Coelacanth

Cairn is like a... climbing simulator? From what I've seen. It looks neat.

How are you finding Sekiro? I still haven't tackled it, I'm too intimidated by both the parrying, the inability to "hide" (no over leveling, no magic, no cheese) and also... I suck at rhythm games.

Rise of the Ronin

Still having fun with the game, but a small hint of "fuck me, this is a long game isn't it?" is beginning to crop up. I am itching to explore some more fighting styles but there are still like a dozen of them I haven't found and another dozen whose final moves I can't access because they simply say "continue story" or "spar with ??? in the dojo to unlock". Maybe I should have beelined the main quest more, but... that's not really how you play an open world game is it?

All the same, the combat is super awesome, Ryoma is a great character and I can't wait to romance him. If you can pick it up on sale and have a good PC that can run it, you enjoy parrying (and don't mind open world games) I would recommend it.

Ninja Gaiden

Finished chapter 6 of NG4. It was pretty tough even on Hard, and quite annoying at times. I don't want to know what Master Ninja is like. The playthrough is going slowly since Ronin is taking most of my time, but I don't want to completely lose track of it since I am really enjoying the game. I also snuck in some random chapter challenge gameplay of modded Ninja Gaiden 2 Black since there is just something special about NG2 and the moveset mod is so much fun. Still waiting for the release of the final version of the White mod, at which point I'll probably do a full playthrough of it on Mentor difficulty (Master Ninja is... probably not in my skillset).

Chrono Ark

I started another run, but really haven't played much as Ronin sidetracked me so much. I really need to get back to it. This is a great game and I really do want to see that true ending.

Federation is on the 2026 roadmap for Fluxer, and while I'm sceptical they pull it off in that timeframe Hampus (the developer) has stated it to be a high priority for the project. Fluxer is also open source, which Discord never was. If it takes off and Hampus goes evil corpo it can be forked.

Ah I see. I've been dragging my feet moving my gaming PC to Linux and stuff like this is why. Also I'm lazy.

You needed more fixes than the Unofficial Patch?

You can get it reasonably early and i would personally recommend doing so as that's when the game really opens up. I always beeline for it.

Yeah there are some really good mods for Fallout 2, even including some rudimentary party member control which helps a lot.

I also want to shout out the mods Talking Heads and Talking Heads Actually Talk which while yes, you may or may not want on a first playthrough are both fantastic and blends right in with vanilla.

• The 90s was about 10 years ago.
• 2005 was about 10 years ago.
• The 2010s was about 10 years ago.

I don't know why and I know it doesn't make sense, but apparently everything feels like it was about 10 years ago to my millennial brain.

Except 2020, that was like last year.

Worth noting that the Plutonium subscription of Fluxer is irrelevant if you self host - you will have all features available and unlocked for free.

For me this sounds like a perfect compromise. "Discord Nitro" style monetisation is effective and compelling and like it or not a true competitor needs a revenue stream from somewhere and I have serious doubts about the viability of donation-only monetisation at this scale.

Not the OP but me personally I despise the term neurospicy. Reeks of TikTokers trying to quirkify their bio and downplays the often crippling nature of the very real problems people with these diagnoses suffer from every day.

For me watching battery optimization during qualy is just not exciting. In the race I don't mind - it actually seems to add another layer of strategy even. But in qualy we get weird driving like going slowly through corners that would otherwise be a test of grip and skill and feel just so you can charge the battery for more juice on the straights, which results in better overall laptime. Turn 9/10 in Australia for example which has always been an exciting bit of the track is just not a corner anymore with these regs. Stuff like that.

I have had browser tabs open longer than that I'm pretty sure. Don't even get me started on bookmarks.