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Hell yeah!

Ohh, Arabic! Mmmmm... Translations anyone? (I'll do it)

... Am I missing something here?

No, its the previous post (before Suture) Bottom most pic in arabic.

Homes and school:Factories at night:Oh damn!

Mighty fire you have there Atom!

Ninja Portal 2 update today. No references to the update anywhere. Secret announcement of Portal 3 perhaps?

Ninja Portal 2 update today. No references to the update anywhere. Secret announcement of Portal 3 perhaps?

http://store.steampowered.com/news/10205/

No.

In my defence, I looked for it and didn't see it anywhere.

Just finished playing it and am now ready to replay the second one.

What game is that? Seems familiar.

Oh derp, didn't bother to put in the name. It's MediEvil.

Just finished Tomb Raider.

It was awesome.

Finished Tomb Raider last week. I have the same opinion. Creepy story, but beautiful landscapes and an action-packed style of gameplay.

Thought the story was very cool. The first half of the game reminded me a lot of Lost which was pretty cool. I think there were a few nods to that particular inspiration as well. Glad the story moved in a different direction in the second half of the game.

Downloading XCOM now, which I got free with Bioshock Infinite. Not sure I'll like either game, but I'm going to give them a go!

Bioshock Infinite! F-yeah!

Brother has bought a 3DS with Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate.

Only downside is I'd feel bad if I played it more than he did =(

If that wasn't true I wouldn't be seen around here anymore.

I tried the demo for Monster Hunter 3DS, and I really didn't like it. I guess it's just not the type of game for me.

On the other hand, Fire Emblem comes out in Australia in a few weeks and I think that'll be a massive time sink

I fell in love with Monster Hunter Tri on the Wii. I suspect I'll be ever keeping an eye on the series from now on =D

Playing again Borderlands.

Finished Playthru 2 with Mordecai and Lilith, about to finish PT2 with Roland, and just started with Brick.

Every time I play, I'm amazed at the art. Quite well done. It's also a very fun game, combining elements from First Person Shooters and Role Playing Games. I must say the final boss is real crappy though (even in Playthrough 2 a.k.a. Hard Mode).

Sorry, don't have any interesting screenies to share.

Some more C&C: Generals.
In one of the skirmishes I played today, the AI that was on my side used a generals power to bomb the last remaining enemy command center. After my units had finished it off.
It did not end well for my loyal men. So the next skirmish, with the same teams, I blasted their base apart.
Assholes.

I've been playing Valkyria Chronicles, which is a turn-based strategy game on the PS3. It's quite good, though I've just reached a mission that is very frustrating because it just ramped up the difficulty a whole lot.
I also started playing Fire Emblem on the 3DS, which is another turn based strategy game. I've been replaying Golden Sun, so I'm alternating between the two on my train rides to work.

Valkyria Chronicles hard? No way. Good game though

As for myself, I've been gaming UDK, Logic Pro, and Photoshop D:

Heh, the hard mission I'm talking about is against the great big tank in the desert. I failed twice because I didn't know what I would need until I did it. I got almost all the way through last time, so hopefully the next time I try I can beat it

I've been playing an awful lot of Kerbal Space Program recently. I don't have any screenshots atm though, I'm on a library computer and my laptop currently doesn't seem to like the internet.
I've got about 150 screenshots though. Usually I don't tend to take may, but I find KSP tends to be a very screenshottable game.
I was really happy with myself on Monday because I managed to land (and subsequently crash) an unmanned rover on Minmus, the second moon of the starting planet. Yesterday I discovered developer mode, and unlimited fuel, so I made a manned mission to the Mun complete with a Munar rover, and I came across a massive stone arch. Apparently there are three of them, as well as some stone monoliths and a memorial to Neil Armstrong at the coordinates of the Apollo 11 landing.
I'll have to see if I can find that memorial, and perhaps upload some of those screenshots on the weekend.

Here are a few screenshots that I've taken, all done without using developer mode.

Here is Bill, who doesn't seem to like the Gemini capsule that I downloaded for him. Strange, it has a corned beef sandwich and everything!Here is a lovely shot of the exterior of the Gemini capsule, showing Kerbin just about to eclipse the sun.Of course, seeing as this is a Gemini capsule I need to do a Mun flyby, with a free return trajectory....
I think I might need to brush up a bit on my NASA history.Here's the core of my fancy new station which I hope to use to refuel rockets for interplanetary voyages.Here's the crew module coming in to be connected to the station.I had intended to use it to partially fill the currently empty station core, but since I screwed up the maneuvering for the rendezvous so it only has enough fuel to deorbit the command module once the crew module has been attached. (And even then I'm not sure it has enough to do it accurately)

The rocket splits in two, and the crew module plus command module is docked with the station.Since I wasn't happy with the amount of fuel left in the rocket, I docked it with the station so it can be deorbited when I send another rocket up, carrying only fuel.And doing that was a pain in the ass. I had placed the RCS thrusters so they would allow for translation of the individual components without rotation, but I found out too late that the rocket component was completely out of RCS fuel. So I had to cancel the rocket's rotation, and then manouvre the entire station to dock with it. I hadn't placed the RCS thrusters with that in mind, so every time I tried to move it it started spinning. I managed to dock the two after about half an hour though.

