heavyweather

I mean, Apex is free to play and great. Fortnite is free to play, and people seem to like it alright. If Skate's mechanics are super solid, and they monetize via cosmetics, who cares? Always-online is kind of a bummer as I'd like to play it on the Steam Deck, but perhaps there's an offline mode. We'll see.

Last movie I saw was Adieu Philippine, a 1962 film from French director Jacques Rozier. Very much in the vein of French New Wave, so of course it has some charming dance numbers, cute girls, hunky guys, and a love triangle. And of course, nothing much happens, but it's all very fun and I enjoyed the chaotic fun energy of it. It is very much of its time and would not pass the Bechdel test. Also features beautiful shots of the Corsican coast and a real shitty guy who kinda looks like a French Bob Hoskins. Recommended!

I got a WMR headset (Samsung Odyssey) back in 2019? Ish? And it's been in a box in my basement since I moved houses, before that it was in a box in my apartment. I played Tetris Effect (awesome, beautiful, transcendent experience, but given the length of that game, it got a little sweaty and uncomfortable), House of the Dying Sun (best cockpit fighter VR experience IMO, just rad), War Thunder (nahhhhhh, kinda cool but nahhhhhh), fucked around in VRChat (not literally, but that's a thing if you're into it), played Superhot in VR (dope as fuck, that's a great game flat or in VR) and played through the first hour-ish of HL:Alyx before falling off it. idk. It's inconvenient to set up, my space is too small, it separates me from the world, the games are cool but not worlds better than those that I could play in a traditional setup.

VR is in a weird space where it's more available than ever, there IS content available, and basically it's like magic, but I'm just not interested. I guess they haven't hit upon the "killer app" phenom yet. I played some Beat Saber on a Quest at a holiday party, that was cool, but I couldn't see myself sticking with it. I am genuinely curious to see what Apple's take on it will be, they apparently have some sort of AR headset in very late stages that they've shown to their board, but I don't see what a killer app for AR would be either.

This game was so special to me as a kid. I put god knows how many hours into it. Coming back to it on the Vita was really rough though, between random crashes and the suspend feature failing erasing lots of progress, the super long battle animations... oof. Would be nice to try it again, maybe on Steam Deck with Duckstation. If I could assign a fast-forward button and quicksave it would solve a lot of my problems.

I mainly drink from a Berkey filter, but I live in NYC and the tap water is pretty great, so I'll have that if the filter's empty for whatever reason. The purified water does taste marginally better, especially for tea, coffee it's harder to tell a difference.

No, but it's a great substitute for furry conventions. So that's nice for everyone.

Just wanted to put Noita out there for this category. I can't think of a game that better encapsulates the genre. It's a magical gem of a game.

@strathy: please delete this sir, whisky is haram.

I'm interested in seeing if anyone has a new take on this. Powerline seems like a cool way to go. But I have noticed, my basement router reaches all the way up to my 2nd floor apartment, but only directly above, not in the back of the house. So maybe I can just put a mesh access point in my upstairs office and all will be well?

I have no idea. I'm pretty sure I had a Game Boy before the NES, but that's tough to pin down. And for the Game Boy, I remember distinctly a Castlevania, Metroid II, Tetris, Dr. Mario, Link's Awakening and Super Mario Land being the initial collection of carts. Born in '88, but a child of garage sales and thrift store finds, so I had a lot of stuff from a bit before my time.