I started playing GTA V with a controller, but was really confused how difficult the boat trailer chasing mission was. After almost 1 hour, I switched to KBM and finished it first try.
I still prefer controllers for most games.

Pikuniku is a brilliant little puzzle adventure game, too. I don’t know exactly when it was available for free in the Epic store.

Enjoying games is so difficult because of this. I love open world games that let you do everything, but it’s so hard focusing.

I want to finish all side quests first, but I’m forced to do parts of the main quest at some point to progress. Then I’m sad when it’s already over just when I thought I’m ready to start.

And when I try to focus only on the main quest, I don’t enjoy the game that much anymore after finishing because it feels unnecessary and boring.

I still somehow managed to play all 6 Assassin’s Creed games up to Black Flag + Origins 100% through sheer willpower.

If I remember correctly, that was the original idea of AWS, to offer their free capacity to paying customers.

Do you think that AWS in particular has this problem or Azure and GCP as well? I have mainly worked with DWHs in Snowflake, where you can adjust the compute capacity within seconds. So you pay almost exactly for the capacity you really need.
Not having to optimize queries is a good selling point for cloud-based databases, too.

It is certainly still cheaper than self-hosted on-premises infrastructure.

Do you mean that it’s still the case that more resources are allocated than actually used or that the code does not need to be optimized anymore due to elastic compute?

This is the right way

You might be right.
Cue the Sherlock theme.

Another hint:
“I don’t believe you heard us or Larian say that this was about parity in terms of parity.”

In another article it makes more sense:
"In terms of parity, I don’t think you’ve heard from us or Larian, that this was about parity,” he told Eurogamer.

But at least the subtitle must have been typed since there is an extra character in “f+ears”.

Turing Machine is actually the only game on my wish list this year. It’s the perfect match for me as I love solving logical puzzles, work in IT and like to play board games instead of sitting in front of a display all the time. The Steam game Turing Complete was already a dream come true for me.

There is no impact on taxes as long as your Nebenverdienst is not higher than 520€ a month. You also don’t have to pay social security contributions in that case.

I live less than an hour away, so I’d be really lazy not to go there.

I think meeting there with friends is the best incentive for those who live far away.

Not yet. I usually don’t make a list until a few days before it starts. But maybe I won’t prepare anything at all this time.

I’m more focused on playing games for fun now, rather than getting the best deals like I did 5 years ago. The SPIEL is good for trying out games, sometimes even before release, or getting some exclusive bonus expansions, but not so much for getting cheap prices anymore.

Besides, I don’t want to add to my huge collection until I have more time to play games. So this time I may just go unprepared and see what looks interesting.

I totally agree. And I would add some of my favorite games like Outer Wilds, Satisfactory, or The Witness to the list that look great but don’t try to be realistic. Their art style only serves the purpose of their respective core gameplay.

Well, I’m not a biologist and even all my houseplants are constantly dying. For me, biology as a whole is confusing.

You are correct, but the potato plant bears potato fruits, which are classified as berries. I will clarify that in my comment.

The taxonomy in biology can be really confusing. Potatoes (only their fruits), peppers, cucumbers, eggplants, avocados, lemons, oranges, kiwifruit and papayas are also in the berry club.

Satisfactory is the first game I thought of. It even made me craft little 2D building models to plan proper factory layouts.

I completely agree. Both of the problems you mention are solved in Jaws of the Lion, so I would recommend any newbie to start with that.

Thanks for elaborating. I’m just generally curious what is being played in other countries. As a German, I always played lots of board games and I for myself prefer complex Euro games.

It’s interesting that you distinguish between those café types since here in Germany, there is no such distinction. I only know boardgame cafés.

Sounds cool. What kinds of board games are played there? Classic card games, modern strategic Euro games, party games or any of those?

I totally get what you mean by lower entry barrier. In the end, that’s also by design for LCGs. But the completionist in me looks at the price tag for the whole collection in horror (no pun intended). Maybe after what you wrote I still give it another try, so thanks for sharing your experience.

When you play SI for the first time on TTS, I highly recommend playing with someone who knows the game already. Scripts in TTS are nice and all, but it’s even harder to understand how everything works when they are doing stuff so fast that you cannot follow.

I played Spirit Island for the first time on Tabletop Simulator and it felt kinda cluttered and too hard to anticipate what happens next. But playing it at a real table with all the little pieces was completely different. We played many times with 4 players since and added the expansions only after a while. The base game is completely fine in my opinion and doesn’t feel incomplete.

I didn’t really get into AH LCG. I only played it in TTS and felt like I had little control over the game. There were so many random elements that could affect all subsequent games that we abandoned it in frustration. And isn’t the price much higher with all the campaigns than SI?