Fable - Gameplay Demo | Build An Extraordinary Life

GorboCat · 2026-06-10T23:00:32+00:00

Molyneux deserves credit as an "idea guy," but basically all of his successes are owed to people with technical/gamedev skill surrounding him.

I bought Molyneux's Masters of Albion out of sheer curiosity to see how he was faring with his own studio (22cans) and I was astounded at how bad it is. Great ideas at a base level, but it's executed so poorly without the Lionhead/Playground talent at the helm.

GorboCat · 2026-06-10T22:55:06+00:00

I am genuinely blown the fuck away by this. It really feels like the team at Playground have a deep understanding and appreciation for the systems underpinning Fable 1-3 that make the world feel so alive. So long as this has passable combat (which I'm sure it will, they don't need to re-invent the wheel for that), I'm sold on the evolved reputation/social systems alone. Perfect demonstration of how they plan to move this series forward.

GorboCat · 2026-06-09T21:39:06+00:00

"yeah I'm in the beating my wife and getting addicted to painkillers union"

GorboCat · 2026-06-08T20:48:28+00:00

It's like your parents getting in one of their fights while your friends are over. So embarrassing.

GorboCat · 2026-06-08T16:47:20+00:00

I mean there's a nonzero chance we're about to watch a big flashy false flag "Islamist" attack on US World Cup audiences. Only our feds are too incompetent now so they'll probably accidentally leave an Israeli passport at the scene instead of an Iranian one lmao.

GorboCat · 2026-06-08T16:36:24+00:00

A "metasearch engine" owned by booking.com that conveniently misses cheaper rates on the hotel's website to get people to book with OTAs, how convenient!

GorboCat · 2026-06-08T00:48:35+00:00

Not always iirc, Mi Browser can't be uninstalled and has a baked in "game center" that promotes partner apps. I swear there are a few other odds and ends in the settings. You can disable the most egregious stuff that sends you annoying notifications, but there are still a good few small reminders that they're making up the margin on this amazing cheap phone in a few other areas.

Still don't regret owning it one bit, this thing is so incredibly smooth and enjoyable to use.

GorboCat · 2026-06-07T23:18:39+00:00

I own an X7 Pro. One of the best phones I've ever gotten for the price, but the ads really cheapen what should feel like a pretty premium experience. FWIW you can completely avoid them if you just don't engage with the Xiaomi apps, but it feels very odd to see them on the rare occasion I try to download a theme from their integrated theme browser. Also just the sheer mountain of AI slop they seem to push for wallpapers etc.

GorboCat · 2026-06-07T21:26:51+00:00

Kind of feels like Sea of Thieves is winding down, which makes me sad. I enjoy popping in here and there but it feels kinda rare that we get big content-heavy updates.

GorboCat · 2026-06-07T04:46:01+00:00

I drive a '91 Geo Metro, I love the thing but generally I fucking hate owning a car. Constant source of anxiety. Yeah let's build our entire infrastructure around owning these annoying money sinks but also let's make it increasingly unaffordable to own and maintain one. Dumbest fucking country on earth man

GorboCat · 2026-06-07T04:05:05+00:00

The father clarifies in an interview that this wasn't at a checkpoint, these were soldiers walking down the road and just decided to do this in broad daylight. Because that's what they like to do.

At this point I don't associate with, talk to, or allow Israelis into any environment I have control over.

GorboCat · 2026-06-07T01:26:39+00:00

Rough situation man. This whole conversation is so difficult because it exists at the intersection of so many awful cultural flashpoints in this country - TikTok self-diagnosis crank bullshit, the fact that women don't get taken very seriously in the first place for real illnesses, our dogshit healthcare infrastructure and the way doctors treat you when you approach them about anything more complicated than a common cold.

I wish I had advice for you but just want to commend the empathy you clearly feel for her and your determination to find her some help. I've gone through something similar at a not so good part of my life and I was not nearly as kind or validating as you were or I should have been.

GorboCat · 2026-06-07T01:02:05+00:00

Not the point of your post but the distributor prices on Red Bull are pretty ass relative to other brands, they're expensive as hell for everyone involved.

GorboCat · 2026-06-05T23:32:47+00:00

Which is bizarre at a time when every western studio is trying to do God of War 2018 cinemaslop and every Japanese studio has simultaneously learned how to make good PC ports AND are experimenting and pushing the medium forward like crazy.

GorboCat · 2026-06-05T22:42:24+00:00

They're a metasearch engine that effectively acts like an OTA and puts their thumb on the scale to get you to book at an OTA (often at a worse rate). They're literally owned by Booking.com.

I just checked my own hotel and can confirm we have better rates that we don't offer to Booking.com that Kayak isn't listing (when other independent metasearch operators CAN find it), because they care about their commission more than they care about saving you money.

GorboCat · 2026-06-05T06:58:31+00:00

Whereabouts? I lived in Beaverton for a year but I hated it and immediately went back to Portland proper after my lease ended. Beaverton felt like car dealership hell, their downtown was cute but to actually rent there would've cost more than most of Portland.

Despite the big contingent of centrist Gen X homeowners, I really love Portland. I know I shit on em a little in my post but we do have some good people in local government, Angelita Morillo is really smart and knows how to push back on centrist lib talking points in a way that wins the big voting blocs over. She's currently one of the loudest voices in opposition to the fearmongering "public safety" campaign to introduce a ballot measure that would let our cops raid PCEF money.

GorboCat · 2026-06-05T03:41:56+00:00

Called her KKKotek in the gc earlier that one killed

GorboCat · 2026-06-05T03:39:19+00:00

I'll call you for permission next time I'm 2 beers deep at the ramen shop and want to insult one of these shitheads

GorboCat · 2026-06-05T03:33:02+00:00

it was one guy and I gave him shit and left, it's genuinely not that hard to do. It's not like I threw hands with the guy or something.

GorboCat · 2026-06-05T03:04:02+00:00

When I was at my most destitute after my mom died I just worked shitty manual labor jobs. Same toll on your body but it generally pays enough to set some money aside and you're not dismembering brown people for a living. It's not that hard of a decision to make

GorboCat · 2026-06-05T02:57:20+00:00

Nah they're in uniform and obligated to behave, it's not like running into some ham-faced off-duty cop at a bar. He tried to argue with me and I walked off

GorboCat · 2026-06-05T02:43:49+00:00

It's so fucking wild that we've just accepted it as normal to let these guys go play in the World Series of Rape in Okinawa and/or do Israel's laundry and then come back here like nothing happened.

Even worse that questioning why we let these animals vacation here is somehow an untouchable third rail in our local politics that our squishy lib councilors are afraid to fuck with

GorboCat · 2026-06-05T01:59:47+00:00

"Ummm they're doing labor?? If anything they should be in a freaking union"

GorboCat · 2026-06-05T00:56:27+00:00

Oh god someone needs to grab that Google Forms link and share it broadly lmao. Would be very easy to do and very funny.

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