2/3rds adspace, 1/3 article. Media hasn’t changed much…

Fun article. Written in a great voice.

The main hurdle is modern anti cheat. Many old games actually work better on Linux because of fans making dedicated tweaks.

Summary: They were seeing a disconnect between Arkham Asylum player stats and sales, indicating a large portion of the playerbase blasting through the game then selling it back to retailers. WB studios were directed to explore ways to lengthen player engagement, preferably enough to keep the game forever.

The nemesis system gives some light procedural flair to an otherwise-deaigned experience. I don’t think it did what they hoped it would, but it was still a great mechanic.

“Recently” being one Reddit post three years ago about needing to manually index the color nozzles on their third-party ink.

A YouTuber hyped it up as Brother turning to the dark side so that he could profit off clicks.

Gotta love (A Bit of) Fry and Laurie.

Both combined is $15.58. That doesn’t include the excellent expansions for either game though.

They are the only portal-likes (chamber-based player movement puzzlers) that I’d place on the same level as the Portal games.

Lingo ($6.99/$9.99) is an incredible exploration and word puzzle game. It also has a few excellent custom maps such as Duolingo and Liduongo.

A sequel (Lingo 2 $9.99) just released and is also excellent. It changes how puzzle rules are presented, making them playable in either order. It’s a more polished experience though, so playing the first game after would probably feel like a step backward.

Bananas grow from seeds inside the fruit. Since we bred the seeds out, now it’s a clone-only plant.

Please note that this is based on a Reddit post from three years ago. It’s a YouTuber that stokes drama for money doing what he does best.

Scare us away? Some of us are on instances that make the connection more obvious.

The game prints enough money that they could afford to have a writing staff and illustration team. I think the idea is that building character depth will make a subset of players more connected to them. This keeps them playing and also increases the odds of them buying a skin for the character.

It’s similar to the Meet The ______ videos from TF2 and the comics that built on them.

In case you haven’t seen it, Tom7 created a delightful exploration of using an LLM to manipulate word counts.

Don’t use a mist humidifier. They suck. Use an evaporative one and add bacteriostat to the water.

Mine is a tub of water with a wick in it. It has a fan that blows air across the wick. That’s it.

They are talking about themselves in the third dragson.

Google removed “Don’t be evil”

Still parading that lie around? It’s easily verified as false. Their code of conduct ends with:

And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

The Fedora flatpacks are pretty shit, not the overall concept.

They have individual people maintaining over a thousand flatpacks. There’s no time to test anything.

Additionally, if you go to install the real flatpack, Fedora pushes you to use their poorly-maintained unofficial one instead.

Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus - Incredible cast, strange film. Very enjoyable.

Mario AI

One of the things Notch (of Minecraft fame) was known for before MC was a Mario remake that infinitely generated levels and had API hooks for quantifying progress. This was used in AI competitions.

Similarly, one of the old Trackmania games has been modified to output position and track info around the player along with fitness measures, allowing someone to train AIs.

The other dev/wife did QA and part of the mapping. It’s a bit hard to finish a game without your programmer/designer.