Space Age? Yeah, though priced at the same as the base game. Arguably bigger than the base game quite honestly. I imagine I will be over 200 hours by the time I finish it, assuming Gleba doesn’t break me.

The Paradox published factory builder is Foundry, which is more of a satisfactory style first person joint. Wube makes Factorio I believe.

I always come back to Warframe in spurts, I would like to play it again but just got so much on my list.
Soulframe NDAs are lifted now, so can say I enjoyed the time I put into that. It is a really visually striking game, but way slower paced than warframe.

Just rolled credits on Satisfactory after 100 hours, and been playing the hell out of the Factorio: Space Age DLC (at about 120 hours right now). I like factory games a lot.
Generally having a really good time on Factorio, but Gleba is absolutely not my thing. Everything up to that point I have loved, but I kind of dread continuing on from here.

I have Persona 3 Reload on the backburner, for when I clear my plate a bit. About 10 hours into that.

Biggest game I am looking forward to for 2025 is probably Monster Hunter Wilds right now.

I have seen people trying to organise boycotts against Muslim owned businesses in retaliation for maybe not voting for Harris.

And they want us to believe they are totally the caring non-racist side.

The US keeps doing this, and expecting China to come begging to be let back in the club. Everytime China just goes off and does it way better themselves.

In a way, the US repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot is probably one of the biggest impetus for Chinese development around. China probably would have been happy to cooperate with US space organizations or to keep using their existing chip agreements.

How else would you have room to buy the newer and more expensive bombs from your contractors?

Stop…murdering people? I am sorry, but how will the Lockheed CEO possibly win the yacht contest without the US government paying him billions of dollars? Do you expect him to show up with last year’s model?

McCarthy would be proud to see his legacy alive and well.

I can’t say I am surprised, but a bit disappointed.

“The problem now”

They have been in desperation draft mode for a while now, we always knew the problem was people. Anyone with sense was saying this like a month into the conflict. Getting western powers to shovel their old equipment to them was never an issue as it just let the weapons manufacturers sell newer ordnance to said powers.

Not only do they lack people, they need more than just warm bodies that they can shove a rifle at and point them in a direction. Armies aren’t lining up and charging at each other anymore. Modern warfare isn’t just which side has more troops, you need trained and experienced soldiers that have a willingness to fight and know how to use their equipment. Ukraine has none of those.

So their current line is that the explicitly anti-Russian military alliance is checks notes controlled by Russia?

That’s…wait, yes that makes perfect sense. Quick, disband NATO in order to spite Putin! That will show him!

5 is great, and also pretty underrated in my opinion. I recently replayed the first six and I think I had greatly underrated 3/5 and overrated 4.

Not obscure, but I always felt FF3 never got enough credit. Largely because it never got a western release at the time I imagine. It was incredibly ambitious for a NES title, the nested world maps was absolutely bonkers at the time and it was really the first real form of the iconic FF job system.

Yeah the party was just a blob of blank slate characters, but overall I think it actually holds up pretty well.

I am going to stop going to work, because making me go to work is a plot of putin to <mumblemumblemumble>.

If you disagree, you are a putin apologist. I will still need that paycheque though.

Just reaching across the aisle to pander to the more fascist elements, nothing else.

Iran has some of the most sophisticated missile systems out there. Defense systems are alway playing catchup, so I do not doubt that they could easily overwhelm “Israel’s” countermeasures. They could probably level everything if they wanted to, but seem to be focused on solely military targets for the time being.

Could they be inflating their numbers to make themselves look better? Yes probably, most every government would do the same and I am sure anywhere there is a range of damage they are going to err on the high side of their estimates. But it isn’t a stretch to assume that a country that has basically built their entire defensive doctrine around the ability to missile strike anywhere with extreme efficacy is able to do exactly that. This is basically Iran’s area of expertise.

Nothing too unexpected, it is Russian media and yeah it often has a Russian bias. I don’t think it is any better or worse about that than any other news channel. Sometimes they have had good coverage about things, and sometimes they don’t.

Is it technically propaganda? Sure, just as much as any other news sources are. Propaganda isn’t necessarily untrue. I think trying to filter news to some pure unbiased ideal is an exercise in futility. But that isn’t at all what western forces are trying to do with RT. They just don’t want contrary viewpoints.

They are not. Asia (this comprises most SE asian countries), China, Japan, and SK are each separate regions.
Not quite as uniform as Europe, which is basically just one big region.

This is correct, I use a US PS5 in Japan and there is no issue.

I just have multiple PSN accounts for different regions. Even if you wanted to use the off-region PSN account outside that region you could, you would just have to do some workarounds to fund the digital wallet. Though there are plenty of sites that sell PSN codes that would work, I have used in the past and never been an issue.

Yen too, even factoring in exchange rates it is about 850 USD in JPY. In terms of relative purchasing power, it is well over 1000 USD.

We designed the damn thing and it is the most expensive here. I can’t imagine they will have all that many domestic sales.

It…depends probably.

You can definitely build a competent gaming PC for less than a PS5, depending on the games you want to play. If you are playing like Factorio and Rimworld, you don’t need a 4090 or something like that.

I think a PS5 is probably better value if you are just looking at raw tech specs for technically demanding games. Historically consoles (except sometimes Nintendo consoles) are sold at a loss because the platform holder makes money back on software. I have no idea if this is true for the Pro, though I imagine it is.

But on the high-end, PCs are definitely more expensive. The PC I just built cost me several times more than a PS5 Pro would have. It is almost certainly technically more powerful than the Pro would be and I can do a lot more with it besides just play games.

For me, makes no sense to replace my PS5 with a Pro. I don’t even care about the whole disc drive thing people are in arms about, I haven’t bought a physical game since the PS3 era. My PS5 has a drive that has never been used once. I just don’t really see the benefit of the upgrade when I have the base version and a PC already.