ConstableJelly @ ConstableJelly @beehaw.org

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Nice, thanks for the write-up! I will definitely bump this up the list then. Honestly it looks so appealing I think I've just been looking for an excuse to give it a shot that outweighed my wariness from the reviews.

Just finished Trine 4 with my son! I'd never played one before but it was really a great little co-op experience. I'll keep an eye on 5.

I started playing Children of Morta with my son yesterday and I'm pretty impressed with it. I e tried playing Diablo 3 a couple times and found it really boring, so I assumed dungeon crawlers just weren't really my thing. But I started to find some depth in the combat after a couple runs in CoM, and I quite like the roguelite cycle and progress. We're making pretty slow progress because my son is young and kinda sucks at it, but I'm enjoying it more with him than many other games we've tried.

I also started Baldur's Gate 3 with my partner with it yesterday and am pretty much in love so far. I had similar experiences with both Divinity games but they both were just a liiiitle too long and we would lose steam around the end. Hoping that's not the case with this one.

What did you like about Spirit of the North? I got it with PS Plus but haven't bothered with it because it got pretty middling review scores. Looks beautiful though.

I have Hard space Shipbreaker on my list. I'm hoping it's the type of game you can pick up and play I short, relaxed bursts. Is that how you'd describe it?

I bought Unbound as one more desperate attempt to chase the love I had for the burnout series, and yeah...I hate the time limit thing. The driving is good enough (I still miss the frenetic arcadey driving of the burnout series), but I just want to race, not spend all my time assessing the risk and reward of every event.

I also hate the daytime/nighttime thing and just the cops in general. I don't feel like NFS has ever figured out how to do the cops in a way that isn't cheap and frustrating.

Amid his mom’s time in hospice during the coronavirus pandemic, Rissi said he had spent hours listening to his brother “ranting and raving” about allegations of election improprieties in Arizona. In the months after her death, Rissi said he was taking medication for his own ailments that he says altered his behavior. His voice cracking, he recounted how his wife had told him one day that he had called someone the night before and was screaming into the phone. Rissi said he didn’t know what he’d done until the FBI showed up at his door.

He used the Rosanne defense: it's the pharmaceutical companies' fault that decent people keep turning into conspiracy zealots. Well, not all decent people. Just those predisposed to radicalism and...indecency, I suppose.

Eh, the interviewer and developer make explicit references to both in the article.

I think 2023 has officially become the 21st century's year of the RPG. Any flavor you want, 2023 has got it.

I've had my eye on this one and am very pleased to see it score so well.

If I were predisposed toward conspiracies I would definitely be convinced by now that every medium-to-large business owner in the country was part of a secret cabal who made a pact to demand return to office for whatever terrible reason sounded good to them.

My own workplace is mandating a hybrid model for any employees within 30 miles of an office after "much research, discussion, and debate with employees." They've typically been very reasonable and generous to their workforce, and I just don't understand what they're thinking, honestly.

Interesting picks, two big hitters on the top and bottom (Ali and DiCaprio) and three smaller/indie performances in between. I'd have liked to see representation from a post-horror work (my vote would be for Toni Collette in Hereditary), especially since the genre itself is relatively fresh in this century.

Yeah if this is accurate I'm gonna hold a bigger breath for the other two.

I've played both divinity games in co-op with my partner. You have an entire (quasi) open world game fully explorable by both players independently. At one point in the main town in DOS1, I was running around tracking clues for a mystery while my partner (a rogue) was stealing everything she could get her hands on from the market. Once I reached the climax of the mystery quest, we joined back up for the final battle.

This freedom engenders a lot of creative flexibility and is just overall a chill way to play a game together. I agree that it makes for the best co-op experience I've ever played (especially when you're playing with an otherwise non-gamer).

And for that reason I've also pre-ordered BG3 😀.

Cozy f2p MMO with Disney princess vibes is a mix of Elden Ring and Ghost of Tsushima? This equation does not compute.

Gameplay demo looks fine...but the encounters looked a little manufactured to give the appearance of elden-ring-like combat, when I would wager it's going to be much more hack n slashy in reality.

Still playing Dysmantle, which I originally started intending it to be my background game that I'd turn on when I had only a short window to play or got bored or frustrated with my "main" game.

~40 hours later I think I'm nearing the end and dreading it because I don't want to not have Dysmantle in my life. Ever since a played Subnautica a few years back, I've been looking for another game that scratches the same survival/crafting itch but with the critical components of an overall objective and calculated progression. Dysmantle is different in almost every way but it does hit those check boxes perfectly.

The gameplay loop is repetitive, but amusing enough on its own to be fun until your next upgrade, which are granted to you at just the right pace and open up new abilities to better dismantle your surroundings.

I think it's flaws will probably hit harder for some people, but for me it strikes exactly the right chord. Luckily I still have the DLCs, and they have a spiritual sequel coming out next year that looks even more promising.

Neat idea, seems kinda useless unfortunately. Since it's entirely crowdsourced (I assume from my brief visit), you're getting very anecdotal information, and I think it'll be biased towards people who've had bad experiences with products. Feels like you'd need a huge community of pretty dedicated contributors to make this work, and I'm skeptical that can be built from the ground up for this narrow purpose.

Based on my own experience, Beehaw is a successfully inclusive environment, but not necessarily or always a nice one.

For those who have only seen the headline:

Nearly three months into the counteroffensive, the Ukrainians may be taking the advice to heart, especially as casualties continue to mount and Russia still holds an edge in troops and equipment.

U.S. assessed Ukraine's counteroffensive strategy and made recommendations, and now Ukraine is adjusting its strategy accordingly. The headline makes it sound like an endemic issue. Some analysts think it's too little too late, but I wish them the best.

Agreed, that's a problem too. Like I said, we need to start treating it like a societal failure (not an individual one). I'm not trying to lay out a detailed roadmap here, I'm just complaining online.

What blows my mind about this kind of thing is that we could definitively end this as consumers by just not purchasing products engaged in child labor, slave wages, etc. But these issues are so pervasive (across multiple industries) that we're either unaware of them or accept them as inevitable.

This a major failing of our societal development and we need to start treating it like one asap.