I've played many, many games over the last 30+ years. These are 9 of the games that I still think about often or that changed my perspective on what gaming could be. Far from the only 9 though!

The fact that he gives her a gun with 1 bullet is pretty telling about Leon's assessment of Grace's abilities.

I think Actual Plays of TTRPGs, including Crit Role, Dimension 20, all the big ones, have a meandering problem. They are exciting in the beginning and in the end but too often, everyone just wanders around aimlessly during the middle, bouncing from place to place without a real goal.

Look, I know I haven’t released a new video in a while (I’m working on it). But you know what? That’s ok, because @treeky.bsky.social has, and it’s fucking amazing. Go watch it.

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Just finished this masterpiece the other day. I haven't stopped thinking about it since to the point where I'll be reading something and suddenly wonder if Goodtime Valley was made purely to troll boomers.

Wow. Resident Evil 3 Remake is shockingly bad. I had thought people didn't like it because it was more of the same after 2 but no, that would have been much better.

Leon Kennedy trying to find Umbrella

It's incredibly impressive how 5e manages to simplify so much crunch and complexity into something digestible. That said, I do still think the fact that many people pay for an app that organizes 5e characters is representative of 5e's biggest problem and why folks move to OSR.

Im extremely excited that Don't Hug Me Im Scared is coming to Dropout. I know piracy exists but I've been waiting for a legal way to watch it for so long!

Are we sure Hegseth isn't Zane from Hypnospace?

Say what you will about Starfleet Academy, episodes 4 and 5 are two of the best Treks we've gotten. 10/10

Please don't watch the State of the Union even "just to know what the other side is saying". Don't give him the ratings.

I have an important announcement: I am joining Fungus Scene and will live forever more in the Cavern, reflecting the moonlight. Thank you.

It's incomprehensible to me why a password manager would require you to access your email to verify a login attempt using the correct password when the password manager itself is almost certainly being used to protect that email account.

If you only watch one thing from the Olympics, let it be this. youtu.be/98LsvKRJwy4?...

My nephew was born today and is doing well. It was pretty scary for a while though so I want to remind everyone to LISTEN TO YOUR DOCTORS AND NURSES! No matter what nonsense you may have read or heard, your healthcare providers do this every single day and they know their stuff.

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

Obsidian games always seem to have a tough time with intros and I wish I knew why. I can't point to anything wrong but I've always felt a resistance to their games early on with the exception of Grounded. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/av...

I started Hypnospace Outlaw and man, I thought I was good at these kinds of puzzles. I'm busy writing down basically name and ID and suddenly someone asks for a password and I'm completely lost lol.

I have an upcoming operation (totally routine) and got a call today that I had a nursing instruction call tomorrow to remind me of my instructions for the procedure next week. So a reminder call for a reminder call.

Wuthering Heights is a bonefide classic but if it's "the greatest love story ever written" we are in serious trouble as a society.

A legitimately great adventure and that cover art is just utter perfection. No notes. 😂

I started Pacific Drive which seems great but I really don't like how after you start each zone, it triggers your car-obsessed preschooler to immediately run in and ask to play "car game" so he can commence smashing up your car as efficiently as possible. Just seems like unfair difficulty to me.

Now seems like a good time to say that TTRPGs catering to exclusively edgy, male audiences does not have to, nor should it, be our future. No amount of pretentious language or nonsense charts from YouTubers changes that fact.

Did you know Modiphius has 3 Fallout tabletop games in current print?? I didn't! At least I didn't until I dropped $25 thinking I was getting a bunch of Fallout RPG stuff when in fact it's mostly stuff for their minis games. 😅

Finally got to jump back into editing and BOY am I rusty. Doesn't help that I'm using new (to me) software. It's a great upgrade but I'm still re-learning basic things like "how do volume go up and down"? I had written a script but after recording 6 minutes of it, I already need a rewrite.

I don't understand who at Rotten Tomatoes wrote this description of Wonder Man. This is not what the show is about AT ALL. Not even close.

I used to be an actor in Hollywood back in a previous life. With that context, Wonder Man might be my favorite MCU thing so far. It's so good. Please give it a watch so Disney knows that smaller, more personal projects are worth investing in. You'll be doing yourself a favor.

My kid is in a big Firebuds phase and I'm pretty sure one of these episodes is just a farmer tricking some kids into doing free labor.

This is why I keep my Humble Monthly subscription going. I never would have bought Date Everything myself but now that I have it, you know I'm making the vacuum fall in love with me! 😍

As I'm waiting for my Windows update to finish, Google decides now is a good time to recommend me week old articles about how the latest Windows update is buggy as hell and breaks computers... Thanks a ton algorithm...

If you like the 2D Zelda games, you NEED to play Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo. I don't think I've ever seen a game try so many things and absolutely nail all of them.

Heard at tonight's game night: "orange is in the brown family."

I agree with… Batman

I finished TR-49 btw and that game was fantastic. I'm now so ready for Incident at Galley House coming this year and my fingers are crossed that at least one of Sam Barlow's Projects will come out too!

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How do people feel about dice pool ttrpgs that require specifically colored dice? Some examples are Daggerheart, Coyote and Crow, or Alien RPG? RPG books are expensive and it feels bad to me to require additional non-standard dice to play. Those dice often run an extra $20 to $30.

I want to find all of UFO 50's secrets without a walkthrough but man, some of these are obscure. Doesn't help I played most of these games at launch and can't remember which games the riddles go to anymore lol.

UFO 50's Golfaria has some of the most infuriating design I've ever seen. I've had to restart the last boss multiple times due to getting softlocked in respawns that immediately drop me down a pit. Now a mosquito followed me across the whole area and there's nothing I can do to stop it.

It's all fun and games until Verizon shows you all the data it's got on you.

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TR-49 is really cool once it gets out of its own way. The first half hour though is just endless prattle and hand-holding when all I want is to explore the machine on my own terms. Once it stops telling you what to click on though, it's every bit the game Her Story was.

It's wild to me that there are people already leaving RT ratings for Starfleet Academy. It's had 2 episodes. Jumping to snap decisions like that almost cost us Star Trek in the first place.

So this information I found has definitely been out there but a lot of the mainstream avenues of research people use have been completely wrong. I'm planning to make a video but also I'm going to do a complete overhaul to a Wikipedia page that has spread misleading info.

Starfleet Academy is definitely a step in the right direction. More than anything else, I hoped for something that didn't just shit on the legacy of Star Trek like Discovery and Picard did and it delivers so far. The optimism is back for sure.

@chaosium.bsky.social's @humblebundle.com Bundle is really stacked and as a fan of Call of Cthulhu, I recommend the full bundle. A note to new players though who may not know and may be on a budget, you only NEED the Keeper Rulebook to play. So if the $10 makes a difference, the second tier is good

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Seriously?! Tairn, you were on a mission when Solas attacked and you were 3 MINUTES AWAY?! YOU FLY AT SPEEDS WITH G-FORCE IMPLICATIONS! WHAT WERE YOU DOING 3 MINUTES AWAY?!?!