What are you playing currently?
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2024
I'm aware the dates aren't exactly right but I like to keep things refered to their planned date. They are still weekly after all.
#1 --- 043 - [07 Jan 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #43 -- mayflyalt 
#2 --- 044 - [14 Jan 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #44 -- lc
#3 --- 045 - [21 Jan 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #45 -- lc
#4 --- 046 - [28 Jan 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #46 -- lc
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#10 --- 052 - [10 Mar 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #52 -- lc
#11 --- 053 - [17 Mar 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #53 -- Ninjjer 
#12 --- 054 - [25 Mar 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #54 -- lc
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#17 --- 059 - [5 May 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #59 -- RWBY
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#43 --- 085 - [03 Nov 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #85 - - Ninjjer
#44 --- 086 - [10 Nov 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #86 - - RWBY
2023
I'm aware there are previous weekly or so megathreads and I'll eventually add them ( green = official, red = fake, yellow = misc, blue = losercel)
#0 - [22 Jan 2023] - some1 should make weekly vidya threads marseytf2spy
#1 - [28 Jan 2023] - Weekly "Whatcha Been Playing" Thread #1
#2 - [4 Feb 2023] - Weekly "Whatcha Been Playing" thread #2
#3 - [11 Feb 2023] - Weekly Gaming Thread #3
#3.5 - [13 Feb 2023] - [Weekly Gaming Thread 2] You will own no NFTs of video game microtransactions and you will be happy edition-- dramamine
#4 - [18 Feb 2023] - Weekly 'What're You Playing?' thread #4
#4.5 - [20 Feb 2023] - Welcome to the new weekly vidya thread! Week 1 - 2/20/23 -- robotron2084
#5 - [25 Feb 2023] - Weekly "What're You Playing" Community Thread #5
#5.5 - [2 Mar 2023] - So, what do you dipshits play all day? -- horned waifu shill
#6 - [4 Mar 2023] - Weekly 'What're You Playing' Thread #6
#7 - [11 Mar 2023] - Weekly 'What're you playing?' thread #7
#8 - [18 Mar 2023] - Weekly 'What're you playing?' Thread #8
#9 - [25 Mar 2023] - Weekly 'What're You Playing?' thread #9
#10 - [1 Apr 2023] - Weekly 'What are you playing?' Thread: #10: Whooaaaa Those are some HILARIOUS patch notes edition
#11 - [8 Apr 2023] - Weekly 'What are you playing' Thread #11
#12 - [15 Apr 2023] - Weekly 'What are you playing' thread #12
#13 - [23 Apr 2023] - What're you playing thread #idk
#14 - [29 Apr 2023] - Weekly 'What Are You Playing' thread #14
#15(1) - [6 May 2023] - Weekly 'What're you playing?' thread #15
#15(1).5 - [10 May 2023] - marseyg*mer Gaming Thread - What are you playing this week? -- cynic
#15(2) - [13 May 2023] - Weekend 'What've you been playing?' Thread #15 -- he fricked up the ordering here I'll just go with it
#16 - [20 May 2023] - Weekly "What Are You Playing?" Thread #16
#16.5 - [28 May 2023] - Weekly "What are you playing" thread -- carp
#17 - [3 Jun 2023] - Weekly "What have you been playing?" Thread #new one
#18 - [10 Jun 2023] - Weekly "What are you playing" thread #18
#19 - [17 Jun 2023] - Weekly 'What're You Playing' thread #19!
