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Both players only have 20 minutes max for their turns, chess clock style before they start taking damage every turn, so games tend to be over fairly quick. I can imagine that's still too long for a demo both though. The community has been super friendly so far by the way which is something I hadn't realised I really missed from other online games, playing mostly loma games lately.

I just played through this but although I enjoyed the writing (and, Wolfe, say) I'm not sure what is the revelatory bit. Am I missing something?

Man, yeah, Xanthony has not aged well at all since I read them as an impressionable teen. The Xanth books are actually a lot more restrained than some of his other series, if you'll believe it. The Geodyssey stuff is especially icky.

It's hidden in the popup menu on your name in the top-right. Took me some time too. I never expected to have to use it here.

This seems a bit of a hopeful trend. People realising that more work is not a good reward for doing good work.

Kotsen

This is magical. Thanks for keeping a diary

To me young adult doesn't imply immaturity so much as that a novel, while dealing with mature themes, does not go overboard with that to the point that young adults can't enjoy it (or more accurately, that parents can't enjoy watching their teen children reading it). It's not a slur to me and I definitely can see where it fits Gone Home. Especially because, like the best YA fiction, it is also enjoyable by adults because it has a second layer that only life experience lets you appreciate, for example the parents' issueswhich are in the background, only to be picked up by more mature players.

it controls exactly like teleglitch, the main difference is the visuals and that it takes much shorter to get going. There's no crafting though. The quicklook is pretty accurate!

i recommend trying out Nuclear throne if this game floats your boat.

I think these days I would use Papers, please to show non-gamers first if i wanted to be a bit pretentious. It shows the kind of important lessons games can teach,

Holy shit Rodi I played the shit out of that game.

The Lost Izalith dragon butts are a non-issue these days thankfully. Their aggro radius is essentially zero since the Prepare to Die patch. Also holy shit Dewar, that's amazing

Man, such a good game. Reading stories like yours brings up such intricate memories and details. No other game series does sense of place so right.

Holy shit, so that means you went blacksmith -> darkroot -> drakes -> blighttown. A tough route! A lot of upcoming stuff will be easy by comparison I think.

The first Modern Warfare has a very cool sneaking/sniping mission set in Pripyat, but it mainly makes me want to play STALKER.

Tipping is an anti-worker mechanic and I hate it. Further, the restaurant should be the one paying the staff directly, I don't want to be bothered by that bullshit.

It depends on your starting gift mainly. If you have the skeleton key you can take some alternate routes, but otherwise yeah you need to head through the depths into blighttown.

Yeah, developing a loma at the moment smells like 100% clueless marketing decision to me.

Well, the reason they get it wrong is presumably that it is just really frickin' hard to get that right. As a programmer I'm sure I don't need to tell you how the combination of rendering pipeline, input lag, netcode etc. could be extremely difficult to tune to the degree of precision that the best games manage. I can only imagine how depressing it must be for the people developing and releasing these second-tier games. They're obviously not idiots so they're gonna be aware it's not as good.

As far as I'm aware there's a fair handful of people around here that do Unity development.

I've tried out one of the new kids on the block, Prime World. I've always had a soft spot for Nival so hey, why not. Trip report: very janky. It's only when trying out these kind of second-tier lomas that I realise just how right League and Dota get it. It has some funky ideas, like entwining leveling and items, and some fairly clever map modes inlcuding coop ones. But I doubt this one will catch many people.

I hate seeing all these threads about great-sounding books that then turn out to only be available in hardcover

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