What did you expect Ausnon? You literally live on a prison island. Maybe support immigration and get some more people in there so you wonāt have to depend on other regionās servers.
No distractions from couch co-op and single player titles
The dream
As long as its in separate games, sure. If a game has both single player and multiplayer, at least one of them will be shit.
I donāt know if you really can though. Most multiplayer games are meant to be played over and over again, which block out the time that youād normally spend on single player games that have a fixed ending. Back in the day, I played a ton of WoW and then moved straight to League. I missed like a decade of great single player games because multiplayer is such a trap.
Why play games with other people at all? People are like the worst
Because AI is predictable and boring (and/or cheats). The human element keeps games exciting.
Coop games can have good communities. Deep rock galactic is the prime example
Stop playing competitive games and see how fast that changes.
Competitive gamers are assholes who just want to prove they are better than other people.
Sorry that you have such an experience; many online games have fairly toxic communities, others do not; and for every game you can find amazing and kind teammates if you look closely!
Honesty, I played WoW back in the day and was in a cool guild so Iāve had good experiences. I donāt have a network of people that I play with already and donāt have the time to go out and build one. I donāt love being on mic either so I know its a me thing. There are a lot of fun single player games that are really enjoyable.
RTS games are all dead
Is this post from 2014? Age of Empires is stronger than ever, since the release of the Definitive Editions and AoE4!
Aussnon has never downloaded GameRanger either and it shows. BfME 2 and CaC: Red Alert for eternity.
Gameranger is still a thing? Havenāt thought of that since my days playing ghost recon 1 in the mid 2000ās
Well thereās Age of Mythology, which had a definitive edition announced a couple of years ago, and which just today they made an announcement of an announcement (donāt you love that those seem to be a thing nowā¦) of more information coming up next month.
Thereās a new Company of Heroes game that came out last year, and a shockingly high-quality open-source RTS called Beyond All Reason, and an RTS-ish Dune game from 2022. None of these really appeal to me though, as I just love the gameplay style of the Age franchise. So I donāt really know how strong theyāre going.
Last year also saw the release of the finished version of the massive Battle for Middle Earth 2 mod Age of the Ring. Thatās a game that you canāt even buy any more, from anywhere, and it still has enough of a community to support that interest. (Admittedly, personally I would include BFME in the ārts games are all deadā category, but perhaps itās just not quite as dead as one would think.)
Great! It means you have more time to enjoy the beauty of nature!
Wait, itās Australia.
I know itās a running joke that Australian wildlife is so deadly, but genuinely, in my day-to-day, I almost never think about it.
Except for a couple of months in Spring. When riding my bike becomes a game of Russian roulette with whether or not Iām going to be swooped by magpies.
Jerky. Thereās a reason they call them the black and white mafia. Throw some jerky for them and theyāll remember you, corvines are damn smart.
The problem is that this only works if you have a particular magpie in your neighbourhood. If youāre talking about a dozen or more different magpies across all possible places you could want to go, it becomes completely impractical.
While youāre right that you can befriend them and theyāll remember you, our magpies arenāt corvids afaik. I used to bring plain cashews as part of my lunch and the local magpies were obsessed with them. There was one that would run along behind me whenever I walked outside, and she even followed me into buildings a few times.
For todayās lucky 10 000: https://youtu.be/YGGTcYfrEZU?si=xzjxe1ST5vWgImkD
Ha. Looks like YouTube is telling me Iāve seen this before.
I recall having seen it before, but my recollection was of a man. Might be thinking of a different video. (I think he also tried taking the helmet off, and that worked.)
Also, by the gods that helmet was absolutely useless. Thereās a zero percent chance of it staying on in the event of a crash, as loose as it was.
Itās more than a running joke, itās hilarious when the yanks say it. They have shit loads of venomous spiders and snakes, plus fucking wolves, bears, cougars, alligators and crocodiles.
But you can just give em the old āat least our schools arenāt shooting rangesā too.
I have forged a peace deal between me and the magpies that live in my trees a few years, itās a tense relationship, but they donāt swoop me and I donāt swing a plastic rake at them.
We have Australian magpies here in NZ too, and I was always told to be cautious around them but Iāve literally never seen them swoop at anyone.
Is there something about the Aussie environment that makes them aggro?
Fun thing about them is thereās always two of the bastards. So when my kids and I see one we always make it a game to find the second one. Itās often quite a challenge