I genuinely don’t know what happened after end game. It went from a favorite summer experience to something I couldn’t care less about.

What a shocking mishandling of a valuable asset.

I can’t imagine even getting excited about Avenger’s 5, much less seeing it in theaters.

If you’d told me six years ago that I would write that sentence, I would have laughed at you.

I disagree. There’s a deeply unethical core built into Steam that is distinct to it. Since you can sell your loot drops for actual money, they are more literally scratch tickets than your standard loot boxes.

https://youtu.be/eMmNy11Mn7g?si=u7fNSQI8WV8JNd4m

Valve does plenty of unethical stuff, you’re right, but the store isn’t really it. Go after them for their shady loot box gambling and really predatory monetization in f2p games that creates secondary gambling markets. It’s insane.

Valve has actual blood it’s hands and you’re complaining about the legitimate business front that covers for a deeply profitable and unethical core.

That’s so grim.

What’s the story? What’s wrong with tf2

When can I get one of these voices to read an epub on my phone? I’d love to have something like that

I’m all for an eventual steam deck 2, but man, I’ve absolutely loved my deck and can’t imagine a reason to upgrade any time soon. It does everything I want for now.

Hate is just love getting all twisted up. You can’t get this kind of negativity from something that’s always been awful, it has to be deeply loved first in order for the hate to properly flow.

How would this handle audiobooks? I’ve not made the move to Jellyfin yet, as Plex handles all my multimedia needs for now, but I’ve been keeping an eye on Jellyfin’s development with interest.

Yeah, not a lot of people have their own well round these parts.

I assume by chlorinated water you mean most tap water?

So standard distinctions with three prime attributes, charm, intellect and war, as a throwback to Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2 on the SNES, which is where I first caught the bug. Finally, there’s the default skills as recommended by Cortex.

It’s not overly complicated and I have one power gamer that desperately wants to abuse Influence and Charm to control everyone.

That said, I’ve made it clear we’re working to tell a story together and everyone is really leaning into that to see where the adventure goes.

Wu clan are bros, don’t let anyone tell you differently. With Dong Zhuo still alive, Sun Jian is going chart a new course. He may still die in an ambush shortly or he may live on and establish a lasting foundation for his children. For now, he’s rampaging across the southlands under the guise of unifying the lands to defeat Dong Zhuo.

This is my first with both Cortex Prime and Reign. With Cortex Prime, I wanted something like Fate, but a little meatier and no custom dice needed. Cortex delivers that in spades.

Cortex is very modular, which is a blessing and a curse. It means you can get it to do almost anything you want, but there’s a fair amount of prep to set up the campaign.

That said, rolling in Cortex is really fun. It’s fast and generally helps raise the stakes in storytelling without bogging anyone down. As an added bonus, because it’s so modular, if I need to quickly invent a new roll or challenge, all the hooks are there to let me do it quickly and seamlessly.

Reign, on the other hand, isn’t being used much from a dice rolling perspective, but its company system is the engine that powers the whole campaign.

Their city is a company that has its own stats and resources and I can generate problems for them to face. Your base company score is seldom sufficient to deal with the problem at hand, so you need to create your own missions to gain additional dice to address the problem.

For the bandits, the players went on a scouting mission to determine the best approach and attack, liaisoned with yellow turbans, designed strategies and finally brought in Gongsan Zan as allies in order to address the problem.

Outside of that last point, these were all self-directed missions the players came up with and pursued on their own.

Reign is amazing for creating player agency and quests that feel like they matter.

His plastic surgeon is incredible.

I’ve never followed football too closely, so let me see if I understand the tush push. It seems to me you get the QB right behind the offensive line, snap the ball to him and then essentially get two dudes to push him up and over the offensive line?

From the clip I watched, the most impressive feat is that he landed on his feet on the other side. He looked like Jesus walking across stormy waters. Kind of surreal and pretty incredible.

Wall lamps! They’ve added wall lamps! We finally have the technology!

Also conduits can be hidden! Bases are gonna look so good!

Also books and bookshelves!!!

This is going to be my jam.

That’s a fast turnaround from the initial teaser!

I’m so stoked by this new direction. Rimworld has always been horror-adjacent with savage cannibalism, deep trauma that leads to madness, and the fragility of technology.

I hope this can really mix up the gameplay rather than just add more levers to pull as you progress through a routine process.

Just wanted to add my thanks for including the recipe. I love the possibility of replicating someone else’s intriguing recipes.

New DLC teased! Get excited!!!