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Dozens of hours worth of legit relaxation therapy at 1/10th the cost of a single massage session.
fingers crossed, but something tells me it won't be
I have this bridge that could be yours for cheap, you in?
Ooooooo, coffee talk. Coffee is like, part of my identity at this point, for better or worse. I started drinking it around 9-10 because I got diabetes (type 1) and could no longer drink soda, juice, etc. and wanted something besides water to drink.
I prefer to drink out of travel mugs to keep it at a hotter temp longer, and have about 2 of those with regular (dark roast preferably) coffee with a tiny splash of milk per day, and another 2 of decaf. I still drink water, and very occasionally tea or something like Sparkling Ice but something in most teas gives me a stomach ache after like 4 oz.
My basic grinder I used for 10+ years died a couple years ago and I got one of those "burr grinders" and was surprised that it did, in fact, make tastier coffee, because I was super skeptical. My current coffee maker my partner got me can do lots of stuff but I make myself a (very basic) cappuccino every now and then with it as well which is nice (that's the only non-drip coffee coffee drink I seem to like).
I'm really happy to be in a city with a strong coffee culture, I have my pick of locally roasted beans and cafes to hit up, and even the grocery stores have local coffee on the shelves.
I've tested out going fully off caffeine for a couple months several times over the past 20 years and never noticed any difference in my health or happiness, outside of missing the more options of caffeinated coffee, so at this point I just go for it.
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Back on mildly on-topic - indie games are really the only ones I tend to get "hyped" for where I'll wait for their release date regularly. AAA games you can almost always know exactly what you're getting, just a matter of how well executed, which you can't know until after release and usually several months of patches. I am excited for Miles Morales to come to PC since I haven't played it, but not likely going to double dip on the other. Other than that, and the inevitable GoW2/HZD2 PC versions, I'm not sure if there is a AAA game I'm optimistic about. Starfield might be good but who the hell knows?
I'm not going to support Acti-Blizz at all with money anymore unless there are big changes, and the only thing they have in the pipeline for me is Diablo 4, which I fear they're going to remove all the good ideas of D3 from and make it tedious again. Ubi is kind of the same thing, AC is the only series of theirs I sort of play and even then it's less than half the games and I haven't picked up the latest and I am unsure what they could offer in a new one to get me interested. Forza Horizon 6 might tempt me, but I hated the weekly car unlock GAAS FOMO stuff in 4, and how hard it was to unlock certain stuff in general for a person who played 2-3 times a week. Just let me play with the cars and do zoom zooms. I don't need 3 different currencies to unlock 800 cars over the course of 3 years.
I prefer to drink out of travel mugs to keep it at a hotter temp longer, and have about 2 of those with regular (dark roast preferably) coffee with a tiny splash of milk per day, and another 2 of decaf. I still drink water, and very occasionally tea or something like Sparkling Ice but something in most teas gives me a stomach ache after like 4 oz.
My basic grinder I used for 10+ years died a couple years ago and I got one of those "burr grinders" and was surprised that it did, in fact, make tastier coffee, because I was super skeptical. My current coffee maker my partner got me can do lots of stuff but I make myself a (very basic) cappuccino every now and then with it as well which is nice (that's the only non-drip coffee coffee drink I seem to like).
I'm really happy to be in a city with a strong coffee culture, I have my pick of locally roasted beans and cafes to hit up, and even the grocery stores have local coffee on the shelves.
I've tested out going fully off caffeine for a couple months several times over the past 20 years and never noticed any difference in my health or happiness, outside of missing the more options of caffeinated coffee, so at this point I just go for it.
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Back on mildly on-topic - indie games are really the only ones I tend to get "hyped" for where I'll wait for their release date regularly. AAA games you can almost always know exactly what you're getting, just a matter of how well executed, which you can't know until after release and usually several months of patches. I am excited for Miles Morales to come to PC since I haven't played it, but not likely going to double dip on the other. Other than that, and the inevitable GoW2/HZD2 PC versions, I'm not sure if there is a AAA game I'm optimistic about. Starfield might be good but who the hell knows?
