general gaming

[slender wolf]

Anyway they've kept this server running for three years so hopefully most controller are converted now

Every year there has been reporting by the news reminding you to convert your controller

When they killed stadia they also refunded everyone for all purchases they made on it

I got a refund for the one game I had bought

[light gate]

Not me lmao, because I used a coupon… that was a case to be disqualified.

[slender wolf]

Oof

[light gate]

So I lost like five bucks, but its five bucks so whatever…. But its still funny that Google owes me five bucks.

[slender wolf]

I never used a stadia controller

I used an Xbox controller

Stadia didn't require the stadia controller

[slim thorn]

yeah, that corner case probably crosses the threshold of "implementing a literally perfect system would cost more than it's worth"

[slender wolf]

It was said to lower latency somewhat

[light gate]

Something something negative latency

I mean it made some sense, the latency was ‘lower’ because it connected to the stream server.

[slim thorn]

you can't have negative latency, that's like having half an A press

[light gate]

^ yeah

It was a bad marketing term.

[slender wolf]

In my experience, stadia performed worse then modern Xbox game streaming and way worse then GeForce now

[sacred grove]

Google invents causality-breaking tech

[light gate]

GeForce now will have 100 hr monthly limit

[slender wolf]

And pricing all the games at prices similar or higher then steam, but you could only stream them, was a horrible idea

[cerulean herald]

oh god, the half a-press thing
also isnt negative latency like time travel at that point

[slender wolf]

Well, with geforce now, at least you don't only own a license to stream your games

You could also play them natively on your main pc

[gaunt marten]

Negative latency is in fact time travel

You simulate the console multiple times, once for each input, and pick the one that is the correct one

[slender wolf]

Xbox cloud streaming also tends to get you a license to play the game on a Xbox, or a PC, or both, depending on the game

That's key

[light gate]

Ehhh

[slender wolf]

No one wants to build a game library only accessible via streaming

[light gate]

Xbox cloud streaming isn’t as good as they make it out to be.

Honestly the best experience I’ve ever had with cloud streaming was…. Onlive. Which is crazy to say.

[sacred grove]

GOG screaming internally in the background

[gaunt marten]

Ninja turtle spotted in OSRS https://i.imgur.com/zq9eDUY.png

[slender wolf]

It's not as good as geforce now

[slim thorn]

I wonder if there's an alternate timeline where cloud gaming became a "real" thing

[slender wolf]

It's getting more popular it feels like still

Geforce now is doing well

[slim thorn]

my vague impression is that (AAA) game sizes kept ballooning past the point there was no hope of streaming the game on normal internet

[river veldt]

amazing

[slim thorn]

huh, I hadn't even heard of geforce now

[light gate]

When are they making a Linux client? Updating their macOS client as well? Are they even gonna bother actually making improvements with the silly gog galaxy 2.0 client?

[slender wolf]

Streaming isn't about game size as I understand it, you stream a h.265 video of the game and your inputs get sent back to the server

In real time

[light gate]

Like I really just miss the old gog downloader lmao.

[slender wolf]

The main issue is latency and consistency of connection

[slim thorn]

oh whoops, you're right, I completely mixed that up

the bigger issue was games where noticeable input lag would ruin the experience

[slender wolf]

Yes.

GeForce now has tried to compromise because if you pay for their service, you can run games at 120fps.

And streaming at 120 can in some cases have similar latency to running native at 60

So you brute force the issue

[slim thorn]

does the frame even get to your machine in less than 1/120th of a second

[hushed onyx]

A world where turn-based strategy is the most popular genre?

[slender wolf]

Probably not, the main goal is just to get the total roundtrip latency comparable to a console game at 60fps.

Using more fps can help with that

It reduces the latency in that stage of the process

Then you have more room for latency in the connection stage

When compared to consoles at 60

If your internet is really good and you're close to the server, it can average out to be similar

[hushed onyx]

That might sound crazy, but I’m not sure it is since most board games can more or less be categorized as “turn-based strategy” so clearly normal people are not completely averse to them.

[quiet swift]

And at that point you're not even buying the game, you're just renting the hardware with the game and never 'have' anything and are a slave to the subscription

[slender wolf]

GeForce now mostly uses your existing game library via steam and egs.

You can play the games, with the same save files, locally.

Not all steam games are compatible, but there's a very long list of compatible games

Same with egs.

[slim thorn]

now that you mention it, it does feel like the niche of "board game but digitized with the tedious bookkeeping parts automated" is... not as widely popular as I would've expected it to be

[slender wolf]

Wizardry or early ultima maybe (not really)

[slim thorn]

well I think WG means actual board games with a board, not all tabletop games including D&D

computerized D&D obviously turned into RPGs which have always been a huge genre

[hushed onyx]

What exactly are you thinking of by that?

[slender wolf]

I mean yeah, virtual chess is very popular it seems, but not ... Any more popular then real chess

So it remains a niche thing

[slim thorn]

I guess exactly I was thinking of literal name-of-board-game The Video Game games

[hushed onyx]

This is correct. I was going to jokingly comment on how RPGs could also be categorized as TBS, but ended up not doing so before you all posted.

[slim thorn]

and failing to think of any just-video games that spun out of those the way CRPGs eventually stopped being straight D&D adaptations

[slender wolf]

I mostly have experience with monopoly, my dad's favorite board game, and the problem is that it's too people centric. Trading needs to be done over voice channels, and facial communications helps.

You could do that now, of course

[hushed onyx]

Paradox games and Civilization are board game spinoffs, actually.

[slim thorn]

but I know very little about strategy games so maybe some of those did spin out of board games and I just don't know about it

welp

TIL

[slender wolf]

But the 1995 internet monopoly game didn't have that, it just had a visual interface to offer trades

When ime to offer trades irl games you wheel and deal, you sell people on it

It's a thing that is better in person

Or with video chat, which didn't exist at the time

[slim thorn]

yeah that's probably the direct reason

[hushed onyx]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Universalis_(board_game)

[slim thorn]

ok now I want to see the Stellaris board game

[hushed onyx]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_(1980_board_game)

Although this one is more tenuous.

[frozen gate]

can i play this with a mouse

[gaunt marten]

If the mouse can read the manual, sure

[quiet swift]

[slender wolf]

And yeah they made a monopoly video game in 1995 with tcp connectivity and ofc I have a physical copy of it

Someone made a fan patch to run it in windows 11

[hushed onyx]

Aside from grand strategy/4X games, I think "tycoon"-type games are another candidate for games that sort-of spin off of board games, in this case something more like Monopoly. I'm less sure if there are direct links, though.

[hushed onyx]

While those do still exist (go look up Wingspan on Steam), I think they've largely been replaced by Tabletop Simulator since it...simulates a tabletop and so can simulate any board game (among other things). It also handles a lot of the tedious bookkeeping (for example shuffling and dealing cards).

Incidentally, and since it is relevant here, I got Armello for Christmas (despite the game being some years since its last patch...), which is described as a "pure" digital board game, i.e. it was designed like a board game but was all digital with no physical predecessor or exact equivalent (it wouldn't be wholly unfair to compare it to titles like Shadow Hunters or Betrayal at House on the Hill, though).

[slim thorn]

#TalosPrinciple2: even as a cat person, I can't fault their argument

[fickle garnet]

I got the MGS3 remake for Christmas, I love it

I should continue my playthrough of MGS1 when I finish it

[quiet swift]

2

discord why you bold it like that

[cerulean herald]

did u put a "# " before the 2

[quiet swift]

I did, but I don't know why that means bolding. Seems like an odd choice

[sacred grove]

It's big text (for top-level header), not bolding

[cerulean herald]

(type this to prevent the effect)

[sacred grove]

A

A

A

[gaunt marten]

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/210298617-Markdown-Text-101-Chat-Formatting-Bold-Italic-Underline

[quiet swift]

Huh, detroit become human is 4$.

[mossy flume]

Discord uses a flavor of markdown

-# You can also talk quietly

[robust latch]

LOL splilt second thinking MLP Discord not the chat

[quiet swift]

I mean, he probably would find a way to do that

[tender summit]

anyone down for VRC in a bit?

[slim thorn]

this is the true meaning of christmas

[graceful bridge]

https://youtu.be/Y5udHAlmfd0?si=WSxgTV1MSW5OQ06j

[astral steeple]

"Free on EGS today - Trine Classic Collection"

[visual hill]

nice, I remember hearing about Trine a lot in the 2010s but it kind of faded away over time

it's very rare for me to see random mentions of Trine on the Internet these days

[astral steeple]

I should probably start claiming all the free games they announce

All I've claimed so far with the free games on EGS was viewfinder and hogwarts legacy

HL only because of having to play two hours of it to unlock an item in a different game

I did claim bendy and the ink machine and fnaf into the pit back in October as well

[craggy vine]

I miss when games had demo plays. Like you sit on the title screen for long enough and the game starts playing itself

Or if it is doom it plays itself from the start

[quiet swift]

https://www.greenmangamingbundles.com/bundles/rpg-icons/ pretty good set of CRPGs for 10$

[cunning galleon]

My character in zomboid got fucking disconnected from reality, hit a tree at Mach fuck then got launched a few feet away and died

[quiet swift]

https://youtu.be/n2Gu-BvShuk?si=lJeI7TsYzPXB5Je8&t=1233 the physics in zomboid seem a bit wonky. One of my favorite moments from a video of this guy I watch

[young creek]

if it was a DISASTER why did he turn into zombie chad

sus..

[quiet swift]

The timestamp is one indication of why

[astral steeple]

Peak

[cunning galleon]

Oh i mean my player got launched out of the windshield

I have a mod that adds seatbelts (and invertedly, the ability to die by getting flung out of your seat)

Like I said my character got dissociated from reality, my car was going so fast it loads and unloads 105 tiles in a span of a 0.5 seconds so i couldn't so anything and my car was stuck at a set speed until it hit a tree going Mach fuck

[cinder hatch]

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero

Xbox Series X VS Nintendo Switch 2

[tender summit]

on vrc again if anyone wants to play

[quiet swift]

Hello, gamers! Did you ever want to combine red dead redemption 2 and katamari Damacy?