#20(1) - [24 Jun 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are you Playing?' Thread #20: Modern Warfare III
#20(2) - [1 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What're you playing?' Thread #20: Summer Salestice -- same reason as above
#21 - [10 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What're you playing?' Thread #21: loli_esports forgot got chudded edition -- basad
#23 - [15 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing?' thread #I think it's actually 23 -- should be 22 but I'll go with his ordering
#24 - [22 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing?' thread #24: Lot of stuff coming out all of a sudden, feels like
#25 - [29 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What games have you been playing' thread #25
#26 - [5 Aug 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing' thread #26
#27 - [12 Aug 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing' thread #27
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#35 - [7 Oct 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #35
#36 - [27 Oct 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #36 -- tulpa
#37 - [26 Nov 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #37 -- losercel
#38 - [03 Dec 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #38 -- losercel
#39 - [10 Dec 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #39 -- losercel
#40 - [17 Dec 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #40 -- losercel
#41 - [24 Dec 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #41 -- losercel
#42 - [31 Dec 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #42 -- losercel
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Final Score: (1015+921+87+72+60+51+40+33+21+12)/(15+21+7+2+0+1+0+3+1+2) = 8.21
Penultimate week's game: Mudrunner
Final Score: (100+92+84+71+62+50+41+30+20+10)/(0+2+4+1+2+0+1+0+0+0) = 6.3
All Previous Games:
[26. Nov 2023] Hades = 7.60
[3 Dec 2023] Rimworld = 8.93
[10 Dec 2023] Baldur's Gate 3 = 7.54
[17 Dec 2023] Age of Empires 2 = 8.59
[24 Dec 2023] GTA V = 6.62
[14 Jan 2024] Skyrim = 7.25
[21 Jan 2024] Cuphead = 6.97
[28 Jan 2024] Celeste = 5.27
[04 Feb 2024] Planescape Torment = 9.33
[11 Feb 2024] Palworld = 7.39
[18 Feb 2024] Nier Automata = 5.80
[24 Feb 2024] Might and Magic 6 = 5.33
[04 Mar 2024] Balatro = 9
[11 Mar 2024] Helldivers 2 = 7.3
[17 Mar 2024] Heroes of the Storm = 6.79
[25 Mar 2024] Dwarf Fortress = 7.81
[7 Apr 2024] No Man's Sky = 5.96
[14 Apr 2024] Lethal Company = 6.25
[21 Apr 2024] SpaceChem = 6.91
[12 May 2024] Fallout 4 = 5.33
[19 May 2024] Disco Elysium = 7.13
[26 May 2024] Crusader Kings 3 = 6.75
[2 Jun 2024] Warthunder = 3.63
[9 Jun 2024] Dragon Age Origins = 7.69
[16 Jun 2024] Halo: Combat Evolved = 7.85
[23 Jun 2024] Elden Ring = 7.91
[30 Jun 2024] Kenshi = 6.70
[7 Jul 2024] Two Point Hospital = 7.4
[14 Jul 2024] Stardew Valley = 7.43
[21 Jul 2024] Teardown = 6.87
[28 Jul 2024] Lobotomy Corporation = 6.05
[4 Aug 2024] Elite: Dangerous = 6.27
[11 Aug 2024] Enter the Gungeon = 6.92
[18 Aug 2024] Fortnite = 5.87
[25 Aug 2024] Devil Daggers = 7.2
[1 Sept 2024] Hollow Knight = 8.42
[8 Sept 2024] Street Fighter IV = 7.77
[15 Sept 2024] The Witcher = 7.5
[22 Sept 2024] Anno (1404-2205) = 7.1
[29 Sept 2024] Huniepop = 6.62
[6 Oct 2024] Katamari Damacy = 8.97
[13 Oct 2024] Factorio = 8.67
[20 Oct 2024] Townscaper = 6.71
[27 Oct 2024] Supreme Commander = 8.19
[03 Nov 2024] Mudrunner = 6.3
[10 Nov 2024] Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas = 8.21
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!touhou is a theoretically a game, but it's actually a media universe, and this universe is what most fans are there for. In a sense, Touhou has killed off its author, and the fandom could continue regardless of his existence at this point. Regardless, this is a gaming thread, so please discuss the Touhou games, including the fangames. See the pinned comment below for voting on the official bullet heck games.
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carp, capy, geto, donger pin please 
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Official Touhou
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Pretty good
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which touhou should i start with dc
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I like 8
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The first 5 touhou games were made for the PC-98 and are a bit different. The first game of the "modern" series is Touhou 6. It's the first game with
and is a good introduction story wise. It doesn't run properly on newer versions of windows so you'll have to download the fanpatch. The story isn't that important though and you really can't go wrong with any of them.
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PCB is probably the best introduction to classic 2hu, EoSD still feels pretty dated and was really still a prototype
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Neko peoject 2
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Try 8 or 10. 10 has a very generous continue system which is nice since the difficulty takes a significant leap at stage 4. 8 is a smoother difficulty curve and isn't too difficult at its worst. You do have to really read
into the mechanics of that one though since there's quite a bit going on that's not immediately obvious.
