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Otherwise they'll take their ball and go home.

One the one hand, the customization and exploration look like a lot of fun. On the other, it seems like half the team wanted to do some kind of gritty After the Bomb-esque, Monster Hunter/Shadow of Mordor styled RPG, and the other half wanted cutesie, tongue-in-cheek silliness. While all of those concepts are

Boy, do I remember that top picture well. That’s the one that was on the actual NES retail box, right? My family has an interesting history with games. My uncle did literally work for Nintendo at one of their Power Line call centers (most of his horror stories revolve around kids calling in and having their parent’s

There’s a reason wireheads (joywires, tasps, etc.) have been a staple in sci-fi for a very long time.

He was being interviewed by a New Zealand news channel. Clearly he was pandering to their native Hobbit population.

What if all Toads are the same Toad, with all of them being offshoots of the same mycelial fruiting body connected through some kind of hive mind?

Once you go scaley, you’ll crave it daily.

As usual, rooting for Bowser on this one. He’s gone full Tarrasque.

Why should this come with even a hint of incredulity? All of Failbetter’s games have quite a bit of romance and implied romantic interludes (often more than implied). Sunless Skies had less than Seas, but you still got it on with bats, golems, a devil, and possibly even an Old One (depending on your definition).

Showing up as $120 for me.

Showing up as $120 for me.

but tit’s nice to hear it hasn’t slipped

Nope. In fact, I go out of my way to purchase second-hand for a significant discount. I actually prefer repairing my own consoles, so getting a “broken” one on the cheap is the best of both worlds.

Or iSCSI, and came with SFP+ or 10Gbase-T ports.

Commanding red dragons and spontaneously casting Gate is still high level stuff, right? I'm hoping at least that hasn't changed in 5th.

Future headline: ChinaJoy 2021 cancelled due to lack of registering attendees.

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This basically sums up how I deal with it:

This looks interesting, but what I’m most curious about is how fun the farming portion will be. Typically, farming sims are fun because they abstract the minutia of farming. This looks like it goes fairly in-depth at least with the growing and harvesting of rice. Though, I tend to enjoy other simulators more because

I’ve seen it multiple times and, until my last viewing, completely forgot that an ending after the fleshy mess existed. Presumably I would normally lose interest or get too drunk before then.