I've got about 100 hours in and I really enjoy it. Performance isn't great and it's gotten a bit crashy now that my city is really big, but the game itself is a lot of fun.

Mostly Cities Skylines 2. The performance is not great, but it's passable with the settings turned down and the actual city building is really good. Right now I'm working on a big expansion to my city further down the highway, just got the water/power lines run between them so it's one big happy grid exporting the extra to other cities. Already looking forward to the things I'll do differently in my second city!

Also playing some Super Mario Wonder on the side, which is fantastic. Great mix of easy fun levels and hard-as-nails secret special levels. Very fun!

It's there a major anniversary for The 7th Guest coming up or something? Between this article resurfacing, the VR Remake, and the industrial rock cover album on vinyl I'm seeing a lot of T7G content lately. And I'm here for it!

The full soundtracks to both games are on the Fat Man's Bandcamp, which I linked up above. Also, the "greatest hits" collection album 7/11 is on Spotify. It's surprisingly easy to listen to these days!

Neat! I wasn't sure if they were discoverable on the band's channel or if they were unlisted. Cool to see they're easy to find!

Nice! Always good to see the Steam sale helping us find good games while it empties our wallets. 😉

This article's evidence that the #TwitterMigration failed is that when he shut down his server, 25% of the servers he notified didn't respond back. I'm not sure that means what the author seems to think it means. It's not like every user has their own server. And when you let anybody build a server in a network you're going to see a lot of failed launches. Honestly, with the explosive growth Mastodon had, retaining 75% of all those new servers is pretty impressive to me.

Mastodon did not immediately replace Twitter worldwide. That's fine, growing that fast wouldn't be sustainable. But it did get a ton of new users, a lot of visibility, and enough activity to provide content for anybody who signs up. Onboarding kinda sucks, but once you follow enough people and hashtags it absolutely scratches the same itch Twitter did for me. I'd hardly call that a failure just because it didn't instantly become the next social media monolith.

Numberphile has done a bunch of videos with Neil Sloane about some of the sequences in the OEIS. Neat stuff!

I haven't played any of those either. There's a lot more adventure games on Steam than I thought...

Still no fix for the Fury Against Fate quest? Guess it'll just keep taunting me in the quest list...

Edit: Thanks for the suggestions! Unfortunately, none of these fixes worked for me. I've wasted enough time trying to work around this big, so I'm just going to wait until Blizzard actually patches the darn quest.

The Sam and Max games scratch that itch for me. If I'm in a funk and don't have the energy to play a new thing, I can fire up one of those games and have a laugh for a while without even thinking about whether I'm going to finish this particular playthrough. They're the very best kind of absurd in everything from the art to the dialog to the puzzle solutions!

Discord is not my jam, but thanks for pointing it out!

Have y'all heard about the Soup's On vinyl cover album that's on Kickstarter right now? Between that and the VR reboot, there's an awful lot of 7th Guest stuff in the pipe right now!