Absolutely did not remember that the original Got Milk commercial was about the Hamilton and Burr duel youtu.be/0Gkqzxss8Ss

If I go to catch and release a spider, and it holds still, then that is ideal. But if I approach the spider and it TURNS AND LOOKS AT ME, things change very quickly to Listen I Don't Want No Trouble

Took a while for me to decide for certain, but I think Smalland is low key an all around better game than Grounded. I suspect many may be passing on it due to assuming it's a lesser imitation. Grounded has incredible character, but if you want more RPG, more features, grander scale: 👉 Smalland.

Inspired by a ProZD post, five titles I actually enjoyed despite them having a metacritic score of 70 or less: --The Solus Project --State of Decay 2 --Alice: Madness Returns --Trailmakers (I was surprised this one scored so low!) --Biomutant (with more caveats than I can type here)

Years are a purely notional system of time measurement based on counting the orbits of objects around one random star in the infinite universe to a completely arbitrary number.

When a cat looks at you upside down like this, they are actually doing their impression of a flux capacitor. In fact, if you exceed 88mph with an upside-down cat in the car, you can travel to the year 1955. #Science

Dan Akroyd is so wild. I have such fond memories of him in movies growing up, and then you see him in interviews, and he's always saying shit like, "Technically, coneheads is based on a real alien race that sometimes contacts me. Obviously, the movie is a comedy, but it's based on real science."

We can do it. We can kill all of them.

Great stuff anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

my demands are simple, mr. bond

Comparing Smalland to Grounded is obvious, but it has some novel ideas going for it. A base of operations that can be migrated around the map and is saved to character file instead of world file and can be migrated to friends' maps is an interesting little innovation.

"They have yet to make a Kirby game that can compete with Superstar."

Taking Zefyr: A Thief's Melody for a spin and enjoying it. It's a little jank in some places (combat) but that's nbd for what the game is mostly trying to do. It gives 2000s era cartoon character adventure vibes (Sly, Jak, Spyro, etc) and I sure do miss those.

I really, really want to love Skate Story. I am absolutely here for the vibe, but I'm unfortunately finding the camera, timed challenges, and certain spots where there are cramped arenas or visually confusing geometry to be frustrating. I want to be a Skate Story person, but I may not be.

Etymology of cardinal directions is interesting: East - "morning" West - "evening" North - "left of morning" South - "sun side" (morning sun is to your left when traveling this way) Predictable that our ancestors would think relative to the sun, but their "driver's side" left bias is curious!

three wise men... don't see much of that nowadays

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

A french canadian life sim where all your wardrobe options are flannel, "hunger" and "thirst" meters are just "maple syrup" and "poutine", the world is littered with Tim Horton's cups, and there is a dedicated button for saying sorry. This game MUST be slop, but how could I resist..!!!

I have never screenshot more silly death poses than in #Stalker2

Incredible. #Stalker2

Politely adding to my list of requests for Stalker 2 fixes: NPCs congesting in doorways, stairwells, and corridors, then going into an immobilized trance so that friendly neighborhood stalkers cannot pass.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

GOD: if my commandments get 50,000 likes, i will tell Abraham to kill his son

Really enjoy recommendation peddlers who say crazy stuff like "If you loved Super Mario Odyssey, you should try Assassin's Creed Odyssey. They are both odysseys and have jumping."

New tomb raider trailer looks more "classic Lara", which makes me happy. I really miss the over-the-top half-indiana-jones-half-james-bond era Lara, and it looks like they might be bringing that old vibe back. I'm very much listening if so.

Some interesting announcements from TGA but I was honestly much more tantalized by the Day of the Devs announcements. I love our indies keeping it weird. I was especially interested in: --Big Hops --Demon Tides --Into The Fire --Soundgrass --Stretchomancer

I dunno. This street fighter trailer feels like if it had been made in the 00s it would have starred Freddie Prinz Jr as Ryu if that makes sense to anyone but me.

If you add a friend on steam and then don't talk to them for 10 years, sometimes one of their children that you didn't know they had will come to arrest you later

Jeni I am such a simp for you. Please open a shop in my state so that I can go in there and eat until I die. Thank you.

I have not yet played Metroid Prime 4, but the whole conversation around NPC chatter "ruining the vibe" encapsulates how I have felt about games generally since about 2008. I have a feeling I know which side I'll be on.

Nice to see a publication write about this while actually doing their homework for once. The importance of Acq Inc to live play can't be overstated. Glad all these people have found an excuse to work together.

Idiot. Do you even know who you're talking to? Shut up.

RIP king

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

I almost forgot to post the only thanksgiving song that matters youtu.be/TZOzNvfYKoY

mfw playing Lumines Arise

Stalker 2 is almost there. I just wish for five things to still be resolved in future updates: (1) Artifacts sometimes will simply not appear (possibly outside geometry). Bit of a bummer for one of the game's core concepts.

Those games that give you a "speed boost"

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

Ah, post-civilization nature, my love

"I wonder who else is playing Stalker. Let's see what the people are saying." *searches for posts about 'stalker'* "Wow... these posts are.... not about the game."

Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced. Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.

What I need is a large lazy susan containing a multitude of smaller lazy susans.

STALKER 2 finally running stable for me, so I guess this is what I'll be doing for the next 150 hours.

Don't know a thing about the movie, but Turbo Kid is way too good a metroidvania to have apparently nobody playing it.

It is great sometimes to reach deep into the filthy couch cushions of youtube and pull from its darkest crevices the most random, forgotten, crappy video someone uploaded for some reason 15 to 20 years ago. A more genuine youtube, garbage and real, from before the influencer era.

A very simple but satisfying physics/pathfinding puzzle game where you must design various rovers with hooks, claws, scoops, clamps, and other mechanisms to retrieve an unwieldy object from point A and deliver it across mountains and ravines to location B without losing the cargo or getting stuck.

My favorite type of game trailer and game review is called "GAMEPLAY NORMAL DIFFICULTY FULL PLAYTHROUGH NO COMMENTARY"