Totally fair gripe, and I have the same one with choice trees in most games. I don’t mind little stuff that doesn’t affect the longer game, but holy shit, if choice A or B is going to wildly change the outcome of the game / who I’m dating / if a character lives or dies / etc, either make it super obvious or flat out tell me! I’d LOVE to have a little info icon next to dialog choices that would say “FYI if you choose this option you’re straight up rejecting any future romance with this char” or something. Immersion breaking? who cares! so is save scumming and a ton of other game mechanics. It’s all for fun anyway, I’d rather know what I’m doing and not waste time.

Sorry, rant over :D

This feels, questionably, like real news. Billionaires cry in public at the stock loses, but eat up more subtle policy changes that will make them more money.

I second Vampire Survivors

Hopefully. ghostrider2112 seems like a decent dude.

One of today’s lucky 100000

You’re not a bad guy, but this is kind of a bad faith argument, saying that a 14yo not being comfortable with their gender is just a phase they’ll grow out of (like any other stupid kid / teenager phase). Does it happen? sure, of course it does. But it’s not ‘just a phase’ for the VAST majority of trans pre adults. If you’re scared that someone will change their mind and keep them from doing anything until 18, then they get hit with full wrong gender puberty and change their bodies in ways they can’t undo. Most of the older trans women I know transitioned in adulthood, and it sucks to say but they still sound like a dude talking. They hate it. They wish so bad they could have been allowed to do this as early as possible. They knew exactly what was going on, but had to wait. It’s up to parents to know their kids and say are you sure? are you SURE? REALLY? yeah? ok cool let’s do this then. Why make them suffer longer?

I love reading these daily games posts. They usually sound lovely, and either show me new things or remind me of a fun game I used to play.

Cheers man.

Man, I don’t know about even that… It gets stuff wrong all the time. My boss LOVES his AI bot that joins all meetings (even if he doesn’t) to summarize stuff. Occasionally I look over the summary it produces; it’s about 50% actually correct, 25% ambiguous not wrong but not what I meant, and 25% flat out wrong / opposite of what I meant. I’m sure he relies on the results, ugh. One time I went through the summary and corrected it all, but I don’t have time for that for all meetings.

Games like Skyrim always bugged me a bit as I couldn’t walk for more than half a minute before I tripped over a quest or encounter of some sort. I feel like the devs were scared players would get bored if they didn’t see something exciting every few seconds. Sure I want to do stuff, but I also want to breath and look at the scenery and think about what I’m doing.

The real world is way more open; you travel for a good while between cities, and I really like when games do that as well. I’ll have to try Red Dead, but I thought Kingdom Come Deliverance struck a good balance. Even at top speed on a good horse, it takes minutes to ride between the major settlements, with only rare encounters coming up now and again.

Currently sucked into Kingdom Come Deliverance, which is similar to TW3 in that it’s a first person story driven game, but set in IRL 1403 Bohemia instead of the fantasy setting. Very good historical storytelling, I think.

Simulated red/green colorblind (the most common one). Dark = bad sorta works but not all the way.

Startpage if you like Google, DuckDuckGo if you like Bing.

OpenTTD pretty sick tho

If you want to look good, you either have to look gay or homeless

Is this that dinosaur statue roadside attraction thing in LA? Those mountains and palms definitely look correct, and I remember seeing a dinosaur sculpture thing outside town in GTAV. Maybe I’ve been playing too much Geoguessr lately.

Your memes brought me much happiness. Especially that one 2 days ago about the straw, which was able to disturb my entire friend group.

“Your kid may already be…” is a pretty standard fear mongering start, right?

Nice article, cool company

Could’ve gone with ‘Slay bells ring…’