too cool.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
BF1942 with a few of their DLCs for me, I liked how planes, tanks, boats and everything were all integrated and worked well together.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Shooters and first person anything are pretty miserable on a controller. I loathe the movement that results from trying it. Much better for menu driven stuff like Final Fantasy.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Multi player Stardew is a bunch of fun but oh my god does it break the game over your knee. It's a straight multiplier on energy per day so that right there blows things apart but on top of that it allows specialization like "you take animals, I take crops, we get both bonuses." Still a bunch of fun though.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
I played it for maybe an hour or so but the spreading-decay hand/arm and permanently losing mechanic made me not want to invest more time in it and end up totally screwed.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
I *WILL* some day pay off my entire debt in shipbreaker. Just not until after it's finally released and I can stop having my progress zeroed out. Fun game, love zen-ing out and tossing much, much more poo poo into the barge than they expect because "gently caress it someone else's problem I'm on the clock" just not a fan of unlocking all the certs for a third or fourth time.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
For everyone who has played through Inscryption, I bring the following link for a really good song.

For anyone that hasn't played Inscyption; first off go play the game, second for the love of whatever you find holy do NOT ruin the game for yourself this thing is super spoiler heavy and the game is too good to deny yourself the experience of finding out yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78JyGZrv-hQ

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Foxhole is working pretty good for that for me. If you got ten minutes, hop on and shoot green mans. If you got longer organize an artillery op and blast some fools over the horizon or go mining for great justice.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
The shitshow that Diablo 3 started off as was the beginning of the fall from grace for Blizzard in my head. After lightning in a bottle with Diablo, and then making so many improvements with Diablo 2, to see them piss it all away was saddening.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
I'm not gonna poo poo on them too hard because, yeah, they have a whole lot of other stuff going on what with being in a plane and all. Still gonna poo poo on them though. I would have savored every moment of seeing their Invincible Sky God egos get deflated with the realization that, yeah rear end in a top hat, you're part of a team and other people do important stuff too that gets you there.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

GD_American posted:

Finally got a laptop with a graphics card and fired up Shipbreaker. drat, they really nailed a dystopic tone, didn’t they?

One day I will pay off my entire debt in that game. Pretty sure I've done it 1 1/2 to 2 times over so far but progress keeps getting wiped. Forcing myself to not get back in to it until release.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Arrath posted:

And beyond, thanks Obama cloning vats.

I'm just going to pretend to be surprised when the big reveal is "oops you never actually get your freedom we just make another clone"

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
If it's already broken, take the controller apart. Some times it's something as simple as some crusties on the contact. Bit of isopropyl alcohol and a Q tip, wipe it off, good to go.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
I wasted $30 on Sekiro and then played a handful of hours before deciding it wasn't the fun kind of challenge it was just frustration. Does Elden Ring avoid that?

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
I will also be breaking ships. Been waiting for them to finish wipes. It's a perfect pick-up/drop game that I want to keep around to some day finally pay off the entire debt, just got sick of losing all progress.

Spoopy mackerels 4 lyfe.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Podcasts, a new resin printer, ship breaker and a three day weekend. Hells yeah I'm going to be such a lazy bastard this weekend.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Yeah that glass is pretty easy. 4 cuts from the inside at moderate distance and the whole glass panel pops out as one piece. I think it's light enough that you don't even need to tether it. Just float out after it, grapple, spit, done.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Been a hot minute since I played so I have zero idea what those thrusters even are. Didn't exist last time I played. Did they ever make javelins not an impossible cluster gently caress even with det charges? Still not sure I'll ever take one, gently caress them things. Also I swear I remember tethers refreshing automatically at the start of every shift like O2. Did that change?

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

McNally posted:

Atlas thrusters are fun. Put a tether on the end of it so it starts moving out as soon as you cut the pipes, use the splitter beam to cut the pipe cut points fast, cancel the tether once the thruster starts moving (this part is optional), and then fling yourself into the nacelle and hit the flush lever. I can get it done before the fire has moved an appreciable distance.

:catstare:

The gently caress is the deal with those thrusters? I hope there's some kind of introduction or tutorial for them. I've never seen one and now I don't want to.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
They seem to have fixed a lot of the "You depressurised so now the reactor is going to explode" and "the entire ship will now achieve escape velocity on to your face" stuff so I'm pretty frequently popping hulls like corks to save myself a few seconds moving panels around.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
I got the javelin fuel tank out by concentrating on the front half first and stripping it to absolutely nothing left. Completely gone. Once it's out of the way you can tether the cage around the fuel tank off to the front then in to the processor and work on the fuel tank itself.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
The superstructure around the fuel tank is higher level than the split saw. You can demo charge it if you want but eh, gotta scrap that front half anyway might as well do that and then work on the fuel tank instead of wasting time with demo charges.

....I also generally hate demo charges and don't tend to use them on anything at all except ion rings if another path is possible.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Yeah, eventually it does become impossible to depressurize any other way. I try to pop the cork while it has as much weight as possible so there's a lower chance of something achieving relativistic velocities, and if possible from the outside. Usually try to just melt an airlock door or two from the outside. Stuff rattles around inside but not much of it domes me.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Arrath posted:

Counterpoint: Doom shotties slay the demons, yes. They excel at this and are very satisfying. But MP Shooter shotguns make other players mad.

*eye twitches in Planetside*

loving NC.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
They're pretty garbage at first, but get a few cert levels in the blast radius reduction track and they turn kinda useful. I just generally didn't use them though. Stronger/longer/more tethers and drag the entire offending object around instead.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
My favorite run of Stellaris was a species of sentient fungus that originated on the blasted nuclear hellscape of their tomb world home planet and harbored a resentment for all other life because of it. So they would go full exterminatus on everyone else's planets then colonize the now-hospitable blasted nuclear hellscapes they had made.

Worked pretty good and they colonized a lot of the galaxy, until they decided to ascend from this plane of existence by using star crackers on most of it to make exotic matter fuel for their ascension engine.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
I saw Jurassic Park DLC for lawn mowing simulator. I suspect I would be disappointed but the idea of being the landscaper while poo poo goes pear shaped in the movies makes me laugh.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
So you don't get your face torn off by raptors while trying to steer around the triceratop turds? Knew I would be disappointed.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

orange juche posted:

Cult of the Lamb is loving amazing, but I'd advise going through it on a harder difficulty than the default because you can definitely break the game on normal difficulty.

It's a roguelite but it tends too far towards the "lite" part.

I must just suck at things that aren't atlases then. I have my cult like 90% maxed and I'm getting my rear end beat on the regular with the third zone on regular difficulty. Enough that I'm losing interest.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Pretty sure I have that same blanket and if it is I approve of the choice in comfy, warm blankets.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
New Rimworld DLC coming out. I'm looking forward to it. Want to have my T-rex riding cyborg Jedi launching chronomancer spells at Lovecraftian nightmares, and this time they can apparently be psychic marshals for mechanoid swarms while turning their home in to a polluted, industrial hellscape.

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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Prey is a good one. Even has a few replays in it. Different styles, sometimes even extreme like "no augments", are very much valid and you're sure to miss stuff first time through.

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