Commanding red dragons and spontaneously casting Gate is still high level stuff, right? I'm hoping at least that hasn't changed in 5th.

Future headline: ChinaJoy 2021 cancelled due to lack of registering attendees.

This basically sums up how I deal with it:

This looks interesting, but what I’m most curious about is how fun the farming portion will be. Typically, farming sims are fun because they abstract the minutia of farming. This looks like it goes fairly in-depth at least with the growing and harvesting of rice. Though, I tend to enjoy other simulators more because…

I’ve seen it multiple times and, until my last viewing, completely forgot that an ending after the fleshy mess existed. Presumably I would normally lose interest or get too drunk before then.

I just want to take a moment to appreciate the fact that in-game radio stations exist and acknowledge the work that the sound designers put into them. Hell, even just game music in general. It can elevate the experience so much when done properly.

Finished Outer Wilds last night (this room is filled with dusty onions), so I guess I’ll pick up Origami King tonight, though I’ve got to prepare for a pen-and-paper session and install a new aerial sometime... tomorrow.

This is definitely my “old man yells at cloud” moment, and my original post was more tongue-in-cheek than anything. Generally, gaming is seen as a passive activity, where things like sports teams, choirs, etc. are seen as active in an organization that prizes physical prowess. Times have changed, and mental prowess is…

I shouldn’t be either, but when I was in the service parents were still telling their children they’d never amount to anything playing video games. It’s pretty awesome that an official Army Esports team exists, their recruitment tactics notwithstanding.

I never realized! It’s not like an enormous portion of our GDP goes towards it.

U.S. Army esports team

I don’t really follow your logic. This has nothing to do with real life, and it really depends on your definition of protest. Are the clowns in RDO really a protest? At its innermost core — in that a protest is a means to convey a message — yes it is. Also, it may be disruptive in some way to the lives of the people…

I think doing it in game would make it easier to bring people to their cause, even accidentally. Some people might see a huge gathering of people dressed as clowns, not knowing the purpose, and think “that’s fun, I may as well join them”. Yes, it artificially inflates the protest’s numbers, but it works towards their…

Current pandemic aside, an in-game protest like this, and the subsequent media coverage, will get the point across faster than trying to organize a lot of people to essentially boycott playing due to lack of updates. Alternatively, simply not playing, and waiting for someone at Rockstar to notice lower player numbers,…

The whole “X is Cake” thing has just reminded me how old and out of touch I am now, but also how OK I am with being that way. Is acceptance the analogue of aging? Either way, my next birthday (which will firmly place me among the “middle-aged”) is rapidly approaching and people keep asking me if I want anything. “No,”…

*screaming internally*

Hopefully we’ll get the Obsidian cut in a couple years.

Needs more Ron Perlman.

I... don’t know what I’m playing this weekend. I run a lot of game servers for friends and friends-of-friends, so I may join them on one of those. This also might be a good weekend to take advantage of the Steam sale and try something new. If nothing else, I’ll likely default to a colony or survival sim (Oxygen Not…