I’m going to wind back the clock a little bit and say any of the Gothic-style games by Piranha Bytes Games (Gothic 1, 2, and the Risen games). Going back a little further, but definitely in the same vein, Ultima Ascension. Come to think of it, are the original Ultima games considered open world? Sure, they weren’t 3D,…

The Apex M500 is the little brother of that one (little as in price, not size), and is wonderful if all you want is a simple mechanical keyboard without all the bells and whistles of a “gaming keyboard”. It also has backlit keys, which are awesome if you do a lot of typing in the dark.

The Apex M500 is the little brother of that one (little as in price, not size), and is wonderful if all you want is…

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes an alien creature is literally made of dicks.

Well, I wasn’t interested, but my childhood dream of being an exobiologist is making this a purchase that’s hard not to make.

Yeah, we pretty much all saw it coming. Glad I downloaded it as well, because it’s very good.

Awful lot of plant life on that lifeless body.

Are we talking about a hard freeze here, or just a graphical freeze? The difference there is that in a graphical freeze, your music and background noise keep playing. This is most often due to an issue with the graphical hardware itself or a driver issue. If it’s a hard freeze, where everything completely locks up and…

You get a star! I was afraid I might be the only one to see that too.

Ah, purely around the good ol’ tabletop. I haven’t tried any of the online methods, but I hear Roll20 is good. No idea if they do anything other than d20 style gaming, though.

It took me almost exactly one year of playing in my free time to get a character all the way to the end of DC:SS. I ended up with an unstoppable Minotaur berserker. Even got most of the runes, though I left before getting all... was it 15? Gehenna just got to be too much of a pain in the ass.

We aim to please.

I’m deep in Rimworld. And, assuming I can be extricated, GMing a new Shadowrun campaign.

Right. You know, I played it a lot too, but haven’t in a long time. I do have it on my PSP... maybe it’s time to pick it back up again.

Was she the rich one, or the cute, childhood-friend tomboy?

Hey, he caught a Yoshi!

It’s a style of art typified by the movement of feet to the rhythm of accompanying music. I don’t see it much these days, what with having to shout at the kids on my lawn looking for pokermans.

Almost looks like he’d be great at the Melbourne Shuffle, if he isn’t already. Music warning if you’re not into hardstyle.

You know, when I worked somewhere that didn’t allow facial hair per dress regulations, but had no regulations about hair length, I thought I was a rebel by growing my hair out as long as I could while keeping my beard just at the 5 o’clock shadow level all the time. I think June’s got me beat.

There was a variant on the PSX I quite liked called Azure Dreams that, now that I think about it, was a lot like Pokemon in that your ultimate goal (aside from trying to reach the top of the tower) was to capture and/or breed the most powerful monsters.

My current favorite strategy is to build a colony of nothing but psychopaths, capture everyone you can, then chop out all of their organs to sell to passing pirate vessels in exchange for heavy armor and weaponry. I’ve now got what amounts to an ultra-max prison set up with a high-tech hospital and a thriving organ…