Speaking of which... has any of you taken advantage of Black Friday deals? I know PlayStation has some nice sales going on like AC Valhalla, Horizon: Forbidden West and Diablo IV. I'll probably dip my toes in Diablo for the first time this weekend... The one downside is that all those sales are only for the digital versions and I have a disc console with limited space for downloads but eh.
No real plans for any Black Friday deal shopping here. I don't need more games added to my backlog hahahaha. I also don't really feel like I need anything in general right now. I'm quite happy with the state of things and really the only major thing I'm looking to buying within the next year is the M4 Mac Studio for work. It's not that my M2 is bad, it's just I bought it with the intention I would upgrade to the M4 when it came out and go with the higher-end version of the Studio to last for multiple years. It's been great that more and more games are working on Mac now too, I very rarely have to boot into my Windows desktop to play games anymore. The only reason would be for simracing really. I reinstalled Windows this month and still need to get all my racing stuff setup again though before I can hop back in on that fun.
Black Friday has been kinda... lame? for the past few years though. It never feels like there are any really good deals anymore and it's just largely the same deals we'd see during other times of the year. On the plus side to that though, I do notice fewer people trying to sell Black Friday-specific SKU products which are bottom of the barrel with regards to how they are produced and with what components, so maybe that's a positive.
Stardew Valley confirmed to still be the main game right now. We hit year two and a couple of nights ago entered Summer. We kicked Fall 1 off with getting the Barn upgraded so that we could get a little bit of everything to get the community center finished up. Our cows produce the finest milk for the finest of cheeses because they love us so much, and the Witch gave us a Void Egg so now we have a great gift for Seb and, thankfully, we were able to make Void Mayo for the Witch Hut this year (which we found out about via the Library).
Fall was a ton of Pumpkins, the entire farm covered in crops, and occasionally having some Skull Cavern fun. Winter hit and with not much to do on the farm, we spent our time fishing, running together in the Skull Cavern to help farm Iridium for sprinklers for the upcoming year, and being very bad at upgrading our tools for the upcoming spring. Spring Year 2 hit and we weren't able to get all our crops planted in time on Day 1 which threw off the harvests a little which kinda sucked, but we did better Summer 1 with only missing a handful of crops due to spending too much time at the store buying the wrong seeds - I went with the intention to stock up on Red Cabbage, and spent too much time buying Melons instead. Which, speaking of Melons, we ended up with a Gigantic Melon last night, which was both of our first time getting our own Gigantic Crop. Hell yes!
We're just about halfway through Summer 2 now and we're refilling our bank account after getting a second barn. Our first year we almost made a million gold, and this summer we should be making around 1.5 if all goes to plan, it'll just take some time to chug through the crops that are being turned into Artisan Goods.
Oh god, thats a lot of Stardew talk.
We did play some more Medieval Dynasty but Stardew took over the gaming time. I also have played another 14 hours or so of Factorio this month, which has been not great because instead of spending it in expansion content I've been fixing problems with my primary base... stupid biter attacks from every side and poor defense. In my rush to get the 8 hour rocket launch, which I missed by an hour, I didn't really set myself up for defending against the biter attacks very well and so now I'm suffering due to the massive amount of pollution. I have started walling off the base though and lining it in laser turrets which are, finally, automated, so that's been helping quite a bit. I still have some big lines to do with that but soon it shall be done. Between attacks I've been expanding my raw materials production through the use of trains. I've also got a few thousand logistics bots now which has been amazing and they're all circuit network wired up to keep being produced until I hit 50k of them so I can't wait. I've got Kovarex Enrichment going too so I have unlimited amounts of Nuclear fuel, ready to power my base forever. I need to get my Nuclear setup tripled in size though because I've hit the limits of the current reactor setup with regards to my energy usage.
I've started playing Balatro again too. I was pretty pissed off when my save got nuked on iOS, so much so I bought it on Steam instead of using Apple Arcade (the save didn't correctly go forward to my iPad and the iPad overwrote the save file to be nothing on iCloud.. yay) and now I've started the painful process of unlocking everything again. It's so weird playing without having access to soooo many of the jokers. I've had to change my playstyle up but god do I love Balatro. It's good they're gonna win a handful of rewards this year without a doubt.
I haven't had a chance to play Pokemon TCG Pocket yet. The Venusaur Event though... I should play this weekend.
