Yeah that seems fine tbh

Can’t wait till EUV comes out, they say it’s due for a 2025 release

I think the issue is that games are games; an example that springs to mind is Caves of Qud’s Markov-chain generated books. I don’t mind them, but once I realized what they were, I stopped reading them. Unless it’s written by a developer, it doesn’t matter. They might as well be empty, unopenable items, like books from Dwarf Fortress where they get a description of what is inside but not any text from the passage.

Even random dialogue is interesting in games not only to “immerse” the player, but to receive messages and information from the developers; if they are randomly generated, they have no purpose. The game would only be improved by their absence.

Political affiliation is not a protected class, nor should it be.

Basically the upper management was getting mad that Paper Mario was taking on too much of its own identity compared to the broader Mario brand. It’s why Origami King is mostly just Toads all over the place.

Flow Free, and its spinoff games Bridges, Hex, Warps, and Fit.

The puzzles are kind of mindless and not that difficult, but I’ve really enjoyed it. You do have to pay to get rid of ads, but after doing so the user experience is excellent.

Caves of Qud completely entranced me when I first played it. It’s a great example of what modern Roguelikes can be. My only complaint is that the story and some writing is just bad (in a cringe kind of way). But most of the worldbuilding is excellent and really captures a sort of Dune-inspired science-fantasy feel. I think the game would be basically flawless (in my opinion) if they removed or reworked the Barathrumites and the Consortium of Phyta.

My mom loved this game back in the day. She tried to get back into it recently but sort of bounced off. If there’s any game that deserves a sequel, it’s Puzzle Pirates.

It fulfills a niche that few other games (none that I know about) fills, an MMO where the primary gameplay isn’t an RPG but a series of puzzle games; where most importantly, you can specialize, only needing to play the puzzles you enjoy (unless you’re captaining your own ship solo, in which case you need to be able to at least adequately perform all of the puzzles necessary for keeping a ship afloat).

I think it’s wonderful for giving an audience used to shitty Facebook match-3 games a more involved and social experience of what games can be.

The Holocaust happened. The Armenian Genocide happened. Manifest Destiny happened.

The Ughyr detention centers, whatever you think of them, do not constitute a genocide. The Ukrainian Famine was a tragic loss of life, and perhaps the Bolsheviks could have done more to prevent it, but it was not an attempted extermination of the Ukrainian people. And don’t even get me started on Rwanda.

And Liberals routinely deny genocide in Palestine and Kashmir because it is politically expedient.

A blanket reproachment of “Genocide Denial” ignores the fact that sometimes, a genocide is claimed where one does not exist. I’m sure you accept that “White Genocide”, especially wrt South Africa, is a conspiracy theory with no legitimacy. Why do you not give the same benefit of the doubt to China, or the USSR?