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Yay, more jobs for the job throne! I got that email I was waiting for this morning about a second interview. Hopefully @DoctorArch got that good news he was waiting on, as well?
Bound By Flame was awesome. Faery: Legends of Avalon was awesome.
Both were also a bit euro-janky. But I'm okay with that. They were still enough fun for me to play through both of them twice.
They also did Gray Matter (a great point-n-click) and Of Orcs and Men (I didn't play it but my kid loved it).
I'd say they have a pretty solid history of turning out genuinely fun games that maybe aren't perfect AAA gems.
Glad you're enjoying it! Even with some of the bugs (mini-bikes x2 down due to falling through the world, not making another one for awhile for my sanity) it really is a fun game! Our little 3 man team survived the 35 day blood moon last night. That was definitely an experience that I'm sure will get worse at day 42.
Must build up more defense and set the battlefield in our favor quickly...
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I didn't like Bound in Flame but I am a fan of Orcs and Men (though much more of a fan of the spin-off, Styx, which is apparently a different developer).
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Good catch. I even knew they made Of Orcs and Men but just forgot because it didn't show up when I looked for games developed by Spiders (which sounds like a rather terrifying concept actually) since it is also developed by Cyanide
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I've bought it as well. Watched the demos which piqued my interest and then confirmation of M/M romances (which sealed the deal). I didn't think it was playable though. It doesn't officially release until....tomorrow I think?...
Ocean, tears and heartbreak soup
Half alive in a whitecap foam
Half in love with a white half moon
I'm not sure, I just saw some reviews for it floating around but I guess it's officially out today. According to Steam, 23 hours to go.
What pretty much swung it for me was @Dashui (I think) mentioning in chat that he'd read reviews for it - the key one being along the lines of "if you've finished Witcher 3 and are looking for something to fill that void, this may be the game for you." There was also an observation that this will be a solid B-list entry to tide people over until ME:Andromeda comes out.
Ocean, tears and heartbreak soup
Half alive in a whitecap foam
Half in love with a white half moon
I hadn't been on my computer for the last couple of days due to constant icky pain; I suspect gout.
Anyway. Looking forward to playing a mini golf game with people, since according to the reviews it's a pretty good Lose Your Friend Simulator 2016 if you turn collision on.
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That is the exact review I was just reading
http://www.popzara.com/games/game-reviews/the-technomancer/
Some B-List games over the years have become my favorites, so I'm always open to trying a new B-Lister.
I'm reasonably certain that the recharger fragments are in the same area as the Seamoth fragments. The red grassy area...
He thinks it's hilarious. :P
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The summer sale helped me get my level to a nice round multiple of 10, so I sold off my remaining card inventory, a few hundred cards. Enhanced Steam has Quick Sell and Instant Sell buttons, which help a lot, but selling them one at a time was still pretty slow going. A search showed that there’s a Chrome extension, Steam Inventory Helper, which should automate a lot of this. It did, eventually, but not as well as I’d hoped.
In theory all you just go to your inventory, hit Select All, go to the next screen, repeat, repeat, repeat, then hit Sell XXX items, hit OK a few times and let it run. In practice, whatever script this extension runs is extremely finicky; it fails often, and once it does fail it keeps on failing , and once your remove everything from the queue it fails them all ten or eleven more times for good measure. Doing one screen of 25 items at a time seemed to be easiest – once an error is thrown, remove all the offending items from the queue and wait for it to finish failing them all for two or three minutes. Repeat a few dozen times, babysitting it the whole time to get it out of the inevitable error loops. But this is a huge improvement over clicking Quick Sell for each one, which itself is already an enhanced experience over the default of looking up the market information one at a time.
After 300 or 400 cards, Steam errored out with a message that I’ve hit my limit of “-1” sales in a year, and that I had to submit additional data. Clicking through, it said my data was up to date. According to the original error message, this might mean that they have to verify the tax data. Maybe that happened, I don’t know. In the usual fashion of such errors, a Google search mostly turned up other people with the same problem 4 years ago, and no resolution. But after an hour the error went away.
