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Free Leisure Suit Larry 1 in the Land of the Lounge (IndieGala)
Free Ultima Underworld 1+2, Syndicate Plus and Syndicate Wars (GOG)
https://www.gog.com/promo/rerelease_ultima_underworld_and_syndicate
Just checkout and they’ll be on your GOG account. “Grab before September 3rd”
Free Syberia I & II (GOG)
Free Plokoth (Steam)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1469550/Plokoth/
It is a platformer. Click on it (or ‘Play’ etc.) until Steam shows installation specs, then you have it in your library and can abort the installation.
Free Kick Ass Commandos (IndieGala)
Free Shadowrun Trilogy (GOG)
Free Sonic Mania (Epic)
Free Loria (GOG, Steam, permanently free)
Free Titan Souls (Steam)
Free Max Wolfe (IndieGala, again)
Surviving Mars Deluxe Edition (Steam, Humble Bundle)
Free Control (Epic)
Free Company of Heroes 2 AND Ardennes Assault DLC (Steam)
Free Tonight We Riot (GOG)
Free XIII (GOG)
Free Metro 2033 (Steam, again)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/43110/Metro_2033/
It is the original version before the gameplay and voice acting changes in 2033 Redux. This original version is out-of-sale and the voice acting is better as it is not serious and dull like in Redux. This promotion has happened a couple years earlier.
Free Syberia II (IndieGala)
Free Rage 2 (Epic)
Free Agatha Christie the ABC Murders (IndieGala)
List of Most Censoring Search Engines (Web)
The S¤¤t List:
Yahoo
Startpage AKA ixquick
Baidu
Kiddle
As a rule of thumb, the smaller search engines cannot afford to mess with the results because that would quickly bankrupt them. Generally, most smaller sites are better than anything on the list above, though be cautious of sites that are mere re-skins of Google and DuckDuckGo, which seems to be quite common. In practice, if the smaller site has the exact same search results as those two, use something else. I have resorted to Bing for quite a while, though Yandex might be even better as it is fast as hell and the results are decent.
Free Syberia (IndieGala)
Free Virtua Fighter 2 (Games2gether, Steam)
https://www.games2gether.com/profile/me/rewards (the rewards page)
- Register a free games2gether account. (Preferably with your for-junk gmail acc.)
- Link your Steam account in the settings.
- Go to the rewards page and claim Virtua Fighter 2 on it.
Free Bomber Crew (Steam)
Free Little Nightmares (Bandai Namco, Steam) & Heroes of Three Kingdoms (Steam)
- Get a Bandai Namco account and use it to claim Little Nightmares [PC Download] Standard Edition and activate the given Steam key. https://store.bandainamcoent.eu/eu/product/437895/little-nightmares-pc-download EDIT: It took about 30 minutes to until the key became available on the order history page https://store.bandainamcoent.eu/eu/account#/orders . Use the Steam product activation page to manually claim it: https://store.steampowered.com/account/registerkey (or use a similar feature on the Steam client).
- Get Heroes of Three Kingdoms at Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1437820/Heroes_of_the_Three_Kingdoms/
Basic Things Epic Games Launcher Fails to Implement
1. Pausing and canceling a game download takes effect about 150 seconds later (instead of zero).
2. The Store page is the default landing page when starting the launcher AND you cannot change that. The launcher downloads about five megs of image data (no, it never caches anything, meaning you will have to re-download the same page data if you get back to it again).
3. You can only order one game at a time. Keep in mind there are plenty of games with almost two dozen DLCs. It takes a while to load the order page because the launcher downloads megabytes of data for it for no good reason.
4. Any time you move to another page, the launcher clears and locks up the content page, meaning you cannot do anything anything before it has fully loaded the target page.
5. The launcher minimizes if you start an Epic Games Store game.
6. The launcher refuses to start any games if you have an active download going on. A lot of functionality is hindered or blocked by a download. I guess this is to make sure every single activity is logged and authenticated before new ones can be processed. This is super slow and any bottleneck can quickly slow everything down to a crawl. For example, a slow Internet connection. This will not affect hackers as they largely bypass any hindering actions. Basically Epic does not trust you to play your own games without supervision. This kind of controlling behavior feeds the demand for hassle-free pirate versions. The point of having games is to play them, not to validate things to the platform every 5 seconds.
