Am I the only one that really gets creeped out when watching weird parasocial stuff, even if it's from the sidelines?
It's cool to be a fan, but a single creator shouldn't be the subject of 90% of your online interactions (this goes for hate-watchers too)
No One said they were irresponsible (in fact I explicitly stated it was their content strategy, which is the exact opposite)
It is however irresponsible to conflate demonstrating good mechanics and giving proper critique with "just talking about what they like" - it's a chasm of difference.
"C'mon Bunny" is one of those soundbytes glued in my eternal memory, right alongside the zelda item find noise and "Kweh!"
My job is to review games, BUT I also understand my reach gives me a responsibility to my community - do I want to spend my limited time tearing down a bad actor and giving them "hate sales", or do I want to spend my time showing off good/interesting mechanics and giving critique for improvement.
That said, I don't begrudge other people covering bad games, it has its place, and it is important to call out unethical devs - and I have done the latter on games I have covered because I can say "they did this good thing, but" (none of the dighom games passed this litmus test for me)
Guarantee their coverage of the crap games (and even the subsequent legal issues) actually gave digital homicide more sales (and it would be worse nowadays) - doubly true because Sterling was known for covering 'bad games' at the time.
All that hurt in the long run, was the final shutdown by Valve.
For some reason, that immediately made my brain go to cannibals in party animals lol ( took me a minute to find a clip: www.youtube.com/shorts/4bceO... )
I generally follow the rule of "If I can't mention a redeeming quality, then I don't mention the title" - This is because even giving it air time, gives it attention, and probably sales.
And pretty much, ai-slop negates redeeming qualities.
These aren't so much the cards that 'represent me', but rather what shaped my expectations and experiences playing the game (some honorable mentions: Labyrinth Minotaur, Mesa Pegasus, Lure, Jangling Automaton, Coat of Arms, Venom, etc.)
Okay - question - how do you re-seal bagged food?
I'm a bit neurotic about it (I fold mine over in wedges and crease it while using a clip - to the point that it makes it water tight), since the goal is to keep air/bacteria/mold OUT, not just keep food in.
The amount of 'scrunch/roll' I see...
Why have I not heard about this before? Creative Mode and Dungeoneering mode sound like they have a real "Mario Maker" approach (the campaign mode seems neat too - but depending on level of flexibility the other two modes could possibly hit above their weight)
Instead of "this meeting could have been an email" - "this game could have been single player" and "this game could have been peer to peer"
99% of the time Live service just feels like maximizing inconvenience and cost for a 1% shot at getting whales for 6 months before the servers shut down.
That's an eerily comical one too lol (seen it with people wondering why they got dinged for BG3 on youtube - and they were playing it without the nudity censorship on...)
Any more artifacting and we'd have a fight between Indiana Jones and Lara Croft...
I'm at a loss for words...
GameDev groups are wild... I'm in a few and they all are this weird mix of actual game devs asking for marketing advice, gameplay feedback, etc. and the most unhinged shit you've ever seen (seriously, just scrolled past someone asking how they can they can get literal porn to be M instead of AO)
If memory serves, even Team Rocket would be weirded out by the alt-right (kind of in the same vein as The Joker's response to Red Skull)
Some advice for new devs:
I can't "review" your game if I don't have access to it. (most use partner.steamgames.com/doc/features... - "beta package keys" to access the latest release candidate)
Demos cannot be used to accurately review the full game.
Contact early, not the day before/of release.
I'd sooner trust the baron at this point... the bar is that low.
We should be judging everyone that commits war crimes...
I thought the series had died... the originals were dumb, but this smells like the target audience is 40 year old teenagers who are stuck somewhere between Asmongold streams and a Joe Rogan fan subreddit
yea, pretty much the only ones I'd eat these days are the apple cinnamon ones, and even that's been over a year (the rest are kind of sickly sweet to me for fruit flavors, while the pudding or creme flavors felt like joyless month old donuts and depression)
they're not as good as they used to be - especially untoasted or lightly toasted (they were always dry, but newer ones are a bit stodgier than they used to be unless toasted to golden)
Them some round bois, think I'll have to give it a stab myself (maybe towards the end of the day just in case, since it's 3d lol)
Oddly nice to see more people moving to non-wacom tablets :) - so many good options now.
That said, definitely a lot more organized than my pile of chaos lol (speaking of both physical and digital desktops lol)
Also found a pretty solid successor to Coal LLC for me in Rock Bottom - it puts a bit more of an incremental roguelite spin on the formula, while still retaining the cathartic bubblewrap feeling of mining tons of resources: store.steampowered.com/app/4297840/...
Probably will see this one cropping up a lot - but really enjoyed Vampire Crawlers - decent dungeon crawling roguelite with some fun combos, and retains the VS vibe (though I do wish I could refuse level up bonuses, since it's just deck bloat): store.steampowered.com/app/3265700/...
I wonder how many people I piss off by voice acting tutorials in games, and then retaining absolutely NONE of the information from it because I'm too focused on the voice and avoiding doing "um"s
I throw up a little anytime I hear the words polymarket or kalshi - we are in the worst timeline (people betting on war crimes...)
