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tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk- DING!

“Geez guys, that was a lot of fun. Now grab a mop or get out of my house”

Honestly, I find the pitch can be the hardest part about developing a game. You want to be able to describe your game in twenty seconds or less while still pointing to something unique about it.

It’s way easier said than done, but that’s the attention span you have to deal with sometimes. Many people take less than a second to decide if they’re going to pass on a game.

It does look like a neat game, but I’m also curious about what sets it apart. There’s something of an excess of supply in the video game market.

Can you turn down the volume on your dog whistle? It’s giving me a headache

When I first heard this one years ago I was in the same boat (heh)

I kept thinking that a “cigarette lighter” was some kind of boat, like maybe a clipper or something used by smugglers. Painfully close to the punchline

A fisherman is sitting in his boat and decides to smoke, only to discover he didn’t bring any matches.

He throws a cigarette overboard, and the boat becomes a cigarette lighter.

Taking a ride on the sui-slide would be the last thing on my bucket list

Huh, I guess that makes this announcement less surprising then

I hadn’t heard they’d taken the game out of maintenance. Come to think of it, I hadn’t heard any news about the game, it’s like it dropped off the face of the earth

For those who thought the game was already shuttered, HotS went into maintenance mode a few years ago - 2022 I think? Basically that meant that they weren’t actively developing it anymore, I think they stopped balance updates and only committed to patching major bugs or security vulnerabilities.

Of course, they never stopped taking your money if you wanted to buy their boosts.

This news has me conflicted. On the one hand, HotS was my favorite MOBA - it does several things right that other games in the genre consistently fail at and they took some major chances on unique character designs. On the other hand, I wouldn’t piss on a Blizzard exec to put out a fire, I don’t even want to play their free games

Gamification of Life - An app that tracks each day you drink water and cheers you on by telling you your streak

Gamification of Work - loyalty programs that give you points to be spent at the employee shop if you hit arbitrary targets

Workification of Games - padding playtime with endless grinds and daily quests

Workification of Life - you better work if you want to keep living :(

So if that regularly happens, and it still goes to shit, does that make the fugazi snafu fubar?

Same thing, isn’t it?

I woke up this morning and there’s three Stonetosses back to back in my feed.

If we could go ahead and throw them on the ban list, that would be pretty groovy