This week I finished “Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark” (EGS freebie) and launched my first rocket in “Factorio”. Both are great games.

For Darkside Detectives, the site nicegamehints.com was really useful. It contains a lot of hints for games that help you without spoilering stuff for you. Great if you get really stuck.

Factorio was great too. I will definitely be playing more of it, but I’m taking a break to prevent burning myself out. I finished with every research unlocked and a Spidertron built. I used zero imported blueprints. But my factory was structured in such a way that it was impossible to grow much further without tearing most of it down (scaling up oil is hard!).

For now I’m playing “Far Cry: Primal” which I had in my backlog for some time. The first few hours have been fun but installing almost made me refund it. Ubisoft Connect is horrible and the service wouldn’t sent me the confirmation mail I needed. And after that the game bugged out on my high DPI display, until I figured out how to change display setting without a mouse. I’ll think twice (nay, thrice!) about buying a Ubisoft game in the future.

I got my new gaming laptop during black friday sales, a few weeks before the AIpocalypse started. The exact laptop I got then is now 400 euro more!

Still on crackfactorio. I just researched the spidertron and I am close to launching the rocket. I’m loving it!

I played the demo and I loved it. This will be an instant day 1 buy for me. Which is rare, normally I’m a patient gamer type 😄

I bought a new gaming laptop just before the rampocalypse started. It was impossible to find one with an AMD GPU where I live so I was pretty much forced to buy one with an Nvidia card. The CPU is AMD though, 'cause fuck Intel as well.

The court leaves that up to the reinstated CEO

Same. DRG is phenomenal. I didn’t care for DR Survivor though.

Of course

That looks fantastic! Instant wishlist.

Ishiyama is neither a native English speaker, nor a professional translator. What sounds simplistic to him may simple be a lack of understanding of the English language (and its many dialects).

Maybe you just need better translators…

Steam just confirmed it’s still planned for 2026

Same. I know two: Markiplier, because of the Iron Lung movie, and Mr. Beast, because of all the controversies around his food packs, mistrearment of employers, etc. I never watched any of their videos.

Just wait for the new Steam Machine?

Factorio! It’s been on my wishlist for ages. But I didn’t know that it never ever goes on sale, so I was waiting for nothing. I bought it now and it’s great! My first factory is running pretty wel so far. I’m coming up on oil now. I just need to talk to the local HOA about my expansion plans 🔥

Try “Enderal”, a free total conversion of Skyrim. New world, lore, quests, skills, everything. It’s pretty good!

“Ori and the Will of the Wisps” for me. I played the first one a few years ago and really liked it. So far, the sequel is even better!

mIRC with gifs? Some people thought it was a good idea to use it as a game engine! It was used for e.g. Shapez

Problem in that many games using UE5 are coming out, even AA and indy games. A GTX 1060 usually won’t do for UE5 unless you accept severely degraded graphics.

Gaming was always expensive. Super Mario 3 was 50 dollars in 1990. That’s 120 dollars in today’s money.

I agree. I couldn’t finish Hollow Knight because my reaction times just aren’t what they used to be. It sucked because otherwise I love that game. I haven’t even attempted Silksong.

Hah, not from me! It won’t be the first time that I buy a game on Steam that I previously played for free on EGS, just so I can buy the DLC. I will never spend a cent on EGS.

Wait, what, it’s possible to have 8 dwarf lobbies? That is so cool!

When all her friends and family see that image, she is definitely involved. And it’s definitely abuse.

Same. I will never spend a cent there. Occasionally I rebuy one of the giveway games on Steam just so I can get a DLC.

Someone on Lemmy gifted me “Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard”, an old school point & click adventure. I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. The voice acting is great!

I’m also almost half way through “Black Mesa” a.k.a. the Half-life 1 fan remaster. It’s pretty good, but a bit unintuitive at times.

There’s also a not-patient game I’m playing: “StarRupture” released in early access a few days ago. It’s made by the developers of “Green Hell” which I really liked. It’s like Satisfactory with much more combat and base defense. I’m only a few hours in bur so far I like it!

No problem. Have a nice Christmas!

Ohh, thank you for your generosity! I’d love to play Core Keeper. I really like crafting games.

Do you know where those rules are? I’m genuinly interested in where exactly they draw the line. I constantly see people ranting about gen AI when used for art, but even simple, basic code autocomplete is AI under the hood these days. I can’t imagine developers not using autocomplete.

X4 is great! But it’s not really a flying game. You start off flying in a space ship yes, but by mid-game you it turns into a grand strategy game. You’ll probably spend more time on the map screen and hire an AI pilot to do the flying for you. Still a great game though!

The original Total War: Warhammer fantasy trilogy are by far the best TW games. And if you own multiple then you can combine them in one giant mega campaign. Definitely check them out when they are on sale.

How so? It’s just combat mods getting the axe, not visual aid and info mods?

That’s because Valve is privately owned and this has largely resisted the enshittification that largely plagues public companies and private equity frims.

Not only do they feel isolated, they also feel the same. NMS technically has billions of unique planets. In practice it has about 10 or so because they all feel the same. And even those look alike because they’re all sparsely populated worlds. Big stretches of emptiness filled with the occasional POI. Where are the mega city planets? The forge worlds with heavy industry? Any city with more than 100 inhabitants?

Thanks, I’ll give that a try then!

Doesn’t the Flatpak version have it’s own issues? I’m considering just installing Bazzite on a separate partition.

And what about Linux? A month ago I still had to go multi-arch on my x64 Debian system, leading to a lot of problems…

I finally started “Styx: Shards of Darkness”. A stealth acrion RPG. It’s been pretty fun so far. Better than the first one. I’m trying to go for the silent & deadly approach. No alarms raised in any level. So far so good!

Does this specify the kinds of AI? Are none of these devs using code completion on their IDEs? Or refactoring tools? Because the bulk of them use AI these says.

Remember the custom warehouse level filled with crates and everyone wearing a crate skin?