I don't really want to be wading into the conversation but I do believe it's possible to acknowledge the negative aspects of a work without discarding it entirely, which I believe you have done fine.

My list:
2010: Battlefield Bad Company 2
2011: The Binding of Isaac
2012: Spelunky
2013: Papers Please
2014: Dark Souls 2
2015: Undertale
2016: Overcooked
2017: Breath of the Wild
2018: Celeste
2019: Outer Wilds
2020: Factorio

Easy to say everyone is wrong about something unverifiable. Harder to say something right.

But how will I kill Lorenz without classic mode?

I never saw too much negative stuff about the writing, got any links?

You should try danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper

Hi again anime watchers, welcome back to my ironman shield only run, where I'm going to see if I can defeat the inferno with a bunch of slaves.

Do books have to use the medium of text on a page better than they could be portrayed through acting in order to be good books? While the medium has these unique benefits, I don't think that alienates works from being interesting or sophisticated without focusing primarily upon them.

Balatro is a weird beast. Honestly it's not the poker side that makes it like gambling to me, but it leans into that with the opening card packs. A game with the same mechanics could have had a very different, less gambling adjacent theme. It definitely doesn't play itself as much as BallxPit or VS.

I love the roguelike genre, but the influence of vampire survivors has been really negative in my experience. I was really disappointed to find that BallxPit was that kind of game.

quantum quantum quantum

Still the best video essay of all time.

If only I could wishlist more than once

Red Rising,
Carcassonne,
Ricochet Robots,
Pandemic,
Streetcar,
Broom Service,
Decrypto,
Alhambra,
Grand Austria Hotel,
Shark

When they said there were going to be deep cuts I didn't expect it to be this deep.

www.reddit.com/r/thefinals/... this is the comment I found that talks about generative fill for The Finals art, and that feature seems to be like any other genai image editor www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp6K...
Maybe they ditched this process for Arc raiders, or maybe it became too mundane to mention?

I think that it's hard to know? 'we may use ai based tools to assist with content creation' is on their steam page, and they claim to use photoshop's generative fill function for the finals, which i would consider genai?