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Hoping for a better and less hot world.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I assumed the entire game was just a series of video files getting swapped in based on choices.
December 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
So much of christmas is not from Christianity that I think its Christ branding on a secular or kind of culturally ubiquitous holiday. I would love to live in a world where we have fully stripped that branding off, but I can almost hear someone from Fox News sprinting towards me at top speed
December 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The BTS of Amalur's dev and finances are much more interesting then the game itself.

People did not really like it because it plays like a single player MMO. So the combat is watered down and kind of meh.

The reason was that the game was an MMO and the studio needed to ship something for money.
December 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
For all its many many problems the ad supported internet really did allow a great amount of small projects to be viable.
Now we get the nightmare of an add infested internet and the revenue isn't enough to support anything. Just a loose loose loose.
December 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Whats most curious is why its Gemini and not Grok. You would think if anyone was happy to build a DOD AI slop machine it would be Musk who already has ties to the white house.
December 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Having had the 1st gen I will say they got me the closest I have ever been to using an assistant.
No need to take out my phone, no need to press something on my wrist, I just had "Hey Meta" and I KNEW it would hear me and talk back in my ear.
It was often wrong as its AI, but its so close.
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
And Valve and Gabe continue to somehow be fully exempt from now adult gamer's critique of billionaires and monopolys.

Somehow they continue to get un-ironic insane cringe levels for fully owning the market, despite how much those people are aware that the same thing works poorly everywhere else.
December 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Jesus Christ what a nightmare interaction
December 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Tensor issues have been a problem for sure. I'm lucky that my phone use hasn't suffered from them. Personally I think Googles cameras remain the best, and overseas brands are running away with battery tech.
Samsung's design is also very tired. Though that is a purely cosmetic complaint.
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Samsung's hardware has been stagnant for the better part of a decade. Its incredible how much they flounder without competition inside of the Android space.
December 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The North is such a good looking case its wild.
December 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
You should do some reading on Nuremberg.
No Nazi convicted was in prison past 5 years.
youtu.be/n9Ay5tzHIBU
Punishing Nazis was largely a myth we tell ourselves.
Fantasies of Nuremberg
YouTube video by Jacob Geller
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Hey what now
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
After a month I was it must be overhyped.
It is in fact not overhyped. Game rips.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Right, as people stratify so too do products themselves, what a nightmare.
November 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I forget where I first saw this idea floated, but I have seen it argued that as adults increasingly can't afford meaningful things like homes or vacations, there is a un-intuitive push to splurge lavishly on "small" luxuries.
I think you see that a lot with high cost gamer and techie gear.
November 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Spoilers for the New and Old Testaments is one of the funnier warnings I have ever gotten.
November 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This wasnt how I expected to be called on an old bitch today, but ill binge a few of the old vids all the same
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I think for a lot of people Indie just means low budget but also not very successful. Its kind of the hipster thing, if everyone knows your favorite Indie game, is it even really indie anymore?
Its all dumb.
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Feels correct for Lando to be honest.
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I loved playing Bananza, but have no thought about it at all since finishing it. No staying power at all.

I am making my way through Clair now and really dig the vibes, but the random encounters are a very dated mechanic that I dont love. Combat mechanics are very intersecting though.
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is unrelated, but is that the Android phone leaker now leaking GOTY noms lol
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Its almost like generative AI is a bunch of farts being sold by C-Suite executive class morons, to C-Suite executive class morons promising lower payroll via reduced headcount AND improved productivity, and they want to believe that promise despite all evidence or public opinion.
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM