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There’s an indie game called Shadows of Doubt that does the whole immersive sim in a big hub stuff pretty well. Kind of jank and unfinished, but I think it’s the closest thing I’ve seen in recent times to Deus Ex.

it’s less groundbreaking in context than I think people give it credit for.

Are you seriously going to tell me that the open-ended structure of Deus Ex, coupled with the RPG elements and interactive environments wasn’t groundbreaking for the time? There wasn’t anything quite like it back then, so much so it basically created the genre of Immersive Sims as we know it today.

Hell, you could trace basically any first person shooter with RPG elements from after 2000 back to Deus Ex, it’s the gold standard for a reason. The closest thing we had to this kind of game back then was Strife, a Doom clone with a basic quest system and inventory, even System Shock 2 is less dynamic and open-ended than Deus Ex.

It’s been a while since I’ve watched these, his video on the original is spot on, but I really dislike his takes on Human Revolution, felt like he was mostly nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking, especially the story bits.

The GEP gun is the most silent way to eliminate Manderley.

I’ll be continuing my unarmed only New Vegas playthrough. One punch manning bastards into piles of goop is incredibly satisfying, no joke.

I’m surprised there aren’t more FOSS touhou games, Zun himself is very open to the idea of derivative works, including paid ones.

Use a filter.

At this point I don’t know which country is more ridiculous, Israel or North Korea. They’re basically the same, a tiny pariah state barking loud at anyone that looks at them while getting support from a rich neighbor.

He’s the angry MMO neeeerd.

Uh-huh… I wonder what their definition of “”“terrorism”“” is.

Such a cool symbol, both from a visual and symbolic point of view. Extremists ruin everything.

although the ancient Romans weren’t nearly as racist.

I beg to differ considering anyone that wasn’t roman was a “barbarian” to them. They didn’t judge you on skin color like people do nowadays, but they were still xenophobic and racist as fuck.

I can’t be the only one that thinks a “french fries association” associating itself with obesity is kind of crazy, right? You’d think they would’ve thought this through better…

… God damn it, people. This accomplishes nothing and just makes people angry at you, dipshits.

Oh man, I was just thinking about these little games the other day. I know what I’m doing this evening.

Honestly that’s for the best, the game looked awful all around.

I miss when Youtube had community sourced subtitles and those little annotations on the video…

The outrage stems from the potential removal of an 80 year old legal right (legalized abortion in case of rape) and the 20 years sentence, especially if compared to the 8 years sentence for rape. Most of the argument being made against this new law is around child rape victims being forced to give birth since most of them discover they’re pregnant very late in the process and the legal and medical burocracy leading to the abortion is rather lengthy.

If we could pull back the curtain to see what entities are responsible for such vile bills of law

Evangelicals as always. In this case they’re just doing this as a “gotcha” in case Lula (and his party) moves to veto the law from being enacted and accusing him of being “pro-abortion” or something to their brainless electorate. They’re just a bunch of really sad and vindictive people with complete disregard for others.

Classic. Wouldn’t expect less from the U.S. foreign policy.