Gaming

Mass murderers be like that.

I guess he's lucky she didn't just kill him for it 

Aw, the woman with a weird part-French, part-Russian accent has some health problems, including a cough that's strangely louder than her voice.
What can I do to help? A medkit maybe?
"Thank you," she says in that accent. " But I don't think this will work. "
Well give it back then!
Don't take my precious medkits if they're not gonna work for you.

That reminds me of my most recent quest in Palia. Tish has some strange uncurable disease that can kept at bay by a magic flower but apparently there IS a cure as well. And she has ALL the ingredients too, she just needs a cauldron. So I mention where there is a cauldron and she goes "Great, collect all the ingredients and make me the cure!" And she kept the ingredients she already had, to herself, including a ruby.

NPC scammers  The number of times in Starfield when I had to pay out large sums of money from my own pocket to do somebody else's business for them was ridiculous.

Nothing quite like having to fight a tough boss battle with a kid pulling on your hand like an anchor.

 

And I don't have any bolts for the crossbow so it's back to chucking stones. I'm sure they won't just bounce off all that armour.
(SPOILER: They do just bounce off. )
Come on, Hugo. Let me turn a bit quicker and get out of the way!

Steam has a free to play game called Hamster Playground
So far (from the game page) they seem to mostly play musical instruments and eat carrots (they must be rather large hamsters...)

(Apparently it has some in game currency you can buy for real money...)

Edit: And both Steam and Epic has a free multiplayer horror game called Once Human that looks like it could be fun for a while... Though it's 60-70 GB and preferably SSD... 

I am now playing with my hamster Marcus. But apparently it has to work for 6 minutes with seems to involve just sitting on its bum scratching their ears occasionally. Or maybe I'm missing something. It's a boring few minutes anyway.

Edit: apparently I was supposed to click on something (I thought I did but apparently I only clicked the floor...) 
Currently Marcus is busy making sure the floor is level.  

Marcus has now finished the tutorial and apparently it was all too much for my fancy top/notch computer which once again shut itself down mid-game. (And switched to UK keyboard when it was started up again, as usual )

And don't stare like that. The tutorial told me to dress him in an ill fitting shirt and paper hat, which I removed almost immediately, so he can run around au naturel again. I'm sure he's much happier now.