I'm in the same boat. The water based upkeep mechanic seems punishing, especially for time starved / more casual gamers.

I do think it's very on theme with the game, I hope that they'll tweak it over time - something interesting could be adding a way for more active players to contribute surplus water to a shared supply.

If they manage to tidy the game up and fix some of the glaring issues I'd likely still give it a try even with the water "feature".

Does the mechanic turn you off the game completely?

Nice timing indeed. I've read a few review aggregators for the remake and it appears that it's better in every way than the original, so I'm sure you guys will enjoy it.

This is such an interesting remake, I remember playing this when it came out more than 10 years ago, I didn't think it was anything special then.

From what I can see it sold more than 1 million copies back then though, interested to see how well the remake is received and how popular it is.

I picked up and finished Nodebuster this week. It's a pretty chilled out incremental improvement style game that almost becomes idle closer to the end.

I've also been trying to get some games of Spectre Divide (new f2p tactical FPS game) in this week too.

I've recently started using tmux when starting a new SSH session to try to build the habit.

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki

git push origin HEAD is a slightly shorter way of doing the same thing, even though you have an alias anyway lol

I'm not sure about power levels, but I've ordered the Riders of Rohan and the Elven Council decks. I really love the theme for both of these and am excited to see how they play out of the box and with some potential tweaks from the set booster box I've grabbed.

Do you have plans to pick one of them up?

It's sunny and around 20 here in Newy, though the wind is a little chilly today, looks like the weekend will be similar too.

I've found it can be a little resource intensive - though I only used it for a couple of projects and haven't tried it again!

Any of the Lego games are pretty awesome for local co-op.

I'd also recommend Castle Crashers, it's a hack and slash / beat 'em up style game that supports up to 4 players locally.

This is an awesome shot!

I've seen this happen with a few image posts, not sure what's happening there.

Perhaps try hitting the preview button before posting, just incase.

Boardgames: I love playing social deduction games like Mafia and The Resistance with a big group, though they aren't everyones cup of tea (perhaps I enjoy lying too much?)

Video games: We play a lot of Quake Arena in our office at work with a big group of people, also Genital Jousting with a smaller group of closer friends is silly fun.

I've mostly used kdenlive and have had a pretty positive experience, +1 from me

It's hard to tell at this point, in my opinion we need more active general communities before becoming too specific. It's been a little overwhelming seeing the fragmentation of communities across instances here on Lemmy. Hopefully something happens to improve the experience, I'm liking being involved so far though!

I hadn't heard of this game but I'm definitely going to add it to my list to watch out for, thanks for sharing!

Yeah, look at them all wearing the same shirt and hat. Idiots.

Good. Hopefully this passes and policy continues to squash this shit industry into the ground.

Rephrasing something I've heard before, if you have to gamble to enjoy something then you probably don't actually enjoy it (sports, pubs, etc.)

I'd be down for this too, I haven't found a lively community for MTG / Commander / EDH yet, which is the major CCG format I play.

I agree that being more general might help to produce more active communities to start with. Perhaps over time as people are requesting more communities there should be a voting threshold or poll system to see if enough people are interested before fragmenting a general community into more specific ones?

This is cool to see, thanks for sharing!

I'm not a wine person but have a few family members and friends who are pretty into it, I also live near some pretty impressive wineries in the Hunter Valley.