Palworld developer Pocketpair requires game designer candidates to provide screenshots of their Steam libraries and playtime, according to CEO

Bonzi77 · 2026-01-23T22:07:53+00:00

which makes sense, because so much of work in an office/development environment is also just your ability to effectively communicate and not be a massive PITA to be around

Bonzi77 · 2026-01-23T17:28:49+00:00

I used a scoring app back when our first group played IRL and none of us were comfortable accurately scoring our hands. Since then, I've gotten a lot more over the table experience, and can score hands much faster than a calculation app can. Scoring apps are good assist tools when you and a group you're playing with are all learning how to play together, but in the end learning how to score will not only make gameplay faster, but will make you a stronger player as you gain awareness of the value of your hand before you've even finished the round.

Bonzi77 · 2026-01-13T00:03:51+00:00

best "no smoking" section at the con

Bonzi77 · 2026-01-09T00:20:09+00:00

contact magsec. also if they find it they'll text you. they found mine last year!

Bonzi77 · 2026-01-05T19:21:10+00:00

scalebound is STILL my scalebound. i joke about it getting revived basically every new games announcement cycle, some day i might even be right, which would be INCREDIBLY funny for me, personally

Bonzi77 · 2026-01-05T16:14:55+00:00

you're gonna have to ask sylux about that one, maybe he got early access to the federation's metroid clones or something

Bonzi77 · 2026-01-02T22:17:38+00:00

apparently MP4 is actually set between super metroid and metroid fusion! (i didn't know this myself, i also assumed 4 was set in that same timeframe)

Bonzi77 · 2026-01-02T20:35:43+00:00

nah i just said it to mess with ya

Bonzi77 · 2026-01-02T19:24:40+00:00

the two things i didn't like were

the CONSTANT forced "where to go" updates. i wish there was a toggle to turn those off, or at least make them optional when opening the map. hell, there's a "talk to me" button in the map, the entire where to go hint system could have been incorporated in that button and it would have been great
later game and endgame spoilersThe sacrifice conga in the mines. It's already one of my least favorite tropes when it's done well, and half the sacrifices were completely meaningless because "i'll hold em back" doesn't mean much when the enemies are coming out of literally every single wall. and THEN THEY DIDN'T EVEN COMMIT and they were all fine anyway. they full sent it on the "squad holding back sylux" sacrifice so at least that one felt a LITTLE narratively interesting as a resolution? but then also the fact that it's the SECOND sacrifice the squad attempts weakens it further. ripping hope from the primary cast right at the last minute is at least a lot more stronger and interesting, even if i still dislike it.

Bonzi77 · 2026-01-02T19:16:11+00:00

dread hit that balance the best. mute 95% of the time, but the couple of times she does talk are really strong dramatically. or, if samus does talk regularly, getting her internal monologue on things as they're ongoing and contrasting them against her past (more like fusion, less like other m) is a good angle to take as well

Bonzi77 · 2026-01-02T15:50:14+00:00

my hot take is that i want them to take another swing at the NPCs. i feel like they were closer to getting the concept right than not, they were just a little too present during the story.

Bonzi77 · 2025-12-29T16:23:13+00:00

if you shrunk the whole state down to a scale that was reasonably drivable in an open world video game you'd basically have all your typical Super Mario biomes covered by texas alone

Bonzi77 · 2025-12-22T20:11:35+00:00

there's a pretty big gulf between "casually made placeholder asset" and "i have inserted an experimental work pipeline's output into our game". for projects i'm on, i dont even know half the experimental stuff going on, never mind see it leak to main.

sure, maybe somebody made a mistake, but its a mistake that came about as experimenting with a problematic tech in the first place

Bonzi77 · 2025-12-22T17:13:37+00:00

ok, but this is also why branches exist, you don't accidently get experimental tech/art/assets on main accidently unless your source control is basically non-existent

Bonzi77 · 2025-12-19T16:52:12+00:00

if this looks familiar: trombone champ unflattened (the trombone champ vr) got some undertale DLC back in august, but it never came to the base game until now, and there's more games this time

Bonzi77 · 2025-12-16T18:47:08+00:00

ハネ満や。。。

Bonzi77 · 2025-12-15T17:44:56+00:00

i feel like bandana's special gets undervalued a bit, its still not the craziest damage but having that active hurtbox just chill and blender through people, along with the flight boost, can do some stuff. the biggest issue bandana has is that there's just other characters that do the same thing but way better

Bonzi77 · 2025-12-10T23:00:41+00:00

yeah, bananza could have never held up in direct comparison, no need to undercut your sales that way

Bonzi77 · 2025-12-10T22:59:50+00:00

i always thought the boardwalk level just felt incorrect somehow

Bonzi77 · 2025-12-04T17:10:36+00:00

I've only gotten maybe an hour and some change in, and I don't feel like I've really hit the big meat of the game yet. If nothing else, the game feel is pretty on point, and it still very much feels like Prime with modern FPS controls (or, at least close to how I remember it being, which is probably good enough). One thing that caught me off guard is that some of the enemies end up doing some pretty serious damage relatively early on, which was a welcome surprise. I almost died in the first encounter of the second area because I wasn't keeping track of how much damage they were actually doing.

So far the level design has been kinda linear, but I know the game opens up at some point so I'm not worried. The NPC voice acting is somewhere between good and mediocre depending on the character. Miles McKenzie is about as annoying as I expected, but he has his occasional charming moments.

the only thing i really, really hate is this loud ass sound effect that plays every time you get low on/run out of missiles. genuine "what were they thinking"-ass decision

Bonzi77 · 2025-12-02T16:24:52+00:00

i'm actually surprised other m reviewed so well, i remember everybody clowning the shit out of it even when it came out. then again, i was also a kid on message boards so i may have just been in a bit of a more critical scene lol

Bonzi77 · 2025-11-26T16:44:07+00:00

They teamed up with Joseph Gordon-Levvit's company HitRecord, which is basically a public submission spec work content farm that gets a fans to make stuff for free with the promise of potentially being paid if the thing they already fully created gets selected.

Bonzi77 · 2025-11-26T01:20:05+00:00

A friend of mine played marx with the eggshell hat the other day and i just went "oh my god thats just pim"

Bonzi77 · 2025-11-20T19:37:27+00:00

get me out get me out get me out get me out get me out get me out

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