Man, and I start my new job on the 16th, so no time to participate. :(

This sounds pretty cool and I'd be interested in dusting off my rusty coding skills, but maybe a few more days' notice before the next one? ;)

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Huh. So the more you die, the more powerful you get as compensation? Interesting. Sort of a self-balancing mechanism. I'm not particularly interested in the game itself, but that does sound like a neat twist.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI've been watching Stellaris since before it came out, but hadn't been able to afford it yet. However I'm just starting a new job and the 1.5 update and Utopia seem like a really great time to get into it. :)

If you love 4X space games… It's a must have :).

I've (strangely) never really played many 4X space games, but I love Europa Universalis IV and have played a lot of Civilization so I'm looking forward to it. Plus I love space (I'm an astronomer IRL!), so thanks for the tips. :) I'm hoping to get my buddy who also loves Civ5 into Paradox Grand Strategy games with it too.

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I've been struck by a desire to replay some of the older games in my library again, so I've been playing things like Torchlight II, Osmos, and Defense Grid 2. Plus Europa Universalis IV and Team Fortress 2.

Though just this week I happened to think of a really old game from 2006 that I used to play called Dodge That Anvil!. It's not on Steam, and has no Linux version, so I installed Wine, installed it, and it (to my amazement) Just Worked™. It's a cute, comedic game where you play a rabbit trying to harvest vegetables for your warren from fields while a stream of anvils rains from the sky trying to squish you, so you have to dodge them as you're running around. You also have a number of gadgets you can get to help you out, and there's a surprisingly long story mode where it turns out the anvils are actually being dropped by invading aliens from the moon, so you have to go to the moon to stop them, and there are a lot of different mechanics that show up over the course of the game, and…well, it's really a pretty good game. I'm hoping to start recording a Let's Play of it this evening, actually. :)

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Quoting: M@yeulCInvert gravity, and you're off to very bad thing.
Invert electromagnetism, and you'll have your limbs splitting off. At least you may still have planets and stars...
But that's nothing compared to what happens if you Invert the strong force...

And invert the weak force and…I don't know, I've never been able to nail down a clear answer on how exactly it works. Free neutrons might get a half-life longer than 15 minutes?

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I've been watching Stellaris since before it came out, but hadn't been able to afford it yet. However I'm just starting a new job and the 1.5 update and Utopia seem like a really great time to get into it. :)

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusionHas it really been four months since I changed anything? Damn it's time to buy something new.

Heh. Two years, eight months, and counting, for me (since I built my computer), and that's unlikely to change in the next year or so barring freak hardware failure. Hence why this monthly reminder feels like being asked "Did you cut your hair recently?" every single day for me. :P But hey, I'm sure I'll be happy for the reminder when I finally do change something. ^_^

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I built my Linux gaming rig 2½ years ago with 8 GB originally, but upgraded to 16 GB a month later after seeing how much RAM various programs required (I also learned about swap partitions and what happens when you run out of RAM without one set up! :D). This turned out to be necessary for me and a buddy playing Minecraft together, as we play large modpacks and I host the server, so with various Feed The Beast modded servers + client running it takes up ~70% of my RAM, judging from the system monitor. I usually have to close my several-dozen-tabs-open Chrome in order to run it, plus anything else that's eating a significant amount of RAM, but it works fine other than that.

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I only bought and played Half-Life 2 two years ago myself, but I then got Episodes 1 and 2 and enjoyed them quite a bit as well, so I can recommend them. Episode 2 finally decouples the flashlight and your sprint energy, and it's hard to go back after that. :P

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Quoting: g000hIt seems barely any difference in price to the regular GTX 1080.

GTX 1080 in USA ~ $600
GTX 1080 ti in USA ~ $700

I would have expected it to be $900. Just sayin'

$100 dollars is a pretty big difference in price, in absolute terms. ;) Even in relative terms it's ~16% more expensive.

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