Anyone here given it some serious gametime? I’m really considering getting it and the only thing that’s stopping me is that I don’t know how the game’s looking. I’ve watched videos and it seems cool, but, well, early access and all.

Mostly Star Citizen with my buddies, with some Rimworld, Oblivion Remaster, and M&B: Bannerlord when by myself.

Think the biggest innovation they did for csgo was molotovs, and for cs2 was smokes being affected by bullets and explosions. Other than that, I think it’s been largely the same.

Though do keep in mind, I have about 30h across source, csgo, and 2 combined; odds are I missed stuff.

Addendum to 5. Taste twice, salt once. Especially if its a sauce, since flavors intensify as it simmers.

I usually taste right at the end to avoid having my tastebuds grow numb to flavors. Even then, if I have someone nearby, I’ll give em a taste and ask for notes.

Oh and an addendum to 4. Learn proper techniques and maintenance of cooking equipment. A dull knife is an unsafe knife, especially if you don’t know how to chop.

Alone: Rimworld, WH40k Rogue Trader

Multiplayer: ArmA Reforger (just found a group who’s pretty chill, haven’t vetted them for politics yet though), SCP 5k, Peak

Fr. This year seemed like it was going to be pretty shit in regards to new releases, with the only things to catch my interest being the DLCs for rimworld, bannerlord, and Rogue Trader, and Arma Reforger.

But games like Beta Decay seem to be holding the torch for innovation. Can’t wait for that to be released.

Zgrok is a good alternative to Tailscale. I used tailscale to run a one-shot through Foundry and everything worked perfectly, however, on the follow-up session tailscale refused to connect. Wasn’t sure if it was on my end so I tried talking w people online and found no solution.

Tried some other services (tunnelmole was one of em) and the only one that worked exactly as I wanted was Zgrok.

My nickname among my friends is derived from the word wikipedia, because I often have read something related to the conversational topic.

Doesn’t mean I remember everything, or anything for that matter. Most of the time I just remember that I read about it somewhere, and quickly read up again, barring a handful of topics (that have been hyperfixations in the past).

Oh I’ve taken that into account, lol. Things will happen in the story even if the players aren’t there to see it, because of faction Clocks (though those will tick if the players do things in quests that would benefit any of the three factions, not through time). I think I got my bases covered with enough brush strokes that I can spin up some bullshit to bring it all back to the main story if necessary.

And yeah, I see your point. I’m doing that, though, lol. Besides the enemy mobs which I’ll need for/if they decide to go a random cave or something, I’m only doing stuff I’ll need in the first 5 sessions. Maps, characters, and narrative aid artwork that might/will be used afterwards will be done then. Most of the stuff already done will be reused later (unless the players decide to start killing people out of the blue), but they might see all of that stuff early on, barring one or two characters.

This. I like DMing for ttrpgs, and I love drawing and painting. You’d think I’d be extatic about prepping homebrew and assets for a digitally run Savage Worlds campaign set Tamriel (or a weird homebrew mix of cyberpunk and vampire the masquerade), the truth is I’m more than just a bit burned out.

I want to start the campaign now, and I’ve had the story and characters ready to go for a month now, but prepping all those art assets has been tedious. So far I’ve done about 20+ tokens, 5+ maps, 15 character portraits, and some 10 general purpose pieces to aid narration. I got about 7 tokens left and I’m done, and I can barely get one out a day, every other day.

The worst thing is I have a very clear idea of what I want the campaign to look like and I’ve already made concessions by using RPG Engine to design my maps instead of doing it all by hand and just retouching it later. I don’t want to make any more concessions, so I’m SOL.

This is so relatable. I attended a school that gave its students a ton (and I mean a ton) of homework, because idle hands are the devil’s workshop (ugh), and I struggled the moment I couldn’t coast through without studying. Then went on to a college with a very similar work structure, and the same thing happened, except this time I quit after failing an entire trimester’s worth of classes. Some time after I enrolled into a different college that had a more hands on approach and I aced nearly every class.

Every trimester we’d have to enroll to a class which would have only one assignment, and you’d start working on it on day 1, and present results on the final day before a panel. The workload was much greater, I had less guidance, and it lead to a more trial and error approach than a step by step guide, but I’d never felt more comfortable or happier in an academic setting. Previously I had thought school just wasn’t for me but it was all in the approach. I just can’t do piecemeal busy work.

Yeah. I struggled to finish my graduation thesis, for many reasons, but chief among them was that I took on a project I didn’t know I wasn’t prepared for (it went way, waaay beyond what my education gave me, including economic and social issues I definitely was not prepared to explore, nevermind explain) and my supervisor was as inexperienced in it as I was. Me being the perfectionist that I am, being unable to produce what I imagined meant I’d rather do nothing.

Took me about 2y to get a decent research paper together (it really didn’t need to take that long, it was a qualitative study on gentrification in my city), and by the time I was able to guilt myself into actually finishing it, I got a decent looking project in about 2 weeks, hyperfocusing through the absolute rage the entire thing was giving me. The terna (experts assigned to judge) loved it, from the research to the execution. I asked for the degree to be handed to me on site instead of through a ceremony. I was just absolutely done with it, lol.

I don’t really feel proud about it even though I should be, I’m just glad I got through it at all.

Oh, I had thought it would’ve been expensive as hell. Guess that it comes down to how built up you have your kit, I guess.

Oof, isn’t airsoft a money sink as well?

Yk, this is the ONE time living in the ass end of nowhere has been good for my wallet.

I’ve wanted to paint minis for a while now, and the one mini I got is a small blueberry I haven’t even painted because I’d need to buy the tools and paints, which aren’t sold here.

If I were stateside I’d be drowning in orc and salamander minis. Or more likely yet, primed but not painted, and tossed aside like half the hobbies I pick up until the moment I got the jist of what its about.

Was it? It was my understanding that one was another game.

Yeah, however, leaks around this have been a bit more believable than before. Can’t remember the specifics, but more concrete stuff has been found by datamining (iirc) deadlock and paying attention to steamdb, with less reliable leaks ranging from the game or assets (again, iirc). So, there’s a fair chance this is real.

However, HL3 has been real multiple times before, it has been cancelled many times apparently, only to be taken up again later on.

Fact remains however, that Valve have been working continuously on an appid that isn’t deadlock for some time now, and there’s plenty of noise around them working on a new half life.

Both of these recs are honestly great, Jojo Mayer in particular would be great as a theme if I slow it down some. Thanks!

Thanks! Skeleton Quarter and Jü sound like what I’m after. Hopefully it won’t be too dissonant for my table.

Speaking of music, has anyone found anything that resembles a mix of jazz, techno, and punk? Hell of a mix, but I kinda wanted something cool for a campaign I’ll run in a custom setting, in New Orleans. At this point, even something with an energy similar to Samurai or Atari Teenage Riot but jazzy would be cool as a “soundtrack”.