Downloading now to play this evening. :happy:

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So many games I want to play all coming out around the same time! :woot: I'm currently playing a mix of Potionomics and RimWorld with the Biotech expansion, and looking forward to Victoria III releasing tomorrow. (I'd be playing The Eternal Cylinder as well, but weirdly, although the demo worked with Proton, the full game doesn't launch at the moment.)

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Quoting: denyasisFyi, the Prepare Carefully mod is what I Think Philadelphius is mentioning. It's a very helpful mod that eliminates some of the potential rough/tedious starts dished out by the RNG without being cheaty.

Yup, that's the one. Not updated for 1.4 yet, sadly.

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Skipping the intro video was no doubt added as developers at Valve laughed at how someone set their boot video to the movie Shrek, and had to sit through it.

I'm laughing too! 🤣 But yeah, seems like a good idea.

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First expansion I'm picking up on release, as I wasn't particularly interested in RimWorld when the previous two came out. Now to wait for enough of my mods to update to start a game… :grin:

Quoting: ExpandingManRimworld is one of those games that seems amazing but I've really struggled to enjoy. I find it plodding an tedious. Guess it's time to go back and try again, hopefully I'll stick with it long enough to get over the initial boredom.

So, I pledged to the original Kickstart campaign for RimWorld, including access to various alpha and beta builds along the way…and yet, up until this year, I never really got into it, even though I probably had some forty hours or so of started-and-abandoned playthroughs over the years; I usually start, play a few hours, then get bored and quit. What I found finally got me enjoying it long enough to keep going past that initial start was in large part a mod that lets you edit your starting colonists and situation. I gave myself two four [I checked] extra colonists and then tweaked all five seven of them to have mostly positive traits and a good spread of skills, and for whatever reason that got me through the initial first few hours where I'd usually lose interest and on to where I actually had a thriving colony of (eventually) over twenty pawn.

This is not to say that you should enjoy it, or will if you do the same thing, more that I understand where you're coming from and just wanted to share what I'd found that helped me finally enjoy the game in case it helps. :smile:

(Thinking about it some more, in Dwarf Fortress you start with seven dwarfs who are blank slates for you to customize, which allows you to get a pretty good spread of coverage for the skills that initially are the most useful. In RimWorld, you start with one, three, or five pawns, chosen from a randomly generated pool, which makes it difficult to reliably cover the skills you need early on. I know RimWorld's all about the procedurally-generated stories and the characters play into that, but I found myself much more attached to my colony by playing it more like a Dwarf Fortress start where I got to customize everything [and then get the procedural stuff on top of that later on]. Thankfully, there are mods for that. :smile:)

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Oh right, Potionomics released today! Off to Steam I go…

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Quoting: PenglingFor digital releases yes (and the card specifically has to be formatted on the individual Switch console it will be used with), but generally no, it uses its own cartridge format. :smile:

I no longer have a Switch, but have a couple of games still hanging around because local stores won't accept imports due to them not carrying the nationally-accepted age-ratings, so here's a picture;

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Oh, OK. Maybe I was mixing up the cartridge with full-size SD cards. Thanks.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI would love something like this for the Switch. I would much rather play the Switch games on the Deck...

Doesn't the Switch used microSD cards? (I don't have one.) Just need an emulator on the Deck that can detect when one's been plugged in if that's the case… :happy:

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Quoting: Renzatic Gear

Quoting: Sakuretsu"We tried to scam our costumers but got a lotta backlash in return because they're not as dumb as we'd like them to be."

Dunno why they're backtracking so heavily here. They could've made a helluva marketing campaign over this little issue.

INTRODUCING THE GEFORCE 4090Ti! SO POWERFUL, IT CAN MELT YOUR FACE RIGHT OFF YOUR SKULL! ENDURE THE SCORCHING FLAMES OF THE HOUSE FIRE FOR MAXIMAL GAMING PERFORMANCE!

"Kiss your heating worries good-bye this winter! The only heater you'll ever need! And it runs games!"

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The wake-up sound not respecting the volume setting. If I've got the volume down to zero (like when I'm playing at work while my code is running :tongue:), I'd like the wake-up sound to be muted.

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