A handful of friends and I went DEEP on this way back. My strongest recollection is having an agonizing time on mother brain. Can’t recall one way or another whether I finished it

Yeah he also went on to admit that hyperloop was a deliberate misdirect to draw funding away from other rail and other public transit projects, since, you know, he’s the ceo of a car company

I watched a video of some of the “gameplay” of that, and… Wow. It is the most by the numbers mundane idle game I’ve ever seen. Inspired, how uninspired it is.

I mean… I think the “with Kojima it’s allowed” take for MGS5 is because of very reasonable concern during development that konami would try to wipe his name off the project. They’d done worse to other employees and would go on to refuse to allow him to receive awards for the game.

Yes, but there are a lot of complaints. The classic visuals were missing effects present in the original xbox release, and the remade visuals lost an enormous amount of personality and detail. I don’t think I would buy halo 1 again (certainly not for more than $10) but it would be nice to have a definitive version

Sounds like a one piece arc tbh. “Thank you for feeding me. I will now dismantle your (corrupt) local government”

I know the goblin you’re talking about, but one better for sneak in the tutorial is right when you encounter the first zombie, three rats are fleeing it. They’re hostile, but the devs wanted you to focus on the zombie, so they don’t attack no matter what. Killing the zombie then sneaking into a wall by those rats is safe but also gives you more experience because you’re sneaking around three enemies

I still regularly play L4D2 with friends. Also it’s modded beyond all recognition. Zombies are anime girls. Tanks are Donkey Kong. Witches are hatsune miku. Smokers are yoshi. Hunters are assassins creed hoodies. And more. Every weapon is something else. The graffiti in safe rooms are Jayden Smith tweets. The list goes on and on. I love playing it with friends.

That being said, in 2025, while I love L4D2, in 2025 I think World War Z is the best Left 4 Dead-like. Terrible movie, great book. Great movie based game.

I’ve been playing BAZR on my steam deck. A rom hack of Super Mario 64 that turns it into a roguelike deck builder. The B A Z and R buttons, instead of doing their original things, now activate corresponding cards in your hand for actions like jumps, punches, etc with a limited number of uses. It was initially very intimidating and difficult but after a few runs I’m starting to get wins in and unlocking new decks and characters. That being said I 120 starred (100%) the original, and the same for SM64DS, so I’m quite familiar with the stages, and the game expects you to be.

Every run gives you a random starting stage, which you can change away from by collecting every star or paying coins to change stages (higher cost the more stars remain). Ideally you want those coins for buying and upgrading cards. Getting a star gives you 20 coins, plus whatever you collected along the way, plus a bonus/penalty based on how long it took you. Collect 16 stars and you’re taken to a final level consisting of all three bowser stages, back to back. Don’t run out of jumps!

For the price of free I’d recommend it for anyone who has previously played SM64. I don’t think it would be a good introductory version of the game. Link for the curious

I’ve been playing BAZR on my steam deck. A rom hack of Super Mario 64 that turns it into a roguelike deck builder. The B A Z and R buttons, instead of doing their original things, now activate corresponding cards in your hand for actions like jumps, punches, etc with a limited number of uses. It was initially very intimidating and difficult but after a few runs I’m starting to get wins in and unlocking new decks and characters. That being said I 120 starred (100%) the original, and the same for SM64DS, so I’m quite familiar with the stages, and the game expects you to be.

Every run gives you a random starting stage, which you can change away from by collecting every star or paying coins to change stages (higher cost the more stars remain). Ideally you want those coins for buying and upgrading cards. Getting a star gives you 20 coins, plus whatever you collected along the way, plus a bonus/penalty based on how long it took you. Collect 16 stars and you’re taken to a final level consisting of all three bowser stages, back to back. Don’t run out of jumps!

For the price of free I’d recommend it for anyone who has previously played SM64. I don’t think it would be a good introductory version of the game. Link for the curious

Have you played owlcat’s other stuff? I got deep into Pathfinder Kingmaker but lost steam and stopped at some point. Have heard good things about wrath of the righteous, and would like some 40k content that actually explores that universe, but I kind of expect to have the same experience.

I loved citizen sleeper, though I agree, if you’re smart, it’s pretty easy to fall into a loop of “as long as I X, I’ll never run out of resources” after you’ve found your way a little. Citizen Sleeper 2 addresses this by having you travel between stations, meaning for much of the game you’re a bit less sure of what comes from where, but it’s ultimately pretty formulaic in that regard. There are also timed away missions where you only have what resources you bring and you need to have the right skills and allies or there’s a very real chance of (varying degrees of success and) failure which has plot implications. It’s much more linear, telling a story, rather than your story. Many decisions have more implications for allies than you, and the endings are much less varied, which I won’t get into for spoiler reasons. That being said, I’m a fan of both. CS2 is strongly antifascist not just in the stories it tells, but also in that you’re often NOT the most important person in the room during a scene, even if you are enabling change around you. I’ve heard people complain that “you aren’t even around for the climax” of some arcs, though, in my opinion, it’s generally because you’re focused on your own shit. YOUR stakes are low in the video game sense, because they’re grounded and focused on you, even if higher stakes conflicts are going on nearby. I was a fan, though I understood the criticisms.

Probably because neither Sony nor Microsoft are locking single player content behind their online subscriptions. Not to mention you’re strawmanning really hard right now. Those two do it. In PC circles you’ll hear it bashed all the time. Meanwhile, Nintendo is doing it worse than anyone else because they’re deliberately locking single player content behind a subscription, not just here but also for any of their classic library, which just isn’t available for sale. Meanwhile, I could go buy a digital copy of an original xbox game on the latest xbox and it’ll just play and if I owned a digital copy on a previous console it’s transferable.

Stop it. The things you’re arguing aren’t relevant and even if they were, Nintendo is STILL the worst offender.

Yeah the seraphites part wasn’t killer for me since with a little stealth you can take it at your own pace, but not long after that

was brutal. Took a bunch of tries for me.

I did have a great time playing TLoU2 with all the difficulty cranked up, EXCEPT for ally aggression set to super easy. This meant that while combat was more threatening, as long as I had a partner character with me, I felt like I had support and backup, and wasn’t alone in combat segments. Like I was really traveling with someone, rather than just having someone around to spout dialogue now and then.

This also meant that any time you’re alone, you feel it. When you’re alone you feel isolated and unsafe. Meant there was at least one alone encounter that was brutal, but also made the game more immersive. Highly recommend.

I’ve had burritos more supreme than this court

It is now. 222% spike at dominos, which appears to be one of very few open this early.

You got me there. That was kind of the whole point of the show, no? To be an anti-nuclear sitcom family, who is, at a glance off putting and evil, but are in reality extremely supportive, caring, and generally what you would want a family to be

Honestly the statement wasn’t meant to be “women don’t want this” so much as “women don’t openly express desire for this.” Gomez isn’t, in my mind, part of the cultural zeitgeist for what a highly desireable male partner is.

I have been saying that every man wants a Morticia but not nearly enough women want a Gomez for YEARS. That being said, I have also pulled some goth baddies by being a weird little guy who is ferociously affectionate, wildly passionate in his interests, and enjoys his share of swordplay. Hopefully my concerns are misplaced.