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#11
Off the Record / Re: Vote in the Dutch election...
Last post by mongers - October 19, 2025, 05:15:18 PMQuote from: Maladict on October 19, 2025, 01:32:00 PMHoly shit, I made a poll and didn't fuck it up
But you didn't include the tall blonde woman I'd vote for.
#12
Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...
Last post by The Minsky Moment - October 19, 2025, 04:48:22 PMLegend of Khiimori: play a mounted courier in 13th century Mongolia. Really like the look and feel of this game. Not totally sold yet on the game play but could do a lot worse than riding around 13th century Mongolia.
Crisol On the rails FPS where you use a blood-fueled gun to battle Spanish baroque era constructs. Distinctive design.
Lumines arise Did you ever play Lumines? Like it? This is more of that.
God breakers Let's see, you fight godlike creatures and their minions using combos of different attacks and doing lots of quick dodges. So yes, plays quite a bit like Hades, but the atmosphere is quite different.
Tears of Metal Roguelike hack-and-slash playing leader of squad of cartoonish claymore-wielding Hollywood style medieval Scotsmen. Beyond silly, but had fun playing the demo. 3 FREEEEEEEEEEDOMS out of 4?
Forestrike Martial arts battler with 80s style 2D pixel graphics; gimmick is that you can practice out the encounters and experiment with different moves before playing it for real.
Battlemarked Turn-based boardgame style tactical game using D&D license. Demo was pretty short so hard to get a full sense of it.
Alien Morgue Investigator game where you determine cause of death of different alien species.
Aether & Iron point-and-click film noir RPG set in 1930s steam punk New York
Crisol On the rails FPS where you use a blood-fueled gun to battle Spanish baroque era constructs. Distinctive design.
Lumines arise Did you ever play Lumines? Like it? This is more of that.
God breakers Let's see, you fight godlike creatures and their minions using combos of different attacks and doing lots of quick dodges. So yes, plays quite a bit like Hades, but the atmosphere is quite different.
Tears of Metal Roguelike hack-and-slash playing leader of squad of cartoonish claymore-wielding Hollywood style medieval Scotsmen. Beyond silly, but had fun playing the demo. 3 FREEEEEEEEEEDOMS out of 4?
Forestrike Martial arts battler with 80s style 2D pixel graphics; gimmick is that you can practice out the encounters and experiment with different moves before playing it for real.
Battlemarked Turn-based boardgame style tactical game using D&D license. Demo was pretty short so hard to get a full sense of it.
Alien Morgue Investigator game where you determine cause of death of different alien species.
Aether & Iron point-and-click film noir RPG set in 1930s steam punk New York
#13
Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...
Last post by The Minsky Moment - October 19, 2025, 04:30:21 PMFYI - there was a couple of Warhammer games, the star trek game referenced above, and a Marvel game - didn't look of those as they will get enough exposure as is.
#14
Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...
Last post by The Minsky Moment - October 19, 2025, 04:28:46 PMSteam Next Fest October 2025
A bunch of strategy/wargames this time around including:
Strategos: ancient battles game, along the lines of Field of Glory, but RTS. Tight command limits; units outside the command limit have to rely on couriers for orders. Very likely to pick this up when/if price is reasonable. Published by Microprose which I didn't know still existed.
Master of Command: another RTS, set in the Seven Years War, kind of a souped-up version of Total War, where you recuit troops, buy and sell resources, fight battles. I found moving troops and setting formations kind of fiddly, but that just might be my own incompetence and unfamiliarity with the controls. Intriguing, will follow.
Frontline Logistics - Isarian Warfare: not sure what is up with the name, it doesn't involve fighting early 8th century Byzantine emperors. Another RTS, the premise is that you are a supply officer jumped up to be company commander of disordered c. 1990s era military unit. Focus is on establishing base areas, maintaining troops on the line, repairing vehicles, etc. Simple graphics, somewhat cluttered interface. Game seems like it could be quite good for people interested in that sort of thing.
Demos that seemed interesting but not tried:
Nova Patria: Caesar style city builder set in steam punk variant of ancient Rome.
Extinction Day: deploy natural and man-made disasters to wipe out humanity
Non-strat games next.
A bunch of strategy/wargames this time around including:
Strategos: ancient battles game, along the lines of Field of Glory, but RTS. Tight command limits; units outside the command limit have to rely on couriers for orders. Very likely to pick this up when/if price is reasonable. Published by Microprose which I didn't know still existed.
Master of Command: another RTS, set in the Seven Years War, kind of a souped-up version of Total War, where you recuit troops, buy and sell resources, fight battles. I found moving troops and setting formations kind of fiddly, but that just might be my own incompetence and unfamiliarity with the controls. Intriguing, will follow.
