NaissanceE is a freebie and is excellent for this.

If you own Quake, the Quake Brutalist Jam 3 has some unique constructs in it. Does kind of involve a few steps to install, and you may want to select lower-difficulty levels to find people more interested in neat architecture than hard fights.

I think of it as a toxic no-rules environment, but if you want one of the better stories of it, see SovietWomble’s…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF80xlM1Wsg

40%

To me, that’s the real issue. I’ve heard of and yearn for these situations where a population overthrows a corrupt government. But SO much of America is brain damaged enough that they intentionally, willingly, without a gun to their head, voted for this and believes it to be okay.

There is a heavy propaganda machine affecting them as well as a deep religious institution. We don’t even see much of it often on international media. Even then, while it can move the needle, it also points to a sizable percentage of that 40% not being ignorant or scared of Kamala, but openly Evil as well as stupid. Even when Trump says the most insane shit, they’re still worried that a Democrat will burst into their home with a loaded Immigrant and kill them all.

This is actually why they had the idea to reinvent the character without wealth. The comics “Absolute Batman” are really good. Bruce grew up as a construction worker. The Joker is a billionaire.

I feel a lot of first-world privilege out of having all my gaming hardware from before the AI boom started. Around the time sanity lost the election, I decided to get a new GPU because I was worried all economies would turn terrible, and I was basically right.

If I had a nickle for everytime articles of impeachment came up during this administration, I’d have a lot of money - but I still wouldn’t be able to get myself a double double, because the price has inflated the whole time.

Shitpost, but I imagine you could analyze a whole period of low inspiration on media vision and growth during periods where people were unable to visit other countries, unable to pay medical bills, and feared armed soldiers raiding their neighborhoods.

Oh, it found its audience, I just mean not all of it was off the same crowd. It thankfully got a visibility boost off the initial “MGS6” expectations, but for other creators they either don’t get that chance or the game isn’t even worth the chance.

This claim sounds extremely wrong. Steam has been asking that developers directly disclose their use of AI in delivered content, and I frequently see developers claim minimal usage; only logos or pre-release content. Some major developers have formed policies of regret for even having used placeholder content with no deliverables.

There is certainly a wave of slop premiering on Steam, but that won’t compose the mainstream.

One of the big lessons I want to slam in the face of shareholders is that even auteurs don’t matter the way they do in comics, film, or TV. People like Hideo Kojima can do great things, but even Death Stranding got a bit of a release backlash for not feeling like MGS. Games, especially compared to other fields, are really a product of a whole team generating ideas that mesh. Sometimes all it takes is for a little bit of group breakage or brain drain, even just the unknown Engine Programmer departing, for the next project to not feel the same.

This game seems very well-made, and this is definitely a good value, yet I can’t get myself to try it because it sounds like it perfectly highlights the terrible horror of online entertainment industries and forces you to be a bit of a bad person as an advisor for Kangel.

Maybe it speaks to how brilliant Spec Ops: The Line was, to wrap itself in the fun appearance of a third-person cover shooter.

One thing that makes it fun is each of the characters they add is based on an actual race-horse. For instance there’s a memetic and weird racer named Gold Ship, based on a horse of the same name that was similarly wacky and unpredictable.

It’s a lot simpler than the picture, but I always felt fascinated by the 1st-story parking arrangement. A building just appears as a parking lot dotted with support columns and a single elevator/stairway room; and above is the entire building.

If you only print occasionally, do it at the library. Far better to rely on community printers that are running often to keep the ink warm.

Funny you bring this up as a meme: The indie game Terror of Hemasaurus is basically about this exactly; running a Rampage clone to rage against capitalism and climate destruction.

I vaguely remember seeing those coin pusher games at old arcades, and avoiding it because it was incredibly unclear how you were even supposed to play.

If you really like the nostalgia of old instruction booklets, or buying a game outside your spoken language, try Tunic. Fantastic game

I don’t remember any significant issues on PEAK’s release?

Here’s the problem: Out of thousands of corporations, the chances that none of them are headed by genuinely nice CEOs that at least like to balance consumer needs with the drive for price squeezing is pretty low.

Presenting high suspicion, and suspecting that most of them are out to get you, even in Valve’s case, makes sense. But here’s the kicker:

People are pressured to spend. Food, basic luxuries, transport; on some measures they have to, no matter how much they protest it. The scummiest of the companies providing those things know you’ll hate them. So, their version of PR is to make sure you hate all of their competitors equally, absent of logic.

There are plenty of genuine, real, tangible reasons to hate companies that can be described in detail, like Valve inventing the loot box and making a gambling market accessible for kids. But throwing logic aside and saying to hate them for nothing specific is, in some ways, shilling for the worst of big game companies.

I get the impression most devs would rather you didn’t use the refund window as a trial; eg, if you think you’re only 5% interested, they’d rather you don’t buy it with plans to refund.

Refunds still cost them, and some players have received warnings from Steam support for excess refunds even if they follow the hour limits each time.