I dropped Warframe for Helldivers. Warframe is way too twitchy for me now, same issue I have with Destiny. That and the grind… which is the gameplay, so it’s not so bad, but running the same map for the umpteenth time with three people who have also run it at least twice that many times makes the game an exercise in speed running I just don’t enjoy any more.
Try Satisfactory. It’s casualish.
Just picked up the demo for this one from Steam. It looks like a hoot. Not sure about the game play yet. Looks like a point-click resource management type of game, really.
The grind is definitely real and I’m not able to play the game longer than one or two hour sessions without requiring a break. I’m still having fun with it at least and I’m honestly not in any rush to complete the stuff I want to finish. One thing I really like about the game is there isn’t really much of a FOMO and even for those times when there is, it’s achievable enough in short sessions.
I’ll check out Satisfactory. Heard of it and I see it recommended on Steam all the time.
I found Star Trek: Birth of the Federation! It’s a little more modern than Master of Orion II, and I’ve missed it. Now I’m figuring out how to play it again.
Diablo IV is on sale on Steam for a price I’m willing to pay, but I’m not sure if I want to try it. Skyrim and Fallout 4 have ruined me for linear quest games - I went back and tried to play Titan Quest: Immortal Throne recently and I just wasn’t having fun. Now, the description on Steam says it’s open world, but I’m not sure. Anyone else played it?
Titan Quest II is coming!
When you’re looking at new games, look closely at the specs. Games are starting to include TPM 2.0 and SecureBoot in the requirements. So not only is Microsoft trying to force everyone to get a new motherboard, if not an entirely new computer, in order to run Windows 11, game companies are following suit. I think their reason is to help cut down on cheaters in their game, however that’s supposed to work.
Whether you have Windows 10 or 11, if your computer has SSDs or M.2 NVMe drives in it (primarily as the boot drive?), beware of updates KB5063875 and KB5063709. When continuously writing ~50GB of data on an SSD that is >60% full, it can make the drive non-functional, including in recovery modes. If you’ve got either of those updates, uninstall them and get out-of-band update KB5066189.
Pokemon Go is coming up on its 10th anniversary next year (I can’t believe that I’ve been playing it that long or that I haven’t missed a day), and in October max level is going up to 80.
I totally forgot about Pokemon Go. Just downloaded it on my current phone and managed to get into my account! Apparently there’s a lot more stuff around my house than there used to be…
Are we friends in PoGo? If not, I’ll have to find all of my accounts’ friend codes.
Oh, if you haven’t already, use code 7TJH2CF8Q to get a bunch of free stuff and continue to get things as you finish some tasks. It’s a join code but works if you’ve been away for a while.
5755 6322 8482 is my main account’s friend code.
We’re not, but when I put your friend code in it tells me your friends’ list is full. 
My code is 8632 7453 5300.
I tried the promo code but it says I’m not eligible. 
Probably because I’ve been playing too much today.
Dang it. Pikmin Bloom keeps filling my friend list up. I really wish I could delete friends in one game and not delete them in all of them. There are probably some taking up space from the short time I played the Harry Potter one. Let me see what I can do.
Okay, try again. I’ve removed a few. It can be hard when people don’t have the same username in the different games.
Yay, it worked! BTW, the picture in gift I sent you is actually in the store I work for. 
I was thinking that was a really fun one.
I have four accounts.
Anderain - 6556 8754 1016
KunoTachi - 9900 9346 4127
KunoNabiki - 1622 5483 8810
And so it begins. JayzTwoCents released a video today where they ran into the problem under different conditions.
Watch the video. It takes doing a full power down to get the controller to get back to a point where it can detect the drive again. It’s affecting more than just the Phison E12S, E16 and E21T controllers. It hits their E25 controller and controllers from four other manufacturers. Go to the 13:32 mark to see the list.
After the video was finished and uploaded, but not released, his team realized there’s another update involved in this. It adds features, so you can’t uninstall it.
It looks like right now the only solution is to do what he did: clone your boot SSD/NVMe onto another one that has a different controller on it.