Jacek Wesołowski

One month before an election he's very likely to lose. Right.

I hope they can't hear what some doctors have to say about digits.

Chocolate bunnies who have SEEN TOO MUCH

These chocolate adjacent bunnies have SEEN TOO MUCH.

I know what you're talking about and yes, it sucks.
Our version of this was "no, wait, we need to do this again because [redacted] just added some cool new explosions".

(to be fair, when [redacted] does explosions, nebulas and such, it always makes the game look noticeably better)

One upside of working with licenced IP is nothing can end up in the game until IP holder approves it, and at the same time everything is final until IP holder has approved the next version. When it was the time to do marketing, a few people on the team were just told to go record some footage.

What I see here is characters from two different video games. In other words, and speaking in purely mercantile terms, I can imagine myself buying both, depending on my current project. And I think there's going to be more room for simpler art, now that everyone's on a very tight budget.

I just saw a council member for my home district invite people to discuss plans for a metro station in the area. The station is meant to be part of the fourth line.

Warsaw is only finishing the second one this year.

But it's not a stunt! The next election is in three years. Planning takes time.

Being a scientist, or more broadly a researcher of any kind, is a constant struggle between trying to make sure others know as much as possible, and trying to make sure they don't stop listening mid-sentence.

To be clear, I count immersive sims as a separate genre, even though they're usually first person games with varying but often significant amounts of shooting. Recently, "Indiana Jones and the Great Circle", "Skin Deep", and "Pacific Drive" were all a lot of fun.

I don't mean to imply this says anything about first person shooters any more than it says something about me. I find the online PvP culture off-putting. There's also something about the vibes of various Far Cries and Calls of Duty that makes me uncomfortable.

Maybe it's a generational thing.

The recent sad news about various closures have reminded me that the only first person shooters I've played in the last ten years were "Doom" (which I liked a lot) and "Doom Eternal" (which I didn't). Last multiplayer shooter I played was Borderlands... in 2009.

Mud is an essential resource when raising pigs, and it's hard to find mud in the desert.

If you're trans and live in the US, it might be a good idea to start figuring out an escape route in the general direction of Canada.

(speaking from my experience from when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, being friends with someone with a spare couch goes a long way)

I had trouble with that, too, and I was always low key stressed by the apparent time constraint, so I ended up restarting a few times. But when I finished I felt it was worth it.

The guy that blackmails you at the start is a tutorial, so that's why he's trying to force you to focus on a specific room and character, and giving you a time limit. The game eases down after that. There are windows of opportunity, but there are also redundancies.

I bet a ton of their supporters do. Every time I stumble upon some rightwing "geopolitics" fan it sounds like they're playing Europa Universalis.

I feel we, game developers, are to some degree complicit in this present-day surge of imperialism. We've made too many games about tokens on a map neutralizing other tokens so that the player can mark spots on that map as theirs. We even use the word "empire" unironically.

Mój poduszkowiec jest pełen węgorzy!

The way I understand it from your descriptions, your mom's supposed misanthropy is basically how she copes with overstimulation and /or frustration, while her kindness is a conscious choice.

Cryptmaster did have some pretty awesome voice acting!

FWIW, once we get to Królewiec, we can rename Prospekt Leninski to ulica Poznańska (and Suworowa to Warszawska, let the bastard roll in his grave).

Plenty of room for wordplay here. We will bog then down in a bog, near the river Bug. Those who believe in such things may also want to ask Bóg for help.

I'm going to say something very un-Polish now, but I don't think Poland would ignore an offensive buildup like Zelensky did in 2022, which means it's trench warfare from day one, which means the frontline gets stuck somewhere between Elbląg and Białystok. Defending Suwałki is NATO's top concern.

On the one hand, it would be very funny to see one of them record one of those videos with an audible conversation in Ukrainian in the background.

On the other hand, it would be even funnier if the Russians turned out to be the ones to actually deal damage to PKiN.

(technically speaking, it doesn't allow saving at literally any point, because under the hood some operations such as updating the quest description are considered separate steps. Since they are resolved immediately and never wait for anything, the questline isn't allowed to pause at one of these)

...something like the manual save isn't an easy thing to add unless you already have the infrastructure for it. My tiny satisfaction is that the quest system was designed with saving at any point in mind from day one. Let's just say I had a hunch this was going to become useful one day.

Sometimes you find satisfaction in tiny things. Voyager released without manual saves because it's supposed to be a roguelike(-inspired-kinda-ish), but people said they really need to be able to save manually, so we've just added that in a patch. Now, you can probably guess that...

Personally, the only reason I'm still on social media is my mutuals sharing what they ate for lunch, what game they played, what nice OC they painted recently etc. I wish I had the time for my pet projects so I could flood my stream with screenshots.

One big difference between Putin and Trump is I'm fairly confident that despite all the propaganda Putin would never lob nukes at anyone because he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life in a bunker, away from his palaces, whereas Trump is just demented enough to not realise what he's doing.

Ethnic stereotypes annoy me in part because they've done so much harm over the last 100 years in this particular part of the world where I leave, and in part because they're completely wrong. My German team is some of the kindest, softest, least strict people I've met.