7. The launcher gets glitched and refuses to start if there is an update for it. It does not tell you this. It simply fails to start. Usually this means you have to give it its sweet-ass time (while wasting yours) to get going again.
8. Has no idea how to display cellular network traffic. Windows 10 often has the same issue and major updates take turns fixing it and re-breaking it. Overall, the downloader is very crappy, something a teen could put together and better during an afternoon.
9. You have no idea how big the game is before you start downloading it. The “game-debate” site is the most reliable source for the hard drive space info. The information available on the launcher is close to zero and even that is 99 % for irrelevant marketing purposes.
10. The launcher uses the same pages as the web portal, though it does not periodically disconnect you and it loads noticeably less and does not bug out like the web version does.
11. You cannot play the games without the launcher getting all DRM on your ass. Even the shortcuts are simply protocol calls for the launcher to request a start-up. You are pretty much gimped up to 11, having to ask for permission EVERY TIME you want to play one of your own games.
12. The “Home” page is not the landing page despite the name (the Store one is). Home is filled with useless tidbit news about promotions and launched games. It is so useless I bet it is going to get removed and / or re-designed at some point. You mostly use the “Library” page that displays your games. You can clumsily search from there, which already makes this one vastly better than the Bethesda one. Not being the bottom of the barrel is not an achievement.
13. There are dysfunctional Settings settings. For example the “Throttle Downloads” option does nothing.
Epic Games Launcher makes feel envy towards the pirate copies of the games I legally own on the platform. They would be a vastly better experience than the ones eternally shackled to the ridiculously badly implemented EG platform. Of other platforms, GOG is probably the most practical and keeps adding the most valuable features, e.g. the recent cross-platform multiplay support. Steam’s last UI update is terrible. It seems hackier and more crowded with over-stuffed layouts than the very early Steam clients. Do not give money to Epic Games.
Whatever they are doing, it is not going towards improving the EGL client one bit. It is still the same clunky POS it was two years ago. I seem to recall it being significantly better few months ago with a much simpler game library listings. I have no positive experience with Epic Games Launcher or even the games played on it.
Free Metro Last Light Redux (GOG)
Valid until some time on Jan 1st
Free Brigador Up-Armored Deluxe (GOG)
Free 15 One-Day-Promo Games from Epic Store (Epic)
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/free-games <- find daily promos here
Day 1 – Cities Skylines + 3 free DLC (2020-12-17)
Day 2 – Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty (date+1)
Day 3 — 15 – Buncha stuff (2020-12-31 being the last one)
Free Cities Skylines (Epic) + DLC
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/cities-skylines/home
- Get the F-ing game.
2. Get the DLC (“Add-Ons”):
I Pearls from the East https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/cities-skylines/pearls-from-the-east
II Carols Candles and Candy https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/cities-skylines/carols-candles-and-candy
III Match Day https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/cities-skylines/match-day
Free Prison Architect (GOG)
Free Ubisoft Connect Games “Happy Holidays” (Uplay)
The current day’s promotion: https://ubi.li/happyholidays
https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day1/en-US – AC Valhalla skin EXPIRED
https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day2/en-US – Starlink EXPIRED
https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day3/en-US – Watch Dogs Legion skin EXPIRED
https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day4/en-US – Trials Rising EXPIRED
https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day5/en-US – Hyperscape Rewards Pack EXPIRED
https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-lastchance/ – Get all + Anno 1701 Historical Edition
Free Seven (from HumbleBundle, for GOG)
Free Mudrunner (Epic)
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/mudrunner/home
P.S. Get the free DLCs (3?) too.
Free Elite Dangerous and The World Next Door (EpicGames)
Free Butcher (GOG)
Free Teleglitch (GOG)
Free Textorchist the Story of Ray Bibbia (Epic)
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/the-textorcist/home
P.S. Next week will have Elite Dangerous
Free Might and Magic X Legacy (Uplay, Hong Kong / China VPN)
- Set your VPN to Hong Kong or China or get one with the free hola Chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hola-free-vpn-proxy-unblo/gkojfkhlekighikafcpjkiklfbnlmeio/ (remembuh to set the right VPN country or it won’t work)
- Login at https://register.ubisoft.com/might-and-magic-x/ and the game will be added to your account. (Ubi / Uplay account, ofc)
Free Kingdom Classic (HumbleBundle, Steam)
Free Endless Zone, Armor of Heroes (Steam) & Ghost Sweeper (IndieGala)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368450/Endless_Zone/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368440/Armor_of_Heroes/
https://freebies.indiegala.com/ghost-sweeper/?ref=UrMum4Tyrone
These seem like a mobile game ports by SEGA recently dumped onto Steam et al.
