I have made the mistake of buying Stellaris in the current GOG sale and now I'm completely addicted

I bought the Starter Edition that comes with Utopia and Synthetic Dawn, but I'm not giving more money to Paradox both because I don't have it and because their business model is just shit, I'm not paying a gajillion bucks for your DLCs bro, just incorporate a bunch of them into the main game ffs, so I them yesterday lol. I have also pirated the whole of Victoria 3 but I'm not touching that right now that's for sure.

I started my first run/match/playthrough, whatever you call it on this game, before doing that and it's been super fun. I don't know what I'm doing tho, lol. I decided to use the premade United Nations of Earth empire to start and I only have Utopia and Synthetic Dawn enabled since that's what I started this one with. I left everything default when choosing the difficulty and modifiers, and currently I'm the 3rd biggest empire in the galaxy, but the two above me are Fallen Empires that are much more powerful.

If someone have good videos for beginners please send me, that would help a lot. I have mostly been relying on googling and using Kimi for help, but the AI is inevitably gonna hallucinate even if it has been helpful so far.

Finally have every item I need to master in Warframe, now I'll probably grind out the event through nightmare missions. After that, a combination of Perita to get the three Taurons I'm missing, grinding out a couple duplicates for Helminth (Nidus, Protea, Khora, Ivara, all the really annoying ones basically), and finishing Descendia enough times to finish Roathe's story. Will probably continue to do ETA/EDA now that I'm used to it as well.

Im painting and reading. Will probably return to gaming with the upcoming Vicky 3 Navy expansion.

Thanks for making these threads

Back to Valheim again. 'bout to feed Moder several hundred obsidian arrows.

Dwarf Fortress all day every day.

I got dark souls 1 running on the android handheld via switch emulation. That’s unfortunately sucked me in I just made it to anor londo. I had to jimmy the settings to get it to run consistently but I’m pretty sure it runs better than it did on the switch.

Metro Exodus.

Game's a buggy mess that frequently crashes, but (so far) lacks the persistent stench of centrism that previous entries had. Got to a sneaky bit that can't be solved with my patented "run around and punch everyone" technique, so a change of tactics is required.

Playing Diablo 2 still, moved onto nightmare with my hammerdin. I might pick Ragnarok Online back up later this week.

Dug out my old gen 1 Meta (ew) Quest that I haven't used since they functionally turned it into a paperweight (~2021?). Between Oculess (to disable meta bloatware), NetGuard (to firewall the rest of the shit), WiVRn (wireless PCVR on linux) and wayVR (overlay), it's surprisingly viable as a headset for VR games on Steam via Proton. Was a lot easier to set up than I expected too, hardest part was running the cat6 from my PC to the router to deal with the lag spikes. Been getting back into Pistol Whip and Synth Riders. It's a surprisingly enjoyable workout, especially for a nerd like me who doesn't like team sports and thinks gyms are mostly a scam.

Still doin' TOTK, I guess. It's going to be a long time before I beat it. I'm using a spoiler-free guide from GameFAQs that mostly just gives you a list of basic tasks (Korok seed, Quest start, shrine, etc.) with coordinates and little maps, though I printed out a map that has a coordinates grid superimposed on it and I find that combo really helps make it feel less like busy work and I'm still actively engaged with the game, looking around the world, etc. Not just blasting through it, mostly. But it's like 40 hours in and I've done maybe 1/5 of the game so far. I'm pretty sure I beat BOTW at a faster pace and I didn't even use a guide for that one (although I didn't do all the korok seeds in that).

I've started watching Patlabor so I want to play a game with mechs soon, but I can't decide since there are so many. I know there's a translated Patlabor game on Genesis, but it seems to be an adventure game and not a very good one at that. Considering Ring Of Red on PS2 or maybe starting the Front Mission series or something.

The stardew has continued, as has slay the spire 2.

my wife got a bunch of rare jrpgs for the switch, and also final fantasy 7 and 8. ff7 is special to me, but i've never really played 8. I suspect she got them so she can watch me play both of them.

In ds1 play through, im trying to take kalameet's tail for the love of the game. Apparently this is one of the hardest things to do. I have pretty much given up at this point, just plan on taking him down now. I think I have hit the tail one time during all attempts; I know how to bait him, lining up the shot is just quite tricky. Fighting him feels like you're surfing on a mechanical bull

I started Metroid Fusion the other day. I can see why people complain about the hand-holding, it really lays it on thick. Everything else about the game is great so far! The atmosphere is awesome, I like the X and how they bind on to enemies, the movement and combat feels great, but I knew it would since I've already played Zero Mission. Boss fights are great. The story seems like it will get pretty interesting, I'm enjoying the premise. The only thing is I wish it would relax some about telling me exactly where to go and what to do.

I'm playing Aethus, it's a single player isometric survival crafter with a story made by a single dev as a passion project (I think). It's been pretty fun, scifi setting with megacorp dystopia backdrop though this doesn't give downer vibes since you're screwing off exploring a prospecting claim your grandfather told you about on some undeveloped world.

I've been playing a bunch of arcade and early console classics too see how they work for my own game collection I'm making. Started with pong, asteroids, and galaga, and today I'm playing yar's revenge, combat (tank mode and biplane mode), tempest, space wars, sea wolf, Kaboom!...

I got recommended a game called "firing range" by an ai but it didn't say what console or year it came out and that name is so generic I haven't been able to figure out if it's real lmao.

playing a bunch of animal crossing new horizons atm. i'm just planting lots of mums and amiibo-ing in my original villagers from my childhood new leaf town.

Been playing too much Marathon and damn, I'm gonna be pretty sad if it shuts down anytime soon. Haven't gotten super into a competitive game in years but this one just clicked. Mostly been playing trios with strangers and the average person is... pretty normal? Only had a couple toxic people and way more that were friendly/helpful.

Also back on Kerbal Space Program after Artemis II got it in my head. Despite playing the game quite a bit I've rarely gone further than Kerbin's moons, want to try sticking with it longer.

I downloaded Monster Hunter World again. I tried it a couple years ago and bounced off of it immediately. It was just super clunky and had way too many walls of text in the tutorial which i naturally skipped. Obviously i didn't know how anything worked because i skipped the tutorials.

I uninstalled it again, but came back to it a few months later. Same result. I did this a couple more times until now.

Now, I have been playing it for 40hrs and it is pretty fun. I don't know what changed within me though. I still skipped all tutorials, but figured out how the game mechanics work by myself and i switched to a different weapon than the previous times (switch axe over the bow gun).

One more important thing is that i am cheating lol. I have an overlay that tells me the health of the monster and it's status effects. It also shows the monster through the walls, but that doesn't matter as much because you already have a quest marker of the monster when you track it. The overlay is pretty helpful in figuring out if i am doing enough damage or if i need to upgrade my weapon though.

After this i might go back to expedition 33 because there are new updates or the final fantasy 7 remake since i haven't played any FF games yet.