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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Also…like…who needs an ultra realistic videogame? Cel shading and other techniques usually age better anyways. I want games to be fun first and foremost. Eye candy is just candy without substance.

    Some games like Elite Dangerous benefit from ultra realistic, but I’d hardly call that a mass market game, it’s more for simming.

    The Coors Light of shooters could probably be cel shaded and be just as fun in 2024 as the next release 9-12 months later. And they could save a lot of overhead costs.





  • I played for 90 hours, it’s fun. But like many games where the narrative is determined by hundreds of thousands of people, it suffers from the Marvel Studios problem where nothing ever happens. The aliens destroy X planet and it gets rebuilt and everyone moves back. No attacks on super earth, two enemy types, mostly the same set of planets.

    The gameplay loops are fun, but I have most stuff unlocked and was hoping the robots would really make an incursion, or the bugs would attack super earth. So far though, no dice.

    For $40 and 90 hours of play, I can’t complain. It just doesn’t feel like it has the staying power of a DRG though.





  • Glad they are doing this. I don’t mind seasons too much, but I start to feel kinda exhausted if the station or maps are just completely overwhelmed by seasonal changes and not just the base game stuff.

    I do hope they add more mission types eventually. Would like to see kinda…L4D2-style “Get from PT A to B safehouse” before completing a major objective deeper in with limited supplies. Deep dives feel too much like standard missions in this regard, to me. I’d like to see more variety, at least.

    Underground lakes, rivers, and water sounds that affect navigation or gameplay could be interesting, too. Pondskater enemies, diving sections, etc.








  • I wouldn’t personally do it, but you might be able to hire a contractor who can ground down the points and then add a weatherproof coating to the tips. I would definitely talk to the neighbor before you do this, though. They also make rebar caps to keep people from impaling themselves on construction sites. Ugly as sin, but would make the fence safer for humans and animals alike.

    Sounds like the fence company should be on the hook to remedy an improper installation, though.