E.g. “Streets of Kamurocho” is set to be released on the following day for free on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368430/Streets_Of_Kamurocho/
| METADATA: Is free on the store? | Yes |
Source: https://steamdb.info/app/1368430/
IOW, expect more of these strange, mobile-game-like releases very soon.
Free Nights into Dreams (Steam)
Free Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Steam, PC)
Free Total War Saga Troy – Amazons DLC (Total War Access + Epic)
https://www.totalwar.com/access-amazons/
You do not have to opt in to promotional spam. You get the code practically instantly as soon as you link your your Epic account to the TW Access one.
Free Life Is Strange 2 (1st Episode, Steam)
Free Watch Dogs 2 & Football Manager 2020 (Epic)
You can find most LEGIT free giveaways yourself just by following e.g. these tracker sites:
https://www.epicbundle.com/category/article/for-free/
You can find the weekly Epic giveaways with the same link:
Free Cyberpunk 2077 Goodies Collection (GOG)
Just some art assets
Free Uber Soldier II (IndieGala, again)
Free Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition (Steam)
Free Eye of Beholder Forgotten Realms Archives Collection One (GOG)
Free Theatre of War 2 Africa 1943 (Indiegala, again)
Free Hitman Absolution (GOG)
Free Samurai Shodown Collection and ARK Combat Evolved (Epic)
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/free-games
There are a lot of free DLCs for ARK.
Free Kao the Kangaroo Round 2 (Steam, again)
Free Total Annihilation Commander Pack (GOG)
Free Overcooked (Epic, again)
Alex Jones Will Eat Ass (2 Song Remixes)
#1: “I Will Eat Your Leftist Ass”
#2: “Eat Your Ass (and My Neighbor)”
Free Culling of the Cows (IndieGala)
Free Arx Fatalis (Bethesda)
https://bethesda.net/en/hub/arkane20
Requires signing up for Arkane Outsiders and its marketing newsletter.
Free Borderlands Handsome Collection (Epic)
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/bundles/borderlands-the-handsome-collection
Has Borderlands 1 and 2
Free Sid Meier’s Civilization VI (Epic)
Free Naval Warfare (IndieGala)
Free Chex Quest HD (Steam)
Free Assassin’s Creed Ancient Egypt Discovery Tour
(Also has Might & Magic Battle Chess and Rabbids Coding, in addition to the two AC titles.)
Free Assassin’s Creed Ancient Greece Discovery Tour (Ubi / Uplay)
Free Aegis Defenders (HumbleBundle, Steam)
Free Crusader Kings II DLC Horse Lords (Steam)
Free Higurashi When They Cry Hou – Ch.1 Onikakushi (GOG)
Free Ashes of Singularity: Escalation (Humble Bundle, Steam)
Free Anomaly Über Bundle (Steam)
Free Evil Genius (Steam)
Free Assassin’s Creed II, Rayman Legends and Child of Light (Uplay, Ubisoft)
Either
a) unlock them with a free account at Ubi Store :
https://store.ubi.com/ie/free-offers
or b) on Uplay launcher
Free Hitman Complete Season (2016, PS4)
Free Total War: Shogun 2 (Steam)
How to Over-Convolute a Video Game Promotion to the Max (Paradox Interactive Style)
To be eligible for receiving Parklife DLC for free on your Steam account, please follow the steps below:
- Own a base game of Cities: Skylines on Steam.
- Create a Paradox Account (accounts.paradoxplaza.com).
- In the Settings tab, sign up for Paradox newsletter.
- Verify your email (remember to check your spam and promotion folders on your mailbox).
- Back on your Paradox account Settings, sign up for Cities: Skylines newsletter.
- Link your Paradox and Steam accounts on the Settings tab.
