Playing a few indies, such as:

• Euro Truck Simulator 2 - not for me, but I’ll do a few trips anyway
• He’ll Pie
• Lair of the Clockwork God

Will probably start Yakuza 3 soon as well. I might finally set up an emulator on my Steam Deck to play some Nintendo games as well.

Find a crappier store.

We have those, they work pretty well.

It’s a pretty easy problem to solve, give them a bottle or sucking snack just before takeoff and landing, and keep them tired so they sleep most of the way. We’ve traveled with babies and it’s really not an issue most of the time.

Then again, we had to deal with two blowouts (huge poops that escape the diaper) on the same flight, so there certainly are hiccups you can’t plan for. But most of our trips with babies have been pretty okay.

Avoid the busy roads and do a mixture of aggressive and defensive cycling. Take the lane if it’s not safe for others to pass, and take side streets instead of busy roads. Your goal is to be seen and avoid the angry drivers.

I bike commuted every day for years and had no problems. I just changed jobs and it’s too far away now, but I really miss cycling to work.

Eh, I’m a suburbanite who is annoyed at our already relatively low density neighborhood (thinking of moving to the country), and I absolutely hate driving. I want to get to everything with a bicycle or a train.

You don’t have to love cities to hate cars.

Probably just celebrating Canada Day.

Btw, happy 4th of July to my fellow residents in Canada’s Pants. :)

I’m celebrating both holidays this week with family (brother married a Canadian), and am not playing much. But I have been trying a few new (to me) games here and there:

• Euro Truck Simulator 2 - not a big fan, but maybe it’ll grow on me; parking is hard…
• Hell Pie - pretty fun, just oddly uses a ton of resources on my Steam Deck
• Lair of the Clockwork God - haven’t started yet, but interested in trying it out
• Yakuza 3 - will start once I get home from my trip

Anyway, I hope everyone has had or is having a wonderful holiday. That goes for you even if you’re not American or Canadian.

Steam trading cards.

Be careful, I have a or lot of those I haven’t played yet. Add up enough of those and you could’ve gotten a game you actually will play.

Maybe. Or maybe we’d have less selection but more approaches to solve the same problem. That’s not great because it means games would be less approachable since they can’t borrow what works well.

I think software patents in general are stupid. The implementation is often obvious when looking at the end product, so the whole point of a patent (socialize information) isn’t relevant. The work to build it initially also isn’t particularly large for most things, certainly not to the level of pharmaceuticals. So the only purpose of a software patent is to block competition, there’s little if any social benefit to granting the patent.

Seems like a video game version of playing H-O-R-S-E in basketball: you need to make it from behind the hoop, with your eyes closed, and while hopping on one foot…

Isn’t this just user-created achievements?

As a teen, I was into law and computers, so I wanted to be a software patent attorney. Partway through my CS program, I did some FOSS work and realized just how awful software patents can be.

I don’t understand how anyone can actually make software patents. What kind of person can get far enough into a software career and not realize how utterly evil they are?

DDLC has something similar as well.

FWIW, I had problems even with AMD GPU on KDE Plasma 5, but Plasma 6 is solid. So maybe stick with X11 until your distro updates to 6.

Inscryption

Yeah, it’s technically a deck builder, and that’s the gameplay loop throughout, but it’s not a rogue like deckbuilder like Slay the Spire (well, it kind of is at first). But it plays more like a puzzle game than a deckbuilder, but it’s not quite a puzzle game either.

But yeah, that’s the weakest of the bunch, and I only added it because Pony Island by the same dev is on there (which is technically a run-and-gun?).

Both have a popular genre at the forefront, but the game really wants you to look past that at what’s developing behind the game. And that’s what I think makes them unique. Labeling them as “deck builder” and “run-and-gun” don’t feel appropriate, despite that being the core gameplay loop.

Yup, that would be how I’d play it. But she kinda sucks on policy, so maybe it would hurt instead.

So, is that just a remake of Oath of Felghana? Yeah it’s almost 20 years old, but it’s also already a remake itself.

Edit: Apparently this is a Switch game, so it’s getting localized for the Switch in western markets, and I’m guessing a bit of a remaster from the 2005 version. Still cool.

Yeah, I agree with most of those. Some of my favorite mentions from that thread:

• SUPERHOT
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• Baba is You
• Pony Island - and by extension Inscryption (haven’t played The Hex)
• Katamari Damacy

I’ll add:

• Perspective
• Manifold Garden
• The Bridge

And kind of the opposite, but I’ll list a couple of abstract genre games:

• 140 - platformer
• THOTH - twin stick shooter

Prices are largely in line with historical prices, after inflation. $70 today is worth about the same as $50 in 2011. IIRC, new releases were often $60 back then, so new games may actually be cheaper today than ever.

That doesn’t make it any better though. I’m patient because games don’t release in a solid state these days, and by the time they’re properly patched, they’re on a solid discount. I’m not paying $70 to be a beta tester, I’d rather pay <$50 for a solid, patched game, even better if it’s less.

Yeah, I have… hundreds… over a thousand if you count EGS games I’ve claimed.

Don’t be like me, only buy games you’ll actually play.