No? Well fuck you, have it anyway

[craggy vine]

holly shit I love this

[craggy vine]

Just learnt of the Voxy mod for Miencraft. Might try using it. And may end up giving up on the ray traced minecraft. Ray Tracing is cool and all but it is kinda fuzzy looking and it would be nice to see more then what people were seeing in 2015

[quiet swift]

On epic

And on Prime

[craggy vine]

Wait like.. Amazon Prime?

[visual hill]

I already have it 🙁 this year's EGS giveaways were a bit disappointing

[quiet swift]

Yeah, amazon regularly does that

[visual hill]

I guess I'll have to make do with Unreal/UT99 and soon UT2004 becoming freeware... 😛

[random steppe]

The best game they gave is really good at least

Disco Elysium

[shell shore]

I took a break from nonstop avatar frontiers of pandora and ima play hollow knight for the first time

Idk what Voidheart edition means but we gon find out

[random steppe]

There is only one edition, you don't have to worry about that

Basically it's how they called their completed edition with all the free additions they made to the game post release.

[wind stump]

LOOTBOXES HELL YEAH

[quartz pawn]

i feel like that game went free before

[quiet swift]

They've done like 500 games now, so there's a good chance it was free before

[quartz pawn]

fair enough

[fickle garnet]

It has been, yeah

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAxi_eA74g

He starts with a disclaimer that this ranking is E33-free

[cerulean herald]

No E33 allowed this is a E33-free zone

[mossy flume]

I assume he took the position that E33 was trash

He tends to have... really weird taste in games.

[quiet swift]

Nah, he had some gripes but he reviewed it earlier in the year and liked it, and the video starts with "GOTY, fair enough" but had gripes with the designation of 'indie'

Doesn't really say why, but I get the feeling it's mostly a "it's already been covered enough" thing

[static bluff]

This is not a Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 free zone as long as I am here

[quiet swift]

Agreed, honestly 🇫🇷 🥖

(that was nonetheless an amusing video)

[fresh bane]

what an interesting position for a game to be in where people don't even want to bring it up in conversation anymore because everyone already knows how good it is

[random steppe]

He probably just went ahead and removed it from the conversation because it's a game that was talked about a whole lot this year, makes sense

There isn't much else to say about it if you follow gaming closely enough. There are many several hours long dissections about every aspect of the game on YouTube

[unreal idol]

One day I'll play it

[quiet swift]

Essentially that, Gen, yes. I mean, he doesn't spell it out that way but that's absolutely my impression from watching

[unreal idol]

Then I can see what all the fuss is about

[quiet swift]

Do eeeet

[unreal idol]

Gotta fix my PC first

[quiet swift]

Fair

[cerulean herald]

soon, every single pony in this server have played e33

[static bluff]

Then we'll need to pull in new chatters

[quiet swift]

And indoctrinate them

[static bluff]

Yes

First ponies, then clair obsure. This is the way

That's the mlp agenda now

[quiet swift]

[unreal idol]

It's not on switch 2, correct

[quiet swift]

I don't believe so, no

[mossy flume]

Nope

You should get it on PC or PS5, probably

[unreal idol]

I dont have a PS5 and I need to figure out whats wrong with my PC

It's extremely stressful because the cost of RAM and video cards is unaffordable

And I'm afraid that it's likely a hardware issue

[mossy flume]

You should run a memtest

[unreal idol]

How do I do that?

[mossy flume]

Run the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool. You can find it by searching for it in start.

[quartz pawn]

does anyone do steam achievements here or nah? i have friends on steam but none of them do it

[rare dew]

All the games I like won't let you have achievements if you "cheat" by modding the game

Or using the tools they explicitly give you 😛

[unreal idol]

Hm, I ran the memory diagnostic tool but... I didn't get any results after it finished

Oh, finally. Apparently there were no errors

[visual hill]

I don't hunt for achievements, but I grab them if I can. I only have a few games 100%'d

[fickle garnet]

Same

The only game I put effort into getting all achievements on was Elden Ring

[quartz pawn]

i see, i try to stay away from co-op games at least i can do online depends what the game is i don't bother doing co-op games since i need people to 100% them with if they're going too so i just stay way from that

and here's mine anyways

[hushed onyx]

I do…somewhat (rather) dilatorily, but I do explicitly plan around getting achievements.

[astral steeple]

peak lol

[quartz pawn]

gl

being trying to finish my steam library anyways i just did cod ghost in like a day on the 27th 💀

[fickle garnet]

I'd love to 100% BG3, but there's no way in hell I'm beating tactician mode😭

[quartz pawn]

game takes like 200-300 hours or more to 100% anyways there's people if you beat the game under like 200-250 they think is "too fast" or just hate you for some reason for 100% a game too "quick"

[fickle garnet]

I 100%ed Elden Ring in about 140 hours

[quartz pawn]

nice

[river veldt]

absolutely insane post
https://www.rxddit.com/r/SteamDeck/s/YXoKuZGDqv

[gaunt marten]

The belt is crying right now

[craggy vine]

All these people playing normal games on their steam deck...
Imma play fnafb on mine

[hasty patio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38cHV-lZCXI

[quiet swift]

Out of curiosity: anyone here ever play K.K.N.D (Krush, Kill N' Destroy)?

[craggy vine]

Does it also have swag?

[quiet swift]

Does a house sized crab with a rocket launcher count?

[craggy vine]

[quiet swift]

finishes the tempest rising campaigns, moves on to the next game

[fast jacinth]

skyrim cat wizard time

[craggy vine]

Don't accidently become a stealth archer

Stick to it

Do the magic

[fast jacinth]

does it count if i stealth archer with a summoned bow 🤔

[craggy vine]

hmm... Do you level up magic skills by summoning it?

[fast jacinth]

yes

[craggy vine]

Then yeah that is okay

[fast jacinth]

sweet
i'm gonna go straight up destruction mage tho

[craggy vine]

Hell yeah

[fast jacinth]

she can be trusted

[craggy vine]

I swear it is such a meme to want to go in being a mage and then accidently become a stealth archer. Cause starting being a mage can be tricky, and stealth archer is so easy.

[fast jacinth]

how to sit like a jarl

[craggy vine]

Ah yes. Classic skyrim

God seeing this makes me miss skyrim wow. All the memories from the ps3 days even are coming back to me.

[visual hill]

Legion Go 2 owners in shambles

[visual hill]

now that it's 2026, here are some games I can think of that have noteworthy milestones in 2026:

• 30 years old: Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Death Rally (Remedy debut)
• 25 years old: RTCW, MGS 2, GTA III, Jak & Daxter, Super Smash Bros. Melee
• 20 years old: Oblivion, Trackmania Nations, Supreme Commander, Outrun 2006
• 15 years old: Minecraft, Skyrim
• 10 years old: Doom 2016, Dishonored 2
  leave a 👴 emoji in the comments if you watched this far and...

[gaunt marten]

Whoa

RCT, CTR, TCR, RTC, CRT and TRC are all video game title acronyms

[slim thorn]

only one of those is ringing a bell for me

[cunning galleon]

Roller coaster tycoon

[gaunt marten]

Rollercoaster Tycoon, Crash Team Racing, Total Control Racing, Cassette Restoration Terminal, TRC World

[slim thorn]

ah, I've heard of CTR

lol TRC World is so obscure that Google AI Summary is convinced it's a typo for RollerCoaster Tycoon World

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, I only know of the first three

Also I forgot Imperivm RTC

[astral steeple]

Tony hawk project 8 turns 20 this year too lol

[craggy vine]

Imagine playing a modern game with this

[craggy vine]

Thinking about the PS3 controller with the sixasis. It had gyro, but any game I played that had gyro on the PS3 was really really bad. Like it was a gimmick. Like in GTA4, you only used it to control a helicopter. I think nobody knew how to use it yet.

But then later when I played Splatoon on the Wii U, and that used Gyro for aiming, omg that was mind blowing.

[visual hill]

PS3 gyro didn't have all sensors modern controllers do

it also had high latency and no vibration

[craggy vine]

Later versions had vibrations, but the first version didn't. The one I got had it.

Also that is interesting yeah, but makes sense. Modern controllers having more sensors. Except for xbox. I love the xbox controller but maaan I wish it had gyro.

No gyro just kills a controller for me now

I love FPS games and like playing on controller but I just cannot aim properly with just the control stick

[frozen gate]

hey that's just my regular mouse

it's how i beat firefox

[craggy vine]

You beat firefox?

[frozen gate]

everything else is just too hard

[craggy vine]

[visual hill]

interesting, RetroAchievements is sending rewind emails this year (but there is no web version)

[craggy vine]

oh, interesting!

I could use that, I have emudeck. Don't have an account yet.

I don't care too much for achievements personally but the idea of achievements for retro games is so cool

Achievements do add a thing to do though

[quiet swift]

Back to weekly

[visual hill]

oh nice, Wildgate

a Godot contributor I know has been pushing it a lot since it came out

I remember Nofrag describing it as an extraction shooter with furries

[visual hill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcZq_t3ry_I
looks like TP has an experimental 60 FPS patch being worked on? (see the comments)

[wind stump]

nintendo lawyers gearing up

[fresh bane]

There's also a PC port being worked on supposedly

I could go for a best zelda game replay...

[fresh bane]

Oh that's just like the RE Seamless HD Projects

imported HD textures on Dolphin

[visual hill]

texture pack + 60 FPS mod

I stepped through frame-by-frame, it's not frame generation

[quiet swift]

Off to an interesting start...

