I've been playing memory in orbit. It's a pretty cute metroidvania game though it is a little bit harder than I want it to be with such a chill vibe.
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Still waiting for a good opportunity to dive back into my BG3 Honor Mode Dark Urge cheevo-hunting run, so instead I decided to pick up Assassin's Creed: Odyssey again for some achievement grinding and to attempt to answer the question: is this praxis?
Also, whoever told me that this would stay in Vegas was a goddamned liar
Finally got around to getting into Clair Obscur to see what all the hype is about.
I went full 
when I saw the game had a world map. It's a small thing, but I always like JRPGs that have them. It feels more like I'm on an actual globe trotting adventure.
I'm grinding out the last few achievements in FTL. I swear to god, if I go another run on the Crystal Cruiser without getting long-range scanners for that blow up a ton of rock ships achievement, I am gonna lose it.
Finally cracked into Lunacid, which is superb in a “which way was I going?” Kind of way
Fear and Hunger. Heard all about it, watched full playthroughs, decided to finally give it a go. Did not realize how hard this shit is. Love it, though. It's challenging enough in a way where it doesn't make me just stop playing altogether (Silksong)
Darkwood. Only about 2 hours into it so far but loving this. This is what I've always wanted out of horror.
Someone recently improved the CPU emulation for the CV1000 games in MAME so that the slowdown is more accurate, so I've been trying that out a bit. It feels pretty good to me, the games are definitely a lot more playable now! I'm not sure how accurate they are compared to the actual arcade PCBs, but for the games I've played the official ports of I haven't noticed anything strange. Although, the ports themselves don't always have the best accuracy. In any case it definitely seems good enough to seriously play now, so I've been practicing Espgaluda II. I don't think a 1cc is possible for me yet, but once I've finished practicing I think I can bring it down to 2 or 3 credits.
I also played some Melee netplay last night maybe against my better judgement. I love the game but it's hard to get invested when I can't enter locals. I really want to go play but it's so many people crammed into such a small space. I always wear a high quality respirator while I'm out but even so it's still not very safe, the TO's here treat COVID safety like an afterthought and do some half-ass "masks recommended, vax required" rule that wouldn't be meaningfully effective even if they actually ever enforced it at all. I hate being forced out of my hobby because the community thinks public safety and accessibility are optional, but I've tried discussing the issue with them and neither the organizers nor the players care and I can't host my own tourneys so I don't know what else to do.
Back on my nioh 2 bullshit. Because I am not a clever person I rolled a new character rather than go back to the one I already have on like abyss 70 or so, because "that means I can learn to play a different build organically". I should be painlessly destroyed and my brain dissected so people can understand wtf is wrong with me. I now have one level ~740 and one ~500 character.
Tonfas are fun, with the right rhythm you can just bully the enemies to death. Death by a thousand cuts. Still frustrating how in later game cycles the enemies are just damage sponges.
On the urging of a family member, Stardew Valley.
The messages I sent as I spun up my farm probably reveal a much more sickening vista of my inner workings than I intended.
1 hour later...
Parsnip seeds set you back 20g, parsnips sell for 35g. all I need to do is sell at least 2 parsnips in order to buy a third. It takes four days for a parnsip to grow and you start with 15. Giving me 26 seeds after the first harvest. By my claculations it will take me 521 in game days to convert all arable farmland into parsnip.
The fact that I cannot fill all my little farming squares with flax and say I have 40 yards of linen is a travesty. Get on it, Eric!
Forget parsnips, build a windmill and plant wheat and mill it into flour. You will drown in money
I got my partner into Red Dead Redemption 2!! So, I enjoyed watching them play for several hours- always a blast- love that game. Want to get a PC copy for mods!
Finished Ace Combat 7, fuck tunnels. Holy shit the politics are horrendous, actual real-world planes are used and fetishized as well. Apparently the USian manufacturers insisted that no bad guys fly F-35s while Sukhoi said "we don't care do whatever". Got a challenge medal for beating Mihaly in under 5 minutes without special missiles because I WAS TOLD THIS WAS GOING TO BE A BOMBING MISSION SO I BROUGHT A BOMBER. RIP in piss feudal nobility, you can now be a knight of six feet under the ground.
Warframe, got the Hespar and Sigma & Octantis, meaning I now only have the two Vandals from ESO to obtain and then I can finally stop. Now naturally those will take me months to farm, so I'm not done yet.
