Good to see another handheld with trackpads. I can add this to the very short list of devices I will consider as a replacement if my Steam Deck ever carks it.
BadlyDrawnRhino
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Thanks for doing these giveaways! I meant to request games before now but never got around to it. Happy to see 2Dark, it's been on my wishlist for quite awhile now.
I've not been to Florida, so I can only speak to the Australian side of things. Beaches here are patrolled by surf lifesavers and the safest parts to swim are marked by flags. These areas are the most popular and therefore limited space-wise. There's nothing stopping anybody going elsewhere to pitch their cobana, but unless you're a strong experienced swimmer, you generally want to be going in near those flags.
This one has a female protagonist, so I look forward to not being able to differentiate between legitimate criticism about the game, and reviews from man-children that are mad that women exist.
And then if the single player experience bombs, I also look forward to Rockstar pointing to the female protagonist as the reason, and not because they're pouring all their resources into micro transactions.
Girls or woodlice?
Not a surprise that all of Labor voted yes, given their party policy around caucus solidarity. I'd be interested to see a list of people opposed to this bill behind closed doors.
I've really come to despise Labor's policy of not crossing the floor. I get their desire to show a united front, but it really makes it hard for regular folk to track how the party is shifting if we don't ever see who supports what on an individual level.
Looks more like Oddworld than Lemmings. In fact, apart from the art style, there's not much in the trailer that really resembles Lemmings to me.
The game's already available on Steam and has a demo for anyone who wants to try it out.
The thing about the corporation paying less taxes is a myth. The extra contribution you make counts as revenue in their books, and that revenue is then offset as a donation, making no overall difference to their tax benefits.
That said, it does help them in other ways, mostly around marketing. They can then say they've made a massive amount of charitable contributions, when really it was their customers that did so.
As others have said, by making that donation at the checkout, you haven't really made an informed decision about whether the charity is one you would donate to otherwise, so if that's important to you you should stop doing so.
The way I look at it, if you are going to make a conscious decision to donate to charities you support, there's no real reason to round up at the checkout. But if you aren't really going to be donating otherwise and you're not struggling financially, you may as well make that small contribution at the checkout.
I use Heroic Games Launcher to run GOG and Epic games on Linux. It'd be great to get some official support, but it's the next best thing.
New Zealand recently had a political shakeup and the conservative party got voted in after many years of a progressive government running the show, so this is hardly a surprise.
I wouldn't necessarily say that Australia is focusing more on the environment, we already don't do enough. And we're heading into an election year, so expect everything to stall as everything gets put on hold to be used as "election promises". And if the conservative coalition wins next year, all environmental policies will be in jeopardy, particularly rollout of renewables, as the conservatives are pushing hard to divert everything to nuclear over wind or solar.
Oh, absolutely. I was only commenting on the weird timing, the game was released 2 years after an adult rating for video games was implemented.
We definitely have an odd and often archaic view on things here in Aus. Personally I think the classifications should be a purely informative system rather than something that decides whether or not something should be banned. Films are given much more artistic leeway than video games, and I could rant for hours on the government's stance on gambling, which is much more harmful than most things you'd find portrayed in any artistic medium.
It's funny, I actually was thinking it's the other way around. Older gamers have a million different things begging for attention, so longer games just aren't as appealing anymore. Younger gamers can easily find the time to sit down for hours at a time uninterrupted.
In reality, it's probably somewhere in between. Younger people also gave increasingly smaller attention spans due to social media, so there probably are a growing number of them that just wouldn't sit with one game for that long.