Only one that’s aged super poorly is Beirut I think, rest are still gold.

Really one of my favorites as a young kid. Don’t know if the game ever had a real plot but I’d just fly around immersed and dying and loving it.

Add a couple more zeroes until it feels right

Like ballard’s highrise

maybe reframing as billionaire grifters trying to connect with their slubby backwoods peasants after they've successfully De-woke’d the post-apocolypse…

When I ask LLMs a question in something I'm reasonably proficient in, I'm shocked at how many errors it makes. Being an expert breaks the illusion — that's why they don't use it.

I guess they could have an advanced degree in something unrelated to their job, like a mathematics phd litigating tax law in Switzerland.

One thing I agree with Richard Brody on.

Still had the faults of a lot of point and click games where solutions to problems could be inscrutable

I loved how there were skills to level, multiple solutions to some problems and you could play the same character through all 5, even if — I never quite liked or finished 5.

My Ukranian mother-in-law is allspice only and says this is the right way.

I know there are as many variations of red borscht as families, but I don't want to pollute our home Borscht with something completely foreign.

Of course this discussion happened while making vushky at Christmas.

I’ve never received a good novel solution to a legitimate programming problem — I just get a bunch of busted ass code that calls functions from unrelated contexts. And my programming is scuffed as all hell.