In What Electronic Entertainment Have You Been Partaking #18: Reticulating Splines

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Malukah - "Reignite" . Awesome song..... period .....

It's from Mass Effect actually , not X-Com

Who cares I love ! Mass Effect as well :)


Let me remind You CFC'ers that Malukah is the awesome girl who made this........ <3 :


My "rampage is over" xD Have a great time ! :) :
 
Shadow President for a change of pace.

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I threatened to use nuclear weapons against Iraq if they touched Kuwait, and I guess it gave some other countries some strange ideas about how diplomacy works.
 
I got back into my groove with Harvest Moon: A New Beginning. What I really enjoy about the Harvest Moon games is how easy it is to get into a state of flow while playing. The natural rhythms of farming easily lend themselves to flow - you need to remember what to do and in what sequence, but it's not particularly challenging so you don't have to spend a ton of conscious thought planning out each move.

Before I stopped playing on this save file, I had set up the farm to mostly run itself - I had replaced most of my crop fields with tree orchards, bee hives and mushroom logs, none of which require watering. I had also mostly built up the level of all my trees and mushrooms with fertilizer so they were maxed out so I don't even have to apply fertilizer every day either. I do have some fields I retained for regular crops, but they are in an area that is spring-fed so I don't have to manually water them. I do have fertilize those fields however as I do not yet have max-level seeds for every crop variety.

I had also kept my livestock to a small number of animals as larger flocks can become a real pain to manage as well. However I found out that to build a child's bed to have a baby, I needed wool products from 3 animals I don't currently have so I had to almost double my flock size which is kind of annoying. I plan on selling off one of the animals as soon as I have enough material though.
 
Once I've worked at a games saloon (don't know how to call it) , The Mario Kart machines were a ***** to clean.
 
I got the Tropico games from Humble Bundle. I'm playing Tropico 5 recently.

I started playing the campaign, got confused of what I was supposed to do, so I went and played the tutorial.

Then I promptly forgot everything I learned in the tutorial. :smug:
 
AdamCrock said:
Once I've worked at a games saloon (don't know how to call it) , The Mario Kart machines were a ***** to clean.
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I think we'd call it a video arcade or just an arcade in English.
 
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I pissed off the king (I named a potoo after him) so he decreased the price of my sugar exports. So I changed my plantations to tobacco. :smug:
 
Smoking tobacco while you are currently aflame definitely kills.
 
With a title like this, I didn't even realize there was a game thread anymore!

I finally got around to getting Greedfall. Now, I've never played Dragon Age, but the suggested title Dragon Age: Literal Inquisition fits well. All the reviews I've read about Spiders having a good idea but not not the resources to execute their vision seem pretty fair.

Don't get me wrong - it gets a good amount of things right. There is maybe one fetch quest in the entire game and it's inconsequential. The setting is cool and original - I've never heard of 17th century fantasy before. There's no inconvenient running back and forth while overburdened to sell loot. There are, in theory, multiple solutions to most quests. I was really proud of just how glorious I could make my main character look. Side quests are generally well-written and meaningful, and the characters have at least some depth to them. One companion's loyalty quests in particular were very well written, and doing them paid off in a dramatic plot twist mid-game. I liked the aesthetics and the often historically accurate armor and swords. Gameplay is decent, with a blend of melee, armor, alchemy, guns, and magic to keep things interesting, and you can freely develop any of these without being locked into one class.

But then the downsides start to creep up. I don't care about the oft-cited lip syncing issues. Rather, it's just clear everywhere that Spiders bit off more than it can chew, which it should have thought about earlier seeing as how spiders can't chew at all. Every place and named character in the game is relevant to at least one quest, so there's no incentive to explore and quests involving investigating a who-dunnit therefore usually end in one of two ways - either it was one of the handful of named characters, or it was, unsatisfyingly, some random character who had never even been introduced before this quest. This is especially frustrating when it's a quest of major significance, and there are a few of those. Enemy variety is limited. Lots of armors give resistance to elemental and magical damage, which almost never come up. Lots of buildings are lazy copy-pastes. Companions repeat the same few lines in combat endlessly. The game gets really easy after a certain number of levels and you almost want to deliberately play the weakest fighting style (heavy two-handed weapons) just for a slight challenge. There are hiccups with enemy engagement distance - you'll be fighting yet another pack of suicidal wild animals when you stray a foot too far and the beasts run away, health restored, before turning around to repeat. Romance feels lazily bolted on, as though they suddenly remembered close to the end that it's expected from this genre and added it late. The final act of the game was a let-down, not at all the tough choice between colonialism or betraying your people that I expected, and just felt unearned, like they wanted the triumphant feeling of building a coalition in Mass Effect 3 but without three games to cause it to make sense. It also relied on a revelation that was underwhelming, preachy, and not at all hinted at previously, in a third act that dragged. And while it didn't shy away from showing the atrocities of colonialism, these atrocities were almost always due to rogue actors behaving in ways that outraged their superiors once they found out. Now, I can see why that might be the case - they didn't want to make the player feel constantly in the service of evil, and these colonies are only a few years old and not established enough to commit constant land grabs and genocide just yet - but it still avoided dealing with a point that I felt should have been far more important: that colonialism is always going to have atrocities, and that it's impossible for the natives to preserve their way of life forever now that more advanced and powerful civilizations know where they are and want what they have. The natives will be assimilated, exterminated, or forced to reform and mimic colonizer ways to preserve independence. But the game never touches on this.

