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What Are You Playing? Jovial June 2026

Hello everyone. We are on the halfway month of the year already. Happy Pride Month everyone. I'm celebrating as we speak with my profile picture.

I've started EA Sports WRC, and after some driver updates, and a bit of luck, surprisingly I can actually run the game. I realize that my strategy of buying the game and hoping my computer can run it is not a great one, but it hasn't failed me yet so far. I definitely need a new computer though. One with more than 8GB of RAM and 475GB of storage space.

I'm representing Out of Games with my team logo.

And thus, I also tried to do something that I don't normally do. I've played around with this in other games before, but for the first time in any meaningful capacity... try to use the livery editor in a game. I don't usually touch on this because most people who know me know that my artistic ability is 0, but I went ahead to try to represent the Out of Games color scheme on the car.

If you're wondering who H. Morisoto and C. Supra are supposed to be, then they're both original characters I've been workshopping my brain for a long time. I actually took a playwriting class a while ago, and wrote a play about two race car drivers and these two are them.

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  • The logo and the car look amazing, Demon. Definitely showcasing Out of Games hard!

    My plans for June are pretty simple. I've got Factorio scheduled to be played every Thursday night so that's going to continue on until we beat Space Age. It's funny to have to actually schedule playing games, what a sorta sad time it is.

    Path of Exile 2 has been... fun? I've definitely enjoyed the 10 hours I've dumped into it so far, giving it a real shot after I was disappointed with it when it first came out. Boss fights feel engaging with the dodge mechanics, but at the same time some regular combat feels a little more punishing than before.

    Finding skill gem drops and being able to choose what to make them has been a nice change of pace though. I do genuinely love the skill gem system now with it not being bound to your items so you don't have to worry about getting that 6-link. I know getting 6 support sockets is a helluva grind now, but at least once you do it once, you don't have to do it again assuming that skill gem is being kept in. I do think this might make it more difficult to change builds around quickly, but we'll see once we hit endgame.

    Movement feels more fluid in general which is a nice change of pace. Having your character continue moving when you are using abilities after you've just been walking around is really nice. Speaking of abilities though, I feel so weak. I know I don't know the game as well as I know Path of Exile 1, so I'm not going to trash on it too hard, but I do feel like I'm just not as powerful. I'm playing a Lich (Witch) and I've gone hard into Chaos magic because my minions fantasy didn't really pay off after I hit the late teens; I just felt like there wasn't enough minions involved yet so I couldn't be the World Best Necromancer (TM). I do want to try something minion-heavy again in the late game, and may even go build scouting to see if that's even a viable option instead of a DIY approach. My first character in any ARPG is always going to be a DIY build so I can better learn the systems and look for things that might be broken. Other characters? More likely to look up top builds so I can worry more about collecting the gear, though in Path of Exile 1 I definitely switched between the two types of play.

    Overall it's been a fun experience, it makes me want to play Path of Exile 1 more though.

    Escape From Tarkov's Icebreaker patch needs to get played as well. I logged in briefly over the weekend to clean my inventory up because it is an absolute disaster and a half and I know there's going to be a lot of space needed before I dive back into gameplay so that's important to get done.

    I don't really see myself playing anything else this month. Probably jump into Pokopia a few times to continue progression there, and maybe some Mario Kart to keep my skills up to date, but nothing too serious expected on the Switch. More of a focus on Out of Games this month than actually playing games :P