And next turn a fourth one spawned

[fickle garnet]

I was looking at reviews for Krita on steam and one of them just says "Better than Devil May Cry 2"😭

[craggy vine]

toilet paper in 60 fps?!?!

Also, I would personally think that 60 fps would be as easy as just disabling the in game frame limiter, and maybe even could be done through the emulator. But I don't know enough about it either.

Surely would be a good feature, turn off the fps limiter and go even up to 120 fps or more if the game doesn't break from it

[quiet swift]

https://store.steampowered.com/charts/bestofyear/2025

[slim thorn]

#TalosPrinciple2: not much longer now

[arctic fern]

https://youtu.be/uUc0Qvt9D0k

[visual hill]

some fun for the statistics folks: https://youtu.be/ZdxugNa6wQw

[proud warren]

ah MockRock

...I don't have anything else to add, just "ah it's MockRock"

[static bluff]

Perfect. I love long for deep dives into video game related statistics and strategies. I'm saving this for my next ride.

[visual hill]

wow, you're a lot further than I am even though you started after me

but I kind of stopped playing since mid-December, since I have a Game Pass trial to minmax until January 12th

[slim thorn]

yeah, most games once I start I'll just keep playing until I "finish" and then never touch them again

[quartz pawn]

depends what game it is, i did halo mcc i still play it but taking a break since i mostly play the mp/xp now

[quiet swift]

https://wccftech.com/geforce-rtx-5090-prices-to-soar-to-5000-usd-nvidia-amd-gpu-price-hikes-q1-26/

[sacred grove]

I hope they don't expect people to pay more than that when the next-gen GeForce comes out

[unreal idol]

Jesus fucking Christ

When is this going to stop

[quiet swift]

considering how booked out ram seems to be, probably not all of 2026

[mossy flume]

It'll be a year or two

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRvyRo5Fk0o Linus did a pretty decent coverage of things

[mossy flume]

I would observe that they've been selling for about this much basically since launch, even at retailers... so I guess changing the actual MSRP isn't terribly unexpected?

[mossy flume]

Linus? Saying something competent about what's going on in the tech industry?

That would be a first...

[unreal idol]

sighs

[mossy flume]

But yeah, $5000 GPUs is batshit insane.

$2000 was already wild

They're not even workstation GPUs!

[quiet swift]

steam machine coming in start of 2026 is pretty good timing. Hopefully those ram prices dont drive it above 1k, but it seems like it'll be a very good option for folk instead of building your pc

[mossy flume]

Either good or terrible timing on Valve's part

I wonder if they can price that in

Then again, they're swimming in so much money they could absolutely afford to sell it at a loss

[quiet swift]

I think they initially didn't want to sell it at a loss because they didn't need to

But now, they might have to

[mossy flume]

I wouldn't really feel bad about them for it

[sacred grove]

If HL3 is the launch title for the steam machine, they might potentially get the volume they need for it not to be too much of a loss

[quiet swift]

It definitely needs to be sub 1k for it not to be dead on arrival. I think if they push it to 999, NOW, with the ram prices, people might understand and be willing to fork it over. Before this ram madness, I would've said 750/799

[mossy flume]

Indeed

Although the same logic led to the Nintendo Switch 2 somehow being "overpriced," so I don't think any price would satisfy people

[quartz pawn]

$5k? jesus guess other reason why i went for amd 💀

[hushed onyx]

Negative pricing, they pay you to take it and make it up on games

At least, as long as it's otherwise a good console.

[rancid herald]

part of me feels bad because I worry I'm going to need a new computer soon and may not be able to afford it :(

[unreal idol]

Same

[quiet swift]

AMD is likely to follow suit though

[quartz pawn]

i probably won't upgrade again anytime soon i just need to upgrade my motherboard when ever that will be i got the rx 9070 xt on launch day amazon shit is just using i7 6700k with it rn i got the gpu first since i wanna get out of the way

[unreal idol]

At these insane, unfair prices, that's already the case

[quiet swift]

I'm using a laptop since my desktop is still in storage after my international move (and i don't feel like I have the stability here at the moment to get it out of storage), desktop has a 3070 so it's still good for lots of things, I think

[glad girder]

Legit PK, hit me up about my old PC if you need it. I'm looking to get a Steam Frame in the future and don't need a third computer anyways

it's a little bit of a mess (needs a drive, probably a cheap b450 mobo, and the AIO watercooling radiator barely fits in the case) but we can easily get it working

[mossy flume]

I’m pretty sure this is indeed expected imminently

Yes, it is

AMD is similarly increasing their prices. For some reason this specific article didn’t link it even though it comes from the same report.

But that’s wccftech for you. They editorialize a lot.

https://www.eurogamer.net/amd-and-nvidia-will-reportedly-raise-gpu-prices-significantly-in-2026

I’m quite annoyed because I tried to upgrade my PC last year, and found I need to replace the motherboard, CPU, and RAM as well. This pricing nonsense means that I can’t remotely justify doing that anytime soon.

[quiet swift]

I'm worried that if I do get my desktop back, that there might've been transport damage 😐

[quartz pawn]

what was the issue with the desktop?

[quiet swift]

Oh none, but I moved countries and the previous times I'd moved, there was damage to the GPU so I'm hoping it's not happened again

[quartz pawn]

gotcha i see well gl 💀

what's the gpu btw?

[quiet swift]

3070

[quartz pawn]

well gl then

[hasty patio]

https://wccftech.com/corsair-reportedly-cancels-users-pc-order-hikes-the-price-by-800/

[arctic fern]

https://youtu.be/_3qzyAHMoUU

[green fulcrum]

@slim thorn Thought you'd get a kick out of this:

[slim thorn]

do imacs not have the power of taking screenshots or something how did that not get cleared up sooner

[green fulcrum]

Apparently someone on Reddit says that imacs are utterly horrid for taking screenshots, lol

[mossy flume]

Eh? iMacs can take screenshots just fine

2011 iMacs are ancient, though

[glad girder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSu0QkDIjMI

[slim thorn]

#TalosPrinciple2: NO WALKTHROUGH (also none of the in-game cheat tokens)

(for the stars I did have to look up 2 hints, and even those were failures of wall-licking, not of puzzle solving)

[green fulcrum]

Steam achievements are so funny sometimes. There are several games that have achievements just for you finishing the tutorial level and it says like "63.2% of players have this achievement".

What are the rest of y'all doing???

[arctic fern]

Not playing the game

[slim thorn]

yeah, I usually use those %s as measures of "drop rates"

according to TP2's steam achievements for example: 88% finished the tutorial puzzles, 82% got to the main game, 77% finished the first proper level, 67% did a quarter of the game, 60% did half, 51% did three quarters, and 42.9% got an ending

buuuuut the fact that "get any ending" has a lower % than "solve all regular puzzles" is extremely sus

[green fulcrum]

Lol

[slim thorn]

to be clear: getting a main story ending in this game requires solving only ~80% of the "regular" puzzles

[craggy vine]

There should be an achievement for opening the game for the first time. See how many people don't even click play

[slim thorn]

IIRC that's Steam's definition of a "player", which is probably why achievements don't duplicate that

[craggy vine]

ah truee yeah, I didn't think of that

You can buy the game but not become a player of the game

[slim thorn]

which makes it even more baffling how many of these "finished the tutorial" achievements are sub-90%

do you normal people play all of your games for five minutes and then get distracted by a shiny object

[proud warren]

and then there's the games that add achievements after the base game achievements (i.e. dlcs or free updates adding new achievements) that have ludicrously low percentages

[craggy vine]

Looking at payday 2 for that

Come back to the game after years and then its like 'huh why are there like 500 new achievements'

[proud warren]

oh right, doesn't payday 2 have like, 1200 achievements or something ridiculous?

[slim thorn]

I just realized it's even weirder for TP2 because that's a sequel

[craggy vine]

The achievements for completing each dlc level for all of the 6 or so difficulties help contribute to that a lot

[slim thorn]

Hollow Knight's earliest/highest % achievement is 77%, and Silksong's is 91%; that gap makes sense at least, you probably don't buy #2 if #1 wasn't your thing

[proud warren]

man I wish I like hollow knight more than I do

[slim thorn]

there are other games I could say that about

[craggy vine]

I might like it, I have never tried it

For some reason I always think of shovel knight when people say hollow knight

[proud warren]

I don't like needing to constantly servey where I am on the map

indie knight reps

[slim thorn]

completely fair, I like doing that (and also learning an area well enough I no longer need to) but of course metroidvania is my favorite genre

[proud warren]

my sense of direction is so ass, that I once went in a big ass circle in a location without noticing until I was like, half way into my 5th loop

[craggy vine]

Also I wanna say that I hate payday 2 levels cause to get to max level you just need to play through the game like 1000+ times. And in a 4 player co-op that has a bit of a story, and is a hoard shooter similar to l4d2 in ways, it just feels so weird to grind on it. I guess it at least gives reason to keep playing though

[proud warren]

I don't even hate the difficulty or controls or anything; I just cannot find my way around the map, and I refuse to use a guide showing me where the correct direction is

[slim thorn]

that does make me curious if a similar game with a simpler map might work out better

[proud warren]

maybe

I have yet to sink my teeth into any metriodvanias

I tried with hollow knight, and didn't like it

and I heard it's one of the best, so I figured "if this is the best, I don't think I'll enjoy any others"

[slim thorn]

but you did come away with a specific bugbear, which (speaking from experience) is more than most people manage

oh HK is absolutely one of the best MVs of all time

but that doesn't mean everyone is required to like it

even by MV standards, HK tends to expect/encourage more wandering aimlessly around the map (especially in the mid game) than most, especially the way it doesn't give you a region's map until you find the right NPC within it (the one thing I've yet to see any post-HK MV copy )

Ori's my go-to for most beginner friendly MV, and I'm pretty sure its map is more straightforward

and Nine Sols is one of my personal favorite MVs that heavily favors combat challenge over map navigation challenge (to the point I've seen HK fans complain that it's "too linear")

[proud warren]

Why is the basic edition of Ori and the Blind Forest not available on steam anymore?

it's only the definitive edition that's available

[slim thorn]

my understanding is that DE is a strict upgrade/superset (more content, a few QoL features, but no "remaking" of original content), so it does actually make the original obsolete

[proud warren]

ok, then why is it still on steam at all then?

