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Friday Fun Thread for July 3, 2026

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Video game thread

What are you playing these days?

I will be playing through Half-Life soon. I noticed I didn't have it in my Steam library so I picked up the Anthology bundle for a couple of dollars. Only a couple of years have passed since the last time I played HL, but for some reason I'm drawn to it again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Still waiting for a reasonably priced 5120x2160, 39 inch ultrawide monitor to show up. I'm sort of holding off on some games until I can upgrade my monitor. Some games aren't well suited for playing on the TV.

Following last week's discussion on Darktide, I reactivated my gaming buddies and we actually played a few rounds yesterday.

It was okay. I like the changes they made to the game, regarding the progression and gear. Getting away from pure RNG and letting players tweak their equipment relatively freely feels good.

But at the same time I find the game a little too fast-paced for my liking, and the missions drag on for far too long. I found myself quite tired very quickly.

And the more narrative elements they add, the more I dislike the writing. Of course it's all very woke, the devs being Swedish, and at times it can be funny to entertain the idea that actually, the Imperium's famous right-wing aesthetics and philosophies are all really nothing but propaganda and the non-noble baseline human population is overwhelmingly 21th-century progressive leftists, but in the end it's more grating than anything.

How is that going for you so far? Sadly your timezones don't line up with mine.

And the more narrative elements they add, the more I dislike the writing.

For all the faults in the writing, the character of Kayex more than makes up for it. He's one of the first mechanicus characters I've seen that really nails the religiosity and pure wonder of the machine cult. Things that 40k would normally paint as malice come out as alien benevolence, and I love it.

Kayex is alright. He's certainly the least annoying mission control.

Zola is tolerable. Marrow overdoes his act. All the others make me understand why people defect to Chaos. Annoying to unlikely degrees.

How is that going for you so far? Sadly your timezones don't line up with mine.

Boring as hell, to be honest. One of us is new, so we're playing throught the new campaign with him, which means starting on the lowest difficulty. One-shotting a mission boss was fun for a moment, but doesn't make up for the trivial challenge. I'm using the opportunity to try new weapon types and to grind for achievements.

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