A solid decade before Minecraft at least no idea where it came from.

I’ve only hallucinated when I was young and really feverish and sick. I was scared of “lava buckets coming up the stairs” according to my dad.

I work with people with delirium who commonly hallucinate, it’s often things like people or animals. Common things are small children and dogs for the nicest ones and spiders or aggressive people for the less nice ones. They also don’t realise they are hallucinating a lot of the time. Being unwell is hard.

It’s a great book but I dunno about boy meets girl. It’s more civilisation dies and is reborn a few thousand years later with the weird leftovers of the previous one.

Or did it have a romance I am forgetting?

Solovair make boots in the UK which are basically Dr Martens but still hand made. They are fairly light boots which can be resold and come in various styles.

I’ve had 2 pairs for a few years now and they are wearing beautifully. I’ve not had to re-sole them yet but it should be easily doable.

Democratic detonation has been one of the best for a long time. Gives you lots of different options in terms of loadouts. Not sure if it’s still considered best compared to the newer options though.

Hope.

Nice, that’s good to know. I know most gaming is not an issue due to proton these days.

I’ve got a hp reverb G2, which is windows mixed reality. I don’t think this one would work. The G2 is a pretty small user base compared to meta headsets.

I’ve got a hp reverb G2 which runs through windows mixed reality, which is helpfully not supported now anyway. It’s also one of the smallest user bases for vr I think. Have you heard anything about that headset? When I looked initially (ages ago to be fair) I couldn’t find much about it with Linux.

VR gaming support and I do play Helldivers 2 on occasion despite the ridiculous anticheat. My understanding is neither of those would work on Linux.

Though with proton and MS getting increasingly crap I am more and more tempted to make the switch.

Life outside of work. I’d love more time to spend with my wife and dog. Time to watch movies, play video games, hike, read, camp. Hell if I didn’t have to work so much I might actually do some strength training.

Good for you putting yourself out there.

Alcohol is not a healthy coping mechanism. It’s actually a depressant so whilst it removes your inhibitions and allows you to focus on other things for a while it overall makes you more down.

I love slay the princess, such a great game and a great story. A good one for video games as art.

I really enjoyed it but I found the pay off of all the meta stuff to be a bit lacking. The first section though was some of the best atmospheric game I have ever played. I especially didn’t appreciate needing to watch a couple of YouTube videos to “finish the story”. I did appreciate what it was trying to do and the first part of the game with Leshy was truly excellent.

For me it depends entirely on my mood coming into gaming. I need to be in the right mindset to bash my head against a boss or level for a few hours to enjoy souls likes. Lately with life stuff I’ve not been in that mood. I still haven’t finished Elden Ring despite really enjoying it and having 2 characters started. So I guess I do have some souls fatigue but it’s more like I’m fatigued and can’t play souls likes rather than I’m fed up of the games.

It’s an entertaining game. I work with elderly care so I think I’m pretty good at recognising Parkinson’s from someone’s walk but yeah other things are harder without talking to someone.

Healthcare professional. Play spot diagnosis from people’s walks and stuff observable from a distance. always keep an eye out for people who look like they need help. Always check people at car accidents are out of the cars and calm before driving on. I do the veins thing too.

The dev is quite against the deep discount sales for Rimworld, it never drops below a few quid off. It is 100% worth it at full price however so take the plunge when you’re ready, you won’t regret it. I’ve got a good few hundred hours, it’s one of my most played games. I come back and start a new colony at least once a year or so. All the explanations are great and add something cool to the base game. I haven’t even looked at mods for it yet but there’s a huge scene for those.

They found a theme they liked and ran with it didn’t they.

Do you have any corps or established stuff in universe you could make into game cabinets? Callbacks are always good. Even really mundane stuff like shoes or bubblegum could have one. Maybe the sponsor wants to make the crew into a cabinet. I also like the idea that something like Packman or galaga is taking centre stage over all these fantastic modern games.