and online in general, but i think my use of them predates that
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
added a bunch of zachs, my island is not ready for visitors yet though
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
same. underconstruction.gif
i read about a partial solution to the iron nugget scarcity problem - i can just buy a ticket to another island and exploit other resources
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
Stop it you all are making me kind of want to get a Switch or something.
― Archaeopteryx Morgan M.D. (Leee), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
change your legal name, buy a switch and get over here imo
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
I’d buy a switch if i could get one! But instead I’m on a stock watcher mailing list.
― consultant haste (gyac), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
It could do with a system so that I could distinguish my Zachs from my Karls, I'll tell you that for nothing.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link
My avatar has a black bg, a mustache on his forehead, and he’s peeling around the corner like a weirdo
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
Peeking
both zachs i added have a peeking around the corner like a weirdo avatar
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
probably just a thing zachs do
oh sorry i was looking at someone else for the second one. i recant my zach opinions
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
my icon is blathers, chosen before I knew who blathers was tbh
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 26 March 2020 01:33 (four years ago) link
wait...where is this other peeking zach
i want to peek at them
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 26 March 2020 01:56 (four years ago) link
karl i recognized your avatar as soon as i saw it! me and blathers are tight right now, due to my recent efforts opening up something...(don't want to reveal it now, but it's big!)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 26 March 2020 01:57 (four years ago) link
the other one was not a zach sorry for the mislead
― ciderpress, Thursday, 26 March 2020 02:00 (four years ago) link
zchyrs will you also peek? I will give you pears
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 26 March 2020 02:06 (four years ago) link
zchrys I’ve decided your name is Zach Yaris hope that’s ok
― silby, Thursday, 26 March 2020 03:52 (four years ago) link
i've always read it as zach years
― ciderpress, Thursday, 26 March 2020 04:11 (four years ago) link
p sure it’s Zachy Rose guys
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 26 March 2020 04:40 (four years ago) link
zochi yarosi
― ciderpress, Thursday, 26 March 2020 04:41 (four years ago) link
I'm not peeking, but I am staring with weirdo bug-eyes in my avatar. What's up, y'all
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Thursday, 26 March 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
pretty amazing coronavirus fundraiser/humble bundle going on now: https://www.humblebundle.com/conquer-covid19-bundle
A Good Snowman is Hard to BuildA Mortician’s TaleAgents of MayhemAlien SpidyBroken AgeBrothers: A Tale of Two SonsBrutal LegendDarksiders Deathinitive EditionDarksiders II Deathinitive EditionDouble Fine AdventureDUCATI - 90th AnniversaryEuropa Universalis IVFahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy RemasteredGNOGHacknetHIVESWAP: Act 1Hollow KnightInto the BreachJackbox Part Pack 2Killing Floor 2Lego Batman 3LostWindsMagickaPac-Man Championship Edition 2Party HardPikunikuPsychonautsRebuild 3: Gangs of DeadsvilleSpeed BrawlSniper Elite IIIStealth Inc 2Stick Fight: The GameSuper HexagonSUPERHOTThis is the PoliceTotally accurate Battle SimulatorTropico 4UndertaleVVVVVVThe WitnessWizard of LegendWorld of GooWorms RevolutionZombotron (limited keys)
plus some ebooks and other stuff. all the games above are for PC, but many of them are also for Mac, if you click the link
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
$30 (or more, if you want to donate more) for all that
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
i can tell you, europa universalis IV alone is worth well over $600,000, so that's a great deal
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:07 (four years ago) link
Hollow Knight is itself worth $60, but apparently EUIV has stolen its thunder.
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link
Hollow Knight is worth two, three quid
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
Hollow Knight is worth over $450,000, easily
this entire bundle is worth nearly $22.4M
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:43 (four years ago) link
ok, that's ridiculous, since that would be more than $700k per game.
