I don’t know where you live, but if you have a Hado arena nearby, then a taster session might be a good gift. It’s an augmented reality sport which can be played casually or professionally. There are arenas all over the world.

Unfortunately their world site is a little out of date. I know quite a few kids in my area of the UK, at around that age, who are getting into it.

Hado UK
Hado World Site

Bonus points if you can get them to preserve all the NSFW mods as well.

I’d say it’s time to push the argument that the Library of Congress needs to be preserving games as part of the cultural history of the USA. If the legislative branch won’t abide private efforts then it’s time to make the government do it.

There are many days when I feel exactly how this looks.

I thought Ballistic Gel Torso was the actor from The Usual Suspects, no?

If they were trained by the Paris firefighters then they can face anything

How much do you want to bet that they don’t even have a contingency plan to evacuate and secure their inmate population?

Critically panned, across the board, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It could have done with another couple of rounds of script polishing.

How about, ‘no’?

Google speed running enshittification over here 👉👉

I am not renting my corporeal existence from a megacorporation. There is no way this is ever affordable to the masses without some pretty huge caveats

RIP Admiral Fitzwallace

There are conspiracies after all, but they’re just the usual ‘capitalist assholes screw the rest of us over’ kind rather than the ‘three-assed aliens kidnapped me and forced me to watch naked while they fed pineapple on a pizza to my dog’ kind.

A bucket of dehydrated water, which you have to reconstitute by adding water, in order to put out an invisible fire. No idea what kind of game you’re making, could be a very odd addition to something like a racing sim.

As an ex-Catholic, I would like to say, fuck the Catholic church. For this bullshit and their many other crimes, moral failings and abuse.

Explains the wooden acting in Hudson Hawn

• Edit: I’m leaving the typo because it’s funnier than the film

That’s awesome!

In that case it should be the original on the Amiga 500 😄, but I still prefer the improvements in Civ 2.

Civ 2 is still peak for me, although I did like Leonard Nimoy’s contribution to Civ IV.