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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I think we're in the fight of our lives': Fired Rockstar employees and IWGB are confident the GTA 6 developer will be held accountable for its alleged union busting⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hardened criminals? They are monsters!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I think we're in the fight of our lives': Fired Rockstar employees and IWGB are confident the GTA 6 developer will be held accountable for its alleged union busting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit off topic but, ew they are wearing shoes in bed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save us!!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you know what that means? We're closing into a perpetual Mariah Carey season, the Mariahcalypse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Big Short' Michael Burry bets $1bn on AI bubble bursting | LBC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For me those stats are very low, can I roll perception instead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like something out of MST3K

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dispatch sells 1 million copies in 10 days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm told this is more of interactive fiction than an actual game, and while replayability is low, I don't tend to replay games so, who cares :)

  It looks good and I like the premise, though I still have some superhero fatigue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  • Mata Hari was Margaretha Geertruida Zelle.
  • Fritz Duqesne had at least 30 known aliases.
  • Lise de Baissac was primarily known as Irene Brisse but also Odile, Margerite and Adele.
  • Even Dušan Popov, who's allegedly the source for James Bond used in more than one occasion aliases like Duchan, Dusan or Hans: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/record?catid=8204882&catln=6
  • Eli Cohen also used a fake Syrian identity because c'mon, you won't go around with an Israeli name trying to get into the Syrian government.

  I know that double agents like Richard Sorge or Aldrich Ames would use their actual identities, but fake identities or even using the names of deceased people is very common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn't seem very clever, going around sharing your own name despite being a spy.

  Yet Ian Flemming was supposed to use his past experience in British Intelligence to come up with Bond's novels, so what do I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And teachers' houses got egged anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rivian Tore Apart A Xiaomi EV And Discovered What America Can’t Match | Carscoops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I thought it was indentured servitude, but then that's why we have prisons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon cutting thousands of corporate roles [including video games]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of the CG studios going bankrupt at the same time the movie they worked in incessantly is released.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon cutting thousands of corporate roles [including video games]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this the final step in enshittification?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He's like that shitty husband that keeps cheating and getting caught, and keeps saying he has changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fluid dynamics are evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Navy loses two aircraft from USS Nimitz aircraft carrier within 30 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Triton demands its quarterly sacrifice! Planes for the plane throne!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cyberpunk 2077, you have to save two of the most incompetent cops that exist. For such a dark and depressing universe, whenever there are hints of humor those always get me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me loves litrure too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smells Great⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Knights Of The Pineapple! Arise!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is comforting knowing that our planet is protected by a dense layer of floating garbage. 🫡🚀🗑️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG say their preservation program has been "harder than we thought", thanks to DRM and elusive creators⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'll roll perception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Next Fest is back for October 2025. What good demos have you found?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh so like a remake of the old G-Police or at least in its spirit.

  I still play the original so I'm very happy to hear abput this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Note: it's unforgiving, obtuse and aged, but the premise is great (though I suggest checking the original rather than the new version).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Republicans who voted for RFK Jr. baffled by his autism-circumcision claims⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My diagnosis is stage-2 FAFO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I would love it in a renewed interface and better history generation or just crafted missions, but it's my go to choice when I'm asked what game I wished was remade.

  That and the "Life and Death" series.

  Have you ever played Floor 13? It's similar to Covert Action in some parts, except for the arcade minigames, and reminds me of Papers Please, in some sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Console games seldom had this amount of "hard sci-fi" mechanics and that made me super happy.
  I still fondly remember trying to land in a planet with massive gravity and immediately pancaking my crew.

  I will confess, I had hopes that Bethesda's Starfield would be somehow similar to Starflight. (I mean they called it a Hard Sci-Fi game)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Covert Action is the game that Sid Meyer hated the most and often will mention during talks.

  I've seen it played in Youtube and I thought it was fantastic, but I struggled a lot with certain minigames, the myriad of shortkeys it is demanding you to learn and how disconnected the minigames feel from the whole campaign.
  This is probably a game I really wanted to like, but playing it instead of watching someone play felt like a chore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Gameboy's version of BurgerTime (maybe BurgerTime DX?) is then a must play.
  It's better balanced than the arcade, though I wouldn't go as far as call it easy, and better structured IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Recommendations I haven't seen here listed (so I avoided NES almost entirely):

  • (NES,Master System,PC) Pipe Dream:, which is quite fun if you like puzzles.