[slim thorn]

I assume because of people like me who owned it before DE came out, and wanting to present DE as a new release (which it is)

I mean there's zero reason to play the original any more so I wouldn't get hung up on it, lots of games have some edition stuff like this when you show up several years after it was new

[proud warren]

Fair

[visual hill]

I have the game from GOG and run it through Heroic, so no achievements for me

I wish achievements were a standard OS feature like on consoles, but they're not 🙁

[slim thorn]

yeah, that's probably unavoidable

I already doubt the veracity of quite a few steam achievements, any universal system for them would have no plausibility at all

[craggy vine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msf8C5qrS6o
Man I watched this and it just makes me wanna play minecraft again, I miss it. And kinda miss watching this guy, I used to watch him lots.

All the critiques are valid but I also think some of them are what make the game great. A survival sandbox doesn't need to a have a whole big objective to it, one of my other favourite survival games called Urge (it is super fucking weird) doesn't have much objective either besides building, surviving and exploring.

[craggy vine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wud8Tvlu5oo
Watched this out of interest. Despite what I see people say, 8gb is far from being unusable, even with modern games on windows 11, and any issues you do get are solved by just having 16gb. So I guess it really helps to know that unless you really need a specific reason for it, you can safely go for 16gb for gaming.

[visual hill]

Windows 10/Linux is a lot more usable than Windows 11 with 8 GB

[craggy vine]

Yeah I'm sure it would be too

He interestingly brings up a point of like, by the time apps or games are intense enough to need 64gb of ram, the speeds we have now would probably be very slow by then

[slim thorn]

I certainly won't be upgrading my RAM any time soon

my current laptop is above average mostly as future-proofing; this ongoing price silliness wasn't one of the futures I was trying to proof against but I guess it works out that way

[craggy vine]

Yeah

I would like something more then what I had right now, in basically all of my devices, but it will still be fine. Only really device I have that is basically unusable is my tablet, it is just really old. It has 3gb of ram and 32gb of storage.

[fast jacinth]

you say "normal" and then you literally describe adhd

[graceful bridge]

https://store.steampowered.com/steamawards/2025

Winners are out

[hasty patio]

BG3 is done with their work and it won Labor of Love? The fuck?

NMS is again denied that honor.

[mossy flume]

Did BG3 put out any big updates last year???

I hadn’t heard anything

[sacred grove]

I just ordered a decent Thinkpad that has 64 GB of DDR5 in it, for around $1,300. A steal, if you ask me. May as well, at this point

[craggy vine]

How the fuck did you get that for $1,300

I am in aud but I could probably only get 16gb for that price

[sacred grove]

In USD

Direct from Lenovo it would have been $1,600+ or so, but I found the same thing for significantly cheaper on Amazon

[craggy vine]

Okay yeahh, $2000 for me. Still for that price, I expect 32gb at most, and most still being 16gb

My macbook was around that price and it has 8gb of ram, before the ram shortage

[sacred grove]

Yeah, the crazy RAM prices haven't quite reached pre-built laptops from the major OEMs, but it will soon, I suspect. So I jumped in on this

[craggy vine]

I see I see

[mossy flume]

Dang, that's a tempting idea...

[frozen gate]

recency bias is too strong for anything that really makes sense to win labor of love

[mossy flume]

I guess they released their last patch in April

I feel like NMS's work was more substantial, though

[random steppe]

Listen I like NMS well enough and they did way past what they needed to do on the game to redeem themselves in my eyes, but I'll say it here, NMS is not that good of a game so I don't mind BG3 winning over it.

NMS is kind of shallow and kind of grindy for many of its systems for the genre it's in.

It's a good game, the content it offers is very wide, but I don't think it's crafted as carefully as BG3 is when you take the single systems into account.

[quiet swift]

This is all fan voted as well, isn't it? Heck, I'm surprised at the GOTY result. Not undeserving, but I sense perhaps a bit of "ya know what fuck you i'm gonna vote for something other than all the awards/magazines"

[random steppe]

As for volume, I wouldn't be surprised if on Steam more people played HK given the lowest price point on the platform.
Lots of people played E33 on Game Pass after all

[quiet swift]

That's also a fair point

[frozen gate]

i figured cuz silksong is easy to run and steam awards pulls a lot of people who wouldn't normally vote in any awards since it's right there when you open the app

[random steppe]

I still think it's insane they placed it at 20 bucks

They could have gotten away with double given the hype around it and not lose that many sales

30 and probably still sell 90% of what they sold

[frozen gate]

for how small the team is theyre def each making insane bank either way

big respect for the modesty

[random steppe]

Oh yeah they were already set after HK, it's why they took their sweet time with Silksong

And why I assume we'll get the same treatment of a bunch of free post release content for Silksong

[cerulean herald]

ENA mentioned
a surprise to be sure but a welcome one

[fresh bane]

That's a funny one for Silent Hill F to win, not that it's not going for a distinctive style but it falls under the AAA realism I'm used to see in a lot of big production games (namely, precisely going for real world graphical fidelity), I would've given it more props for its sound and narrative but I guess there's games who win over Silent Hill F in those categories instead

if the game had come out any other year it probably would've won those categories

[quiet swift]

Also, an extraction shooter wins most innovative gameplay. Okay, sure.

[green fulcrum]

Eyyy, Dispatch won something! And yeah, Silksong winning both GOTY and "Best Game You Suck At" is on point, lol

[fresh bane]

pfff

[fresh bane]

I would've probably put Blue Prince in there instead, although I guess Blue Prince is more innovative concept than gameplay maybe, but still

[green fulcrum]

Yeah, this one was dumb

[fresh bane]

I'm surprised E33 didn't completely destroy the goty category

[green fulcrum]

Extraction shooters and most FPS games are far from "innovative" these days

[fresh bane]

Hades 2 got in there too so that's nice

Peak too I don't remember if Peak had won anything for the game awards but I thought it deserved to

[green fulcrum]

Nah, I knew Silksong would win GOTY for Steam. E33 is fantastic, but Silksong outright broke Steam, and after E33's usage of AI came out, I guarantee you that some people switched votes to Silksong.

[green fulcrum]

I voted for Peak in its category, simply because it's absolutely hilarious

[random steppe]

Maybe a bit that, and a bit what Tch suggested, which we can call the hipster effect, that a certain category of people are never gonna vote for the popular thing regardless of merit.

[quiet swift]

Indeed

[slim thorn]

I would guess E33's other award sweeps were a bigger factor than the "AI" nothingburger

[green fulcrum]

I agree it was a nothingburger, but it still likely swayed a few votes.

[mossy flume]

I see that Larian’s AI usage didn’t bother people, though.

[young creek]

WOOOOH!!! SKONG!!!!

https://tenor.com/view/hornet-silksong-dance-hornet-dance-hornet-silksong-gif-3654151901745923854

[young creek]

@gaunt marten you seeing this??

[tiny wigeon]

I think its time for another Tmod playthrough

[uneven epoch]

ive been hmming and haawing what new single player game to start and landed on final fantasy xv, but unfortunately getting it to run is a little problematic so i am, workin on it

[bitter stream]

good luck Bringi

I struggle to stick to one game at a time haha, so I just kinda flit from game to game depending on my mood/day

[uneven epoch]

ive gotten a lot better at singleminded pursuit last year or so (with ffxiv being the only real diversion bc thats like, beloved commitment ), but i "just" finished hades 1 so its that transitional period. i did kinda-sorta promise gen ill try playing warframe, but to my understanding thats a multiplayer game and a) im in mood for contained single player rn and b) i dare not grab his attention away from kingdom come games i neeeeeed his updates on how his hungry hungry henry adventures are going

so i thought hey, i have four guys on road trip the game on my list back from that huge sale, why not. alas somethin is wrong™ with something somewhere and i get stuck on infinite load screen after hitting new game (the tutorial is fine? so why? strange). so ive been tryin to figure out the issue all evening to not many results

[bitter stream]

huh, did you already do a "verify game intergrity" thing on steam?

could be a missing file somewhere

[uneven epoch]

currently doing so, aye. it just takes a long time

[bitter stream]

yeah fair enough

hope it fixes it

[quiet swift]

Speaking of games, since I recently finished Tempest Rising, I have picked up The Ascent as my next game to play through. I do also try to focus on one game at a time for story... with some others for 'hey this will kill 15 min' (see: Ball x Pit)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/979690/The_Ascent/

Steam

The Ascent

The Ascent is a solo and co-op Action-shooter RPG, set on Veles, a packed cyberpunk world.

Welcome to The Ascent Group arcology, a corporate-run metropolis stretching high into the sky and filled with creatures from all over the galaxy. You play as a worker, enslaved by the company that owns you and everyone else in your district. One day, y…

Price

$7.49

Recommendations

18488

[visual hill]

I bought that one on sale this autumn, I have it on my Legion Go 2 but didn't start it yet

[quiet swift]

which i can only think to describe as... cyberpunk 2077 meets diablo?

Its pretty good so far but was hard for a while. I recommend maxing out the HP stat first then going into whatever else build you want

[fresh bane]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/ExZodiac/

Steam

Ex-Zodiac

Ex-Zodiac is a fast-paced rail shooter with a stylized look reminiscent of early 90's 3D games. Join protagonist Kyuu as she fights to free the worlds of the Sanzaru Star System, overrun by the intergalactic terrorist organization known as Zodiac.

