Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@qoto.org

Paella really shouldn't be made with risotto.

Seriously. 😒

Whew, convinced mom to let me add another clove of garlic. So I sought out the biggest and fattest clove I could find. Just one ain't enough!

To be fair, I've brought over a bunch of classics as well.

Willow, The Labyrinth, Groundhog Day, and The Man Who Knew Too Little.

I've brought over The Hogfather DVDs to my parents. We might be watching that this evening. :P

Happy Hogswatch! 😋

I gave Kards - The WWII Card Game a try. I managed to unlock all the starter decks (as Germany) so I could see what the setup of the game was like; Free-to-play card battle game where you can spend real coin (and limited in-game gold) for new packs.

Likely you'll have to spend real moneys in order to advance after a certain point, I've seen that a bit too often in other free-to-play games. (Stormbound comes to mind.. gods that game was FUN but you'd need to pay a LOT to advance!)

The trouble with those free-to-play games is that they usually ask way too much for the experience. Additionally, the gameplay of this game is pretty yawn-worthy so it isn't even remotely worth contemplating spending money on.

The theme's nice, graphics are nice, but the actual gameplay is so. boring. Guess that's why they're temporarily offering the Starter Pack DLC with a 100% discount. At least you can try this for free.
#Games #Steam #CardGames

Bluh, I'm pretty much underwhelmed. Steam didn't do anything except recycle its cards and badges from last year and with even less effort. 😒

Apparently the theme is 'birds' (seeing their animated sticker freebies), but you wouldn't have guessed that at all from looking at their front page.

The only things they bothered with is adding stuff that can be bought via their points store. Some of those are useful, but I really hoped for some fun meta game event or something to interact with.
#Steam

Game giveaway Brigador: Up-Armored Deluxe on GOG.
Looks like it involves lots of mechs and pewpews and badabooms.

https://www.gog.com/game/brigador_deluxe_edition
#Games #GOG

Every time SolarWinds is mentioned, I get reminded of the old DOS RPG space game Solar Winds which was released in 1993. It was a fun game and a fresh genre to me back then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Winds
#DOSGames #Games #SolarWinds

I hope Steam will have some cool meta game event going this winter sale, which is supposed to start this evening. Some of the events in the past were kind of amusing, and it's something to waste time on.
#Steam

Videocalled with a buddy for almost 6 hours using sign language. Talked about every topic imaginable. Ended up cutting off the conversation after 3:00 in the night because, well.. it's fucking late.

Excuse me while I'm going to be a zombie for the rest of the day.

I saw a 'how do ..... people shower?' the other day, and remembered that I made this little piece of art four years ago when it was a meme-hype on Imgur. Enjoy! ;)
#Deaf #ShowerThoughts #Art #Humor #Comic

Cute, got a little Xmas gift from my job. A seasonal memory game with pictures of the Dutch Sign Language. I quite like the artwork! 😊
#NGT #NederlandseGebarentaal #Gebarentaal #SignLanguage #Doof #Deaf #Games #CardGames

I hugely appreciate how Star Realms is a card battle game with very clearly defined rules and layout. Its setup is so simple that it can be used to understand other card battle games.

I've played Ascension before. It looked pretty interesting, but I didn't fully grok how it should be exactly played. Not much later I discovered Star Realms and have been playing that a lot ever since.

Now I'm trying out Ascension again. This time they have a tutorial (I just don't remember it being there last time), and I used Star Realms as reference. That made understanding Ascension SO MUCH easier!

All those various groups in Ascension; Enlightened, Lifebound, Mechana, Void.. they're comparable to the factions in Star Realms. The Mystics, Heavy Infantry, etc? That's similar in idea to Explorers. And the Constructs? Those are bases, plain and simple. Just an extra in this game are Monsters, but once you got the rest down that's not too hard a concept to grasp either.

Once I realized those similarities, I've been able to really enjoy playing Ascension. I can actually go explore the various DLCs now that the game has, each one changes the gameplay a little. But the basics are there.
#Games #CardGames #Ascension #StarRealms

Holy shit, holy shit, finally! The Legend of Korra is now on Netflix Netherlands! Woohoo, it's time to binge!
#Netflix #Avatar #LoK

Oooh, there is a slim chance that elementary schools might have a shorter lockdown period. Maybe my 'holiday' will be cut short by about a week. I'll see. We won't know anything until next year anyway!