Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. I want to power through it before my vacation is over.

I read newspaper articles detailing the political strife of fictional countries for fun! Bring it! :D

Keep abusing the tiny little virtual people and...

Amen to that. Why do shit properly when you can just throw (cheap) bodies at it? At least we don’t do construction during the day in the summer months anymore. Still six day weeks though. Took me almost 6 months to get my documents back my first year.

+1 HappyFunDad. I work in Qatar, worked in UAE before. There is a lot of bullshit to go through when you first arrive and your employer has huge control over your life and can really dick you around (although with new laws this year it’s gotten better). That said, if you can keep an open mind, adjust expectations,…

One of the things that made Cosmic Encounters one of the best board games ever (seriously, it’s been Tom Vassel’s #1 game of all time for like a decade and it’s been in top 10 on BGG and one of SUSD’s top games) is the sheer number of the alien races and the hilarious lunacy of the different races’ abilities. Boiling…

*checks hours played Stellaris on Steam*

So I just finished my fourth game (two of them were on Quick speed, two were on regular speed) and hoooooooooooly shit am I impressed. It feels complete in the way that vanilla Civ 5 didn’t. Yes there is no World Congress in the game yet (devs said it’ll be the target of the next expansion or major DLC) and there is…

Absolutely. Endless Legend does the things that are expected in a 4x game so well (that interface is so unnnnnghhhhhh), but then builds on it in so many interesting and innovative ways. I have 700+ hours on Civ 5, but it’s Endless Legend that I truly love as a game. And now there’s both Civ 6 and new EL expansion, so…

That’s OK. Second prize was a set of steak knives. Third prize is fuck you, you’re fired.

Oh yeah, plenty of games where I sunk 40+ hours into it and found that I either hated the game or didn’t hate it but just wasn’t keen on finishing it. For example, I sunk 55 hours into Fallout 4 before quitting it because I hated it - the main quest was sumb and lack of meaningful dialogue options as compared to…

Goddammit we need another good Dune game!

Civilization 2 was not my first game but it was the first one I stuck with and it kindled my interest in history which led me into my career. The other one would have to be Baldur’s Gate, which introduced me to crps and to Dungeons and Dragons.

No. We don’t hate him a little less. Die in a fire Bastion.

Hear hear. Abnett’s Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies are some of my favourite sci-fi books, nevermind the best 40k books ever. Yes, even better than Ciaphas Cain! </heresy>

I developed the Bloodborne bug a year too late but fortunately that means I can enjoy the Old Hunters DLC at the same time and it’s absolutely glorious. I never played any of the Souls games before and was extremely doubtful that I enjoyed it, but here I am on my game+ and grinding chalice dungeons. Amazing game and…

All three. FIFY. ;)

Except Fantasy Grounds is not free and my players won’t pay for it when Roll20 is free. :(

Or how about not getting an engagement ring and spending obscene money on it and instead spending it on a better honeymoon or first home downpayment or whatever? My wife was very happy I didn’t get an engagement ring. We went straight to wedding bands.

Hooray! Now I hope that they add Roll20 functionality to Curse of Strahd because I’m about to run that over Roll20 in September.