I feel like I’m ranting but I just want to talk about this game so much. The game is basically linear, but if you find a random hidden path you’re rewarded with a tiny bit of environmental storytelling. If you work your way off the main path, you find entire sections of jump challenges that have no purpose to the game. It’s like the game is saying “Look at this thing I built! Come jump around for a while!”

Lorn’s Lure - This game absolutely enthralled me over the past 2 weeks. It’s a parkour/exploration game, one developer, and it’s just so well designed. Punches way over it’s price for $15.

The maps are these enormous sprawling runes of an ancient machine, and there so much to find and see in each level. Then after beating the game you can go back with all upgrades and there are so many new paths, new secrets. There’s this special feeling when a developer adds so much in just for their love of the game. Things that don’t unlock new content, don’t satisfy any goals, just more fun and interesting stuff to look at and play around in, if you want. Then you get to the last level and it’s such an emotional peak. It’s like the dev spent 7 chapters just teaching us, preparing the player for the final level, and then doesn’t hold anything back.

AND it relates to both Hatch and Kill the K.O.T.H., Hatch specifically could be a lesson in pacing, I recommend that as well for anyone interested.

I used SimulaVR pretty regularly for a while! I’ve moved and don’t have my VR headset set up anymore, but it was a good month of usage for programming, but the tech has probably developed since I last used it.

This comment is decrying it’s parent, but it doesn’t say anything to refute the points made. Energy use, intellectual property theft, and non-consensual porn seem like pretty decent things to be worried about.

Eyyyy I love this game, I never could get a good run build going. Maybe it’s time to re-download it

Number gets big and brain gets happy

Love lazygit, am I better or worse a git now? Idk but I’m doing it much faster

And it helps the emulsion! Keeps everything thick and creamy.

$1,400!? That must be one hell of a chair to justify the price.

Yea, this is a surprisingly good read, and it covers a pretty wide breadth of topics.

I’m inordinately interested in your solution here. For all of our sakes, make a post about it.

Warhammer 40k has been great for this

I hope modding capability is a focus, it helped KF2 stay awesome for years.

The sounds and feeling of shooting were so fantastic in KF2. The atmosphere kept all my friends there for days at a time just popping zed heads.

This is my favorite way to learn, he’s just making a meal for himself or his family and talking through the process and considerations.

I’ve heard “you start as a person with a pistol and 30 minutes later your calling down lightning bolts to kill a God a 90mph”

Surrounded by water, your only hope is gun

Honestly winemaking and brewing are great for depression. Can’t find the willpower to take care of it for two weeks? That’s fine! It’s just aging, you can do the next step whenever you feel like it. And then you get to share and everyone is pressured to say nice things, it’s great.

Chris Christodoulou killed it with the Risk of Rain 2 soundtrack, personal favorite is The Rain Formally Known as Purple