FEATURING:…

Price

$4.79

Recommendations

844

if you're into the Starfox this game looks pretty cool

[uneven epoch]

kinda sorta! it didnt fix it quite so but it looks like the issue was in my external disc, not the game itself. i ran repair, it looks healthy now, ill redownload it and hopefully itll run tomorrow

[bitter stream]

ahh that's an annoying issue haha, but yeah

[bitter stream]

oooh i'll take a look

[visual hill]

it's made with Godot too

it seems to be the best Star Fox-like we have for now

[fresh bane]

ooohh myy god what is wrong with you GOG why did you automatically start this update

jesus

[craggy vine]

You know what, I feel tempted to make a youtube video of a 'one and final' video for modding on steamOS/Bazzite/Steam deck. Because all the tutorials on modding games are overcomplicated and don't actually teach you about how it all works. I want to be like, here is what you to do to mod literally any game on Steam Deck. Like, use multiple games as examples and different things you can do. Cause its like, once you get how to do it and make it work in steam gaming mode, you can do it for basically any game, you just gotta figure out what each game specifically wants.

Like, show how to use mod launchers and managers in steam gaming mode, whether it is linux native or not.

Or maybe I could even do it for specific games. Or like 'how to mod unity games' because all unity games seem to use just the one unity mod manager

[bitter stream]

that sounds useful

[craggy vine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLnPciB8cGs
Oh my god, this video feels like exactly me

I remember when Skyrim special edition came out on PC and I was like 'huh.. Cool, but mods already make the game look much better then this'. Same for the GTA enhanced edition, but rockstar took down some of the old mods.

[visual hill]

GTA V has Natural Vision which is pretty good

[bronze abyss]

so i finally legally bought ender magnolia,im still early game on the replay but im going for grimoires rn so i can get parry early on

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3180310/Billies_Wheelie/ 100% off

Steam

Billie's Wheelie

🧀🧀 Billie’s Wheelie 🧀🧀
Get ready for high-speed hamster chaos! 🐹💨
In this fast-paced adventure racing platformer, you take control of Billie, an adorable hamster on a mission to roll, race, and zoom through wild, dynamic tracks. Jump, dodge, and boost your way to victory, all while collecting cheese 🧀 and outplaying your…

Price

$4.99

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2661048971 AGDQ is running a preshow

[quartz pawn]

i don't play with mods but how often does rockstar take them down? and i haven't bother with gta 5 story mode just the online part

if i remember right pretty sure it was graphics mods no?

[bronze abyss]

if the game gives me a parry,boy am i gonna fucking use it

[slim thorn]

especially on this guy

[bronze abyss]

his fights are some of my faves,with just a dodge its a good test on spacing and seeing opportunities properly,with a parry it has no gimmick attacks so its just a no bullshit timing test

[random steppe]

Man, seeing it makes me wanna to do another run at some point

What an excellent game

[craggy vine]

It was yeah

[quartz pawn]

thought so

[rotund forge]

I got me some gaaaaaames!

[random steppe]

Hey hello, absolutely no rush on this, just want to add that WF is indeed multiplayer, but most story content is single player, and in general all of it is made to be solo'able.

Arguably a new player is better off solo unless they are trying to farm something faster, as veteran players matching with them tend to trivialise challenges or be way too fast for how a new player tends to play initially.

[wind stump]

super scribblenauts is the only one worth any actual value /s

actually why am i /s ing that, it's 200% true

did you save the 25 cents with the Pro Member Price tho?

[rotund forge]

My total was $50

I have a Pro Account

I got the warranties cause I'm a paranoid person /hj

[wind stump]

nice

[rotund forge]

I have the original Scribblenauts

[wind stump]

hell yer

i had two copies at one point

(i got one from subscribing to Official Nintendo Magazine, rip the GOAT)

[river veldt]

hell yeah, MK7 is great

[rotund forge]

I used to have it

Actually it might have come with the 2ds I bought awhile back so this purchase might have been pointless.......

[rotund forge]

I didn't realize, like an idiot, that this wasn't Mario Party Island Tour, the one I was after

But I'm not going to return any of this. I have games.

Games are fun.

[river veldt]

ive never even heard of Star Rush

[rotund forge]

It is...obscure

[obsidian salmon]

I wonder if anyone's made an ultra randomizer

you exit a room in a mario game and suddenly bam, you're in a zelda game, you go to the next room and suddenly you're playing resident evil

[slim thorn]

there are some randomizers that stitch two games together into a single program; the examples I know about are SMZ3 and OoTMM

my understanding is these were only feasible because the two games were made on identical hardware and their ROMs happen to be mergeable in a way that both mostly just work

it's definitely not feasible to stitch together two arbitrary modern games in this particular way

[mossy flume]

Doesn't Archipelago stitch together dozens of games?

[slim thorn]

(though you can have "multi-game randomizer" systems like Archipelago, where each game is doing network communication with a common server using a generic protocol, so there's no stitching into one program, "just" modding each game individually)

[mossy flume]

Ah

[slim thorn]

yeah the long answer was required here since the normal meaning of "multi-game rando" is Archipelago but that's clearly not what Plucky had in mind

(which is a fun coincidence, I'm working on one of my Archipelago mods right now)

[obsidian salmon]

you might be able to do something super hacky with like, an altered emulator and games all on one system

but yeah it'd be cursed

[slim thorn]

indeed, plus it probably has to be a small set of very similar games in order to be fun

[obsidian salmon]

I think the fun would be having to go from platforming to a shooter

a true test of gamerskill

[slim thorn]

I guess it's easier for me to say "that probably wouldn't be as much fun as it sounds" because I've tried entrance/room rando in multiple randomizers, and if it's too fine-grained, keeping track of all the transitions does tend to overwhelm all other aspects of the game in my (and others') experience

doing that with multiple games is likely even more clunky

but a very coarse-grained form of it might work

(I'll be trying to make my own entrance rando in the near future because I think this game is coarse-grained enough it'd be fun)

probably the real question is, even if you could stitch together games X and Y, is that more fun than Archipelago'ing X and Y already is, by enough of a margin to justify that extra effort

...this just made me imagine a Halo MCC randomizer, since that's a case where the original devs already solved the "run every game in the same engine" problem

[uneven epoch]

oh! good to know

[river veldt]

ive started watching Vinesauce Vinny play Blue Prince

the vibes are much different from what i was expecting

[sacred grove]

Blue Prince is pretty fascinating

[river veldt]

he just accidentally wasted an entire day :ICANT:

[sacred grove]

Without spoiling anything, it goes deeeeep

Certainly not for everyone, and it requires a certain mindset to get the most enjoyment out of it, but it's such a well-crafted game

[river veldt]

actually im gonna watch the RTGame highlights because an hour forty seven is easier to swallow than 15 hours of unedited stream

[little badger]

Sega co-founder has died

[arctic fern]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1159690/Voidtrain/ anyone own void train? thinking aobut getting it, whats it like?

Steam

Voidtrain

You are an engineer thrust into the strange and mysterious Void, a world with its own history, rules and future. Build and upgrade your own train, craft powerful weapons, fight various enemies and survive the surreal landscapes of the Void alone or together with friends.…

Price

$16.49

Recommendations

7090

Metacritic

82

[wind stump]

i think this game likes Dark Souls

i mean there was already a boss fight against someone called "F-Sha" who looks like a Dark Souls protag

[fickle garnet]

Was playing the MGS3 remake and all of a sudden the audio completely cut out in the middle of a cutscene

[fickle garnet]

The Fear is so fucking annoying in MGS3

[dense crypt]

That bolt is coated in the venom of the Brazilian Wandering Spider...

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLnPciB8cGs

[craggy vine]

Just looked into Vintage Story and it seems really cool

[mossy flume]

https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

AGDQ is on

[craggy vine]

I'll do ur mom as quick as these games

[rugged flax]

#1196131199844876318

[arctic fern]

Its great!

[craggy vine]

Hell yeah

[arctic fern]

Theres evrn a pony mod thats better than the minecraft one as it actually affects gameplay

[craggy vine]

Fricken awesome

Can you make the game cursed with 1000 mods like you can in minecraft or has that not happened yet

[arctic fern]

I think theres about 1000 mods, not that ive counted, bit the vast majority are QoL, genuine improvements, overhauls of various mechanics... very few junk mods

[craggy vine]

Oh I see I see

Hey a game even with a lot of normal mods can feel cursed in a way

Even something as simple as 'there is way too many weapons here then this game deserves to have'

[arctic fern]

If you did buy it id be more than happy to play with you

[craggy vine]

omg really?

I don't play games too regularly though I guess, and with my work schedule it would probably be like, once or twice every few weeks

[arctic fern]

I LOVE the game but its much better with a friend

[craggy vine]

I see I see

[arctic fern]

(And youre gonna want someone to help explain the gameplay)

[craggy vine]

I have heard that the game does at least teach you some things though

[arctic fern]

Oh its genuinely great at explaining things

But theres a difference between a guidebook and a more experienced player explaining things lol

[craggy vine]

ah yeah makes sense

[arctic fern]

https://youtu.be/2lZulOubz5o this is a great bid explaining a lot of the core mechanics in an easilly digestible way and its an hr long lol

[craggy vine]

I see

[arctic fern]

(I think were on 1.21 rn but that wasnt a significant patch)

[green fulcrum]

I've been hearing a lot about Vintage Story. How is it compared to Minecraft? Like, what sets it apart?

