Heading Out is a driving game where you are trying to make it across the country and there are lots of branching stories and paths based on your choices and who you meet along the way. It is quite stylised and really had me hooked when I first played it. Definitely worth a try! The end was quite memorable.

Keep Driving is a driving / road trip simulator. This one didn’t click as well with me and I couldn’t really get into it but it also had different paths and stories based on your different choice etc and may be worth checking out for you.

Was gonna say Noita, great game but unforgiving as fuck!

100% that tax money could be used to fund so many positive projects not to mention the money and time saved on the pathetic “war on drugs”.

You know what would be an even bigger “blow” to drug related organised crime? Legalise, regulate and educate so people can choose what they want to do with their bodies. Fucking idiocy.

I really liked his Foundry series of books, I’ll have to check this out! Sounds interesting.

That is because Vans are trash, they aren’t skateboard shoes they are fashion shoes that are marketed as skateboard shoes.

If you buy some proper shoes designed for skating they should last a bit better. I presume if you are riding brakeless then you mostly have issues with the soles, like I do braking when skating.

I have had good luck with Osiris, Es and Globe in the last few years but at the end of the day applying such aggressive friction you are always gonna burn through shoes fast than you would by just walking.

My average is around a year before I start braking with skin.

It says “Early access play starts 4 days early on May 15”, implying the release date is 19th May.

I love a bit of Traitors but if you want some truly painful to watch TV then watch season 2 of the Australian version. The faithfuls are all so fucking stupid that they get really easily led over and over and over again by this one guy who isn’t even playing a good game. It was genuinely frustrating to watch and pushed past enjoyable because of how stupid everyone was.

This current season of the UK one has been good so far though!

It is still a cool site and I will probably revisit it to get some ideas in the future, I just can’t get behind the Amazon inclusion personally and will then search out anything interesting via alternative avenues.

That doesn’t really work in my experience because artists seem to be incapable of tagging their work correctly.

This, I think, is the best way. You start to recognise people that are buying all the same stuff you like so follow them and periodically have a look at what they are buying.

All other avenues on bandcamp are a bit shit IMO. Tags are dog shit because artists never tag their work correctly and my feed will constantly be old shit I listened to a long time ago. You can’t even rely on it to let you know when artists you follow release new work.

I love bandcamp but I also fucking hate bandcamp xD

I am also to some degree but I think I went into this with different expectations, not expecting punishment and so therefore I was taken aback.

Thanks for the tips, I have read you can break the game within a few hours but that isnt what I’m really looking to do so I’m going to try and use a guide as little as possible and just look up specific points I need clarifying.

Apparently I inadvertently chose the more difficult character but the storyline differences does seem interesting. I’ll see how well the game clicks over some more time!

Nice, cool site! Shame all the links are to Audible though…

I went in wanting to play as blind as possible but after being thrown into combat with no tutorial what so ever and then absolutely no explanation of what anything is, skills, specials skills, skills sets etc etc I started doing some cursory searching. Then everyone is screaming about levelling determination fully first and so I had to go down a rabbit hole just to find out where to get that because everyone spoke as if you had it from the start, which you don’t.

Even the guides for this game aren’t super helpful to someone that has zero background knowledge on the game at all. I’m still not sure if I actually want to delve as deep into it as it seems is necessary but I’m going to out a few more hours in and try to not fuck up my characters in that time and see how well it clicks.

I heard the first one is even more painful! How did you find it?

I have just started Star Ocean 2 on PSP, it is confusing trying to figure out what is going on as nothing has been explained so far at all in terms of the different systems going on.

Yeh, I will try it out but I don’t think I could rely on an install like this without a fair amount of stress testing to see how it reacts but still worth a try!

Hmmm interesting, thanks for the link. I am skeptical as to how well it will work, if at all and that is a very old version but I appreciate the response and will definitely give this a try when I have some time to tinker!

Traktor DJ made by Native Instruments

Because it is live audio mixing so I need there to be as close to zero audio and input latency as possibly which isn’t really achievable, at least not on my current hardware. It also needs to be extremely stable for performances which again adding additional layers like VMs is just poor practice and asking for a bad time.

There is Mixxx which runs on Linux which I have been watching the development of for many many years, it is getting close to being comparable now with a lot of improvements over the last few years, but still isn’t quite there for me. I’m hoping I can switch over to that full time within the next few years, the recent surge in Linux users is pushing its development faster, so it is only a matter of time until I can ditch what I use currently.

Yeh. Would if I could but I can’t… DJ software doesn’t work on Linux. I’ve emailed them every year for the last ten years asking for a Linux version but they don’t give a shit.