- Set your Steam account to “Public” so our team can confirm you own the base game. You can reset your Steam profile to private after you’ve received the giveaway.
- Wait up to 36 hours for DLC to appear in your Steam library. ‘
Free Camp Sunshine (IndieGala, again)
Free Journey (PS 3 + 4, Playstation Store)
Free Uncharted Trilogy (PS 3 + 4, Playstation Store)
Free Just Cause 4 RELOADED (Epic)
Free Wheels of Aurelia (Epic)
Free Theatre of War 2: Kursk 1943 (IndieGala)
Free Assassin’s Creed II (Ubisoft, Uplay)
Either
a) claim & login here: https://store.ubi.com/ie/game?pid=56c4947f88a7e300458b4690&dwvar_56c4947f88a7e300458b4690_Platform=pcdl&edition=Standard%20Edition&source=detail
OR
b) claim it on Uplay
Free Close to the Sun (Epic)
Free Symmetry (GOG)
Free King’s Bounty the Legend (FX)
https://juegos.fxinteractive.com/fx/game.php?id=601
- Create an account
- Click “comprar”(i.e. buy) to claim the game before April 6th
- Download the FX Store app
- Download the game with the app
Free Totally Reliable Delivery Service (Epic)
Free Rayman Legends (Ubisoft, Uplay)
Free Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages (IndieGala)
Free GOG Spring Sale Goodies Pack #2 (GOG, game artwork and music assets)
Free Itch.io Games (Social Distancing Sale)
Free Child of Light (Uplay, Ubisoft)
LATER on 24th WHEN THE GIVEAWAY IS ACTIVATED: Claim it on Uplay launcher
https://uplay.ubisoft.com/en-GB
OR use the link (that does not seem to work ATM) https://register.ubisoft.com/child-of-light/en-US
Free “Spring Sale Goodies Collection #1” (GOG, a collection OSTs and artwork)
https://www.gog.com/ (the semi-hidden main page banner button again)
Free Tomb Raider and the Temple of Osiris (Steam)
Free Tomb Raider (2013, Steam)
Free Marble & the Woods (GOG)
Free Watch Dogs and Stanley Parable (Epic)
Free Witcher Goodies Pack (GOG)
https://www.gog.com/ (a button on a banner on the main page, valid until March 18th)
Free A.I.M. 2 Clan Wars (IndieGala)
Free Reapers Due DLC for Crusader Kings II (Steam)
Free Uncertain: Last Quiet Day (Steam)
Free Offworld Trading Company (Epic)
Free Faeria CG and Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (Epic)
Free JASEM (IndieGala)
Free Fan, The (IndieGala)
Free Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Epic)
Free Affliction (IndieGala)
Free Farming Simulator 19 (Epic)
Free Die Young (IndieGala)
Free Deep Space Anomaly (IndieGala)
Free Crusader Kings II DLC Sons of Abraham (Steam)
Free Half-Life Complete (Until 03/2020, Steam)
Free Merry Snowballs VR (Steam)
[Gardening] A Carrot and a Potato [PHOTO]

The carrot was discovered in a dismantled tomato or watermelon box. It had grown surprisingly well despite a shadowed and low-maintenance position.
The potato was something I bought from a store. It never sprouted. Lesson learned: do not buy potatoes for seeding THAT ARE BRUSHED BALD. If it has loose peelings left, it is probably not brushed too hard and could sprout. Just remember that potatoes without tons of sunlight / lighting AND strong fertilizing start to wither wither very soon afterwards. IOW, it needs a GREAT growing spot.
Free Disgraced (IndieGala)
[Gardening] Yellow Soil Fungus [PHOTO]
[Gardening] My Current House Garden [PHOTO]
I am going to downsize and remodel all this stuff. Tons of dead plants to take care of. I might replant some of them, though no guarantees. I have plenty of seeds for a fresh batch, so there is no real need to preserve anything. All in all, smaller is more fun to manage. I’ll say more than six boxes is about the limit. I have about 20. You cannot genuinely care about all of your children if you have too many of them. 🙂
[Gardening] Sunflower Seedling [PHOTO]
[Gardening] Bell Pepper Flower [PHOTO]
Ultimate Guide to Making Free High-Quality Gardening Soil from Random Grass and Flowering Plants [Gardening] [Foraging] [PHOTO]
Easy & free soil creation recipe:
- Collect tons of grass and flowering plant matter into a cardboard box furnished by a lot of papers such as newspapers.
