When I read this I wondered if this disgusting man did what he did because of his Muslim beliefs so I looked up the connection between honour killings and Islam. Turns out it has very little to do with Islam and a lot to do with just being a horrible, poorly educated human being. What I found out was that people be killin their wives and daughters for what they perceived as dishonouring them since way before Islam came along. If anything, Islam tried apply some brakes on that whole idea. For example demanding that four male eyewitnesses had to actually have seen the act for it to be recognised as legit. This article is quite interesting.

Edit: Sorry. I just saw this post getting re-posted in a bunch of other places. Hadn’t realised it was part of an anti-islam social media push. Didn’t mean to get in the way. Carry on.

I feel exactly the same as you. I have ADHD so fluff is painful and pointless grind is just depressing. I thought the most obvious way to recommend my favourites would be to go by hours played, so here’s my top four:

My Time At Portia - 594hrs Hardspace Shipbreaker - 498hrs Kingdom Come Deliverance - 370hrs Just Cause 3 - 255hrs

Special mention too for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (164hrs) because that is one well made game in almost every respect. Very little fluff, grind and you’re always in control of how big a challenge you feel like facing. To my mind it makes all the other AC games look clunky and drab.

Also I hate difficulty spikes so much that whenever they happen and just seem to be there so the devs can grind a few more hours of playtime out of you for their analytics, I just reach for WeMod. Big shout out to WeMod in fact :) It’s made so many games I’d abandoned fun again.

Broadly I would tend to agree but… there’s plenty of billionaires who give away billions. Rather than wait, just google it. It doesn’t mean they’re nice people but their money does good. There’s no getting around that.

I know that most wealthy people give money either as a performance for others or out of guilt but that’s still money given to people who need it. Personally I don’t care about their motives so long as their money actually helps.

As for somehow creating some kind of socialist utopia where billionaires don’t exist, you would be ignoring our entire history as a species. Sooner or later “some animals are more equal than others”. It sucks, particularly if you are the sort of person who has an abundance of empathy but there it is. Best we can do, I reckon, is look after the people in our immediate vicinity. If we all did that mind you then maybe things would get better but I’m not holding my breath.

(Googles it…) Wow… “She claimed in her divorce plea that Sunjay forced her to sleep with his friends on their honeymoon. She also alleged that he asked his mother to slap her when she was pregnant.”

Scumbag confirmed.

The news: “He will be greatly missed not only by his family and friends but the local community around his club as he employed so many people and made so many friends — he was fun, kind and generous. He didn’t distinguish between his grooms or high net worth friends — when he had a party, everyone was invited and everyone was equal.” He leaves behind a daughter and two young sons.

This forum: Didn’t read the article, don’t know anything about him but good on the bee. Yay death!

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I know right. I think it’s the worst I’ve ever seen. I kept scrolling through for something good but all of it is was like those bargain bins you used to see in petrol stations full of old DVD’s. Honestly they should be ashamed of this. I went through my whole wishlist to check if any of the games on there had demos and literally none did. Last Next Fest most of them did. That’s some impressive enshitification right there…

Actually I was wrong… Probably just needed to eat something and be less grumpy lol. Just found a fantastic demo that I’m downloading now. it’s called Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream. Amazing people animation and great dialogue. I love top down games and this is easily better than anything I’ve seen before. Thanks to a NextFest roundup from Nookrium or I would never had spotted it.

I’ve tried to guess what prmart means but I just can’t imagine what you meant to type hehe can you clarify?

There must be so much paid review manipulation out there but I don’t know if it amounts to much. At the end of the day, if the game is good people will play it. I mean No Man’s Sky came back from the entire world dumping on it from the stratosphere. Also, often overly negative reviews will actually make me more interested in a game, specially if all the negatives don’t sound that bad “Horrible game! I didn’t continuously die and how dare they allow the player to explore anywhere!”.

“We’ve been trying to contact you about your car’s extended warranty”.

I’m not too familiar with those. Top of my head reaction to Googling them just now is that I can’t stop feeling there’s something a little sneaky about them. “What? these totally normal looking yet suspiciously thick sunglasses? No no no… I’m totally not filming you right now”.

I think if it’s a VR contraption then it needs to be honest about it which is why the Beyond 2 seem to be going in the right direction. I just re-watched a review of the B2 and saw that it only weighs 110g (less than a peach) which is so much less than the Apple Vision Pro at 600g. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on how the VR industry decides to compete with the B2.

VR will never become mass market until it no longer means wearing a big silly looking thing on your head. Source: Used to work for a game developer who tried (and like so many… failed) to make their own headset during the VR goldrush in the 90’s. Also around that time bought a Forte VFX (screaming headache and eyestrain) headset and can’t believe no one’s managed to shrink the technology down to a pair a glasses yet in any kind of successful way. Kind of excited by the Bigscreen Beyond 2 though. Still a long way to go. I think the test is simple. Can I wear your VR technology out in public (so no wires, tiny form factor, battery life on par with a smartphone) and not look like I want to be robbed immediately?

Sorry for being so salty about this. It’s just bitterness from being a ridiculously early adopter lol

Done :)

So… will this mean we’ll finally be able to restart as a new player in the offline mode? I’ve wanted to start from scratch with TC2 for ever. It’s been such a frustration that you can’t have more than one player profile per Ubisoft account.

Yeah it kinda does. It’s this weird sandfishing minigame though with a kind of claw thing that you throw out. Nowhere near as fun as the fishing in Portia imho.

The games I’ve really enjoyed fishing in so far have been:

My Time At Portia Palia Spiritfarer

Of those 3 I’ve easily spent the most time in Portia. I really love the fishing in that game and when you get the super valuable fish you really feel like you earnt it :)

Wow that’s exciting! Huge fan of Bannerlord anyway. Wishlisted and looking forward to June :)

Just nabbed Salt 2 and it’s so good already and I’ve only just started! I love how colourful everything is. Also, I made the mistake of going for a wander on the first island too late in the day without realising how DARK night times get. Fumbled my way to the nearest beach and managed to spawn my little raft and just about navigate back to camp. Thanks for the recommendation. I can see this is going to claim many, many hours of my life already 🤣

Ooh Coral Island sounds interesting… Wishlisted! Thanks :)

Really appreciate the effort you put in your reply :) Thanks, lots to look at!