Honestly I’m surprised that Quake still has an active playerbase!

Who was your favorite character of the bunch? I always like to see who people gravitate towards

If anything I think it’d be an improvement if the text just said “you can’t raise an ability modifier over +4 until lv10, and over +5 until lv20.” It’d free up an ability boost at levels 5 and 15 too, which would be nice for more MAD builds.

I think I’d be fine with Wish proper being a ritual, but the arcane wildcard spell being renamed. I like the niche of “whatever spell you want” as a max level spell, and would be sad to see it gone.

I was doing the same thing with driver combos back in XC2

I’ve been slowly chipping away at house of leaves. It’s been a fun read so far, but I’ve only been reading it a chapter or two at a time, so it’s slow going.

Something I’ve found that helps is just cracking open my library, finding something that looks fun, then downloading and playing it for a few hours. No big search, no worries about making sure my time is spent “optimally”, just trying out some games I’ve already got on hand.

It’s done a lot for me trying more without getting major choice paralysis.

It’s been a very different experience so far, but enjoyable!

Obsidian is a personal favorite.

Dudeee. I spent so much time as a kid just farting around replaying that demo just to see how much chaos I could get, or what insane shenanigans I could get up to. Somehow I’ve played way more of that demo than the actual game now that I own it.

I feel like this is gonna be one I’ll need to make a few passes on to really get everything that’s going on

Yes! I splurged for the hardcover because I thought it would be a book I’d want to go back to a few times later on, and I’m really happy with how high quality it is.

I just picked up a copy of house of leaves. Saw it referenced a few times in some other media I liked and figured I may as well check out the book itself.

I’ve been running Gatewalkers on Fridays for a few months now, and Abomination Vaults on Sundays for about a year now. Total of about 2 years DMing pf2. The game’s been a joy to DM for, and the APs are well written enough that I don’t need to spend too much time on prep work.

Other than Wikipedia, which asks for donations pretty prominently every time you use it and has some substantial corporate backers, I don’t know of any major projects that’re wholly backed by donations. Blender and Krita I guess? None of which are really social media though

I just started playing the system shock reboot and Ion Fury. Boomer shooters as a genre are all new to me since they’re before my time, but they’ve been a lot of fun so far.

I’m just not really sure what those other ways to make money could be. Other than monetizing a service outright via a subscription or selling a product to the users, I don’t really see a good way for online social media to be revenue neutral or positive.

This is a good summary of whats going on and why the mods are striking.

I have to wonder if some of it comes from the idea that casual games are generally a different audience than “core” games. Like someone playing candy crush on their phone is counted as someone who plays games, but I wouldn’t lump them in with the kinda person that at least casually follows the industry and picks up a few new games for their PS5 every year or the person that is super active in the indie scene.

Interesting to hear all your thoughts on this! What’re some of the more interesting/useful software packages that are available for this thing that you can’t find elsewhere?

I remember using a TI calculator back in high school, but I never fully understood why they were the de facto standard with standardized testing and the like with how stale their calculators have been for a while now.