ACKTUALLY Mimic Chests go all the way back to 1974, coming from (surprise) Gary Gygax

Yeah, I’m not going nuts about spoilers or anything but like... didn’t the game release 9 hours ago, in the middle of the night for most? For a game that’s supposed to be 80-100 hours long with much more than that to do, you’d think outlets wouldn’t be rushing to talk about non-beginning content.

I gave up halfway through btw. Just really started to drag and I actually found some of the combat/healing system to be a little unforgiving. It’s a beautiful game but feels like with better plotting/pacing it could have been truly brilliant.

I’m just frustrated that every game had to come out at the end of February, when work for the year is beginning to heat up. Meanwhile, during the holiday break there seemed to be very little to play. With this Cyberpunk patch, Horizon, and Elden Ring, I will probably have to be very select with whatever I play and…

No, ‘bullshit’ is too many letters

I LOVE LOVE Jurassic Park but I still find the T-Rex sneaking in to chomp the raptors at the last second to be it’s only major issue. Within the film’s own rules, we know the T-Rex makes a lot of noise while walking and creates vibrations noticeable even in glasses of water.

Oh I was there too but am surprised to see that WAREZ is actually in dictionaries. Regardless, my points about MAMMY, FABBY, etc stand.

Yeah I have been binging this a little bit since posting and my issue is that you can basically railroad the algo into giving you words that take similar form (e.g. ending in Y) every time. Also this dictionary is questionable at best. Is WAREZ really an actual word? MAMMY? FABBY? These all counted as words but really…

Wow okay. This is a pretty fun take on it. We’ll see if it gets old, but I can already think of some initial strategies based around shrinking the word pool ASAP.

You might expect that, as Wordle becomes more and more popular, the creator might plan on monetizing his hit. But in a recent interview Wardle said he has no such plans.

The older I get, the fewer games I finish. I still optimistically buy lots, but with less time and more responsibilities, it’s just increasingly harder to care about a game’s git gud difficulty or empty open world or 50+ hour main quest.

Thanks for the detail! Kind of sounds like (?) then that a trans woman had a bad take, but calling it out was seen as “Trumpian” because she was trans (as opposed to the quality of the critique)? Which if so, I’d agree is overblown. No one’s identity should insulate them from criticism or demand their critiques be…

Oh that’s disappointing to hear. What do you consider the game’s central thesis? I recall liking it quite a bit but never really thought of it much beyond how the places you come from have their own ebb and flow, and are often at risk of being blotted out by corporate sterilization. It’s been a long while since I…

I played Acts I - IV on PC and then finished (with a replay) on Switch for Act V. To be honest I’m a little partial to the PC version since there is such a retro feel to a lot of the UI, but the Switch version was perfectly acceptable. And getting to play it on my couch was a joy, so much so that I’m likely to replay…

Kentucky Route Zero is one of the best gaming experiences I’ve had in my entire life. It is not for everyone—and anyone put off by narrative-focused games will bounce hard off KRZ—but if you’re drawn in by the idea of magic realist Middle America presented with elements of stagecraft, you’re in for a treat.

Wish these lists would call out the systems the games are available for. Kind of annoying to have to keep checking only to find I can’t play a bunch of these.

Ouch. I went the last two weeks of Feb 2020. Feel very lucky to have gotten that trip in before everything went to hell.

If you think this was something, you should’ve seen what was going on in the 90s with anime on some cable stations (I forget the exact ones). The series weren’t as good as what came in the 2000s, but my god were they violent. I still remember watching Lily C.A.T. (basically a rip-off of The Thing) as a 10 or 11…

I also saw it in college (in 2000/2001) via anime club or whatever as part of weekly showings, so I think it must’ve been note-worthy enough by then. I do remember reading that Bebop was less of a hit in Japan, where series aimed at kids/teens were dominating.

This. Had a mini-freakout when it turns out the cancer causing one ISN’T the one in the header pic. Christ, lifehacker, get it together.