I believe Sony owns the Helldivers IP, so they may not have had much choice in the matter.

I play coop PVE games with random matchmaking, Helldivers 2 is still a lot of fun with random people.

Ice cream scoopin’, shittin’ poopin’, shittin’, poopin’

But more seriously, MF DOOM (RIP) is one of my favourite artists, but he’s been covered in a few comments already. But one of my favourites from him is:

Getting paid like a biker with the best crank
Spray it like a high-ranked sniper in the West Bank

I literally finished A Deepness in The Sky a couple weeks ago and enjoyed it.

RIP

Yes thankfully, been having fun the past few nights!

Also swapping the .dll file trick worked before the patch to get me a few games on monday

Oh that’s good to hear, hopefully this weekend won’t be too bad. I did manage to get in a few times last weekend, but with matchmaking completely not working I didn’t really want to play by myself anyway.

How is it currently with USA peak times?

Since the first patch this week I’ve had no issues getting in, but I am in Oceania so I’m probably not playing at the peak times.

I haven’t gone past ‘Challenging’ difficulty yet, but the friendly fire makes for some funny antics. Fighting against the robots feels quite different to the bugs too, it can make it feel like a different game.

DRG is great too, although haven’t played it in quite awhile.

I finished Alastair Reynold’s Pushing Ice a few months ago and it’s kind of close to what OP is looking for. Also a really good book!

I’m enjoying Helldivers 2. I’m too old for competitive games and love a good PvE co-op game.

It’s a little grindy to unlock weapons and stratagems, but feels about the same as the first game

Poop at work. Not only do you get paid to poop, you save money on toilet paper.

I started playing Darktide around a month and a half ago and I’ve been hopelessly addicted since

What’s the point of Denuvo on an always online live service game?

I was incredibly tempted to pre-order Starfield. Everything about it should be right up my alley. I love Sci-fi, space and all things related. But I learned my lesson after pre-ordering Diablo 4. I decided to try out the pirated version shortly after release and was so disappointed and glad I didn’t buy it. I dropped it after a few hours and had no desire to play it after that.

Also coming into it straight after playing Baldur’s Gate 3 made it look so dated. The plastic doll looking NPC’s and animations, boring dialogue and writing. I’m not even that into fantasy/D&D type settings and BG3 drew me in for many hours.

I really hope someone makes a game as good as BG3 but set in space, similar to Mass Effect etc.

Thanks, I hadn’t heard of it! Trailer and premise looks interesting, it’s definitely going on my list to watch.

Interesting that you found the Silo show better. I haven’t read the books yet but I’m going to eventually, because I want to know what’s going.

I went in blind with the show first, but I plan to read the books sometime soon, so I can’t spoil much for you.

I didn’t find it too slow personally and enjoyed the mystery. I can see it being slow for others though.

Thanks, I might start watching - like you said, not a lot of good Sci-Fi shows at the moment.

Thanks. I just realised there’s only 8 episodes in the first season, so not a big commitment.

Does it feel like there’s too many unresolved questions to be covered in the next two episodes?

Genius.com usually has annotations to explain song lyrics. Usually they’re guessing the intent of the artist though. Or are you wanting differing interpretations? I’m not sure if there’s anything like that.