Kenshi’s a lot of fun. It’s really hard to end up in a position where you really get stuck, so I enourage you to get in situations where you get captured or lose limbs.

Also make sure to avoid the wiki and tour the continent.

Yeah I played the 1.0 release recently. It’s still the same kinda deal. Most of the former progression quests have been moved to procedural quests. I’m mixed on it. There are still some of them and It’s nice to not have progress gated behind getting x screwdrivers, but I miss, for instance, the ghoul nest or Lazar questlines. New skill and perk system is better, although I don’t think either really was that impactful. There are some cool new guns and the boar still are awful to deal with sometimes. Getting shreked from off-screen still happens a little but not too often. I think it’s a lot of fun to play right now all-in-all, despite all my criticisms. And if you play on difficulty settings where you don’t lose all your gear, it’s probably easy enough to push through the game at a reasonable pace too.

Stalker 2 has been disappointing. Might end up somewhere good eventually, but until then I’m thinking about playing GAMMA again. Problem is that I updated it like an idiot and now all my hours of modding it last time are left as a broken mess of files to redownload. Think I’m gonna just have to start from a fresh install and rebuild my list. Gotta have my mags mod and my girl character to stalk the zone in search of artifacts. I guess I could put some more time into Zero Sievert for my fix instead, but it’s not as immersive and that’s what I like.

Also rockin magic arena still, got a good monogreen hydra deck with an above-average win rate - though it’s still not as good as my black-red bloomburrow lizard aggrocragro deck.

I would name a child Orchard.

I wonder if it might engender an advanced sort of solipsism and callousness towards other people. After thousands of years of the world coming and going around you while you remain, would you even recognize other people as real or meaningful?

I don’t agree. Also they don’t ever have to do it, the potential is enough to be valued; but furthermore the rights themselves can be bought and sold, speculated on, and generally financialized.

But they could make them again, perhaps as a collection of games on a bespoke console. It’s like unexploited land that they’re enforcing their borders around. It’s just one more facet of digital enclosure.

Been playing Satisfactory for a bit and it’s clicking with me in a way that Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program never did. I think verticality is just a lot more fun for me, and lets me feel a little more architectural.

Foolin’ around with Qausimorph some too - pretty good roguelike, don’t know if it really goes anywhere yet, but it’s enjoyable enough to do a run or two. A little more tonally edgy than my preference.

I have Banquet for Fools installed, but apparently it only has a few hours of content? It has a really interesting style and the qausi-turn-based ARPG system looks interesting, but I’m not sure if I should crack into it or wait.

Getting back into Battle Brothers with the new Reforged mod. Really livens building bros up with semi-random perk lines, but it doesn’t change as much as Legends does, which I’m enjoying (although I’m missing battle sisters.)

I truly believe this game remains as one of the peak turn-based tactics games mechanically, especially with some of the more dynamic perk abilities with this mod that encourage off-meta plays in vanilla like building around shieldwalls or managing fatigue beyond having enough to swing once.

I think some of the fundamental shiny spots of this game are the armor system (which abstractly models damage and penetration in a pretty tight fashion,) and morale and injuries, which ameliorate the supremacy of focusing down targets that’s so common.

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My B. It’s gonna be a little bit before I upload the correct file. Check tomorrow.

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Sometimes I look at like a stair bannister and think about how much history of human development had to happen to get to that point. I have this preoccupation with early human history and the progression of our technology and industrial ability. And then it’s like, yeah now all our cars look like shoes and your walls are made of sand amd that’s just fucking not even considered.

I really love human beings. We’ve done so much incredible shit. Just thinking about what insane happenstance had to happen to give birth to us as a species and then that the world is such that it has enabled us to make ourselves insane with disconnection from being animals makes me feel very something.

I think mutual, separate masturbation is pretty common among young men actually.

I think so? It’s just an unassigned meeting area.

Finished Rose Chamber, by the way. I didn’t plan very well, so it was a little tricky channeling it all out and getting the windows in, but it was great practice. Nothing too complicated, but I like how it turned out.

I should prolly put that up, oops.