I'm not going to support Acti-Blizz at all with money anymore unless there are big changes, and the only thing they have in the pipeline for me is Diablo 4, which I fear they're going to remove all the good ideas of D3 from and make it tedious again. Ubi is kind of the same thing, AC is the only series of theirs I sort of play and even then it's less than half the games and I haven't picked up the latest and I am unsure what they could offer in a new one to get me interested. Forza Horizon 6 might tempt me, but I hated the weekly car unlock GAAS FOMO stuff in 4, and how hard it was to unlock certain stuff in general for a person who played 2-3 times a week. Just let me play with the cars and do zoom zooms. I don't need 3 different currencies to unlock 800 cars over the course of 3 years.
Damn, Cuphead's DLC comes out this month and it's only 8$??? Is this real life?
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Resident Evil 4 Remake
For me, the question whether any game needs a remaster or remake comes down to the following: does it still play well (controls, UI systems etc)? Is it a horror to set up on my modern Linux system? Does it look acceptable for my standards or not?
Those are quite personal reasons, of course.
When it comes down to Resi 4 (as well as the old fixed-camera angle games), I dont wanna play them as they are. Having played Resi 7, RE Village, the remasters, and the Revelations games, I wanna play Resident Evil like that.
I cannot stomach the tank controls of RE4, I do not like the fixed camera angles of the old games and the 2002 REmake – so if they end of remaking everything in the vein of REmake 2 and REmake 3, I'd be happy And of course I'm happy about RE4 being remade, the tank controls and the brown colour palette being my main gripes with the old version.
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The Quarry
its a bit weird, it showed up as "Free to play" today, downloaded the whole game but upon starting only gave the option to "Play Demo" - apparently also people that bought the game only had that option until they linked a 2K account. The "Free to play" option seems gone now, tho.
Anyway, the game runs on Steam Deck & Linux - just not very well on the Deck (yet).
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The "shrug" reaction
lashman I figured since it wasnt there before (Or, I never noticed it), you added it since you reacted with -what looked to me newly added- shrug reaction. But if you didnt add it, thanks to whoever did.
I also like how everyone reacted with a shrug to that posting
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Coffee talk
I drink too much of it.
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Most other E3 news
For me, the question whether any game needs a remaster or remake comes down to the following: does it still play well (controls, UI systems etc)? Is it a horror to set up on my modern Linux system? Does it look acceptable for my standards or not?
Those are quite personal reasons, of course.
When it comes down to Resi 4 (as well as the old fixed-camera angle games), I dont wanna play them as they are. Having played Resi 7, RE Village, the remasters, and the Revelations games, I wanna play Resident Evil like that.
I cannot stomach the tank controls of RE4, I do not like the fixed camera angles of the old games and the 2002 REmake – so if they end of remaking everything in the vein of REmake 2 and REmake 3, I'd be happy
And of course I'm happy about RE4 being remade, the tank controls and the brown colour palette being my main gripes with the old version.~
The Quarry
its a bit weird, it showed up as "Free to play" today, downloaded the whole game but upon starting only gave the option to "Play Demo" - apparently also people that bought the game only had that option until they linked a 2K account. The "Free to play" option seems gone now, tho.
Anyway, the game runs on Steam Deck & Linux - just not very well on the Deck (yet).
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The "shrug" reaction
lashman I figured since it wasnt there before (Or, I never noticed it), you added it since you reacted with -what looked to me newly added- shrug reaction. But if you didnt add it, thanks to whoever did.
I also like how everyone reacted with a shrug to that posting
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Coffee talk
I drink too much of it.
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Most other E3 news
It looks like a higher budget High Hell, which Devolver also published (but different developer I guess, unless they made a studio). Hopefully it's even better.
