https://www.molleindustria.org/blog/future-no-thanks-update-now-with-no-ai-generated-voices/

Here's the original blog post the dev made in case anybody wants to read it instead of the RPS article rewording and summarizing half of it.

A bit niche I imagine, but Melvor Idle 2. I'm a fan of idle games, and the first Melvor Idle is my favorite. The second game, from what I've experienced so far, feels like a direct upgrade in every way. A lot of smaller improvements make the various skills feel more unique compared to each other. At least so far as you can reasonably make them in a game where you click a button and watch progress bars go up.

After a quick look at their website, it looks like entirely hidden object and match 3 games. Looks like they've been around for a while so I don't know for sure that they've never made anything particularly interesting, but if they have, they sure don't make it easy to find on their website.

So I'm going to say no.

I bought an RX 6650 XT some years ago, fully intending it to be a cheap temporary card until I could afford something high-end...

I don't know if I should be upset I didn't just buy a more expensive card, or happy I'm no longer stuck with a 970. Regardless of how I feel, I'm going to be using this thing for the next decade at this rate.

How brave, using Google Chrome to protest Microsoft... with an extension that only changes things locally. I promise that Microsoft doesn't care one iota about you renaming things to Microslop with an extension. This is like proudly calling yourself a protester because you hung a sign up in your room where nobody else can see it. I guess it could annoy them a tiny bit if they see it become really popular I guess?

In other news, it's really funny seeing an AI summary at the top of this article.

That's because you're playing it wrong. You see, at it's core Skyrim is actually a puzzle game you play on the Nexus Mods website. You spend 30+ hours carefully researching, building, and tweaking the perfect pack of mods, only to immediately run out of interest in playing Skyrim once you're finally done. The actual Skyrim installation only exists to check if you solved the puzzle correctly and it runs.

OP, you upload AI slop and crop out artists names every time you post. If you want a community that appreciates your actions, you could not be further from that place. I'm glad you feel unwelcome here, because to many of us, you are. Please go back to reddit.

So Microslop is censoring its own name? Strange choice, but okay.

I wonder why?

A welcome change imo. The morality system in the Fable games were always heavily lopsided, with one side being strictly superior than the other. Though I will say that I did like the cosmetic changes it made.

It's just one of those years. There were a lot of great games that came out this year.

TIL it's okay for kids to die if they're privileged.

Alright, here's a long one. Overwatch.

I've never been a fan of PvP games, but hero shooters might be my one exception. Even then, I almost exclusively play support because I prefer helping my team to fighting the enemy. But the better I got at the game, the more I realized support was just the damage role but you also attack your team sometimes. A Lucio with only 1,000 damage or with 80% healing uptime by the end is a bad Lucio. I guess what I was looking for was a healer role, not a support role.

This pushed me more and more into just playing my favorite character, Mercy, because she kinda lives in her own world and rarely interacts with the enemy team. Her movement is fun, and I genuinely enjoy playing her. So I'd be more than happy to pick OW back up as a Mercy one-trick, but that brings up several other problems.

First of all she's straight up ass in high-level play. Which is fine I guess, I don't need to play comp, but the more consistent matchmaking than what shows up in quickplay was appreciated. Secondly, people expect you to switch if things aren't going well... the game's been called counter-watch for a reason. This is also fair enough, I understand my team shouldn't need to baby me if I'm hard-countered, but like... I don't want to. At this point I'm here to play Mercy, not OW, so I'd rather just lose than switch. Which can make me a useless teammate.

The biggest issue though is their expensive and greedy monetization and abusive use of FOMO. Anybody that has played the game before knows Mercy is one of a few characters that gets beautiful limited-time skins every season, because they sell extremely well. Most of them cost $20, and some can only be bought in $45+ bundles. Unfortunately I'm a sucker for pretty Mercy cosmetics and struggle to stop myself from buying a lot of them. So I stopped playing entirely, because hating myself for spending $20 on pretty Mercy skin #37 is bad for my health and wallet.

Was expecting to see "install Linux" in one of the spoilers. Nice to see actual help.

Three out of four of the paragraphs in the article's solution were spent convincing people of the benefits to buying premium. Still feels like an ad despite the tiny mention of uBlock Origin at the very bottom.

I do agree that Youtube, premium isn't bad value. But I refuse to support google or youtube directly with my money. If I ever want to support a creator, I can throw them a couple dollars on patreon and help them far more than buying premium ever would have.

Halo 1 will have 3 different versions on PC before Halo 5 gets any. H5 must have really sucked.

Not really, but they're install disks you can trade in or lend to a friend.

Slammed!!!

Have journalists never heard of a thesaurus?

A pretty big update, but from what they've shown so far, its focus is mostly on QoL and fleshing out the game. No new bosses or anything like that.

Cassette Beasts is another great one.