Raft was kind of interesting, and chill if you turn off “sharks keep attacking for some reason” mode.

I watched someone play Satisfactory and they had a blast.

Dinkum was fun and not stressful, but the characters have big heads and it’s got some typical farming life sim elements that were inspired by harvest moon and animal crossing.

Is Coral Island too anime in style?

I get reminded of this quote from their studio exec:

“You can say, ‘Okay, we are exploiting, you know, child labor,’ right? Or you can say: we are offering people anywhere in the world the capability to get a job, and even like an income,” Corazza said. “So I can be like, 15 years old, in Indonesia, living in a slum, and then now with just a laptop, I can create something, make money, and then sustain my life.”

When I read that quote a few weeks ago, I thought about how that’s the kind of argument people who travel abroad to rape kids use to justify themselves.

It feels related to this, somehow. Maybe something about how children are treated like a disposable resource or an object to be used unless the person who owns them (parents?) are powerful, well to do, white, etc, etc. And that’s because their owner is those things, so they’re valuable property. I’m not sure if I’m articulating myself well. Too much sun.

Thanks for sharing! I’d only heard of dragonsweeper before.

Israel has stated that if Iran doesn’t stop defending itself, Tehran will burn. Is that what they meant? Iran’s nuclear-armed allies need to offer a nuclear umbrella to ensure this stays a fair fight. If they do, Israel’s reign of terror is over. If they don’t, this world is about to get fucking terrifying.

ah, shit

If we’re sharing honest opinions minus filter here: if you worded your question differently, more people would answer, and they would be less defensive and have more interesting answers. You’ve limited the people who will reply.

Condescensing and annoying people like myself will still have a lot to say, but people with fun stories and heartwarming anecdotes will not want to put themselves out there for what seems like will be a snarky put-down as a response.

Specifically, the “kiddie game” opening was fine, but the way you worded the followup came across less like you were confused and more like you wanted to have a group shit-on of adults who play mario kart. Being a little more vague would’ve been your friend here. “but it looks like i was wrong” might’ve convinced people who don’t want to be shit on to give an answer.

The part about it being unfair by design was fine, but the last paragraph again comes across as “anyone want to hang here and make fun of the losers who like this obvious bullshit?”

anyway, i don’t play party video games generally but my impression is they want to appeal to different skill levels, abilities, and ages, so they often have additions that level the playing field so it’s not just Gamer Frieda winning while everyone else gets bored and gets out the playing cards (which can also have a random quality that means sometimes the newbie will win or at least not be bored and frustrated).

These catch up elements add extra elements for dedicated players to account for, which is more memorization and reflex training, which is a kind of fun for the type of people who play outside parties.

You weren’t kidding about the variety, holy shit.

In a post on X last year, the studio asked that players spend what they might have on the game giving to a trans-inclusive charity. A couple you might consider are the Trevor Project or TransActual.

nice! I also recommend finding what local charities exist near you, if you don’t want to donate to those. There’s also TransLifeline and Mermaids.

I like that they put some guides up ahead of their announcement. At some point I followed polygon on here, and I remember the guides being some of the most frequent updates.

I watched some streamers play it and was just wondering why they weren’t anymore. Now I know!

With most games, I don’t mind just watching a playthrough, but this is one I’d actually want to play. Maybe in a few more years the emulator will have fewer bugs or I’ll get a cheap 360 (or a new computer ). I’d forgotten how disappointed I was back then I couldn’t play it on pc!

Nice! It’s a shame so many good games end up missed

nice! i’ll have to take a look.

Always wanted to play this one, but never enough to buy a console.

If you did more posts about gems you’ve found in the bin, I’d read them

Yeah it’s been years since I read about it, so I didn’t want to come across like I knew more than I did. And maybe they’re better now, was my thought. But the stuff I’ve read since this morning says otherwise.

I remember really vaguely reading an article about how it had kind of an exploitative model, especially considering the amount of labor done by kids, but it’s like an entirely different world i just tried to understand when my nephew played.

I wonder how much money the kid developer is making off this game.

Checking what boxes?

I thought they were more interesting than average, even when I disagreed with a take. The kind of site there should be a ton of, with varying takes for people to despise to a baffling degree. Sad to see it gone, or “gone” and turned intp a slop factory with known terrible working conditions for the people left.

Regardless of feelings about the people themselves, it’s awful that they fired the union members probably deliberately at this point in the sale so they wouldn’t have to go along with their contracts.