Loving Pragmata. I think I'm about to wrap up the first playthrough here shortly. The people saying it was 10-12 hours were very wrong though. I'm at 35 hours so far and while I did grind a little it wasn't for 15+ hours lol.

For me one of the big signs that a game is really special is when I start dreading the end. Not wanting it to be over. Deus Ex, Thief, Prey, and a few others are all games where as I neared the final bits I got a bit melancholy and tried to prolong it Pragmata is shaping up to be one of those games

Holy shit, can't believe I've just learned about this. A VOIVOD metroidvania, with direct involvement from the band. Both art and music. store.steampowered.com/app/3589910/...

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The demo for this was excellent, one of the best horror experiences I've had in the past couple years. Glad to see it's still happening!

Wow, this is a first. An RTX Remix mod that doesn't look like overly shiny garbage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4j...

Tried out a game called Cloudbuilt that I've apparently owned since 2014 (!). It's built around jet-parkouring through giant challenge maps and it's surprisingly fun! Especially for a game I've never heard anyone talk about *at all*. Also as of 2023 has workshop support youtu.be//w?v=q0_scWQ...

I hope that someday there's some way to accomplish shader compilation in a better or way or something. Twice in the past day I've played demos that had several minutes of it on the first startup. Cronos: The New Dawn and Pragamata (which was almost 10 minutes!).

UE5 is wild. I know people clown on it's performance but it's kind of true. Played a demo of a game (CTRLSINK) and the area I started in was honestly about on par detail wise with the original Quake levels. But my GFX card (4080 super) was blowing like a jet engine couldn't maintain a steady 60 fps

The dichotomy between a simulation/strategy game and a *Paradox* simulation/strategy game.

Listening to the new Carpenter Brut. Man, this song, once it kicks in with the synths sounds straight out of the original Unreal Tournament. Super Cool youtu.be/OktIj7wvWyQ

Every time I play an Unreal Engine game I wonder what the decision making process was behind making all these games have two separate executables run when you launch it.

Played the Airframe Ultra demo. Was loving everything about it until I got out of the tutorial. Only option was to play online (yuck), and over half the rooms available were named extremely racist names ("Burn/Kill all the *blank*, etc, etc.) Hopefully there'll be a worthwhile SP campaign on launch

This has me crying in real life 😂😂😂 🦁

Played the demo for HYPNOS by @redlockstudio.bsky.social The follow up to their game BLACKSHARD. Much like BLACKSHARD it's a exploration and story focused walking sim that's beautiful and just oozes atmosphere. *Really* looking forward to this one! store.steampowered.com/app/2861210/

Played the demo for @harktheghoul.bsky.social 's game "Hark the Ghoul". Fabulous. Best kick since Zortch. Loved the exploration and whole vibe of the thing. Really beefy demo as well, took me around 5 hours. Really looking forward to the full release now. store.steampowered.com/app/3058660/...

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

Finally got my Ayn Thor on Friday and started tinkering with it today. Seems really cool but man it really shows how much work Valve did with the Steam Deck to make it as accessible as it was. I could for sure see some people buying this and being totally lost.

New Carpenter Brut video is nuts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Eqf...

Hey y'all. A South African dev released a blackity black game during BHM and it's currently getting the usual suspects in the reviews. Imma grab this up myself anyway, but can we all be some chums and help push the racists out of the reviews? 🙂

HEY HEY! Every wondered about the music I occasionally use in my videos? Well I finally feel brave enough to post a bunch of them in the form of the PALE IMITATION EP. Six tracks of electronic audio creations for your listening pleasure/displeasure.

Ok, VHOLUME's pretty cool even in beta/demo form! So far these guys are on a roll. Babbdi, Straftat, and now this. Managed to get the gold on the unlockable level even though (imo) I got progressively more sloppy as the run went on youtu.be/QfwGnUvjUf0

Her radiance

Playing through Castlevania: ReVamped and this son'gs been on repeat in my head all day long.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgsC...

Epic made provably incorrect statements about the game’s content, refused to provide details supporting their claims, and has not shared their claimed AO IARC certificate, which normally includes a link for the developer to appeal. They do not ‘love that studio’, they have effectively ghosted us

Decided to try out Recore this weekend. I feel like I remember this game getting shit upon when it came out, but tbh I'm kind of having a blast with it. Way more of a platformer and 'vania than I expected, mixed with kind of proto-Horizon open world mecahnics. Good stuff. youtu.be/0fn6SyaUw0g

Just played the demo for @regularstudio.bsky.social 's MOTORSLICE. Man, that was cool AF. Felt great to control, lots of little hidden areas, great music. Just great all around. Only missed one secret drone out of eighteen in my playthrough, might go back and see if I can find it. s.team/a/2830030

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Headquarters designed by architect Paul Rudolph (1971) r/brutalism

Well, guess I'm playing Indika www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnUr...

