Bjorn

I haven't read anything other than ASOIAF, but I know that a lot of his earlier works either won, or were at least nominated for, awards in their genres. I've been meaning to read Dying of the Light for years, but haven't got around to it. I have a shelf of unread books that always seems to grow rather than shrink. DotL is about the end of a world, a planet that is going to die and there's nothing anyone there can do to stop it. It sounds about as upbeat as you would expect.

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Gunpoint was fantastic and deserved to make more top 10 lists at the end of the year. It also might have been the funniest game of the year. I agree it left me wanting more, but that's kind of a good thing in games sometimes. Too many games overstay their welcome.

Thanks for the additional thoughts shammack. I think I'll just wait for another update or two before digging into it. It's not like I don't have a bunch of other stuff to play thanks to the sale.

Sleep would be my kneejerk reaction, because that sounds awesome. But honestly then I would probably just spend more time goofing off on the Internet, which isn't going to do much to enrich my life. So I'll go with not having to eat instead.

Does Tom Selleck's mustache hide the secret to time travel?

Anyone remember that Tom Selleck 80s sci-fi movie with the assassin spider-bots?

The 50 percent off Flash sale finally got me to bite on Spacebase. As much as I love DF, I was hesitant to early back a third game when the first two I've bought into are still in development. So is it worth digging into now, or is it better off to wait a bit longer for more features to be added and bugs to be fixed? Reading through this thread, the endless sadness loop and people suiciding in space both sound super frustrating.

It definitely has the potential to create some crushing monotony. That midway point is also when you end up doing a lot of busy work to solidify your position in the world. Getting farms going, moving grass/saplings into a farmable area, hitting winter and just surviving because of the difficulty in exploring. It's not terribly exciting, and feels like it may never end. Which is how I feel about winter anyways. I'm just coming out of that portion though, and once you're through it, there's lots of cool stuff left to do. I'd be tempted in a future playthrough to disable winter or just have short winters. I get the point of it, but I've been through it now and don't feel like I need to experience it every time.

And I'd have got away with it too, if it weren't for you darned kids and your precision platforming abilities!

I'm kind of surprised that more people around her haven't played and talked about this. I'm really digging it so far, it has that emergent element that a lot of thumbs fans enjoy. It is an engine for creating madcap screaming sprints when you accidentally pop an enemy that you weren't expecting. Seems to happen to me every two or three hours so far. The best so far was tonight when I created a three-way pitched battle in the middle of the night between a giant spider, her army, a pigman village and ravening pack of hell hounds. I ended up just making a campfire and watching, then picking through the remains the next morning for all the goodies. The marathon run to make it happen was exhilarating though.

Purple girl makes me think of Velma, which just makes me react to everything in the game in Shaggy's voice in my head for some reason. Like, "Oh geez gang, there's a spooky ghost coming!" Or when I spot a damsel, "Oh, a Scooby schnack!" While entertaining, it's also distracting, so I don't play her. I prefer the Viking, because then it makes the game feel like a lost sequel to The Lost Vikings, aka the best game Blizzard ever made.

Agreed, thanks for clarifying those points.

I finally had to quit Don't Starve tonight from anxiety. The longer and longer one run went on, instead of feeling like it was getting easier, I kept getting more stressed, sure that there was going to be some monster I was completely unprepared for that would wipe out several hours of playing. I can't really think of another game that just kept having the dread build like that for me. On the completely irrational side, I concur with the bird sentiment. You can never overkill birds. One raven on a ledge...sure I have a rocket launcher.

I've owned it for months now, and haven't started it as I don't want to HAVE to wait to play the rest of it. Don't Starve: I was stung to death by wasps 10 minutes into my first game. Does that count as finishing it? What I saw was certainly intriguing though.

Moderation in all things is the key to a satisfied life. But some people just can't resist the allure of the hoodie.

Really, holy crap, how did I miss that?

Well that was the best thing I'm going to see on the Internet today. The "bullets" were awesome!

The first rule of HL3 is that you do not talk about HL3.

Haven't played it yet! I'm neck deep in an Xcom campaign. I did gift it to a regular Thumb, and I am not kidding, who was playing Far Cry 2 when I accepted his friend request. Because that's what Thumbs do.

And thus was Oedipal Thumbs born...

Ermahgawd! How had I missed the existence of this. The PixelJunk series has been one of the real highlights of the last few years for me. I've played through Monsters multiple times now. Eden is the only one that didn't do a lot for me. It was pretty, and neat, but didn't manage to capture my attention.

I kept a spreadsheet of my card sales for several months until I got lazy about keeping track of it. When I quit updating it, I had sold $129.15 worth of cards. I'm probably around $200 worth of card sales at this point. Both my wife and I have Steam accounts, and I was selling the cards off both. Some of that I spent on buying the cheapest games with cards, just because they had cards, until I realized that the drop rate on Boosters is low enough that it wasn't really profitable. Still, most of those cards are from games that I wanted anyways (or Humble Bundles I was going to buy anyways), so selling the cards has ended up letting me buy a ton of games that I otherwise wouldn't have.