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Looks like April Fools Day came late this year.


Luck be a Landlord is like a slot machine version of Balatro.

You select randomly generated symbols to add to your slot machine in order to get more money with each spin in order to have enough to pay the increasing “rent” at the end of each level.



We made a multiplayer mode that was me and my friends, plus the maximum number of lowest health lowest intelligence AI bots. We called it Sheep.

Just run around mowing down the bots until someone hits the target score.

Great stuff.

It was the perfect “sequel” to Goldeneye


Honestly, if AI was responsible for cranking out a decade’s worth of FIFA and Madden, would anybody notice?



So both are card game rogue likes, but…

Slay is more like “shuffle a deck of cards and try your luck”

Inscryption is more “I’ve created some puzzles for you to solve.”



How realistic does it need to be? If you’re down with being a Space Cowboy, Borderlands 2 is the best in the series. (So far. I’m still working on 4, and 2 should be cheap enough that it won’t be a huge waste if it’s not your style)



I clicked it, so you don’t have to:

After testing random people with various computer programs that asked them to rotate objects, they found that some people were able to complete the tasks with inverted or non inverted controls, despite the fact that they had claimed to prefer the opposite. The researchers claim that some people’s brains are just wired to perform better one way or the other despite how they originally learned.



‘Talking with partners who do not share our democratic values does not mean abandoning them’

Yeah, and I only allow peeing in one corner of the pool.


I don’t think those are the kind of games we talk about here.


I’m surprised. I would have guessed that music would be one field that the suits wouldn’t pay too much attention as long as it didn’t sound like garbage at the end of the day.


I can see that.

I’m not far enough to have settled on an opinion on the open world yet. I did find it tedious in other BL games that I had to walk through the same areas in the same order over and over again to access the end game or start a new character.

That being said, I often don’t know where to go or what to do in BL4. Thank Torgue they added the Echo objective finder, that’s pretty much the only way I’ve been able to stay on track at all.


The new one feels like progress so far. I’m not very deep in, but the story and dialogue are not nearly as annoying as 3 was. The biggest difference has to be the movement. In previous games it often felt like you were trudging forward until you found an enemy and then running backwards so they didn’t catch you before they die. Grappling hooks, double jumps, and gliding add a TON of movement and gives you those John Wick moments where you’re bouncing around the area and blasting people from every direction.




I’m reluctant to suggest What Remains of Edith Finch.

It will shred you.


Remember when Mortal Kombat came out and we all started ripping each other’s heads off and pulling out still beating hearts? Those were the days.


And look how much happier I am for not hearing about it back then! 😂


Am I the only one enjoying the recent increase in “shadow” launches? I really appreciate not having to wait months or years or decades (looking at you Bethesda) after first hearing about a game.


I remember when it came out, and for my friends and I it was our answer to “what if you had a million dollars”?


I cant imagine paying over $1500 for a Neo Geo!



I agree with the towers. Worst part of the game.

My main intention on my remastered playthrough was to try to break the game through spell creation and enchanting. I ended up with a few spells that would turn me invisible and pump my speed and acrobatics to insane levels. Most of those tower levels have you running all over and opening gates, but I just jumped over them and avoided every enemy as I sprinted to the top.


Balatro ate up a good chunk of my 2025

Also Oblivion Remastered.


I don’t understand the hate, so I’ll try explaining myself and either redeem myself or dig myself deeper.

Religious zealots have been trying to ban explicit material since forever.

Saying Project 2025 caused the Steam ban is like saying Tipper Gore caused Project 2025.

EDIT: Ok, I went back to make sure I didn’t miss something, and I did. This 2025 guy’s group pressured the payment companies to put the squeeze on steam, who folded like a house of cards.

My bad, he did kind of cause this, or at least instigate it.



I oversimplified for comedic effect, but the animation was just terrible in that movie. All of the character movement was awkward and didn’t feel natural at all.

The thoughts were, what could be more realistic than the motions of real actors? And the answer was: nearly everything. Sure, we use motion capture, but we’ve mixed it with traditional animation theory and fine tuned it to work. Far from the awkward mirroring they did in FF.


In mother fucking 2001 we had Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

I walked into that movie as an animation student wondering how motion capture and 3D animation would change the industry.

I walked out convinced that the industry will not give a fuck about any of that trash.



Played the Heretic remake. Pretty fun to come back to that one after 30 years. 😂

I might try Hexen next, I hear they made it much better, but the original wasn’t great at all.


“We’ve spent 30 years underperforming and manipulating our customers to get where we are today! We’re not about to let some noob take a slice of our pie just because they came up with this wacky idea of a ‘Fun game that’s reasonably priced!’”



By chance did you pick a character with a low intelligence or charisma? Because ability scores matter a lot.

I sadly didn’t get to play much of it. I only had access to it for a limited time, and I did not get far at all.


A friend and I entered a local Magic the Gathering tournament. I had just taught him how to play, and he had picked up a few cards of his own and talked me into giving it a shot.

I sat down across from my opponent and watched him peel the plastic off of a deck that he just bought, and pummeled me with a pre built elf synergy deck.

My friend got stuck in a neverending healing token deck. He couldn’t do enough damage to break all the healers, and the healer didn’t have anything strong enough to get past his defenses, they just sat there dealing and healing infinite damage for what felt like forever.

I was pretty much over the game by the end of the day.


I tried a run like that in New Vegas. I think I got to Primm, and just kept getting tore up too much to be fun.


That looks grotesque. I probably won’t play it, but it looks cool.