- Keep adding minuscule amounts of water into the plant waste pile to avoid complete dehydration.
- Just wait a couple months.
- Once the the bottom-most soil turns into a dark clay-type soil, dig it out and pile it on top of the less decomposed top-soil to greatly hasten its decomposing.
The main advantages:
- You can be sure that the soil is nutrient-rich by making it from such stuff i.e. grasses and flowering plants, especially dandelions and stinging nettles that specialize in sucking nutrients from the deep soil.
- As it is made purely from plant waste, it is all soil without any rocks or gravel that can hinder root development. E.g. carrots are especially sensitive to root restrictions caused by rocks and easily become malformed as a result.
- It is free and you can be sure that it is good stuff. For example, if you want to farm tomatoes and do not want to have iron-rich stinging nettle waste there, you can guarantee that arrangement. Also, the available plant waste quantities are nigh-limitless and you only need to collect the waste and let the omnipresent decomposers do their thing. All you need to do is to wait and add some water if the soil starts to get too dry or the time comes for you to bury the top-soil to decompose it. Absolutely no money investing required and everything you need can be picked up from the ground or from trash piles (the cardboard and the papers, also possible plastic bags for carrying the plant waste to the decomposing box).
Free Sundered Eldritch Edition (Epic)
Butchering Some “Winter” Cucumbers
These are the biggest non-growing cucumbers I found. They stopped developing at one point because my fertilizer water juice ran out of nitrogen and other stuff. The cucumber plant permanently drops the fruit out of the feeding chain if it cannot sustain growing them. So if you want big and fully developed fruit, get some water diluted grass fertilizer tea or better. All you need to do is to get some grass and other soft, dead, leafy plants and mince them good. Just do not source stinging nettle if you are growing tomatoes, they do not like the high iron concentration.
Free Steep Standard Edition (Epic)
Free Darksiders II Deathnitive Edition (Epic)
Free Darksiders Warmastered Edition (Epic)
[Cooking] Ultimate Liver Bread-Drying Guide [PHOTO]
Recipe:
- Work the liver content into a ground-down mass. Use a blender if you can — a couple of seconds on low intensity is enough.
- Make a batch of dry bread powder i.e. bread stuff minus water (the goal is to rely on the meat juices to speed up the dry-baking process). Ingredients:
- two cups / 4 dl of wheat flour onto the bottom of the bowl (keep two more cupfuls in reserve for adding on top of the liver)
- one or two teaspoonfuls of salt (to avoid an inedibly bland AKA cardboard-like bread taste, also: bactericidifies the bread and makes it bit more crystallized, hindering mold growth)
- spices (marjoram and radish-anything are the best possible meat spices, tarragon AKA estragon and garlic are the second best, green pepper for safe peppering and crushed citrus basil leaves to flavor the bread)
- optional: a teaspoonful of potato / maize flour to cut down the baking time by 30 to 50 % (makes the dough more dense, pushes the fluids to the surface, leading to faster vaporization AKA baking
3. Mix the dough powder and pour the minced liver contents over it. Mix it a bit by covering all wet spots with the powder, add an extra cup or two of wheat flour on top of the liver-moisturized dough and lightly mix it just enough the wet parts no longer stick to your fingers.
4. Place the semi-mixed liver-bread dough inside your sandwich grill / (plane-top) grilling machine. Do not over-stuff the grilling machine or it will not dry up inside, causing it to grow mold inside out.
5. Let the liver bread bake for at least 30 minutes, depending on the type and the power of the grill. It is ready when the bread does not bend and gets hard and feels like one solid, metal-like bar. Mold roots cannot pierce that and the dryness keeps bacteria from growing on it. It is more efficient and more preserving-friendly, batch-wise faster to bake many thin breads than one thick one. Minimizing the dough left under the crust layer is the key for masterful grill use.
6. Set the baked bread sheet / brick to dry in a well-aired position. Placing it on a wheat-flour-covered baking paper sheet is a decent idea. The mold will form on any surfaces that are blocked from releasing moisture and the proper drying/hardening process is prevented. Avoid hard surfaces and ones without moisture-sucking properties such as wood, plastic and metal. Covering with enough wheat flour can make even those surfaces plausible. Flours generally contain moisture very well and vastly improve the general preservation potential of food items. The final drying process can take a day or two, depending on how much water density the preserved item originally had.
