So is anyone planning on buying anything (regardless of pricing or potential sale) as the nation prepares to hunker down for the next 2-4 weeks?
Been waiting for Outer Worlds to hit steam. Might break down and get on Epic.
If not that might grab Civ 6 expansions.
Haha! Good idea for a thread. I'm not planning on getting anything but if any item on my wishlist goes on sale it would be nice if it did so during a mandatory quarantine. :)
I've probably got a dozen games that got good reviews that I haven't touched yet. Doubt I need more.
Quote from: jamus34 on March 13, 2020, 02:21:55 PM
So is anyone planning on buying anything (regardless of pricing or potential sale) as the nation prepares to hunker down for the next 2-4 weeks?
Been waiting for Outer Worlds to hit steam. Might break down and get on Epic.
If not that might grab Civ 6 expansions.
Funny you should ask. In my ongoing effort to justify a full purchase new game, I realized with the virus stuff going on my wife and I are not eating out at restaurants or going to the movie theaters so that alone should justify getting Tiller's Panzer Battles North Africa 1941 at $39.99.
I bought the new Midway movie on DVD.
I also bought the first complete season of Doom Patrol that I'm watching with my wife.
I blew all my gaming money on a new watch. ::)
But...I have a pretty significant backlog of games, and then there's always that WitP:AE modding I was thinking of doing...
^I am shocked and appalled.
Toonces, what did you buy?
I bought a vintage Citizen Aqualand dive watch from ebay. I'm pretty stoked; I've been looking for this version at the right price for a while now.
It doesn't seem to have many app icon showing on the home screen...
That is a watch of a Real Man[tm].
Staggerwing, you make Toonces sad. :-\
I hope the watch makes you happy for many years to come.
The one possession my dad had that he treasured most was a vintage Rolex he got sometime in the 1970s. He loved that god damn watch and wore it to the day he died.
I suspect it may be more than 2 - 4 weeks. Fortunately I find myself spectacularly equipped* for potential isolation. All of Chernobyl and half of Gomorrah mini-series to watch, and an ongoing project to print out all of the 2019/20 NFL teams to play updated Statis Pro to fill the NFL off-season.
Only downside (aside from widespread economic chaos & unprecedented health threat) is it looks like the family's April holiday in Spain may be doomed. Bummer.
Roll on summer.
*...plus of course the 20+ Steam "bargains" I've not played yet :-)
I must be great a predicating the future and situations like this.....
Probably for the past 10 years I have bought a ton of games, hoarded them, barely and if ever played them, just for moments like this where I need to bunker down:) With the amount on the backlog, pretty sure I am good for the next 100 years....
There are no games/DLC on the immediate horizon for me, aside from something on one of my wishlists going on sale. I believe the soonest-to-be-released title I'm looking forward to getting (with an actual announced release date) is the remastered Command & Conquer, and that's not until June.
In the meantime, it's not as if I don't have a ridiculous backlog of games to keep me busy. O:-)
Quote from: Toonces on March 13, 2020, 08:26:50 PM
I bought a vintage Citizen Aqualand dive watch from ebay. I'm pretty stoked; I've been looking for this version at the right price for a while now.
I feel like there just aren't enough dials crammed into it. It's like they're not even trying. :D
Chernobyl was really good, I highly recommend it.
Speaking of Chernobyl, I still have all of Stalker and Metro 2033 to get through...
And...I did indeed start reading The Stand again last night. Like putting on a well-worn pair of jeans and Uggs.
Thanks, Airboy.
JH, did your dad leave you the watch after he passed?
I picked up all of my dad's watches enroute to San Diego from my mom's house in NJ. I actually don't remember my dad ever wearing a watch, so none of them have any real significance, other than the fact that they were his. And, they're all Timex's. So very much like him LOL.
I've been thinking that as a retirement gift to myself, I'm going to pick up a really nice watch. Probably not a Rolex, but maybe a Tudor (a Pelagos or Black Bay for any watch nerds out there), or a Doxa. It would be the one watch to rule them all, and at some point be passed down to one of my children when I'm gone.
Anyway, back to your scheduled Coronavirus gaming discussion.
Definitely a Doxa...just classic.
Anyone know of any good Toilet Paper simulators?
Quote from: SirAndrewD on March 14, 2020, 02:38:33 PM
Anyone know of any good Toilet Paper simulators?
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...and thats assuming you can find the gloves >:D
Quote from: SirAndrewD on March 14, 2020, 02:38:33 PM
Anyone know of any good Toilet Paper simulators?
In the US that used to be called the Sears Roebuck catalog.
I don't know what kind of tp you freaks use but the above looks like a really BAD tp sim.
Quote from: Toonces on March 14, 2020, 12:11:48 PM
Thanks, Airboy.
JH, did your dad leave you the watch after he passed?
I picked up all of my dad's watches enroute to San Diego from my mom's house in NJ. I actually don't remember my dad ever wearing a watch, so none of them have any real significance, other than the fact that they were his. And, they're all Timex's. So very much like him LOL.
I've been thinking that as a retirement gift to myself, I'm going to pick up a really nice watch. Probably not a Rolex, but maybe a Tudor (a Pelagos or Black Bay for any watch nerds out there), or a Doxa. It would be the one watch to rule them all, and at some point be passed down to one of my children when I'm gone.
Anyway, back to your scheduled Coronavirus gaming discussion.
My mom still has it. She will give it to me if I want it, but I won't wear it. I will take it eventually.
Quote from: SirAndrewD on March 14, 2020, 02:38:33 PM
Anyone know of any good Toilet Paper simulators?
I suppose that's just one of those things the virtual world can't replicate
There should be some way to combine the really good TP sim with one of Toonces fancy watches. In a hygene-appropriate manner of course. :-"
Quote from: Gusington on March 14, 2020, 06:14:02 PM
I don't know what kind of tp you freaks use but the above looks like a really BAD tp sim.
Hm, seen a few games that involve that though.
Picked up Civilization 4 complete edition for 7.50 on Steam and may get Aggressors Ancient Rome on Slitherine for 9 bucks, other than that possibly Panzer Corps 2 and Bannerlord towards the end of the month.
Quote from: AchillesLastStand on March 15, 2020, 11:46:30 PM
Picked up Civilization 4 complete edition for 7.50 on Steam and may get Aggressors Ancient Rome on Slitherine for 9 bucks, other than that possibly Panzer Corps 2 and Bannerlord towards the end of the month.
+1 on Bannerlord...
Bought "Bio Inc. Redemption." Learning to save lives.
So many games i still have to play...guess i could live my entire life in quarantine and yet not be able to finish to play them all.
Sacrilege! I WILL finish all my games. I just have to find a way to live to 155 to do it. :P
Going to certainly pick up a full HOTAS setup w/pedals (Thrustmaster set at Best Buy - not top shelf, but with teenagers still in the house I'm not getting anything that I can't stand to see broken, if you know what I mean) and look at beefing up current rig a wee bit. Otherwise, I've got plenty of games/DLC/flight sim modules and whatnot to faff around with.
And for giggles, time to re-read the history of the Spanish Flu.
On the other hand, if you buy the high end flight gear, most are made to take a beating.
Not taking that chance - anyone but you will always break your things as soon as they can and at the worst possible time as soon as they get their mitts on them.
-a bit jaded from prior experiences.