6 is the only modern 2hu game that doesn't let you reach stage 6 if you use continues so people will recommend not starting with it.
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Shit's weird. The fact I have to put up with this pervy little girl maid shit in a lot of otherwise decent shmups is an endless source of irritation.
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you love the rose you bear the thorns
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Basically this, it's the reason why it will always be a niche neurodivergent series.
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It's also the only reason It's popular lol
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zoz
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zle
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zozzle
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the maid is an adult, allegedly
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9000 years old too, I bet!
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no pretty sure they specify she's 18
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I don't know anything about this stuff and skipping cut scenes is my religion, but just looked up "touhou maid" and saw this
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Touhou is in real time with the real world (this is actually real), she's in her 30s by now as are most of the human characters. ZUN just can't draw anything that isn't 15-16 year old girl
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oh ok
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!touhou which of you voted didnt play, im keeping count
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touhou 12 wasn't on the list
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I like games that are random like FTL.
Strategy > rote memorization
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you should play HoI4
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Takes too much time.
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cant argue with that. check my hoi comment down there in the post. it took 6 hours for no one to win.
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Closer to 5
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2day was am especially slow game
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I saw it.
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Do you really not have 5 hours free time? Das all it took to reach 45, and it was a long game
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@EvilUbie work a lot, and the last thing @EvilUbie want is too play something fast-paced while having no experience with it. If @EvilUbie could sink 40-60 hours on single player, I'd get a 'build order' down and go from there, but it's time-consuming.
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You think the average 2hu fan has actually played any of the games? Having not played them has been a meme for over a decade
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2 decades lil bro
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I just want a fumo for the memes to complete my set with a blahaj and rei chiquita.
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I've played a handful of touhou spinoff games over the last couple of years. Luna Nights is really good, and Touhou Labyrinth 2 is pretty good as well. I played a bit of Soku to prep for the tournament that we ended up cancelling and liked it quite a bit.
I just started playing the touhou shmups last weekend and have been having a pretty good time with them. Over the week I played about 7 hours of Touhou 10 and yesterday I managed to 1cc it for the first time. Have played about an hour of Touhou 6 and Touhou 18 and it seems to me that the games have improved over time, which is nice to see. I'm not really fond of the aesthetic of the series, but Sakuya is a neat character and Wriggle is cute.
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Soku is the only touhou spinoff though, the others aren't official.
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likes tomboys or femboys or both
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Spinoffs like Touhou Luna Nights or Touhou Endless Dreams are good
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Spin off implies they are official games, they aren't made by Shanghai Alice. There are Touhou Spin offs which are Gouyoku Ibun and the fighting games which are both partially designed by ZUN and made with his approval.
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Ashamed of saying this as legendary gaymer, I never played any of touhou gayms
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youre not alone
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im in it for the vibes
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vibes:
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She would make a good italy
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shed get along well with anchovy
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I have a copy of the spin off that plays like Symphony of the Night. Never installed it because I had to peepee around with AppLocale and couldnt be bothered. Is the game good enough to make time for?
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That's not a spin off it's a fan game.
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Is it Luna Nights? I didn't have to do anything dumb to run it, just got it on steam and played it. It's quite fun if you like vanias though.
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I have a disc copy I picked up years ago
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Everyone in the thread said they hadn't played it though
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Playing factorio for the DLC, Feel like I'm less neurodivergent or more normie than when I beat the original game so it's been slow moving especially since I have to beat the original game before moving onto the DLC content
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This is the first time I've felt like I'm actually half-way competent at playing the original game.
Even without the DLC there's a lot that they've improved on in this latest version. Like all inserters being able to filter. In the past that was a major annoyance.
I'm just starting to get into the space stuff. Have my own little space station but haven't gone to any other planets yet. So far it's pretty good. Different enough to be interesting while still being the same game we know and love.
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DLC is definitely designed for people who already know the ins and outs of the base game in mind. Some OG techs that are critical for midgame expansion like spidertrons and artillery are locked behind space exploration now, so it can be slow going to get your nauvis production up to snuff if you don't know all the meta strats for the base game (grenade/fish spam, poison and defender capsules).
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That's fair, I've already beaten the base game twice, it's just such a slog until you get to construction robots. I hate doing the game breaking meta strats and optimizing for extreme efficiency which doesn't help either
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2429860/Living_With_Sister_Monochrome_Fantasy/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2435960/Hitler_Waifu/
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I actually played the first one. I like time management simulations. It's pretty good.
