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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I hardly use mine. I bring it with me on plane rides but find myself just watching movies instead. Trying to play on a plane and having to share an arm rest, idk it works out better in my head than in practice.

    I find I really need to play a game consistently to stay interested, and that makes the deck hard cuz I reserve lighter games for it, like ori, but since I play so infrequently I don’t really end up being interested in the game I startup on there.

    OTOH I play PC regularly, no battery concerns, much larger screen, better visual fidelity. The deck just isn’t reinforcing enough.











  • Pikmin bloom was fun! I got to level 41 and moved on cuz if you live in the suburbs like me there aren’t enough flowers to bloom or special mushrooms to battle, so i literally have to walk many thousands of steps or drive somewhere densely populated or spend real money. Its a shame cuz it was fun on the lower levels but plateaued pretty hard for me after level 40.

    I’m curious how you’ll like slime rancher 2. I got it in EA some time ago, and it was too similar to the first one for my taste. Wonder if they’ve added more at launch to help set it apart and introduce new ideas.


  • I got XCOM 2 for $5 on the steam sale. Been playing that for a week straight and really enjoying it.

    I enjoyed the first one in a very limited way before getting frustrated and moving on. For XCOM 2 I went in with better expectations and forethought about the strategy being crucial to understand for the harder difficulties to be beatable. So I elected to play on the “veteran” difficulty (one step above the easiest).

    It’s definitely still been a bit frustrating at times, and I’ve had to resort to reloading saves more than I’d like to admit, cuz I’m going for a no deaths run. But now that I’ve almost beaten it and understand the ins and outs better, both in the field and in the larger planning room, I feel like I could bump the difficulty up a notch on a fresh playthrough.

    It reminds me of playing a game like civilization where the missteps made early on can crush any hopes of survival even with tons of save reloads cheesing the odds.

    I’ve been playing on my steam deck hooked up to my TV, and it runs pretty well. Had to tweak some settings but got it running 1920x1080 without any performance issues. Controller support is pretty good although it never recognizes my controller on game startup unless I manually switch input to keyboard and then back to controller.

    I also noticed some crashing start occurring on a regular basis whenever loading a save, but restarting the deck resolved it.





  • You can’t just buy a house and sell it for a higher price. You are either flipping it to raise its value which is a lot of work or sitting and holding the house and waiting for it to appreciate. Product scalpers don’t have to-do either, nor do they have to pay interest on the loan like they would a mortgage.

    Product scalpers rely on sudden bulk purchase of a limited supply batch of products. Unless you’re a mega millionaire you can’t do that with housing. So I don’t think you should consider it unethical to buy a second home and rent out. It is a valid source of income.