The 1960s, the decade that loomed largest in my formative years, were closer to WW1 than they are to now, which is both meaningless maths and a cause for head throb. Right now, I feel like the decades that I’ve been present in are less real than the ones stacked up before.

Helldivers 2 is tremendous fun. I think one of you (AMWT?) recommended the first to me years ago, which I never got round to. It’s a beautifully designed thing and extremely funny. Am hoping they add some colour accessibility stuff on the PS5, as I discovered today that the “you’re about to be oblit...

I am fairly sure “Nirvana” was a pointedly ironic choice. I always thought Nirvana was kind of a dorky name, very hippy-like and really had nothing to do with their music, which was decidedly not psychedelic. Even worse an actual psychedelic band had it before them. There was also a Swedish death me...

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Tbh I’ve sabotaged it for myself by watching a popular YouTube video on it. Vicarious enjoyment is still enjoyment. Am tempted by Helldivers 2 to play with friends: as one FM put it to me, it’s Starship Troopers: the Game.

Aaaaa! Thank you, kind Andy. That looks cool, though I have nothing I’d be able to play it conveniently on. The mod scene is a place I admire that I’ll likely never get into. A shame. My House.wad would probably be my first stop.

You wanna hit Ashes: 2034 and its sequel. Those games are free and astonishingly good. A swift google and Steam search suggests that there’s a typo in that game title, or I need to look harder, or that you are making a clever joke about cricket that I need to work harder on. Which is to say, help! ...

Enjoying Taiji at the moment. Something nice and chill to accompany a podcast. Good puzzles, nice aesthetic. That looks quite delightful. I fear I don’t have much time for games, or perhaps don’t make enough time for them. For reasons unknown, I’m currently shying away from peaceful, contemplative ...

“Dusk”, loudest of the new wave of boomer shooters, is a wonderful game, a perfect example of something that evokes the older form it references while being quietly modern: the inventiveness of the level design, the steady escalation in enemy types, the movement; and the vitality of its art directio...

For old times’ sake, kerble.

There are several names in the old thread that I miss.

Sam Harris is crap.