/int/ - certified time wasters

Why yes, at some I did get tired of killing biters, they seemingly closely managed to trigger my inbuilt bitter kill limit, but in the end the line enclosed pristine property into private provision or as we in the business call it, PP2PP.

A few solar powered radar outposts later, visibility is provided over most of the lands and a couple of mines also already got set up.
Time to get a more potent smelting array running, the old one will be exhausted for hours with the resource draw to refill the mall & science.

If the attention may be diverted to appendix 69, the base also got a few toys for times of design blockade.
While a quick circle with the fighter went well, the Spirit always crashed into the coal mines to the south and needs a longer runway that is slowly getting built.
The bomb selection goes from 50 to 1000kg, napalm and rather expensive nuclear for now :333

>>24006
If he'd get it, he wouldn't be so KONTRA all the time.

>>24014
Kontra is NOT a downvote. Secondaries and undesirables of course don't know that.

I've had long stretches of my life where I haven't played video games at all. Every so often I get back into playing them and become like an addict - I literally can't stop playing them. I'll want to stop playing after an hour, but then spend 10 hours (neglecting sleep) a day for days playing them. They literally can give you similar dopamine and norepinephrine releases as stimulants can.

Anytime I start playing videogames again, I literally have symptoms of videogame addiction:

•Having intense urges for screen time or to play video games, and these urges block out other thoughts
•Spending money on video games or screens, even though you can't afford it
•Cutting back on social or recreational activities because of preference for screen time or video games
•Continuing to play video games or participate in screen time, even though you know it's causing problems in your life, such as poor performance at school
or work, or letting household responsibilities go
•Displaying signs of irritability, anxiety or anger when forced to stop playing, even for brief periods of time
•Lying to others about the extent of your use
•Needing more screen time over time to get the same level of enjoyment
•Neglecting your appearance, including lack of interest in grooming or clothing

I've spent hundreds of dollars over the span of a week or so purely from the good feelings of spending money. I was diagnosed with ADHD combined type (but I feel I am more inattentive) so games and internet use have always been a death sentence for me.

>>24030
It's ok bro

t. 1:39 AM playing Factorio and having to work tomorrow

>>24032
Cracktorio

I'm planning on getting a 9800x3d at a price of 400$
However, I have rx 66xx xt card.
Normally this would be an enormous GPU bottleneck (especially for 1440p) and complete overkill, but I almost solely play MMOs and simulation games. Also the GPU market is completely fucked right now - should've gotten a better GPU while I had the chance).
I might get a replacement GPU when cards decrease in price.

Am I being reasonable, or am I just a complete retard?

>>24269
Who cares, do what you want. If you have the money and want to spend it, why not?

>>24272
Not especially. I mostly bought it from the dopamine hit from purchasing

>>24274
Well that's silly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4fwWIeQzeA

Why is it always finns?

Some earlier exploits had me subjugating a hero wonderland as the leader of a cult for the dark, ever-hungry and ever-lusting snek mommy.

I started spreading my enshadowing influence on the continent with the mightiest nation and luckily for my first game, that sucker of """chosen one""" came to be on another continent.
So I sent an agent there, infiltrated some assets and plainly started the plague.
Not too long after that whole area broke down on every metric, whole settlements just went extinct and all heroes scuttled about to try contain the following hunger, brigantry and devastation.

At some point the whole world simply forfeited to snek mommy and accepted that it is the universes will that the whole planet shall be devoured for her nourishment to grow bigger.

A few games after I managed to get my hand on some mania inducing artifact, gave it some throw-away agent and suicided him against this instance of *spits* """chosen one""", which as the idiot as they are, claimed it as a trophy and went batshit mad only doing the tiniest of menial tasks possible and leaving the world in blissful ignorance on how they are slowly being liberated by an elder being for the sake of... you may get the gist.

10/10 take on the 4X genre, I'd go so far to call it a sleeper-hit.
7-8 gods with more or less different playstyles in the base game and modders added a few flavorful ones on their own.
At times rng world generation may fuck you over, but the possibilities to stay hidden and further the goals of the chosen god.
Also watching the chosen one can feel like baby sitting, but then again you really learn to hate whomstever is selected.

Also played Avorion some more.
Great take on block based construction with a little Egosoft mixed in between by some Germans.

