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I was fortunate enough to experience death last month. Here’s what it taught me about customers.

Built a new PC for the first time in a decade last spring. Went full team red for the first time ever. Very happy with that choice so far.

Guilt? There is no guilt in Russia, only vodka and defenestration.

Jak 2 fucked my 13 year old brain up.

Having played the first game a little late, I rushed off to spend my savings on the sequel as soon as it came out. I was not ready for the dark turn it took. It was like someone had snuck GTA 3 into a kids game without any one noticing, going from a cute but kind of dirty kids game to a dark city with cars and guns where you could run over people and get into a fight with the cops.

It’s not the news you’re looking for, but you deserve to know about OpenGOAL nonetheless.

It’s a project that aims to revive the programming language that the Jak & Daxter series was written in. They’ve mostly succeeded in porting the first game, and somebody has already made mods for it.

Now port them for real, cowards.

Like I know that this is just spam for a scam game and it’ll get rightly nuked soon, but can I just take the time to mention how delightfully shit a name for a game “teen patti master” is?

You hit the exact right combination between potentially NSFW, useless and confusing.

Kudos, now fuck off.

Every two weeks? That seems a bit hectic. Can we do something like maybe once every two months?

That was an absolutely spectacular read. Thank you so much.

I am honestly not sure if you’re joking or not

As hard as it was to get, The Tower of Power was solid, standing erect over the competition.

This wrinkly, flaccid dingle-dangle pales in comparison to the pitch-black proud pillar of raw potent power of the original.

Neither is “loved” and “most subscribed to”

I think bloodborne holds a lot of reverence because of the themes it portrays. Besides Sekiro, which also has a cult following, all the other Souls games are based in and around medieval fantasy of some sort.

Bloodborne starts in Victorian England with a Van Helsing story and the descends into Lovecraft really fast. For a lot of people, myself included, that’s inherently a more interesting setting than medieval fantasy. People who are into victorian England are really passionate about it, and people who are into Lovecraft are really into Lovecraft.

It’s an excellent game, was a lot of peoples first From Software game, and unlike the majority of big titles from that time period, hasn’t been ported, updated or remastered.

Additionally, out of all the “Souls” games, Bloodborne is still the only one that can’t be played at over 30fps.

Puts on mask pretending to be Sony

“Bloodwha? Whatborne? Never heard this word before in my life. Doesn’t look anything to me”

And xtremesystems.org :(

Ahh well see here, this checks out you see.

Trump said eat. We export the most bacon, but nobody talks about whether or not we eat much of the stuff.

I’m gonna need a link for this.

I’m having a shitty morning and this sounds like just the thing to cheer me up.

The verticality is absolutely the best part. My biggest gripe with Elden Rings world is that it’s an “open world” game in kind of the same way Ubi games are. Traversal is largely trivial, so you stop paying attention to the map after you’ve reached major areas.

In my opinion, Dark Souls I is also an open world game, but instead of a 2D map all the zones are tangled up together in a confusing but interesting web.

Shadow of the Erdtree brought some of that back by having zones stacked on top of each other to a much heavier degree than the base game, while also segmenting off geographically close regions.

I wanted to be a level designer for a lot of years, so this is admittedly a bit of a soft spot for me, but I absolutely loved having the game world come at you as as a challenge, almost a character to be fought and bested, outside the legacy dungeons.

Arm is worth 5.3bn USD and employs just over 8000 people. Intel is worth just over 100bn USD and employs 124,000 people.

Nvidia is worth 42bn USD and employs 30,000 people.

That makes Intel over twice as valuable as Nvidia with over four times as many employees.