You’ve clearly never seen me ignore all my biological needs to play games for 14 straight hours.

Good thing there’s already more good games out than I could play if I lived another hundred years.

It’s often harder to make “unscented” stuff because it means that none of the ingredients can leave a noticeable odor. Customers expect “no scent” not “smells like baking soda and tallow but not added fragrances”.

Thats kind of the whole problem with robots as tools. They can be incredibly fast and precise but if something is just slightly out of expected alignment they tear themselves apart (or kill someone nearby).

Americans aren’t allowed to enjoy anything.

US postal (ZIP) code. “Beverly Hills, 90210” was a TV series in the 90s so it’s one that a lot of people are generally aware of. “Dawson’s Creek” is another 90’s TV show that used Paula Cole’s I Don’t Want to Wait for the theme song. 90108 is not a real ZIP code but “nine oh one oh eight” sounds like the song lyrics. We frequently say “oh” for zero in phone numbers and ZIP codes and that sort of thing. “Four oh niiine two three oh four” is the rest of the line of the song.

The whole thing is squarely aimed at US Millenials/Gen X.

True randomness has a lot more “clumping” than seems intuitive.

I’d have to drive almost 1500 miles to reach a “foreign country” (I’m not counting Canada, which I’ve visited a bunch of times) and the structure of our government means all foreign relations goes through the Fed over which I have negligible influence. And that’s coming from someone with a dim view of patriotism. We are physically and geopolitically isolated in a lot of ways, not least of which is the cost (material and opportunity) of travel. It’s a lot of work for no obvious benefit to keep abreast of current affairs around the world.

“Rugged individualism” is also incompatible with hierarchies but these people aren’t thinking that far into it. It’s just a myth that makes it your fault when society fails.

Because we should have high standards.

Ok but Titanfall gets a pass.

And it’s fucking delicious.

It’s not an improvement at all, Discord is actively terrible for any community bigger than about two dozen people and I hate that it has taken the place of traditional forums.

1. Being careful and observant is important, I can’t speak further without an actual example
2. Fair, I feel like the upgrade is a little late for how important it is
3. What, waiting a day? The game wants you to have plans and threads at all timescales.
4. Presumably you didn’t click on it when it was relevant, but it’s well established that constellations aren’t “active” until you do so
5. Yeah that was my least favorite part of the Gallery but I understand the wordplay
6. There’s information in-game and it rewards experimentation
7. What’s wrong with Door Boss Rush? Or were you dissatisfied with the ending? (I consider those puzzle boxes the “ending” and everything after as post-game, as they represent the end of a narrative arc and directly confront your experience as the player)
8. Yeah that’s the finicky late-game thing I was referring to
9. Red herrings are an important part of a good puzzle, they make you actually have to think instead of assuming everything you see is equally important. And they flesh out the setting.

Disco Elysium is one of the only games that I restarted immediately after finishing too. Really fascinating stuff and I had to see it from other angles.

Frankly I got very bored with it and did not finish. Maybe it’s because I’ve never felt “existential dread” or maybe it’s because I had already run into and come to terms with the Teletransportation paradox as a thought experiment so the concept wasn’t new, but the horror completely missed me so all I had was the walking around and getting increasingly frustrated at the character’s ignorance. I looked up the plot synopsis after I had enough and it’s just… yep.

When the only way to progress the level is to commit a war crime, and then I’m supposed to feel bad about it as if there was an alternative, it just sucks.

This feels a lot like saying “books can’t have an emotional impact, you just read the words in the order they were written”.

GunZ: the Duel Carpal Tunnel Destroyer

Also, Titanfall was pretty intense and really rewarded movement mastery.

What does 3 bring to the table that sets it apart so much? I played a bunch of the first one but only dabbled in 2 then fell away into other games.

I don’t feel like any of my 120+ hours were wasted time. I personally didn’t much like the Gallery and a couple of the late-game puzzles are finicky/hinted poorly (the

in particular) but nothing I would call a “terrible solution”. As a spiritual successor to Christopher Manson’s Maze it’s very effective.