Noxy

you’re absolutely right about the rush when everything is on the line.

my most memorable moment was at night, pitch black out, and there’s some idiot kid screaming about Shrek running around outside. I had a pipe shotgun and a small bunch of resources, and I was hiding in my tiny 1x1 shack.

that was the scariest shit on earth. and when he came knocking on my door asking me some shit about Shrek it gave me a few seconds to line up the shot through the door, so I quickly opened it and fired. immediately the yelling about Shrek ceased and I was left with complete silence and darkness.

Monster Sanctuary was so good. I tried it when I had Game Pass, and I loved it so much I bought it outright for Xbox, and then again on Steam. Also got the hardcover monster journal.

Aethermancer, made by the same folks, is looking really good from their demo. Clearly lots of inspiration from Monster Sanctuary but very much its own sort of game

Monster Sanctuary. A superbly polished, extremely fun, and decently challenging metroidvania and monster collecting/battling game. If you played the first few Pokemon generations on gameboy and don’t find the newer games capture that same magic, check out Monster Sanctuary!

Pacific Drive. A station wagon building amd exploration game set in a STALKER-esque Pacific Northwest in the Olympic mountain range. Extremely original and unique game, and with an excellent soundtrack.

Hardspace Shipbreaker: spaceship salvage, with increasing hazards and challenges and complexity of ship systems to expertly disassemble. With a pretty cool workers’ solidarity and union struggle type of plot.

Rimworld. Hundreds of hours lost.

Stardew Valley. A literally perfect game.

Terraria. Also a literally perfect game.

Caves of Qud. Like if Dwarf Fortress adventure mode was actually polished, and also if distant future scifi with mutants and cybernetics and sentient plants and sapient gun turrets.

Dwarf Fortress. It’s Dwarf Fortress.

WolfQuest. Wolf simulator set in Yellowstone, with a focus on real world accuracy. So cool to raise a pack and manage territory and hunt and explore and howl a lot

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. A brilliantly executed spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio Future.

Descenders. Crazy fun downhill bicycling game.

+1 for Pacific Drive. Nothing else like it out there. And you get to form a relationship with a station wagon, which is peak passenger vehicle design.

And the soundtrack is outstanding!

I still got lost enough that I’ve never finished the base game

Half Life 2 for me

I remember the pig one, there was definitely still fucking going on

is this Loss?

Cut into wedges, leave skin on, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and spicy paprika. Then toss in an air fryer.

Hot water on skin is comforting and calming like few other things. If I could work from the shower I probably would.

I’m sure it will.

Steam Deck. I have the OLED, and also an older LCD one. They’re both great. OLED definitely a small improvement to an already great device.

Asus sucks. Good luck if you ever need warranty service. Even more so if you need out of warranty service…

their legal action against emulators and DRM circumvention. they have the audacity of allowing people to play their games which were legally purchased on unapproved hardware.

And you’ll be sued by Nintendo into lifelong poverty if you use it wrong.

Fuck Nintendo.

the key is laid flat against the Flipper Zero’s display and the depth of each cut on the screen moved to match its physical equivalent. This provides a series of “bitting” numbers, which can be used to cut a working copy of the key.

Neat!

After playing Megazeux, going back to ZZT just was never the same

I think they knocked the SH2 remake out of the park too, but I would absolutely still recommend playing the original as well. Especially the PC enhanced edition.

yeah seriously! if I can’t get a footjob from a dragon type what’s even the point?

MYPENIS used Harden!

Probably Morrowind.

Properly distinct beast races, freedom to fuck up the world, really rewarding exploration, awesome scenery and concepts, great soundtrack, you can free slaves, and Argonians have never looked better overall.

Second place, probably Red Dead Redemption 2. Every single aspect of that game is outstanding. The pacing, the story, the characters, the combat, the exploration, the horse genitals, the music, the graphics, the massive scale of the world… Just truly a masterpiece of a game, and I think Rockstar will never surpass it.

Honorable mentions for Caves of Qud, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy 7 (original AND remake/rebirth) and Starflight (mostly played on C64 but Genesis/Megadrive version is far better)

Oh, fuck, and Silent Hill 2, that’s somewhere in the top three. Both original and remake. Fucking exceptional works of art.