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Since it's my birthday I've decided to share the joy and all that, gifting you all some games.

Here are they: one code per person, first asker takes it home

GoG:
- Victor Vran
- Expeditions: Conquistador

Steam:
- Doodle God
- Blackwell trilogy
- FEZ
- Deponia
- Spacechem
- Solar 2
- Avadon the Black Fortress
- Risen 2 Dark Waters
- Waking Mars
- Organ Trail: director's cut
- Risen
- Mark of the Ninja
- The Bard's Tale
- Ravensword: Shadowlands
- Wizorb

Origin:
Dead Space


Possibly more will be added later

Hello, I'm finding that I enjoy lower popcaps (20-40 I think) both because of performance and because I find the experience more survivalistic and enjoyable. BUT... but... I'd like to get visitors, megabeasts, and (smaller) invasions... so... how do you set up this kind of game in this version of the game?

Thanks in advance

So... I'm preparing my CV to drop around here (I'm basically using the one I'll send back home as a source), and I'm having an existential doubt: Several of my papers and publications are actually written in languages other than English. Should I bother to keep them in at all?

Also related: In regards to courses and educationals: Should I translate the name of the course?

http://www.pixellore.com/


Avaiable at GoG: https://www.gog.com/game/subterrain

I got this in the GoG sale and I'm quite happy with it.

The premise is that you're a doctor who went to Mars to find the cure to his wife's disease, currently in prison, because you were convicted of murder because of a lab accident, which apparently one of your rivals orchestrated. So there you are, in prison, serving your sentence, when all hell breaks loose, with the colonists becoming cannibal mutants because of the influence of some strange alien insectoids.

From then on you have to fight your way through the colony (diablo 2 style), gathering resources to improve your home base and craft new weapons and drugs (because  oh boy you'll need drugs to help broken bones and the ever-present alien zombie plague), and eventually flee the planet.

All in all I'm finding the game very addictive, and am quite hooked to it. Give it a try.

I wont say any spoilers. Or at least any plot-related spoilers. Mostly. But I will comment a bit on some things that made me thoughtful on this game.

So, I played it mostly non-lethal. Not because of achievements, but because, well... it felt right.

Fact: I'd say that roughtly, like, 10-20% of Dishonored characters are utterly disgusting people (I don't think it's a coincidence that low chaos gives you around that kill percentaje while still giving you the good ending), and about 70-80% more are on a scale from semi-disgusting to flawed. You find about ten percent nice people.

You have two "objetive" ways of judging this. One are documents and diaries you find. Another is the secrets the Heart tells you.

And the thing is, that you find that even amid lower class guards, not everyone is a monster.
You see, most of the time the heart tells you tactic stuff like "Careful, he's armed". And sometimes they tell you that this particular NPC is a murderer, or a rapist.

But sometimes you casually aim the heart at some guard or thug, and you get stuff like:
"He feeds a stray dog every night. He named her Billy".
Or
"When not at his post he searches for his sister, missing a week".
Or
"He visits his father in the asylum, even though the man no longer remembers him"

When you get stuff like that. And stuff like in the diaries, suddenly murdering people out of expedience, even in a computer game in which the main character is basically a hitman (!), gets distasteful. During the game I honestly felt bad about doing it, and in fact went waaay out of my way of killing NPCs. I wasn't a vigilante and wasn't about to judge every character I met, but in a pinch, unless the Heart told me the enemy NPC in question was fucking rotten, I preferred to avoid a kill and search for an alternate pathway, if possible.


It made me think. See, most people are gray, I'd say. There are very few truly shining examples, and far more dirty rotten ones. But few people truly have unredeeming qualities. For instance, one person from my workplace whom I regarded as a dick, recently did something very brave  to try to help another person. Even though it got him in trouble, he did what was right. At a point that noone else was willing to do it. Really, he was the fucking unlikely hero of the day.  Made me reconsider my own attitude.

I guess that my point is that while you have to be wary, and watch your back. But that even though very few people are really good, it's also true that very few people have absolutely no unredeeming qualities. Sometimes you get unlikely heroes. And sometimes you're the unlikely hero, I guess.

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As for the main characters in the game, when they were assasination targets, I tended to gravitate to non-lethal options because for the most part they felt either more pragmatic plotwise, and/or more satisfying


I think my most difficult moral choice was at a point in the game in which you had to choose to kill one of two main characters who were mostly morally bankrupt but which had both done you a good turn (or more) in the past. Not "choose a third option". (In the end I decided to spare the one I felt was the more interesting of the two). I would comment which characters I mean, and which I chose, but it'd be spoiling things.

Ok, I admit the new trees are MUCH prettier... but they are also behind the performance kill in the last version of DF, or so I hear. Is there any way to revert to old trees?

As some of you might know, there was a German expedition to the south pole in 1938 that dropped ten aluminium spikes from a plane (the idea was to claim a piece of territory doing this, or something like that). My question is: are there any pictures of these markings, contemporary or otherwise?  I was suddenly struck by them being some rather unique WW2 memorabilia, and am curious as to how they looked.