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Oh man we're going places

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Say thank you to people who make free stuff you can use however. Thank you repeating pattern artists, thank you texture artists, thank you background artists, thank you royalty free music artists, thank you font designers, thank you thank you thank you mwah mwah mwah

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personally speaking i dont think committing several severe data protection law violations while harassing a former user of my million dollar service on another website is a particularly great way to make yourself look good

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Hey so if "I hope you get exploded with hammers" or whatever is enough to get not only get just one account permanently deleted but to get every new account you make permanently deleted, wiping an entire person past present and future off of the site, does that mean that all harrassment meeting and surpassing the same comically low level is now retroactively a permabanable offense, and therefore every fucking terf on this god damn site that's ever left even a single hate message should have their entire existence past present and future wiped from tumblr? Just checking if there's a transphobic (and transmisogynistic) double standard or not @photomatt, since you're so convinced that tumblrs transphobia is just misinformation

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You know, historically, one of the big reasons that centralised social media was able to eclipse self-hosted forums so readily is that people wanted to get away from the constant Damoclean peril of the local boy-king flipping his shit and going on a banning spree every time someone mildly criticised him. When folks wax nostalgic for Web 1.0, I'm reasonably certain this isn't what they mean!

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the owner of this fucking website said i was banned for life. what a fucking story this has been. but i cant get an email to HELP ME WITH STALKERS

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Decided i wanted to Talk about some of the Games that released in 2023 i played.

Gonna mainly focus on some smaller games i really enjoyed or found interesting in some way.

Cassette Beasts

Starting with what might well be one of if not my favourite game of the year, Cassette Beasts.

It's a Creature Collection RPG in which you are stranded on a mysterious island called New Wirral and adventure across the island both to better understand the nature of the island itself and to potentially find a way off the island. In doing so you meet several companions, one of which will be accompanying you at any point, as well as a community of people consisting of other castaways and their descendents. You also encounter various monster that you can record using cassette tapes to then transform into to fight back. As you journey with your companions you also unlock the option to Fuse with them during battle giving you access to thousands of monster fusions to use in battles.

The whole game honestly feels well thought out and just feels satisfying to play and clearly designed by people who play and understand Creature Collection/Monster Taming RPGs. A simple example of this in my eyes is the simple fact that you cannot accidentally knock out the monster you are trying to record, this games equivalent of capturing.

Something the Devs, among other things, talk about in this Steam blogpost about design and expectations for those curious.

Have i mentioned yet that the soundtrack is amazing and dynamically adds vocals during fights under certain conditions ?

The composer Joel Baylis uploaded a few tracks on YouTube if people are curious.

I could probably keep writing about Cassette Beasts and might need to do a seperate post in the future but for now, if you can only check out one game from this list, go check out Cassette Beasts, it's great.

Chants of Sennaar

For something more Relaxed, theres the Puzzle game Chants of Sennaar. In it you are dropped at the bottom of a tower inhabited by multiple groups of people without any direction and the slight catch that you don't speak any of their languages. As you make your way up this Tower of Babel alike you therefore have to figure out the language of the people you meet and use it to solve puzzles and sometimes translate between groups. It's a relatively short game, it personally took me about 7 hours, but a very interesting experience nonetheless.

Shadows of Doubt

Shadows of Doubt mixes the world of Noir Detectives, a Cyberpunk setting and randomly generated cities. You set out to solve cases of murder, stolen items, infidelity or plain simple Information gathering. In doing so you often sneak around and break laws as the enforcers are everything but cooperative. All this with the eventual goal to earn enough social credit for your Detective to retire.

Despite the randomly generated nature of it the game is surprisingly good at generating coherent cases with enough leads to provide you something to work with or even sometimes giving you red herrings to trip over as the citizens lives are constantly being simulated around you. With that said the game is still in early access and random generation does have it weirdness sometimes, still it's a fun time and if you can tolerate and find the fun in abit of jank every now and then, worth a look.