Some Simcity shots. Sorry for the HUD, I thought I had that disabled when taking screenshots, but apparently not.

I've actually been playing SimCity 4 lately, heh.

I had no idea KSP looks so nice. I've finished Metro LL.

Alien visitors:Cool looking high tech industry:

What I've recently played? Firestarter.

I've been playing THE SHIT out of Don't Starve.

It's like Diablo 2 mixed into Minecraft, all with its own unique style.

Greater than the sum of its parts is easily arguable one way or the other, but it's damn good either way.

Scotch recommends.

I regret introducing it to him. >_> He's been playing that and that alone, no L4D2 or Minecraft~ I mean seriously we should be recording Scott.

Anyway, latest game I've been playing is the Dragon Age's... I love the first one so far (since I haven't finished the first one and wish too before playing the second one). They're making me want to play Baulder's Gate again though.

I've actually been playing SimCity 4 lately, heh.

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Me too!

So I got system shock 2 and unfortunately, ran into this bug where I am unable to collect cyber modules. I looked it up and it turns out this bug is caused by a 'corrupted keybinds'. Totally unfair

Gojira!He caused a lot damage, damn it.

Kentucky Route Zero.

I am playing it together with my son. It's a good literacy exercise for him. The reading level is challenging for him, since he's only going to be a first grader.

I'm a predator - rapture. (I am killin' it)

Bwoo.

First launch.

Been playing Game Dev Tycoon.

Apparently, our vocabulary casual game, Scrotum Scronundrum, is the second most popular game ever to exist, the first being Hlaf Hlife, our action game for the PS1.

Antichamber. It was on sale yesterday.

The non-euclidean space is a funky gimmick but it kind of wears off fast. I've been to places I could never ever find again, not even using the map. I feel I've left some puzzles unsolved because of that, but I can't even prove it because I can't find them.

What can I say, I'm good at the traditional predictable Euclidean space.

I didn't mind Antichamber. Some of the puzzles were a little TOO hard, but that's all.

Finished Antichamber the other day, it was pretty neat. I think I got all the puzzles.

I'm playing The Core.Actually, in all seriousness, I've gone back to GTA IV. Waiting on the PC release of V...

Oh and of course DOTA2 because it's fucking DOTA2.

Still playing TF2. Got sucked into that one big time >.>

Also, Morrowind. I run around naked beating up daedra with my bare hands. I also completely strip anyone I kill.

The press would call that a "violent streak" i suppose.

Last night I managed to build a single stage to orbit spaceplane in Kerbal Space Program. It has just enough fuel to rendezvous and dock with a station if I time the launch just right, although since it has a fairly good amount of excess RCS, perfect launch timing shouldn't be too important.
If I set up a network of refuelling stations to allow for inclination changes and maybe send up a few rocket tugs to deorbit the plane without using any main fuel reserves, then it should be able to reach any point on the planet and return to home base. If I slap on a probe core to allow me to fly it without a pilot then I can use it to pick up any Kerbals that landed in the wrong place and bring them home.

Since I'm on a university computer at the moment I have no screenshots, but I will upload some tonight.

Also, my brother got GTA:V when it came out, but I'm probably going to have to end up waiting a long time to get a chance to play it.

Got back into CS:GO, been playing competitive for a few days now. Enjoying Operation Bravo, loads of sexy maps.

Horrible at the game, but the matchmaking tends to send equally-bad players my way about half of the time. The other half we get bear-mauled. It's a nice balance.

Is that the new Battlefield game?

And because of the new computer I forgot to upload the images of my spaceplane.

The plane docked with a station:The spaceplane is the lower one. The thing at the top is an unmanned refuelling craft. It goes up on a rocket, jet fuel is transferred over to the spaceplane, then it deorbits and lands back at the space station.
The 'tug' to deorbit it is currently 11.8km away but that's no big distance to perform an RCS rendezvous.

The glider coming in to land after deorbiting:An early iteration of my improved spaceplane design:Final design:One of the main problems I had with the spaceplane designs were getting them to be light enough to achieve orbit with what rocket fuel they could carry.
On older versions I would basically fly for twenty minutes just under the operational ceiling, then when I had burned enough fuel I would shut off the jets, close the intakes, turn on the rocket engine and fly up. The problem with this is that it's hard to keep the plane stable for long enough to do that. The final design has one central jet fuel tank, and the two jet fuel tanks are replaced with rocket fuel. This both gives me less jet fuel to lug around and gives me more rocket fuel to achieve orbit.

A good trick I found for anyone who plays KSP was to place some intakes under the fuselage angled downwards. At 20km altitude, even travelling at 1000m/s with those large wings, you have to maintain a high angle of attack to keep altitude. This angles the intakes away from the incoming air, which can cause engine burnout (not a nice thing to happen with a jet aircraft) so having those angled intakes really helps keep everything running smoothly.