Slay the Spire 2 
It's good. Love the new skeleton character and the big adams family hand
Looks so cozy when they are at the camp site.
finally got around to Armored Core 6, it's fucking siiiiiiiiiick, play it if you have any interest in the AC series
it's a reboot (like most of the games in the series) so you don't need to play any of the other games to understand the story or anything
It's so fucking cool
I've been hitting Marathon hard. It's very good. It's more casual than Tarkov and more PVP focused than Arc Raiders, with quick runs and a pacing that is reminiscent of battle royales. The gunplay is excellent and has a bit of aim assist so you don't have to be cracked to have a chance if you play smart. The sound design is excellent and the music is lovely - the whole art direction is confident and different and I'm just happy to see a shooter that actually has some personality. Somehow on top of this it's got an interesting story and world building to piece together and quite in-depth upgrade and build systems.
Also chuds are extremely pissed about it.
I decided to give TurtleWoW a try and am getting pulled in
Be careful with that thing, I hear RFK Jr's Brainworm plays it sometimes.
I picked up Dragon Warrior 7 for PS1 but it's turning into a slog. Idk if the nonsensical story beats are the result of a bad translation, but I probably won't end up finishing this. Didn't really like Kiefer, but him being a
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time-traveling sexpat horned up for an engaged woman made me straight up hate the guy. Her fiance being a "marked" person therefore ineligible to marry her because it's not part of God's plan was such a bullshit contrivance to fulfill the writer's barely disguised Pocahontas fetish.
Really hard to feel bad for a slimy philandering prince whose backstory is just "waahh I have everything handed to me on a silver platter waahh."
Was playing some CS 1.5 with bots on the won build of half-life I got off the internet archive. Actually won a game against the bots even if my aim sucks.
I have been playing Esoteric Ebb and its good folks. I like it.
It is very disco elysium but has its own DNA. I have only played it for over 6h and I legit had at least 3 times where I laughed out loud. It can be very funny at times. It feels more whimsical and “cute” than Disco ? But yeah its good.
I no-lifed that one the day it came out and beat it in two sittings. I think it doesn't take itself as seriously as Disco, in a good way. Which like Disco is very humorous and equally absurd, but everything is still in the context of people's destroyed hope and lack of a future. Ebb is the opposite, where it still uses politics as a basis to talk about people's relationships, but from an overall more hopeful and forward looking perspective given the context of it being the first election, not a failed revolution. We're either going to kick out all the non-humans in the name of Urth and make the Coast great again, or establish the egalitarian society we've always wanted.
No Ebb spoilers, but it does have some heavy moments that reminded me a lot of Disco's
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ending encounter with the Deserter, and the phone call with your ex-wife
Good game overall even if it didn't hit me the same way as Disco or Planescape. Unique spin on that kind of game that I think people into stuff like Terry Pratchett would like.
EDIT: Something I don't really get is the amount of items that have negative stats. Unless there's super unique dialogue for having extremely low stats like Fallout low INT runs, they all seemed like flavor items that clogged up my inventory.
How long did it take you if you finished it in 2 sittings ? Im still on the 2nd day after 6h. I dont think its as good as Disco but I do think Esoteric is a special little game and im happy it exists. Also yeah Esoteric feels more upbeat than disco.
My final save is about 15 hrs and 49 minutes. I've been sick, so I really did just sit and play it for like 8 hrs lol. I also missed two quests that I think can only be picked up in the morning, so could have extended that out a little longer. As far as I can tell, you can enter the ending sequence of the game any time before the dawn of the last day without getting any sort of bad end or lose condition. I didn't actually try, but I know I had lots of time left that I could have used to finish those quests out if I had started them a day or two before.
I really disliked the combat I saw in the demo (wow I failed every dialogue option with the skeleton and they just repeat, failed those too and then failed the death saves) and it kinda turned me off it. How much of that is there?
I had 3 combat encounters that took maybe 10-15mins at most in about 7h of gameplay . So far only 1 of these 3 combat encounters seemed mandatory. If you are worried you wont like the game cause you wont like the combat.... there is very little combat in the game. Plus I dont think you are supposed to go down there on the first day anyways. Get some levels first.
At least based on my game time.
Good to know. 
Got back into RuneScape 3 for a hot minute. Probably while I still have the itch, wrap up 99 crafting