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Replaying Cryptmaster. Might become an October tradition since the humor is just too much fun.

Krita’s pretty close, but unfortunately not quite as close as the program our friend Wilber represents :’)

Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-reckoning

Got it on sale recently after reading somewhere some time ago it could scratch a similar itch to Skyrim, and I didn’t realize until booting it up it was a cleanup of an old XBox game. Hits that sweet spot between fun, interesting, and juuust familiar enough mechanics-wise to shut my brain off after a long workday.

Highly recommend if you enjoyed the on-rails-ish-but-open-world-ish console feeling of the early 2010s 😄

Oh and it runs frickin beautifully on Steam Deck - 90fps OOB

Might give Cryptmaster a replay. The wit and charm on that one fits my kind of spooky vibe perfectly, since I’m not big on “traditional” horror games :)

Memento mori: “Remember you’ll die”

Nobody is immortal, anything can take you out. Excellent examples lol

You are awesome thank you for sharing all this context 😄

That all makes a lot of sense, there’s definitely similar concepts today where it’s understood that the dose makes the poison, so to speak.

I’ll have to check out that book it sounds fascinating, for sure

I miss PugJesus and their context/sources lol it’s hard to find anything off a Startpage search atm outside of the basic lead-made-the-Roman-empire-fall theory.

Speculating here - it’s possible that the ancient Romans who knew were about as equally numbered as today, but also like today, stubbornly willful ignorance and/or economic interests outweighed the voices calling for its cessation?

It could also be logistics - communications being fragmented and/or unable to source materials to replace the infrastructure rather than simply “not knowing”

Given how the oblivion remake sold gangbusters: no.

Given the popularity of “[insert neat thing] simulator” games, also no.

Sim games just don’t typically get enough funding to have deep-level narrative as much as they used to but there is a glaring thirst in the market for it.

Not a WASP but white with “ethnic” white heritage, and same.

I make a few of my grandma’s recipes every single holiday season because it’s just not right without them.

Hell, even my grandpa could cook when he felt like it lol, though I don’t think I can ever properly recreate his squid sauce.

Plenty of age appropriate “birds and bees” books out there, this is a “packets and pings” one.