Laika: Aged trough Blood

Gonna preface that this one comes with a Content Warning for it's Story for violence, blood, drugs, and strong language (Taken from it's Steam Page)

Getting to the actual game thought the Devs describe it as a Motorvania, a 2D Metroidvania on a motorbike which hits the nail on the head pretty well. Set in a Post-apocalyptic World oppressed by a fascist bird empire. You play as Laika, a coyote mother who bears a curse passed on trough her family that prevents her from dying. At the start of the game her tribe chooses to actively bring the Fight against the birds after one of their children is murdered and crucified with their own guts by the Birds.

The game then takes Laika trough the World on her quest to put a end to the oppression trough the Birds, making use of her curse which prevents her from dying.

On a gameplay level it has you biking trough the world shooting bird soldiers along the way, often treating encounters as something that feels closer to a puzzle in which you have to navigate the fire from the soldiers while returning fire and trying not to crash, since in this game any hit means death.

Similarly enemies also typically die within a shot or two and the game doesn't tend to feel too punishing as respawn points are pretty frequent.

It all comes together in a world that has a Somber Beauty to it. It's all in all a pretty fun and somewhat emotional experience, although with the caveat that the game is hard and does require a certain resistance to frustration. That said, as you do make your way trough a big group of enemies dodging bullets and using the sides of your bike as cover, the game does feel rewarding to play.

Gonna stop this Post here, although i may make more of them in the future as i found i kinda enjoyed collecting my thoughts like this and there's plenty of more Games i played i can talk about.

That said, if anyone has any games of their own they found interesting or think deserve some extra eyes, pleas do tell I'm always looking for interesting games to play

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Thinking about Lae’zel going from saying ‘Speak.’ when you talk to her in the first act and how it can change to a tentative, on the verge of oh gods is this the right thing to say ‘Is…something burdening you?’ in act three

Thinking about in the first act Lae’zel says this world is laughably weak and how it can change in act three to marveling at how something as insignificant as a flower grows from mighty roots and perseveres 

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Been thinking about the Bossfights with the 3 Chosen so I'm just gonna put some Ramblings out there. I really enjoy how they are all structured differently and feel thematically appropriate to each of the Chosen and aren't just 3 of the same Fight with a different coat of paint. The Fight with Ketheric is this big Spectacle where you Storm his Tower to Confront him at the Top, chase him into the Mindflayer Colony hidden underneath the Tower and Confront him again leading to the Fight against the Apostle of Myrkul. It feels fitting for a fight against an Undead and Undying General who already tried to Raise a Army once and even in Defeat still cursed this entire region to be Hostile to all life to this day. For Orin it is the dealing with this Shapeshifting Murderous Cultist . The Uncertainty of when she will be watching as you meet her multiple Times in Act 3 disguised as various People and stumbling onto her Ritualistic Murders all around the City. Leading to her Abduction of one of your Party Members and her Challenge to come and Fight her in the Bowels of the Undercity at the Temple of Bhaal in this Ritualistic Fight with her Turning into a Slayer Form. With Gortash, he himself is almost the least interesting Part of his actual Fight. Which is fitting considering he's a Schemer first and foremost, which reflects in his Fight where most of the Danger comes from the Steel Watch and Traps placed all around the Place. Which puts you in this Scenario where the to fight Gortash you need to attack and disrupt his various Schemes around the City first, with the Steel Watch obviously being the biggest one. It's also fitting that he's the only one to try and ally with you seeing as he simply sees someone stronger than his current allies and therefore tries to get you to work with him, presumably until someone stronger would once again show up.

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Apparently not romancing anyone causes Withers to comment on it. Im just here to respec my Guy i don't need you to tell me im Maidenless.

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ngl I aspire to be the Cazador level of delulu. bro got his ass whooped and then he was like "princess needs her healing sleep" and went to take a nap in his hissing booth, surrounded by the enemies and the spawn he has no control over

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Another round of BG3 Narrator Outtakes

Amelia Tyler is a treasure

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