Unmetal is a love letter to classic Metal Gear. If you are a Kojima fan and love the wacky world building, this is right up your alley.

Sonic Mania is absolutely worth it to anybody who grew up with 2D Sonic.

I was absolutely part of the KoL community in the 2000s-2010s, and left when I aged out of their KoL Radio/podcast stuff.

I remember hearing about it during West of Loathing launch and definitely one of the reasons I avoided the game during release. But I came around during the pandemic and I wonder if there was an aftermath.

I’m digging through the internet right now. This was one of their apologies, also from that 2019 time.

Would you happen to know of any recent updates?

Wym?

Just because every single day, we have a news story of police being a bad apple, from shooting a man seven times in the back of the head in a wheelchair, to countless rapes of young women, to assaulting people in their own homes, to physical abuse to their own spouses, to discharging their firearms unnecessarily like the time a cop shot at a woman at a gas station, or the time they told a bunch of kids to crawl for their lives because they were biking on the sidewalk, or the time a cop murdered a kid for waving a toy around…

I think you’re just not giving them a chance.

Because scary words!

That reminds me. There was a story about a cheater who sold tools for disrupting multiplayer games and it was pretty popular.

Then he added a crypto miner in there which went undetected for a long time and then he ghost.

Dog. Gottem.

Or going after rock music for violence.

Or video games for violence.

Or dungeons and dragons for violence.

Or…

Today I learned:

They have a better quality of life than a bunch of southeast asian countries.

https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp

I FORGOT TO INCLUDE DRAGONFALL! 😭

I love all three.

Unfortunately that’s the best part of FO76. Building your base/shelter, getting stuff for your base/shelter, etc. The story is okay. But at some point, everything revolves around you improving your base.

My wife and I bounced after the brutal difficulty and made it to the next biome.

It was kind of fun that every fight was a life or death experience. But we never felt like we were getting stronger or things ever got easier.

I didn’t mind, as I play Dark Souls. But for my wife who like to max-level then steamroll things, this was driving her crazy.

I can’t find that one story where a guy was having a lot of fun being kidnapped. They roleplayed for like an hour.

Nah they’re the best kinds of post

Oh man I remember how incredible Hammer was.

I built my college campus! (And never showed anybody because this was during the Columbine era)

Yep! That was the story in the book. He grabbed his wife and neighbor, and when they returned, everything was burned to the ground!

He originally wanted it to be about a game where people interacted with furniture to feel things, and it was called Dollhouse. But play testers found watching their Sims more fun.

😭

If I had a nickel for every time a 90s-2000s developer is now into Blockchain…

Do I have two nickels or three?

In before the “People still play?” Yeah. 12,000 people on average. The game was released 6 years ago. There’s been a hell of a lot of free updates since then.

We get it. You hate FO76/Bethesda/Todd Howard. Go touch grass.

Was in a thread recently where people talk about heavy story games being popular because of Watcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Disco Esylium and Baldurs Gate 3.

I’m going to recommend some fantastic story-rich/story-heavy games that people might have missed during the 2010-2020 era.

Shadowrun Returns and Shadowrun Hong Kong: RPG tactics. if you’re not familiar with Shadowrun, it’s Cyberpunk but with Elves/Trolls, and Dragons as president. Story is dark and fantastic.

West of Loathing and Shadows of Loathing: RPG tactics. Really great and funny writing. One reviewer said they smiled ear to ear during their whole play. I did too.

Danganronpa series and Steins Gate series visual novel territory. Starts really slow but sucks you in. Paradise Killer was my introduction to this world.

Rusty Lake games Puzzly. Rusty Lake Roots storytelling is so good. Don’t sleep on Rusty Lake Paradise and Rusty lake Hotel. Those stories are a bit more abstract, as are all the Rusty Lake games.

Firewatch this is the game that made me sit up and pay attention to Walk Simulators. There’s a lot of good ones to name, but Firewatch is top tier.

All on sale for a few bucks. All of them will make you think about them while showering and reflecting on life.