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[Discussion] Do you still use your Steam Deck much?
  • My partner bought me one last month, so it’s still new but I don’t think I’ve stopped playing it. I can’t make time to sit at my pc unless I’m working, all my time is spent with the kids or in my workshop. So I can finally play games again.

  • Have experience with ShadowRun for Genesis, chum?
  • Yes, it’s great, one of my favourites on the Sega. Far more fun than the SNES adventure game.

    I start as a decker. I think he might move a little faster to begin with which helps keep ahead of the gangs in the starting area. When they come, you can zig zag away from them to stay ahead, just keep doing that having them chase you around town in circles, taking pot shots when it’s safe. Some of the gangers drop medkits when they die, I sell these to more quickly get a better gun/armour.

    There’s no value to killing civilians, you might even lose karma, just don’t do it.

    With the shadowruns, just keep walking into Mr Johnson’s booth, if it’s a ghoul run, cancel the conversation and walk back in again. Most of the runs offered should be simple escort missions or courier jobs.

    Once you get some karma and boost some stats a bit, and buy a better gun, you’ll have more survivability. Then you can take on some ghoul runs, which are the easiest way to make quick cash early on - get your negotiation up a few points and only take the run if it pays okay. Don’t bother taking a run that pays 15nuyen per ghoul for example, that’s a waste of your time.

    Don’t upgrade your pistol/shotgun/SMG skills. Only upgrade firearms. The sub categories of firearms will go up to whatever your firearm skill is when you do upgrade it. (ie If you put a point in pistol, then you will continue to raise that skill as usual. But if you get firearm up to level 10 and then upgrade pistol, or smg, or shotgun, it will go straight to level 10 as well)

    You can pretty easily get the Ares Predator after not too many simple runs. You’ll get familiar with so the places doing these runs, but:

    Shiawase nuke plant = South

    Halloweeners = South East

    Chop shop = East

    Abandoned building = north East

    Prison = west

    Coffin motel = centre

    Weapons shop = centre/east

    The two pubs are north west

    Boris greenhouse = north/north east

    One more place south west, can’t remember what they call it

  • Which animals do you think humans would live most harmoniously with, or already are living with (mostly), without making them into livestock?
  • Birds. I have a family of magpies living in our property. I throw some leftover bits of food in the yard for them. Also ravens, cockatoos, honeyeaters, rosellas, lorikeets and herons. They all tend to just hang out on our property whenever they feel like.

    Same with the kangaroos. I came home from work and there’s a few just lying under the tree in the backyard. I puta tub of water in case they needa drink since it’s still a bit warm during the day. They’re a lot more skittish than the birds though.

  • What's the most fucked up movie you ever watched?
  • Compliance stands out to me as something I watched and vowed never to watch again.

    I struggle with those kind of themes. Anything involving rape or sexual violence.

    obviously not a fucked up film, but Priscilla Queen of the Desert has one scene involving gay bashing makes the film too hard to sit through for me.

  • What's the most expensive thing you broke as a kid and what's the story behind it?
  • Kitchen window. About 2x3 metres if I remember right.

    We had a trampoline in our backyard, outside the kitchen so mum could watch us while cooking or whatever. There was a huge hill (our house was in a bit of a mountainous area), and we decided to throw some rocks down the hill and bounce them off the trampoline… but we were uncoordinated 10 year olds so we missed every time. And it was just a bunch of little stones gathering in our backyard.

    Then I found one rock. Pretty big, had to lift it with two hands and shot-put it down the hill. That was the one that we finally landed on the trampoline. And it bounced right through the kitchen window.

  • New bed for my daughter

    Finally completed a bed for my 3 year old daughter. This was my first project in 20 years, so it’s taken me about 9 months of relearning techniques, practicing, finding the right tools, and just finding time really.

    Originally was just M&T and half lap joins, but when setting up I decided it was a little too wiggly so I put 38mm and 17mm angle brackets to reinforce it.

    Mostly construction lumber from local hardware shop. A few pieces “feature pieces”, Blackbutt and Macrocarpa. Finished with walrus furniture oil. The slats were cut down from someone selling off pieces of their bed on marketplace. (?)

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