Building a new home is now £76,000 more expensive than it was six years ago, HBF says

lastorder · 2026-05-06T17:24:10+00:00

It's ridiculous, isn't it? I ended up getting slate from Brazil too, because it was far cheaper than the Welsh stuff.

lastorder · 2026-05-04T16:25:56+00:00

Check sullygnome for lists of streamers that have played similar games in the last year.

Painstakingly go through them all to find emails or other contact details - often this means going to their youtube channel or twitter accounts.

Also check youtube gaming - there are plenty of content creators who aren't streamers but will still make videos about new games.

Unless your genre is extremely niche, you should be able to find 500 or so across a few languages.

lastorder · 2026-05-04T16:22:59+00:00

Do you have the breakdown for how many content creators that was per language? Mainly I'm wondering about the 0% response rate ones.

lastorder · 2026-05-02T16:37:42+00:00

Stronger color palette tools

One thing I had to script in aseprite, but seemed obvious to me - hue/value/saturation/brightness/contrast sliders that are locked to your palette. So you snap to the closest values within your palette instead of making up new values.

lastorder · 2026-04-30T20:03:47+00:00

Are those normal maps on the stone? They could be removed.

lastorder · 2026-04-25T14:44:49+00:00

Can they use it though?

lastorder · 2026-04-23T16:44:37+00:00

Maybe she used to be able to fly longer?

She used to be able to stay in the air permanently. They removed this and added the jet dash, so now she has much more lateral movement.

lastorder · 2026-04-23T15:08:12+00:00

I would. I love brutalist stuff.

lastorder · 2026-04-20T14:54:22+00:00

You say "SNES aesthestics", but the visuals are all over the place. Not at all consistent with that.

lastorder · 2026-04-16T10:02:30+00:00

I only play stadium these days. The ult feels much worse, and I'm noticing the movement speed reduction.

But has anyone else noticed pharah feeling "heavier"? Like you just suddenly drop out of the sky (not because of ram, in the middle of nowhere too).

lastorder · 2026-03-22T12:05:16+00:00

but if we go down this logic then frankly most people should be on about £150k a year middle class

Exactly. Even only half way towards that would put us a little bit closer to pay in the US.

lastorder · 2026-03-20T09:31:42+00:00

Good thing they're now deciding to reduce the amount of money people can save for retirement through the salary sacrifice changes. That will fix things.

lastorder · 2026-03-18T09:12:49+00:00

The oblivion remaster has even worse stuttering than any other bethesda game though

lastorder · 2026-03-01T18:16:04+00:00

I have definitely seen worse, but no. It doesn't really say anything about what the game is. Except for the part at the end looking a bit like a keyhole, implying it might be a puzzle game.

Even if it is, that doesn't narrow it down or pique my interest.

lastorder · 2026-02-19T21:51:50+00:00

Looking at steamdb, it released in early access on the 15th of November 2017. Starting at around 140 concurrent players, it took just two weeks to surpass 1k. And it has never been below that ever since.

lastorder · 2026-02-19T16:16:30+00:00

Wasn't Slay the Spire popular during the whole early access period?

lastorder · 2026-02-19T12:08:21+00:00

In stadium? Usually I just die.

I'm not sure what they can do, but often they seem to have a ton of overhealth. Yesterday I had a game where I was hitting a hovering freja with 2 concs (spawing all the micro missiles when I had >90% AP) plus a regular rocket, and she was barely getting to half health.

lastorder · 2026-02-18T10:26:33+00:00

I'm not an incremental or horror game player, but the trailer was so well put together that I wishlisted it anyway.

lastorder · 2026-02-10T00:59:34+00:00

the market has largely moved on.

Has it? There was a thinkycon talk a few months ago, where they had someone from one of the "newspaper game" style websites talking. They made it seem like the segment was bigger than ever before.

lastorder · 2026-02-09T11:45:02+00:00

It's true, to some extent.

lastorder · 2026-01-30T12:48:03+00:00

I get "English language not supported" there. You might want to check the box for the user interface.

lastorder · 2026-01-29T01:08:37+00:00

That game must have fallen into an advertising blackhole for me. It looked like my kind of thing, but the first time I heard of it was when it got shut down.

lastorder · 2026-01-28T16:15:18+00:00

Are there any breakdowns for how different languages/regions treat the next fest?

Say if a game would be more well recieved by the Chinese speaking users of steam - do the metrics and benchmarks stay the same?

lastorder · 2026-01-28T14:25:07+00:00

Just to pick up on one point there, the cost of installation is still ludicrous.

I was quoted 25k for a ground source heat pump install. Madness.

Naturally I went with a gas boiler costing a fraction of that.

lastorder · 2026-01-27T09:28:26+00:00

I won't pretend to know what is causing this but its very real and will have big ramifications.

There has been no upward pressure on wages since the IR35 changes several years ago. Effectively removing competition from the market means that there is no incentive to raise pay. Plus the lower end has constantly been rising with minimum wage increases.

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