All these transactions have to be authenticated. Steam doesn’t have a “Create All Listings” button, so the workflow is 1) tap transaction, 2) wait 1-2 seconds for transaction to come up, 3) tap “Create Listing”, 4) wait ~4 seconds for it to process. Repeat, repeat, repeat. If you tap “create listing” twice, you get an error, because of course you do, and of course it’s a modal window that requires you to click ok. And about one in ten attempts it just fails because, I don’t know, maybe the servers are busy. It’s kind of troubling that the error message says that it can’t cancel the transaction, rather than create it. And about one in every forty attempts, the app loses it and fails every time until you close and restart the app.
As a user interface for selling cards, Steam (or, rather, the Steam website, which at least has third party browsers extensions) is kind of garbage. The app is garbage. The same mentality that throws thousands and thousands of items on sale and then only lets you view them 25 at a time is at work here, too. It’s so bad and I don’t understand how they could make something this bad and leave it this way for years.
I need 6 and 7.
more than taken care of
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I can help you, @bloodatonement
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Let's not start slacking now! We've got another week of this to go!
@Sir Carcass unfortunately I haven't heard anything yet, but I did get a recruiter call this morning.
I also got bunnied by @Berylline ! Thanks for the Room!
I only remember a couple of fights being frustrating but they were much later in the story. Not sure if you unlocked side missions yet but you can try doing a couple of those and getting some more levels.
So that's a game that'll take five minutes to beat, and five years to 100% 90%? This'll be fun!
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Dang, sorry to hear that. Hope everything works out. I know personally how much that kind of stuff sucks.
@CorriganX felt that this was the wrong approach:
Thank you so much. I think this game looks gorgeous! Nothing like sweaty Italian mans in chariots and stuff
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Iolo just demolished my wishlist. Like, all of it.
Wiped out. Razed to the foundations. There's nothing left.
I'm not even going to try to rebuild. I'm just going to leave it empty from now on, barren as Carthage after the Romans were done with it, an eternal monument to one man's classiness.
A thank you doesn't even begin to cover this, but thank you so much! We don't deserve you, @Iolo.
I'd forgotten how addictive the Audiosurf formula can be. And I have a lot more music to play it with now than I did with the first one.
If you missed out on the Audiosurf craze that swept us way back when the first one came out, give it a look.
Thank you very much @Fraz! I actually used to do a little bit of solo style racing some years ago. I was never very good at it, but it was an awful lot of fun.
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That seems too short, but it really is.
Just give me a damn sequel Ubisoft. It has been well over a decade now.
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I was under the impression that the sequel was slowly being worked on by a small team.
On the upside, it's not like losing an Elder Scrolls character with all the weapons, armour, spells, enchantments, and progress. Something that would take fifty hours to get back to your current quest. Still, it's all the customization and saved progress where I Peter Principled out of each song. Oh well, at least it's an incentive to take a fresh look at the track list and get working on some old favourites again.
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I keep worrying that I will do the same someday, seems like it would be too easy to just blow away your save or profile on a lot of games.
This shit is why I quit caring about the story in video games.
The good thing about Rocksmith, at least for me, is the fun is in playing the songs. I would hate to lose my custom tones, though. Not sure if those are saved to the profile. It would be a major bummer to lose those high completion percentages, too, but I couldn't tell you what mine are.
Golf with (your) friends is a total blast. It's pretty fun if you're winning and I guess it's pretty fun if you're in the middle of an utterly soul-crushing level of defeat, falling further and further behind in strokes while the three other players offer words of consolation over discord that are lined with wracks of laughter as your ball hits something, bounces wrong, and flies into the stratosphere in the exact opposite direction from the hole (but you'd have to ask @CorriganX to be sure).
No but really though, it's a really fun game. There aren't many locations yet because it's still in the oven but there are a ton of options for switching up the experience (you can change gravity, friction levels, stroke counts, change the balls to a bunch of other shapes, etc). One of the rounds we played was with minimum bounciness, reduced friction, and the flat puck, so it was basically miniature air hockey and it was awesome.
It's a great party game, and if you can get three other people together to play it with you it's well worth whatever it's on sale for right now.
Thanks you very much. Hendrix was definitely an incredible and unique guitarist. A lot of his stuff is a ways beyond me, but I'm sure I'll learn a lot playing his songs. Looking forward to giving this a try later today. Thanks!
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