Overall, not terrible. Not great. If you like old Bioware RPGs, get it on sale.
 
Somehow nostalgia came around and picked up F1 99-02 PC game (driving with keyboard like real professional :goodjob: If I want wheel, I can drive carting few times per year). And decided that I want to have full season (took 1999) with full race length (80-100 mins depending on track/conditions) and mid-field Jordan team (adjusting AI strength so in great day could touch leaders, in bad day would be behind mid-field competition). That part felt fine (done before). But problem was with that time scoring system - it was limited for (action.. or stories) since had only top6 scoring points (and having 5-6 really strong cars on grid made it very limited chance for anyone else to score points). And I already did 1st race to "feel" if I want it all before realizing this (limitation) and finished 7th - yup, right behind border . Having current (top10) would make it long fun journey even if fall back (because of own mistakes etc.) and not just "crossing fingers for somebody retiring" (it would be fine for once but with 15 more races ahead - no, no, no). But how I could get that... Searching didn't help much - some other great stuff from this game but not what I was looking for... Finally just had to try to open game files one by one and look for points/places.... And there it was - yes, it works (tested in safe way without messing up current championship).
And even managed to correct 1st race results so they match top10 scoring system :banana:
Geeez, love this - why I didn't find this like million years ago? :crazyeye:
 
In Cookie Clicker I found that for the garden minigame, if you get 300 farms to unlock wood chips for soil and are able to get the crumbspore you can plant one of those. Then they spread very very easily (more because of the wood chips) and then when they die they explode and you get a lot of cookies. And then if you're really lucky it'll eventually mutate into a doughshroom which is like the crumbspore but more powerful.

If you also have wizard tower you can try using Force the Hand of Fate when the crumbspore/doughshroom is about to explode. If it doesn't backfire you get a golden cookie and you might get a frenzy from that and that means you get more cookies when it explodes.
 
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WORLD IN TURMOIL
BUSH RESIGNS AMID PROLIFERATION CRISIS
'AMADEUS' APPOINTED U.S. PRESIDENT
KOREAN NATIONALISTS TERMINATE ALLIANCE
PAKISTAN "OUT" OF U.S. DEFENSE PACT
AMERICAN ECONOMY SLIDES, EARNINGS DECLINE
MINERAL BOOM: S. AFR, SAUDI, IRAN UP
 
For some reason, Fallout 4 has caused my PC to freeze on startup the last two nights. So I may be done playing that.

Path of Exile - I haven't actually played it in a while, but I messed around with poe.ninja and Path of Building, doing some theory-crafting on what kind of character I want to play this weekend. It was kind of fun, but sheesh, even the tools for helping you understand Path of Exile are hard to understand. :lol: At any rate, I'm thinking about a Shadow-Assassin using Cyclone. I know, that's probably the most common, least creative build known to mankind, but f it. I'm also considering Blade Vortex, but I already know that I love Cyclone, and I don't think I'm bored with it yet.
 
Not confirmed, but some overseas listings have appeared for the Mass Effect remaster. The first game sorely needs it. Indifferent to the other two games; they've run just fine for me and also aged just fine.

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Haven't really been playing anything lately except for RollerCoaster Tycoon. Many thanks to @Chukchi Husky for recommending OpenRCT2. The cheat menu and turbo speed have made it fun. I've actually almost finished all the maps for the first game.
 
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Not confirmed, but some overseas listings have appeared for the Mass Effect remaster. The first game sorely needs it. Indifferent to the other two games; they've run just fine for me and also aged just fine.
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Yeah, lots of rumors about that lately. Can't wait. There are changes I'd make to the story, and I'll regret dealing with Kai Leng again, but on the whole it's a great idea. It could help get younger players in on Mass Effect, and get ME3 MP going stronger, and I really regret not playing that in its heyday.

If they're going to remaster one, they may as well remaster all because the saves carry over.

The first absolutely needs it due to the clunky and grindy gameplay. Towards the end, as a Soldier, I could just upgrade my assault rifle so much that it would literally never overheat and I could hold down the trigger the entire mission. And loot built up.

The latter two have aged well.
 
Second term starting! I won with 55.9%. Take that, Bill Clinton!

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AMADEUS RE-ELECTED U.S. PRESIDENT
GNP +4.6%, DEFENSE BUDGET UP
SOVIET COUP: HARDLINERS RETAKE KREMLIN
POLAND, YUGOSLAVIA JOIN NATO
KHADDAFI DEAD, LIBYA SIGNS U.S. PACT
IRAQ TESTS WORLD-REACH ICBM
 
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