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Unciv by yairm210
I've played Civ 6 for countless of hours, and I gotta say Unciv managed to hook me up to my phone. It can be played on a potato and yet the gameplay is on par or even better than Civ 6.
Thanks to the devs for it!
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Unciv by yairm210
I've played Civ 6 for countless of hours, and I gotta say Unciv managed to hook me up to my phone. It can be played on a potato and yet the gameplay is on par or even better than Civ 6.
Thanks to the devs for it!
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Spain to impose massive fines for not labelling AI-generated content
Definitely a necessary move to avoid fake news. I wonder thought the applicability of this and how are they going to detect unlabeled AI videos and fine them.
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Made it out with the best card in the game and one damage left; here's what I accumulated in the few turns after
What game is it and why do you think it's the best card game?
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Nintendo Direct 3.27.2025 – Nintendo Switch
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Do you think so? First, it seems a cumbersome feature. Second, you are NOT the owner of the game since you do not even have the possibility to sell the game, should you wish to.
I can see the advantage over regular DRM games, where you can lend the games. But depending on the price range nothing beats having the physical cartridge.
And that's why I love GOG. It would have been interesting if you can completely transfer the ownership of the virtual card, but I don't think Nintendo will permit such thing.
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What SNES are you playing or intend to play? (10 Mar)
I never played Secret of Mana. I might give it a shot shortly!
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Which board games have you been playing this week? (10 Mar)
Played Race for the Galaxy (a tableau building game), Through the Ages (civilization building card game) and Slay the Spire (roguelike deck builder). I'm very into strategy card games and deck builders
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Does anybody have any romhack recommendations
I'm a big fan of gen 2 so I mostly played romhacks based on that. To me the GBC offers a better experience than GBA because of the chiptunes compared to sound samples. Some personal recommendations:
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Ori and the Blind Forest and Its Sequel Hit 15 Million Sold
Ori is such a beautiful experience, and a worthy Metroidvania. The will of the wisps dramatically improves gameplay over the first one, and the theme can catter to a different type of player (I love hollow knight, but my wife preferred Ori instead).
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Which board games have you been playing this week? (10 Mar)
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Would you recommend the game? I've spent like 1000 hours in the digital version, even beating ascension 20 with all characters, and the appeal that I can play fast and quickly roll games draws me in (the same happens to me with Through the Ages)
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Best online discussion forums for career and job related topics?
Try LinkedIn, that's where I got most of my jobs.
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Which board games have you been playing this week? (10 Mar)
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Fortunately, in steam, gog and android there is a digital version of Through the Ages, which is 100% faithful to the physical game, has a lot of challenges and online play. That's mainly how I play, and a 4 player game with AI takes about 20 minutes.
I sold my physical copy of it. It was a difficult decision, because it's probably the best card game ever made. But it's very fiddly, and it takes about 1 hour per player. In the end for strategy games I care about making meaningful decisions, not fiddling with pieces.
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Nintendo Direct 3.27.2025 – Nintendo Switch
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I understand your point. Though honestly DRM-locked games should have some kind of compensation, like lower price. Games like Zelda or Mario don't usually have such treatment, whose digital version always has full price.
I always wonder who buys a Mario or Zelda game digitally at full price.
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Share a memory related to SNES
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Oh I did that too with my dad, though my dad was not very gamer. Ken, alongside Ryu is one of the easier Shoto characters to play
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What games are you playing this weekend?
Playing mole mania. A small hidden gem from Shigeru Miyamoto, gotta say that it's a simple, yet very interesting and challenging puzzle game for the Game Boy. I'll see if I can show this game to my kids when they grow up!
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Share a memory related to SNES
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I played the hell out of DKC, trying to reach 101% without guides (those weren't easily available back in the day), searching every single level and astonished when I found a secret.
It was an amazing feeling and yeah, I had much more time back then.
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Super Metroid is immersion at its finest, and the magazines back then were an interesting (and colorful) source of information.
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Super Duper TABLETOP Games background Music Playlist Compendium
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Wow, TIL! Melodice is amazing, thank you for the reference!
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Thank god it says "Fake card" at the bottom. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to ascertain if it was a real playable card :joy:
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What games are you playing this weekend?
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If you search around you can find the English version of it. There is no button mashing, it's a puzzle game after all where you play as a mole that moves rocks and digs below the surface to cross obstacles.
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Share a story on why you started collecting something
When I was a kid I liked to collect Panini trading cards of Dragon Ball and other mainstream TV shows from the time. To me, the form factor of a card is amazing:
This fascination for cards made me get into card-related hobbies as a growing adult, like cardistry, card magic tricks, Magic the Gathering, LOTR LCG, as well as collecting. I was motivated to intensively play card-related games (nowadays my favorite card games are Race for the Galaxy, Through the Ages and Slay the Spire, and keep collecting valuable cards from TCG games (until prices started to skyrocket, the point where I decided to leave).
For a long time, I stopped collecting, but about two years ago I wanted to collect cards again, which coincided with the apparition of Lorcana (which has beautiful cards of my favorite Disney characters). The problem? I was not willing to sink in an enormous amount money. Still, I wanted to have something special and meaningful to me.
What did I do? Easy, I created my own cards! I created a krita template (which I will share when it is polished), grabbed fanart and screenshots of my favorite movies, shows and videogames, and designed cards for them and printed them into my local printer shop. And the result was amazing, I learnt a lot in the process and it's given me a lot of ideas on other kinds of cards I could print.
If you've reached this far, thank you very much for reading my story!