I’ve played a bunch of Monster Train 2 which is great. A really novel interpretation of the Slay the Spire format. It also has some great qol and mechanical improvements over the first. Highly recommend if you’re into that sort of thing.
Medieval Dynasty: New Settlement in VR. It’s quite good, though a bit glitchy here and there. Finished the main quest line and am now running my tavern whilst waiting for my baby to be born.
Każdy konflikt gdzie dochodzi do ludobójstwa powinien być nagłaśniany.
Konflikty w których to kraj uważany za “zachodni” dokonuje ludobójstwa są tym ważniejsze dla nas, bo niszczą ten mit o ucywilizowanym zachodzie który niesie kaganek oświaty “dzikiemu” wschodowi i Afryce.
Co ważniejsze, cały ten konflikt jest bardzo dobrze opisany historycznie, na zachodzie otwarcie się mówi o mechanizmach które doprowadziły do tego co jest dziś, nawet tamtejsza praca nie kryła się z obnażaniem swojego prawicowego reżimu. timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-…
W skrócie, prawicowe rządy i Netanjahu przez lata pompowali ogromne pieniądze w Hamas z nadzieją na osłabienie władz Palestyny, radykalizacje społeczeństwa, a potem wykorzystania tego jako broni przeciwko Palestynie. Do tego dochodzi tłumienie protestów Izraelczyków którzy są przeciwko, wykorzystywanie retoryki że Izrael = Żydzi, więc krytyka tego co się dzieje to antysemityzm (to nic że nawet Żydzi masowo protestowali przeciwko temu ludobójstwu). No i reakcje zachodnich władców, z czego najciekawszy jest Trump: middleeasteye.net/…/gaza-palestinian-homeland-not…
Pokolenie dzisiejszych 50 latków które pamięta to co działo się w Czczenii jak tam radykalizm był najpierw wzmacniany, a potem udomowiony pewnie widzą trochę podobieństw. Tam też jednym z punktów kulminacyjnych był bardzo krwawy atak na który jakoś dziwnie służby pozwoliły, a następnie tak jakby starano się by ilość ofiar była jak największa: pl.wikipedia.org/…/Atak_terrorystyczny_na_szkołę_…
Ya know, I told myself when they brought Verdansk back that I wasn’t gonna spend 70 fucking dollars for BO6 just to help level up guns, and even though I was tempted I didn’t do it, even when it was on sale. Shit like this is what reminds me as to why I shouldn’t buy it. Yeah, I’ll play your game because my friends and I enjoy Verdansk, it’s a good map and is fun for us to play, but I’ll be damned if I give them any money for it.
They locked one of the meta assault rifles in a season 1 battle pass (Krig) meaning you literally cannot unlock it and have to buy a weapon bundle to use it. You can pick the gun up off the ground, but not make a loadout with it without spending money. Luckily I’ve earned several of their free CoD points from previous free versions of the battle pass to unlock a bundle for it, but I shouldn’t fucking have to do that.
I’ll just cost them money to host me on thier servers now, until they remove Verdansk again and I’m not gonna play Warzone.
The fact that they aren’t even try to hide it and just overtune the new gun so much and people pay money for it is so disgusting and i don’t even want to waste time on that ptw garbage
I am emulating! I’ll test multiplayer tonight if I can track down another controller. It might interest you as well to know that I’ve heard the PS3 Emulator can do online multiplayer through its Netplay. I haven’t tested that yet (I want to with a friend though)
Thank you for testing it! Are you using Xenia through a launcher (RetroDeck/Emudeck/Retroarch)? Are you on Windows or Linux? any setup recommendations or should I just put the bios files and rom and it’s ready to go?
I’m using Emudeck on Bazzite with GNOME. It’s an entirely AMD based build.
I was mostly just able to install and go. There were two issues but they’re pretty minor and easy to fix:
I had to go into the launch script for Xenia provided by Emudeck to change the proton version used though because it wasn’t compatible with the base version used. But that may have just been a me thing.
Xenia has a weird quirk with Xbox Arcade games where you need to reopen and close the emulator too. It’s an intentional feature and I’m not really sure why it does that.
