I’m late to this but I played about two hours of the first one and had a grand old time. The antagonists are a group of internet terrorists and they take advantage of the smartification of all infrastructure. The story focuses on kids but the first attack involves blowing up home ovens. the battle mechanics feel fresh enough to itch my brain a bit. You can pretty quickly jump into the game, so I’d say give it a try.
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Do you need this to be competitive or can it be co-op?
Because if co op is ok, gloomhaven is awesome.
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I think Warmachine and Hordes are squad sized. You can even combine them into Warmachine and Hordes.
I remember messing around with Malifaux a long time ago. Don’t know if that’s still around.
But yeah, they’re out there. I remember seeing some others at a boardgame shop once but I don’t really follow them.
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So I occasionally like gather up all the devices with rechargeable batteries I own and check if they’ve still got a charge left in them. If they don’t then I make sure to charge them, even if it’s something I haven’t actually used in years. I’m pretty sure at least that this is supposed to kill that batteries slightly less? So first question, is this actually right?
Secondly, usually when I do this of my game consoles then the GBA SP, DS lite and N3DSXL seem to be able to last months without use and very little discharging. Meanwhile my PSP3000 is completely dead withing what sometimes only seems like a few weeks. So just to check here, is this everyone else’s experience with the PSP specifically? When I actually charge it up and play with it for a while the battery seems to work fine at least although I neve play long enough for it to go completely out. Is it still best to charge it up regardless or am I somehow just making things worse? And yes, I do make sure to completely turn them all off and not just put them in standby.
I just want them to last.
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It is, but they keep doing new editions that invalidate previous editions and it seems really misguided,
I bloodpotioned this becausey PSP battery was exactly the same. Died very fast, even when not in use.
I have no idea of that’s a good or bad way of maintaining batteries tho
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I’d take the battery out of the PSP after the next full charge, wait a week, and see what the discharge out of the system was. I recall the PSP draining a bit but not completely.
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I didn’t think this game was popular enough for anyone here to have heard of it. Sounds pretty bad, but I guess you gotta make sales somehow.
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As PSP batteries are the one I most see readily available maybe just replace or just take it out and when you finally feel like playing PSP order a new one.
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just be aware that the modern ones kind of suck; the ones I got arrived split open, and while they replaced it, I now have a somewhat scary lithium pack I can’t use, and a second one I don’t feel too confident in
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yeah I mean the thing with old batteries is that trying to prolong their lifespan past a decade is like, water divining, it’s so fiddly that you’re not going to accomplish much either way, but aftermarket production at this point is typically very low quality (like trying to replace a gamecube joystick with a non-OEM part), so trying to source new old stock is going to be the best use of effort 9 times out of 10
ebay alerts (and craiglist alerts but those aren’t as good for obscure electronics) are your friend
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Yeah, I don’t really trust any battery-life “best practice” because it’s impossible for independent labs to test any of the theories in a reasonable timeframe. By the time they get results, if they bothered, there’s a new generation of products with different batteries that might have different lifetime properties. And product manufacturers don’t want to even allude to the fact that their batteries degrade as it might make them look bad, so in turn they refrain from communicating any expert tips they might know about
One exception that happened recently is after AirPods lifetime became bad press for them, Apple added a default behavior to only charge the AirPod batteries to 80% unless some learning system predicts you’ll need the full charge soon. They also deployed a similar thing on my MacBook Pro.
That makes me believe that with the current generation of batteries at least, not fully topping them up extends their life. However this tip is one of the most difficult to apply manually on other devices as you’d need to disconnect at a specific time and not every device has a precise percentage-charge indicator.
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if they’re larger than a few mAh they’re typically rebuildable too, I paid some Ontario company like $40 to crack open the old NiCad in my beautiful 486DX2 laptop
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Soon we’ll use the electrolytes in our bodies to play PSP games 
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I will occasionally find myself at a loose end on twitch wondering if there’s something worth watching, and the recommended channels invariably show several extremely popular streams of the “NoPixel” GTA V role-play server thing, and for the life of me I cannot understand the appeal, it’s invariably someone standing in a room speaking barely audibly to other players for half hours at a time, or random driving with no clear indication to the audience of what they’re doing, am I missing something? have I gotten too old? what the heck is this and why is it so popular?
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For the same reason that soaps were popular, I think. Because the people streaming have to inject all the context and interactions into a hollow shell of the game, it’s like improv only except the characters have to stay roughly the same/only change slowly over time, and there’s an impetus to try and build arcs while “yes anding” with other players. For people who are really in these streams to have a strong relationship with the streamer, this is perfect, the game doesn’t really matter, it’s just a way to provide props and scenery for whatever the players are coming up with.
So like the soaps, the draw is that you want to see what they’ll come up with next.
It does nothing for me either, btw. This is just from observations.
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The mod itself looks cool though.
Like if all that stuff was just part of the regular game that would be awesome.
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I agree w/ the crux but don’t think they resemble Soaps that much. Soaps r scripted from the top-down and maintain interest with twisty-turny emotional pulls. I think listing improv is right-on.
Live content always holds a charge because of the inherent instability it has & the potential for disaster. The more u r required to hang on to a sense of reality (as roleplay encourages) & the more unstable the system is (as multiplayer video game requires) the higher chances you’ll encounter something absurd or idiosyncratic.
Which is charming, and part of the fun of sociality in general. And after the fact it’s usually boring because if u could script it…u could script it better.
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Towerfall
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sure you weren’t just thinking of that one animated gif from mononoke that was “viral” a few weeks ago?