It's been a while. I usually leapfrog upgrade, but I did it all last time: i5-10600k, 3060Ti, an m.2 SSD. Was amazed at the size of the SSD.
I overclocked the CPU and it's held up way better than I had expected, but as raytracing stops being optional more and more, I don't know how much time my GPU has left.
Ugh, I can already tell this is my deadline for my getting a GPU upgrade.
Hopefully the switch to a third-party engine means I won't have to wait a year after release like I did with CP2077. I imagine this game has to be super important to Epic.
This is in Kovir.
Farscape.
I had a roommate that loved the show and some of the later season stuff seemed really interesting when I caught it by chance, but I just couldn't get into it every time I tried to sit through the first season. I think it's a lost cause now with how much sci-fi TV has evolved.
The funny thing is Claudia Black's character was my favorite part of Stargate SG-1, and I also liked Ben Browder on it too. At least I saw enough of Farscape to catch the little wink-and-nod there.
This was the show that taught me cringe-inducing humor is not at all for me.
Still the best synthesis of story and gameplay I've seen. The game's phenomenal at attaching you to characters through gameplay (and it tells you early what exactly it's gonna do with that, too).
The sequel does it too, but in a very different (and very bold) way.
None completed this month for me. I played a little Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance and will likely continue to do so this month. I keep trying Atelier Escha & Logy but it's just not grabbing me. Not unusual for me with Atelier but feels worse this time somehow.
Might try Breath of Fire IV. Also have had my eye on Fantasian: Neo Dimension, could pick it up if it's on sale this month.
If I'm being honest, before Hades, I wasn't sure how much of a future Supergiant had in game dev. They clearly have talent for making beautiful looking worlds with great soundtracks and writing, but their gameplay was not exceptional for the genres they dabbled in. They didn't try to iterate either, flitting from genre to genre.
Hades was the result of them taking what they learned from Bastion and Pyre and applying it to a trend. They really nailed the gameplay this time. I think Hades 2 is even better, and I suspect it will be again be a GOTY contender when it comes out.
That said, I think they could very well end up branching out again from roguelites after this.
Has happened multiple times in Australia.
Very similar to that for films, the rating board process mostly regulates games in development. In the US, for example, the AO rating will prevent your game from being sold at mass market storefronts. When your game has borderline content, it's a back-and-forth process that's resolved before release.
Freezing diced veggies was a game-changer for me. Sometimes I just want to get it all done at once so I don't have to pull out the board and wash everything every time.
It's like I'm a sous chef for future me.
A lot of cards have other fringe perks like insurance on rental cars, for example. Absolutely worth flipping through your benefits package sometime.
I'm migrating to lemmy.zip, at least for the short term. They also have public instance reports, which was the major reason I joined lemm.ee. Transparency and accountability is essential. I guess the fact that those reports got more and more sparse at lemm.ee was a canary in the coal mine here....