Unfortunately my travel plans got messed up pretty bad by a protracted pilot strike (and some inflexible circumstances, in that I am attending a conference up until the moment I would have headed to Birmingham). As such the travel has gotten real expensive, and I can't really defend the trip anymore. Sorry all, hope you have an excellent time.

My BYOC and PC rental tickets are up for grabs, I am not going to try to shadily resell them, so in case someone can use them go ahead (I seem to recall that for at least the BYOC ticket the name doesn't matter, but don't take my word on that, and I am very unsure about the PC rental ticket).

It is kind of interesting how my Game Pass hitrate is like 50% on free download -> actually significantly play, when my hitrate on Steam, where I pay for the games, is probably a fair bit worse.

NNNNNNOOOOO it wont let me book a room since my card runs out in six months time! What a shit system I was happy to pay in advance!

I am so lost haha must be to tied to read the forum!

Probably people caught this on discord, but must point out the Shadowrun giveaway currently happening:
https://www.gog.com/game/shadowrun_trilogy

The first game (Returns) is good but rough, with nice story and atmosphere, but the combat is clunky and stuff like hacking is downright maddening. The second (Dragonfall) polishes stuff up and is real good. The third (Hong Kong) is simply all around great.

If you're curious but not that interested just jump into Hong Kong. In principle the games don't story-wise spoil each other, but I honestly think it'll all feel too clunky going backwards, but rather that people only play Hong Kong than miss out on that too bouncing off Returns.

Im game for party games 🙂

Jackbox has loads of great ones, the one where you have to pitch ideas and things is epic.

Merry Christmas! The UK will catch up soon 🙂

Yeah, something like that. I had as the original plan to just wait it out, but it is looking like more snow so I'll have to get calling.

The state is pretty mental here too, there are fully 7 lorries having gone off the road and blocking access in the next village over. (Wind farm construction happening out there somewhere, apparently not prepared for the weather.)

yea true you could end up with a gpu / pc for weeks or something

haha

Did not expect that 😮

My internet here is not great for shooters though, so putting that off for a bit.

Oh yeah, in-house Underlords sounds like it could be fun way to go. A little bit of competition but with enough randomness to be able to blame ones losses on bad luck.

haha thats news to me, dont even have my editing software

Naaaah, first is a pretty clean stare into the distance (or possibly at the bar?), but the second is surely a festive mood frozen in time 🙂

Next week things will blessedly cool off. It has been two rough weeks in a small room with my computer going full tilt (ironically doing experiments for a trading venue for cooling, e.g. the hospital and power company piping ac cooling to each other). Also off work July, so lots to look forward to.

In fact, I think I'll give this a go, the link to the sheet (editable by all, go to the 'Full' tab to change reviews) is here: https://clancrazy.pro/topic/168/itch-io-community-reviews

hahaha

https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/8805/pdf/LIPIcs-FUN-2018-14.pdf

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They simulate a general computer with map chokepoints in TF2, e.g. this figure:

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Of a widget which grenades can be bounced through but no other weapons.

Pretty fun.

L4D is not the play-1000-hours kind of game, but it is so great at its co-op action movie thing. Well played boys, finally got those generators going 🙂

haha thats so harsh