the bundle is easily worth over $8.2M
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:44 (four years ago) link
and you multiply that by the enjoyment factor, to come up with the "$ per fun times" unit, it's off the charts
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link
this is the police, Lego Batman, let’s throw in another 50p each for those .. altogether this is about £1.38 of games
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link
...actually you divide that by the total enjoyment. my point is that this is a helluva deal
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:46 (four years ago) link
the only problem with it is that i own all the good games in it already
― Mordy, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:46 (four years ago) link
i own all the fair-to-middling games in it
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
i too have made the deadly mistake of buying all the good games before they show up in charity bundles
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
yeah, i've already played most of the ones i'm interested in. but of those:
all-timers:Europa Universalis IVHollow KnightUndertaleThe WitnessPac-Man Championship Edition 2
pretttttty good:Into the BreachJackbox Part Pack 2World of GooWorms Revolution
Notable:Super HexagonSUPERHOTTropico 4VVVVVVBrothers: A Tale of Two Sons (this game sucks, but you can only play couch co-op, split screen style, and it's fun in a kind of B-movie way. BEWARE: near the end of the game, out of nowhere, it turns into a rip-off of the shooting sections of uncharted games. it's sudden and inexplicable, and then all of a sudden after several hours of walking around slowly and pushing ladders and shit, you're tasked with dealing with pretty advanced AI that's shooting from you at all directions. it's jarring and terrible and bad.
Games I haven't played and I'm curious about:
PsychonautsFahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy RemasteredDarksiders Deathinitive Edition
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
i think you're mixing brothers up with that newer game by the same guy. brothers is the single player one where you're controlling both chars via the two sticks. maybe theres a coop mode idk
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link
oh shit, you're right! whoops. was that made by the same guy?
the one i was talking about was the prison break one, A Way Out. and come on, those guys were practically brothers after all they went through together
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
darksiders is just edgy dark fantasy zelda
psychonauts was a big deal at the time but i suspect it's aged dreadfully like all non mario 3d platform/adventure games
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:12 (four years ago) link
take em if you want em
Into the Breach4Y8KY-BL8XN-8NY2P
Superhot4P8CM-E4LGF-VNI3V
Lego Batman 34B94F-VTXTE-IPANQ
Darksiders 248Y3J-ACFH5-I5PXD
Darksiders Warmastered Edition3Z8ZK-PYG7Q-TY6V0
Brothers a Tale of Two Sons45L0K-AM63J-R8NPY
PsychonautsIM3N0-2L2AH-GLC6M
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:39 (four years ago) link
feel like there was a thread to post spare codes but i can't find it
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:41 (four years ago) link
I took Lego Batman 3. Thanks!
― treefell, Thursday, 2 April 2020 07:52 (four years ago) link
I've grabbed Into the Breach, thanks!
― JimD, Thursday, 2 April 2020 09:33 (four years ago) link
I played Psychonauts a few years back, so not that recently but well after its time. The controls are p. cumbersome and the graphics are dated but I still found the world charming. That said, I only got through the first couple of levels and one of those was a real chore with the controls. Apparently that's the most painful level controls-wise, so I kind of still want to revisit it with the aim of finishing it, but I might just watch someone else do so on youtube instead.
(As an aging nerd it was also nice to hear the Invader Zim voice actor again, but that may not be a super draw for normals or people with functioning taste cells)
Anyway I have 60% of these games, which is maybe notable in itself since I generally only get games from bundles and for <£5 in Steam sales, and the only one I actively want is Undertale which has a regular Steam price of ~1/5 of the bundle price, buuut, it's a good cause AFAIK, so will probably go in for it.
PS spare key thread is here -- First Come, First Served: A Thread for Offering Duplicate Games from Bundle Sales as Gifts -- but itt is probably as good a place anyway
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 2 April 2020 09:56 (four years ago) link
Psychonauts is pretty classic, I'd say - a lot of it is the writing, but it's also got some great level design (Lungfishopolis, Waterloo World, Velvetopia, and especially the Milkman Conspiracy)
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
it's an all time fave for me but another i wouldn't want to go back to
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
agree in that it's great but hard to argue going back to at this point, unless you REALLY love 3D adventure stage setpieces and don't mind schlepping through a lot of mediocre/bad platforming to get to the beautiful bits
― Nhex, Friday, 3 April 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link
also the best shit is almost all in the second half (considerably!) so it takes some time to get to it
just in case anyone else missed the coint and plick rollout, like me:
POLL is YOU: Thirteenth Coint and Plick results (best games of 2019)
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 3 April 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
I took Darksiders 2, many thanks!
― Ste, Saturday, 4 April 2020 11:33 (four years ago) link