I get it. Anime noises killed my interest in the Final Fantasy 7 remakes.

That would be an interesting conversation.

On a completely unrelated note, they no longer have access to an army of mercenaries to send after anyone who’s wronged them, right?

Explanation: The Habsburgs were a powerful historical dynasty, though nowadays they mostly serve as a warning about the dangers of inbreeding. Their later members are known for their facial deformities, chiefly the Habsburg jaw.

Meanwhipe, pugs are a breed of dog that have been deliberately bred for severe facial deformities that are usually considered cute. They are an incredibly popular breed despite the many health complications caused by their shortened jaw and nonexistent muzzle, including difficulties with basic tasks such as eating and breathing.

(Attempting to channel the style of @PugJesus@piefed.social with this explanation, as is only proper for a post discussing both history and pugs!)

They also snatched up HiFi Rush after Microsoft’s idiocy. They’d better not screw up the sequel!

This reminds me of a story someone posted about learning Japanese while playing the Yakuza games, only to be told by a native speaker that while their pronunciation was great, they spoke like a thug/delinquent.

It makes me wonder if any foreign speakers learned English from Mafia movies and speak with a stereotypical mob accent as a result.

Unless you have allergies, in which case it could be as deadly as iocaine powder.

Dopamine. But this past decade I rarely feel better after checking my feed than I did before.

Sounds you don’t want to hear coming from her bedroom.

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He’s like if Edison and Henry Ford had a baby and it only inherited the worst parts of both.

Could also be Aperture Science tech, given how their turrets behave.

Boasting about not putting multiplayer behind a paywall, like they weren’t the ones to introduce that idea in the first place.

Okay, but it turning out that the iconic “Who is Number 1?!” “You are Number 6” exchange from the intro was Number 2 literally telling him the answer was freaking brilliant.

And then?

It’s playable solo (and only solo in the current beta branch), but the devs have been nerfing that playstyle for years in the name of multiplayer balance. There are artificial limits on what one player can learn and do, with massive penalties to anything you didn’t start the game with. They include those nerfs in single player because they intend for NPCs to pick up the slack after they’re introduced.

(Note: NPCs have been a promised upcoming feature “after the next set of changes” for nearly fifteen years at this point.)

Fortunately they include settings to undo the learning speed nerfs, and hopefully will add more to make the upcoming crafting rework less of a pain for solo players. The litany of tweaks available at world creation is one of my favorite things about Project Zomboid, right after all the stellar business name puns.

Sarsaparilla is also great, if you can find it.

That’s not a bad description, though Stationeers is even more hardcore than Vintage Story. It’s ridiculously complex, to the point you need basic mastery of several different systems just to survive the opening of the game. I’m talking building complete and fully-modeled atmospherics and electrical grids from scratch, with a single block in the wrong configuration being potentially run-ending (I’ve plugged my oxygen tanks into an improperly set up system and lost my entire air supply more than once). It’s incredibly rewarding after you do figure it all out, though.

It’s also the one survival game I can think of where a single minor mistake remains crippling even tens of hours into a playthrough. Your only insurance against disaster is whatever redundancy you built into your systems. It truly nails how monumental a task surviving on other planets would be.

There’s a modern remake called Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town. It’s isometric and cross-platform so I’m hoping the controller support would be decent.

On the other hand, they’re used to working with low-level concepts from their day job!

Qué?