I keep buying games on sale but I’m just not playing much of my backlog.

I keep going back to a few strategy games and putting even more hours in. The vast majority of my gaming in the past 2 years has been between 3 games.

Ultimate Admiral Dreadnought - Janky, and I have problems with how HE shells are handled in the main mod I play, keep booting it up. 850 hours played.

Star Wars Empire At War. So many amazing mods.

Wartales - game gets stale after a while but it’s good enough that after a bit I go back to it to put even more hours in.

I have so many amazing games that when I do play them I love them, but I keep going back to these strategy games. Oh, and a bunch of time on Need For Speed Heat.

I’ve been spending a bunch on other games, but I’m just not playing them.

For a while I was part of the number one raiding guild on the server with the worst progression in WoW.

Wyrmrest Accord, you were great.

So I got that going for me, I was among the best of the worst for a couple months!

Well, seeing as my first pick was the Skyline 2, something that runs a very mainline tracker filled android. Murena’s OS is leaps ahead of it for security.

Edit: as far as the choice between the Skyline 2 and the Fairphone 6, both have similar capabilities, and each has a design that is nice for different reasons.

The Skyline 2 doesn’t have as much long term support but is noticeably cheaper.

Far as Murena itself. As an American if I want a Fairphone 6 my choices are spend close to $900 buying an imported one from ebay where I don’t get a warranty and start with a close to vanilla android. Or, I buy from Murena and get a phone with a more secure OS and very importantly, the best smart phone warranty on the US market for $900 + shipping. There isn’t really a contest.

Damn, was planning on getting a Skyline 2.

Guess I’ll go for the Fairphone 6 via Murena instead.

I’m still using Gmail, mostly cause of how much of a hassle it is to change to a new email address. Shit like this is really making me find motivation to switch.

It’s a game I’m definitely looking forward to after I get a gpu upgrade for my laptop. A 7700s just doesn’t cut it.

Started playing it, decided to wait for later.

In the article they do post about “investor concerns”

22 was MMO and shooters mostly, 23 was dominated by racing games. 24 was BG3 and Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts… mostly just UA.

I have a bunch of ships in the game. The most fun I’ve ever had in the game was after a reset I ignored all of the other ships I had and just focused on starting with the cheapest ship in the game and earning my way up. I had a blast.

I haven’t touched the game in probably 3 years, basically just waiting for more things to get finished before jumping back in. But it is hard to get excited for the game with how long it has been and how… not good things have been in the company.

It isn’t a scam, just incredibly mismanaged. Chris Robert’s has a very hard time saying “this is good enough” and that makes the company bleed money as they repeatedly remake things. People then don’t tell Chris no. They weren’t making a good space Sim, they were making the best darn space Sim evah!

They’ve completely redone the flight model several times to various levels of success. Time frames get so damm long that they have to go back and remake huge chunks of the game in order to keep things up to snuff graphically.

I get the feeling that they never felt the need to stress out about timelines as the funding kept rolling in, in fact the funding accelerated over time! The game has 183 different ships all designed down to the tiniest detail in the game right now. That’s a fuck ton of work hours, but ship sales gets the funding rolling so they have to keep cranking out new ships.

I do really like playing the game, but it is really a shitshow for management. There was one point where they had to throw away a massive amount of work because one studio was making things that didn’t fit the metrics for scale and animation of the rest of the game.

Edit: and ships are a dumb thing to buy anyway! You can earn them in game anyway for really not all that much work. It’s the most cost inefficient grind skip I’ve ever seen in a game.

I’m partial to the 8bitdo Pro 2. Comfortable and has two back buttons.

I got it refunded. I’ll play it in a couple years after all of the patches and when I have a new gpu

Pole position on the commodore 64.

I keep coming back to GRID 2 on my steam deck. I’ll go weeks between playing it then get in the mood to work my way through a bit more of the campaign.

I’m 65 hours in, I’m on act 1.

I should make a Drow…

I had so much fun in Aion at launch, didn’t get that far into endgame because friends didn’t join me so I ended up quitting.

Went back quite a few years later and I just… couldn’t. Turned a good game into a cheap feeling cashgrab.

Once I found out the femmc wasn’t going to be in the Persona 3 Remake all of my interest in it died.