Playing Atelier Firis with my old Steam Controller, anybody know how I can up the right trackpad to rotate the view faster? It is quite a chore to get the character to face forward or look around while walking. Already maxed out the games own rotate speed.
Watching a playthrough of The Quarry, kinda fun not gonna lie
Oh wow, Dancing Dragon Games...
Man, what a genre change from their standard fare.
I need this and Soul Hackers 2 in my fucking veins right now.
Anime has come for Dragon Age... again.
soooo as i did last year ... here is summary of EGS Showcase also posted in EGS thread
TL;DR basically all 3 newly announced sclooies hint at timed deal , nothing else new announced there
also posted in EGS thread- The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria - new game from Spelldrifter devs (aka the dev that abandoned steam early access to chase Apple and then ESG exklusivities) ,Spring 2023 , scloosie status: EGSclusive at launch
- Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed - Ectoplasm trailer, 2022 , coop by Illfonic , known scloosie
- MEGA Sale 2022 advert + Maneater freebie trailer
- PC Building Simulator 2 -open beta Now live ,known scloosie
- Shoulders of Giants - quirky Risk of Rain 2 clone , Fall 2022, devs of some Switch/apple arcade retro platformer, scloosie status: "more platforms announcments in near future"
- SIFU - Summer update coming August 2022
- Tchia - Soul jumping trailer , early 2023 , known scloosie
- Recent Epic Games Store Launches- "In case you missed it " showreel :
- Salt and Sacrifice
- The Evil Dead
- Dying Light 2
- Farming Simulator 2022
- Genshin Impact
- Lego SW Skywalker Saga
- TW Warhammer 3
- Ooblets - V1.0 coming Summer 2022
- Galactic Civilization IV
- Valorant
- Goat Simulator 3 - gameplay trailer , Fall 2022 , scloosie status: "we aim to please"
- Splitgate - Coming to EGS in Q3 2022 , already out on steam
- Disney Speedstorm- close beta trailer , multistore
- Gigabash - release date trailer (Aug 5) , multistore
- Rawmen: Food Fighter Arena - Weekend beta trailer (July 1) , multistore
- Rocket League - Season 7 trailer (June 15) !!!!!!!
- Fall Guys - F2P Season 1 trailer (June 21)
- Fortnite - FNCS Invitational - competitive in-person event in November
- Epic Games Publishing sizzle reel:
- Rumbleverse Battle Royale , 2022, known EGP
- Touch Type Tale , 2022 , known EGP
- PC Building Sim 2 , 2022 , known EGP
- Going Medieval , early access, multistore
- Alan Wake II , 2023 , known EGP
- Kid A Mnesia exhibion , already released
- Alan Wake Remastered - coming soon to Switch, already released
- Untitled GenDesign title -SotC/Ico devs, TBA ,known EGP
- Untitled PlayDead title - Limbo devs, TBA ,known EGP
- Untitles EyesOur title - 9 inch nails x ex.SpecOpsLine, TBA ,known EGP
- Untitled Spryfox title - cozygrove devs, TBA ,known EGP
- Rogue Company - V1.0 launch trailer , multistore
- Space Punks - open beta trailer , known scloosie
- Saints Row - boss factory trailer (shown yesterday) , known scloosie
TL;DR basically all 3 newly announced sclooies hint at timed deal , nothing else new announced there
This dude don't miss, so this is it... Silksong is around the corner. Now the question would be: Will it shadow drop the day of the Xbox showcase?
This guy is crazy, I thought he only had insider information for sony
definitely one involved with Summer Games Fest, they had info on Sony, Microsoft and KojimaThis guy is crazy, I thought he only had insider information for sony
So sad GenDesign games are published by Epicsoooo as i did last year ... here is summary of EGS Showcase
- Untitled GenDesign title -SotC/Ico devs, TBA ,known EGP
, no Steam release for the time being. .I thought it was an just an economic agreement and not a distribution agreement.
