Definitely agree! I barely played TotK because, aside from the flying stuff together aspect, I’d already done everything I wanted in BotW. I did my exploring, my climbing, my juggling weapons during combat. I’ve done had more than my fill of those dinkly little shrines.

BotW is better imo because of what it was: new and surprising. TotK was good but (aside from some gimmicks that made driving around a bit more creative and streamlined) more of the same.

Anyway thanks for sharing!

That’s how all corporate fines should work imo

yes 👍

The exploration is part of why I love Snowrunner (et al.) so much. You end up spending a lot of time slowly working your way through mud, looking for anchor points and easier routes. It feels kinda like an “adventure metroidvania” where the challenge is learning how to navigate the world before giving you the tools to blast through.

I recommend disabling any minimap in any game ever. Little dotted line syndrome is real and harms immersion!

Also hard rec for Any Austin, one of my favorite recent discoveries!

“hey, I know you feel like killing yourself, but if it happens then we’ll just replace you with a shitty bot” probably isn’t as helpful as they thought it would be. It’s violating and ghoulish.

But I thought vibe coding was good actually 😂

Oooo, thanks for sharing!

Clickbait is getting desperate

Been slowly playing through Doom Eternal, raytracing looks really good on that super shotgun! Fun game, just wish they didn’t pop up tutorials any time they thought a player might be a little confused.

Also played a tutorial for Wingspan and was a bit overwhelmed but it seemed interesting. I need to sit down and give it a good play through to understand

Not a fan of limiting winch to only scout, I guess driving the rigs will be more important since you can build your own roads. Being able to stack a mountain of cargo in the back is fun though

It was! I kept it split framing my tv for a while

The giant Hogwarts with 6020 pieces! It was a lot of fun over a week, but my fingers hurt when I was done so I probably wouldn’t do it again. The stained glass looks really cool though!

Here? We don’t have downvotes

BRICS

If you’re into game dev or retro games in general, Dev Game Club is a small podcast where the hosts play old games and discuss their design + influence on games that would come later. I don’t think they even have a patreon lol

We try to clean ours every time and got a few little boat things to keep the mess down. Looks brand new half a year later

That’s tempting… put too many hours into sims 2

to do - go for a walk

to watch - Silo

to listen to - The Magnus Archives

Who benefits if the US has the best AI?

Investors!

Currently? Originally it was a hate mob 4chan created to target women in the game industry

Edit: oh nice, the article covers that

a febrile harassment campaign, originally sparked by somebody’s clownishly toxic grudge against their ex, who sometimes advertise themselves as being about “ethics in games journalism”