Donk

Apparently I only play games that have their titles in all caps. 1. INSIDE 2. XCOM 2 3 .DOOM

Finished Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse with my boy (4yo). He certainly enjoyed it, he could play some of the early levels himself but we didn't progress far until he was handing me the controller almost immediately. He enjoyed watching me play and walking around the 'overworld' castle himself. It's an alright platformer, nice art and characters. End boss was tougher than that game had any right to have.

DOOM, it's good, enjoyed it throughout which is saying a lot because I burnt out hard on FPS games years ago. Inside, it's great, looks so good and the sound, man it's be best sound design I've heard in a game in a long time! ABZU, it's alright. Graphics were disappointing despite using the highest setting. Braid, been banging my head against the wall on this one since it came out. I then install it for my 4yo boy because you can rewind if you mess up. I had no intention or hopes of progressing any further but then he goes 'daddy why don't you use that platform to get the piece'. And it worked and he even managed to point me to a few more pieces I was stuck on. Dumbass father? Genius boy? A testament to Johnathon Blow's design skills? Maybe I should pick up The Witness?

Bought a house! It's glorious. Apartment life was getting to me. A rogue AI once said. I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it. If there's a stink, I'd like it to be my own thank you.

I'm holding out for the next Google Phone, is the best estimate still end of September or early October? I can't justify ditching my S4 yet but I've had enough of the Samsung bloat.

That makes a lot of sense Chris, I definitely noticed they extra chaos with more people, three is perfect.

Broken Age, it's good. Decent characters and writing and sweet art, not sure I liked the setting but might be interested in seeing more, maybe a game set in Laruna but that'll never happen. I was a bit bored by it near the end but overall I'd recommend it.

They clarified it was only to keep lights on for the old games. No HD remasters.

Yes, it's still useful thanks I guess I need to optimize. That little test was without any performance considerations, I had no idea how it would perform, maybe every phone would handle it fine but I guess not. Thanks again

I made a little html5 canvas test 'game' that's supposed to work on mobile devices. It doesn't do anything yet, you can move left or right (middle button does nothing) and you need to avoid the falling blocks, that's it. I'd be grateful if some of you could load this up on your mobile devices and see if it works and what sort of framerate you get, portrait and landscape mode? It works on my Galaxy S4, am curious if the mobile device jungle is as dark as they say. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/454409/dev/html5/test-mobile/test12.html

It's a deep game, I was still learning new things in the final final mission of my first playthrough. I savescummed all the way, not necessarily for cheating but mostly for seeing if my dudes could move there and still do that or how this upgrade or gear behaved. I still needed savescumming on my second playthrough trying out the different equipment I chose that time round. I'm attempting CI these days, it's going slow. Classic Thin Men don't give a shit, just fuck you up.

Thanks, hadn't heard about DUP. Will look into that now, I've been doing my way for a few months now and am starting to plateau. It's time to change things up.

Last year for me was mostly running, did a program and some 10k races (I was pleased with 55 min) and now I'm doing weight lifting. I'm using an old lifting program from when I was last lifting weights (~10 years ago). I'm wondering if it's still valid? A typical session is targeting one muscle group (chest, bicep, tricep, legs) and for each exercise I do 4 sets of 12, 10, 8 and 6 reps, increasing the weight each time. I make sure the weight in the last set is near my limit and I make point of upping the weights a little bit each session. Each session takes just under an hour. Usually I throw in between some back or ab exercises.

Absolutely, he was taking too long returning and I was getting worried. Very glad he's back, love his podcasts.

Wow, great stuff.