Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod - https://techpod.content.town/
Brad Shoemaker of Gamespot/GiantBomb/Nextlander and Will Smith of Tested.com and several other things (but not THAT Will Smith) both dive into tech issues and are more to the left. They also have a separate FOSS Pod.
Oh god, I read that article and thought “Well that’s wrong, I wonder how they could mess that up.” I saw the author was an AI and just laughed.
But they got the click in the end and I have an ad blocker so I have no idea who wins at that point.
If mods are allowed, Stardew Valley. Heck, even if mods aren’t allowed. I’ve probably put nearly 600h into it between PC and Switch, so if I’m playing one game exclusively, I’m going to design the best damn farm I can!
I skimmed over that Little Kitty Big City page thinking the game wasn’t for me, but based on your description I’m very curious now!
I tried The Invincible and bounced off it. I think the fact that the demo was in the middle of things vs the start threw me off, especially for a game about building story and vibes over time. I could tell there was something cool there it just didn’t leave a good first impression for me.
I remember having a VHS tape from some group which was basically just a bunch random kid friendly songs. I did some googling and found a Youtube Channel with them (interestingly called “Kidsongs”) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71a4VPi6toc
The other obscure-ish one that I remember was trying to wake up early before school to watch Superhuman Samurai Cyber Squad. I can see now it was an attempt to capitalize on Power Rangers’ popularity and reuse Japanese footage in the same way/style.
War Planets was another one I loved as a kid, mostly because I had a lot of War Planets toys too.
“Build Back Fucking Better Bitches”
Now if only we’d had the BBFBB bill
I totally agree, and aside from my personal stance of not owning a Tesla, I can’t deny they’ve managed to nail it on the Supercharger front. I think my frustration is more that the one major holdout on a non-CCS standard was already planning to build CCS support into their network. If they’re going to keep on that path, great, but I also won’t trust Musk’s promises on something like this until it’s completed (especially if more manufacturers jump onboard to NACS).
Just seems like it would have been easier to drag one company one way vs. keeping it the wild west.
This is upsetting since Tesla was going to adopt the CCS standard at their charging stations, since as far as I understand it, they were the only manufacturer with an unusual charging plug. Most everyone else was using CCS.
This announcement now means we’re farther away from a standard charging port, with Tesla, Ford, GM, and now Rivian adopting one set and others adopting another at the moment. I don’t care which one “wins” in the end or which is better, just pick one and be done with it.
I put about 20+ hours into Monster Train on the PC/Steam Deck late last year and ended up picking it up again on iOS. It has me hooked all over again.
If you’ve enjoyed games like Slay the Spire in the past for deckbuilding rougelikes, it’s perfect to hammer out a battle pretty quickly. The main difference is each level is like playing three battles of Slay The Spire since there are three “lanes” that the enemies move through. It has enough depth and replayability that you can go for quite some time before burning out.
Plus, you can add googly eyes to every character/minion in the game and I can’t not play with that option turned on.
There’s also a plug-in for Decky that will display protondb’s compatibility/rating on a games page. Very helpful for a quick glance!
We’ve got a kid so things revolve around them, but hoping to have a chill Father’s Day and trying to rope a friend of mine into seeing the new Transformers movie!
All three of these are fantastic mystery stories. You have to pay some attention to what’s going on, nothing is explicitly spelled out (Golden Idol comes maybe the closest), but you feel SO smart when everything just clicks into place.
I mean, the charitable read is the CEO of the company reassuring the entire company that they’ll be OK. That’s his entire job. Yes, it’s a pretty crappy thing to say but we all weren’t the intended audience. He’s there to rally the troops and keep morale up.
That said, fuck u/spez and I’m way happier over here than there.
/r/Games basically said they wouldn’t close up because it’s Summer games news week so why hurt the people coming to the subreddit? But also some kind of “we stand with the blackouts so we’ll make some very light changes in protest”.
I’ve generally liked and preferred Games to other choices on Reddit, but it showed they just didn’t care. Went ahead and unsubscribed because of that weak response.
I think this will end up being my preferred route, assuming my computer won’t melt down. Wait to see what first impressions look like after release and if it looks good then toss myself into Gamepass for a month to check it out.
Alright, not much to go off of but I’ll try based on my playtimes and exclude some very popular games.
Cook Serve Delicious (1, 2, or 3, my wife and I have probably 400h between the two of us). A fast moving cooking game that tests your dexterity. If you want to understand the flow of the game, I personally recommend trying CSD1 on an iPad if at all possible since the touch controls help you understand the flow of the game, then once you know the flow, you add in a keyboard or controller in CSD2 or 3. 3 is my personal favorite.
Cassette Beasts (51h). Pokemon always has a special place in my heart and I’ve bounced off other games that try to emulate it. Cassette Beasts hooked me with their creature designs and awesome soundtrack.
Zero Sievert (33h, Early Access). I haven’t messed around with the big name extraction shooters like Tarkov or Hunt, but the appeal of a single player third person top down extraction shooter with a pretty cool style surprised me at how much I enjoyed it. The only reason I put it down was to save up for whenever it eventually releases.
Heat Signature (31h). Very run based, but the whole idea is you have to infiltrate ships all over the galaxy and accomplish your assigned objective on that ship. Maybe you need to hijack it, maybe you need to capture/kill someone, there’s a lot of options. The fun really came with weird scenarios where you’d have to find unusual answers like breaking a window to launch yourself into space with your target and get scooped up by your ship, or hack the turrets and lure the enemies into a kill box.
Griftlands (18h). Card game similar to Slay The Spire where you build up your deck and get progressively more powerful against more dangerous enemies. The part I thought was cool is you can try to negotiate with your enemies just as easily as fighting them. Negotiation has it’s own separate deck you can boost up over time.
Everhood (12h). A weird exploration and rhythm game with some good humor injected. I can’t even really tell you what exactly happened since it’s been a minute since I played it, but all I know is it got really philosophical and after it ended, I felt almost hollowed out at how beautiful/profound it was.
Antichamber (11h). A portal-like game that plays with spatial puzzles and navigating an ever shifting labrynth.
I could list out a ton more, I love these smaller and weirder types of games, but hopefully something sounds good!
Honestly, my biggest use case is listening on the phone and listening on my PC while at work. The two sync together extremely well and it’s pretty seamless. No idea if Apple Podcasts can do that (or plays that nicely on a Mac) but that’s my biggest use case for their sync capabilities.