That’s good to know, thanks!

I didn’t expect the kid to take his research online, good for him! I really needed some bee fluff today too.

Much obliged for that! I often think about writing on what I’m playing but end up forgetting due to time constraints - threads like this one definitely help with that.

I get that, it’s just if there’s no mod to post it I think it’s better to have a topic rather than not, especially since it can be pinned afterwards if any mod stumbles into the community again.

We could also bully them into setting up a bot that would post those automatically but this might have its own issues since some people disable bot submissions.

That sounds encouraging. I’ve been meaning to give it a shot but the backlog is a fickle beast and lives by its own rules.

How’re the Kb/M controls?

Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! S - it’s a wacky visual novel about a group of high-schoolers in a world where melee combat is pretty much commonplace and all the girl MCs are action manga level of strong. Series is hilarious and I can’t stop playing it after getting swept of my feet by Momo in the first game (ended up blazing through it in two days which doesn’t happen often these days). This one is a sequel with the same (though epanded) crew and I really can’t wait to jump back in.

As for the monthly thread, I feel like if it doesn’t happen “officially” the first person to have something to write should just post one themselves instead of waiting. Not like there’s a lot of activity here so it should remain visible long enough to gain traction.

That’s not too surprising. Hangars are instanced but it wouldn’t make sense for them to be spawned in a randomized location. Most likely they just need to work on culling to fix things like that.

Armistice is (or will be) most likely assigned on a room level when the full version of instanced hangars comes so I wouldn’t worry too much. Well, that and the fact CIG is still planning to remove armistice zones entirely in the future.

I totally get that. I’m just disappointed that such obvious issue made it through when this feature was suppose to release like two months ago (a bit less if we include the move to a point patch). I thought it was confirmed we’d be able to carry the guns but I’m to lazy to search through the info to check. Well, not like it matters anyway.

Seriously? I thought we were suppose to be able to pick up weapons just without selecting/using them. Did that change?

Man, the more I read about this implementation of inventory changes to more it looks like a complete clusterfuck despite a huge delay and tons of feedback since it was announced. I’m really not a fan of how CIG has been proceeding since Citizen Con, it really feels like they’re trying to rush a lot of the stuff before the investor deadline…

Let’s hope they’ll take the feedback more seriously than during the 3.23 testing.

This has be kindasortagenerally known already, it just doesn’t really matter if nothing is done about it.

TL;DW:

• Patrick Breyer and Niklas Nienaß submitted questions to the European Commission on the topic of killing games (the latter in contact with Ross and two EU based lawyers).
• EU won’t commit to answering whether games are goods or services.
• EULA are probably unfair due to imbalance of rights and obligations between the parties.
• Such terminations should be analyzed on a case-by-case basis (preferably by countries rather than EU).
• Existing laws don’t seem to cover this issue.
• Campaign in France seems to be gaining some traction. Case went to “the highest level where most commercial disputes submitted to DGCCRF never go”.
• UK petition was suppose to get a revised response after the initial one was found lacking. Due to upcoming elections all petitions were closed and it might have to be resubmitted.
• Also in UK, there’s a plan to report games killed in the last few years to the Competition and Markets Authority starting in August (CMA will get some additional power by then apparently).
• No real news from Germany, Canada or Brazil.
• Australian petition is over and waiting for a reply. Ross also hired a law firm to represent the issue.

This is a simplified version of simplified version, watch the video for more info.

This is pretty funny considering all these changes were supposedly “almost ready” when they decided to hold them from 3.23. Oh well, CIG’s gonna CIG.

Translation of the Break Blade’s final chapter is finally here and it’s a bit of a bittersweet moment.

For those unaware BB was a fantasy mecha series, which ran between 2006 and 2022. While it wasn’t perfect, it had some pretty interesting writing and ideas - especially early on. There was mystery, intrigue, some political shenanigans and a lot of action. Things did slip a bit in the later parts of the story (I’m not sure if it had to do with author’s health, creativity issues or just lack of compatibility with serialized schedule) but overall it was a pretty fun ride - even if not a complete one (story concluded but there were some set ups for new arcs).

It also had some great feeling battles, with chunks of armor and parts getting dented, shot up and broken in a very satisfying manner. You could really feel the strength and weight of each hit.

It wasn’t a best thing ever bot boy was it a fun ride. I’m going to miss this series.

I think they might be used as another step to bring Koga’s coolness out to everyone. I’m sure she wouldn’t want to disappoint a kōhai looking up to her.

Yeah, I just watched the Ubisoft Forward stream with some additional details on the new update. Can’t say I’m a fan but whatever - guess they still can’t let go of their obsession with him.

I might be missing something since I’m not completely dialed in with TD lore but didn’t we kill Keener? Are they bringing him back or will this just be more of his usual gloating through audio logs? I’m not sure how I feel about either of those options.

Guess I’ll wait for a full detail breakdown before thinking about coming back.

Koga’s about to go through introvert’s nightmare. She had a good run at least.

That doesn’t seem to do much for me unfortunately. In my case the potential time I need to reserve for a gaming session tends to take precedence over hype whenever I’m in a lazy, scroll-focused rut. Still trying to get back to a recent(ish) release I was super hyped playing during its beta period… At least I have a semi decent explanation for this one, I guess.

While I can’t provide you with a proper scientific answer I can offer a basic explanation - it’s effort.

Browsing through the never ending amount of content online requires no effort but provides you with a dopamine rush as if you actually managed to accomplish or do something with your time. Other stuff, like watching movies, playing games, reading books, etc. requires attention and active participation, the payoff on the other hand is largely delayed (especially compared to the lazy option).

As for hacks… I don’t know any. The only ways I know how to deal with it is limiting your time scrolling through this stuff and forcing yourself to do other things - it can be rough early on but you’ll eventually get used to the “normal” way of functioning.