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I LOVE The Long Dark, but I do wish they’d have different seasons if you survive long enough. Something tells me that even summer would be no picnic on that island with the crazed wildlife and geomagnetic storms. Maybe for a sequel someday?

Also I admit that I like playing non-story games with the wildlife turned down to mimic more reasonable behaviors. Then it really does become more of you against the elements, rather than you against crazy wolves. @_

This. No programs I routinely use images for support it.

Whelp, I’ve got the setting of my next horror game figured out!

And now we have plotlines for another few hundred Doctor Who episodes!

I remember that when Star Trek Online was first announced, it was VERY different than what it is now… and it actually more closely resembled what you were describing. Each character would be free to do some of their own hero stuff in the galaxy but also be on ‘hub ships’ where you were a smaller part of a much larger whole, participating in shipboard stuff. Then it changed hands or somesuch, and the new leadership said, “Nobody just wants to be some random person on a starship! Everyone wants to be the captain!”

To which I said, “No, actually… ._. I think I would enjoy just vibing on a supercool space ship with my Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism lifestyle.” So it would be interesting to see someone try to do STO as it was originally intended.

A strategy/management sim where you are a Madam running a brothel. Lots of ways to take it-- set it in different places/eras to signify how far under the radar you have to be, change your regime from harsh to compassionate, build out the brothel itself, recruit talent (ethically or unethically), decide if you want to theme the establishment to attract a certain clientele-- lots of interesting things you could do with the setting!

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The cat DOES match the top very well. Good color choice. ^_

The moment I hear someone try to call ANY job “unskilled labor”, I have to fight the urge to shove the tools into their hands and say, “Okay, YOU do it, then, since it’s so simple.”

Very cool! Thank you for sharing this! ^_

I, too, would love to play Xenogears!

If we could somehow get a collab between Namco and Square-Enix to make the missing Episode 4 that connects Xenosaga and Xenogears, that would be sweet, too. But I know better than to hope for that.

I agree with OP, TMP ships are beautiful and graceful and yet still have some nice angles… and while TMP uniforms must be as uncomfortable as all get-out, I also think they look the best. Excelsior is one of my favorite classes, and a lot of the ships they introduced for the first two Starfleet Command games, extrapolating outward to other classes, are also really fun.

It’s for the best, really.

We don’t worry about silly things like ‘karma’. We have transcended such things to embrace the True Internet.

I was really into this for a few days. >_< Now I can’t un-learn about Joe’s Nipple-Twisting Ice Cream.

They’re both great games, but they play very differently. The scale of DSP is vast-- you’re a giant robot that can fly to different planets, and you end up setting up supply chains that span entire solar systems-- and in late game, you can even go to OTHER STAR SYSTEMS if you need something exceptionally rare in greater quantities.

Satisfactory is so first-person that it can seem daunting, and unlike DSP you have the very real chance of dying. And, for some reason, in a spacefaring society you have to reinvent the gun. >_> That said it is much more intimate, and the struggles are much more rewarding. Getting that new node producing can feel much more satisfying (no pun intended) when you remember all the fauna you had to fight through to get to it, the pathing you had to do to connect up all the power cables and belts…

So, for me, I’d say it depends on how you feel about that sense of scale! If you want to feel big and powerful, give DSP a try. If you want more of a challenge and prefer a smaller-scale experience, try Satisfactory. Oh, also, Satisfactory has multiplayer available, so if you ever want to try and get more friends involved, that’s the obvious choice!

… And then the moment you find yourself standing in the warehouse, realizing that you do not actually have the thing, knowing that this is going to turn into an afternoon-ruining phone call… ._.

Seeing a Hearts of Iron-style focus tree in Star Trek was a severe moment of dissonance for me. That said, I hope they do this one right!

… Am I still allowed to call this “Federated Space”? Because that just sounds so cool! >_<