  • The Colonel's Bequest: A Laura Bow Mystery. It is one of the most beloved adventure games from this era and probably one of the best detective games ever made. Obviously it suffers a bit from an outdated UI but I find the EGA graphics ingenious and charming, doing more with less.

  -(Amiga,DOS, Atari ST)Defender of the Crown: If as a kid you liked the middle ages, then this would be what you would think of: fighting jousts, siegeing castles with catapults, raid castles and rescue Saxon maidens. It is a difficult game though.

  -(Everywhere)Maniac Mansion: I think no one mentioned it, but either way it is a fantastic adventure worth your time, not all ports are equal though.

  -(FM Towns,TurboGrafx,Atari ST, Amiga, DOS)Loom: A unique graphic adventure where you use music to create magic and solve riddles. Recommended FM Towns for the music, though some ports have voice dialogs which are also great.

  -(Master System,Arcade)Fantasy Zone II: I didn't see a Master System until I was older, but it has few gems worth mentioning, like this wacky shoot-'em-up that has a lot to offer.

  -(Amiga, Genesis remake)Speedball 2:Brutal Deluxe: A bit cheating as it was released in 1990, but both a fantastic sports game and probably one of the few multiplayer games here.

  -(Amiga,DOS)North and South: A civil war strategy game with comic graphics elements, a very streamlined strategy, and some arcade mini-games.

  -(Genesis)Herzog Zwei: Mix of real-time strategy and shot-'em-up in a well cared package, good graphics, decent sound and challenging enough to keep you playing for a while.

  • (PC, Genesis remake)688 Attack Sub: If you're into simulators and like those tense submarine warfare movies, this is a decent choice. The Genesis remake is newer (post 89) but it is mostly the same with a coat of paint.

  • (Amiga)Captain Blood: A weird euro game where you are traveling to multiple alien worlds trying to find your clones to suck out their lifeforce and have to learn alien languages to do so. Very Giger-esque.

  -(Master System)Phantasy Star: I got it out of curiosity and while it is rough like the earlier Final Fantasy games, has a nice story and a fun customization approach. In addition if you like this one, check out Phantasy Star II for Genesis (1989).

  -(Everywhere?)Marble Madness:A game made to torture you with a marble going through a maze full of traps, but it's so simple to pick and play that it's hard to say no. (Not all ports are equally fun)

  -(PC,Atari ST, some consoles?) Gauntlet 2: Unpretentious maze combat with nice multiplayer capabilities. Find keys, kill monsters, get gold.

  -(Atari ST, Amiga, PC)Millenium 2.2: Strategy game about being a Moon colony in a universe where Earth got asteroid treatment and Mars are an angry bunch. Incredible UI (for its time and complexity) and excellent music in the ST version.

  -(Computers and 8-bit consoles)Treasure Island Dizzy: Charming graphics, fun puzzles, so-so platforming, you're an egg.

  ##Maybe category:

  -(Genesis)Sword of Vermillion: It's a very contentious game as it was praised a lot for not being turn-based, but the arcadey mechanics now seem a bit bland. It's a decent RPG from that era, and the early 16-bit graphics are a welcome addition.

  -(Maybe everywhere?)The Bard's Tale III: It won't blow your mind because it was a very loved precursor of the western RPG and has both a nice format and consistent pace. That said, the Bard's Tale series has always been known to be very hard.

  -(Master System)Alex Kidd in Miracle World: It's like Super Mario but with larger, well detailed sprites and fun mechanics, maybe some of the best to offer by this console before the 90s.

  -(Amiga)International Karate+: It is a very very simplistic fighting game that's easy to pick up but hard to master. There's better though in the 90s.

  -(Amiga)Laser Squad: Great game at the time, spoiled only by the existence of XCOM 5 years later and the fact that the there are very few missions. The UI is rough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As the Genesis did its best to beat the SNES to the market (a mistake Sega kept doing until their last console), few games are still in 1989, including this one, which is probably the best of that year.

  That said, I would add:

  • Altered Beast*
  • Thunder Force II
  • Ghouls 'n Ghosts*
  • Super Hang-On*
  • Golden Axe*

  *These are all arcade ports, and while the Genesis ports are pretty good, the Arcade versions are recommended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sid Meier's Pirates! Especially the Gold edition is close to a perfect game in terms of balance between the mini-games mechanics and the overall campaign.