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is there incest
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depends on your moral alignment
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lets say im morally aligned with incest
for the sake of the argument
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then yes its 90% of the game
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We finished the Sunday hoi4 game an hour ago
1945 stalemate, allies were playing for the new thermonuclear bombs
Italy held out in Africa until like 44, nothing ever happens
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heres my bad capture of the final map. you'll sneed that there is still some spagettikangs in ethiopia
!hoi4 immovable object vs unstoppable force
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Half Life 2 update with mods + dev commentary
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I finished replaying HL2 games a few months ago. I don't feel like playing it again, but I do want to listen to the commentary.
Maybe I'll do it next year.
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BG3
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Dark Souls 1. This is the first playthrough where I've met Kaathe, destroyed the Guinevere illusion, etc. My pyromancer isn't satisfied with the easy answers from Frampt and co, so she's delving deeper into the hidden lore of her world.
This optional layer of the story adds a lot to the game, but I think that people who take Kaathe's statements at face value should be humanely euthanized. The game shows us exactly what "Dark" looks like. The Abyss grows to destroy everything, with the remaining once-human creatures killing each other over dwindling scraps of soul. And the Abyss is Kaathe's home base. If this is the "age of humanity," Gwyn was right to fear it, and was selfless in sacrificing himself.
People figure out the human/dark connection and conclude that it must mean darkness is good, when the much more obvious, interesting, and thematically appropriate conclusion is that humanity is fundamentally destructive.
In real life, the "Age of Dark"/"Age of Man" is unchecked ecological destruction, catastrophic climate change, nuclear holocaust, gray goo AI apocalypse, or even just the slow death of meaning. It's a mixture of things that are happening now, and things that could happen if humanity continues with unchecked dominance over nature, unconstrained by our ancient faiths. Sure we may be destroying our world, but at least we cast off all those phony gods' blessings, right?
This kind of reminds me of how many people regard Satan as a hero in Paradise Lost, simply because he adopts rhetoric about liberty that we humans naturally find relatable. Satan flatters the reader's sensibilities, but when you look past the rhetoric and see what he actually wants, he simply is trying to destroy humanity to spite God. He is our enemy.
Do not listen to some straggy snake's grand narrative without figuring out who he is and what he's trying to do. He will be happy when the "Age of Dark" begins. You won't.
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I like how these r-slurred cute twinks think this while the world has become wealthier, more environmentally safe (in first world countries), and less violent over the past few centuries. How clueless can a neighbor get, !neolibs?
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I used to think the economy was bad because nobody can afford to buy a home, but then one of you guys pointed out that the GDP number went up.
But whether or not you agree with the take in real life, I think my interpretation reflects what the game is saying
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There are plenty of extremely affordable homes in Detroit, actually! You might have to kill the junkie(s) living in it, though.
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SHUT THE FRICK UP, PIBBLES. YOU HAVE NO FRAME OF REFERENCE.
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TBF all of those are way more likely to happen in the short-term than it was in 1724
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Some people are able to display their intelligence by going on at length on a subject and never actually saying anything. This ability is most common in trades such as politics, public relations, and law. You have impressed me by being able to best them all, while still coming off as an absolute idiot.
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Yeah except Gwyn/Frampt is actually the real Satan allegory in Dark Souls trying to trick you into doing their bidding. Don't fall for their lies.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1002300/Fear__Hunger/
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Touhou is actually kinda a bad bullet heck. I respect Zun's spunk but he is meh at designing shumps. There is a reason there is a huge split between the traditional bullet heck fans of stuff like cave or even psycklo and touhou fans.
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!truthnuke
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It's about being pretty patterns
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Patterns to goon to
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Tbh 90% of 2hu fans have never played a 2hu game before, let alone any other shmups
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as for the fan games, i like this
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I'm revisiting LA Noire this week
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2103140/Magicraft/
It's good
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Im finally playing SF6. diamond soon i hope !fightclub
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Did a double take seeing nethack up for discussion next month. I just recently got out of an old school
roguelike addiction 
and would 
prefer to not go back so quickly. Instead I have gotten more and more into map painting 
with CK3 and Imperator 
Rome. I'm trying to learn 
how to play Europa Universalis but I'm getting irritated 
at how few mechanics are explained in the tutorial and being forced to watch 
le may-may filled tutorial videos on YouTube 
instead.