[craggy vine]

It seems like it is a lot more focused on the survival aspects

[bronze abyss]

you actually need to work for stuff,progression is meaningful and plentiful,and there are many more mechanics that make the game interesting

or simply,i would call it minecraft if it was made with survival first in line,not creative atleast from the little bit ive played

unfortunately didnt manage to convince anyone else to play as well so i kinda fell off

[arctic fern]

Minecraft is a sandbox
Vs is more survival

[arctic fern]

Heloooooooo

[cunning galleon]

Finally, I've been WAITING for this feature in war thunder

They finally let me use tank customization on Minimal download 🙌🙏

I can now slap on my body pillows on non-reserve tanks

[arctic fern]

To put things in perspective:
To get an iron pickaxe in minecraft, you punch a tree, make a wooden pick, mine 3 stone for a stone pick, then after about 10 mins find 3 iron

In VS however:
Find clay
Form clay into a crucible and mold
Make a pit kiln and bake crucible and mold
Make a charcoal pit
Hope you stumble onto some copper bits by exploring the surface, if not, make a wooden pan and sift gravel for 40 of them
Use crucible to melt the bits, pour into the mold for copper pick and prospecting pick
Prospect for a big copper seam, and a tin seam
Once you found both, use crucible to alloy tin and copper together to make bronze
Make enough for a bronze anvil and hammer
Make a forge if you havent already
Make clay bricks
Cook them in a pit kiln
Make a bloomery
Start the prospecting process again but for iron ore (i think thats hematite)
Once you have enough, put iron ore in bloomery with charcoal
Wait
Once done destroy bloomery (you get some clay bricks back)
Heat the iron chunk in furnace
Chip all the slag from chunk and form into ingot on anvil
Heat ingot
Use anvil to forge into a pickaxe

Iron is a late game material

[slim thorn]

(this sounds like TerraFirmaCraft)

[arctic fern]

Yeah lol

[bronze abyss]

i haven ggone through even a third of that within 10h or so which from what i understand was a mix of being unlucky with early game resources and also severe skill issue of dying thousands of blocks from base multiple times

[arctic fern]

Tbe devs started with a minecraft mod not unlike that but realise mc kinda sucks and just made their own game from scratch

[slim thorn]

nice

[arctic fern]

Its like being in a primitive survival video lol

[cunning galleon]

I've always been interested in vintage story

[arctic fern]

It is a challenging game to be clear

[cunning galleon]

But the price is steep so I'd wait for steam release to get that sweet regional pricing and steam sales

[arctic fern]

$20 is steep?

[cunning galleon]

Yes, I'm an unemployed college student living off my parents' wage

[arctic fern]

Oh right regional pricing

[cunning galleon]

20$ is around 1000php for me and that's a week of work, maybe when I get a job someday

[arctic fern]

Oof

Tell you what
If youre willing to do multiplayer and we can find times to play, i might be able to buy a copy

[arctic fern]

Look up this bid furst and dm me if youre still interested, im a bit busy today

[cunning galleon]

I'll look into it! Also I'd be down to do zomboid vanilla

[arctic fern]

Awesom

[cunning galleon]

Only nosteam tho,

[craggy vine]

Don't you hate when you try to add about 50 mods to game, and then it just crashes, so you get rid of most of them, but there is some weird ass bug and so you just gotta keep eliminating mods that you think it is until the bug goes away

Sometimes it is just better to choose a small amount of mods, or slowly grow a mod library over time.

Some games take mods so well, and you can add hundreds without issue if you are careful about conflicts, others just really hate you

[gaunt marten]

Not sometimes, always

[craggy vine]

Nahh sometimes you want a large amount of mods

[gaunt marten]

And the best way to get a large amount of mods is one mod at a time

[craggy vine]

Oh for getting large amounts of mods yes

I remember why it is what I did with Skyrim now. Add a mod or 2, then see how it works.

Or if there is a modpack that is good. Otherwise, yeah.

[slim thorn]

and sometimes it's more about the individual mods than the base game

[craggy vine]

Sometimes a single mod can do a lot

[slim thorn]

especially when APIs are already in place to let certain kinds of mods compose safely

[craggy vine]

I was trying to add a lot of content at once to this game and it just ended up not really working

[gaunt marten]

Does this give you 5 per mod?

Yeah, it must

785 is divisible by 157 and 5

[wind stump]

says i have 114 mods

barely visible on the top right

[craggy vine]

damn

[wind stump]

(the build got a little silly)

[gaunt marten]

Okay, if you have 114 mods, it could give you 6 per mod plus 101 base

[craggy vine]

I'm also trying to mod a Unity game, with not so great mod support and game updates known to break mods entirely so I can expect things to not work

[wind stump]

can't believe i actually pulled off an Intangible build (A status that reduces damage taken to 1 per attack for a turn)

[little badger]

HC have you tried the new savage?

[craggy vine]

What game is this

[wind stump]

Slay the Spire

[craggy vine]

oh I have heard that name before

[wind stump]

my brother in christ it launched today, i don't even have it unlocked

[little badger]

Horse game is coming to game pass soon

[craggy vine]

pony game yayy

Do you guys ever like to play games with the lights off? It just feels cool

[slim thorn]

not specifically lights off, it tends to make the screen feel uncomfortably bright (unless it's so dark I can't see anything which is a whole other problem)

[astral steeple]

That's the sequel to maritime Bay adventure right?

Or did that one come first

[slim thorn]

I do tend to cover up windows because, although I'm not a vampire, rays of sunlight inevitably end up at an angle that creates glare or blinds me

[fickle garnet]

Ooh RE Village

[cunning galleon]

Depends on the game

[craggy vine]

Makes sense, I love being able to just focus in on the screen, everything around me being dark

[cunning galleon]

I play with lights on and near people with horror , lights off with most

[craggy vine]

Oh I'm 100% lights off with horror

[cunning galleon]

Same reason tho, I'd turn lights off on day (who doesn't)

I'm a wimp, I'm horrible with horror

I got jumpscared by an ISOMETRIC ZOMBIE

[slim thorn]

some horror games I'm glad I watched someone else play, some I'm very glad I played myself, it really depends

[cunning galleon]

Stupid zomboid jumpscare sfx

[cunning galleon]

I'll take the former any time of the day

[craggy vine]

I wish I played Iron Lung first before watching a video on it

[slim thorn]

(I mean being scared is usually part of the point so "being a wimp" is not incompatible with the genre )

[cunning galleon]

I played all fnaf entries, even sb and ruin, But never fnaf 4

[slim thorn]

yeah fnaf is one I would never enjoy playing myself

[craggy vine]

fnaf 1 did so good at horror, I feel like less so in some of the others

Security breach is just wacky

[cunning galleon]

I got horrible nightmares one time from horror after watching so that might be the root cause why i don't play horror

[cunning galleon]

Fnaf 4 is peak horror, I've played it 1 time only

[cunning galleon]

If you like rpgs fnaf world is cool

UCN is also pretty cool because it focuses less on the horror aspect at that point

[craggy vine]

fnafb is peak

[cunning galleon]

Just on the surviving aspect

What's fnafb

[little badger]

Most recent

[craggy vine]

hm? what? who said that?

[astral steeple]

I avoid horror games completely ngl

Movies too

The only horror movies I watch are the paranormal activity movies

And even then those are tame

Not a horror person at all

[cunning galleon]

Oh THAT FNAFB lmao

I watched gameplay of that years ago

[craggy vine]

I fucking LOVE fnafb

Fucking such a good rpg game

So fun

So goofy

Fight those party hats

[astral steeple]

https://www.techradar.com/gaming/new-playstation-tech-patent-called-ghost-player-will-take-over-players-games-when-they-get-stuck

Why

[craggy vine]

The equivalent of just watching someone else play the game

[astral steeple]

"Playstation, win me a match on call of duty"

lmao

[craggy vine]

Need the ghost player to help me through a visual novel

[astral steeple]

https://insider-gaming.com/hyperx-headset-reads-brainwaves-make-you-faster/

💀

[craggy vine]

"It uses ‘non-invasive sensors’ to read brainwaves and encourage gamers to boost their performance."

An anime girl voice: "You can do it! I believe in you! Do it for me!'

[astral steeple]

lmao

[craggy vine]

I read the whole article and it explains so little that this feels completely fake

[hushed onyx]

After clicking through and reading the press release, I don't think this is fake, but I do think they're overhyping it (not surprisingly). It (still) doesn't provide much detail, but I can hazard some guesses about how it works based on what I know about this sort of technology--most likely, what's going on is that the headset has sensors to pick up electrical and magnetic fields from brain activity, and then has some kind of ML system to translate those signals into usable signals.

You would basically need to use ML techniques for this, since the data would be extremely messy at best.

[quartz pawn]

i don't use headphones but ye i'm good 💀

[hushed onyx]

Then there's "something" that does "something" with the signals that "somehow" improves performance. (I really have no idea how the one leads to the other)

[wind stump]

so it's just marketing fluff and not actual news

[hushed onyx]

The use of "AI" is probably technically correct here, but misleading for average consumers because the "AI" used here is only vaguely related to the "AI" in chatbots.

[quartz pawn]

damn we got south park now 💀

[astral steeple]

Peak lol

[fickle garnet]

#1033108638572744705

[quartz pawn]

didn't realize we have a channel but thanks will keep it in mind next time

[craggy vine]

This is why I think it is fake. There is no hint to what it does, and I see no way that it could do something.