Culinary dosage:
A pinch full (a couple spoonfuls at least, more if your stuff is very doughy i.e. whitish in color) of the bread brick and grind it down or dissolve with some water. Then mix it with your lunch bread dough or a meat stew / soup to prop up the flavor and the nutritional value.
- The liver can have (can have lots of mold — this dry-breading method kills it and drowns out most of its flavor-presence. Common mold is not toxic, just bad-tasting. If nothing else works, add some oregano — that will drown any other flavor. The baking process eliminates most of the ill-tasting mold compounds, vastly improving the edibility.
- Mold fungi does not rely on light or air for survival. Using an oven for this is extremely inefficient — it’s not wise to constantly heat up the air next to the food instead of the food directly like the grills do. The grill setting of ovens is not that good. Ovens take much more time and electricity to bake the food than contact-heating grills.
- Preserve a lot of time. For every two ounces / a kg , you will be grilling for one or two hours. Reserve a ton of time and patience for the job. If you under-cook, mold will take over it from the inside
- Why liver? Organs are a gold mine for rare nutrients. Most importantly choline, a vital nutrient and an extremely rare DNA preservative. It pretty much has trace amounts of most things you are ever going to need, besides C and some of the B water-soluble vitamins. Do not feast uncontrollably on the concentrated liver content, as it has so much vitamin A content that you risk having vitamin crystals or stones forming inside your fat tissues.
- A couple spoonfuls of liver bread (less than 50 grams) is often enough to nutritionally spike a full-course meal. The extra stuff will most likely not even benefit you as the body regulation only accepts a certain maximum amount of a specific non-energy-source nutrient (e.g. the blood-cell-vital B12 vitamin) per two hours or so. If you are a body builder and need to take in a lot of stuff to keep getting bigger, you can refuel every couple of hours. Small meals are better anyway to avoid the annoying anabolism symptoms such as drowsiness and sluggishness.
- You can soften the baked-hard bread bricks later (they sometimes get stone-hard after a couple of days) by cutting of a piece and dunking it into water for a couple of minutes. You can dry the excessive water again by adding some wheat flour.
- If you cannot consume wheat, you can use the wheat substitutes such as spelt aka dinkel / hulled wheat and buckwheat. They are not as sweet as bread / common wheat. You can always add some sugar. The role of the wheat in the mixture is to stiffen up the dough, making it very challenging for mold fungi to infest if properly baked dry.
- My grill is George Foreman Fat-Reducing Grill (GF1884056), made for grilling meats and greens. A flatbread is the only kind of bread you can make with it. Any thick breads (quarter-inch / 0.5 cm or more) will be left raw in the middle. Unlike sandwich grills made for toasting bread that you can stuff almost full without under-baking issues
- You can tell the amount of liver content by how black the bread is. Low-liver content bread is sheet-white and the high one is all grey with black spots. Cooked liver is black.
Free Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (2019) (Epic)
Free Banner of Time (GOG)
The claim button is on a banner in the middle of the page scroll, just above “Recommended for you” segment.
Free Shadow Tactics (Epic)
Free Dino Dini’s Kick Off Revival (IG)
Free Postal (GOG)
Free FTL / Faster Than Light (Epic)
Free Theatre of War 2: Africa 1943 (IndieGala)
Free TowerFall Ascension (Epic)
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/towerfall-ascension/home
New dailies every day until Dec 31st.
Free Postal (Steam)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/232770/POSTAL/
Click “Install” to claim
Free Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty (Battle.net)
Free Into the Breach (Epic, a Brief Daily Xmas Promo)
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/into-the-breach/home
Valid until 2019/12/20 1800
Free Postal 2 (GOG)
Free Escapists (Epic)
Free Wastelands 2 (GOG)
- Find the Wastelands 2 section and claim the game.
- Go to https://www.gog.com/account , click on the Wastelands 2 Director’s Cut, click on “More” drop-down-menu link and select “Serial keys”, go to the code URL, pass the captcha check and click continue (to claim the key.) (The claiming is done when Continue button is clicked. This gets you Wasteland[1988], the key expires 10 years later, i.e. in 2029. It is a low-demand ancient game, so you might as well claim it. )
The quick promotion ends 1500 UTC 2019/12/13 (Friday).