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Trying to get to other planets on Factorio Space Age but every time I think I have a few days off a heat exchanger gets fouled up
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I have done nothing but play Elin since it released. Send help.
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Is it any good? I couldn't really get into Elona.
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If you didn't care for Elona, you won't like Elin. They are the same game, essentially. There are a ton of additions and changes, but really it's still the same core game, just polished up and with an entire other game's worth of farm/town/inn management mechanics. Still tons of stat grinding, dungeon running, and no mechanic makes any sense and is never explained at any point.
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Playing Oblivion after finishing Morrowind. It definitely improves on some of the Hank found in Morrowind but it regressed in a lot of areas too.
Firstly the map totally feels like a fake plastic mmo world with a layout engineered for convenience not immersion. You get a quest to kill the evil wizard the townsfolk pushed away "as far as they could " and he is 30 seconds of walking away. Somehow in the center of the empire within sight of the capital city all the major roads are lined with goblin camps and haunted elvish ruins like they are Starbucks and Chipotles.
The second issue is the quests which are just too hand holdy. Morrowind was not afraid to leave you lost without an obvious next step. "You're quest, find out what happened to the dwarves ". If that was oblivion you would have a quest marker leading you to the book "What happened to the Dwarves ".
On the other hand no cliff racers 10/10.
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I've been playing Elin. Can't really decide on a character though. I keep playing a ways in, get dissatisfied with my build, and then reroll to something I think is better. It's weird because the game is so open ended that it doesn't really matter. I guess I just want to play something I feel satisfied with, but it's not always easy to see how the differences in builds will actually play out as a newbie. Now that I've understood the game's systems pretty well, I think I'm good. We'll see how well a fairy priest goes.
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Temptation to reroll has been killing me too. I already rolled a second character about 40 hours in.
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I've been playing a bunch of things, mostly testing out different screen record programs and uploading old arcade games to youtube in bitchin' 4K quality.
Steam client recorder: Decent for Steam games but doesn't work well with non-Steam games you add to the client. Also won't work with any games (like older ones) that don't use or play well with the Steam overlay. Needs an on-screen indicator that you're recording.
GeForce Shadowplay: Probably the one I've used the most so far. Has some weird quirks, like when I try to adjust volume during recording and the volume bar pop-up wants to come on the screen, that kills the recording. Maybe a way to fix that. Otherwise good shit in a somewhat minimal package.
Xbox/Windows Game Bar: Seems decent, has a nice on-screen recording indicator with time elapsed, but you can't record in 4K! WHY?!
OBS: The default choice of most, but it's more than I need since I just want to record gameplay with no voice over and don't stream. Definitely good software, it's just been a little tricky to wade through so far since I don't need most of what it does. Also no on-screen recording indicator! Really, you can do 10,000 things but can't tell me I'm currently recording?
Anyone else do this and have opinions on the software? (besides you longpostbot, you robot twat)
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How is OBS complicated, its probably one of the most user friendly application not advertised to computer illiterate normies lol
Do you not use OBS on a side monitor like most people?
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It's not that OBS is complicated, there's just a lot to pick through when I just wanna choose my output settings, hit a button and go. Adding sources is not something any of the other recorders do, but it is handy. I also started fooling around with it at like 1am last night, 8 drinks in and not having the greatest attention span atm. But it's definitely going to be my main along with Shadowplay.
I don't use dual monitors, but I'm feeling the pull to go back. For years I did two, sometimes three monitors. Then did an ultrawide for a while, which is cool when it works but is mostly just a pain in the butt. About 2 years ago I switched to a 42" OLED LCD TV as a single monitor which has also been hit or miss. Kinda want to go to one horizontal monitor and one vertical.
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Yeah OBS is meant to be running on another moniter so you can see what your recording at all times, check you audio channels and know which ones are going though, and make sure you have the correct windows showing up and not ones you don't want the recording streaming.
