Exactly like that, except the paying is a few steps removed so it “doesn’t count as bribery”

I’m sure you’ve heard of this one already, since the internet can’t stop talking about it, but Hollow Knight and Silksong are both phenomenal games.

I’ve also got to mention one of my personal favorites, Book of Hours (and it’s predecessor, Cultist Simulator). Weather Factory’s style is… unique to say the least, but if you love them you’ll really love them.

Also Balatro. Another one that I’m sure you’ve heard of because it has taken the internet by storm.

That sounds eerily plausible 😥

Honestly, good. I am pretty anti- national security at the moment.

I’m sure lots of things are “supposed to be” a certain way, but in true American fashion, most of these kinds of laws aren’t enforced until the parties end up in court.

You know, the courts that are famously impartial and who never rule along ideological or party lines, are never swayed by whoever has the “better” lawyers, and are never biased against minoities. Oh, and litigation is super cheap too, and so frivolous lawsuits definitely can’t be used as financial weapons.

Yeah 😥

Hate this place.

And that’s perfectly fine and legal because patents are ‘first to file’

This is kinda nothing?

Prego isn’t “pivoting” they’re releasing a one-off branded novelty product as a publicity stunt. Also, you worded this as alarmingly as possible when you didn’t need to.

Edit: Sorry, the article worded the headline as alarmingly as possible. Didn’t mean to shoot the messenger.

IOS users hate Windows. Linux users hate Microsoft.

Tetrachromats wouldn’t have an advantage here as digital displays only have 3 color channels

Right? The idea of a natural language user interface isn’t a bad one, and I think it will actually have positive impacts in the long run. We’re just running into a “calculator problem” where people think that if you have a calculator you don’t need to understand math.

Exactly!

This feels like a thing from a bad dream

Shorts are now the new way to gain views

Well, kind of. Shorts viewers mostly stay on shorts, they rarely convert into long form content viewers

In the US, so many people don’t have friends/lives/community. They just sleep and work (because no one here gets any time off). So, naturally, you learn to make conversation with strangers.

Unfortunately there are plenty more fascist regimes than Germany’s to choose from as examples. Many didn’t start a world war, and therefore lasted much, much longer than the Nazis did.

One of my all time favorite games is Cultist Simulator, but I’ll admit it’s not for everyone. If you like puzzle type games and don’t mind learning about the world by reading lots of little snippets of flavor text, it’ll be right up your alley.

Also definitely check out Rogue (the og) and the first wave of games inspired by it. The meta-progression stuff is kind of a new wave thing.

As for newer games, Balatro is really popular right now if you’re into more ‘puzzle roguelikes’. Most of the things you unlock make the game harder rather than easier, or give you a different angle from which to play the game. There are a handful of things you have to unlock via meta-progression, but so far they seem pretty unintrusive.

aww, too bad, if you were good enough you could have beaten the game, but let’s make it a little easier

Yeah, that’s pretty awful game design. Most of the ones i’ve played didn’t feel like that, usually you’d unlock new classes or something (I.e. sidegrades) or unlock harder difficulties.

And of course my favorite ones don’t have any meta progression whatsoever, the only progression comes from you learning about the game.

Most of the roguelikes that I really enjoy had unlocks that made the game harder, not easier. At best, the unlocks offer new builds, making the game easier in one respect but harder in others, giving you a new angle on things.

But then again, most of the ones I play are puzzle/strategy/deckbuilder type games. Kind of a genre of its own these days. (FTL, Slay the Spire, Cultist Simulator, Balatro, etc)

Mostly, yeah. In the western world, anyways, pretty much everything we have was gained via theft. So it isn’t earned and we shouldn’t treat property like it’s gained via merit.