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One of these shots is from the original Talos Principle and one is from the remake. The funny thing is, I took the screenshot from the original years ago, and then my brain made me take the identical shot just now without thinking. Very thematically appropriate for the game.

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For some reason I found myself digging back through the early catalog of Orbital and man, Satan is still just an absolute banger.

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So far the Talos Principle: Reawakened is exactly what I assumed; a lovely, very functional remake of a game that absolutely did not need one. I'm happy to support Croteam but if you have the original... you're probably fine to just play that.

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The grackle gang is back in my yard, turning all the old leaves upside down. I guess it's a "plague" of grackles technically, but I find them charming. At least someone is enjoying this dismal weather.

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As someone who works in this general industry the market free fall is very much not good news for me, but also... not going to lie... kind of feel like this today.

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Playing Steam Deck sitting in its dock on my desk while a youtube video plays on my computer does feel like peak sicko, but... on the other hand... ADHD.

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Stayed up late last night finishing this. Greatly enjoyed it, but I don't think I would have made it through had I not recently re-read the first two books. This series desperately needs a quality wiki, or encyclopedia, or something, because I can't manage to remember all the crazy in-world names.

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A good gauge of whether I'm back on my bullshit is if I'm logging into a game for the first time in a while. Uh... yeah.

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Nothing about this switch 2 stream needed to be a stream. Why didn't they just do a video premiere? Yeeeeeeeesh.

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I did not have "New Islanders game" on my bingo card, but sure, why not?

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It's somehow completely unexpected that I can't find a vanilla game of UT2004, one of the best multiplayer games ever made, but I CAN find a bunch of weird perverts playing on a custom map where every gun fires at 2000x per second.

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My virtual vacation to Kyoto courtesy AC Shadows.

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Kusarigama, I owe you an apology. I wasn't really familiar with your game. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusarig...

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Look at this adorable lil psychopath! I'm a bit worried about how ready she is to just straight up merk random civilians, but otoh look at the drip!

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I just ate three birria tacos. I can't explain to you what a monumental achievement this is.

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Kind of hard to capture in a screenshot what the RTGI in Shadows is doing, but the game is stunning in motion.

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This is what I was trying to say in an earlier post, but better put. If nobody with money and power believes in anything other than not being mildly inconvenienced, why should we?

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I know people like to minimize the effect of ray tracing, but I swear to God, Ubisoft just put the same screenshot here twice.

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AC Shadows might be the first game I play and just let the frame rate be <60fps. Because it's currently a waste of my valuable time to try and jump through hoops and buy a GPU, and dear lord the game looks insanely good even on my current machine. Just runs (smoothly) at about 45fps. That's fine.

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Been listening to a LOT of Jesper Kyd, and I sort of feel like I'm about to replay AC II. There may be no way around it at this point.

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Getting a CAT scan is both fairly mundane and also intensely SF in a way I was not entirely prepared for. Also, I now have tattoos! Which are just boring dots, but still.

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I have no idea who sent me a giant box of tangerines. Presumably someone concerned about the scurvy situation in my house?

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One of my foundational beliefs: if you play Lumines and you don't pick the dog, something is very wrong and you need to turn yourself in.

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BTW I finished Norco. Still assembling my thoughts on it. But I'm very curious if the devs were at all influenced by Manhunter (the very old PC game). Because I've never felt such a kinship to that weird old game.

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Had to go into the actual hospital today and bah god I need to avoid that place. Almost collapsed just walking around it. Thankfully it was just a case of having to follow my doctor around to wherever he was for an appointment, nothing serious (I mean beyond the usual cancer ongoing).

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Steam Sale cart as it stands. Focusing on 75% or more off and steam deck friendly.

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Fedex arrived with my Bitmap Books order and good lord, these are TOMES. The SNK one is a coffee-table book with a focus on the visuals (and is absolutely gorgeous) but the CRPG book has MANY words. Can't wait to dig in. But now I need to go recycle the frankly deranged amount of packaging.

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I made a post with my Steam "hidden gems" recommends for the latest sale over on ol' Resetera. As usual this thread is one of the best things about the site. www.resetera.com/threads/stea...

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If you were wondering how hard it is to run Epic games store games on the Steam Deck, the answer is "comically easy". Or at least 98% easier than I thought it would be.

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Playing Norco on the Steam Deck. A game with absolutely magisterial vibes. Also works well on Deck! I like the trend of developers coming back and adding more explicit Deck support, it's very nice. store.steampowered.com/app/1221250/...

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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

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In another piece of hilarious news, I spent a significant portion of yesterday and today trying to fix my router after changing an innocuous setting caused the 5ghz band to refuse all connections. When instead I should have just turned the wifi antenna for faster speeds. Sigh.

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After a few weeks of owning my OLED steam deck, I'm overall really happy with it. I will say, the entire experience is a shade jankier than I had assumed given some of the videos etc I've seen. Obviously game compatibility can get weird, but also just the store/library interface.

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As an American growing up in the nineties, living on my own for the first time around 9/11, and living through everything more recent: I think the fundamental quality of the successful American in the 21st century is their absolute, craven cowardice. It's a poison without a cure.

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Today was the first day I felt like my body might recover from chemo. Here's hoping it's all uphill from here.

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I've been eating a lot of cup ramen lately because basically nothing else tastes good, and my conclusion is that the more expensive and fancy the cup is, the worse it tastes.

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Apparently at some point in the distant past I made a "Stardew Valley" playlist that's just a ton of chill Nujabes music and then the soundtrack to Flower for PS3. I forget sometimes that I really fell into a deep, dark hole with that game back in uh.... Damn! 2016? Damn.

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Why is every single small publisher that puts out coffee table books for video games based in the UK? That's weird, right?

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