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Your comment is now an extension of that movie’s plot.

This is exactly my worry.

Suppose that on some level, this was possible. You wouldn't see nice, cozy instances of people who've finished their old collection selling them to low-income folks that just got their first Steam Deck. You'd put some games on sale for $10, and an automated Python script would automatically buy them and put them back up for sale for $49.98, one cent less than the new copies being sold.

When literally every single digital copy of a game is "equivalent", the used games market just doesn't make sense - although there's a hundred third-party sites that would like it to work that way so they can take their un-earned cut.

One retro game that I think hasn't really been well-imitated since is called The Last Express. You're on the last major express train through Europe before World War I.

What sets it apart is both a very vivid art style using rotoscoping of live actors, as well as a real-time gameplay system wherein the NPCs of the train can constantly move around, scoot past you in the car hallways, or even seek you out during certain key events.

I have generally found roguelikes to be too difficult, so if you want a turn-taking, strategic one that leans into the easier side while letting you set up many ridiculous combinations, I enjoy "Backpack Hero". You get a Resident Evil 4 styled inventory screen, and must arrange/place items for an optimal build. You generally get rewarded for stacking similar items.

Flagging videogamedunkey to add this prediction to his next planned 2028 video about "the upcoming Switch 2"

Sometimes I bitterly wonder if it was humanity’s acceptance of slavery that enabled those large constructions. Things like safe working conditions didn’t exist back then.

Of course, we basically have prison slavery, but I’m sure they’d prefer the products of that labor not be so publicly visible.

Ah yes, TikTok, the land free of censorship. Where you can’t say “gay” and must insert a stupid little asterisk.

Off-humor, if anyone wants another "inspiring female character" that doesn't achieve it with a mix of sexy/masculine-badass, watch Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Nausicaa is charming, thoughtful, kind to everyone, as well as her adventurous and brave personality being the only hope of stopping a pointless and deadly war.

It's also Miyazaki's first original film before making Studio Ghibli, and is willing to take on a slightly darker tone than most others.

That's my thinking. I can imagine a live service game needing about 10 new lines from a character every few months, and depending on the hassle of recording studios, AI could be great for that - IF it can be set up in such a way that its use is only applied with permission of the actor who created the voice. They'd also have the right to refuse AI voicing for that session, provided they give a reasonable plan for in-person recording.

Even if I enjoyed a lot of that game, I feel sad that it often felt small-scope; tight hallways, no "canal/highway" type sequences, and only three guns. You don't even use the gravity gloves in the innovative ways you use the gravity gun.

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity

I feel like this is 90% of politics; a gun is held to someone's head for a hostage demand, and to not give in to the demand is to be as bad as the shooter themselves.

"How could you shoot down my bill for a Coal Chugging Committee? It would've created so many jobs111"

Don’t forget MP and MP2. The first will arrest you for trying to take pictures of a military base, and the second was the highlight of Samus’ adventures.

Giving some Weird Al vibes with that mission…

So, the sad news is, most kinds of house spiders that you’d do this to won’t survive if you put them outside. If you want to keep them alive, put them somewhere out of sight.

I’m enjoying Marvel Midnight Suns. It has very fun combat tactics, I probably should turn up the difficulty but I love flinging soldier at each other.

I just wish it turned down the social elements a little bit. The game feels like it was a fan fiction dream of its writers and so you spend time going to a book club with Blade or having your supporting comments rejected by turbo-grump Captain Marvel. It’s also hard to absorb drama behind a premise such as “People can get perma-hypnotized.”

I mean, let’s try it based on the gut check, based on a fictional billionaire.

“That bastard passed a bill that lets him appropriate community funds to repair his six - SIX mansions while the community suffers. And you know what’s almost as bad? He’s BLACK.”

Stop deflecting and learn to focus on intent.

I'm also in favor of the viewpoint that the "First Lady Trump" joke was fine. Just felt the need to comment on the last point; I've had that sentiment before too, but I've also seen danger in the idea that "Because my intentions were positive, I shouldn't be criticized." That's been a defense used by bigots, too. eg, Trump throwing paper towels to disaster victims (even though he certainly didn't have to take time out of his day to throw paper towels, gee, how nice he is!)

I'd like to hope that in the past 30 days I've never said anything racist/bigoted - but I'd also acknowledge the possibility that despite my positive intentions, I may have. It's only important because these days very few people think themselves to be bigots. Think about the type of person most likely to say things like "I'm not racist!"

The Batman imagery makes a lot of sense, because it's a fiction and I couldn't ever imagine "the good guys" taking moral high grounds and winning wars (in Ukraine, etc) without guns.

(I say this as someone who agrees that the USA has way too many guns - but they're a tool built for a purpose)

Anecdote alert: I mean, I went to Mint thinking this to be true. The first release I tried didn’t even support my (years old) WiFi drivers, and then the second couldn’t run levels in Hitman. (Bazzite did, however, so distro apparently matters)