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Oh btw, in lieu of Idle Thumbs episodes about it, check out the Eggplant Podcast, which is on a year-long journey of playing through the collection one game per week. They're currently up to the 17th game, Campanella.

My GOTY of last year. I've played 81 hours of this collection. 13 gold cartridges and one cherry. My top 5: Avianos - I bounced off this dino-themed turn based strategy first time I tried it. Too complex. But later on I came back and it ended up being my most played (over 10h) and my first cherry. The lack of tutorial means you just kinda have to play it and fail miserably first just to learn the systems, but after that it's a really compelling strategy game. Kinda a very minimalist Civilization. Lords of Diskonia - yeah, JKO, this one's great! My second most played game, also strategy. I like strategy games that do away with random dice rolls and just run on things you can directly control, and both this and Avianos is a good example of that. Party House - I don't like deck builders. Party House is a deck builder which does a great job at disguising itself as NOT a deck builder. This game tricked me! Cajoled me into having a good time! I got so damn hooked on this thing! Mortol - a very innovative platformer where you need to keep sacrificing your units in order to progress. The sequel is expands the scope into a one-level open world thingy which is also fun, but overall I prefer the lean focus of Mortol 1. Mooncat - platformer which gets an insane amount of control and varity of moves out of its 2-button control scheme. I loved it. Also very good: Warptank, Vainger, Pingolf, Barbuta, Kick Club, Waldorf's Journey

Looks good. Mouse functionality is a neat addition, tho I do wonder how comfortable it'll be to use for longer sessions. I'd also love it if this thing could connect to a TV without needing a dock, just hdmi cable.

Lucky you! I'm still on the lookout for one. Periodically online stores here will get a batch of 100 or so PS5s but they're gone in minutes and I never have time to order. :|

It is time again, my friends, to return to the Idle Thumbs forums for a yearly ritual. THE RANKING OF THE NETFLIXES Original Movies, that is. 1. I'm Thinking Of Ending Things I felt this one. As for Kaufman movies, I think I almost like it as much as Eternal Sunshine, but it's a lot darker. 2. The Old Guard This was just a really good sci-fi action movie. The action is thrilling not only because it's choreographed well, but because the stakes are well set-up. Unlike Extraction, pffff. 3. Lost Bullet This is my pick for HIDDEN GEM on Netflix this year. Great French actionmovie about a man framed for murder. It's a story you've heard before, but it's very well-told, and the actionscenes are great. 4. Da 5 Bloods That Delroy Lindo, man! He should be in more movies. Also pretty good: The Devil All The Time Love Birds Mank Meh: Extraction - all style, no substance! The Half Of It - I don't even remember any of this. Enola Holmes - Good cast, just... kinda boring. Disapointments: Eurovision:The Story of Fire Saga - I like Will Ferrell, and I'm an avid watcher of the Eurovision, so I was expecting to like this, but all the jokes are the same kinda lame jokes that the Eurovision already make about themselves every year.

I was just about to preorder a PS5 last week but then I saw it'll take until NEXT YEAR before it'd arrive cause they're so sold-out, so I dunno, maybe I'll see if I can find one in the local stores on opening day? That's probably wishful thinking. But yeah, an upgrade feels like a no-brainer since it'll run all the PS4 games I'm currently playing anyway, but with an improved performance.

Yeeeees I'm also playing this! In a week when TLOU2 and Desperados 3 is releasing, this thing just came out of nowhere and stole my attention away from those. I like games where you're just a everyday workerperson doing a job, and I like zero-G space-sim-stuff, so this is right up my alley. It's cool that Focus is throwing so much money at jazzing up weird niche sims like this and Snowrunner and giving them the AAA-treatment.

Or just get a Rift S. Way cheaper and perfectly fine for HL Alyx. Anyway sure you're gonna come to VR for Alyx, but you're gonna stay for Beat Saber.

Also here's a recent Valve interview where they talk about bringing the Campo Santo folks on board. (at 14:55)

So anyone else play this Half Life: Alyx thingy? I just finished it and here's WOT I THINK. Performance I'm on a GTX1070, i7-4770K 3.50GHz, 16GB RAM, playing with Oculus Rift. I had a few crashes, and also a bit stuttery performance towards the end. The game also kept warning that my memory was low whenever I started it up. It says it requires 12GB RAM, but I have 16, so dunno what I'm supposed to do about that (yeah, I had all other unnecessary applications shut down). Had graphics quality set to Low, tho the game still looked great, and performed smoothly for the most part. Gameplay This is the most polished first person shooter I've played in VR. Gunplay and other interactions feel great. They way you have to flick your wrist back to pull things with the gravity-gloves feels great. There's a ton of great little environmental touches. You can play the piano, draw with crayons, honk car horns, pick up everything that looks pick-uppable and open anything that looks like it should open. I played seated, with smooth locomotion. My favourite part was a stealth-focused section in a vodka distillery halfway through the game, which packs a lot of neat VR stealth ideas into just 30 min. It left me wishing someone would make a proper Thief VR game. Story It starts off strong, with a clear objective which you then pretty quickly accomplish. After that the pace slows down for the middle part of the game before getting really intriguing in the 3rd act. There are some crazy revelations and it's very fun to see how it ties into the series as a whole. Video! Having finished this it's hard not to think another Half-Life game is right around the corner. They way it ends, man... they just can't leave us hanging for another 15 years before continuing the story. I mean, they wouldn't do that, would they? ... would they?

Thank you!

OK I JUST PRESSED THE BIG BUTTON! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1133590/Stilt_Fella/ And with that, this thing I've been working on for the last year is now a thing which people can buy on Steam. I'm exhausted. I need to go for a walk and clear my head.

I've set a date, February 26! Get hyped and wishlist plz: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1133590/Stilt_Fella/

Nice. I did give it another go with the new update but I think I only got +4 or so. Oh, one small last change I thought of: pressing "continue" with spacebar, that way the whole round would be playable with keyboard.

And that is how it's done.