Not as intricate as Empyrion, but excellently polished and simpler in terms of designing a ship.
Went from a few cheap plates to a fleet of destroyers and corvettes so far.

Still need to reach the center, which involves the hunt for rare and mighty components around the galaxy, but that may be a thing for another time, as I rather play Vintage Story again as of now.

This game is just so comfily idyllic, just grab some basic tools and venture out into the unknown, you're bound to find something of value.
Seeds, wild game, prospecting spots or simply landscapes that get the creative juices flowing.

Also welcome to my preliminary abode.
It may not be much, but it's carved out of a nice rock with 3 traders nearby.
Even got a farm running early to make sure that flax fiber won't be that scarce anymore, when I completely missed this part of the game before my last first winter. The first harvest gave me 2,5 stacks of juicy carrots!

A recent mining trip underground even got me a nice supply of zinc, bismuth and tin, which finally lets me upgrade my anvil to bronze.
But as of now I am slowly in the process of migrating towards my new, much more beautiful spot within a freshwater bay surrounded by giant redwood trees. Just need to finish tanning some leather to upgrade my backpacks for more inventory space, then I can move the rest of the most important tech there and continue building.

First I have yet to discover some acacia trees for some reddish lumber, then the main task will be to develop a nice quarry to mine some whole blocks for further processing.
Thank Kali this world had me blessed with nice, black basalt and a limestone layer for concrete production on the first try.

>>24646
Also, I cheated myself a bronze pickaxe and prospecting pick, after I started a new world with some slightly modified parameters to allow a better use of the new sail boats later on.
Been there already on the last save that cost me 15 hours, so I just wanted to kickstart progression a little.

>>18848
The Stop Killing Games campaign is only running for another month and still could use support of Ernst.

>>24648
Why should a company support video games are cost-only and no longer profitable?

>>24649
They don't have to keep supporting it forever, they should just make it so when they stop supporting it it remains playable. Either aking it possible to host private servers or making it playable through direct connection, or whatever else works best for them. A game shouldn't become completely unplayable just because it's no longer supported.

>>24651
Will the support cost the company money, though?

>>24651
Yes, it should. When it's still playable, people will waste their time playing old games instead of buying new games. What you are asking for the publisher to assist people in pirating Software. Typical Russian thinking.

>>24652
Not sure I understand you. Of course it will, until it ends. The thing is, games should still be playable even after the support ends.
>>24654
Let's extrapolate this logic a bit, imagine you bought a refrigerator for your house, and after a few years the manufacturer disables it completely, because by still using it and not buying a new model you're costing them profits. That's the reality you're arguing for.

>>24656
Refrigerator is a good example. They used to be fully functional without any support by the manufacturer. Now imagine a smart IOT refrigerator that only works with access to a internet service. Once that would shutdown it wouldn't allow you to change temperature.

There was no reason to bind the change temperature function to a service. It is planned obsolescence and legislation should disallow it.

>>24657
> There was no reason to bind the change temperature function to a service
Your refrigerator needs connection so that it can synchronize clocks and show the current time. And so that it can pull weather report and quote of the day from our servers. Not even talking about regular security updates. This really marks the new era of refrigeration. Soon we'll stop to understand how could we even refrigerate things without being able to read the quote of the day.

Finished off my humble beginner abode with a small lookout and signal platform at the top, even has a lightning rod to protect my lifestock down below.
The mass of possible space throughout all of this rock would have made a nice overall base as well, but then being a cave dweller isn't all that fun when given an actual choice.

Also after a lot of pain in the ass, managed to finally enclose a bighorn buck in my area.
They spawned on top of my hill while there was still grassland, yet bighorn calves never survived the fall down at the bottom and while I had an grown eve for some time now, the aggressive bucks weren't as easily trapped.
When I finally managed to get one down, lure it around pointlessly and gave in to install a mod for animal cages, it quickly went to to caged bear of the trader and got itself mauled to death...
I had all but given up on the idea to start bighorn breeding at this base to relocate later generations into the new base, but suddenly and without any help of myself, a bighorner managed to fall right into the my enclosure and survive the fall.
That horny fucker got my eve pregnant in an instant even,, so easiy wool, milk and meat should be just a few incestuous generations down the line!

