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Game was shined to a sheen it has no flaws. Graphical masterpiece of the generation even puts mgs to shame. Banger soundtrack to boot

I won't ask twice.

It hits a teenage nostalgia no game does. Its so passionately bad only some dedicated sonic fans could have made this

I don't even play guilty gear

The thumbnail shows the common form of smothered mate with the king in the corner. The Wikipedia page has other forms - like in openings. A grandmaster getting a smothered mate (even in a speed chess game) is uncommon because what the attacker is up to tends to be obvious. The thumbnail form done by not one but two knights must be exceeding rare. I'd never seen it before.

Magnus had a big advantage and after 25...Nxd3 white mentally collapsed. He spent ~30 seconds thinking which is a vast expanse of time in speed chess, he made a bad move, he made another bad move, and then Magnus had mate in 3.

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/116721637783?tab=analysis&move=49

Smothered mate

In chess, a smothered mate is a checkmate delivered by a knight in which the mated king is unable to move because it is completely surrounded (or smothered) by its own pieces, which a knight can jump over.

The mate is usually seen in a corner of the board, since only three pieces are needed to surround the king there, less than anywhere else.

Lost planet 2 really falls off hard in the last 2 episodes but it was worth it for this scene

Good ol' buttcraft

I don't really mean in terms of mods, but like go off if you wanna. I'm a lifelong Minecraft enjoyer, played it basically from Alpha right up to release, and dropped off around 1.2ish. I've played it in bursts again over the years, but the more weird stuff they add the more weirded out I feel. I just wanna build houses with sloping rooves, sheesh... It does kind of make me wanna just give up and play Legacy Console on Wii U or something weird.

[Minecraft boomer alert I guess]

I don't totally hate what they've done with the game itself but it's clear that the launcher is a lost cause. Plus how does Java chug this badly on a Ryzen 2600? I have to choose between a performance mod that makes the game run, or pad support, because one of them uses Fabric and the other uses the other thing. Remember when Minecraft mods was just dumping .jar files into the game's directory?

I mean to ask, what is the way cool kids play Minecraft nowadays? Are there cool alternative launchers or modpaks or a specific version or whatever I can play that's cooler than Microsoft Occupied Minecraft and are more fun?

Hearthstone is my old standby game. This is an interesting twist on previous mechanics and I'll be glad to see buddies go.

Long story short, Ross Scott, who you may know as the Freeman's Mind guy, has been annoyed by games as a service and the industry practice of requiring online connections to company run servers to run their games. The primary reason is that once the game becomes unsupported, access to that game altogether usually goes with it. He's a hardcore game preservationist, and has been keeping a running count of games that have completely died with absolutely no way to ever play them again, so he decided to vanguard an international campaign to see if this issue can be settled for good.

His latest (and most promising) endeavor has been an European Citizens' Initiative called "Stop Destroying Videogames". Once it reaches a million signatures, the European Parliament will discuss the matter and move forward with whether or not this is a valid consumer protection violation, and if so, write into law a way to stop the practice.

There's been some recent drama with some youtuber called Pirate Software who seems to take issue with the initiative seemingly from a bad faith argument perspective. Fortunately this brought some attention to the initiative, but it is a classic tale of reactionaries coming out of the woodwork the second political traction against corporate interests starts taking place.

Bonus points if it's actually more helpful than GameFAQs. Capeesh?

But the subway tunnels had monsters in them. So it's a give-and-take.

Sometimes all you need to have fun is some imagination