Guy who finished a law degree for some reason. I didn’t mean to, it just kinda happened

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • FWIW, Dragon Age got brigaded hard by hard-right anti-woke trolls (and Skillup outright lied in his review, which has been passed around like a bag of chips). It’s truthfully excellent, with great storytelling (leaning very hard on horror) and great character writing, with the most fun gameplay of any Dragon Age game.









  • Quite a lot honestly, but the trailers are really awful in terms of advertising what the game actually is. It’s a survival game with management sim elements, using creature collection as its core gameplay loop. It feels weirdly cohesive in terms of mashing together these styles - kinda like Dave the Diver in that regard.

    Far as I’ve been able to tell, it was first announced in 2021, so it’s been in development since then, at latest.

    There’s no evidence whatsoever of AI use (lot of accusations, but actual devs have spoken out and challenged them). Really strikes me that there’s a non-zero number of people who feel somewhat threatened by this game’s existence, considering the death threats the dev team has reportedly been receiving.











  • God we need survival mode desperately. Atm exploration feels pointless and aimless, a survival mode would make it so we have a reason to build outposts and range out, which in turn would justify resources and just make the game more cohesive.

    There’s a great post on the other site that explores these problems, but it honestly strikes me that these were ripped out before release, as so many of these systems don’t make sense.


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    Speaking from a feminstic but also Australian position, I think it’s kinda problematic to outright ban language internationally when the connotation of concern is specific to one culture. We use that word pretty liberally here, and it isn’t done so with remotely the same definition; instead, it is typically used interchangeably with “dickhead” and “arsehole”. Whilst I definitely support your efforts, I don’t think this is the right way to go about it, as it’s a very clear use of American exceptionalism when Americans, taken as a part of the world, make up a minority of people on the Internet.

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    Yeahhhh, Elon both frightens and disgusts me. What a selfish twat.