Also also look at that nice, nearly topped off bucket of honey. Mmmmmhh, yeah!
Needed the candles for lanterns, but they also make nice and moody lighting on their own.

>>24648
Great effort, Ross is probably the single online persona that I have ever donated money to.
20 bucks, 10-15 years ago, no regret and even got a nice thank you mail from him.

Also with all that drama surrounding SKG lately, it took me some time until I figured out from where I know this giant douche PirateSoftware """Thor""".
Then it suddenly came all back with his WoW streams and his time as Blizzard """dev""" *more like anti-cheat helpdesk nepo babby.

>>24659
Collecting data on the entire refrigerator fleet in the field could be valuable for electric grid operators and regulators.

Even remote control could be useful, to have refrigerators run one or two extra cycles during peak production.

Ventured out again on the quest to find acacia trees, so I did a large hook from ye olde base into uncharted territory until my inventory nudged me to slowly turn towards the new base.
As is tradition, the acacia was found not too far off on an island with the right hot and dry climate just south of my new base.

Found a lot of points of interests tho.
A abandoned village, a mysterious iron hatch leading far down below, same with some kind of mining towards over a large shaft and even a ruined castle.
Also another tempting base spot, but for now I moved my whole operation already into my forest lagoon, so that's that.

With the seedlings planted near my lumber/quarry camp and the inventory vollbepackt mit tollen Sachen die das Leben schöner machen, I can now turn to more exotic things.
Like exploring Soi 6 for the first time to get a real female girl, I'm in for something wild today!

It's done. The youtuber drama really brought the initiative into the spotlight.

Hopefully not many of these signatures are fake, made with errors or just straight up bots. Really glad it got the attention it deserved.

Grabbed some goodies on the Steam Summer Sale.

Boy finna got batshit drunk on the first batches of homebrew.
Some spelt ale, currant wine and the classic mead, provides one with unlearn points for the skills mod.
This region seems to be in the right spot for regular eclipses during the winter as well, kinda creepy when you're just driving some splitters in your quarry while suddenly all around you turns black and you can't but whip out your spear in anticipation of nasty drifters.

Also the new base is coming along nicely, still heavy WIP tho and new ideas float up constantly
Going to remove the doors on the sides and replace them with glass panes, but I am out of lead ingots.
Also out of shingles, which will need another long pottery session.

Once I'll move my operation out of the rock face, I'll be able to store hundred of liters of alcohol and endless wheels of cheese inside there perfectly!
Isn't that what life is all about?

Obviously, on the hunt for cheap galena ore, Ernst found a motherload of iron ore and managed to carve about 100 ingots worth before the area became too infested with deep drifters and much more creepy stuff that I luckily only heard doing it's saw-bell sounds...
But in the end after mining down to the worlds mantle and back up again, a bunch of galena was found and quickly processed indoors to inhale the healthy lead fumes while at it.
Note to future self: around level 70 in the limestone layer, should be similar for neighboring chunks.

With glass panes finally being plentiful, Ernst's real estate finally finished construction stage 1 and is ready to be lived in.
Behold, the circle in an offset circle in an offset circle.
Two levels of quick access cellars are found withing the main tower, only ~10% less effective in reducing spoilage then the cave solely due to some aesthetic use of logs.
At some point in the future I'm going to elongate the shaft to use it as a windmill for food processing.
The main living area provides enough room for a bunch of baking ovens and other kitchen utensils.

Next up is gathering more wood to construct a nice and spacious outdoor smithy in the front yard.
Branching from the circle will be farms and livestock enclosures, but I have yet to decide for a design.

>>24707
It is better to keep people signing. There might some loss of signs because of fakes.

I tried the Persona 5 gacha (Titled "The Phantom X") and honestly I'm so fucking mad in a sense. It's very well made, the production quality is basically on par with the original game, it has voice acting, new music, new areas, Tokyo looks livelier than in the original game etc, and then all of this effort was poured into this so that it could be grafted onto a slot machine for people to gamble. I don't want to say that it's disgusting because it's just business, but I'm honestly baffled that they put this much effort into it.