[Gardening] Winter Is a Sunless Sky
There are not many clear days during winter and you need to rely on artificial lighting to keep plants alive. That is because most days involve low-pressure i.e. a lot of cloud-creating moisture. Only during the rare high pressure days you can expect a clear sky. For comparison, during late Spring, Summer and Autumn, the skies clear up as soon as the rains drain them out of existence. During Winter, the clouds mostly stay up there doing nothing and only rarely rain snow.
[Gardening] Butchering a Cucumber [PHOTO]
Free Rayman Legends (Epic)
[Gardening] Stealth Cucumber [PHOTO]

[Almost missed this one. It is like a green ping-pong ball.]
Free Journey of a Roach
Free Deponia (IndieGala)
Free Company of Heroes 2 + Victory at Stalingrad DLC (Steam)
- Get the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/231430/Company_of_Heroes_2/
- Get the DLC “Victory at Stalingrad” by “Steam Sign up”-ing here and authorizing SEGA to unlock the DLC on your Steam account: https://signup.companyofheroes.com/#dlc-content
Free Crusader Kings 2: Sword of Islam DLC (Steam)
Free Messenger (Epic)
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/the-messenger/home
- Get the game
- Get the “Picnic Panic” DLC (under “Add-Ons”)
Fecking take it you, silly twat. It is one of the best indie games made in recent years for free. Don’t be a square — be there. It is a bit like Ninja Gaiden.
[Gardening] Butchering a Tomato [PHOTO]
It is a two-by-two-inch / 5×5 cm undergrown tomato. It is a lopsided and grown in a partial shadow. It has a lot of connective tissue and surprisingly few seeds. The yellowish part has a slightly more fresh and less stinging taste, so eat them as soon as they start turn red if you like minimally demanding tomato taste. Otherwise, it is the same generic tomato smell /taste you can get from smelling the leaves of any tomato plant.
In short, self-grown tomatoes taste the exact same as store-bought ones. Do not waste your money and time on neither “extra fresh/natural tomatoes” or self-growing them. It took six months to produce that one tomato. Guess how many hundred other tomato plants I have that have produced none. Yeah, many. Not worth it, sugarplum.
There is not enough depth in the tomato aroma to create any kind of taste variety. That is also why is works so well as vinegar ketchup ingredient — it is so watery bland itself that it highlights the taste of the vastly-more health-beneficial vinegar.
The tomato legacy will go on as I have a couple of large plant boxes to grow this stuff in. It turns out, you can always count on the green beans and the watermelons to die for no reason. The original cultivar/variety was probably Marmande, though the next generation will be all mine — developmentally challenged and F’d up to the Moon. It shall be known as “Deranged 1.” […Just look at this list {Rutgers NJAES, opens a new tab} and you’ll get it.]
[Gardening] Ripening Tomato #2 [PHOTO]

I look up the best time to harvest the fruit and the answer is “as soon as it starts to change color” i.e. as soon as it reaches/passes its greenest point. In short, it is a way beyond ripe already, it simply is not expiring yet.
I am going to pick it pronto and take more pictures of the cross-cut once the green disappears (I want the slightly-aged look). As you should not trust random people, here is a quote I am basing this around:
“Tomatoes are gassy — I mean they emit a gas. Ethylene gas is produced by fully formed mature green tomatoes. Inside the mature green tomato, two growth hormones change and cause the production of the gas, which in turn ages the cells of the fruit, resulting in softening and loss of the green color, turning into a red shade. The ethylene increases the carotenoids (red and yellow colors) and decreases the chlorophyll (green color).
Because of this process, tomatoes are one of the only vegetables, I mean fruit, which can be picked before it is completely ripened. Harvest time for tomatoes should ideally occur when the fruit is a mature green and then allowed to ripen off the vine. This prevents splitting or bruising and allows for a measure of control over the ripening process.”
(Source: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/tomato/harvest-time-for-tomatoes.htm , even more info there if interested e.g. about how exactly to pick the fruit without turning it into a disorganized pile of fruit meat)