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Ep. 4 (Windshear) Act 2 Page 18: "Thrown for a Loop"
Moshi moshi, Dire Dogs desu!
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Today's review! A Planet of Wrath and Tears by Colin Alexander:
"Strap in and get ready for a wild ride that sidesteps stale first-contact tropes and brings us something fresh, with enough humanity, whiz-bang tech and a roller-coaster of a plot that ends with a bang. A masterful work of modern-day sci-fi."
How can you be yourself when you don't know who you really are? A story of isolation, adaptation, kindness, cruelty, trust and hope, and above all, how to piece together the truth (or at least pick out the lies) on a future, depopulated Earth.
Isn't it obvious that the #CyberTruck exists because #ElonMusk wanted a fleet of armored vehicles for him and his rich friends to drive once society crumbles and we're living in a #PostApocalyptic#MadMax#dystopia, and the easiest way to achieve that was to get his company to manufacture them?
This, by the way, should clue you in to the fact that the oligarchs know society is on the verge of #collapse and they're making plans to ride it out rather than trying to avert it.
In the #postapocalyptic future, members of a musical Cryptic Alliance called the Fire-Singers travel the #GammaWorld. They perform, study, and debate all 8 versions of their sacred hymn that were written between 1989 and 2232, hoping to somehow, somewhere, discover who started the fire.
Outlanders eke out a steady living scavenging relics from the world before the Withering. The shifting dunes of the Outlands uncover scrap and oddities that delvers can sell in city-states like Trinity.
Surprisingly warm but utterly itchy, Outlander Bag Scrap Sweaters are a common piece of clothing to see in Outer Trinity during winter. They often sport a piece of scavenged Pre-Withering branding that the maker found funny or meaningful.
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Post-apocalyptic story set hundreds of years in the future, where life is simple and modern conveniences are a thing of the past until a boy enchanted by technology is forced to choose between doing the right thing for his community and pursuing his dreams of adventure.
A whole bunch of medical stuff piled up on our plates this week so we're taking a quick break! We'll be back soon with more antigravity ninja shenanigans!
(P.S. Would this make a good sticker? Alan wants to make more stickers.)
Post-WW3 fiction often features high tech that still works. I envision a post-war world where no electronics work at all. You'll be knapping arrowheads from iPads and scavenging iron for farm tools from crashed battle drones.
I'm wondering if there are readers who would love a cozy #apocalypse story about building a community, instead of the gritty-survival that is dominating the indie charts? #postapocalyptic
The Bridge - somewhere deep under the west side of the city, a long, open space carries four sets of rails between the Michonne Circle and Somerville metro stations.
Although a welcome break from the claustrophobia and darkness of the rest of the Green Line, it also makes a perfect spot for an ambush... #gzdoom#indiefps#postapocalyptic#Ashes2063#KillTheLights
The post-apocalyptic pictures of the Statue of Liberty or the Capitol sticking up out of water / ice / desert sand reveal a poor understanding of how deserted buildings collapse.
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.
September 26, 2023 - Day 269 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 289
Game: Rage 2
Platform: Steam
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Installation Date: Nov 22, 2022
Unplayed: 308d (10m4d)
Playtime: 32m
Rage 2 is an open-world post-apocalyptic FPS.
Do you like things that go "splorch" when you shoot them? If you answered 'yes', Rage 2 might be the game for you!
Rage 2 is a sequel to Rage, a post-apocalyptic FPS. I played 27 minutes of Rage back in 2022, and found it a bit repetitive and grindy, and visually it was many shades of brown, grey, and black.
Rage 2 is BRIGHT! There's a woman with a blue mohawk and white facepaint screaming out of a pink and yellow background on the Steam header, like an escapee from Mad Max Fury Road.
The game is set about 30 years after the end of Rage, and the antagonist from Rage who wanted to take over the world is back, and he's pissed.
...and mostly robotic. He's been living underground and has amassed a ragtag army of mutants to... take over the world.
Where Rage felt grindy and repetitive even within the first 30 minutes, Rage 2 felt more... fun. However, I've only really completed what is essentially the intro, and gotten my first vehicle and a handful of quests, so maybe it will turn out to be less fun as time goes by.
In any case, I now have an alternative post-apocalyptic shoot-and-splorch game to Outriders.
December 30, 2023 - Day 364 - NewPlay Bonus Review
Total NewPlays: 396
Game: Wasteland 3
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Aug 29, 2020
Installation Date: Dec 21, 2023
Unplayed: 9d
Playtime: 54m
Wasteland 3 is an isometric squad-based RPG with turn-based combat mechanics.
Apparently it's all RPGs all day here. Less "all", and more "this afternoon", because I ended up spending all morning cleaning out my desk and sorting screws.
Yeah, I forgot my ADHD meds, and today has been erratic. The kicker was discovering that I'd doubled up on a day count back in early October, meaning that instead of only needing to play one extra game per day for three days, it was two extra games today, and two tomorrow to hit my "400 new games" goal.
Anyway, turns out I've had a bunch of cool isometric RPGs just sitting in my unredeemed Steam keys spreadsheet; it's suddenly an embarrassment of riches, between Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, BG3, and now Wasteland 3.
Having not played the previous two Wasteland games, I thought it was some kind of post-apocalyptic FPS, but instead it's a post-apocalyptic RPG set in a nuclear winter affected Colorado.
The game starts out with a cut-scene talking about what happened to the Desert Rangers after the events of Wasteland 2 (and providing enough information for context), explaining that the Desert Rangers are on their way to Colorado to meet with "the owner of Colorado" to seek assistance for Arizona (I really need to look at a US map).
Looked at the map, got distracted. Anyway, things do not go according to plan, and you get ambushed on your way, and off the game goes.
Looks like I've got a lot of RPGs to play in 2024, because Wasteland 3 seems: