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It's a drawing of Stephen Colbert I stole from an article about him, back when he was doing The Colbert Report:

Here’s an interview with the show runner: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/good-place-end-season-4-nbc-1207303 It seems that it’s ending in the best kind of way: driven by the story and the writers, and not any outside factors. Still, will be sad to see it go.

The Steam Link app is now available on iOS. Had a quick go, seems to work well. And this his might be old news, but I’ve also just found out that if you update the Steam Controller firmware, you can connect it straight to an iPad as a normal Bluetooth device.

Jesus, I was sure Confederate had been cancelled, but apparently not. Yikes. I wonder if the most important part of the episode was

I did: not sure if it was an extension or security setting on Chrome that was the problem, but got it to work by using Firefox instead.

Small prediction for next episode (Brienne and Tormund):

Already mentioned in the game's dedicated thread, but as this seems to be the catch-all PC game thread: Ubisoft are giving away Assassin's Creeed: Unity free for a week, & donating €500k to Notre-Dame. Not Steam, you access it through UPlay as you'd expect.

No problem, sent! General reminder, it's probably best to keep all this to PMs to avoid spamming up the thread too much

They have now - check your PMs! Great game btw.

I know most people on here will have been on tenterhooks wondering if I managed this resolution for 2018. Well I absolutely* did**, but I did still pick up some duplicates from my Humble Monthly subscription, so some spare Steam keys below. I've highlighted the ones I liked, but each to their own. PM me if you want one: A Hat in Time A Story About My Uncle AI War: Fleet Command American Truck Simulator Amnesia™: Memories Cities: Skylines + After Dark DLC Crusader Kings II Day of the Tentacle Remastered Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Epistory - Typing Chronicles Eterium Fallen Enchantress GRAV Grey Goo Hector: Badge of Carnage HITMAN™: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1, 2 & 3 INK Kholat Killing Floor + Chickenator DLC + Community Weapon Pack 1 DLC Life is Strange Complete Season (Episodes 1-5) Luna's Wandering Stars Magicka METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN Monster Loves You No Time To Explain Remastered Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty Overgrowth Owlboy Pony Island Psychonauts Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut Resident Evil Revelations Samorost 2 Secrets of Raetikon Shadowrun Returns SimplePlanes Sniper Elite V2 Sorcerer King: Rivals Spirits Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP Tacoma Thirty Flights of Loving Tomb Raider Town of Salem The Walking Dead: Season 1 Wasteland World of Goo Yooka-Laylee Zombie Army Trilogy *partially, I caved for the limited physical edition of Exapunks, but it was limited. LIMITED! **until Christmas anyway, I wasn't going to let the winter sale go to waste

You can subscribe and then cancel after you get the games, I think, and end up just paying for one month. If you want to know what the other games are likely to be tonight, they possibly leaked earlier.

Was listening to a review of Moonlighter on One Life Left this morning, mostly positive but apparently way too much emphasis on crafting, which did sound tedious. Can't remember the score they gave it in the end though.

You're right! Sorry, I didn't know that.

What was the total value they put on the customs declaration? Under £18 should be tax free IIRC.

I know how people love grip talk, so: my Satisfye turned up today, first impressions are that it feels great, but it hasn't magically made me better at Celeste. Yet. If anyone else has ordered one: it took a week to arrive from Hong Kong, and it was marked as value £17.30 so didn't have any extra customs / VAT charges.

Good to hear - coincidentally I ordered one last night, after trying the ORZLY grip for the first time and found it pretty uncomfortable. The main reason is to try to help me play Celeste better. I picked it up in the weekend sale (or rather, like @bm, my friend from America "WaveyUSA" was visiting and bought it on my console) and I love it. It's difficult but absolutely fair - it's like a series of platforming puzzles, and you spend a little time working out what you need to do (usually after an initial "oh fuck off I can't do that"), and then a longer time trying to execute it. It feels brilliant to control, really well honed, and a good variety of challenges so far - I'm only somewhere in chapter 3 at the moment though, under half way. A really nice touch is the way it gives you optional extra challenges - there are occasionally awkwardly-placed strawberries you can collect, which I think have no effect other than increase your strawberry score, but they are still really satisfying to get. Anyway I know it's had some love in the forum previously, but adding in my recommendation for whatever that's worth.

I don’t really know what’s going on in this fully, but I think someone from here joined my game tonight? I’m only a few hours in, level 6, someone else popped up, I died (while I was paused, trying to look up what the health potion button was, during many little things attacking me) and then the game seemed to crash - I couldn’t move, the screen was about half as bright as normal. Anyway my apologies to whoever joined me, I hope I didn’t come across as rude for quitting out when it crashed. Otherwise I’m finding it fun if a bit overwhelming, there’s lots of things I don’t feel I have a proper grasp on yet, and maybe just haven’t been adequately explained yet.

Is there anything in particular that’s bugging you? Either I or others in the thread could probably give you a quick yes/no on whether an apparent inconsistency is resolved later on in the series.

This review is why Shadow Warrior 2 was on my wishlist: https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2016/11/18/shadow-warrior-2-best-pure-shooter-since-painkiller/

Just in case anyone's missed it, there is an official Good Place podcast. It's hosted by Marc Evan Jackson (who plays Shawn) and has a couple of guests per episode - typically a writer and an actor, but also occasionally someone from the production side. It's just as warm and enthusiastic about the show as you would expect, and everyone seems so genuinely nice. There are some really interesting behind-the-scenes stories, like the writer's room getting in philosophy professors for actual lectures, and who knew what when about certain plot events. There's a podcast episode dedicated to each TV episode, but it has been recorded recently so there are spoilers for the entire first two series throughout. Anyway: utterly delightful.

Holedown is superbly done, and really addictive, to the point where I was glad it was fairly short lived, and there’s an easy place to stop. End game spoilers:

Steam has added support for the Switch Pro controller: https://steamcommunity.com/games/353370/announcements/detail/1648757912601251834

Probably the wrong thread for this, as it's not Steam, but... if anyone has Amazon Prime, you automatically get access to Twitch Prime, which is giving away a decent set of games to keep each month, Humble Monthly-style. This month they have: Steamworld Dig 2 (excellent) Tales from the Borderlands (Telltale adventure, and a rare, actually funny game) Tokyo 42 (fantastic art style, no idea how it plays though) Kingsway (if Windows 95 was an RPG: was on my wishlist due to this review) DubWars (???) There's a Twitch client app you have to install them through, but it's otherwise fairly painless.