I've managed to do a little bit of WoW 20 birthday stuff, so I'll need to find time to finish that up next month.
Overall it's been a very, VERY busy November and I'm happy I've been able to get in some solid hours gaming late at night.
Stardew Valley's 1.6 update finally hit Nintendo Switch so I've started a new farm with a friend and we've been playing that late at night this week so far. There's so much stuff over the past couple of updates, it's been pretty fun to uncover new things while we were still in Spring. We started on the Meadowlands Farm map which has been a nice change of pace from my usual desire to go with the basic farm. We haven't really touched animals yet, and neither of us has been remembering to love our Chickens everyday, but that should come now that Summer has just started and we ended up planting a few hundred crops on the first day.
Hilariously, we were unable to get low enough in the Mines (okay, it was me, I kept getting some horrible luck) during Spring so we started off Summer with no sprinklers. Luckily though, I only had to delve another 10 levels to start getting gold which a week into Summer, so we've now got half our fields covered in them which is so good for the energy bar and time.
I expect there to be a lot more Stardew fun in the coming weeks.
Going to also be jumping back into Medieval Dynasty which is getting a big update at the end of the month. It's been a nice, relaxing grind game and our town is about halfway done I'd say. I do wish the game had just a bit more depth to it, I feel as if we're going to get to a point where there's just no more point in continuing to play - lack of end game? TBD!
I started a Factorio run through last week due to the new expansion coming out and I need to jump back into it soon because I've just hit the expansion content. It was a bit jarring I will admit though because I finally encountered something in Factorio that I had no clue what to do with which made it confusing. I hadn't experienced that feeling in quite a long time!
Pokemon TCG Pocket will hopefully get some attention because I see our site staff having fun with it with all their Slack messages. The Warcraft 30th Anniversary stuff is going on in World of Warcraft which is something I want to jump back into; I was abandoned at the start of the expansion so I didn't get to do as much as I had hoped. On the flip side I had just met a cool new person and we've been knee-deep into the gaming train so I'm not really complaining hehe.
Ugh. I need more time in the day, my lack of sleep due to the late night gaming is definitely not good for me.
I hate this because I love this and I know there is a good chance we're going to see some very cool announcements. I've been a part of the Warcraft universe for 2 decades and these big announcements within the franchise always bring on the emotions and the desire to play the crack that is WoW.
There was also the internal 2.0 build for Warcraft III. I really wonder if they're going to fix that game.
Oh yeah we need so much more transparent plastic for everything electronics! It’s such a great look and you’re starting to see it creep back a little bit - like Microsoft’s few new Xbox controllers. We’ve seen 90s clothing make a return let’s get everything else too.
The Citra thing was interesting because Yuzu's developers were a part of both projects. Nintendo got quite lucky with that and so they were able to push them out of both categories.
I'm not worried about Analogue. No dumped bios stuff, and they are focused purely on old hardware that is out of patents. I'm assuming the 3DS still has several patents that aren't expired which may have helped here.
They should be safe. No proprietary code is being used with the circuitry and the intent is you need to own carts to actually use the product, so they are not promoting piracy. With that said, I know with the Analogue Pocket there are third-party cores that allow you to load dumped ROMs from the MicroSD card, but they're exactly that, third-party so this device is in the clear.
It is also an ancient system. If this "emulated" Switch, I could see them having an issue with it and finding a way to go after them. That's the beauty of old consoles though, their patents have all expired and they don't have complicated custom operating systems like the more modern hardware.
The first triple digit collectible card by mana cost.
This certainly will be easy to get down to an actual usable mana cost which makes it a very cool idea imo. Will it see play? It's a nice comeback card if you're playing from behind, but to waste a slot on assuming you're playing from behind? idk.
We will have daily articles that recap all the reveals! It'll be an easy way for us to steer conversation to just a few cards every day instead of the massive overload, and some people are likely going to not see the leaks out of caution to providing the daily recaps will be good.
No real plans for any Black Friday deal shopping here. I don't need more games added to my backlog hahahaha. I also don't really feel like I need anything in general right now. I'm quite happy with the state of things and really the only major thing I'm looking to buying within the next year is the M4 Mac Studio for work. It's not that my M2 is bad, it's just I bought it with the intention I would upgrade to the M4 when it came out and go with the higher-end version of the Studio to last for multiple years. It's been great that more and more games are working on Mac now too, I very rarely have to boot into my Windows desktop to play games anymore. The only reason would be for simracing really. I reinstalled Windows this month and still need to get all my racing stuff setup again though before I can hop back in on that fun.