Testament (Practice What You Preach tour) Megadeth (Rust in Peace tour) Bolt Thrower (Warmaster tour) Deicide (Legion tour) Dimmu Borgir (Spiritual Black Dimensions tour) - bit of a cheat here since I was in one of the opening bands for the US leg of this tour. So I saw them like 30 times 😄

Just played through "Call of the Abyss". Pretty good and free! Only took about an hour or so but was still pretty engaging. mathue24.itch.io/call-of-the-...

A game about building/coding #emulators titled EmuDevz is out today and free on #Steam. Here are some key features: • Full #NES emulation guide from scratch in JavaScript • Interactive 6502 Assembly tutorial • Implement CPU, PPU, and APU in any order • Play homebrew games to unlock ROMs ..and more!

Retro Textures 1 is out now! 🎉 Completely free to download and use in any of your projects. Includes 115 textures like walls, floors, windows, doors and much more! kenney.nl/assets/retro... (no tracking, no ads, no sign-up, etc.)

For over a decade I have tied my shoes one specific way: Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot. I learned it from Ian (aka Professor Shoelace) whose site is over two decades old. The knot has never failed me. I spoke with Ian about knots and the dangers of the modern internet. aftermath.site/ians-shoelac...

Wow, first I've heard of GOG being bought. It's one of the original owners, but still there's always worry.

After playing a lot of Quake recently, I've found something else that modern internet seems to have mostly lost along with forums, IRC, etc. The random site listing esoteric information like console commands and cheats codes hosted on some university's domain. www.eecis.udel.edu/~portnoi/qua...

Since Quake Brutalist Jam 3 just came out and I've never played any of them, I decided to playthrough the previous two. Just finished QBJ1 and while it was hit or miss for me overall, the standouts were excellent. Some of my favorites in reply...

Wow, somehow never thought of the "Kai" in "Kai's Power Tools" as being an actual person named Kai. Also involved with Bryce 3d lol. www.reddit.com/r/Bryce3D/wi...

Steam sale is over... Immediately get an email from Steam with 25 items on my wishlist that are now on sale.

Then and now are pretty much the same. A Close tie between System Shock 2 and Unreal Tournament. I'd say back then UT edged out SS2, but today it's the reverse. Planescape Torment and Silent Hill are right behind them though in my "today" opinion. Didn't play either until after 2000 though.

My favorite now: Thief: The Dark Project. Easily. Still playing fan missions regularly. Runner up - Unreal My favorite then: The same really but closer to being a tie Thief/Unreal. Half-Life's a strong third in both.

Finished "Death's End", the last novel of the Three Body Problem series. Struggled through these, especially this last one. Didn't really like any of the characters except maybe Luo Ji which made the 2nd book more enjoyable. But overall wouldn't recommend . Going to skip the last short story novel

Uhhhhh henold.itch.io/mario-65

Way back in 1992, me and my friends were picking another friend up from the airport. As we were walking this guy from behind us says "Hey, are you guys GWAR?" (They had just played in town and we all had long hair). We said "Sorry, we're not them." Then he introduced himself... It was Eddie Money.

Just finished "The Triad's Reliquary" for DOOM II by @rowye.bsky.social *Really* enjoyed it. Very impressive geometry and the balance flowed very well for me on UV. Felt just on the edge of surviving but would always find a cache of ammo/health at just the right time. www.moddb.com/mods/the-tri...

Orange has got the right idea for Xmas day

Been using the Augmented Steam extension for years. It's always been useful for info and finding deals on games outside of Steam. Recently, they added integration for the the Steampeek website and holy shit, this thing does an amazing job of recommending similar games. Far better than Steam itself.

Wrapped up 1000xRESIST. Thought it was pretty good! My only small complaint was it felt a little padded at spots. Felt like every time I got an objective to talk to someone it was almost guaranteed that person would be the furthest distance away they could be. So much running back and forth.

Man, this is a huge bummer. Really hope they come up with another solution other than "pull the plug" on all those user created levels. It's like LittleBigPlanet all over again. delistedgames.com/puzzle-game-...

Finished Routine. Overall I enjoyed it but you have to basically ignore that old trailer. This is not that game aside from a couple similarities. This is more walking sim than anything. Think SOMA but with no physics objects, only clearly defined things you can interact with. Also surprisingly short