Does it somehow play a sound that makes you react faster

[quiet swift]

Huh, the Syberia collection is 5.99$ on GOG. But I checked gog galaxy and turns out that I already have all four. Didn't realize

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, I think they were free multiple times

[quiet swift]

I have three on gog and one on steam, somehow

[wind stump]

I am a Crustacean Conqueror

[mossy flume]

[visual hill]

I do this for most games since it's really good on an OLED

but this is especially nice for dark games like Doom, Thief, Quake, etc

and games you play in aspect ratios that differ from your display too (black bars are invisible in OLED)

most games designed for CRTs do well in a dark room

[craggy vine]

hell yeah

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/0iL0aLUS32A

[frozen gate]

adding onto the others, Vintage Story is more focused on being a realistic hardcore survival game (even down to the earth's orbit), so it's the kinda game you want if you're looking for something that makes that surviving aspect a lot more complex and involved as well as rewarding, the tradeoff is it's muuch slower paced and if you like the creative building it's gonna take a lot longer, and it's fairly brutal in the beginning as you learn it

it's really worth it tho, there's not anything else that's more detailed in the whole wild-man survival-craft department so it's very unique being on the extreme opposite side of minecraft, best if you'd like something that can make you lose a bunch of hours following how you develop from the broke, no money age far into the iron age, if you prefer something more "immersive"

[unreal idol]

Sounds more difficult than Minecraft

[frozen gate]

it is yeahh

[craggy vine]

Ye but I think I might like it

[frozen gate]

for minecraft the survival progression ends pretty quickly and youre pretty much set to do whatever about 20 minutes into the game since its goal is more on player freedom and creativity as opposed to VS where you'll spend a bunch of hours surviving off what you can before your first crop yield comes

[frozen gate]

it's a very cool experience

[craggy vine]

Yeah. In Minecraft the goals feel more like your own personal goals you want to do

[arctic fern]

to be clear, VS also has a lot of "do whatever you want" aspect to it
but you do have those goals of getting better gear, more efficient farm, building better food storage for the winter, upgrading automation and so on

also VS has less "islands of content"
as in, most aspects of the game interact with other aspects in a big interconnected web
unlike minecraft, where they added the pale forest that added... white wood, orange blocks and an indestructible enemy? is that fun?

[green fulcrum]

Yeah, it is

I've wanted white wood for years, and people have been using the Creaking for extremely fun games

[arctic fern]

if you say so i guess

VS has vertical slabs tho

it doesnt need them tho, considering it has a whole chiselling system, letting you chip most blocks into almost any shape you desire

even combine them together

[green fulcrum]

VS having vertical slabs is tempting, lol. But I really don't like how brown everything is. It doesn't look great.

[arctic fern]

im sorry?

brown?

i guess the UI is brown

[green fulcrum]

Literally every gameplay video I see of VS has every blade of grass, every block, every tree being a shade of brown or beige. Even the sky. Barely any green or blue.

Like, specifically this color, all the time

[arctic fern]

?

the bear is a brown bear, the rabbits are brown, and the wood is brown
the grass is green tho

[fresh bane]

wow only 32 gb of ram!

[river veldt]

is that a lot

[fresh bane]

I only have 24 gb of ram

and a portion of that is kind of always in use when I have other stuff opened in the background like the browser so really I only have like 16 available

[river veldt]

simply download more

[rugged flax]

it is when 32GB of RAM now costs almost $1000

[arctic fern]

i just loaded up the world me and liv were playing on ages ago thats in inter and yeah ok i can see it now

oh you can just turn that off

i realise im not beating the brown allegations here but chiseling is fun

liv chiselled this doorway

pies and wines

anyway

i like VS

[fickle garnet]

This feels like a game you'd have to invest a lot of time into

[arctic fern]

or have a group to divide tasks to, yeah

[fickle garnet]

Oh my god😭

[mossy flume]

Yeah, not terribly surprising

This is like the fifth major game to do this

[arctic fern]

the hitman games ARE very complex

[fickle garnet]

I really wish I didn't cheap out on ram when buying my pc components

[arctic fern]

yeah lol

[mossy flume]

I have 64GB of DDR5 and even that much is feeling tight to me...

[fickle garnet]

I have 16gb of ddr5 ram

My ram is also only 4800MT/s, so literally the slowest DDR5 ram you can get

[fresh bane]

The only good part about new games being impossible to run is that I simply don't play most of the new games that come out, and the ones I do play are usually highly stylized games that are low in requirements like Hi Fi Rush

Biggest problem I have even after upgrading to the RTX 3050 LP is simply that I don't have enough vram for most games, I only have 6 gb and 8gb is already not enough to play most games anyway

still an upgrade from only 4 gb though

[visual hill]

retrogaming will probably continue to be on the rise until morale improves pricing goes back to something more reasonable

you don't need 32 GB of RAM to emulate systems with 32 MB of RAM... 🙂

[fresh bane]

either that or we will enter a period where developers will maybe actually design their games with lower specs in mind and actually fully squeeze out all the performance out of those systems otherwise people will simply not play any new games because... they're not gonna be able to

unless they play on consoles

but that seems unlikely to me

By lower specs I don't mean low specs, I mean lower specs, like something most people actually have unlike what some new games seem to believe the average person has

[visual hill]

indie devs tend to remain cautious about this for the most part, the Steam Deck does the heavily lifting here

if your game runs well on a Steam Deck, it'll run well on nearly any desktop PC

I don't see a world where AAA devs suddenly lower graphics expectations to cater to lower-end devices though

it's never really happened in the history of gaming

[astral steeple]

Me who went from a 8gb ram hp laptop to a 32gb ram i7 geforce gtx 1060 razer desktop cause of getting my brother's previous computer when he got a new one lol

Was using a 4gb ram acer aspire v5 laptop before that one

Then a 2gb ram single core emachines desktop pc before that

From 2014 to 2018/2019

[visual hill]

I remember upgrading from 512 MB to 1 GB of RAM around 2007

it felt like the future back then

[astral steeple]

The 4gb one has a rainbow dash sticker next to the mouse trackpad thing lol

[quiet swift]

I am so, SO glad I jumped on this deal when I saw it after arriving here https://www.microcenter.com/product/677546/hp-omen-16-ae0001nr-161-gaming-laptop-computer-platinum-collection-meteor-silver . Great specs for a laptop and was about 1300$ at the time

probably be close to 2k now with current ram prices

Just stumbled across this picture, figure I'd toss it to the channel. JRPG players, what are you most looking forward to?

[fresh bane]

I'm so amused by the amount of remakes/collection of old games here lol

[river veldt]

most of these look the same to me

[quiet swift]

That might work for me as I've probably not played any of the originals. Except P4, but I'm actually curious to see how it is (I did play P4G and I believe there's footage of the revival graphics too, but I mean as a whole product)

And I know nothing of beast of reincarnation, which looks more like an action adventure than JRPG

[dense crypt]

Code Vein 2

[mossy flume]

Megaman Starforce, Fire Emblem, and P4R I'm all hyped for

I'm intrigued by Beast of Reincarnation, Code Vein 2, and Elliot

[random steppe]

lots of those don't actually seems like JRPG, more like anime games in general

Code Vein is a souls like for one

[mossy flume]

Yeah

Megaman I don't count as a JRPG

[quiet swift]

Ah right

[mossy flume]

Even though it is technically a Japanese made RPG

[random steppe]

Seems like the person that made this, if it was labaled as upcoming JRPG, they just mean games made in Japan

[mossy flume]

Yeah

But to be fair it's a good collection of titles

Megaman is an odd inclusion seeing it's a remaster of a spinoff of a spinoff

[random steppe]

I'm not looking for games to play, but still, this looks charming as hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1L3JNpq7Oc

[green fulcrum]

Looks like Hollow Knight, Ori, and Crowsworn all blended together and given a cheerier art style. I agree, it looks extremely charming, but I don't think it'll be making a lot of waves, unfortunately.

[river veldt]

ive clowned on Lies of P in the past but im watching NorthernLion play it and it looks kind of cool. how does it compare to the FromSoft soulslikes ?

[fickle garnet]

I liked what I played of it, but I got stuck fairly early in the game and never finished it. It's not on Game pass anymore, so I cant play it unless I buy it

[bronze abyss]

it has better refined and more consistent combat,and its a bit more linear so you dont have to wander about to find your way

[quiet swift]

I didn't like the combat when I tried the demo of it, but that was also months before release. Not sure if they changed it

[river veldt]

aw but i like wandering around

[green fulcrum]

Vibes-wise, I think it's also more "alive" than most other Soulslike games. Like, there's actual people to interact with, and a living world around you, rather than just desolate ruin after desolate ruin like in Dark Souls (and yes, I know there are other living people in Dark Souls, but the whole series still feels oppressive and very lonesome overall).

[river veldt]

you guys are just saying all the things i like about souls games

[quiet swift]

@green fulcrum since you're still the CRPG connoisseur of the channel, is there anything unreleased that you are looking forward to? Other than the obvious one, Divinity

[green fulcrum]

Warhammer 40K: Dark Heresy (from Owlcat Games), Solasta II, and New Arc Line are the three I'm most looking forward to other than Divinity.

New Arc Line is in early access and hasn't received an update in a while, but it is supposedly still being worked on.

[fresh bane]

I saw a little bit of that other Warhammer CRPG and it looked pretty cool but I kept hearing that it continued to get content updates so last I heard it wasn't really 'complete' just yet

I should play some more CRPGs some time, I feel like I'm missing out on a cool genre I might enjoy

I wanted to maybe check out Baldur's Gate some time, not the 3rd one, the first or the second one, just to see

Some of these older ones are consistently under 9 dollars in most platforms anyway too

[quiet swift]

I should give the first solasta another try

[green fulcrum]

The first two are real-time-with-pause combat, just fyi.

[craggy vine]

The colour pallete used is a bit dull, it really doesn't look very colourful.

But also I think both games have good reason to play, don't need to compare them so harshly

[quiet swift]

Via amazon prime gaming

[scarlet totem]

[scarlet totem]

If I keep going does the millenium puzzle materialize in my house

[bitter stream]

one can only hope haha

[slim thorn]

yeah that's been on my wishlist for a while

[bronze abyss]

oh i didnt realise the game was out even,thought it was gonna release cuz of the trailer being sent

classic

not too bothered about it cuz the boss is not really that hard but bit annoyed that the time is wasted

[craggy vine]

@arctic fern Would vintage story work fine for steam deck?

