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Ten thousand people (though I’d guess it’s even less) is laughable, nearly a non-event. Especially considering in the past these organisers were able to gather a much larger crowd.

There was no US destabilising Ukraine, there was no coup, those are taken right from the Kremlin book of propaganda.

There were civil society protests in Ukraine in 2014 to oppose government’s withdrawal from EU talks. Ukrainian government, then backed by Russia, used brutal force against civilians while Russia “secretly” and illegally annexed Crimea (as always with them, firstly not acknowledging anything, using so called little green men, russian soldiers without proper markings, who later got medals for it).

At he same time, Russia invaded Donbas, again “secretly”, talking about “civil war”, but it was no civil war. The so called separatists were controlled by Moscow, supplied heavy weapons and even commanders by Moscow.

Eight years later, they invaded massively and openly, bz make no mistake, Russia’s attempt to destroy and landgrab Ukraine lasts way longer than that.

I was in a similar boat as you during the spring sale - have a powerful desktop, was pondering getting the deck. Decided to go for it and to be brutally honest, it’s mostly a new shiny toy, not a revolution - which is absolutely fine enough.

I am excited about it, enjoy using it very much (on a long train/bus ride, on couch/in bed), but I don’t use it every day, it hasn’t been some miraculous revelation. However, it built a new clear division for my library: on one hand smaller, less demanding games I now save exclusively for handheld experience (thanks to this I already tried some games I probably wouldn’t on PC, at least not in near future), on the other for big, graphically marvelous games still prefer a big screen.

Also, if the desktop goes unexpectedly tits up some day, it’s nice to know I have an emergency solution in the form of the deck.

Highlight to my trip to Japan if I may exaggerate a bit :D Incredible comfort, heated seats, sounds of nature if you like… Can’t believe they’re not more prominent outside of Japan.

Plenty Diablo players called for D4 to be closer D2 than D3 was. Fewer mobs than PoE is result of that - while in PoE you clear whole screens, D2 wasn’t nearly as fast or full of mobs, encounters were a bit more unique and demanded strategy. So in that way, I would say D4 succeeded.

Hellblade was already mentioned (prime example imho), so I’d give shoutout to the entire Supergiant’s game catalogue. So much time and effort went into sound design and music in all their games, it’s remarkable.

Headphones absolutely mandatory. Hellblade is the first title that came to mind seeing this thread.

HoS feels as if written by Sapkowski himself, it’s a brilliant, focused short story with a haunting atmosphere.

BaW feels in its grander scale more like the base game and is a perfect ending with its lighter tones and more whimsical area.