The other thing I've been playing recently is PEAK. It fits firmly in the "Friendslop" genre where it's a cheap simple game with some griefing potential you play with friends over voicechat.
I think the thing about this one is that it's insanely exhausting.
You are climbing a mountain with limited stamina and supplies, managing hunger, poison and damage.
But at best we can play 2-3 bad rounds or one very good round, because it takes ages and you really have to work your brain as a team to get anywhere.

Also, I've been spending a relatively long time playing Company of Heroes 2 now. I wish nothing but bad things upon the developers of this concentrated form of digital suffering. I absolutely despise every moment of playing this game, and even though my friends are telling me that I have improved, over my 50 or so hours of playing it, I am yet do derive a single ounce of satisfaction from this fucking piece of shit game.
So yeah we're playing it again sometime this week.

>>24759
>hurr durr I played a gacha and it's a gacha
>abloobloo look at me I have friends I can play games with
Man, just enjoy your youth while you can. When you're over 30 you will look back and think "where did time go"?

Vintage Story 101, finally back to important business!

Moved in, drafted some ideas and finally came around to built a new farm.
A fool- and escape-proof enclosure should be next.
The small island in the middle serves a peach tree and will get greenhoused before Winter.

Intrigued by how the EU will handle SKG now that they made it with some fat on the bone.

First some windmills, then a double bronze helve hammer setup and we are finally ready for some industrialization!

Copper plates and iron ingots a plenty!
Then it should be easier to light up large areas.

Operating heavy power tools batshit drunk on berry wine to improve the workshop with iron, just as the machine god commands.

The peach tree finally rooted from a cutting and the farm welcomes 3 new turklings.

Remember this game? Hyped somewhere around 2016-2017, I guess
https://2048game.com/
https://play2048.co/

>>24868
Yeah I remember, even made some shoops about it back then.

Played a little SurrounDead, pretty good game for some singleplayer DayZ RPG or the like.
The other games I got for summer sale are better left ripening in EA, still major bosses getting added left and right.

Home base also got a little attention.
Added some roofing due to constant blowpipe charlies on the western coast and just comfy farming/life sim stuff.
It's pretty rainy here, but the regular thunder feels mighty.

A roof all around the upper level and in the middle a small garden with ultra fertile soil, nice.
Sadly the peanut plants already suffered minor frost damage, as I didn't mind the late season.

Getting a lot of livestock now as well, a larger pasture is probably up next.
Luckily farm yield is rather large, so ma crap will sustain them critters fine.

Playing Rogue Trader once again after finishing my first run a year ago. Still feels pretty great. I love turn-based combat and the setting (not just 40k, I mean the whole RT thing) is exactly what I need in an RPG.

Anyone here have experience with Runescape?

A friend of mine wants us all to make accounts and do a run together, is it any good?

>>24942
I thought about starting OSRS a little.
Then I saw a user mod that solely shows the correct timing for some 1 tick prayer buffing that is intended gameplay loop, which made me drop this idea within a single real life tick.

First slaughter of some lower generation livestock with a bounty of meats and fat, had to smith some hooks to get some smoking racks going.

Otherwise it's a slow grind to expand.
Collect dirt to cover large areas, stone and rocks for structures, just wood is quick and painless to harvest.
But together with the growing farm and the intrinsic need to stockpile more diverse foodstuff enough motivation is provided.
Gotta mine some more iron and then there's still steel...

>>24935
Got that Colony Ship turn based RPG recently, as it seemed like Fallout meets that colony ship horror movie Pandorum.
Character creation already gives a lot of options, made some kind of gifted, sneaky tinkerer that yet has to get some weapon training down, as I have no idea which tool of unalifement is most fun yet.
Seems similar to Rogue Trader, which also seems like fun, but WH as a setting is always rather elusive whenever I get too close to it.

>play Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds
>it's QUITE LITERALLY just an Age of Empires mod, even the tutorial is the same.
Let's see how the campaign is

>>25004
Oh, this game impressed me so much as child. I played it at neighbor's place and next day asked dad to download Star Wars films. Was a big fan of the setting until teenage years.

Hunted a panda and while checking my fish traps, some strange artifacts were found.
Even the Necronomicon was found in a second haul, has to be that mysterious magick system that the primitive survival mod adds against all implications.

Colony Ship as a roguish nerd is also fun.
Acquiring boomsticks and ammo is a little cheap and combat takes a few hits point blank, could have both been reduced to provide a more tight grit.
Also me and my bro Evan looking mint in our Girls Last Tour cosplay outfits.

