This reads as if nothing of the last 25 years is good to you. What do you like? Do you like rock or metal? There’s been like 6 golden eras of heavy metal in that time period. Australian rock and metal has been fire for about 20 years. The rise and fall of Djent as a genre. Black metal finally getting with the times production wise. There’s as deep a well in those two genres as there’s ever been.

Batman SNES, then Mortal Kombat, then Super Mario. My dad got a SNES for Christmas when I was like 5 years old and I never looked back.

Yeah. CPB is a government non-profit corporation. Basically a shell to put taxpayer money into for keeping a spectrum of broadcast waves open to everyone. IIRC when TV was invented they had to update the 1934 communications act to account for TV waves. Instead of amending that act directly they passed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 which created the CPB. It was supposed to be educational but they were pretty loose on those rules. They set aside a bunch of broadcast waves because they knew the spectrum to be used for all broadcasting could grow exponentially with time. There was so much free space early on that they designated a bunch of bands for public use. Anybody could get a slot and put something on air as long as it followed FCC rules. Again it’s a taxpayer operated corp, so anybody can use it if they have the means.

One of my most boring college classes was the Study of Public Broadcasting. We went through the whole history and the meaning of it all. The amount of good PBS alone has produced for the whole world, not just USA, is being thrown in the trash. Having access to PBS does so much for poor and working class communities that we take for granted everyday. The amount of cooky shit you can find on public TV is just gonna vanish like a fart in the wind. Fuck this administration for taking away an American staple.

You don’t have to tell me master. That shit broke more than my Arch install.

Robocop was my second main in MK11. That bitch zones out better than Wilt Chamberlain. Predator wouldn’t be able to touch him.

It really is a problem. I don’t think I ever used another WM that broke config as much as Hyprland.

I switched around September. The learning curve is higher than Hyprland but not by much. Once you get used to switching layouts on the fly it really open up the workflow. Plus there’s no bullshit. I don’t know any of the devs. There’s no controversy. It’s just a window manager. It’s the closest thing to the pure bliss of BSPWM Wayland has.

Philly is a country of it’s own.

I’ll take the Mango, thank you.

Isn’t Blue Prince just Betrayal at House on the Hill the video game?

Too many elephants in the room.

Foundation - Probably the closest I’ve gotten to that pure bliss city building feeling of SimCity 4. That’s with 500+ hours of Cities Skylines 1 & 2 being the last CB games I really sank time into. It’s simple but deep. Bog standard colony building ala Banished. A trade system that’s fantastically responsive and again simple. Production chains that are sensible and responsive to change. It’s a little micro heavy but it’s fine. There’s always something to do and that’s what really had me into it. When you solved one problem you move to the next one and that keeps going and going. It’s wonderful.

Stardeus - Rimworld in space. I’m not the biggest Rimworld fan but this version of it has its hooks in me. The tutorial took almost 3 hours. 12 “chapters” with page after page of info thrown at you. Once you get beyond that and start a campaign it quickly falls into place. So far I’m loving it. I usually don’t like games that you spend hours building up a base for it to be blown to smithereens in minutes for God knows what, but this one makes sense. You’re set up with the knowledge that time is not on your side and the environment inside and out will kill you. Expectations are set in a way that’s better for a player to understand losing is a part of the process.

That being said it’s a lot. I’ve barely scrapped the surface. I’m already wanting to swap body parts and put human brains into robots. I just hope the space exploration is good because I haven’t even got that far yet and my mind is like let me set up a mining operation that can rob other ships and shit.

Two I’ve barely scrapped the surface with Mechabellum and Heroes of a science and Fiction. Mechabellum doesn’t have key rebinds but it’s kind of ok because 99% of the action is mouse based. I’m a wargamer and this game is basically lost building and testing in real time against other players. Fantastic concept. I need to dig deeper to see if execution is there. I will complain about the key bindings if it starts to effect the actual game play. In one brief match it didn’t. Verdict is out.

HoSF is HoMM. Not much to say about it besides it’s been enjoyable so far. If you like Heroes of Might and Magic you will like Heroes of Science and Fiction. It could probably use some faction diversity but if you really want that go play HoMM.

Arch.

I need a rec. I got almost $13 just from selling Steam cards this past week. I got a few games in that price range or a smidge over that I really want to check out.

DotAge vs Heroes of Science and Fiction vs Stardeus vs Shapez 2.

They’re all right up my ally. Anybody have any experience with any of these?

Nope. This is my spirit telling the story.

I drove 150 miles at highspeed on a highway at night through a thunderstorm during a nervous breakdown. That was just the return drive home.

Its more of a paradigm shift than a need for innovation. There’s a lot more solid bodies to work with. The animation workflow might actually be less of a task because of that. Less dangly bits until you get to Tyranids. Everything is a ranged unit first. Instead of line battles with clashing melee units, siege battles with constricting maps and city scapes should be a lot more common. The real problem I can see them having is adjusting the pace of the units. 40k has things zipping around the field. The battles should be more rts like than the slow and methodical clash of lines.

Whatever they do I’m pretty hyped about this. All the Total War games have been a staple in my library since Medieval 2. Despite all the trash that CA has been up to the past few years they still make good games. I think having a fresh slate with a familiar enough adjacent setting will be good for them.

Pitbull/boxer mix.

I still regularly play PS1 and SNES games. They’re just better too me.