Plus, male characters can urinate more easily, so we can save 10 seconds here and there. That’ll really add up over the campaign.

I used to call these sort of games “Bird-chirpers”

Cause you’d start playing and then it would suddenly be morning, and birds would be chirping.

So this is 7 Days to Die then?

Can I have… some sugar… water?

Lol, that was on purpose.

My oldest child was almost born on 4/20, but he decided to cook a little longer.

My wife was so relieved, lol.

Well. And maybe the new house doesn’t support their bed.

These days, roguelite tends to mean “A procedural game where you initiate a run that has a start and an end, but then has meta currencies of some kind that you spend in-between runs that affect future runs.”

So in Against the Storm you start a run, and you’re in a fresh environment that depends upon where in the overworld map you chose to start. This portion of the game play is a city builder like Banished or Timberborn or whatnot. You follow the game loop to instruct units to gather raw resources. Spend those construct buildings and allocate units to generate other resources within those buildings. Deal with events that come up. Have a goal that signifies completion of the run, and a hurry up clock of some kind that forces you to get to an end, and then either succeed or fail. Based on how you did, you have meta currency awarded that you can use to purchase unlocks that can allow for new gameplay options or make you stronger so as to be able to play on a higher difficulty, which results in higher meta currency awards.

Are you sure? I thought microtransactions were the core component of successful games these days.

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Mix a couple into the candy bowl!

Depending on which of my friends are around:

World War Z
Payday 3
DarkTide

Or with my kids:

Minecraft
Monster Hunter World/Rise
Terraria
Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare

Gonna try out the Enshrouded Steam Next demo this week.

I see a lot of good advice, so I'm going to suggest something different. Have your son watch this guy or someone like him do some stuff.

https://youtube.com/@SebastianLague

He just picks something that interests him and builds on top of that interest.

My kids (8 and 11) don't even have any interest in doing programming at the moment, and they like watching him build stuff. We watched the Geographical Adventures playlist twice.

You're talking about PowerShell but then complaining about cmd. Are you unaware that PowerShell is its own cli?

Uh huh.

No way!

Get out of here!

See I told you that bitch was crazy!

What confusion? I’d say it was a pretty clear policy.

Both times I used either one of them, it crashed in the middle of compressing my hard drive and I had to reformat. But they worked fine the 2nd try!

Look at this guy trying to play 2 games.

Shit, I know someone who had to purchase an extra SSD just to dedicate it to Call of Duty.

I’m a big fan of the Offworld Trading Company OST.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mKUh4ny0EVAbJNHR9Bd69cS6I49VdHric

Well, more pay to play.

But if you want to participate in a battle with a large army, you need to have that army.