I hope that, as usual, the development time of their next game is long enough to piss off Epic like they did with Sony or for EGS to start publishing on Steam.
Aren't the QTE's busted in the most recent port because of the framerate, you really really need to hammer the button fast in those. Or cap to 30 for some of it.
Morbin' time?
Well, in my opinion it definitely is but I have no idea what kind of games you like.
I was gonna do stuff today. "Be productive" i said to myself. ... Than I booted up Vamp Survivors but with guns. And my day is gone.
I have found it to be quite a bit more difficult than Vamp survivors but no less addicting.
I have found it to be quite a bit more difficult than Vamp survivors but no less addicting.
I enjoy shooters the most, strategy (of the rts and xcom style tactics variety), as well as action, adventure in the P&C and 0therwise variety. And the occasional platformer. If it's not tradtional sports or 4x I'm in basically.
Awww man, no Gears Collection?? I'm sad
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Mind spoiler tag it? Some people may not want to see this supposed leak.
Also I believe this is real. Just look at the logos of Overdose and Everwild. I seriously doubt a faker could design nice logo like these.
Edit; Guess I am wrong?
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Who keeps asking for State of Decay games. Like, I played 2 and it was fine but I think I've never seen people talking about them.
That remake, if true... I mean it's been rumored / spoken of for quite a while...
Do I dare get excited. Do I dare?!
Objectively there is less than 1% chance it meets my expectations, even if I moderate them slightly.
This looks plausible, but a few things make me lean towards it being fake, like Everwild being on there but not Pentiment, and TWAU2 coming to PC Game Pass when I don’t think any EGS exclusive has since 2019. anyway, we’ll find out soon enough
edit: yeah, almost certainly fake
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yeah, it's easy to see if you look at the overdose logo
the logo doesnt have the three dots from the allegedly leaked logo, yet it still has the triangle V from the alleged logo, they took some bits of it and removed others, there's no other point in it unless they're a complete moron or something who is demented and simply forgot to add three dots to the O's
plus, that plague game is also apparently cloud which they forgot, gigantic doubt and huge omegaluls that people thought it was real
Going back to random encounters feels like a step back from arceus, I really hope they keep them in the new pokemon games, also the trading requirements for evolving pokemons are shit, arceus was simply great because you could simply get all pokemons in game without external help.
One QOL I hope they keep is being able to access the PC from the pokemon menu, it's really nice.
One QOL I hope they keep is being able to access the PC from the pokemon menu, it's really nice.
Honkai Star Rail looks great.
From what I've seen I like the aesthetics more than Genshin, but I'm unsure about the turn-based nature. I'm always a bit wary, because turn-based has a lot of potential to waste a lot of time if not done right, even more so in a live-service game you're supposed to play regularly.
Gonna check it out though whenever it releases.
From what I've seen I like the aesthetics more than Genshin, but I'm unsure about the turn-based nature. I'm always a bit wary, because turn-based has a lot of potential to waste a lot of time if not done right, even more so in a live-service game you're supposed to play regularly.
Gonna check it out though whenever it releases.
So Wikipedia is wrong and Valve never purchased WON? (or it wasn't in 2001?).
Wait, who is WON?So Wikipedia is wrong and Valve never purchased WON? (or it wasn't in 2001?).
World Opponent Network. I believe it was an online gaming service at the time of HL1's release.
That was so long ago that I've forgotten the details but I remember seeing it a lot in Counter-Strike and such.
This is focused primarily on stealth and manipulating light and shadow to deal with the rats in a medieval horror setting. It's very plot driven and has some (imo) great characters brought to life with very good performances. The VA for Amicia is definitely one of the stand out performances in gaming in recent memory.
This is interesting denial:
66€ is still an obscene price on PC, but then i would get all the DLC mhm...
Standard Edition is 45, which is reasonable
Oh well
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