I realise its not on steam so it can't exactly tell me

It doesn't say anywhere that it supports controller. It might map fine to keyboard keys fine but sometimes if there are too many buttons it is just a pain

Also just annoying when you do get a new game and you gotta mess around with binding controls for like 30 minutes

[arctic fern]

I dont know

Send me a dm and when im free ill look that up

I dont think it does but im sure steam would let you kludge something together

[craggy vine]

I mean it would run fine, It's more just the controlls

(I could have just asked how controller support is really ahah)

I know a lot about running non steam games on it, I do it all the time

I may still try it if not but I'd definitely have less chances to play it

[bronze abyss]

@slim thorn i did a thing

after i finish this playthrough i plan on doing this for all bosses, then upload it as a single compilation

[slim thorn]

neat

I wonder if that's viable for every boss

[bronze abyss]

p sure it is,even lingering damage like ice bombs i can parry,so it should be doable

[slim thorn]

I think when I played EL rando with random starting spirit (and rolled the parry spirit) I realized parry-only is infeasible (or at least no fun) on the bosses that mostly do ranged attacks

but EM might be different

[bronze abyss]

theres carapace that launch a projectile after parrying,less damage but still shjould be fine

[slim thorn]

probably the... I forget the name of the EM witch boss but you know who I mean, that'd be my main concern

[bronze abyss]

i could only see velgrynd being problematic personally,cuz in 2nd phase theres 1 attack thats really hard to parry and id have to go through a lot of them cuz the fights take a while,and maybe ending B fight as well cuz its just overall a difficult fight

this shit is hilarious to me though,true pacifist route or the "stop hitting yourself" route

[slim thorn]

you're probably right, I only played EM once since oh god so many peak games

[bronze abyss]

we are eating good in 2025/2026

[slim thorn]

I've seen people do parry-only fights in Nine Sols and considered trying one of those myself

[bronze abyss]

if ninesols has a boss rush maaaaybe eventually would be willing to do it there too,though not too big of a fan of the parry timing there compared to most other games

wouldnt be doing this in magnolia either but apparently it recently got a boss rush

[slim thorn]

Nine Sols does have a "Battle Memories" mode now for boss refights, so you can easily do a rush by selecting each of them in sequence

[bronze abyss]

yeah probably just a matter of time then until i do it there

im assuming since you mentioned it,it is possible to do it there? as in parries dealing damage to enemies

[slim thorn]

pretty sure PoP:TLC also had a boss rush, it's arguably a standard feature at this point

[slim thorn]

so, in the context of Nine Sols, a "parry-only" fight usually means using Unbounded Counter to deal internal damage to the boss, until their health bar is 100% internal damage, then using a single talisman to finish them off

[bronze abyss]

it should be but not always is,lies of p for example also only recently got one and in that kinda game it should be included by default

having to attack enemies?? in my combat game???

[random steppe]

It has some small amount of splatoon mixed in, with the paint thing, the theme is pretty strong, I hope it is low budget enough to count as a commercial success at least.

1k reviews means it sold probably at least 10/20k copies lowballing it, but yeah rough to come out the same year of Ender Magnolia and Silksong for a metroidvania

[bronze abyss]

huh found a weird bug,armed gilroy did phase 2 attacks before he actually transitioned to it,ig i did enough damage to enter p2 without him getting a chance to do the whole ritual

[craggy vine]

I have really been feeling an urge to make gaming youtube videos again...

[astral steeple]

damn i love tony hawk mods lol

[craggy vine]

Oh I actually thought that was a spiderman game at first ahah

[astral steeple]

the mods itself adds spiderman as a playable character and adds full on wall crawling and web swinging etc

[craggy vine]

omg fuck yeah

[astral steeple]

and regular walking

[craggy vine]

Based mod

[astral steeple]

yeah lol

got out of bounds using the web swinging lmao

[bronze abyss]

i am elevator,elevating so hard

[slim thorn]

I feel like that's easier to spam than the EL wall climb but I'm not sure why

[bronze abyss]

i mean here im cancelling the wallclimb with a dash

[astral steeple]

https://youtu.be/o2eYfvciS_E?si=fGfcvxlgkd4bEiwc

[slim thorn]

oh duh

[bronze abyss]

you can get the same results by having your finger above dash and jump and vibrating your hand real hard

well this would have been helpful a couple hours back

idk why i didnt get it,i literally cleared that part before

think im just stuped

[frozen gate]

there's a lot of mouse control needed for the menus and for knapping without a mod to automate it so it'd be kind of a pain to play on controller

i tried setting it up once but no no recommend

*plus i needed to do that on ds4windows, there's no native support

[bronze abyss]

i love the tonal shift when you get to ||house frost|| stuff in ender magnolia,it hits just the right spot

[arctic fern]

https://wiki.vintagestory.at/index.php/Controller_Compatibility

steam deck does have more button options so it might be possible to make things more convenient on it

[sacred grove]

Along those lines, can't wait for the new steam controller

[arctic fern]

i have the old one and my only complaint with it is that it it lacked a second analogue stick
the touchpads are fantastic but theres no beating a solid analogue stick

[visual hill]

I will probably buy one for Godot purposes, just in case I don't have enough controllers

[fickle garnet]

Oh my god, they're Nine Inch Nails

[minor plover]

playing Quake 1 for the first time?

[river veldt]

Quake 1 is so good

[minor plover]

Nine Inch Nails was peak popularity roughly when Q1 came out. The reference was super funny at the time.

[river veldt]

NIN also did Quake's soundtrack

[mossy flume]

Was about to say exactly that

[fickle garnet]

Pretty much. I've played it before, but not much

[visual hill]

also, Ranger's "voice actor" so to speak is literally Trent Reznor

and probably the guy who voices Enforcers too. The only 4 English words you hear in the game, that is

[visual hill]

fun fact: Q1 is probably one of the earliest PC games to not have streamer-friendly audio, since it's technically licensed music... people have made a mod to replace the OST with streamer-friendly alternatives because of this

(it gets flagged by Twitch/YouTube content ID)

[fickle garnet]

Neat

[mossy flume]

What actually happens in those cases? The stream just gets demonetized?

[visual hill]

I think it gets removed by Twitch entirely, and on YouTube you get demonetized

but I'm not fully up-to-date on what happens when you get caught by content ID on Twitch

(it's stricter than YouTube AFAIK)

[mossy flume]

Huh

I've never put my streams on Twitch, just YouTube. Most of my recordings are just Beat Saber, so there's a ton of improperly licensed music in them and as far as I can tell they just get demonetized. (But they were never monetized to begin with, so... literally nothing happens)

[visual hill]

I think it's pretty ironic when a Doom stream gets demonetized.

[fickle garnet]

I completed episode one. It was pretty fun

I'm not really sure why I haven't played more Quake up untill this point tbh

[worthy rose]

https://youtu.be/pF5eVltokAc?si=zUqkNWpniQToxNbF

[visual hill]

Quake is good for you. Quake is everywhere. Quake is for everyone. Quake is forever.
https://www.quaddicted.com/quake/advertisement

[bitter stream]

ooh neat! watching now

huh, it doesn't really show any gameplay stuff, just more of the cinematic from earlier i guess

[teal sonnet]

Something wrong with my silksong

[bitter stream]

hahah, who made this?

pretty fun mash up

[visual hill]

rush b

[random steppe]

Sherma being a top champion is actually the best subtle joke in there

(for the uninitiated, not always the case but top lane champions in league tend to be very tanky bruisers that can handle being in a long lane without being blown up too easly by an ambush or another, and can realistically carry the team if they get ahead in exp and gold, which is why they are put in a solo lane)

(not always, there are some tiny top lane champions, not many though)

(also this information is at least a decade old, so things might have changed)

[bitter stream]

I'd ask what the joke is, but I still need to get around to finishing Hollow Knight haha

[random steppe]

Sherma is a very tiny mild mannered boi

[bitter stream]

awww fair enough

[craggy vine]

Oh they just say what you should map stuff to, that is helpful

[cunning galleon]

looking

[eager bane]

what game is that

[cunning galleon]

Heartopia!

[eager bane]

Reminded me of My Time At Portia at first

[bronze abyss]

computerspiel

[eager bane]

Computerspiel

[cunning galleon]

Axe wielding maniac

[teal sonnet]

Been so hard to get into a match on the new launcher

[graceful bridge]

https://youtube.com/shorts/SYYRhNOwTTk?si=CYUT5DIf6D3nBgZY

[little badger]

A new type of games showcase goes live tonight. No paid placements just game after game reveal. https://www.youtube.com/live/dA4J6ByZPR0?si=w51z00DZSsqcqWAj

There will be conversation after every 3-4 games shown

[random steppe]

That sounds pleasant, I'll give it a look

[bronze abyss]

i played in the beta for it it was amazing

oop sorry for ping

[graceful bridge]

Oh god, this streamer has the most adorable avatar ever.

[bronze abyss]

as a sheep enjoyer its one of the best things out there

[quiet swift]

...A sheep enjoyer you say?

[hushed onyx]

There are several of us!

[bronze abyss]

im a major sheep enjoyer

1.deer
2.sheep
3.cow/horse

[quiet swift]

are you welsh

[bronze abyss]

no,lithuanian unfortunately 😔

[bronze abyss]

wait why welsh

[arctic fern]

the welsh and their relationship with sheep are the butt of many english jokes, most of which i dont think i can share in manechat lol

[bronze abyss]

oooh nvm i get it then

[hushed onyx]

Same with New Zealanders, sometimes Scots and Australians...

[bronze abyss]

i didnt associate it with welsh specifically,scottish if anything mostl;y

[arctic fern]

exactly

[wind stump]

mmm, haggis...

[quiet swift]

🐑

[wind stump]

gives me vibes of Crash about to start riding a hog

[bronze abyss]

can pinky even see anything through the wool

[graceful bridge]

https://www.twitch.tv/calicotea/clip/GracefulFragileCheesecakeRlyTho-Wkwd4820Qz-2_ZFQ

[bronze abyss]

gilroy 1 attack

yippe

now for B

[wind stump]

🅱️