Quoting: fractalPre-ordering a DLC? No incentives to lure me in? Paradox is getting cheekier than usual :P.

Other than that I'm silently hoping for a -50% sale on the base game so I can snatch it along with the expansion as I had my eye on it for a while.

Me too—I couldn't afford it when it came out despite having had my eye on it for a while, but having just started a new job this month I'm hoping to spend my first paycheck on Stellaris + expansions. :)

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Strange you're having problems with the co-op, I've been playing with a friend who's on Windows with me hosting and haven't had a single issue so far. Weird. Might be interesting to check with a number of combinations (hosting on Windows/joining on Linux, hosting on Linux/joining on Mac, etc.) to see if there are specific bugs that Valve could fix.

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Huh! That looks kind of interesting. And cheap, too. Time to put my periodic table shower curtain to good use!

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QuoteIt's touching something I don't remember being done before; building your own aquarium.

The original Zoo Tycoon had two expansions, one of which was specifically aquarium-themed, allowing you to add tanks and a large number of aquatic animals to your zoo and have things like dolphin, orca, or sea lion shows. But that's quite a long time ago, so it's cool to see a modern take on the idea.

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Back at the end of 2013/start of 2014 I was finally starting to get serious (though still hesitating) about ditching my aging Windows laptop in favor of a Linux gaming desktop, and I was also really into XCOM:EU at the time. The announcement that it was coming to Linux and I wouldn't have to give it up was a not-insignificant factor in accelerating my decision, so thanks guys! :D

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Man, and I start my new job on the 16th, so no time to participate. :(

This sounds pretty cool and I'd be interested in dusting off my rusty coding skills, but maybe a few more days' notice before the next one? ;)

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Huh. So the more you die, the more powerful you get as compensation? Interesting. Sort of a self-balancing mechanism. I'm not particularly interested in the game itself, but that does sound like a neat twist.

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Quoting: lidstah

Quoting: PhiladelphusI've been watching Stellaris since before it came out, but hadn't been able to afford it yet. However I'm just starting a new job and the 1.5 update and Utopia seem like a really great time to get into it. :)

If you love 4X space games… It's a must have :).

I've (strangely) never really played many 4X space games, but I love Europa Universalis IV and have played a lot of Civilization so I'm looking forward to it. Plus I love space (I'm an astronomer IRL!), so thanks for the tips. :) I'm hoping to get my buddy who also loves Civ5 into Paradox Grand Strategy games with it too.

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I've been struck by a desire to replay some of the older games in my library again, so I've been playing things like Torchlight II, Osmos, and Defense Grid 2. Plus Europa Universalis IV and Team Fortress 2.

Though just this week I happened to think of a really old game from 2006 that I used to play called Dodge That Anvil!. It's not on Steam, and has no Linux version, so I installed Wine, installed it, and it (to my amazement) Just Worked™. It's a cute, comedic game where you play a rabbit trying to harvest vegetables for your warren from fields while a stream of anvils rains from the sky trying to squish you, so you have to dodge them as you're running around. You also have a number of gadgets you can get to help you out, and there's a surprisingly long story mode where it turns out the anvils are actually being dropped by invading aliens from the moon, so you have to go to the moon to stop them, and there are a lot of different mechanics that show up over the course of the game, and…well, it's really a pretty good game. I'm hoping to start recording a Let's Play of it this evening, actually. :)

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Quoting: M@yeulCInvert gravity, and you're off to very bad thing.
Invert electromagnetism, and you'll have your limbs splitting off. At least you may still have planets and stars...
But that's nothing compared to what happens if you Invert the strong force...

And invert the weak force and…I don't know, I've never been able to nail down a clear answer on how exactly it works. Free neutrons might get a half-life longer than 15 minutes?

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