Disco Elysium is 90% off. $54.49 $4.54 (that’s in Canadian, not sure about the US price exactly.)

I honestly couldn’t even tell you what it’s about, but it’s one of my favourite games ever. You can die from reading a book that’s too sad and if you do it right, you can smell communism.

Could they not just image search American manhole covers?

I think the summer sale starts tomorrow, definitely gonna add a few more to the old backlog lol

I can’t imagine a faster way to turn the public against you than to take a potshot at David Tennant lol.

One of the things I really hope they learn how to do is launch their games in a straightforward manner. Hitman is a great game but trying to figure out how to just buy the damn thing is so unnecessarily complicated. Someone on reddit made a chart about it and I still don’t understand what I’m supposed to buy on Steam.

It’s possible that they might just be going for a broad-appeal manifesto to make sure they get in, and then plan to introduce the more radical stuff further down the line.

But also it is Kier Starmer and Labour, so it’s equally possible they’ll do bugger all and/or kick themselves directly in the dick when they have an open goal at the last possible second.

Time will tell, I suppose.

We will call it CONFORM

This makes me a lot more worried about the upcoming Mass Effect too. I can fully see the marketing department being like “this is our Guardians Of The Galaxy!” and giving it the same treatment.

Also Civ VI is currently 95% off on Steam if that’s helpful to anyone.

I know lots of people didn’t like Civ VI, but I still put more hours into that game than anything else in my Steam library apart from Civ V and Kerbal Space Program lol.

As long as they keep making them, I’ll keep playing them.

A game that’s like a combination of all the “…Simulator” type games like Car Mechanic Simulator, PC Building Simulator, House Flipper and so on, where you can scavenge parts and build anything in your base. Build a base & decorate it from scratch, build & repair vehicles, build electronic stuff like PCs and so on. I always thought each of those games felt like kind of like a fun sub-game for a larger overarching thing.

The Tories turned it around and won the 2024 election with “Why only Brexit the UK when we can Brexit all of Europe?”

I like that this has become a sort of election tradition now lol.

If I can propose a slight tweak, if you know he’s heading your way might I suggest buying the milkshake about a week beforehand to allow it to reach it’s full potential? Let it level up, so to speak.

AFAIK he’s still working on it, he just goes at his own pace and takes the occasional detour to fiddle with Stardew Valley a bit more. Which I quite like personally, I’d rather he just takes his time and releases it whenever it’s ready.

I’m very cheap lol, and I think the cheapest I’ve seen it in Canada was about $40. Close, but I think they can do better!

I still haven’t played Cyberpunk yet, which seems like it’s aimed directly at me and I really want to play, just because it hasn’t been cheap enough on the Steam sales yet. I think they might be slightly underestimating the patience of PC gamers lol.

I tried it but TBH went back to torrents. I found it to be very fiddly to get working, every single component seems to want you to pay for it (and not wanting to pay for and keep track of half a dozen streaming things is one of the main draws for piracy for me anyway) and overall it just didn’t seem worth it to find the ~1% of things I can’t find on torrents (and I didn’t even find all of them on Usenet either.)

Other people’s mileage may vary of course, but I didn’t really think it was worth it.

My theory is that it’s middle-mamagement nonsense. There are too many execs running around with nothing to do, so they come up with little projects to justify their jobs, and it always defaults to stuff like requiring PSN accounts that will fuck up their brand on PC long-term, but will make the numbers go up for this quarter so the one exec stands out. Or like you say, going after a pirate which generates a bunch of headlines but ultimately makes no real difference to piracy in general.

Sony has a supernatural gift for making things almost awesome, and then fucking it all up with their own nonsense at the last moment.

The thing that helped me felt very counterintuitive, but I ended up just picking one family member as a ‘main’ character, and letting the rest run on their own.

My instinct is always to try and micro-manage everyone in the household, which gets stressful quickly. If I focus on one person and let the rest just generate their own stories I tend to last a lot longer.