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Comment on What are your favourite let's plays? in ~games
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Lossara LinkI managed to play Dominion with my family over Christmas. It's a fun 2-4 player deck-building card game. The cards available to you change every game, which provides good replayability and unusual...-
I managed to play Dominion with my family over Christmas. It's a fun 2-4 player deck-building card game. The cards available to you change every game, which provides good replayability and unusual synergies between cards. Slimming down your deck to refresh the same few cards frequently seems to be the dominant strategy. The natural opponent to such a strategy is how the victory point cards are both limited in number and don't do anything in hand, providing an excellent built in catch up mechanic. I don't know how good the expansion packs are, but I'm excited to find out. Very good board/card game, 9/10.
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Finally finished Portal 2 coop with my sister over the holidays. It's taken us 2 years. We get to the end and
I introduced her to the idea that an unfinished game can be more satisfying than a finished one. You, as the player, drive the plot. If you stop playing, things don't progress. Your hands stay clean. While not intended play, it's a valid solution to prevent harm. We finished the game anyway.Spoilers
when we got to the final chapter and GladOs starts saying how wonderful it would be to test on humans again, she looked horrified.
Very good fun. Slightly easier than the single player levels, I thought. The levels seemed to reuse ideas more frequently than in SP, like gel on light bridges. I'll definitely check out the Talos Principle after this. -
OpenTTD is always a hoot. Being able to play on any old laptop (even phones) makes any long distance trip pass by. It was made in the 90s and has been kept up to date ever since. It's also free.
The scale of the map is far greater than modern equivalents like Transport Fever, with more variety for goods to transport. Mods also make the game a lot more fun.
The cargo distribution system is barebones. You take product A to factory A. Factory B needs product A as well, so you set up a line that connects all three. Everything is offloaded into factory A, forcing unoptimal distribution networks. That is, until you go into settings to turn on a feature that should be the default: a product has a destination when made. This is doubly important and immersive when transporting passengers.
Good game, though occasionally tedious.
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Comment on Let's add (and rearrange?) some groups + a few notes about other short-term plans in ~tildes.official
Lossara Link ParentIt gets even messier than that I'm afraid. Does Barcelona fit under ~local.spain.cataluña.barcelona , or ~local.catalunya.barcelona ? For Spanish/Catalan respectively. The community would most...It gets even messier than that I'm afraid.
Does Barcelona fit under ~local.spain.cataluña.barcelona , or ~local.catalunya.barcelona ? For Spanish/Catalan respectively. The community would most likely prefer to honour their local independent heritage, but Catalonia is part of Spain.What about places that are more contentious?
Is Kashmir in India, Pakistan, or independent?
Does Tildes recognise Palestine and/or Taiwan?Having the community decide communities creates ambivalence of responsibility. If that action is centralised, a decision needs to be made and can therefore be criticised.
I don't expect these questions to matter yet, and they may never even arise, but I find it sensible to consider fringe cases.
The three that immediately came to mind were:
Otherwise, speedrunners tend to be on camera for hours on end, forcing them to be somewhat entertaining, with some rising to the top, like ItsJabo(Fallout/Bethesda) and BlueSR(Hollow Knight). Although they strictly speaking don't meet the Let's Play format. But I've linked challenges that make the game more interesting for them too.