had an ‘oh shit what did they do’ moment about the game since i own it on steam, but then i realized the game company is participating in the anti-xbox boycott and is fine

https://www.polygon.com/news/554879/bds-palestine-israel-xbox-microsoft-boycott-candy-crush-minecraft-call-of-duty

they know microsoft is huge and difficult to escape using for some people, so the boycott is targeting specifically microsoft videogames and related services, is my understanding of it

I guess he canonically dies in a videogame, which is a reason they might not bring him back

I’ve seen a couple people play this. Is it one of those games that got way bigger way faster than the devs expected?

Thank you! The wall in my brain keeping me from doing it is a bit smaller now

That sounds pretty cool, actually, that it.s protected against me breaking it. I’ve always got that worry

Is this something that’s relatively fool proof to do? I’m very good at imagining disasters. That’s the big mental block I got when I thought about dual booting before.

I’m somewhat open to the idea, but the thought of messing up and not having any computer other than my phone until i figure it out is tough to get over.

I can’t afford a new computer right now and tariffs meaning higher prices means I can’t anticipate affording one in the near future. My plan is to see where everything’s at when they stop doing updates. Unfortunately.

Looking forward to it further down the road in development. I do wonder why these dollhouse sims are so rare, since they’re so popular.

I’ve heard of it before and considered playing it, but I have a tough time committing to play a game with sexual violence as a theme. It’s nothing against the game, which looks interesting. If anyone knows of a good let’s play for the series, I’d love to experience it in some way, even if it’s a dulled experience.

They’re pretty strict about depictions of violence against minors, right?

One thing I really loved about it was even though the character models were as weird looking as you’d expect from the era, the backgrounds were beautiful and when i played it years later with more modern sensibilities, I still was fond of them. The story took advantage of the fact that the main character was an artist, so there were a number of colorful or visually interesting segments.

The whole experience felt so vast, and even not being a child any more (which can make stories seem vast because of your own imagination), there still feels like there’s a lot to both worlds. And history to characters, just out of view.

It also lives up pretty well to its name. There’s a lot of it. A lot of lore and locations and puzzles. Some of the puzzles are obtuse to the extreme, and silly. There’s one that’s almost legendarily bad, so it has that bit of history if you’re interested lol.

It’s tough to say what’s nostalgia and what’s my preference and what’s genuinely great. You’d probably have to play it to find out!

My nostalgia faves are still The Longest Journey and Grim Fandango. My love of stories told with games started here. I do need to think about what my all time favorites are, though. That’s a big question.

This sure isn’t true lol

I don’t know if it’s amazing writing, but I was cringing less often with this one than i was with ‘it takes two’

Not the kind of game I enjoy playing very often, but it’s been great watching streamers try it out. It just looks fun.

I wonder if it’s one of those kinds of deaths that just makes the local paper unless they take out a lot of people with them.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7847085/ article discussing 21 fatal heart attacks while driving during a period of time in china

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23343022/ article discussing the results of the Finnish Road Accident Investigation Teams (RAITs) on fMVAs in Finland during 2008-2009. 11% of these were because of “disease attack.”

Severe injuries may mask the role of an initial disease attack.

These articles make it seem like unless there’s careful investigation after the fact, it’s very difficult to know for sure if illness caused the accident.

So it probably is a daily occurance, depending on how many fatal accidents happen in your country. (and depending on a million other factors, most likely)

I’ve heard them called “search-action” games before, for people who dislike “metroidvania.”

seems likely that there are a good number of people looking for new free games to try out

I wonder how many people downloaded it? It had 51 reviews, but I don’t know enough about steam reviews to say if 30 were the hackers or if that means a thousand people downloaded it.