I have two Palestinians who have contacted me about their struggles and need for any donations. I do not know what to do except share their stories and hopefully get them aid:

Help Ahmed support his family after his father’s death

Anaam and her family are struggling in Gaza, now in Nasser hospital with her younger brother

What Games have you played recently?

Fields of Mistria, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.

What are your favourite genres?

I honestly do not know lol I am clearly an eclectic gamer.

Games completed this year?

Rise of the Tomb Raider. I made a post about it discussing the anti-communist elements within it.

What do you think of the Switch 2?

I honestly want one so i can play Mario Kart World, but unfortunately it is out of my price range right now and I cannot justify the prices of the games. I still have my regular switch and will just play the new Pokémon game on that.

What would you like to see from video games going forward?

I would like them to be more affordable lol I would also like them to be less anti-communist, could you imagine a tomb raider game that isn’t shitting on the USSR and actually did its historical research? That’d be my favourite game ever! Obviously anti-communism in games only come from certain regions on the planet but it’s those games that I have easy access to.

I do not know much about analog horror. It seems similar to Lethal Company but even more comedic due to the cartoony graphics and eye programming. I just think it’ll be nice to play with friends, especially on mic.

I haven’t played any games recently due to school, but once I am off/during Spring term I hope to get back into playing Fields of Mistria and other games I got on my steam deck like Dead Rising. I am also looking forward to playing REPO. I do not know how to determine my favourite genres because I am fairly eclectic.

I liked the most recent direct but I will say that most of the games did not interest me, which makes sense, so I am looking forward to the next one. I am excited for Pokemon legends ZA, Witchbrook, Story of Seasons, and Tomodachi life 2. Tomodachi life was a big part of my childhood and I am looking forward to playing it again with better graphics and hopefully gay marriage, I really hated having to make one of the miis the opposite gender just so they could get together.

I’m really looking forward to Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar and TOMODACHI life. I played the originals when I was young and they were some of my favourite games ever. The new graphics look great too and I hope they allow gay marriage now (I believe story of seasons does).

Also some may be disappointed but I think the new Pokémon Legends looks super fun and I’m going to play it. Chikorita is the best!

I was wondering if Portugal was laying off the Russia hate train, and by that I mean somewhat resuming trade relations. So this is actually quite interesting.

I’m biased but I think it’s a great game. There’s the farming but also mining and monster slaying, lots of secrets and treasures. It’s just a good time (but also stressful at points, but still fun).

Still playing Stardew valley, patiently waiting for the 1.6 update to come to switch. I also have it for PC so I played on the new meadowlands farm which is awesome, but I’m more used to switch controls so PC is weird and I’m more slow. It’s a big reason I want to get a steamdeck (also to move games off my computer since it’s practically dying from doing both school and games).

I would like to go back to playing Baldur’s Gate 3 but my PC is not strong enough. I still want to try out TF2 but playing online scare me. Once I get a steam deck I will definitely play the Tomb Raider Survivor trilogy, I played the first one religiously on my Xbox 360 when I was young so it’d be nice to play the sequels. I also want to play that “not my neighbour” game, I’ve never played “papers please” but games with a similar premise always intrigued me. Disco Elysium seems popular on here so I’ll check out too. I’m always looking for commie positive or neutral games to try so there’s that.

So nothing much has changed for me since the last thread. I’m in my spring/summer semester of school which means constant cramming (it’s an expedited semester) so not much time for games. I should have freed up time in July and august, though, which will be nice.

The difficulty does go up (it’s still not that hard) especially with rehearsal levels. What I don’t like is the lack of check points. If you miss a collectible you cannot backtrack, you have to restart/replay the level as a whole to get it. I’m just happy to get a Peach game, I’ve been waiting since Super Princess Peach came out a million years ago.

I was playing Baldur’s Gate 3 but had to stop because my poor laptop couldn’t handle it and school work (I might actually buy a steamdeck because of this). Currently I’m playing Princess Peach: Showtime (don’t judge me), Stardew Valley (waiting for the 1.6 update), Pokémon, and sonic origins (stuck on marble temple or whatever).

I don’t really have a favourite genre, but it looks like I lean towards role play games (I like character creation).

I am considering picking up TF2 (though I dislike online games, stranger danger) and fallout.

I’m looking forward to the new sonic generations game and a few Stardew-esque games that don’t have a release date yet.

I want to play subnautica with a heart monitor just to see how bad my thalassophobia is lol

Pokémon Scarlet/Violet, Pokémon emerald, and sonic the hedgehog 1. I’m stuck on marble zone act 3, I keep falling in the fucking lava, I miss a jump and I fall three levels down, it’s so hard for what 😭 I want to beat the original sonic games before playing frontiers.

There’s a banner in a random hallway that says “everyone belongs here” or something similar with the pride flag. They’re mad because of LGBTQ+ people being mentioned.

Edit: here’s the screenshot of what they’re crying about

We are living in historic times, maybe that’s why everything is moving so fast.

Well, there goes all the “we got ____ before GTA 6” memes

So what they’re saying is there’s still a gap…

I honestly thought China was on the good end of women’s rights. I know this is a map with a heavy Western bias but come on, are they really that bad?

Yeah the colour scaling isn’t great but at least the palette is pretty

The mobile site is a nightmare to navigate.

For some reason Canada tends to fair better than the US whenever these maps are made. I don’t know why Canada is greener than America here but it may be due to hate speech laws? We do have them but they seem a lot more lax than what you’d expect, also this map might be about media censorship which I guess isn’t common here? Maybe it’s because of the existence of the CRTC.