I coincidentally played it during covid lockdown and the thematic connections to the moment were really special. Bird flu is coming, maybe wait for the next pandemic lockdowns and try it then?

minecraft and rimworld too

this is the future libertarians want

Mainstream gaming, is on aggregate, getting worse and worse over time. Everyone wants to feel empowered to stop that from happening.

You could punch upward, targeting management of stuidos and publishers.

You could look inward, and make a commitment to sincerely boycott games from companies that consistely release games in an unfinished state, use dark patterns to exploit gambling addictions for profit, mistreat their staff, etc.

Or you could punch down, and target LGBT creators, who are largely individual contributors and completely unrelated with any of the root causes of the decline in game quality. But this one is SO much easier than the other two, so maybe you’ll do this one so that you can feel like you’re doing something without really having to do anything. Especially since it confims some things you heard from politicians that need to distract you from how their only policy is to make life better for rich people.

why?

death stranding 2 spoilers

I understand that a rather large portion of the active players of FFXIV are subbed mainly so that they can participate in the mod-supported ERP community. Yoshida is also the director of that game so I’m pretty sure he knows precisely how futile this request is.

he’s known for ages and had this one in his back pocket just waiting for the moment when you finally come out

recurring cost to rent a multiplayer server though, maybe that was it

lol ok sure is terarria a dead game? what about mario 3? agree with the devs on this one who gives a shit if people aren’t mainlining it every day of their life

some kids call their father “daddy” smh

They are and they must. There is no path forward that doesn’t massively disinvest from personal vehicles.

the enemy placement isn’t exactly amazing in vanilla but it is atrocious in scholar of the first sin. which one did you play?

“I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding 😎”

Indie games are kind of this, but it’s hard to make the “paid more” work consistently at scale. Largely because there’s a shitload of people making really good indie games and I can only play so many of them.

and the funny thing is that these games launch in such a bad state because the publisher paid for the marketing push to happen on a specific date, so come hell or high water, the game is gonna ship by that date

don’t get me wrong, deadlines are extemely important or your project will just end up with infinite scope creep, but games are a massive artistic and technical endeavour, which are two things that can be extremely difficult to estimate

there’s gotta be a better way

“I CASt pissed off angel that’s going to whoop your ass”

here I was thinking op was talking about the 9th level spell that can summon an extraplanar ally. the CAS of D&D

The game has a ton of subtle mechanics that it doesn’t really go out of its way to tell you about. So there’s a degree of mastery and cross-polination of strategy and builds that take advantage of those mechanics between groups, which adds a lot of fun for me. I respect how that’s not for everyone though.

This isn’t that complicated. Imagine what would have happened in Iraq or Afghanistan if the president was an intelligence asset they had cultivated for decades. Not to mention tons of senators, represntatives, and influential NGOs like the NRA. Also all those social media psyops that are disappointingly effective at sowing division in the US.

Russia has an incredible amount of influence in the US and is still getting wolloped, although not nearly as much or as quickly as they should/could be.

You get little guys like this in Carrier Command 2. Except they’re amphibious too!