Coelacanth

You know global warming is a problem when the icecaps are melting and sea levels rising even in Dota.

Funny, for me it's the other way around. I probably played a couple hundred hours of Oblivion back in the day: modding, exploring and restarting. Never once finished the main quest. I'm thinking Skyblivion might be my chance to finally do it.

Been playing Sleeping Dogs for the first time after picking it up for cheap on a GOG sale. I never played it back in the day and never heard much about it, but man, even 13 years later this is a good looking game. I guess I'm giving it a leg up by using DLDSR and RTX HDR, but still. It looks very impressive for its age. I can't believe this was a PS3 game! The streets are crowded and the city looks great. Though I will say, playing something like this hammers home even more what a marvellous piece of architecture and level design Night City is in Cyberpunk 2077. Hong Kong looks nice and all in Sleeping Dogs, but it doesn't have near the same character, the same variety and the same distinct but different districts as NC does.

The game has been very enjoyable, though. To a certain extent you might call it slop. And yes, it might not be Disco Elysium or Bioshock or Alan Wake 2, but not every game needs to be. You can't eat salad every day. Sometimes you need a pizza. And this is a pretty fucking good pizza. It's got all the trappings of a GTA clone you might expect, with a chinese flavour that adds some kung-fu to the mix and a boilerplate undercover cop story to make the tension tick along and let it at least pretend it's somewhat different. The pacing has been very snappy so far as well. Almost no downtime, as far as I can tell. After playing some lengthy CRPGs lately that really tested my patience it's been the perfect antidote - ideal brain-off gameplay, whether racing cars or beating up thugs (or singing karaoke).

I'm only about halfway so far, but from what I've seen so far I thoroughly recommend it if you like these kinds of games, especially if you can pick it up at a big discount - it was 80% off recently and at that price it's a no-brainer.

It's either this or Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber.

I've been trying to get through the first one after finding out about this site but... I really am struggling man. Is it actually worth it to persevere? The humour is alright at times and I do like the 60s spy theme and everything, but the gameplay is so ass. I'm in a stealth mission currently and I'm just not having fun at all. I kind of want to have finished it, as I know it's a classic and was highly regarded and reviewed at the time. But I'm really not enjoying it, to be honest. Is the second game any better?

Inject the hopium into my veins. I am ready for another season of patented AMR downgrades making the car gradually slower over the season, but I want to believe they've sorted themselves out. The first half of 2023 was so much fun. I just want Alonso to be competitive again, man. Just give me one more race win. That fucking Monaco 2023 is still haunting me.

NVIDIA has done an amazing job at minimizing my FOMO for this generation of cards. Proper anti-consumerism stuff, you gotta respect it.

To be fair, the DLC that added the absurd +50 approval gifts was an optional download released on April 1st. The gifts system as shipped by the vanilla game was not too bad, and was not enough to make a companion swoon over you single-handedly. At least I don't think so. That being said, I can't pretend DA:O is the height of dating sims or anything, either.

I can't believe I blanked on them in my own reply, but to piggyback off your Restoration Project nomination: the Talking Heads Addon and Talking Heads Actually Talk Mod for Fallout 2 Restoration Project (updated) are both absolutely insane, and breath some new life into the game while seamlessly slotting in next to the existing art and voice acting.

It's fairly accurate isn't it? Every single companion (bar Minsc and Jaheira - though the Jaheira romance was cut content) lusts for you with the uncomplicated ferocity of a hormonal teenager, some after having exchanged barely a sentence or two with you (looking at you, Halsin). There is a bear fucking scene, Mizora wants you for some reason and hell, you can even bang a god damn mind flayer.

After being reminded of it by suggesting it to someone else on Lemmy I've been re-watching Kieślowski's Dekalog. Been doing an episode a day and have seen four so far. They really are just masterpieces. I'd almost forgotten how uncomfortable episode 4 was (in a good way), but it's impossible to forget just how much humanity Kieślowski is able to capture and put on display. Some really gorgeous shots and visual symbolism too, mixed into the fascinating stories that always pose questions and never provide any answers. For a series about the ten commandments there is a complete lack of moralising, he only ever presents you with dilemmas and lets you draw your own conclusions. Phenomenal series.

Worms ate part of her brain you say? Interesting. So which cabinet position do we think she's getting?