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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Games (was Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-25 (Friday))
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:50:20 -0700
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On 4/26/2025 1:56 PM, shawn wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:42:06 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
> <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/26/2025 9:54 AM, shawn wrote:
>>> On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:56:55 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/26/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>
>>>> After a long-ish workday, I just put on my backlog of Y&R and played
>>>> video games.
>>>
>>> Whee! My latest games are Pacific Drive (but I am getting frustrated
>>> not being able to upgrade my car. Mostly because I'm missing something
>>> obvious)
>>
>> That's what game Wiki's are for!  :)  I've seen Pacific Drive on Steam
>> and have thought it might be of interest to me.  How good is it when
>> you're not frustrated about missing things?
> 
> I've not played enough myself to say much but did watch a play through
> by Jesse Cox some time back and really enjoyed it. The game feels a
> bit like Subnautica, another game I've enjoyed.  Both games are
> relatively calm exploration games with necessary resource gathering
> and moments of panic when in a dangerous situation. In the case of
> Subnautica it's when some of the most dangerous creatures make an
> appearance or you enter a dangerous location without proper
> protection(running out of air sucks) while Pacific Drive involves you
> working through an area that seems perfectly safe until it isn't.
> Think when the area around you turns radioactive so you need to get
> moving to avoid the danger (not actually radioactive but similar
> dangers.)
> 
> So in PD you can explore a forest in the Northwest a bit until the
> game forces you to move on.
> 
I've played Subnautica.  I'm currently playing 'The Planet Crafter'. 
Same genre, the setting is you are a convict dropped on a Mars-like 
planet to terraform it.

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.