>>25008
Got it during the golden age of OCH piracy and had a blast.

Played a bit more SWGB.
Done with the Wookie (tutorial) campaign.
Was way easier than AoE2's William Wallace campaign where the enemy at least attacked sometimes.
Here you could just do whatever.

Now started the Trade Federation campaign, which certainly hits different.
I don't think I have ever played a strategy game where you are actually the bad guys conducting a proper invasion.
No, SS's German campaign doesn't count, that's strictly military targets.

But this first mission, "Beachhead", with a youtube screenshot for a lack of screenshotting capability, has a troop of droids simply raid a bunch of Naboo villages. They have only basic defenses, just some dudes patrolling and not pondering an imminent invasion getting utterly steamrolled. And the screams, holy shit, those screams.
I felt a bit bad despite really just being a bunch of pixels.

Currently playing Ultimate General: Civil War.
There's really not enough line warfare strategy games.
Currently doing a Union campaign because I'm a real fucking noob and Union is easymode.
I am literally Ulysses S. Grant with how many dudes I regularly send to their deaths.

The mission pictures though was the opposite. It was a 1:7-ish ratio of my to enemy soldiers, and you can see all those dead rebs strewn around.
A feature is that soldiers need to be replaced, so the more losses I have during a battle the more I have to replace afterwards and the slower my army can grow, and the enemy has the same problem, but only if I kill enough of them.

There's now basically only two battles left: The Petersburg siege that some might know from the crater battle, and the siege of Richmond after which we take a shit on President Davis's desk.
The maps are real-life maps btw, or rather, modeled after the real sites where those battles happened, which is pretty cool.

Finally, this cruel brother's war is over.
The battle for Richmond was a valiant one, and the traitors fought bravely to the last man, but they simply could not do anything against the industrial might of the FOOKIN NORF.
As you can see I rolled over them with a 3:1 numerical advantage, and it was LITERALLY a meat wave. Forts? Simply washed over them. Richmond was taken in one swift strike.
And I might say that regarding casualties I am still well within the real numbers, at least for my own side.

Next up I will do a CSA campaign, which will be immensely harder, especially since I am no Bobby Lee.

Came back to Elin recently and just as the stars aligned, SsethTzeentch uploaded his video of it.
Rolled a Lich Executioner for the meta mana shield.
Now I'm about in the late early game, soaking up the last few skills that aren't too important early on and doing early guild stuff.

Thieves guild obviously always the most bothersome to join, it required to accrue a total of 100 negative karma.
The solution? To mine their golden hoard for -1 Karma per piece of gold ingot or carved stone.
Perfectly usable to sculpt statues to raise the tourism value of mother base.

Also, what is spamming minor cure to feel good and burn through some mana called?
Anyway, it helps me getting stronger, which is imperative.
After finishing the first part of the second story dungeon, the task to spam cure and make me feel good was relegated to our new heal bitch Farris.

Great to really expend all stamina deep down into the negatives while being hurt.
All the flying intestines and gibs makes a really dramatic musical performance on a silken panty in the snail sado dungeon bar of the casino. What a beautiful game.

>>25085
*wipes tear* 'merica!
MaKe AmErIcA GrEaT AgAyyyN!
Fuck Yeah!

Finished the OOM-9 campaign in SWGB.
That's the Trade Federation one.
It was actually pretty interesting, because it was, as mentioned in the first post, an actual invasion playing out. Killing their defenses, subjugating the Naboo and after finding out there are Gungans on that planet, them too.
The last mission had me destroy a city under the sea.
The surface fighting was not hard, just a bit annoying because I had to carry troops around with airships and land them on foreign shores.

That was because I found no place to build shipyards. In fact, only after I realized the city under the sea was indeed entirely submerged I began wondering if I were doing something wrong or if the mission could be bugged.
I looked it up and apparently in the expansion there is like one very specific place to build a shipyard on the spot where an old enemy one stood. Still took me some clicking around to find it.
Then it was all a matter to send a bunch of ships to the palace to destroy it (picture this time taken from my own play, but loaded a save before I had built a proper fleet).

There's now a bonus mission that is apparently the battle on the Windows XP screen. Not sure if I want to play that.