Black Friday has been kinda... lame? for the past few years though. It never feels like there are any really good deals anymore and it's just largely the same deals we'd see during other times of the year. On the plus side to that though, I do notice fewer people trying to sell Black Friday-specific SKU products which are bottom of the barrel with regards to how they are produced and with what components, so maybe that's a positive.
Well, November is almost over now so let's recap.
Stardew Valley confirmed to still be the main game right now. We hit year two and a couple of nights ago entered Summer. We kicked Fall 1 off with getting the Barn upgraded so that we could get a little bit of everything to get the community center finished up. Our cows produce the finest milk for the finest of cheeses because they love us so much, and the Witch gave us a Void Egg so now we have a great gift for Seb and, thankfully, we were able to make Void Mayo for the Witch Hut this year (which we found out about via the Library).
Fall was a ton of Pumpkins, the entire farm covered in crops, and occasionally having some Skull Cavern fun. Winter hit and with not much to do on the farm, we spent our time fishing, running together in the Skull Cavern to help farm Iridium for sprinklers for the upcoming year, and being very bad at upgrading our tools for the upcoming spring. Spring Year 2 hit and we weren't able to get all our crops planted in time on Day 1 which threw off the harvests a little which kinda sucked, but we did better Summer 1 with only missing a handful of crops due to spending too much time at the store buying the wrong seeds - I went with the intention to stock up on Red Cabbage, and spent too much time buying Melons instead. Which, speaking of Melons, we ended up with a Gigantic Melon last night, which was both of our first time getting our own Gigantic Crop. Hell yes!
We're just about halfway through Summer 2 now and we're refilling our bank account after getting a second barn. Our first year we almost made a million gold, and this summer we should be making around 1.5 if all goes to plan, it'll just take some time to chug through the crops that are being turned into Artisan Goods.
Oh god, thats a lot of Stardew talk.
We did play some more Medieval Dynasty but Stardew took over the gaming time. I also have played another 14 hours or so of Factorio this month, which has been not great because instead of spending it in expansion content I've been fixing problems with my primary base... stupid biter attacks from every side and poor defense. In my rush to get the 8 hour rocket launch, which I missed by an hour, I didn't really set myself up for defending against the biter attacks very well and so now I'm suffering due to the massive amount of pollution. I have started walling off the base though and lining it in laser turrets which are, finally, automated, so that's been helping quite a bit. I still have some big lines to do with that but soon it shall be done. Between attacks I've been expanding my raw materials production through the use of trains. I've also got a few thousand logistics bots now which has been amazing and they're all circuit network wired up to keep being produced until I hit 50k of them so I can't wait. I've got Kovarex Enrichment going too so I have unlimited amounts of Nuclear fuel, ready to power my base forever. I need to get my Nuclear setup tripled in size though because I've hit the limits of the current reactor setup with regards to my energy usage.
I've started playing Balatro again too. I was pretty pissed off when my save got nuked on iOS, so much so I bought it on Steam instead of using Apple Arcade (the save didn't correctly go forward to my iPad and the iPad overwrote the save file to be nothing on iCloud.. yay) and now I've started the painful process of unlocking everything again. It's so weird playing without having access to soooo many of the jokers. I've had to change my playstyle up but god do I love Balatro. It's good they're gonna win a handful of rewards this year without a doubt.
I haven't had a chance to play Pokemon TCG Pocket yet. The Venusaur Event though... I should play this weekend.
I've managed to do a little bit of WoW 20 birthday stuff, so I'll need to find time to finish that up next month.
Overall it's been a very, VERY busy November and I'm happy I've been able to get in some solid hours gaming late at night.
Loving the sound effects on the pack openings for Great Dark Beyond.
I bought a few packs for fun to see what cool things I could get. First though, the golden pack that I purchased! Libram of Clarity ftw.
Mage Legendary Saruun is pretty hype though.
I am super digging this pack though that dropped three Paladin cards, all Libram related which is a favourite mechanic of mine. Divinity sooo good.
