Looks good. My short stint with CS2 didn’t exactly left me wanting more and since CSGO is dead this could finally be a way for me to play some CS again. Thanks for sharing!

This is the one written by Ryukishi07, isn’t it? I’m really curious what he’ll be able to cook up for us.

It was both Musk and Marco Rubio - the “adult in the room” Secretary of State so yeah, it looks like an official stance of the US government.

As much as I love Croc, it’s not like this is a highly anticipated high budget release of a new title.

My guess is that they’ll keep the new date secret for as long as they can, until they’re completely sure they can make it (especially after they didn’t make it for the original one). It wouldn’t be the first time game like this gets released without much of a marketing drive or even with a stealth drop.

These slowly appearing previews seem to indicate we might be getting close but who knows. I’m honestly not good enough with dates to join you on the speculation train.

There were some preview articles released last month (one, two, three for example) but no specific date beyond what you already know. All we can do for now is wait.

If we’re lucky this will be (another) kick for the European leaders to get serious about a possibility of US bailing out completely. Maybe. Hopefully. Please?

Same here. I actively avoid watching Trump or his administration talk so seeing both him and Vance during this meeting was… exhausting to say the least. I can only imagine what was going through Zelensky’s head throughout the whole thing. His face sure said a lot.

I watched some of the transmission and all I can say is my respect to Zelensky grew tenfold with that exchange alone.

Having to interact with these two clowns and still keeping his cool (as much as he was able to) requires A LOT of patience and will. It was horrifyingly stupid in a train wreck kind of way.

We can only hope they won’t screw up as well in the future.

I’ve been using Tuta for more than 8 years now and had one serious issue with their service during this time (longer outage, pretty early on). Other than that I have nothing but positive experience with them.
They’re also based in Germany if that makes any difference.

Starfield never really grabbed my attention so I thankfully dodged a bullet with that one.

So glad I didn’t pay for it (Gamepass, with apologies to my Linux friends).

No need to apologise, people should have the option to play games however they want.

Even if they do, I feel like both projects will have different enough approach to things to avoid making the other obsolete. Maybe… possibly.

I’ll certainly take the unofficial remake over the Bethesda one due to lower requirements and lack of Creation Club. That, and I’m just more interested in the fan interpretation of Cyrodiil to be honest.

That’s me with every Bethesda game I played. I don’t even treat them as games to beat, just worlds to run around in.

That’s not really a conspiracy theory. It’s a pretty open, two pronged attack from both Russia and United States.
The former does its regular disinformation spam constantly. As for the US recently we had:

• JD Vance attacking European democracies for “being against free speech” (during a freaking security conference).
• … and during CPAC.
• Twitter and Meta approving propaganda ads.
• Twitter (and TikTok) serving right-wing biased feeds to their German users.
  And much much more.

If we’re talking about Musk specifically he:

• Took part in AFD’s campaign meeting.
• Kept boosting AFD on Twitter before elections.
• Had multiple comments attacking democratic parties and saying that AFD should be the ones ruling Germany etc.

Neither side is even pretending they’re aren’t trying to upend democracies and replace them with far-right autocracies.

Guild exclusivity is actually what I had in mind. Sure, there’s nothing that significantly changes the main quest in TES games (and I think I misremembered how much blocking is there in previous titles) but that still counts for me personally. Self-imposed role play is fine in general (I do it all the time in games in fact) but I still think that lack of reasonable requirements for some (optional?) content makes the world feel more generic and player-focused than I’d like.

Thanks for the reminder though.

Change from Oblivion to Skyrim would definitely affect my question. I do think the former had more “my kind” of role playing so the initial thought would be more understandable for me.

Thanks for the answer. I get what you mean about playing as more defined main characters, it definitely has it’s benefits over more open-ended approach.

This is a genuine question and not me trying to be snarky or anything: how’s that possible? Was there any meaningful role playing in Skyrim at all?

To me the system simplification of Skyrim went so far that the only real role you could play was the dragonborn - not your specific one but a generic dragonborn who could be anyone and everything at the same time. Maybe my definition of role playing is outdated as I feel it should include choices and consequences (like blocking or limiting access to some content) so I’d be grateful if you could expand on that.

Again, I’m not trying to suggest you’re wrong or anything, I’m just curious about your perspective (or something more about what you’ve read).

They’re ready and waiting actually! I just want to finish other things (including Medabots) before starting another big title - I already have trouble keeping myself from constant game hopping as it is. Good suggestion though.

I’m playing Medabots: Kabuto for GBA. It’s a pretty fun although simple JRPG. It has a neat unit customization system, enjoyable story and great art/music.
Combat is unique in a way that can be a bit annoying (you only have a partial control on who to target) but it’s something one can get used to and work around to some extent.

I also installed The Sims 2 (Ultimate Collection, not the Legacy one) but I didn’t really spend much time playing it on the Deck (I usually default to my desktop playthrough). Based on a short test I did manage to do it seems to be working and controlling pretty well so that’s promising at least.

Edit: I spent some time playing TS2 on the Deck. Beyond some short freezes when browsing through larger lists of content (clothing, furniture etc) the game runs really good, as expected. Unfortunately I don’t find the controls on Deck to be comfortable enough to keep going - basic keyboard and mouse setup is the way for me with this one.

See, that’s kind of what I’m talking about. Based on the results I’ve seen, all the votes for independent candidates combined amounted to less than 2% of all counted votes. Do you really think those 2% had a bigger impact on the end result than the 90 or so million of people who didn’t vote at all?

I’m not saying they had no impact, it just feels weird to focus so much on those who cared enough to take part in the democratic process while treating the rest as a secondary issue.

To clarify, this is just my observation based on internet comments and some news snippets I’ve seen. I understand things might look different IRL and from a perspective of someone in the middle of this madness.