Hard to even pin down highlights, there were very few moments when something was not balling out of control. Definitely have to do this again, ideally after some server scouting to find functional territorial control & infinite-strength tethers.

And the boost button.

Server needs boost function.

I'm gonna have to look through for that part that made me laugh so hard I could barely breathe. I believe it may have involved a BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUS.

Please do, diss.

I'm sorry I couldn't make it last night. I was just simply too tired and passed out at like 9 PM or something. Jeez it's been a long time since I've gone to sleep that early. Sounds like you guys had a lot of fun.

I think my favorite part is late in the game where we all brought up the passenger airliner that was doing fucking flips in the air at different intervals.

"What is that fucking plane doing?"
::5 minutes later::
"Dude do you guys see that plane?"
::3 minutes later::
"Oh my god this plane what the fuck?"

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This is magic.

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YEP definitely involved a bus.

[ 20:23:03 ] [ +Diss ] From my view this was the funniest thing
[ 20:23:04 ] [ +Diss ] Garrmondo - GFF Game Night Supplemental: Just Cause 2 Multiplayer - Twitch
[ 20:23:16 ] [ +Diss ] We were making these careful arrangements for tethering things
[ 20:23:26 ] [ +Diss ] And all of a sudden this bus came from behind where I was looking
[ 20:23:38 ] [ +Diss ] And slowly backed right over the top of Skills' plane
[ 20:23:45 ] [ +Diss ] And kept going
[ 20:23:49 ] [ +Diss ] Like Pang didn't even notice it was there
[ 20:24:00 ] [ +Diss ] Just right over the middle of it

Anybody who hasn't grabbed this, go ahead: it's still $2.49 until the end of the holiday sale and Nazi dinosaurs are happening when we resume on the 7th.

Other January plans:

Dominant Species, an evolution-based board game

Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers

and then, completely abandoning the prehistory theme to celebrate our second anniversary: we return to MOONBASE ALPHA, which added a competitive mode (with SPACE MADNESS) last year sometime when no one was looking.

(Primal Carnage is $5 during the sale but from what I've seen it has all the jank of Dino D-Day and none of the charm, so eh.)

It currently being New Year's Eve, and without any actual exciting plans, i'm probably going to end up just kicking around at home for the evening. Should any of you find yourselves in a similar situation, we should pull an impromptu game night. As for what we'll play, i have absolutely no idea - that depends on who shows up and what they have.

I will not be around tonight, got a gathering with some friends for new years eve.

I haven't decided if I feel like going out tonight or not, so the most I can currently offer is a maybe.

Anyone feel like doin' something tomorrow night on account of the (for the most part) break from game night? My appetite for trash talk has gone unsated for too long.

Don't ask them if they're going to do something. Tell them they're going to do something.

For example, tomorrow night* you're all going to enjoy Deus Ex's hilariously janky multiplayer. Don't believe me? It's all in the numbers.

Number 1: That's terror.

*No. Within six months.

Good point.

Tomorrow we're going to make a second attempt at playing Natural Selection, and instead of just throwing ourselves against a wall that has sharp teeth/machine guns (depending on which teams you played) until we die over and over we're going to actually learn some shit about how the game works, so that we can actually potentially enjoy it.

And then, when that fails—

When that fails, there's always Mega Man. That doesn't require learning anything, not even what Mega Man is, as Dull so effectively illustrated in his child-like wonder.

LEARNING ATTEMPT AFTER-ACTION REPORT:

nope

We learned that we need more than 6 to play NS!

There may be a threshold of players beyond which NS2 becomes playable, but that number is larger than the number of people one could theoretically persuade to play NS2.

A CONUNDRUM

Apparently I own Natural Selection 2, not entirely sure how that happened, it must have been in a bundle. Obviously that still leaves the issue of me rarely being up at 5am on a Tuesday or whenever but just putting it out there.

Yeah, it was included a couple humble bundles ago.

MAKE WAY FOR PRINCE ALI

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MEGALOPOLIS COMES

Holy shit rockets, it's amazing how much I actually liked Dinos.

The leaping.

The biting.

The tankasaurus.

The setting shade on fire.

Don't even front, that shit was great. I want to try this one again with Acer about at some point.

It was great for the entirety of the period in which we were all mostly on the same team

And then that fell apart and it was sort of less great but still decent-to-middling

And then Nachos happened and the whole world narrowed to a black, red-rimmed point full of Shade's flamethrower and some pubbie asshole forcing me into unskippable GET GNAWED ON cutscenes and there's no round timer on this point capture map? Really? and the only great thing was the frequency and variation of the curses I was laying upon the developers and the seven generations of their descendants

Still, Microraptor Trolling while Hawkeye devoured all your unguarded shins was pretty hype, BIRD/10