Mister Jack

I'm trying Risk of Rain 2 again. I dropped it back when I originally bought it because I just could not make any progress at all, but I'm doing a little better the second go around. It's a decent enough roguelike shooter, but what really stands out to me is the soundtrack. I mean, holy shit:

Been touching up the living room, making it better with cleaning and new furniture and such. This is the fun part: getting a new tv. My old one was 32 inches because I was using an old pre-HD cabinet and that was all it could fit. Now that I have more room, I bumped it up to a 55 inch. Also went for an OLED because I wanted to get more out of an upgrade than just a bigger viewing space.

My laptop needed a keyboard too. I actually didn't buy this one specifically because of the theme. I tried a smaller TKL keyboard but I didn't like how the right side buttons were vertically aligned so I got this slightly bigger one instead. Feels great to type on but man is it loud. If I had to worry about waking up people in the house I wouldn't be typing on this thing after bedtime, that's for sure.

Mouthwashing I sure picked a hell of a game to follow up on one of the silliest games I ever played. Mouthwashing is bleak. Very bleak. The premise is a commercial space freighter gets into an asteroid collision and the crew is now trapped on a dead ship in the middle of space with rescue unlikely. Food and water supplies are dwindling and the cargo hold is full of nothing but thousands of boxes of mouthwash with just enough alcohol content to get a person drunk if they're determined. The story jumps back and forth in the timeline, leaving you to gradually piece together what happens to the crew as they begin to despair and give in to their darker impulses. A line that is repeated more than once in this game is "I didn't believe people are defined by their worst moments." Are they, though? That's something they leave you to ponder. Some of the implications about what these people do to each other is absolutely vile and since they're all trapped on a spaceship together it's impossible for anyone to run away from their worst moments. It's presented to you through surreal segments full of psychological horror. There's no monsters on the ship other than the ones that already exist inside the crew but you'll be running from them anyway. It's like you're playing a David Lynch film. That's the best comparison I can think of. It deserves the praise it's been getting, but don't expect to be in a good mood when you finish it.

Even the gameplay of the first Last of Us was fairly basic but it was held up by a story people could really get invested in so if the story doesn't work then pretty much everything else falls apart.

Thank Goodness You're Here! This is the most British game I've ever played. I'm not even sure how to describe it. I guess by some definitions you could call it a walking simulator because all you do is go around and slap things, but it's just so bizarre that I don't think words alone can do it justice. You play as a tiny British salesman on a business trip who, after his meeting is delayed, decides to go for a walk around town. From there, people ask you to help solve their problems and apparently you can't say no (or anything at all) so the rest of the game is you helping people with their first world problems. Sounds boring except that for every problem you fix you tend to break ten more things and you get to watch the town descend into chaos because of your well-meaning actions. Plus, some of these problems are solved in some truly outlandish ways and in the process you can go anywhere you please in town, including right through the houses of total strangers. These people are FREAKS too. Honestly I should just shut up and let the trailer speak for itself.

I'm not normally one to fall for mobile microtransactions but I downloaded Purrr, which is an app that is connected to cameras observing feeding stations for stray cats. For 10 coins, roughly 30 cents per use (60 for snacks) you can feed a stray cat 10g of food and watch it eat on a livestream. There isn't really any game element to it and as far as I know there are no rewards or cosmetics to unlock other than a little badge on your user profile. The only reward you get is the satisfaction of feeding a hungry stray cat. I guess for me that's enough. Sometimes you also get unexpected surprises like wild hedgehogs or ferrets since most of these houses are just set up on the street.

I didn't realize Elon Musk was on this board.

Bro bought Division 1 and 2.

HOW ABOUT SOMEONE MAYBE PIN THE NEW THREAD THEN

I've been getting curious about trying racing games again with an actual driver setup. This wheel and pedal set is usually 350 but I got it for 175. I figure I'll try it out and if I don't get into it, I can always just sell it on eBay. Apparently the driving community takes this stuff pretty seriously so there's always someone looking to buy used driving accessories.

I agree with both points but I can still be underwhelmed by it.

I just think Switch 2 is a lame-ass name.

Marvel Rivals is a much better game than I gave it credit for. I completely wrote it off as an Overwatch clone when I saw the trailer, and to an extent it kind of is, but what I had forgotten is that when it's done well the Overwatch genre is actually pretty fun. Rivals is not only more accessible to the point where even total amateurs will be able to find at least one character they can play well, but it doesn't have a lot of the bullshit that made me give up Overwatch in the first place. NO LOOT BOXES for one thing. New characters are given out for free. In fact, the only paid items are all cosmetic and the battle passes give out premium currency. Monetization aside, I think I just like playing games like this in third person more than first person. I've been using a controller to play on PC due to wrist pain and I'm still racking up 10+ kill streaks because there are only a handful of characters where you really need the precision of a mouse. This game feels more like it's about how you position yourself and how you deploy your abilities than it is about who can line up headshots better (with some exceptions like Hawkeye, of course). I like it a lot.

I upgraded pretty much everything else about my PC. Might as well finally do something about that stock wired keyboard. Already got a new mouse a while back that I'm happy with.