I remember seeing old teasers for this game, and it looked very much like “The kitchen sink game”. Basically, everything. Which, by itself doesn’t much say how fun it will be.

Ask yourself: Would this meme have seemed sexist if it had said “between a girl and the ps2 game she grew up with”?

Still specific. Somehow not “exclusive”. In my view, it’s just the noir trend of including pointed details to generate a firmer visual in people’s minds. He’s not drinking “a shot of liquor”, he’s drinking “a 4-year-old cognac that the bartender lied and said was 12 years”

Garage men are similar, but they collect people’s unused garages each week. The trucks are VERY large.

Thanks for the feedback. Been working on creative writing recently, and it helps to know when my attempts at brevity are making things unclear.

This came up in a brilliant way in a manga I was reading.

Two combat pros are facing off in a back alley, the aggressor trying to “test” their victim. The loser protagonist, who’s useless in a fight, hears the altercation from his store job, and rushes out to help his friend. He throws a paint bomb, used by stores to identify robbers, at the assailant.

The assailant runs, and spends the rest of the issue in a panic about how to conceal the paint; since they’d very much been relying on the option of being able to sneak out through crowds.

She does! She should smile more! /s

There are many European mechanisms that make more sense to me, like aluminum being “alumINIUM”, as with many other elements.

But periods in the middle of numbers always felt wrong to me. We already have structures for sentences that pause, then eventually close a thought: “Billy played with Susie, and her dog. Cute!” Not “Billy played with Susie. and her dog, Cute!”

The industry isn’t just “collapsing” through a series of failures. It mostly feels like the industry is choosing to repeatedly shoot itself in the face, while refusing to shut off the IV of “painkiller” made of powdered drywall and snake oil.

Rice on its own is bland, but adding a lot of salt, or any other flavorful sauce can make it a pretty enjoyable meal.

When I visited Japan, it was the standard replacement for breakfast cereal even in hotels, and it makes a lot of sense.

Microsoft is now the architect of a lot of shit. But the Windows Phone systems were surprisingly good, and a competitive alternative to iOS and Android. Even using Internet Explorer for its browser wasn’t so bad, since it was the late years of the browser when they understood standards compliance was critical, and followed them entirely.

Its moderate success in outer regions was delivered as an overpromise that lead to Windows 8 as a very “fullscreen touchscreen” OS, so it especially sucks that its follow-on legacy was so tarnished.

I don’t think we should prescribe to the idea differences in skill are AS great as riches would imply.

Elon Musk is not MILLIONS of times better at making cars than the next manufacturer. Most would say he’s worse.

What will also be relevant is the degree to which companies now subvert each other. If one person got really good at baking, he could take out an ad in the paper, right? Except adspot prices have gone way up because of rich companies running the same promo 1000x into people’s eyeballs about their frozen imported bread, even though this one guy might have something people actually want.

Or, look at game companies that all have competent products but are carefully managing their release date to avoid GTAVI.

I saw a front page about Saudi ownership, multiple game shutdowns, gen AI, etc, and figured I'd post something seeming a bit more positive/interesting.

The Sky duology is very much built such that you shouldn't even watch trailers for the second if you haven't finished the first. To put it bluntly, it's a JRPG with turn-based combat, and everyone I have seen watch its conclusion has been immediately on board for its sequel - but that is a very large qualifier given how many people drop out due to some honestly quite slow, "soft" dialog early on.

I wouldn't consider myself a Trails nut; I tried the three games in the series following this one, and they felt progressively worse and worse in terms of teenage Japanese anime writing. But, while this part of the saga holds a few of those issues, I do hold these early installments in high memory, and the remake has been very faithful as well as making use of a newer age of visuals (on the plus side, it doesn't rely on DLSS, but on the minus, the environments are often pretty basic). I'm also guessing a lot of people skipped the first after seeing it was a duology, so now the option of playing both interrupted is on the table. While there is a third game, there's no confirmation it'll be remade, and it's more like a smaller series of enjoyable extras anyway.

Rather than put us against invented enemies, I like to think a lot of Christians actually don’t care much about these subjects, and that the push specifically comes from Christofascism (rich people without a soul in their body using religion as a weapon to restrict and control people)

I mean, even the orthodox Christians don’t practice what they preach. Republican senators turn out gay. Priests fuck little boys. All through the ages, speakers of societal virtue have written all kinds of exceptions for themselves behind closed doors.

Many households get to write their own history, present it in a kind manner; and so you get Sherlock Holmes’ terrible prediction that the idea of a peaceful countryside is an illusion; that there’s far more crime out there that goes unnoticed, even if their family record was that of a willing and happy Lord and Lady.

We’re getting better about things. But the betrayals of humanity, and of the supposed “traditional roles” became a lot more visible.

I’m guessing most commentary will be about software, but there was an analysis I heard of, claiming that construction is one of very few industries across economic sectors that just hasn’t made any kind of efficiency advancements in decades. Most other systems follow some kind of workflow improvement, or inventions that significantly improve some part of the process. But home building has only gotten harder and more expensive for making the same homes as before.

Maybe we’re seeing the same in game development. You look at what games were made during PS360 on multiple odd architectures, low memory, and comparatively small teams, and see how much things are faltering since then.

The only pain point to me is that we think of this as a man being willing to break down in tears; to say that things have hurt him.

In my case, a lot of my repressed emotion is anger. I’m more than adamant that anger be directed solely to the horrible things in the world that deserve to receive it, and not the people close to you, but I perfectly understand that people (esp women) have reason to be scared around someone that can express so much anger, even if the claim is it will never be towards them.

I think it’s perhaps easy, or even in some ways enjoyable, to be the shoulder someone else cries on, that they feel safe around. It’s probably harder to be the person in the room when someone is seething furious about a worldly injustice; even if that injustice isn’t targeted at the man in question, and the anger is directed at an unseen entity.

This guy would love Car Park Capital. Tycoon game where you convert a pedestrian city into a traffic nexus for giant metal frames.

I decided to get this when I heard this! Always thought the game looked unique but didn’t know how I felt about buying from a pro-genocide company.

EDIT: I’ll admit, I’m a little surprised by the downvotes. Did people believe Microsoft was ever anti-genocide?

See, I think there's plenty to criticize in the game, but I'm always cautious anytime someone strings together adjectives "worst / terrible" without much description/quantitiy behind it. Not to accuse you directly, but it's the pattern I see when the "anti-woke brigade" wants to attack a game.

I'd definitely say Sky's main villain is mustache-twirlingly generic, but that's part of why they have so many supporting villains, like Loewe. I also thought a lot better of the core character development of the heroes, and how a mustache-twirling generic villain compels the best out of them. But I'd say Zero's villains were just as generic, and comparatively never got the feeling of hero development out of them. It also felt like a few arc patterns were just being reused from Sky.

So for any third parties reading, I guess you'd have to consider whether you care more about good heroes, or good villains.

It reminds me of the manufactured hate on Taylor Swift.

Yea, she’s rich; but being rich alone, and using a plane, is not the direct cause of everyone’s misery. It’s often a red flag, yes, and can point to other things. We can argue they should pay more taxes, but even more we argue that they shouldn’t have intense control over our politics. And from what I see, Gabe and Swift don’t.