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I go most of those but not Titanfall 2. Thanks for the tip!

Prey is awesome. I recently finished it after getting it in de the summer sale. Highly recommend!

I’m about 50 hours into Astroneer. It’s pretty fun but I don’t see it gripping me for another 50 hours. I’ll probsbly finish the main objectives and then clear something else from my Steam backlog

There us no need. CrowdStrike was such a disaster for Microsoft that they are already on the path to locking down the kernel. Noboby but MS will have kernel access eventually. Give it a few years (and 1-2 Windows versions)

I finished “The Return of the Obra Dinn”, an absolutely great puzzler. I really loved it. Anyone who likes Sherlock Holmes style deductive reasoning should give it a try. And the art style is really unique and beautiful.

I also finished “Conarium”. It was… meh. It’s got the Lovecraft vibe down really well, but it’s not much of a game. More of a walking simulator / visual novel. The few puzzles are very easy. Luckily it’s also very short.

Right now I’m trying to get the hang of “Astroneer” which has been a lot of fun so far (20-ish hours in)

Lots of people commenting about the laptop here, so let me offer something different. What’s that one game you downloaded? Because if it is Ark: Survival Evolved (or Ascended) then still having 80G left is pretty good!

Thanks for the tip! Wishlisted!

I just finished “The Return of the Obra Dinn”. A great indy game if you’re into detectives or deductive reasoning.

I do love the carnage, though… When my level 5 or 6 fighter guy swung a regular white text sword for a regular non skill attack and it took out like 5 zombies at once, that was really nice. Never did that in Diablo.

If you think that is carnage, you should see what the end game has in store. You’ll be blasting through hordes and hordes of enemies. You can clear entire maps in a few minutes. It’s a blast!

I’ve been having a lot of fun with Green Hell lately

Resources aren’t very grindy, but exploration can be. This game is the logical extreme of mile-wide-but-inch-deep gameplay. A billion stars and planets to explore but they are all basically the same. A vast landscape of $one_of_eleven_biomes with the occasional PoI sprinkled about. That said, it was pretty fun for a hundred hours or so.

Yes! Don’t read anything about it. Go in blind.

Curious as to why this happens. My bet is on Ubisoft tampering in windows kernel space. Probably some copy protection or anti-cheat BS

I’ve been having a lot is f fun with Green Hell, which was on sale recently. It has a surprisingly good story for a survival game that gets better the further along the game.

There’s one very annoying bug though. If you save, harvest something, die and reload, the resource does not respawn. This can really screw you over if you get an infection, you find and harvest some medicinal plant and then still die because it took you too long to find. Because when you reload, the plant you finally found is gone and now you need to find another, even further away!

Rock and stone!

Maybe it’s inZOI?

Lovely animals, but they smell terribly 😆

I’ve just finished the story mode of Green Hell. Now working on the Spirits of Amazonia mode. I hope I can build a more permanent base there instead of having to move every few hours.

They come from your sink, not your toilet

Yes, I recommend the book as well. Don’t ask me why though. I tried quitting smoking many times using many different methods but always failed. On a whim I got the Alan Carr book and read it. I read it in bursts over a month or two. There was nothing interesting in there. Nothing I didn’t already know. I finished it and quit smoking. The next day I relapsed and smoked again. I reread the last few chapters and quit again, this time using nicotine patches. I quit the patches within a day because they made me feel sick. I never smoked again. It’s been 7-ish years and I haven’t had any inclination to smoke again. It went from one of the hardest things to one of the easiest things to do. I don’t care if people smoke around me, it doesn’t bother me anymore. I still don’t know why the book works, but it did for me.