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For all the noise gamers, gooners and grifters made about Angela's face looking distractingly ugly, fat, masculine or just vaguely "weird," literally no one I've seen playing the game for the first time has noticed any of these supposedly blindingly obvious qualities. Just goes to show how this shit is just mass peer-inforced self-hypnosis

Sometimes you see streamers reading comments in their chat from gamers complaining about how ugly she looks and they're just confused

You know what to do:

Welcome to the weekly/biweekly/monthly (TBD) Magic The Gathering thread. Discuss a 30+ year old mega-commercialized hyperaddictive card game with us!

Thread Question 1: What formats are you playing? What are your favourite decks to play in these formats?
Thread Question 2: What is your favourite non-infinite, non-immediately-guaranteed-winning combo to play in magic?

It's REALLY bad on Steam, but on many online platforms (sadly even itch.io) there is so much damn shovelware. Not even "slop" something below "slop", sludge is the only word I can think of (no disrespect to Sludge Life 1 & 2, great games go play them). It clogs up online storefronts and really ruins searching games by tags.

It's really annoying that my personal favorite genre, "immersive sim" has been utterly flooded with these shovelware games. Unless I know exactly the name of a game, I cannot find anything worthwhile. Good games, small games, gems of yesteryear, all that sort of stuff is just hidden by this layer of sludge. I like to browse storefronts (digital and physical) and just check stuff out, get a feel for what's out there, but you can't do that when there is "XYZ simulator: prologue" every other item.

It fuckin' sucks. I really do think many real good games get lost in the sludge pit and have to hope that some internet video essayist/review or something discovers it by chance. I'm not saying everything is an undiscovered legend but I am saying, I can't even find games on most of these storefronts because the whole thing is flooded with effectively spam games.

(I then feel bad that these scumbags can get a game on steam and i can't even hack together a playable game jam thing, but that's a different post)

It appears another "gigaleak" has gone down, involving Nintendo. According to sources online, it appears that Game Freak has been hacked, resulting in internal data from the company being leaked to the public. Those involved in the hacking community or those within general Pokemon related groups are claiming that while they will not be discussing or dissecting the specifics within the leak, it initially is being claimed that there is a total of 1TB of data.

This allegedly includes the source code for Pokemon Platinum, source codes for Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver, beta builds of Pokemon Black and White 2, beta builds of Pokemon X and Y, and potential internal codenames for upcoming Pokemon projects. Within it are mentions of an online Pokemon game, a collaborative project between Game Freak and Studio ILCA, the potential code name of the Nintendo Switch 2 being "Ounce", and a project named Gaia, which may be the next generation of Pokemon titles.

https://www.tumblr.com/june-egbert-official/764085029432442880/this-is-how-you-know-theyre-really-leftists?source=share

btw is actually five now.

https://www.eurogamer.net/more-former-zaum-devs-have-set-up-another-studio-but-they-are-definitely-not-working-on-a-disco-elysium-sequel

Happy Sunday everyone. Hope everyone has had a refreshing weekend. I have been playing minecraft and Disco Elysium this past week.

I told ye I was gonna post Someone's work again, so here is another select one. (The one that managed to catch the algo that is. 50k views, wow! (Also I am posting these in c/games cause I think of Touhou as a games franchise and I'd rather not flood c/music with crossposts k thx until next time))

Who would win, an eldritch alien god or two jiggling plumbers?

Takes some gumption to even touch a notorious broken flop like that

News going over California's new bill to require lack of ownership of digital media (including video games) to be labeled that's kind of a mess + a small victory of the stop killing games campaign.

I really hope Yoko Shimomura is composing for Brothership

And the wild part is I remember for a time G*mers screeching about wanting critics like Roger Ebert to take games seriously as an art. Now they got their wish, developers are treating their projects like art, and they don't like it because it dares to make them uncomfortable sometimes.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3667072

Hey everyone!

I've been running table top roleplaying games for hexbear users for awhile now and have some unexpected bonus free-time the last two weeks of october.

I'm looking for anyone interested and available Monday - Friday between October 21st to the 31st.

Because of the season I was thinking I would like to run:

Delta Green , Monster of the Week , or Shadowdark

I'm in CET so start-times are going to be around 8:00 AM - 1:00pm east coast united states time and last about three to four hours in duration. If a group of folks are available I'm open to a two-shot with the same group.

I like to use roll20 as a digital tabletop and have a small discord server of hexbear only folks we would use for voice chat. I will also provide all the necessary rules as well as a pool of premade character to use. If you have any questions or want to sign up please leave a comment or send me a message!

Thanks for your interest and happy spooky season.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3664883

Otz is one of the few streamers I follow, and I don't really play games much anymore so it's the only way I can stay on top of the big releases to watch his let's plays idk if it's similar for anyone else. This is part 1 of 2. Part 2 of 2 is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoRIJM0u4QA

Not sure what cws to put on this because I haven't played the game before. I'm suspecting it's something like violence, gore, SA mention?