But besides those two things it works flawlessly. I have almost no bugs. I added it to Steam with Steam ROM Manager included with Emudeck and will launch it through that (or I’ll launch Minecraft, and then Xenia because of issue 2). Steam Input works fine and no tearing or graphical issues whatsoever.
I just finished testing it and It worked well. I’d assume you could play the entire game that way but I didn’t test it too long (and the controller for player 1 just sat idle) because it was just me playing.
I’m finishing Xenoblade Chronicles X. I finished the original Wii U story, which was alright but
spoilerA bit disappointed it ended on a cliffhanger and the unexplained stuff was the thing I was most interested in.
I’m now doing a few of the remaining side quests and I might try fighting some higher level tyrants before continuing with the new chapter.
I tried a couple of roguelikes, it’s a genre I haven’t played much so I was curious to try it:
I tried Hades. The story is probably good, but I just can’t stand the gameplay. I didn’t find the combat to be particularly engaging, it’s too button mashy and none of the weapons feel good to use. I consistently get to Elysium in 25-30 minutes, then die at the boss and end up having to redo everything just for an attempt at fighting them.
Similarly for One Step From Eden, it takes me almost an hour to reach the final boss, for which I’m not ready since it takes so long to get to it. I do prefer the gameplay of this one, there’s more variety in the bosses and there seem to be more options for builds, although I haven’t had success in deviating from the one strategy I found.
I didn’t really find the gameplay of either interesting enough to justify the grind, so I have dropped them.
I got back to Marvel Heroes (tldr: “mmo” diablo-clone with marvel characters), as the private server emulator resurrected the game.
The game got killed ~8 years ago, and every passing year since made my craving for the game that much worse. And late 2024 some absolute madlads released a server emulator, and it’s seems to work great, though the server I’m currently playing is having occasional lag spikes, which isn’t great. I could self-host the server for just for me and/or some friends, but that’d require effort. :D
Anyhoo, got through the story-campaign with my fav marvel character, started looking at the end game … and suddenly I remembered why I stopped playing the game in the first place. It gets pretty grindy. Oh well, I still have a truck load of characters to play - they all play quite differently, give or take some similar ones (like, the thing, hulk, etc bruisers are fairly samey, gun-tooting-heroes also are somewhat similar, but still all of them have their own twist to it). Each max leveled character gives an account-wide exp boost so leveling gets faster and faster. So… gotta churn them levels, I guess. :)
EDIT: oh right, I also finished Kathy Rain, a pretty neat detective point-and-click adventure. I can’t say I had heard of the game before, but as people were frothing about Kathy Rain 2, and the first one was on steep discount, I decided to give it a go… and oh man, worth.
The art, voice acting and gameplay were great. Puzzles were logical for the most part, but there were 2-3 puzzles which did stump me a bit and had to take a peek on a walkthrough - one wasn’t even difficult, but I was overthinking it way too hard and somehow confused red and blue repeatedly, but I guess few beers do affect detective skills… In any case I got through the game with a LONG single session, but I just couldn’t let it go.
Anyhoo, Kathy Rain was pretty dope, eagerly waiting to pick up the sequel later on.
Near-Mage. It’s a point-and-click adventure from the same studio that also made Gibbous, and set in the same world. However, the theme is much lighter. Gibbous was (while still a comedy) about cosmic horror. Near-Mage is fantasy.
While I definitely recommend the game, it is lacking a bit when it comes to riddles. Most point-and-click adventure games have lots of them, where you need to think, give up, and then just try random stuff until something happens. This is almost completely missing in Near-Mage… There is almost always a quest goal that directly tells you what to do - up to the point that situations that give you a choice are explicitly marked as such.
On the other hand, just like Gibbous, the game is beautifully drawn and animated, and all dialogues are fully voiced. The characters are likeable and - call me a furry if you want - really cute. What keeps me playing is mostly the world - there is always new stuff to discover, even in late-game, and the mix of fantasy and (what I assume to be) Romanian folklore is great.
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