There may be better options for one monitor, but tbh in the year 2024 every personal desktop should have 2 monitor lmao
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Didnt read
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After 30 hours in Morrowind I can proudly say that I believe the game is incredibly mid, but still addicting
Most quests and dungeons are pure disappointment, guild questlines barely give the outline of a storyline (even though the general vibe of the quest givers abusing their authority to trick you into doing their shady interests is fun) and the combat is JRPG tier where you and your opponent stand still whacking each other until one stands through a pure statcheck
Still the lore is fun, anything that plays with the Houses' philosophy and the Tribunal stuff (Which was sadly not much) was welcome, the lack of quest markers made some quests feel like treasure hunts (even though most quests take place in towns and those suck), and the promise of finding new cool ways to exploit the game such as spam-selling potions, buying trainers or buffing stats kept me thinking for days on how to best build my guy
Also I loved stumbling across a random temple with a max level sword and casually nuking the game's whole economy
Overall I rate it 7.5/10, 9/10 in a parallel world where shitposts and memes don't spoil most of the twists
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Yeah there is a lot wrong with it. The story is the most interesting of the scrolls games but the delivery is bad. I don't really care about vivec so hearing about super good, but I bet Bethesda would rather spend 100% of their time on es6 which surely won't bomb right?
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Who is excited for Stalker this week?
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Oh it's coming soon and barely any news around it
It's a bad sign, but I expect it to be buggy
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I've been playing space age. Finally getting the hang of Fulgora and the space platforms. The electromagnetic plant is amazing.
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How did you handle fulgora? I spent way too long there, mostly because I made a one-way trip due to poor planning. I never got it running very smoothly and everything kept clogging up.
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You need a way to get rid of everything. I ended up starting with a one lane two way bus, and building a looping recycler at the head. I'm going to scale up to trains soon, but I had to go back to Nauvis to get things set up there.
Edit: I'm also working on a way to dump resources from orbit, it seems like you need a lot more water than the planet can provide.
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Yeah, I definitely should have set up more recyclers at termination points. The setup I made for building a platform and rocket to get me back to Nauvis was a column of filtered splitters for everything to move them along to where they needed and just adding more buffer chests as I needed. Then I added quality modules to the scrap recyclers. That may have been the breaking point.
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yeah, that's not far off of my setup, I just had a second dedicated trash belt. Quality modules are a good way to frick up your setups, because they demand an ability to deal with every quality tier you've unlocked thus far.
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Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl
The shooting in this slavslop is seriously some of the worst in any FPS I've ever played.
Literally every gun feels like shit.
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Robopof
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luanti
(Trump for prison)
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Age of wonders 4 has had me hooked since the free weekend last week and i cant stop pls help
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Playing Kingdom Come Deliverance to try and finish it up
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Finished Lies of P and am working on NG+ and getting the other endings.
Thinking ill play the marathon trilogy this week.
'd a little when i found out they're all free and come with improvements to make them playable.
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Back to Kotor 2. Combat still awfully jank and buggy mess even with restoration mod but it's all soul so what can you do.
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I got Age of Empires 3 definitive edition. The original is better in that there's an incentive to play to get better home city shipments. In the definitive edition, they're all there from the get go, so there isn't an incentive to keep playing. There are a lot of new countries/tribes to play as and now maps. I have an embarrassing amount of hours in it for the amount of time I have had the game. It's basically crack.
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Never finished it and I enjoy it well enough. Just hit level 50 and haven't even gotten to Athens questlines yet. Basically conquering the Greek world just before the major plot points kick off.
Beyond that, my VR controllers are about to putter out, so I just ordered a replacement for my previous gen controllers. Honestly the downgrade is sorta welcome because the ones I use now, the Index Controllers, have some design flaws and a shorter than usual usage life. They feel way more delicate than they should.
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Been getting back into Crime Boss Rockay City, it's so much fun and it's a real shame that it got such a shitty reception on launch. I didn't play it back then and I don't doubt it was buggy, but I have a feeling Payday fans were eager to shit on it since everyone was still hopeful for Payday 3.
On VR I've been playing Zero Caliber 2. Idk if it's good for a VR war game because I have nothing to compare it to, but I've been having a shit ton of fun in it. Still need to play more of Into The Radius 2, but I only did the tutorial and the first level and it scared my peepee off.
Excited for Stalker 2 this week but my expectations are low. Hopefully it's similar to the first games and didn't take notes from Anomaly and Gamma, I can't stand that chore simulator bullshit and just want a spooky shooter in an interesting setting.
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