Stardew Valley's 1.6 update finally hit Nintendo Switch so I've started a new farm with a friend and we've been playing that late at night this week so far. There's so much stuff over the past couple of updates, it's been pretty fun to uncover new things while we were still in Spring. We started on the Meadowlands Farm map which has been a nice change of pace from my usual desire to go with the basic farm. We haven't really touched animals yet, and neither of us has been remembering to love our Chickens everyday, but that should come now that Summer has just started and we ended up planting a few hundred crops on the first day.
Hilariously, we were unable to get low enough in the Mines (okay, it was me, I kept getting some horrible luck) during Spring so we started off Summer with no sprinklers. Luckily though, I only had to delve another 10 levels to start getting gold which a week into Summer, so we've now got half our fields covered in them which is so good for the energy bar and time.
I expect there to be a lot more Stardew fun in the coming weeks.
Going to also be jumping back into Medieval Dynasty which is getting a big update at the end of the month. It's been a nice, relaxing grind game and our town is about halfway done I'd say. I do wish the game had just a bit more depth to it, I feel as if we're going to get to a point where there's just no more point in continuing to play - lack of end game? TBD!
I started a Factorio run through last week due to the new expansion coming out and I need to jump back into it soon because I've just hit the expansion content. It was a bit jarring I will admit though because I finally encountered something in Factorio that I had no clue what to do with which made it confusing. I hadn't experienced that feeling in quite a long time!
Pokemon TCG Pocket will hopefully get some attention because I see our site staff having fun with it with all their Slack messages. The Warcraft 30th Anniversary stuff is going on in World of Warcraft which is something I want to jump back into; I was abandoned at the start of the expansion so I didn't get to do as much as I had hoped. On the flip side I had just met a cool new person and we've been knee-deep into the gaming train so I'm not really complaining hehe.
Ugh. I need more time in the day, my lack of sleep due to the late night gaming is definitely not good for me.
And yes, Civ Science victories FTW!
RIP
lol
Ugh. I hate this.
I hate this because I love this and I know there is a good chance we're going to see some very cool announcements. I've been a part of the Warcraft universe for 2 decades and these big announcements within the franchise always bring on the emotions and the desire to play the crack that is WoW.
There was also the internal 2.0 build for Warcraft III. I really wonder if they're going to fix that game.
Oh yeah we need so much more transparent plastic for everything electronics! It’s such a great look and you’re starting to see it creep back a little bit - like Microsoft’s few new Xbox controllers. We’ve seen 90s clothing make a return let’s get everything else too.
The Citra thing was interesting because Yuzu's developers were a part of both projects. Nintendo got quite lucky with that and so they were able to push them out of both categories.
I'm not worried about Analogue. No dumped bios stuff, and they are focused purely on old hardware that is out of patents. I'm assuming the 3DS still has several patents that aren't expired which may have helped here.
They should be safe. No proprietary code is being used with the circuitry and the intent is you need to own carts to actually use the product, so they are not promoting piracy. With that said, I know with the Analogue Pocket there are third-party cores that allow you to load dumped ROMs from the MicroSD card, but they're exactly that, third-party so this device is in the clear.
It is also an ancient system. If this "emulated" Switch, I could see them having an issue with it and finding a way to go after them. That's the beauty of old consoles though, their patents have all expired and they don't have complicated custom operating systems like the more modern hardware.
Whoops, thanks for catching that! Fixed =)
The first triple digit collectible card by mana cost.
This certainly will be easy to get down to an actual usable mana cost which makes it a very cool idea imo. Will it see play? It's a nice comeback card if you're playing from behind, but to waste a slot on assuming you're playing from behind? idk.
We will have daily articles that recap all the reveals! It'll be an easy way for us to steer conversation to just a few cards every day instead of the massive overload, and some people are likely going to not see the leaks out of caution to providing the daily recaps will be good.
lul
This is live now.
Roger that. I found the issue and a fix is being deployed as I type. It should be live within the next few minutes.
When you say a "post" do you mean a thread or a reply to a thread?
Space Scavenger 2 looks like a lot of fun, thanks for bringing this up!
Gotta be careful! lol
That Tsunami art is siiiiiiiiiick. Also, that is the first spell that has received a signature card art treatment!
Also, Adapative Amalgam looks awesome.