I feel like you could go all Kate Bush on this one:

Benedict, preferably with short ribs instead of ham:

People post the same question about games and the answer is the same. Sure there's mediocre stuff out there but there's plenty of good stuff if you look. There's such a wide gamut across genres, budgets, and countries that decrying "films bad". A24 has been releasing a bunch of great stuff in the last decade.

Central air powered by solar for the most part with battery backup for peak load shifting. We're not fully "off the grid" but we tend to send back as much as we receive most summer days and we get full credit for whatever we send back.

I also use quiet 42" tower fans in certain rooms where I feel like I need additional cooler or to offset the heat generated by devices in that room (like my office where my gaming PC is).

The Orville, Strange New Worlds, and Lower Decks are the most Star Trek shows out there right now. Discovery is good but my wife's complaint is that it's all epic story arcs with massive stakes every single season rather than being truly episodic with actual problems of the week and slow burn character development. Picard has the same problem, but with some questionable writing on top of that.

That said, we're liking s3 of Orville. It's a bit "more of the same" but we liked what it was, minus the Krill current US politics episode that was not that much fun to watch. We go to sci-fi to get away from that, not to watch shows that mirror it.

@Sam3231: Yeah, Surface Books can have discrete GPUs although I don't think all models did. Unless you've got one of the higher end configurations it probably won't be great. All of the 2D indie games mentioned are great and shouldn't have an issue.

Which Intel graphics chipset? You may not be limited to pixel-art games, but mostly 2D games probably. A decent Intel chipset could play Hades or other Supergiant 2D titles.

That said, there's plenty of awesome pixel-art or games with simpler 2D graphics.

Lone Survivor Director's Cut was mentioned. Great game.

There's a new version of Dwarf Fortress coming to Steam.

FTL is a great rogue-like. Crying Suns is another similar-type game.

Which one? Dark Corners of the Earth or the recent CoC game from 2018?

Yeah, everyone was surprised at how good this game was at the time. Innovative mix of different gameplay types all wrapped up in a pretty tight package from start to finish. Many argue this was the best game in the series (personally I like City as I think swinging around rooftops is a key part of a Batman experience).

Yeah, for sure. Loved the first one for its emotionally complex story. I know this one was divisive but I haven't played a game that subverted expectations this heavily since Spec Ops: The Line. Every time I thought I had a handle on how it was going to go, it didn't and the directions it took were constantly messed up.

Hahahahaha, yeah. Not at all what I was expecting. I got it for my kids and after they beat it they told me the story. Had a known a little more about it, I might have pre-screened it for them because by the end it's like "Baby's First Cronenberg".

Third Strike (Street Fighter 3: Third Strike) if they got it an anyone's playing it.

Capcom vs SNK 2

Tekken Tag is good.

Initial D Stage 8 (I've got a card with three maxed out cars, including an 86 of course).

Jubeat

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