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Rotwood is a good one. Co-op Roguelite beat-em-up from the Don’t Starve guys.

Lethal Company is just lots of fun, we’ve gotten too much time out of that dumb game. Maybe check out Content Warning if you like LC but want a change.

Outward is a fantastic old-school RPG for two people, has all the traits of a game from 2002

Palworld - haven’t hopped back into this one since its launch but have been meaning to. But this type of game is definitely not underrepresented on the market.

Escape Simulator is a nice stress-free co-op escape room game, lots of official content and also has Steam Workshop so there’s tons of great content.

PlateUp! if you’re not worried about getting into a fight over how awful your buddy is at making food

Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos is a Zelda-like RPG that’s a surprising amount of fun for how simple the game first looks.

Other bigname recs: Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Baldur’s Gate 3, Sea of Thieves, Deep Rock Galactic, Stardew Valley

In ZZZ there’s not much you need to do in the overworld by looking up, it’s 100% to see more angles of the character

they pay devs millions

I mean I see this as a good thing. I have to keep a separate launcher around but… at least that dev is getting a great deal and will probably be able to support that game for a while (or start their next one)

Well oil was discovered in Crimea and northeast Ukraine in like 2012, so we really dropped the ball there.

Yeah I saw the thumbnail and ‘steam game’ and had a moment of confusion. Fantastic background music for D&D, and the animations are simple but endearing. Also, it looks like new lore in the steam app (world map)!! I do like this setting, and I’d like to learn more~

But yeah Blue Turtle doesn’t make the music, which is the highlight of the series. I wonder if the steam app licenses them? Or are they royalty free?

You fool! Those are just NES games!

Speedrunners tend to be superfans, and I’m sure their first playthrough of a game is done in the intended manner. Also consider that beloved games tend to have more active speedrun scenes - People speedrun Majora’s Mask precisely because of its wonderful atmosphere.

But yeah actually watching speedruns isn’t for everyone

Wise actually worked with OC Remix on the DKC album!

It’s fantastic to see an article like this in the Times. His work continues to be incredible, with more recent works like Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair and Gimmick 2.

AI delivery bots maybe? It’s basically an aggregate of “here’s where it’s possible/common to walk” so it’s not useful for driving/flying AI. Also useful for marketing, knowing where foot traffic is.

The article says they’re treating it as a Large Geospatial Model (like a Large Language Model), so it seems like you could use that as a predictive way to navigate between two points. With an LLM it spits out phrases based on context. The LGM would return paths based on context.

War crimes

Hear y’all hear y’all, Reggie King from o’er the holler brought pawpaw moonshine for the weddin’

Muddy the waters, it’s their favorite tactic. Post memes with reckless abandon.

I’m sorry, just my anxiety speaking there. Of course you’re right, but if Trump death squads purge the undesirables, nobody will be left to defend the environment, and this is on a shorter time table.

I apologize for my candor. I’m spiraling a bit.

Honestly, I can’t be bothered to worry about the climate 100 years from now when we’re going to be attacking (many more) Americans 100 days from now

Children of Men would be a sci-fi without any significant technological improvements. Ender’s Game does have the Ansible, but it’s more a plot device than anything.

Very cool, got a ‘75%’

You need empathy to moderate. What other reason is there to do it? You want to make the community a better place by keeping things civil and on-topic. You also need to be able to level with people about their criticisms and concerns.

Is this supposed to be an adult trick-or-treating or are we looking at a depiction of a child here…

It’s a spiritual successor to System Shock 2, which was a pleasant surprise. Definitely agree that Neuroshock would have been a more fitting title. Probably publisher or C suite meddling.