#introduction - Hey I'm Ste (he/him), live in Nottingham UK, gay and in the upper quartile of my 30s. Happily partnered with Pete 🥰
I’m pretty cheeky in a dark way, often try to be funny but ymmv depending on your sense of humour. Been on Mastodon since Oct ’22. Love this place
Interests include city builder games especially #Timberborn 🦫, listening to podcasts (mainly left of centre UK political), decent noughties music and getting my steps in by stomping through the city
Today, we’re happy to unveil the next big thing coming to Timberborn. With Update 5, the gameplay gets deeper, post-apocalyptic Earth grows more hostile, and your beavers become even more eco-friendly. All thanks to the addition of the volatile pollution - badwater....
@gamingonlinux I love #Timberborn but they really need bigger maps and more stuff to do in the endgame. At least that was the case about half a year ago.
Won at #timberborn, now I can finally get my life back (I haven't figured out how to enjoy this game, without getting fully addicted and being unable to get anything else done for a few days yet)
Today is going to be a hot day, so I'm definitely not going to leave the flat. Instead, I'll try to make this Sunday as productive as possible, as there are so many things to do. Trying to find the best chain of actions to optimise both my home and myself. 💪
@PlaystationPixy Google says we have 26°C here, it's already getting a little bit uncomfortable. But I have to do the dishes nonetheless. I guess I will reward myself with a cold shower later on.
And yes, there will be gaming. Unfortunately, I haven't yet figured out what I wanna play today. On my potential list:
#introduction - New instance
Hey I'm Ste (he/him), live in Nottingham UK, gay, 37 1/2 years of age, not married or otherwise attached 😏🤭
I’m pretty cheeky in a dark way, often try to be funny but ymmv depending on your sense of humour.
Been on Mastodon since Oct ’22. Moved from tech.lgbt to my own instance recently. Love this place 🥰
Interests include city builder games especially #Timberborn 🦫, listening to podcasts (mainly left of centre UK political), decent noughties music and playing Renaissance on repeat.
Collector of colourful boxer shorts 👀 Ex smoker, current vaper, drink like a 🐟.
Work in the textiles industry on the IT side. Web dev and backend, but mainly forced to do boring non-tech stuff
Always open for a chat and the darker the humour the better.
Ha, remember when I lost entire days of my life and all sleep to The Colonists several times? That was silly. Was searching for another game from that publisher, stumbled into #Timberborn.
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
Timberborn is an "oh no what have I done reality" game (TIL there's not really an antonym for simulator).
Technically, Timberborn is a "lumberpunk" city-building strategy management game in a post-apocalyptic Earth devoid of humans.
In practice, Timberborn is regret*-generator that will eat up your time, until you look up from the monitor and realise you should have been in bed two hours ago. In my case, three and a half hours.
You control a colony of beavers. BEAVERS! They're adorable and whimsical, and they build stuff, and you can build more stuff, and then extend, and then plant trees, and dear me, this just made me want to keep playing.
I had this on my wishlist for a while, and then it came up on special, and then it was even cheaper on Humble, and it was worth every penny of the A$23.50 I paid for it.
Timberborn - Update 5 is now on the Experimental Branch! - Steam News (store.steampowered.com)
Today, we’re happy to unveil the next big thing coming to Timberborn. With Update 5, the gameplay gets deeper, post-apocalyptic Earth grows more hostile, and your beavers become even more eco-friendly. All thanks to the addition of the volatile pollution - badwater....