Dirk Gently agrees

The Beginner’s Guide (also by Davey Wreden), One Shot, Undertale and Deltarune, Omori, and SOMA all deal with putting player agency to question.

Diary of a Spaceport Janitor is a slice of life/poverty simulator in which you scrape by earning pennies, dreaming of escape and adventure. Full of charm!

Miasmata is a horror/cartography game where you have to triangulate PoIs in order to fill out your map as you search for a cure to your disease on an uninhibited tropical island.

Yoku’s Island Express is a metroidvania/pinball game in which you traverse the world vis flippers, chutes, and as a bug rolling a ball.

Doesn’t Youtube famously bleed money?

Again, if you’re actively exercizing, that’s not an issue. But this post demonstrates that most people view it as a general purpose drink.

Agreed on all except the sports one. If you’re sweating, you’re losing electrolytes and you need to replenish them.

Or worse, the poster could be a Homestuck

Highly depends on the conditions outside. If it’s a blizzard or wet bulb heat, you won’t last 3 hours.

A factoid isn’t inherently untrue, it just means it’s a bit of trivia

November 2002 :O I had to zoom in to see that it’s a digital painting, not CGI.

Glad the country is being proactive, and they’re being relocated just a stone’s throw away.

Still, this is an ominous story. I hope new place doesn’t stay lifeless.

That’s just survivor bias. Gaming spaces are better when harassment is punished.

That doesn’t explain why this is the worst memorial day weekend in decades

Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni

To expand on that, in live service games, there are daily high value quests that can usually be completed in 15 minutes. This is to provide a big incentive to log in every day and a low bar to get some great rewards. It’s a habit-forming technique. But if you enjoy the game, it’s an easy and quick way to get currency you’d otherwise have to buy.

Windy man! Windy man!
Exile from Electro land!
Quotes haiku! Whistles grass!
Just build EM to clear Abyss!
Look out! Here comes Windy Man!

Killer Whales’s Hold Breath trait: for some reason only 30 minutes lol

Grant them poisonous fangs (1d10) (don’t give them a bite attack)

Flyby trait (no fly speed)

Could definitely spur creative use and a new character goal.

Where can I find the actual video of the decapitations? It looks like uploads might be taken down? Tons of tweets saying it’s everywhere on the internet, but I don’t use Twitter and I can’t find any uploads.

Phantasy Star Online vibes

I’m partial to “rumblespheres”