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literal perfect videogame

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

Backed this today. Excited to have my own copies come next year. www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

soooometimes, the posts on linkedin are good

I cut a whole paragraph in my EU5 review about this but Paradox’s choice of map projections is pretty unhinged. Just use a sphere please the world is an oblate spheroid. I’m sick of giant Russia and Greenland and tiny Africa in these games.

cricket meals and generation ships, featuring an outstanding soundtrack www.pcgamer.com/games/city-b...

Happy game day, folks. Let’s begin. www.extra-life.org/participants...

Stop the presses, I've found the single greatest tech in EU5

That's A Button? I Thought That Was A Decorative Feature: The Europa Universalis V Story

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My review of Europa Universalis V is up! This is a game that knows its for sickos and caters to sickos (and aspiring sickos) almost exclusively, but if you're the kind of person who thinks they would enjoy it, I think you'll be pleased. It is a bit underbaked though. www.ign.com/articles/eur...

"It's nothing less than an attempt at simulating the world for centuries with a fidelity beyond anything else in the genre." Here's @jonbolds.bsky.social review of Europa Universalis 5: www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...

Here it is. The absolute strategy beast that is Europa Universalis 5. My review: www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...

1494 the grand council of american species convenes and decides it shall send the gray squirrel to Eurasia as revenge

Bapesbol

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

The ear. The ear.

Yooooooooo

Deserved.

I'll be in Essen at Spiel running this game in 2-hour demos at the Studio Midhall booth. @spielessen.bsky.social

I think I'm going to hire some witches to curse whoever put my email address on some general-purpose, purchasable list of journalists to spam with your random shit releases. Why the fuck am I getting press releases about grocery stores? About smart home water systems?

cybourgeoisie

board gaming tariff casualty

You know those people who make friends with every single person that lives on their street? That’s my dad.

Google is now returning AI summaries even for searches that start with "-AI", this bubble cannot burst soon enough.

Terrible to wake up and learn that Rob Wieland has died. A man of enthusiasm and dedication, and one of the few people of my generation in tabletop writing to really stick with it. My true colleague. A real loss.

These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!

furious to announce that I was also denied the nobel peace prize yet again

This is the rub. You dont get laid for this work. But it is work.

me receiving this month's game review

Fear the Old Blood 🩸🧠👁️

Really struggling with Hades 2. On the one hand it’s a beautifully made and genuinely fun to play videogame. On the other hand I resolved long ago to never trust anyone who spells it “Magick.”

Old World for $4, one of the best 4X strategy games you can play. Absolutely insane deal. store.steampowered.com/app/597180/O...

[BULL DURHAM] The plot is satisfyingly worked out. But what you keep reacting to is the film's exuberant doodles—its baroque folk humor, and it's visual details, like the baseball card that Annie uses as a bookmark. (1988)

This is so fucking funny man they could have maybe, almost stolen a move on Sony by dropping or maintaining the price point and taking the probably rather small-at-microsoft-scale loss but lol, lmao.

I am cited on an article for the concept of a Hellscape which I think is very on-brand

I've been putting it off for years but the desire to buy a cheap FDM 3D printer for low-poly models is increasing basically weekly now.

Good year for IgNobels. Especially the peace prize: "PEACE PRIZE [THE NETHERLANDS, UK, GERMANY] Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language."

Oh no

I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now! good luck :) > neal.fun/not-a-robot/

Interesting!

I do because I'm the guy who's like "don't go up to that old house it's not safe"

The only correct way to respond to Caipirinha

Primal Rage comic cover art, by “Dark One”, 1997

Hrm. I bought Minecraft in beta from the Mojang website in like late 2009 or early 2010. I wonder if Microsoft is somehow bound to honor that purchase. This sounds like a very funny rabbit hole to go down.

Hey, are you games PR with some Switch 1 codes to burn? My neighbor's kid turns 12 this month and long story short, has had a rough year! Grandma (helped raise him since mom is single) passed away, he's helping mom with disabilities, etc. But he's a great kid. Looking to surprise him with some games

dismantling the centre till it cannot hold: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! when the blood-dimmed tide is loosed: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Louder for the brands in the back

Look! A planet! An animal lives there that moves like a ferret with useful scales. It is cloaked in night. Can you go there with me?