Frontline Logistics - Isarian Warfare: not sure what is up with the name, it doesn't involve fighting early 8th century Byzantine emperors. Another RTS, the premise is that you are a supply officer jumped up to be company commander of disordered c. 1990s era military unit. Focus is on establishing base areas, maintaining troops on the line, repairing vehicles, etc. Simple graphics, somewhat cluttered interface. Game seems like it could be quite good for people interested in that sort of thing.
Demos that seemed interesting but not tried:
Nova Patria: Caesar style city builder set in steam punk variant of ancient Rome.
Extinction Day: deploy natural and man-made disasters to wipe out humanity
Non-strat games next.
#15
Off the Record / Re: Vote in the Dutch election...
Last post by Iormlund - October 19, 2025, 04:27:18 PMQuote from: Savonarola on October 19, 2025, 02:32:41 PMAs an engineer I feel obligated to go with the one who most looks like a super villain. In this case that would be number 13. It looks like she has the same sort of hideous smile permanently rigged just like the Joker or Nancy Pelosi.
I voted for that one as well.
#16
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by The Minsky Moment - October 19, 2025, 04:13:09 PMAs for the match, of course safety must take priority over all else. While we are at it, also ban all black people from attending away games for African clubs. In fact, because this isn't just a Birmingham problem, I'd recommend that all football grounds in Britain implement separate seating as a precaution. Each race and ethnic group would have their own separate sections. That way everyone is happy and safe! Who knows, perhaps such benign segregation policies could take root in all aspects of society, to the benefit of all.
#17
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by The Minsky Moment - October 19, 2025, 04:00:39 PMQuote from: Tamas on October 19, 2025, 12:13:51 PMA quick note that the Gary's Economics guy has suffered a big credibility hit with me when he mentioned in the last video that he has a Patreon, allegedly to pay the couple of guys making and editing his videos. Doesn't really add up with his "rich retired trader" shtick. Doesn't invalidate his message but pushes him on the grifters scale.
He was a junior trader at Citibank for a 5-6 years. No doubt he made some nice bonuses, enough to send him through his subsequent schooling. I doubt he made enough during those years to live the rest of his life in retired leisure and affluence, without ever earning any other income again.
#18
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Josquius - October 19, 2025, 03:59:34 PMQuote from: Tamas on October 19, 2025, 03:34:06 PMThe optics of this Aston Villa thing are terrible.https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/19/aston-villa-jews-ed-miliband-maccabi-tel-aviv
Not only the police decided Jews are hated too much in the city for them to protect them during this event, but as it turns out even before that the football club decided that those stewards who find that their (or, I suspect, their family's and peers ) dislike of Jews in this climate is too much, they can stay home.
It is extremely easy for the far-right to paint a picture based on this, that Birmingham is too Muslim to control. And it is difficult to disagree with that assessment, when the local police and the football club appear in agreement with it.
That's one spin.
I'd see it that there's pretty sensible reason to not want Tel Aviv fans freely coming over for the game after the crap they kicked up in Amsterdam.
It's a sensible straight forward decision that can be made without giving any thought at all to the current mess around Gaza.
But the government barging in and trying to overturn the police's decision completely.... That makes what could easily be seen as entirely about the hooliganism issue into one of "Muslamic Emirate of Birmingham so anti semitic!"
It's quite a dumb move.
For the stewards.... If I was a visibly Muslim woman not sure I'd be keen on getting paid minimum wage to stand in front of a notorious gang of far right Israeli football hooligans.
That's how I'd see it rather than " if you really hate Israelis that much... "
More "we get some of you might be particularly targeted by these cunts..."
#19
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Tamas - October 19, 2025, 03:34:06 PMThe optics of this Aston Villa thing are terrible.https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/19/aston-villa-jews-ed-miliband-maccabi-tel-aviv
Not only the police decided Jews are hated too much in the city for them to protect them during this event, but as it turns out even before that the football club decided that those stewards who find that their (or, I suspect, their family's and peers ) dislike of Jews in this climate is too much, they can stay home.
It is extremely easy for the far-right to paint a picture based on this, that Birmingham is too Muslim to control. And it is difficult to disagree with that assessment, when the local police and the football club appear in agreement with it.
Not only the police decided Jews are hated too much in the city for them to protect them during this event, but as it turns out even before that the football club decided that those stewards who find that their (or, I suspect, their family's and peers ) dislike of Jews in this climate is too much, they can stay home.
It is extremely easy for the far-right to paint a picture based on this, that Birmingham is too Muslim to control. And it is difficult to disagree with that assessment, when the local police and the football club appear in agreement with it.
#20
Gaming HQ / Re: The everything miniatures ...
Last post by The Brain - October 19, 2025, 03:26:55 PMShepherd and dogs. Part of my 11th century stuff (Normans etc, see upthread). From Studio Historia.
