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Scorn is already installed and i just wait to have the time to finally play it.

IIRC, the engine people play on right now is not exactly the original engine, so it’s a bit misleading to say that the new levels show what’s possible inside the engine as a comparison to the original levels. I’m pretty sure those levels would not run on the original engine and PCs of '98.

True, that is something I forgot while writing it. But already the first level packs from 1997 are an improvement in my opinion.

Your assumption is correct, I only played singleplayer and talked about the singleplayer here.

I played a bit of Quake 3 Arena back in the days, but would consider the multiplayer part of Quake nearly its own thing.

Sure, its understandable to see it different if you experienced it back the in its original context.

For Outer Wilds, maybe this video can help you decide if you want to push trough or not.

Outer Wilds (not Outer Worlds!) is a brilliant game that is hard to advertise without spoiling stuff. It is from the genre sometimes called metroidbrainia, where finding the puzzle solution through in game hints to progress is the game mechanic. So its possible to finish the game in 20 minutes, if you know what to do. But getting there usually takes you 20 hours.
Now to why its great:

• the story is at its core a mixture of enlightenment thinking and celebration of curiosity and the human spirit. It does have a lot of sad points, but ultimately it is a celebration.
• I love the characters. Part of what makes this game so great are the variety of different personalities you can experience.
• the DLC is one of the best ever, where they managed to catch the spirit of the main game again and added to it, without contradicting themselves, which I honestly didnt think possible after finishing the main game.

Planescape Torment walked so that Disco Elysium could run. PT plays in the planescape setting of D&D, a world where belief is the foundation of everything, so with high enough stats, you can debate somebody into believing they don’t exist and they will vanish immediately.
You are in Sigil, the central city of the multiverse, directly in the middle of neutral. Neutral between the planes of Good and Evil but also between those of Chaos and Lawful. This neutrality needs to be enforced of course, which is the job of a nice woman called the Lady of Pain, which has the iron throne as headdress and cutting you down on the spot is the nicer treatment for offending her.
And I didnt even tell you of the protagonist, the Nameless One. You wake up in a morgue, update your journal all the time and try to find out why you can’t die. A former You was smart enough to try and give you some instructions via tattooing them onto your skin. So you take your wisecracking flying skull buddy and start looking for answers.
Yes, this game is weird and a lot of text with bad battle mechanics, but the good kind of weird and you don’t play PT for the fights, you play it for the world, the stories and the characters. For example the chaste succubus with a brothel for intellectual debate and no that is not an euphemism but 100% what it is. Play the game if you don’t believe me! This is sneakily a recommendation for Disco Elysium as well, but PT is the more patient game, so I wanted to highlight that one more.

Screencheat has up to 8 player support and is exactly its name.

Strange Horticulture is another attempt at riddle solving with plants, but more focused on identifying the plants.

I mean it seriously was never done. Even those autocratic parties that named themselves communist parties never said that they reached communism. It was always the goal to work towards.

An easy to remember analogy is: communism is to socialism what the paradise is to Christianity.
A holy land promised by some bearded guy, where everybody lives perfectly and no bad things happen. And since it is so perfect, we are justified in killing and subjugating everyone in order to bring them also to this promised land, they will come around when they reach it.

Havent you heard? Everybody besides ancient Mediterranean people are not important and don’t count.

Yes, that part is a bit too strongly worded in my comment. Hearsay and not wanting to face certain truths because of egoistical opportunities are big parts of why people want to believe certain things.

That’s Julian Jaynes

He wrote a book about the concept of bicameral mentality, here is the entry part of the linked wikipedia article:

Bicameral mentality is a psychological hypothesis proposed by American psychologist Julian Jaynes. It suggests that early modern humans experienced thoughts and emotions not as originating within themselves but as commands from external “gods”. According to the theory, the human mind once functioned with a division in which one part generated verbal instructions while a second part obeyed, forming a “bicameral mind”. The eventual collapse of this mental structure is proposed to have led to the development of self-reflective consciousness in humans.

The term was coined by Jaynes, who presented the idea in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,[1] wherein he makes the case that a bicameral mentality was the “normal and ubiquitous state” of the human mind as recently as 3,000 years ago, at the end of the Bronze Age.

So he argued that peoples mind and brains were different then today and that explains why we have no myths anymore.

I didnt find a specific wikipedia entry for the coal miner strike itself in english, just this part of Bismarcks entry:

As the debate continued, Wilhelm became increasingly interested in social problems, especially the treatment of mine workers during their strike in 1889. Keeping with his active policy in government, he routinely interrupted Bismarck in Council to make clear his social views. Bismarck sharply disagreed with Wilhelm’s policies and worked to circumvent them. Even though Wilhelm supported the altered anti-socialist bill, Bismarck pushed for his support to veto the bill in its entirety. When his arguments could not convince Wilhelm, Bismarck became excited and agitated until uncharacteristically blurting out his motive to see the bill fail: to have the socialists agitate until a violent clash occurred that could be used as a pretext to crush them. Wilhelm countered that he was not willing to open his reign with a bloody campaign against his own subjects

Just to add to that: while Wilhelm II. stance here was definitely the right one, social problems were manifold during his reign and his egocentric desire to bring Germany to its “deserved” place “under the sun” was one of the reasons for the first world war.

Oh yes, Plesse continue this!

True, but the meme is about learning about the countries history and I can accept that stuff less than 20 years old is not going to be taught in history class. Something that happened 70 years ago though should be covered.

Always Great Helmet! Since I first saw it in Age of Empires 2 on the Teutonic knights.

But the variety makes them interesting.

Context: as titled, this is an interesting way used by protesters to object towards the classification of homosexuality as an illness. And successfully so, after the protest in August, the classification was removed in October.

But why does it have to be unobservable? And if it is unobservable, how do you know that it is there?

We know pretty well and can observe that children inherit the DNA of their parents. And nowadays we also know that it is not only the DNA, but the epigenetic postprocessing that gets (at least partially) inherited. So according to your definition if we ever fully understood how bacteria propagate and behave, it would not be alive anymore?

Yes, named mummy brown if used as colour pigment or mummia if used as “medicine”.

I mean yeah, I agree. Remembering the past is important, but only in so far as it affects the currently and future living people.

So let’s talk about how institutionalised racism and power structures that started from slavery are still negatively affecting a lot of people while favouring some others.

Certain episodes of Violet Evergarden fit. Majorly the 10th one.

I haven’t watched I wanna eat your pancreas, just read the manga. But from what I heard, its a faithful and good adaption.

SAC = Stand Alone Complex, the name of the first anime series to distinguish it from the Ghost in the Shell anime movie that was produced before.

I mean the correct answer to that is “So am I, now turn around Nazi pig”

Sure, keep telling yourself that instead of admitting you bought from Ea-Nasirs descendants.

Nope he can’t. That was a plot point in an early episode: Meowth focused so much on learning the human language that he can’t learn other attacks like payday, and therefore they can’t just use it to create money.

Very well written! Your second paragraph describes so well why I like Cross and its s story.

I didn’t know that Trigger story was written by two people, but yeah, in hindsight it explains a lot.

Yes, Radical Dreamers is a visual novel and between Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross. But they got released together on Steam, which is what you are linking to.

100% agreed.

For me ‘Dream of the Shore Near Another World’ is the best piece, it’s otherworldly serenity just hits the perfect notes for me.

Although directly behind it is the intro theme, which screams ADVENTURE to me.